--- title: QuarkXPress Reviews meta_title: 'QuarkXPress Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 304 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how QuarkXPress works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 304 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-24' parent_category: name: Graphic Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/graphic-design --- # QuarkXPress Reviews **Vendor:** Quark **Category:** [Desktop Publishing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/desktop-publishing) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 304 ## About QuarkXPress QuarkXPress – Revolutionizing Desktop Publishing with AI-Powered Innovation For decades, QuarkXPress has been the go-to solution for designers, publishers, and businesses needing a professional-grade desktop publishing tool. Now, with the latest AI-driven features, QuarkXPress is redefining how creatives work—streamlining design processes and optimizing content output with unparalleled precision. 🔹 AI-Powered Features for the Modern Designer 🔹Image & Text Optimization – Resize, scale, and fit images or text dynamically for perfect composition. 🔹 Font Pairing & Adaptive Typography – AI-powered font recommendations and real-time multiple Stylesheets adjustments ensure seamless, professional-looking designs. 🔹 Content-Aware Scaling & Resizing – Effortlessly create designs that adapt to multiple formats, from print layouts to responsive digital content. 🔹 Advanced Digital Publishing – Publish interactive eBooks, web-ready HTML5 publications, and professional PDFs ## QuarkXPress Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **HTML5 custom interactivity** feature in QuarkXPress for enhancing digital publishing with seamless animations. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **innovative features** of QuarkXPress, enhancing digital publishing with custom interactivity and seamless web integration. (1 reviews) - Users value the **interface simplicity** of QuarkXPress, enabling smooth integration of complex features seamlessly. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **innovative layout design** of QuarkXPress, enhancing their ability to create interactive web apps effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **time-saving features** of QuarkXPress, enabling efficient creation of interactive content without extra steps. (1 reviews) - Versatility (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face a **steep learning curve** with QuarkXPress, requiring dedication and patience to master its complex features. (1 reviews) - Users face a **steep learning curve** with QuarkXPress due to its complex options and professional-level capabilities. (1 reviews) ## QuarkXPress Reviews ### 1. best layout software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Very precise and fast. Unlikely to create surprises during production **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** the pages of the pdf must be inserted one by one or you have to buy a plug-in to do that which indesign has as standard **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** find good software to manage fonts **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work well with quarks and make me create quality products ### 2. Decent program, but I still prefer InDesign **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I really like that you can split your project into different parts so that multiple people can work on different parts a large project at once and then easily import all parts back into one file when it is finished and ready to publish. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** They still haven’t seemed to have resolved the crashing issues. These crashes have been a problem for years. I don’t know why they wouldn’t have worked these bugs out by now. And their technical support leaves much to be desired. Seems their solution to every issue is to simply restart the program and your computer or to even uninstall and reinstall the program. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** I wouldn’t recommend QuarkXPress. I would always recommend InDesign over QuarkXPress anyday. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** The only reason we keep a copy of QuarkXPress is because some of our clients still prefer this program to InDesign, so we have to have the program in order to be able to work from our clients’ native files. Fortunately most of our clients have converted to InDesign, so it’s rare that we have to use QuarkXPress anymore ### 3. Functionality **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erich P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** The stability and the possibility to work with vectors **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** The cluttered menues! And also the changements of functions when they are already in logical and good functions (styles / choice of type faces) **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** All type of typographic and more and more also graphic products ### 4. I like Quark easy to use and easy to navigate **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I find it's much easier to use than earlier versions. This version navigates much easier between fonts tabs importing etc. Also I like the easy access to tutorials. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** I have trouble drawing boxes I don't know if it's me or Quark, I think I need more practice **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** I am a long time Quark user, it meets my graphic design needs. It is fluid and easy to use. I am very happy with Quark **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** My graphic design business is more streamlined ### 5. Desktop publishing software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary H. | Public Information Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I've used Quark XPress since the 1990s when I worked for our local newspaper. Since leaving the newspaper 11 years ago, I always make sure that my employer allows me to purchase a copy of Quark as I'm very familiar with the product and can design and produce a wide array of marketing/promotional materials. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** As Quark has evolved over the years, I have not, so I don't use many of the new features. Some are hard to use or difficult to understand. If you've never used Quark, it could feel a little intimidating but the learning curve to produce basic things isn't bad. I'd love to dig into the program and learn how to use more of its features, but I just don't have time. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** I like Quark XPress because I've been using it for many years, and it has always served my purpose. I know the shortcuts and features of the program, and it helps me produce and publish quality documents and materials. Some of the features are a little difficult to use, but for the most part, Quark is my go-to program. Also, if you're a non-profit agency, you can get a big discount on the price. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quark helps me design flyers, create promotional materials, and even works as a word processor. You can easily convert documents to PDF or EPS. And many of the features of the program can't be found in other desktop publishing software. It's my go-to program when I need to design, edit, or convert a file. ### 6. Simply good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Klaus-Dieter K. | IT-Trainer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Everything works intuitively, and what works is precise and individually adjustable. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** currently, I find no flaw that could lead to advising against Quark 2018 **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Just try it out. After a short time, it's easy. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creation of flyers, brochures, books, stationery, etc. ### 7. Mighty, fast and stable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** PDF and InDesign import features, also the OpenType support. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Imported PDF bitmap images are not extracted as separate files, InDesign Import often crashes. InDesign export might be also very useful **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast and stable application, complex layouts can be realized very fast. ### 8. Always reliable and stable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike G. | Visual Artist, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** i like the fast and same basic-workflow which i know since my first Quark Version (i startet with 2.12.) **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** i miss to mark more multiple text/word passages in the same time to make changes **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** brochures, magazines, posters, businesscards, exhibition-displays. ### 9. Quark Express **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen P. | Director, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Professional features and good user interface. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Lack of some utilities built in, such as preflight. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** If you have InDesign files, make sure you export IDML files before stopping your subscription as Quark can open these. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deliver professional Desktop Publishing ### 10. Deplorable technical support **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** stephane l. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I remain one of the only ones still working with this program, out of habit, but I do not recommend it. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** lack of seriousness in writing a datasheet or user manual **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** none in particular ### 11. Professional software accessible to beginners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stéphane G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Powerful software and very pleasant to use. The features are intuitive. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Nothing to complain about! This software fully satisfies me. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick setup of elaborate layouts. ### 12. long time user, used to the work flow, good but not perfect software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christoph J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** intuitive user interface, used to it **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** PDF workflow, problem with working with external PDFs and reexport as PDF (often problems) **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** producing magazines ### 13. Good for simple layouts and print design **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I like the ability to turn off certain sections for output **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** I dislike the variety of user friendly features Quark is missing vs Adobe. I like the multiple flyout menus in Indesign, I have trouble finding everything I need in the single bar at the bottom of the screen. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** make sure to lock your layers so no items get shifted **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to layout print design for complicated jobs, and the program runs quickly because of the low res previews it offers while working. ### 14. Back to QuarkXpress 2018 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I like the simplicty of the interface, it's very pleasant to work on Quark. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Maybe too straight of illustration ? To make some shapes. Still few bugs in epub mode, some animations which doesn't works. And make an application is very difficult (certificates, keys…) maybe a tutorial could help… **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is the principal software in our activity. Flyers, posters, books ### 15. Absoluty great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Cloud free - NO subscription. First-Class OpenType Controls. Color Fonts Support. Direct InDesign IDML Import.New PDF Print Engine. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** its nothing to dislike. We are happy that QuarkXPress is one more time in front and the masterpiece for design and production! **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** All and old users: go again to QuarkXPress **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** we create and produce many in marketing, advertising and professional prints ### 16. Its the Simple Things **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Familiarity with interface and precision **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Still some issues with PDF compatibility **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Marketing and publicity materials as well as documentation and publications. **Official Response from Matthias Guenther:** > Thank you for your review. Can you please let us know which PDF issues you are experiencing? There are several styles and verifications in the PDF output dialog that you can choose, like PDF/X-4 or PDF/A. Which are you using please? ### 17. predecessor version not so vulnerable **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Good dictation of texts and accuracy of content **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** once used support and could not be understood by the supported person. German sold items should also be treated in German. I'll be faithful to Quark after 19 years of another similar program. The problem still exists with printing. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Print with Quark **Official Response from Matthias Guenther:** > Hello dear user, Of course, our support is also available in German. Simply send an email to support@quark.com in German, and the ticket will be handled by our German-speaking colleagues. What problem are you having with the print output? Thank you Matthias ### 18. I like working with QuarkXPress **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** nice interface, good functionality, you can by the software and need not rent it (!!!) **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** the positioning of frames with different starting points (eg. left up, centered, right up ...) is one of the few things which is much better in InDesign **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** designing print products (magazines, newspapers, brochures, flyers ...) ### 19. Professional text editing program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Import and Export | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** It is professional, powerful, and more economical than other programs. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Some functionalities and details of Adobe InDesign are missed. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Professional and economical option to edit and layout texts **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has given me effective text editing solutions without resorting to Adobe. **Official Response from Matthias Guenther:** > Thank you for your comments. What functions are missing in QuarkXPress, please? Thank you. ### 20. somewhat obsolete **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timothy M. | Owner, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Mostly I use Quark just to open old files and make minor revisions. Supposedly the newest version is competitive with InDesign, but most everyone a designer interacts with is using InDesign. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Upgrade prices are way too steep. $350 for each and every version. Would really like to upgrade but not at that rate. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** The only real problem it solves at this point is resurrecting old files from longtime clients. **Official Response from Matthias Guenther:** > Hi Timothy, we offer attractive upgrade options and the price for an upgrade from the most recent version has been at $185 for a while. You can save even more by purchasing an Upgrade Plan. Please give us a call: http://www.quark.com/Buy/QuarkXPress_Sales/Customer_Service/#phone Thanks Matthias ### 21. No longer the best, and for good reason. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Once you master the keyboard shortcuts, workflow is a breeze. It is easy to create multiple doucments quickly. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** I dislike the lack of integration with Adobe products. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Quark is not longer the standard for page layout. I would advise against purchasing it, as there are better options out there (such as Adobe InDesign). **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't use Quark much anymore, except to open out older files from backup. There haven't been many benefits to us having it, and we only have one copy now as opposed to everyone in the department the way it was years ago. ### 22. QuarkXPress does everything I need! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I love that it is NOT subscription-based! **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Not too much I don't like...maybe some of the keyboard commands, but that's no biggie. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm avoiding over-priced subscription-based products, and have saved hundreds, or likely thousands of dollars by doing so. ### 23. Quark is my go-to layout platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** the toolbox where i can quickly edit and do layout **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** i would like to be able to put edges on text so i can make it two colors **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am doing creative for clients ### 24. Good alternative to the InDesign subscription **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Fast photo placement and easy scaling, high resolution photos in the layout **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** - No selection of reference points during measurement - Settings for PDF export too complicated **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Quaterly magazine (Print) - Brochures ### 25. Quark Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Being used to it since first edition of the software **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** No Suitcase Fusion plugin available (and not coming either) No colour sampler in colour pane **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presentations, ### 26. Quark Express. Great Page layout **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** The best part of Quark Express is the tools and paragraph layout for building a magazine or booklet. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** The only thing I dislike about Quark is it has problems when bringing in some vector files with transparency. It tends to bug out on that and also some problems when using true type fonts. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Great layout for Publications. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has a very good work flow and pretty fast. The paragraph template is the best. ### 27. Querky **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrienne L. | Program Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** This program can get very precise. Measurements can be exact and the dialog box for PDF output selection is also detailed. Packaging work and pulling linked files and fonts into one location is easy. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Sometimes the program will freeze or shut down. A "Recovered Files" folder will then appear on your desktop that may or may not have your latest files. You are also limited in the types of files you can import into a Quark document. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Be sure to set the auto saving mode to ON so that you can keep your most recent files in case the program crashes. This is a powerful layout program and you can get very precise and achieve accurate printing results when tricky folds and perforations are part of the design. Style sheets and layers are your friends! **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Brochure and booklet design. Multiple pages and style guides are a breeze. ### 28. Typography and HTML5 publishing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Fine Art | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Typographic precision and html5 publishing **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** There is nothing to criticize about the current QuarkXPress. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Indesign could be replaced ### 29. competition from Indesign, chronic difficulty with shadow engine **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2018 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** speed and features - shadows, text manipulation **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** unexpected crashes, difficult communication with support **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Retail circular work ### 30. Quark has great functionality compared to Indesign but it lacks in other departments **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Quark is easy to use whether or not you have a full graphic design background. The program is great for brochures and one sheet flyers. Anything more then that, the program tends to get very quarky. For technical datasheets, this program was great. Their tables were very easy to use and to customized as needed. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Once you start getting into the bigger files of catalogs, the program tends to stop working properly, freeze, and even has exited out without saving my document. If you don't save every so often, you could loose valuable work in an instant. The program also ran a bit slow. I am not sure if this was due to my network, but at work or home, the program didn't respond well. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** It is a great platform to start off with, especially if you are doing small brochures and flyers. The tools are easy to find and use. There are also a ton of tutorials. If you end up using this program, remember to save often! **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to make flyers and 4 page brochure pretty well. the tools were easy to find when creating these pieces. Made a bunch of technical datasheets as well which their tables where very easy to use and make unique in color. I liked using it for the technical datasheets best. ### 31. Quark vs. InDesign **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gail (Niziak) W. | Ignition director, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Hands down, everything (and I'm only now upgrading from Quark 9.5.4.1). In the late 80's I switched to Quark from Adobe Pagemaker and have never looked back. Pagemaker was sweet, kind of like a Percheron draft horse -- strong, steady, but limited in intelligence. By comparison, Quark was like a Puissance high-jump thoroughbred -- sensitive, yes but when treated with respect and professionalism, it was sheer pleasure to operate. Mind you, I love Photoshop. And many of our designers prefer InDesign. In fact, I have had to work with InDesign files through the years. That said, sorry to say, it's always been a drag to do so. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** On rare occasions, Quark has evidenced quirky, high strung behavior. I've always taken it to be a sign that a break is needed by all parties. With attention and care, the problems always got resolved. Also for some reason (Mac OS 10.10.5) whenever I intentionally quit out of the program, it gives me a message that Quark "quit unexpectedly" -- which is annoying. What improvement would I love? To be able to work in pixels as a measurement and set the dpi of a file. But that's probably not possible.... **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** If you are a professional (you care about typography, like to make your own decisions on settings and are fussy about a myriad of things in graphic design) then give Quark a chance. Don't listen to anyone who complains about it. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Quark for all aspects of typesetting and graphic design for print. Benefits realized: 30 years of demonstrable success as a marketing communications firm. ### 32. I haven't used it in 3 years- but it is not as user friendly as I'd want it to be **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Newspapers | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** It sure simplifies printing complex layouts! **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** A lot of the options didn't come as user friendly as I wanted it to be. Coming from Adobe programs, I want it to be similar in some ways. I want it to be more common sense than searching for tutorials. Speaking of: there's not as many tutorials out there as, say, Adobe products. It just simply could be MORE simple. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** it is not a common sense program. There are many many many options that can make your process simpler and easier. Do your homework and be prepared for some trial and error. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it in college for printing booklets for businesses. Once you get the process down it really can make everything go quicker and easier. I see its benefits but I just don't understand a lot of the options. ### 33. Quark Xpress **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Quark is a robust program for setting up letters and flyers that is great to use once you get over the learning curve and are able to make the most of it's advantages. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** The learning curve is high as it takes a little training to get used to the program. It could also use some additional processes like variable printing options. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Consider it as a good option other than InDesign as a desktop editor. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a plus in the printing industry to have this software, and as a designer to use for letter setup and design. ### 34. Quark Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany D. | Independent Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2015 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I find the interface clean and easy to use. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** This program is not as versatile as some newer products. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** If you are doing simple page layout this it a good solution. If your needs are more diverse, look into something with more capability **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier to teach other people to use. ### 35. Smart Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Franz W. | Graphik, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Typographic Possibilities and Wording like i learned as Typesetter in Mid-70es; Convert a Document in different multiple Channels like PDF, HTML, ePub, Page-Sizes; Listening to Consumers on Forum and special on Facebook (the only Reason to use Facebook is this Group where you get Information by Others and also Quark without Flame-Wars) and over the last Years a strong Product-Cycle of Enhancements starting with XPress 2015. Combination of different Sheets like Font-. Paragraph-Stylesheets. Automatic Functions like Conditional Styles to make non experienced Users ready to Layout simple Products like a 4-Page Newsletter. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Missing some Typographic Possibilities like define a Drop Caps-Font in Paragraph (remember Ventura?); append in Conditional Style a Sign like "at the End of Story append <". Features like "Job Jackets" or "Composition Zones" are complex, so i'm missing Videos about how to use and in which Situation its a smart Solution. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Proof your Tool, whatever you now use. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used XPress for Years from Flyer to Book, from Newspaper to Magazine. Testing ePub and now HTML. Also tested other Layout-Tools but stay because i don't see a real Benefit using one of other Layout-Tools. ### 36. QXP2016 - Definitely the most reliable layout software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** The ease of use and the reliability how the software works, definitely makes me enjoy working on it. I do every little thing that needs to be designed on it. From business cards to letterheads, leaflets to magazines, books to ebooks, printed banners to online banners. In the QXP2016, a lot of features have been included and in the coming release, QXP2017, even more features are going to be included, and the best thing is that all the features that are added, are mainly chosen by us designers in the industry. The Facebook group, which is mainly dedicated to people using QuarkXpress and run by the people of Quark Software, gives the opportunity for every member to help one another with every problem one might find, no matter what software version they use. As others mentioned, it is great at handling multi page documents especially with a lot of text but I don't say that it's just good for that as I create layouts with image heavy articles and I still find it easy to handle. A plus is the digital publishing which Quark allows you to publish directly to your App through their portal. This is the future even though printing will never die. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Very little to say here as software experience is very good. Anyone who faced difficult times in the past through customer service, I understand them but that has changed completely to the opposite direction and who hasn't tried the software lately, I recommend that they give it a shot before slamming it. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Whoever tried Quark a while ago, and had bad experience, I suggest that they give it another try especially with the new one which is soon coming out. To those who never tried Quark, I suggest to dedicate some time to read about it and have an idea of the things that can be done, ideally going back to older versions and gradually reading till the latest ones and download the trial. Maybe you find it simpler to handle. Don't think that you will handle it in a day but it won't take you long to learn. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used Quark for the past 25 years now, and did pretty much a lot of stuff with it. From newspapers to magazines, books. List is endless. Now I started as a self employed on graphic design and it is the main software and I'm still working on the same kind of material. ### 37. Best layout software for all my professional design needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric H. | Owner, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Quark allows me to be fast and efficient which leaves more time for the creative process. I use it for every design job. I prefer it over any other option. I have been using it professionally every day for nearly 30 years. I cannot imagine using anything else. Quark continues to improve the software, making large strides in recent years. If you use or are considering InDesign, try Quark. It more than pays for itself once you learn it. It has keyboard shortcuts for nearly everything and you can add or change your own. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** A few UI tweaks may be nice. Ex: more obvious highlighting of current page in Page Layout dialog. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** I would suggest it to any graphic designer. i prefer it to any other layout software. The Facebook Group is wonderful at solving problems for users. Answered by both users and Quark employees. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keyboard shortcuts allow for more time to design and less for creation. I use it for all design jobs, from printed literature, billboards, ads, web site design, displays, etc. ### 38. QuarkXpress since 1992 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faye S. | Self Employed, Publishing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I have been using QuarkXpress since 1992 and wouldn't want to use any other program. It is easy to learn and use, and is logical in the way things work. There are many new features in the latest versions, and I'm watching the QuarkXpress YouTube channel to get new ideas and update the way I work. Cost to upgrade is relatively inexpensive. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Can't think of anything specific that I dislike, but 40 characters are required in order to submit this review ;o) **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Highly recommend this program. Layout is easy, style sheets save a huge amount of time. Lots of great features. Easily import pdf files as native objects and modify any or all of the text/photos. YouTube instruction videos are available on the QuarkXpress Channel. Upgrades are not required, but the cost to do so, if desired, is nominal. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster layout of magazine pages. Learning to better utilize style sheets ### 39. A real return to form for the recent versions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve H. | Director, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I've been using Quark since 3.32 and like many others we've dabbled with InDesign. In the early days printers were much happier with collected Quark files, but since PDFs became the norm it's less of an issue. I've never really moved away from Quark, even when they were the only game in town ands their prices and customer service reflected that, as I find it it reliable and easy to use for print (which is still a large part of our work). I'm now using 2015 and the improvements have made it even better. Being used to the shortcuts obviously helps, but I find it really user friendly and nowhere near as bloated with features I don't need as InDesign. My son is studying graphics at university and they use CC exclusively and I suspect Quark may struggle to get younger users, but the non-subscription is certainly attractive. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** It's taken a while for Quark to become as responsive to the marketplace and end users as it should have been – there was a bit of arrogance a while back – but I've noticed a real improvement in this area. There seems to be a real drive to get users happy and supported. We have CC for the other apps we use all the time, but Quark is still my go-to page layout app. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Print projects from short run digital to documents with hundreds of pages for litho. Speed and reliability are essential and Quark gives me that. ### 40. QuarkXPress making marketing material easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dennis H. | Systems Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** The ease with which we can create fliers, and other marketing material for mass production. Very intuitive. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** There is some difficulty changing from different programs. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** At this point used for marketing material, member forms, even for part of our website. ### 41. Great tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Holly G. | Co-Instructor Lockhart Correctional Facility , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I like how quickly I could pick using this software up and how intricately I could design layouts. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Sometimes this software would unexpectedly crash, etc. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Great for those looking for simple and powerful software. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on high school newspaper layout ### 42. Professional yet accessible design software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** I used Quark for several years for all sorts of basic design projects. Not being a designer I was worried about using such a professional tool, but it's quite understandable after some initial training. I used Quark to create posters and newsletters. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** It's an expensive piece of kit for a non-designer so is probably inaccessible for most. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** For creating professional newsletters and posters it's second-to-none. ### 43. Indesign's ugly cousin **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Easy to learn- small learning curve. Interface is functional and user friendly **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** It's missing some of the best text editing features in Indesign **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Book layout- simple to use ### 44. QXP **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** The thing I like the most about Quark Xpress is the familiarity that I have with it. Ive been using it since 1992! **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** The keyboard shortcuts are nothing like those in Adobe's Creative Suite. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** To be honest, I'd recommend Adobe's creative suite as a more comprehensive pieces of software **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a brilliant piece of design software ### 45. Excellent product for layouts **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roger D. | Web Services Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** My favorite part of Quark is being able to make, define, and apply stylesheets that match my publication's brand and style. With other software, I've had to style text by hand every time I want to do something a bit differently. With Quark, I set a style, then apply it as many times as I want, and I can set keystrokes for each. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Occasionally some Quark documents can be buggy, but we've found that this often happens when pages are used over and over, with material being added to a template file, saved, then stripped off before pages are used again. In short, the fault is with a bad user practice, not with the software itself. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Quark can be difficult to learn at first. My first couple of weeks left me feeling useless. But out of the box, Quark is fairly intuitive. Within a short time, once the keystrokes are learned, you'll be flying through your documents quickly and producing some pretty amazing stuff. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used Quark for designing and paginating newspaper pages in the past, and I currently use it for long, multi-page documents. Quark makes it very easy to handle jumped (continued) material from page to page. ### 46. Quark 2017 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** It's so very Quark and yet still up to date. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** There's very little I don't like about Quark. Its mail merge is slightly clunky. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Very stable. Knows publishing. Better than ID. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** All layout and design issues are solved with QXP. ### 47. QuarkXPress for Weekly Publishing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Newspapers | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** User-friendly, nice zoom options, easy to import a variety of file types **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Updates aren't compatible across the board, no longer the industry standard **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** Cheaper than InDesign and as easy to use. While it may not be the industry standard, no one would no what software you were using to design your pages if you didn't tell them. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to create colorful, slick layouts for weekly newspaper and monthly magazine ### 48. QuarkXpress **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela M. H. | Print Shop Supervisor, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** It's great not to have to switch back and forth to edit images. **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** The price is a bit high for a freelancer. **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** More precise control ### 49. I've been a user since 1988 – Quark is the most accurate make up program out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin Q. | Owner, Publishing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** The typographical control and formatting **What do you dislike about QuarkXPress?** Things that change the shortcuts I've got used to. **Recommendations to others considering QuarkXPress:** For my money this is the program for a production environment **What problems is QuarkXPress solving and how is that benefiting you?** I produce around 224 magazine pages a month in a 10 day production window, it's good ### 50. Quark Express review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2017 **What do you like best about QuarkXPress?** Quark is good for page layout. 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