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Quark acquires ALAP

updated 01:35 pm EST, Wed December 14, 2005

Quark acquires ALAP


--its flagship product--in mid-September, which was the first significant revision of the software in two years. QuarkXPress 7 is designed to make collaboration on the desktop easier, more efficient, and more consistent for artists and other creative professionals.

ALAP introduced Imposer Pro 1.0 for Adobe Acrobat in June, handling PDF imposition by creating a newly imposed PDF file. The software offered much-requested features, and allowed on-screen previewing before printing as well as error detection to prevent the waste of materials.


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  1. fluk3

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    12/14, 02:11pm | report spam | Reply |

    This is bad

    I was looking forward to more ALAP stuff for InDesign. Surely to be sabotaged by Quark now.

    Too bad.

  1. Ikon

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    12/14, 02:16pm | report spam | Reply |

    great

    The one and only great thing about quark gets quarkified.

    This is BAD news, unless ALAP takes over Quark, like Jobs did at apple. :-)

  1. bigdawgh_11104

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    12/14, 02:19pm | report spam | Reply |

    f^&ck!

    no more inbooklet huh?

  1. dimplemonkey

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    12/14, 03:12pm | report spam | Reply |

    I'm not too happy either

    Oh great now it will take three times as long to get new products from ALAP!

  1. stainless

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    12/14, 04:35pm | report spam | Reply |

    Things have changed...

    Guys,

    Look at the FACTS of Quark, in the last year the "old school" CEO resigned... he WAS the reason Quark sucked, he was arrogant, not connect to customers needs, was a control freak and DIDN'T understand programming.

    NOW, the new CEO is making changes for the better, hence FREE upgrade to 6.5, new free tech support, and Quark 7 coming out with Macintosh in mind first and foremost. So ALAP being brought into the picture is only going to help, especially considering that Paul Schmitt will be vice president of product development!

    Now if you want to b****, look to Adobe and how arrogant they are becoming, upgrades that only offer bug fixes and one or two "real" new feature, support that is becoming lackluster, and Macintosh support being less and less.

    With Quark realizing that Macintosh support is life or death, Adobe and M$ are becoming allies as it would be in best interest to Adobe to close Apple down because of Final Cut Pro, Appeture, etc on the pro side and with iMovie, , iPhoto, etc on the consumer side... Adobe sells to both of these markets and is complete into making money versus improving it software for its customers.

    Regards, Charles

  1. Infini-t

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    12/14, 07:23pm | report spam | Reply |

    but....a little too late!

    Most of the design firms and print houses here are, or already have switched to InDesign. And I totally disagree with the point of view stated by Charles above that Adobe should drop support for Mac?!

    InDesign is costs less, bundled and with student education pricing, more graphic design students are graduating with InDesign under their belt rather than quark because of this. Flame me if you will but IMHO Quark is just an old dinosaur that didn't evolve quick enough to the times.

  1. ClevelandAdv

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    12/14, 09:58pm | report spam | Reply |

    Quark blew it

    After using Quark as the hub of my graphic design business for over 10 years I finally got fed up and switched to InDesign when version 2 was released. Whatever Quark does now is too late to recapture their lost business. Their best hope was to merge with Macromedia, but that apperently will not happen.

    I can't imagine treating customers as poorly as Quark did, and actually making it difficult to buy their products and staying in business (unless you are Microsoft).

  1. HeatherEcsedi

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    12/15, 11:02am | report spam | Reply |

    Look at Adobe

    Do you see any real desire from Adobe to release good Mac products ? Their applications are still Carbon. If you want to install some new fonts, you can quit - restart the app. They are awfully slow to launch or even to quit... Quark still suffers from the bad reputation it had in the past but things are changing and you can expect it to become more customer-oriented than Adobe or Apple.

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