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From: arst@polari.UUCP (Mike Arst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing
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Date: 31 Mar 91 11:01:58 GMT
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asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) writes:

> Publishing people "don't understand" Quark Xpress? I'd like to keep
> this from being a debate on the best DTP package available--there are
> many better venues for that sort of recreational impossibility--but
> this cannot go unanswered. Quark is the CHOICE of anyone who is serious
> about typesetting from a microcomputer. It has the widest range of
> features and quite probably the finest control available in off-the-
> shelf packages.

Before I reply: I saw an earlier message indicating that this whole topic
should be moved to alt.desktop.publishing. Alas, I can't seem to find
such a newsgroup on the board I call - is it a new one? Or was it mis-
named in that message? I can see the 'thread' is going off-topic for this
newsgroup and would rather move it to the right place, if only I can find
it. As for the reply:

Same here. I started out in this business using conventional typesetting
equipment; then used Ventura Publisher for GEM; then moved to the Mac,
where I used Pagemaker for quite some time - and then discovered
QuarkXPress 3.0, on which I became sold almost at once, and absolutely,
finally, and forever. It is a superb package, combining some of the best
features of Pagemaker and Ventura, and - its limitations notwithstanding
- not sharing some of the worst defects of either. I agree wholeheartedly
it is the best so far for computer-based typesetting of its kind
(w.y.s.i.m.o.l.w.y.g. - what you see is more or less what you get).

I have been dying to see QuarkXPress for NeXT, and alas, Quark Inc has
said we aren't going to see it this year; they're going to work on
the port to the Windows environment.

(If by some chance there is a QuarkXPress-related newsgroup, I would
sure love to hear about it.)

Mike Arst, PubNet QuarkXPress conference moderator
(PubNet is a small network that uses FidoNet 'channels')
polari!arst@sumax.seattleu.edu