Quark names new CEO

@ #9 re:"Burned with Quark 6"

Actually, I think most folks lost faith with Quark during the QuarkXpress 4 debacle. THAT is when they REALLY burned their audience. The nail in the coffin was their lack of OSX support at a very crucial time.

Most of the Quark users I know are still running Quark 5. Anything new is done in InDesign. A lot of people got burned with Quark 6 and aren't going to forgive and forget.

From a commercial printer perspective, Quark will never completely die as long as there are legacy files around, and there are millions of old (and some new) Quark files out there.

"Would it be better or worse for users if Adobe simply acquired Quark at this point?"

Quark suggested to Adobe a few years ago that the companies merge and Adobe reportedly laughed in Quark's corporate face.

It is definitely better that they remain competitors. Adobe is already a little too smug and cavalier about making unecessary tweaks and changes to software, while letting outstanding and annoying bugs languish.

I hope quark can actually get their act together as they appear to be trying to do. If they can it should mean better sofware whether you use Quark or InDesign (or both).

Well, I prefer Adobe to Microsoft, but they're not on my good list either. Slow upgrades, and when they do, it's a complete repurchase without fixing their older bugs. I love indesign more than quark for many reasons, but I wish Adobe would clean up their act a bit, or more competition would spur them to clean up their products. Quark is dead to me, I don't use it anymore, haven't for years - and many big firms I worked for migrated away. Besides, final production art goes pdf 99% of the time in the designs that count, so it's only your preference to build versus your preference to print.

His first job is to get Quark 7 working reliably and at a decent speed. At the moment, it's a lethargic bug-ridden mess, yet they keep adding new 'features' which few print publishing users need.

Would it be better or worse for users if Adobe simply acquired Quark at this point?

I'm sure most would prefer Adobe to Microsoft, right?

Quark is basically dead in the newspaper business where everybody is either switching to InDesign or will switch in the near future. In my opinion they are in the same position as Macromedia or worse.

Quark has essentially one product, XPress. They should stop trying to do other things and concentrate on that ONE thing that they do well. Or, used to do well - Adobe's InDesign is superior, in my estimation.

Hopefully Schiavone will focus on printing, publishing, prepress & Quark XPress and be able to save the company. That's their strength, and they're wasting their time with "day-late and dollar-short" attempts to enter into multimedia.

Remember QuarkImmedia? No? You're not alone.

It wasn't quite as bad as that audio monstrosity of a mosquito we were greeted with here a month back

At least Quark's sounds slightly sophisticated

What is Quark doing with this Interactive Design junk. They are losing their shirt to InDesign in the print/publishing market and they are futzing around with Flash? I won't be crying if this company goes the way of the dodo.