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Monday, February 25, 2002

Scroll wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

So I got my hands on a copy of QuarkXPress 5. It's quite nice. The more I think about it, the more I admire Quark's slow upgrade cycle (despite my former protestations against it). At least my scroll wheel mouse DOES work with it now, and it uses OS 9 standard widgets -- so they've brought it up to spec with Mac GUI guidelines from about 1997! Whee. The new PDF functions eliminate a time consuming step for our ad production at work (saving me a good half hour every Monday and Thursday that could be better spent eating a scone and working on my weblog). And I can't find any bugs. On the downside, I have real stars in my eyes over InDesign's new transparency features, and Quark's redesigned Tool bar and Measurements palette are uglier than their forebears in 4.0... It's also still more trouble than necessary to work with colors. Plus hello, where are the snappy palettes? I hate palettes that don't snap together. Messy palettes are so wasteful. I need every damn pixel free that I can get.

Speaking of free damn pixels, I was just looking at the Photoshop 7 roundup on MacCentral. Can we please kill that stupid extra menu bar thing at the top of the screen? Between that and the dock, OS X users are going to be losing at least 10% of their screen on the horizontal while trying to edit images. Fuck that. I'm staying over here in my OS 9 sandbox for a little while longer.

Posted at 06:31 PM

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