Are there any "corel" plans to release a "professional page layout" program, something like Adobe INDD?
That is something we have discussed several times in this forum, but I cannot give information about what is spoken in Corel.In my personal opinion (and I repeat, it is only my opinion) the simplest thing would be to acquire QurkXpress, a consolidated program on Mac and Windows, with extensive experience, and with many users. In addition, many commands are similar in both.
Corel would ruin the desktop division of Quark (i.e. QuarkXPress).
If VP was rewritten for the modern age, with its then current capabilities and add more (like OT Features), that would likely be less expensive than purchasing QXP itself, much less the other lines Quark owns.
While I use QXP & ID every day, I would more than welcome a modern VP--which I still run a few yimes a week for moving old VP pubs to one or the mentioned applications (as well as Viva Designer).
I don't disagree, Ventura would be a complete rewrite and buying another aplication would simply mean interfacing. In my area I only know of two companies using Quark anymore.
We travel in different circles. QXP is still very widely used for design projects & book work (which is my main use for both it and ID). But yep, it lost its install base to ID in the early/mid 2000s.
If Corel isn't careful, if it keeps putting out releases such as 2019, it's eventually gonna lose its install base and be passed around from one investor group to another and that will eventually cause it to die an agonizing death.
MikeWe said:Corel would ruin the desktop division of Quark (i.e. QuarkXPress).
Why would something like this happen? The mistake would be to try to merge CorelDRAW + Quark into a kind of CorelXPress or QuarkDRAW to make a mega-program that does it all. That would be terrible. But offering both programs together, but maintaining their independence, would not be a bad idea.
Over the years, Corel has bought many programs and successfully incorporated them. PhotoPaint was acquired from ZSoft, Painter from Metacreations, Videostudio from ULead, PaintShopPro from Jasc, etc. I don't understand why it would be different if they bought Quark or another. In addition to being pessimistic, that prediction is unfounded. When Ventura joined the CorelDRAW suite (in version 5.0), they did not ruin Ventura, on the contrary, they added the Corel interface and improved it. So good it turned out, that even today you can use CorelVentura if you want, despite the different versions of Windows
The same could be said of MicrografxDesigner, a very similar competitor, that many people thought Corel intended to eliminate. Quite the contrary, it incorporated and improved, it is still an independent program. Therefore, I see no reason to think that Corel did something different with Quark or with another program.