Hacker News Reader

This takes me back. It's missing Quark XPress.

Around that time I was dating a typesetter who did DTP as well, and I got into the game and did gigs using Quark, Ventura Publisher, and Pagemaker. Good times!

Amusingly enough, Word 4.0 on the Mac had enough layout capabilities to do a lot of basic publishing needs.

All these many years later I can ace those online kerning tests....

View on HN

Quark is still around.

But it is a vestige of its former self, largely due to the way it treated it's customers with contempt. I remember managing a newsroom with about 20 computers running Quark 3.5 or something. Needed to add one additional Mac and only 3.5.1 was available - of course it wasn't compatible with 3.5 which meant we had to pay £££ for each machine to upgrade .1

Annoying company.

When Indesign came along people were almost gleeful to jump ship

Reply on news.ycombinator.com