Layout Reacts to QuarkXPres vs InDesign CS3 Report

by: Erik Vlietinck - Last Updated: Thu 19 July 2007

Alistair Dabbs, editor of Layout has kindly pointed out that we made two mistakes in the QuarkXPress 7 versus InDesign CS3 report. Lacking a technical editor is not always a good idea, so we are publishing this addendum with our sincere apologies to Adobe for these two errors. Layout also seems to imply that we have been using beta software --we can assure our readers this has not been the case. In fact, the two errors we made were a direct result of not having done what we did for the rest of the report: re-test with the release version of Indesign everything we had already been testing with the beta.

The first mistake is about the XTensions sets in QuarkXPress and the plug-ins in InDesign CS3. We reported that InDesign’s plug-ins should always be on unless you drag plug-ins out of the folder in the Finder. We reported that an equivalent for the XTensions Manager in QuarkXPress does not exist. This is wrong. In InDesign CS3, when selecting “Plug-in Configuration” from the Application menu, enables users to save the default plug-ins as a duplicate set. The user can then call this set whatever he likes, and turn on/off plug-ins as required.

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