The New Quark
Quark revamps its identity. Its old logo is gone. A green, stylized “Q” takes its place. It’s already been done before, however. Check this out.
On a personal note, Quark XPress 4.1 is the only reason I have OS 9 classic still installed on my laptop. I’m one of the few holdouts that haven’t upgraded to the later, OS X-compatible 6.5 version. Quark should be glad though that I’m not one of the multitudes who have switched to Adobe’s über-cool InDesign.
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September 14th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Hmm…I have Quark 4.1 also. I can’t afford the moolah to upgrade, but I’ve run into trouble with it. Granted it was with Officemax which is hardly a bastion of “pro” publishing but is still a pain to have to deal with.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:58 am
You mean the mini-printing section in every Officemax? Yeah, they’re probably more comfortable with MS Publisher or glorified MS Word files.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:20 pm
I just wonder why The Scottish Arts Council hasn’t pounced on Quark yet for plagiarizing their logo… unless it was Quark’s idea first. Either way, it sure smells like an impending lawsuit.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:27 am
We still use Quark for OS9 here at the office for the newspaper. We tried switching over to InDesign for one issue a few years back, but for some reason it wasn’t compatible with our printer’s setup so they couldn’t output it. Our layout guy had to do the ENTIRE newspaper over in Quark. Poor guy didn’t get to sleep for two whole days. Don’t know if or when we’ll be switching over to an OSX version, although I’d welcome any excuse to upgrade our aging G3 towers.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Oh yeah, and I smell a lawsuit with the logos. (*Sorry for the double post!)
September 17th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
Redo a whole issue in two days? Wow, poor guy.
As for the lawsuit, I wonder what Quark’s defense will be? Mmmm, “It’s clear, Your Honor. Our logo represents the letter Q and theirs represents the letter a.”
October 10th, 2005 at 11:06 am
sorry . . . switched to adobe a long time ago . . . i used to use quark for the northwest asian weekly years back.