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I'm a skeptical believer
The debate is interesting. What will be more interesting is when I see more jobs that make InDesign a requirement for applicants and more Printers taking on InDesign jobs. I've talked with lots of professionals in the industry and they are still on the cusp of realizing what InDesign is and implementing it into their workflow.
In the meantime, most of their jobs are Quark.
Awesome product
I had two gripes with InDesign CS (although I love it immensely). First, there was no "Build Booklet" program included for it. InDesign 2.0 came with a very handy imposition software that made life easy. Now you have to either have your print house impose your project or buy another piece of software (I bought Imposer Pro from ALAP, but Quite Imposing is very good as well, but requires additional steps)because sometimes you just want to print things yourself.
Orignally, in the help file, InDesign was supposed to be backwards compatible by exporting as an interchange file, but the person using version 2.0 would have to have the scripting and xml plugins loaded. Well, Adobe has said that it was "too technically challenging to accomplish" (this is on their website) and to disregard what you read. Dang. That's pretty stupid.
This actually caused me a problem last week, because I had to get something printed in one day and was forced to export eps and pdf files instead over handing over a native InDesign file to my provider. C'est la vie!
Other than that, I think CS rocks. The whole suite rocks really. Sometimes I do get an error when importing a .PSD file that "maximizing capability was not done on the file" when I know it was. Haven't figured that one out yet and it doesn't always happen.
Agree
Good review
Backsaving? We don't need no stinking backsaving
I agree with meag_gallagher77 that the lack of interaction with previous versions is a bummer but version 2 did not allow saves down to 1.5 either. This is the price to pay for the wealth of features added to each new release. Quark's feature set has lacked progress because it maintains support for the past versions.
backsaving?
The new Adobe InDesign from Creative Suite is just too good to be true. With all new features it blows Quark Xpress our of the water. I hope that everyone is as happy with the hightened integration between the Adobe Suite. However, InDesign could never be useful if the only way to edit a document would be to actually own the newest version. One of the most important things in this industry is the ability to collaborate and make quick changes. If backsaving and converting the file into a 2.0 document is impossible, then why switch to InDesign, let alone InDesign CS? I found this out while working on a project, now i'm unable to print it anywhere but at my own computer. Most places haven't upgraded yet. The adobe site says, roughly, "ignore the backsaving instructions within the help menu...there is no way to backsave as a 2.0 document or to export, either."