RE: Quark 5 and CMS
RE: Quark 5 and CMS
- Subject: RE: Quark 5 and CMS
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:48:32 +0100
Scott Olswold <email@hidden> wrote:
I can, to some degree. I've not jumped to the shipping version
I'm sure Henrik will have a more complete write-up (he promised us this
much), but those are my initial reactions. I have more, but I'm in a rush.
If we haven't heard from Mr. H. by end of day tomorrow,
The way I see it, Adobe is releasing InDesign 2 without a dongle and
with better ICC support than in InDesign 1.5.2. Quark is releasing
QuarkXPress 5 with better ICC support than QuarkXPress 4.11, but I am
not sure whether the dongle policy will be dropped (: doubtful).
Finally, users can key RGB and Lab channel values calculated in
Eye-One Share or ProfileMaker ColorPicker directly into InDesign 2.0,
but the beta version of QuarkXPress 5.0 like the existing QuarkXPress
4.11 require RGB and Lab channel values to be manually converted to
percentages which means that users can't specify colors in RGB and
Lab, only in CMYK. What the shipping version of QuarkXPress 5.0 does
I do not know, but on the face of it then does it not look like
content creators who already master Photoshop 6 ICC set-up and who
wish to generate PDF 1.3 documents complete with images and type will
have an easier and less expensive path through InDesign 2 than
through QuarkXPress 5? It seems that Quark is still geared to
server-based OPI where color isn't managed in the assembly
application and certainly geared to server-based XML. This doesn't
mean that QuarkXPress 5 won't be a help for a great many users, but
the drive is from photographers and high-end graphic designers and
they may be better off with InDesign than with QuarkXPress.
Just my ten cents.