QuarkXPress 8: More Reviews
A couple of reviews and commentaries about QuarkXPress 8 have appeared since my last roundup. They are:
CreativePro.com: A thoughtful, professional consideration by Gene Gable, industry veteran and former president of Seybold.
QuarkXPress users will welcome many of the changes in XPress 8, and may even delight in a few of them
ITPro: Mark Tennent’s blog entry isn’t quite a review, but it does present a few important comments for publishers and other professional users.
QuarkXPress 8, abridged too far?
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Well… to me it seems that there are too many praises for quark 8. There are a few good things (the guides palete is amazing) but a change case option would have been great. It’s simple, it’s useful, it’s hard to believe that a software that works with text hasn’t heard of change case…
Footnotes are missing…
The find/change (Quark for windows) is still unable to paste a nonbreaking hyphen… and I don’t have any way how to replace an ordinary hyphen with a non breaking one…
Hmmm… I think you missed some updates. Change Case was introduced in version 7: the menu item Style> Change Case changes the case of selected text to either Title Case, UPPER CASE or lower case. This feature is continued in QuarkXPress 8.
For similar functionality in QuarkXPress 6, download the free ChangeCase XT from http://www.durrantsoftware.co.uk. For QuarkXPress 4 and 5, download the free Caps XT from http://www.markzware.com.
You’re right about no footnotes.
And I think you’re right about not being able to Find/Change nonbreaking hyphens. As a workaround you could search for hyphens, and then type Control-= to replace it with a nonbreaking hyphen. Would that work for you?
BTW, I’ve noticed over the years that updates never address every item on every user’s wish list — often not even the “you’re kidding me!” ones. I have a personal list of “WTF?” missing features that goes back to QuarkXPress 3 (and InDesign 1).
I’m still waiting for wrapping tabs — first introduced in FreeHand in 1991. Imagine being able to let the text wrap under a tab stop, then continue again on the top line when you press the Tab key. It makes the Table feature unnecessary in many cases, and it’s SO simple to use!
yes.. my bad about change case… Well: they could make it like in ms word: when you press F3, the selection will cile throu small caps, all caps and so on.
We’ve already talked about non breaking hyphen… I am using quark for windows and it just wont accept ctrl+= in the find/replace palete. It accepts ctrl+- – that is optional hyphen (it even writes me the ccode for optional hyphen: “\h”). Enough about that – I gave up on finding a solution (beside installing quark on a mac… :D
Wrapping tabs – I am using tabs, never felt the need for a change… I’ll search for a freehand to see how that works… Sound interesting from what you say…