Quark = Pain

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Kalessin

But the thing that really put me off InDesign was the job we received the other day. an InDesign document, placed on a page in a document which was, itself, placed in a separate document. Why?

I believe what you are talking about is a new feature of ID CS3...the ability to place an InDesign document inside another InDesign document. It's actually quite handy.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Kalessin

Finally, for the record, we've found that embedding a PDF file in a Quark page is a really bad idea.

Yeah, I agree.

[almaink]

Ditto. I didn't find Indy hard to learn either, in fact it was easier than when I had to first learn Quack.

[beermonster]

learning indy was easy but then again its very similar to illy so the curve wasnt steep

placing indesign pages in a layout is, imho, an excellent idea - and loading the cursor with several at a time is cool - i get a composite layout i can select several pdf's, files, indy pages - loads - all at once and placing them is going to be a big time saver when the next job arrives with 25 designs and several composite sheet layouts (packaging)

when we do these in quack it's import one at a time - with crap previews and stuff - slow and poor