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Quark is totally inappropriate for technical doc. It will drive you bonkers. It is designed, like PageMaker, for graphics-intensive idiosyncratic layouts (that is, every page different), not for lengthy documents. Even for an eight-page brochure, it is like wrestling with an alligator just to do booklet imposition inside the program. My advice: fuhgeddaboudit.
>The latest battle with them came this morning when the marketing director wrote me and my boss (the VP of R&E) an email saying it would be a good idea to switch me from using Framemaker over to Quark, which is what marketing uses.
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