[MikeM32]

What the hell!?!? Apparently there won't be Multiple Undoes? No Transparancy?

They dumped so much into making it more of a "web tool" (and not the best one according to the artical) that they left out some features which Quark has fallen way behind in, in the past years. Sheesh, what about those of us in the printing industry not interrested in web design?

I could possibly live without the transparancy, but common.....Multiple Undoes is a way past due. Promises of multiple undoes in an OSX native version just aren't good enough.

I'm seriously hoping the version that actually gets released (reportedly by years end) will at least have Multiple Undoes built in. I could actually do without all the other crap (well except the fact that it'll also finally have Layers).

Looks like Adobe's next version of InDesign may seriously give Quark even more of a run for it's money unless Quark can perform some miracles in the final version.

I could also care less that Quark 5 won't be OSX compatable either. It'll be ages before OSX impregnates the business end of a design firm or printing / service bureau. The fact that the next version of InDesign will be OSX native is also irrelevant.

Mike

[buchrob]

Anyone remember "Immedia", Quark's flop at attacking the web market?

Those shoemakers at Quark should "stick to their last" first --- polish up and upgrade the product to make it more useful and compatible for their core clients, the print professionals. The multiple undos, layer and transparency features are now standard in just about every Adobe or Macromedia product, so it's critical that Quark support them.

There's no doubt that many catalog pages and other print materials eventually have to be re-purposed for the web, but usually the design parameters are completely different, and a web page doesn't necessarily work well in print or vice-versa (just print a few web pages or spend an afternoon reading pdf's on your screen to get the gist of what I mean).

Once people have the option of linking html or web-based images to their Quark print documents, you can just image how much fun the service bureaus are going to have outputting films and plates (fonts, size of type, resolution, RGB and other color space issues, broken links, etc).

[Corys]

My Jaw dropped reading that article.
I don't give a rats ass about building a web page in QXP. That is why dreamweaver/Go Live is there.
Quark needs to quit spending resources on web tools and work on more features to bring it up to par with other apps in it's class.
i'm a diehard Quark fan, but i'm slowly losing faith in it's ability to offer the tools that are needed in the publishing industry.