[art_director]

Just had to say that's a lame company. You can pay $199 to upgrade to v.6 but if you want to save a file down to v.4 you need to save to v.5 then down. Did the government think of this?

[godzookie2k]

4 can't save to 2

5 can't save to 3

...






get the trend?

[iT4c0]

The thing is that Quark knows most of their customers are still using 4.x because version 5 sucked ass. They should make it more compititble with their previous version so they can make more money. Isn't that what they want? make more money??
I tried 6 demo and it was actually pretty awsome working in OS X native. so far there is not a huge difference between 5 or 6 but it works great in demo.

[art_director]

iT4c0 hit the nail on the head. it's an issue of v.5 sucking a$$ and nobody buying it. now v.6 only goes to v.5 which is on approximately six computers worldwide. bad business strategy by the folks at quark.

[iT4c0]

I actually love Quark6 because it is OSX native. I wish I could afford it tho. They can't compete with adobe on the education price. I love those design package

[godzookie2k]

But isn't the argument that everyone who questions the print industries' slow osx adoption that the industry needs to hurry up and upgrade to the latest and greatest, "now".? So by that theory, shouldn't xpress 6's lack of saving down to 4 a way for quark to sort of force the upgrade, by throwing out the old and forcing a user upgrade? it appears to have worked for apple's osx/os9 transition. i.e. pretty much getting to the point where dual boot just won't happen anymore, thereby forcing new machines to only work in X at a certain point? I mean, I'd love for 6 to save to 4 so I could carry more work home without suffering with Quark 4 under classic issues, but I still kinda see the reasoning.