I’m a sedimental kind of guy; Also, I paid six-hundred dollars for this copy of QuarkXPress back in 1993, so I’m probably never going to get rid of it! This was my primary software for years, and actually was worth the price in the end. A great program. Far better than Corel Ventura, which I experienced a few years later.
Coming from manual and electric typewriters when I was a kid, (I found one in a trash pile once and used it until it fell apart!) these programs feel like science fiction and I still appreciate them more than most people do, although it is understandable why everybody takes these amazing programs for granted. Remembering those correction tapes for my typewriters gives me very bad memories! The first time I experienced the ability to just use different fonts, sizes, or spell-check, much less go back and easily edit anything, it was clear that typesetting had changed forever!
Long live InDesign! (And, XPress. Why not?)
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