I’ve been out of the printing support business for over a decade, so I don’t know what is preferred now, but when I was leaving, the push was taking printing materials online and making the print publishing and web publishing business seamless. People were switching left and right and Quark had to come out with another version that was keeping up with InDesign, and even made the upgrade affordable, but the damage was done. Once Adobe updated InDesign to address many of the shortcomings that Quark veterans pointed out to them, things got worse for Quark. They didn’t really like how Quark nickel and dimed them for updates and support, but it still was faster in getting projects done than indesign.

This was one of the major reasons why a lot of print shops stuck with Quark. These templates include catalogs, business cards, brochures, flyers, posters, news. Early InDesign was enticing, but lacked more powerful typesetting controls that Quark had. Its designed with novice users in mind, with a simple layout and over 170 templates to jump start your project. InDesign was in fact one of the first Adobe apps to be updated to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs. Adobe thought it still was the 80’s and could charge $$$ for fonts that had been around for more than a decade and yet their pricing was like it was cutting edge. Adobe InDesign works natively on the latest M1 chip Macs such as the M1 MacBook Pro and the more recent M2 Macs.

Both Quark and Adobe were very arrogant at that time.

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