Mac Edition reports on the continuing friction between Apple and Quark, which produces the XPress software that the Guardian uses, along with many other newspapers and magazines around the world, to produce its pages. Quark has been dithering for some time on getting an OSX version of XPress out, and according to an outburst by Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi last week, we shouldn't be holding our breath.
Mac Edition reports that Ebrahimi told guests at a meeting in New York: "'the Macintosh platform is shrinking," and that 'publishing is dying.' He suggested that anyone dissatisfied with Quark's Mac commitment should 'switch to something else,' although he insisted that making the move to Adobe's long-Carbonized InDesign package is 'committing suicide.'"
Meanwhile, a Thinksecret report on reported new features in InDesign 3 has been pulled at Adobe's demand... it's not been cached on Google, alas.
