liamC
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Is this just like Illustrator for Adobe, or is it more like InDesign, or a mixture of the 2?
Is it better than Illustrator/InDesign?
What are the pros/cons of it? IE: Is it better than the Adobe equivalents?
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Brett
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I wouldn't say it was better personally. It's just different. We use it at work. I'd much rather use Photoshop any day of the week. We use Quark for doing CD Covers, Folder Covers & Spines, Presentation crap, etc.
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AdZ9
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Quark is more of a typsetting/formatting program, so its Adobe equivalent is InDesign
Not Photoshop, nor Illustrator.
I use Quark all day as well as InDesign, and i fucking HATE quark with a passion. We even bought the plug in that converts Quark files to InDesign files just to minimize the use of Quark
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liamC
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Cheers for the help gents.
I have been an InDesign nerd for a while now, and gave Quark a go, but just didn't like it and can't get used to it.
What do you think the chances are of convincing a 40+ ex-army bloke to change from Quark to Adobe is? 
What genuine comments can I put across for him to change? Adobe is industry standard? More people will have Adobe package, and it's ability to work with other popular programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop means it's a more attractive option?
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dave17
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used to use quark but moved to in design now. use it all day everyday and must say its alot better than quark.
Accepts all adobe related files (without having to install plugins) and lots of the tools are similar accross the products, so is very quick & easy to pick up
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AdZ9
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Liam all you need to do is to explain how industry standard is Adobe Creative Suite, and that you can't risk not being able to open clients files etc if they send you one. It's 10x better anyway.
Like Dave said the CS is so versatile now, can drag items from program to program etc, makes everything 10x easier.
P.S - Off topic, Dave where do you work, you in a studio or freelancing?
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dave17
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working as production & design for a publishing company, its nothing to shout about but its local and easy!
doing tonnes of freelance stuff on the side though....... 
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dave17
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& say what ad said, no one uses quark, we have 1 imac with quark on here just incase someone sends us a dodgy file. we have 20 other pcs with creative suite installed.
Indesign CS4 is out now aswel....
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AdZ9
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Haha how weird, I work for a Publishers too and do freelance on the side too.
What publishers you work for, is it a big one or an independant one?
[Edited on 16-12-2008 by AdZ9]
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dave17
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http://www.metropolis.co.uk
pretty big! shit job though
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AdZ9
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Ahhh awesome, i've heard of them.
I work for http://www.wiley.com have you heard of them? Were pretty big too.
Same as you though, boring work
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dave17
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your work looks alot better than mine! its a proper budget company here, nothing is done properly! we use office based PCs, shit monitors, no image library, dodgy fonts, no colour proofing.
its poor...........but oh so easy
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