QuarkXPress Reviews

Easy to use. Has lots of features. Integrates well with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Love that you can create digital and interactive files.

Some features are hard to find. Would like to see more training available.

Quarkxpress was the standart for printing. we really love it, we use it for make books, and magazines. Is relative easy to use (not easy but kind that) and get results.

If you go for make prints books, is amazing... but if you work in print and digital media... well is gonna be a pain.

The big issue is QuarkXPress dont adapt to the "new standards", like make books for prints and digitals with all the formats (epub, kdp, and other) for all the markets.

So you have remake the book for digital, other products save that more time because offer a solution to that problem

Also the pricing is very expensive, they should try to find another model

In the last 5-10 years they lost the market because of that. I hope QuarkXPress get it because we love it

I can output my jobs easily and effectively using the step and repeat and convert to pdf options. It's also fast.

I least like that it starts up slower than usual for older versions of the software. I also am not too cool with it not having the mail merge option

Quark XPress makes designing pages simple. It allows users to efficiently create the looks they want to achieve.

Some of the shortcuts are a little complicated but even those you get used to after using the program for a while.

Quark really is the best when it comes to page layout and typesetting design. The features and abilities far surpass other layout programs.

Although recent versions have been improving, Quark can be rather intimidating to learn and not the most user friendly.

QuarkXPress is very easy to use if you have used Adobe InDesign or CorelDraw. The user interface has a good flow and everything can be spreadout with multiple monitors. Using it for publishing booklets was easy and the printer had no issues with the files.

Costs are a lttle steap for what I use it for. Would like more customization of the user interface. Overall no cons that would deter from considering for those that publish to the web or print on a regular basis.

I like the way QuarkXpress is structured. The interface is quite straight forward for a design tool. I love that a number of products can be designed using Quark, from books, the brochures, to posters and Newsletters. Quark, in my humble opinion, is probably the best tool for publication designs.

Not much cons, in my experience. However, I think for image editing, it should have more features to edit graphics.

The flexibility to do what I need, quality pixel perfect output

Very small learning curve (I came from using InDesign)

I have to say the big bonus of Quark XPress is that it does not rely on a subscription model like Adobe InDesign.

Not every printer will support Quark XPress due to the ascendancy of Adobe's InDesign. Necessary to check in advance if your files can be used.

Easy design software for someone who is not necessarily a graphic designer by trade. This software is easy to teach yourself to use.

Not as advanced as some of the other software programs out there. Some of the tools are harder to maneuver around.

It is very user friendly. It is great to make flyers, brochures, or any desktop publishing items.

It doesn't have good features for type manipulation, such as shadows.

Its really gotten a lot better then its early days and really has started to be just as good for printed materials then adobes creative suite. Its price point makes it a no brainer!!!

Its only downfall is its not as diverse as adobes products. Adobes catalogs doesnt cater to print as much as quarkxpress but quark also doesnt offer a solid number. One software for a do it all creative punch.

The software overall was easy enough to learn. I feel like most things were pretty intuitive.

There were some limitations on the software. Certain features or tools that I would want to use that I couldn't. Or at least, I couldn't figure out how to if they were an option.

Like most designers, I have moved over to InDesign. That being said, Quark can definitely still get the job done.

I think that it has fallen behind on some of the more modern features that other desktop publishing software has really improved on.

I really like the software ease of use and even with updates that core elements stay the same. I find it easy to create the layout I need without all the extra tools and setting found in some other software.

I do find the software slow to load and I do have frequent crashes. I also find it does not use all the fonts and font weights that my system has, that I know work within Photoshop for example.

powerful features. you can control layout of virtually anything you want to print or publish on paper/screen/web etc.

the features are so powerful they're hard to learn, the volume of features is hard to absorb. There are tutorials but where to start

I used this software regularly at my previous job, and really enjoyed it. I was able to create beautiful advertisements for print, fairly easily. I was able to teach myself how to use it also. When it comes to design software, this is user friendly.

It is kind of outdated. These days, people tend to look for Adobe software proficiency. It is a great stepping stone to Adobe.

There are a variety of tools to accomplish exactly what you need. Options allow you to modify text and photos and to set up pages of all kinds of sizes.

Some of the shortcuts codes involve three or more buttons, which can be difficult to remember, thus nullifying their purpose.

I learned this software years ago, and it was great foundational, but overall not as powerful as Illustrator

I prefer how well Illustrator works with other software.

Quark is great for print design, text-heavy layouts, and what used to be referred to as desktop publishing.

They dropped the ball years by being slow to release a compatible version with Mac OSX, and have been struggling to get back in the race ever since. Meanwhile, Adobe InDesign became the industry leader, and there's no going back to Quark. It just doesn't have the smooth cross-application compatibility you get staying in the Adobe Suite.

This program it is very precise, measurements can be exact and the dialog box for PDF output selection is also very detailed. Also outputting linked files and fonts into one location is easy.

The need to purchase 3rd party plugins to get many things done. Quark should address those needs in their next version.

I used it in college, and it was a great beginner tool for learning how to do page layouts, and is relatively cost efficient.

It doesn't integrate well with other software, and it falls short on the graphical layout side. Only ended up using it for text only event programs.

I was able to learn how to use this software with very little training.

Nothing to say about what I like least. It works as it should.

Very good for text formatting, easy to use, especially when formatting books and larger texts.

I wish there was a way to connect the app with software that works with vectors (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw..)

Ever since it was released in 1987 QuarkXPress has dominated the Desktop Publishing.
I use Quarkexpress because when its come to page layout it is the best one out there because of its simplicity.its text tools are very user-friendly and lets you get the job done very quickly and efficiently.
Also, QuarkXPress supports more printers than any other desktop publishing software.

There is not much not to like about QuarkXpress.
Maybe PDF exports could be easier in the future