Quark Forums Heated Debates!

There is a heated debate currently going on over our recent article "Will Adobe manage to replace industry work horse Quark Xpress by giving Adobe InDesign for free? Why? Here are some quotes from the forum... "it is just too polished and glowing for me to believe that Quark did not have a hand in its creation. It couldn't tow the company line any better if an in-house Quark PR person had written it themselves" soupfighter Joined: 27 May 2005 OUR RESPONSE TO ALL THE QUARK FORUM BLOGGERS: We would like to say: "Thank you for your response to our article. Some more flattering than others." I find it hard to believe that you have actually read our detailed comparison of the two systems (Quark vs Adobe InDesign). If you had, you would see there was no bias to one system or another, except for the fact that Quark is the industry standard, it is simple to use and does the job well. As to whether we were paid by Quark to influence the industry against InDesign, I suppose we could use the money but we weren't asked by anyone to make the comparisons we did. We are just sick of companies like Adobe and Microsoft trying to influence the market with overly expensive "bundles" and misleading advertising. So, we decided to do something about it by writing our own article to clear up whatever misconceptions Adobe advertising has created by touting InDesign as a better, system than Quark. The fact is, in six years of trying, InDesign, like its predecessor Pagemaker, runs a distant second to Quark Xpress in design simplicity and popularity and nothing we have seen changes that opinion. On the other hand one gets the feeling that "thou dost protest too much." "I'm not saying that it is impossible but I think that the far more likely answer is that Quark has paid some writer to put their spin on the Quark vs. InDesign contest out there into the blogosphere in hopes of "creating" a faux source of grass roots Quark lovin'." soupfighter Joined: 27 May 2005 Could it be you are working for Adobe and trying to pick up whatever you can in the Quark forum to use against it? That seems much more likely, since our motives were purely to inform people on the inequalities of one system (InDesign) over the qualities of another (Quark). That's fair, surely. Would you like to make a comment, please visit our "Valor E-Business Professionals Blog We'll be glad to hear from you. Thank you for reading!