MYCK colours for Pages?

That should be cmyk.

It was possible with extreme care using Pages '09 under previous MacOSes but unfortunately Apple has ruined that in Pages 5 & 6 in the recent macOS Sierra and I don't know how many versions of OSX prior to that. They appear determined to attack the workspaces of designers.

There are inexpensive options, e.g. Affinity Designer and maybe, just maybe, Swift Publisher.

You can pay a subscription for Adobe's Creative Suite which will stretch your budget over a period of time, but I have never been comfortable with rentware, it makes it really hard to get at your work if you don't have a current paid subscription. Quark XPress used to be good but fell into a pit of their own making and I have not looked back.

It is difficult to reconcile professional with cheap. You have an additional problem of color calibrating your screen, unless you stick with specifying colours numerically for vector objects and trusting professionally color corrected bitmap images.

Peter

Hi Peter,

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

QuarkXPress used to be good but fell into a pit of their own making and I have not looked back.

please have a look at version 2017, it has changed completely though you will feel familiar immediately.

QuarkXPress 2017 is modern and fast, can now convert PDF to editable objects, has proper text shading, can create HTML5 and much more, stuff that you do not find in other layout apps.

Given, I am biased ;-)

Thanks

Matthias

Matthias

i used Quark for over 2 decades and whilst not loving it, was an expert user and could work very fast.

But Quark self imploded in spectacular fashion taking a massive swipe at its Mac users on the way down. Particularly at its Australian users which it massively ripped off at every possible occassion. Australia went almost overnight from being a Quark stronghold to ditching it to a man. I don't know anyone still using it.

I have looked at it at intervals since, but there never was enough there for me to forgive and forget, particularly as Quark had removed most of the UI that made users like me so fast.

I will give you one more go, but it will have to be amazingly good and you will really have had to bring your price down to what it is actually worth. I won't be retraining myself just for old times sake. Quark does not bring back nostalgic rosy memories.

Quark should be a model in business school for How-Not-To...

I wish it was competition for Indesign, but can't change what happened.

Peter

Hi Peter,

nobody can change the past and I think we learned our lesson. Surprisingly it's now others that repeat the mistakes Quark once made in the past.

Quark's pricing in Australia is at par with the US, I don't think many other companies do that. However as it is about value, please give it a try and decide yourself.

And feel free to reach out to me via private message or email (first letter first name + last name at quark com).

Thanks

Matthias (Guenther)

In other words now you need us!

Wonder what would happen if Quark got its hooks into us again?

I have had a look at your website and the feature list looks good, but your prices are still steep, you have come down a bit from the eye wateringly high prices you used to charge. You even charged the distributers in Australia considerably more than the street price in the USA, then billed them for all your free (in the States) promotional material on top of that.

Thanks to the Internet and its marketing alternatives I can go out of my way to avoid the "Australia Tax" that Americans forced down our throats for so long. I refuse to buy Apple's media offerings for that reason, they have the gall to charge us for Australia's supposed "expensive operating costs" then tell the Australian Tax Office that the transactions are actually happening in Singapore.

Lucky we are such a good friends with the USA, just imagine how you'd treat us if we weren't "friends"?

Standing joke in Australia about our good friends, the Americans who know and love us so well, is we hope you never go to war with Austria!

Having spent as much time & money as I did for so long on Quark it would really take a lot for me to cough up for additional software and, more important, the retraining. The past may be the past for you, but all the money I had to write off still sticks hard in my memory.

I think we in Australia learnt our lesson as well.

Peter

Peter,

of course we need you, what is a software without users. ;-)

And the SRP (without tax) of the Competitive Upgrade is USD 399; in the US AND in Australia. Not sure if resellers charge more in Australia, Quark cannot control that.

Thanks

Matthias

Pages was never designed to be a prepress tool, nor was its documents, or exported PDF of sufficient content, color profile, and standards quality to be submitted to professional printers.

Quark Inc. wrote:

of course we need you, what is a software without users. ;-)

Tell me... ;-)