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Published on: 6/22/2005
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Blatner: InDesign, Not Quark, Is the Future of DTP
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SAN FRANCISCO,There was no question about the message graphic-arts consultant David Blatner was sending to the attendees of the InDesign Conference at the Hotel Nikko on Wednesday.QuarkXPress is old and tired, and Adobe Systems' InDesign CS2 is the future of desktop publishing.
"I used to be a die-hard Quark user," Blatner told the crowd of about 180 attendees at his keynote speech.
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Blatner, who doesn't work for Adobe, is a consultant specializing in InDesign, QuarkXPress and Photoshop.He has authored or co-authored 13 books, including "Real-World Adobe InDesign," "InDesign for QuarkXPress Users," the award-winning bestseller "The QuarkXPress Book," "Real-World Photoshop," "Real-World Scanning and Halftoning," and "QuarkXPress Tips & Tricks."
Publish.com Special Report: InDesign vs Quark XPressBlatner covered the history of InDesign, starting with versions 1.0 and 2.0 and how it started changing his way of thinking about QuarkXPress.
"I was all excited about Quark introducing tables to QuarkXPress," Blatner said.
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A majority of the audience had used QuarkXPress but was looking to move to InDesign, and almost everyone in the room had been doing desktop publishing "since the dawn of time," as Blatner phrased the question.
The next incarnation was InDesign CS, and Blatner said he was finally sold completely."It moved from really good software to 'Duh, what are you going to use.' It was completely obvious what you should be using for desktop publishing."
Blatner went on to show what he considered to be the coolest new features of InDesign CS2.His top five features are:
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"I am utterly fascinated that a majority of people still use QuarkXPress," Blatner said."InDesign is just leagues better than Quark."
But five features weren't enough, so Blatner then talked about his "pretty cool 10":
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Blatner got a laugh when he described Adobe's Photoshop as basically just an InDesign CS2 plug-in.
"There are a lot of users that are using CS2, but they're using it the same way they did QuarkXPress or PageMaker," Blatner said.
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