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Great topic! Adobe and HTML. What's hot at Adobe right now? Digital Publishing is. What are the main players? Adobe and Quark (yes they still exist). One uses InDesign Postscript-to-Javascript and Air to create, build and publish. The other (far older player, Quark) uses an HTML-engine to build and publish, see: http://www.appstudio.net/#2 So Adobe loves HTML? Doesn't look like it from my perspective.

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... Right because Adobe ONLY produce InDesign.

For digital publishing, Adobe have Dreamweaver, Muse, Edge, (part of InDesign), Flash... all linked with Creative Cloud, which allows you to publish 'to-the-web' (Great for non-technical designers).

I would hazard a guess that you work for Quark, or are an Apple-like fanboy of them, to present such a one sided argument with a fraction of the complete information.

You would guess wrong. I'm actually a huge InDesign fan and have been accused of being an Adobe fanboy. Source: Smashing Magazine (see comments for my article): http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/27/10-pre-press-tips... or just read my blog full of InDesign only tips http://digital-engineer.net/

As an (non-paid) author for the Dutch InDesign User website and magazine I do find it funny someone might accuse me of working for Quark!

"Apple-like fanboy" really? I come here to avoid idiocy like this. Your point is valid, but you've rendered it moot by behaving like that.

Great contribution, my point is still valid regardless of what you think of me... you, on the other hand, didn't make a useful point.

To say Adobe is tied to Postscript unlike Quark comes across as fanboy-ism. Given adobe are heavily invested in HTML. That said the OP clarified what he means by Desktop Publishing and it makes more sense.

No, it's moot. Especially given the GP's disclosure. Just because someone has a differing opinion to yours, it doesn't make them a 'fanboy'.

With regards to your other arguments: I'm talking about Digital Publishing (Magazines, Newspapers, eBooks, on tablets, see http://www.adobe.com/nl/solutions/digital-publishing.html ). Dreamweaver, Muse, etc play almost no role in that field because Adobe/InDesign are tied-to-the-hip with Postscript. Quark on the other hand is not and is free to utilize HTML.

HTML is inherently bad for print because of the pixel-inches transition... I'm not sure how quark gets around that, but it's a serious issue.

What CSS/HTML does Quark support?

Don't know about Quark but InDesign allows you to create an RGB / pixel based documents (like Illustrator). Suppose Quark works the same way. It's all HTML5. Here is a tutorial I just found http://www.jamie-cross.net/?cat=26

From a developer's perceptive it might suck, but from a designer's perceptive it's 'good enough' and better than static PDF files like InDesign creates.

Sorry, I wasn't talking about the ability to create pixel based documents, and/or inches based. I was referring to transitioning between them. (i.e. normalizing your ppi of all your artwork and converting a pixel based document into an 'real' width).

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