Destop Publisher QuarkExpress v.5 legally at £3.50

The_Player_King

I emailed Steve from Computer Shopper as I could only find the CD edition at my local retailer and I was after the DVD.

Within a couple of hours he had replied: he is sending me a DVD copy! I have to buy the CD edition to enable the upgrades, which is absolutely fine. Well played, Steve Haines, for getting back to me so quickly and with such a great response!

Just wanted to post about it on here publicly...though I'm not sure how often he could do this!!!

unprinted

Adman wrote:

Now, any of you with any professional design knowledge knows QuarkXpress is the industry standard for paper media design.

It used to be the industry standard, in the same way that Word Perfect used to be the most popular word processor. In both cases, arrogance and taking their position for granted led to complacency and a hungrier competitor coming up with a product good enough to be worth the pain of switching to.

Adobe's InDesign is now more popular amongst magazines and newspapers, as a look at the skills asked for in job ads will show.

But, yeah, it's worth £3.50 if only to see why so many people moved away from it and, more seriously, it's much, much better than all the budget DTP programs, from Publisher to PagePlus to...

Eagle_1

Thank you for this, my Daughter is well chuffed.....she will be a lot more chuffed when she finds out how to do things on it

beautifulgorgeous_2

Thanks, been looking to replace my corrupt publisher cd at a reasonable price !

Adman_2

I just wanted to say I am really glad so many of you have benifited from this, and I'm overjoyed that my first tip got into the email!

I think the people at Computer Shopper have earned their Xmas bonus this year.

Claire_DC

RichieUK wrote:

You can take out a subscription for 3 Issues of Computer Shopper for £1

Might be worth phoning to make sure you get January 2007 issue. Tel: 0845-1260389 or 01795-414600 (geographical tel) quoting offer code given on link

Or go through quidco and get £8 back for doing it.

That is what i am on at the moment.:T

http://www.quidco.com/computer-shopper/

Sparkly

Tesco Extra in Stockport had plenty of the DVD version tonight.

Victorina20

Just to say that I bought the January edition of Computer Shopper today, complete with QuarkXPress5 (and 40,000 new ClipArt images as well!) on the front, intact, from the WRVS in the hospital where I work. So they are still available even if popular outlets like Smith's may have run out, and I would say - keep looking!

ckerrd

there are so many on ebay now
£60!!!!

MrClumsy_2

Have just rushed out and got the Quark V5 from our local newsagent.
When trying to register it keeps saying cannot find server.
Have tried Firefox and Int Explorer but to no avail.
Anyone else had this problem?