Is there anyone here that has experience using both programs? I’ve used Quark before, and find it to be rather user friendly. I do have Pagemaker on my laptop, but haven’t used it yet. I plan on giving myself a crash course this evening.
I have a job interview tomorrow morning during which I’ll be tested on my Pagemaker skills, and was wondering if the two programs are comparable. I’m hoping so and keeping my fingers crossed, otherwise it’s gonna be a looong test!
Well, if you’ve memorized all of your Quark key commands, you are a bit screwed. The general idea of both programs is the same, but the key commands are different.
Interestingly enough, InDesign CS (Which is essentially the latest upgrade of PM) has a preference that you can select to use Quark key commands.
Sadly, it’s Page Maker, so meethinks it’s going to be a looooong test.
PageMangler, er I mean PageSlayer, oh what, PageKiller, oh, that’s not it either. . .
PageMaker is consumer level page layout. QuarkXPress is professional. Adobe’s professional product is InDesign, which is as good as or better than Quark. PageMaker is abysmal.
Well said, Homebrew.
There is NO WAY IN HELL I would have been able to do the layout of Kilmer’s “Feeding the Vikings” photography/reference book with PageMangler.
As you said - PageMaker is consumer level. Quark is a pro product. None of the consumer level products can do as accurate camera-ready color processing as the pro products.
I’m rather surprised that a Graphic Design company would use a consumer level program instead of a pro-level one…hmmm… :dubious:
I don’t have any of Quark’s shortcuts memorized, so that’s not an issue.
Oh well, looks like I’ve got a date with my laptop and the coffee pot again tonight. Yippee!
PageMaker is a consumer level product. I had to learn the basics for the printing company I worked for because we had some customers that did their own designs and wanted us to print them.
InDesign is miles better than Quark, imho.
Give me Quark anyday over PageMaker. I hate that program. Quark is much more logically set up than PageMaker. If you’ve used Quark extensively, I think you should be able to navigate your way around in PageMaker, though it would be considerably better if you’ve used PageMaker before. Good luck!
Egads! I’ve never used PageMaker, but Quark is more logical? That’s scary. InDesign is the bomb.
I know, I know. It’s a sick, scary world when Quark is more logical than PageMaker, yet unfortunately, I’ve always found that to be the case. I’ve used both extensively, and stuff is just easier to find in Quark. I’ve never used InDesign - sounds like you like it.
I’ve been using Quark for as long as Quark has existed, and InDesign for as long as InDesign has existed, and I can work equally as well in either one.
If any company is using PageMucker, I refuse to take them seriously.
I’d have serious doubts about any organization still pushing PageMaker. Adobe discontinued development of it January of this year (actually, that was when they announced it, they stopped working on it long before that).
QuarkXPress surpassed PageMaker long ago, but is in growing danger of being surpassed itself by Adobe’s InDesign (which — as others have mentioned — can be outfitted with the PageMaker Plug-In Pack).
If you want to work there, and they’re using PageMaker, learn it. But that program is living on borrowed time.
Pagemaker is to Quark what Quark is to InDesign.
Folks, if you are looking at upgrading to Quark 6, look at InDesign first. Is is so friggen powerful/cusomizable/stable…etc.
I work in the ad biz, and most of the major shops are dumping Quark in favor of ID. The ad biz is Quark’s bread and butter, and they are losing it. They won’t survive much longer. They may linger on soley for the niche of the catalog creation platforms some shops have, but after a while, those third party catalog applications are going to see that the InDesign market pool is getting bigger than the Quark pool. I, for one, won’t miss Quark. I certainly hope Adobe learns from Quark and is a more responsive and less pugnacious 800 lb. gorilla.
Anyhoo, bittersweet, how’d it go?
Tell us how you really feel, NurseCarmen. While I’m not as adamant about it, I do agree that InDesign is the death knell for QuarkXPress. It certainly does some thing much better, such as layers. It also has the distinct advantage of being able to handle Illustrator and Photoshop native files. That saves a lot of disk space in that you don’t have to keep a .psd version and a .tiff version of every file. It’s package function also seems to work better than Quark’s “Collect for Output”.
I learned both PageMaker and Quark in some desktop publishing classes in college. PageMaker is at least better than the total crap software that comes included with scanners and such, but it’s nowhere near as powerful as Quark. available light and I used Quark to make our own wedding invitations, and they came out quite nicely.
I don’t know InDesign, I don’t think that was around when I took those classes.