Macintosh Bible, 8th Edition, The

Surveying the Field (KT)

Any Mac user with a scintilla of interest in desktop publishing or page layout has heard of the high-end big three: Quark's QuarkXPress ($869, upgrade from version 4.0 or 4.1 free, upgrade from versions prior to 4.0 $306.15, competitive upgrade from PageMaker $499; www.quark.com), Adobe PageMaker ($499, upgrade $79; www.adobe.com), and Adobe InDesign ($699, upgrade from version 1.0 $99, upgrade from PageMaker or PageMaker Plus $299). If you need to produce work destined for commercial printing, the search can easily begin and end with that short list. In fact, some would short-circuit the process and tell you to choose QuarkXPress, known affectionately as Quark and more cynically as QuirkXPress—the de facto standard among ...