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I had a very difficult choice as whether I should by CS4 OR Quark. For the last 10 years I had been using my various employersвЂ™ copies of Quark and InDesign. I learn something new every single time a post goes up on the blog.ДЄbout 6 months ago I left my job and had to set up my own workstation that вЂ“ SHOCK HORROR вЂ“ I had to pay for myself out of my own pocket. And this is what David and Anne-Marie and the other bloggers here do, they keep you current.

You have to stay up-to-date and you have to learn something everyday. IвЂ™ve been on this blog post since I started using InDesign back in 2005/2006 and itвЂ™s been the most valuable source I could imagine.

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The one thing I would say is if youвЂ™re using software find the experts (like I did :) ) and stay current with whatever youвЂ™re using. I just know that I would be gutted to not use InDesign in future work. If I got a new job tomorrow they may be using Quark, or ventura, or Xara or Scribus or whatever, and I think IвЂ™d just go into that job and do what was needed using those apps.ДЄs I said earlier I know the core concepts of page layout and typography, using styles and things like that.

IвЂ™ve just learned and used what IвЂ™ve needed to because the job needed it. I donвЂ™t rate one page layout over the other. I basically taught myself InDesign (ok I had a lot of help from the very guys and gals here at InDesign Secrets and from Michael Murphy at )

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I begged to get CS3 update and they bought it in.Д¬oming from a Quark background into Ventura then to InDesign I had core concepts already built into my working day.

It was around the time that I really needed running heads to be automated and paragraph numbering to be automated that InDesign CS3 came out. It had lots of features that InDesign didnвЂ™t have in CS2. In using Ventura I found it really unstable, but other than that it was a good typesetting program. It was in 2005 I left the job to pursue other ventures and I wound up in job that needed technical books converted from Ventura to InDesign. I learned Quark from 2000 вЂ“ 2005 as it was used both in work and in college (where I went on block-release from work). ThatвЂ™s not my point at all! I just think we can all learn from exploring the alternatives even if weвЂ™re all still going to be using InDesign. I definitely donвЂ™t want this discussion to devolve into a QX versus ID argument. I know that QuarkXPress, for example, still has plenty of features that InDesign lacks. IвЂ™m not being judgemental about any of these.

Are you using (I mean for real work, not just playing with) other page-layout programs, such as the open-source Scribus, or Apple Pages? What do you like or donвЂ™t like about them? (I havenвЂ™t even gotten close to Scribus, after the installation instructions began with вЂњInstall the Xcode developer toolsвЂ¦вЂќ Gah!).

How much are you using QuarkXPress, and why?.

If you have used ID2Q, why? What worked and didnвЂ™t work? Are you in a bi-layout-platform world, and if so, did you have to later bring the files back to InDesign with Q2ID?.

But my friendвЂ™s question led me to start asking more questions in my headвЂ¦ questions I wanted to ask you, the InDesignSecrets reader (please respond in the comments below): After having used XPress almost daily from 1988 to 2001, I find that I very rarely get around to launching it these days. I was recently asked by a colleague if I had any experience with MarkzwareвЂ™s ID2Q XTension, which lets you open InDesign files in a little program called QuarkXPress.

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