Which is most popular in the design industry – Adobe Indesign or QuarkXpress?
I don’t think there’s any way of really knowing. In general it’s more often it a corporate decision, and not a personal one. When I worked on the publishing side, especially large catalogs, Quark was king. When I moved into creative agencies, InDesign was the hero. I personally find my workflow is faster in InDesign than in Quark, but I have to admit Quark 7 was a very impressive upgrade. If you compare features, each one has their own minor advantages, but overall its awash. So again, I see a lot of design agencies, consumer publishers, and more creative companies preferring InDesign, and with its excellent typography controls and Illustrator-quality vector tools, I’m not surprised. Quark on the other hand has remained popular as a workhorse, particularly with newspaper publishing and catalogs. It’s been deeply integrated into the workflows of these types of industries and also these types of companies have spent tens of thousands on asset management systems that already integrate wit
