There are still companies using QuarkXPress, like a few (so certainly not all) book, magazine, and newspaper publishers. They probably built a very robust routine on Quark's tools and services (like QPS, an editorial system) back in the nineties, and never experienced the need to change their workflow. It's not so easy to completely move from one supplier to another, when you're using a tightly integrated system for editorial collaboration.

They're a different company than they were when Adobe InDesign took over their markets and most of their users. They are still in business and take very well care of their relatively small customer base.

Quark was also quicker on the market to work with pure HTML for digital publishing and dynamic content. Just like Adobe, they made some false moves but eventually decided to use the proper technologies and acquire the right companies to embark on this industry.

Funny to see other respondents describing Adobe InDesign CC as ransomware", while Quark forced users to use hardware keys, and let them pay a hefty price for each upgrade, even after they skipped a version. (You needed every version to save your files up to the current version of the application.) I guess they conduct more customer friendly policies by now...

For most purposes, I would never go back from Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress. To me, the advantages of QuarkXPresswould be just two features: kerning tables and the ability to use outhanging characters for optical alignment and outdents in lists. But I wouldn't want to lose InDesign's hundreds of other advantages...

Next episode: how about Canva.com and Affinity Publish ?


Oorspronkelijk geplaatst op Quora: Does anyone still use QuarkXPress or has InDesign made it obsolete?"