Special Report Printing, Paper & Production

Indeed, Adobe has made significant progress in taking market share from Quark, but it hasn't exactly taken over the market completely as some predicted it would. Today, both applications have their die-hard fans, which presents a new challenge to catalogers and other print publishers.

Within a single catalog company, for example, some departments may be using QuarkXPress, while others may have transitioned to InDesign — and yet, these two entities may need to share content. Or perhaps a cataloger has adopted the latest Adobe Creative Suite (of which InDesign is a component), but still has a large volume of legacy files built in older versions of QuarkXPress. Thus, the cataloger needs a method for repurposing that content, for bringing it into InDesign without having to recreate the document.