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But you're forgetting one detail.
The reason for Quark's continued dominance, in spite of their
horrible support, is that the publishing industry relies on
AppleScript-automated workflows. Most of the experienced
scripters are intimately familiar with Quark (despite its fussy
implementation and constant undocumented changes every time
they release an update). Indesign has a much better scripting
interface, and a lot of scripters have taken the plunge and
switched, but it really requires a radical change of the workflow,
and since most scripters are too busy to learn a new product,
Quark is still hanging in there.

Photoshop, on the other hand, hasn't been scriptable until very
recently, so there are very few automated workflows built
aroundit, so it will just be an individual decision to adopt a new
program. Photoshop's fortunes could change rapidly if a better
program came along.
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Snicker  yyuko@... | 09/15/05
friend and foe, no cost R&D  sp29 | 09/15/05
how do you know they wont?  doh123 | 09/15/05
Priorities?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/15/05
Proof please  crash89 | 09/16/05
RE: Proof please  nightshade0143 | 09/16/05
Wow, less than 75% of desktops run Windows?  Otto_Delete | 09/16/05
RE: Wow, less than 75% of desktops run Windows?  nightshade0143 | 09/16/05
Otto_Delete provided a link.  crash89 | 09/16/05
Probably so.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
OSX is the number one flavor of Unix.  MacGeek2121 | 09/16/05
Or maybe the better one  John Zern | 09/16/05
Ummm....no.  marksashton | 09/16/05
Adobe Challenged  sp29 | 09/15/05
Easier said than done  tic swayback | 09/15/05
But you're forgetting one detail.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/15/05
Look at the bigger picture  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Both Quark and ID CS2 have issues.  MacGeek2121 | 09/16/05
Adobe  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
wow, the old illustrator/free hand big divide  theo_durcan | 09/17/05
Depends who they are targeting in the market.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
Professional Market  tic swayback | 09/16/05
I think you misunderstand...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
I'm not knocking their new product....  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Displacement???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
Displacement was never your argument  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Most won't like it.  Rick_K | 03/27/06
What's it got to do with Photoshop?  Resuna | 04/16/07
Have you heard of Canvas?  MacGeek2121 | 09/16/05
What do you know about graphics?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
Microsoft is NOT going to try to directly compete with Photoshop  marksashton | 09/16/05
Never say never  tic swayback | 09/16/05
Good points  marksashton | 09/16/05
They'll have to open up that format  tic swayback | 09/16/05
It will be  marksashton | 09/16/05
They'll also have to be patient  tic swayback | 09/17/05
I can tell you exactly why PageMaker lost out to Quark  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 09/17/05
I wonder if  Roger Ramjet | 09/16/05
Absolutely  marksashton | 09/16/05
wait or use the technology today  jjanks | 09/16/05
What do you base that silly claim on?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/16/05
Bias. If you hate MS  John Zern | 09/16/05
Can save as .tif?  theo_durcan | 09/17/05

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