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From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh page composition programs
Keywords: Quark Xpress, Aldus Pagemaker
Message-ID: <4924@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 89 15:41:03 GMT
References: <530@h-three.UUCP> <26710@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <26710@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, wyl E. coyote ) writes:
>Quark Xpress does indeed offer better typographic control.  It has more
>advanced color capabilities as well.
(etc.)

Yes.

>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.  

No, at least, not for me. After using PageMaker for a year and having
produced several manuals, I switched to XPress when it came out. I did
so for (i) stability (the first two versions of PM were terrible) and
(ii) added flexibility. In particular, I really like the XPress concept
of nested objects. For example, if I create an object consisting of text
and graphics I can copy or move the entire thing -- all the contained
components remain in their relative locations. From what I can tell
(from reading ads), PM is trying hard to catch up to XPress but hasn't
done so yet. XPress also allows searching for text by content, style,
font, etc. and changing any one of those. And the final consideration is that
the typesetter I use (a Linotronic shop) strongly prefers XPress (they
tell me it prints more reliably and faster, but I haven't personally
verified that.) I might also add that you kinda have to know what you
want to do with any page layout program in this class -- the power
to create and the power to really screw it up :-).

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank
-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank