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From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, wyl E. coyote )
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh page composition programs
Keywords: Quark Xpress, Aldus Pagemaker
Message-ID: <26710@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 89 21:32:33 GMT
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Organization: Apple R&D - Networking & Communications
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Quark Xpress does indeed offer better typographic control.  It has more
advanced color capabilities as well.  It also has a brother/sister product
in Quark Style which does a lot of what Quark Xpress does but without much
of the detailed typographic control stuff and no color.  They are document
interchangeable.  QuarkStyle also comes with a bunch of really neat templates.

PageMaker is great if you want to experiemnt a lot with your design and
layout.  You kinda have to know what you want to do with QuarkExpress.  
PageMaker does do some very illogical things with leading - they measure it
from cap height to cap height when the industry standard is baseline to
baseline.  

I have no connection with Aldus or Quark.  This is not an official Apple 
statement or endorsement.
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