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Wednesday, February 27, 2002

In and out of InDesign and Quark

Now that I'm through with my brief examination of QuarkXPress 5, I've managed to get a chance to play around with Adobe InDesign 2. It takes 28 seconds to start up on my PowerBook, which alone makes me say 'no thanks.' The program itself is pretty nice; it opened my Quark documents perfectly (although I didn't try anything very complex) and all the tools worked as I expected them on the first try. Most actions seemed pretty snappy; I didn't notice anything that felt slow (aside from startup). Of course, not knowing all the keyboard shortcuts and not entirely grokking the way boxes work kept me from getting the full user experience. I haven't decided if I'll keep it around; aside from the transparency feature (which is fun) and snappy palettes, it doesn't have anything I really NEED that Quark can't give me. Plus it requres 50mb of RAM just to get going, versus 15mb for Quark 5. Blah.

Posted at 12:26 PM

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