Many of the following problems have been addressed in version 7, but few printers have this upgrade. How ironic- the reason for quark’s survival (resistance to new software in the newspaper and printing industries) is stunting its own development.

• Text boxes and picture boxes: why do we need two options? Apparently to fill up the toolbar, along with the Starburst tool.
• Quark randomly crashes, but it puts a Quintessentially Quark twist on it: You’re unable to save a file (or even save as a new document), and the file itself disappears from existence. Priceless.
• When text overflows a text box, you can’t delete the offending text without first expanding the box. How annoying.
• Lousy opentype support (pre 7)
• Quar… er– quirks exporting to PDF
• No PSD Support
• Pricing
• Re-linking is a pain, and you can’t “update all” in the links menu.
• After collecting for output, the new document still links to the old files (not the collected ones).
• Color/resolution of images. I love making a PDF every time I want to see a remotely accurate version of my document.
• Lack of shortcuts for tools.
• Creating outlines from text- never in Quark.
• No transparency. I know, it’s supported in ver. 7, but see note above. I’m stuck in ver. 6 limbo, so I can complain all I want.
• Web layouts in Quark- give me a break, who in their right mind would ever do this. And now we have “Quark Interactive Designer” for those too busy to learn flash. When has Quark ever made anything easy? Flash is a complex program; devote a weekend and learn it.
• How about all the quirks that make preflighting a nightmare? Don’t resize images, don’t rotate them, don’t crop them, don’t use “no color” for a background fill. Delete unused colors (including RG, which Quark includes purely to annoy you).
• Pretty much everything else about this dinosaur of an application (a fat, slow dinosaur with a little brain, about to be eaten by a slightly bigger dinosaur)