Indesign Cs3

Report of Comparison between Indesign CS3 Functions And QuarkXpress 8 Functions -Comparison Diagrams -

By Nori 200109

Indesign CS3 Multi Use Path frame

Quark 8 No Path Frame

TIFF JPEG EPS AI PSD PDF (No issues)

TIFF JPEG EPS AI (Colour Issue) PSD (effect not supported) PDF

Multi editing

Single Font Editing (Colour, size)

Preflight

Job Jacket

Smooth workflow with photoshop, Illustrator

Time Consuming workflow with photoshop, Illustrator’

CS, CS2, CS3, Q6, Q7

Q6, Q7, Q8

XML import support

No XML import support

Print Colour Support from AI, PSD files

Print Colour Issues from AI, PSD files

Proof Colour Support from AI, PSD files

Proof Colour Issues from AI, PSD files

Compatible with files from Indian

Not Compatible with files from Indian

Less issues for re-edit, re-print More Issues for re-edit, re-print Anastasia doesn’t show up >Use Anoristasia No EPS Preview support >Work on Default Screen not High Res >Convert EPS to PDF

No Major Issue for Anastasia EPS Preview Support

44 signature issues >Use LTP Symbol A

44 signature issue >Use LTP Symbol A

Need more time for Proof Reading

Less time for Proof Reading

Smooth Workflow with PSD files

Crash sometimes depends on PSD files

Able to edit PSD files, Stable Workflow

Unable to edit PSD files, Stable Workflow Unable to edit Vector format

Able to Vector Import 1 Indication to adjust

9 Indications to adjust 1 Comparison between Indesign CS3 and Quark 8 Quark 8 TransparencyCS

Quark 7 X

Unicodes

X

OpenType fonts

X

PDF support

X

High Res Preview

X

Multi editing for Image

X

AI, PSD support

X

Drag+Drop

X

No XML import support XML Import Support 2 Comparison between Quark 8 and Quark 6 3 Left:Q8 Right:Indesign CS3 Previews

Conclusion There are a few functions on Quark better than Indesign, for instance, Font “Anastasia” Conversion Issue, EPS preview Support and Less time for Proof reading. There are necessary functions missing on Quark. For instance, XML import support, Print/Preview Colour Support from AI, PSD. Any other functions are not considered as “Very Important Elements” as they are very similar functions. Quark 8 and Quark 7 has much more different. Best part of using Quark 7 is XML import supported for Quark 6 but not supported for Quark 8 Indesign CS3 has an issue of different colours between “drag+drop” and “file import”. And Drag+Drop colours are much closer or exactly the same to the colours we created on Illustrator CS3 files. Recommendation In result, To consider of stability for progress and maximise the security for printing, I would suggest to use Indesign CS3 for our main system, there will be some other exceptions. In printing market, the share of using Indesign is much higher and will be continuing for another few more years. Therefore when we get to the reprinting steps, we could easily edit and reprint again. (Could be CS5 or CS6 but not Q9 or Q10) With issue of colour differences on indesign CS3, I will suggest to decide which colour we will go for and make a system to use this colours as default colours for our company.