Is QuarkXPress Giving Way to InDesign?
December 13, 2004
I have an article in the new Seybold Report that asks and attempts to answer this question. At this writing, the article is available to subscribers only, but if they put it on the free portion of the Web site, I will let you know. The following is from the introduction to the article.
A tip of the hat to friend and colleague Kate Binder of Prospect Hill Publishing Services who had some great ideas for the article and offered the best quotes.
Since the early 1990s, QuarkXpress has been the leading desktop publishing tool. Many products have tried but failed to knock QuarkXPress from its perch over the years. Some of us are even old enough to remember one-time products such as Manhattan Graphics' ReadySetGo!, and many industry followers rooted in vain for challengers such as Aldus PageMaker (the product eventually acquired by Adobe).
Indeed, despite the overwhelming leadership of its flagship product, Quark Inc. as a company seemed determined to breathe life into its competitors by infuriating its customer base with half-hearted customer support and onerous licensing terms. Year after year, however, QuarkXPress maintained its dominant market position.
In this desktop publishing war, all eyes have been on Adobe since it introduced InDesign in 1999. Publishers and creative professionals have watched the development of Adobe InDesign closely, and many of them evaluated the earliest releases. While a critical mass of new users was not ready to switch to InDesign 1.0 and 2.0 releases, users were clearly tuned into the emerging product and returned to evaluate it with each new release.
Posted by Bill Trippe at December 13, 2004 10:32 PM
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Adobe Photoshop is considered by many web developers and graphic designers (myself included) to be essentially the be-all-end-all tool when it comes to creating and editing 2D graphics and photos. If you're new to Photoshop, don't be fooled by its name - it's capable of far more than simply editing or repairing photographs. With practice and a bit of imagination, there's no limit to the imagery you can create with Photoshop.
Posted by clintoen at February 3, 2005 1:41 AM