David Blatner, from InDesign Secrets, has responded to my question about opening PDF files in InDesign natively. It turns out that there is an InDesign plug-in called PDF2ID by Recosoft, that allows you to do just that. Unfortunately, it's $249 for the plug-in. That's a pretty steep price for limited functionality. Still, it's great to see that someone else had the same problem as me and I'm grateful that David could respond.

Labels: InDesign CS3, PDF, Recosoft

An interesting article, on IT-Enquirer, reveals that Quark performs better than InDesign in a variety of tasks. The result is that for speed in performance, Quark was faster in 79% of tasks, leaving a paltry 21% for InDesign.

We found that QuarkXPress 7 has better support for design departments where more than one person must be able to control and manage the layout process by offering support for Job Jackets, Composition Zones and sharing colour management elements. In many areas, QuarkXPress 7 also is just faster, supporting the creative process better by including –right within the application– Web and Flash layouts, and the most often needed creative tools and effects.

So just remember, that Quark isn't going away.

Labels: Adobe, InDesign, InDesign CS3, Quark, Quark 7, QuarkXPress