Quark Xpress 5.01 Legal version £3.75

MSE_Martin

18 December 2007

What's the deal?

Version 5.01 of Quark is being given free as a CD (or DVD for a wee bit more) on the front cover of the February issue of Computer Shopper magazine, which costs £3.75.

While this software isn't the latest version, in the past it retailed for between £600 and £900 depending where you get it from (and the current version retails for something similar). And while many think that's overpriced £3.75 is a bargain.

What's QuarkXPress?

It's a desktop publishing software which can design and publish print and web documents. It can create layouts for newspapers, magazines, user guides, annual reports, brochures and catalogs. It's used by many ad agencies, newspapers, magazines and book publishers.

How to get it

Magazine Computer Shopper is currently giving away a full CD version of QuarkXPress 5.01 with all copies of the February 2008 magazine. The magazine costs £3.75 (or £4.99 for the one with the DVD version). Simply grab the magazine and ensure it has the CD or DVD taped to the front.

Instructions on how to register are on page 198 of the magazine. You'll need to register the CD or DVD online before 29 Feb 2008.

Why's it doing this?

This is an older version of the top end software. Currently you can get up to version 7.31 of QuarkXPress, so it's unlikely the company is making much money out of selling version 5.01.

By giving away a free copy of version 5.01 it gets extra exposure of its product, and it makes you register so it hopes later you'll pay to upgrade to a newer version. Plus it means that those pirated copies that are being sold out there will be devalued, and Quark can keep control of its own product.

Martin

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PS Thanks to MoneySaver dc who spotted it's available again.

dc

For those who missed the previous freebie, this expensive publishing favourite (upgrade offer to current ver. 7 is £327.83) is doing the rounds again.


The Feb 2008 Computer Shopper has Quark Express 5.01 on the cover disc as well as many other good progs (DVD edition best value).

Suprisingly despite the date on the mag, it is out this week. You have to register your copy of Quark by the end of Feb, so its early publication makes this more leisurely for the forgetfull like moi. I forgot to load it in time to register previously. :rolleyes2

:xmassign:

georgiac

Thanks dc, I got a copy last time but have changed computers since then and will be buying a couple more Computer Shoppers this time.

Does anyone know if this works with Vista?

hitsuzendo

anyone know if the version on the dvd is apple mac friendly? Have checked their web-site and doesn't specify

thanks a lot

mobilez

georgiac wrote: »

Thanks dc, I got a copy last time but have changed computers since then and will be buying a couple more Computer Shoppers this time.

Does anyone know if this works with Vista?

According to info on the Computer Shopper forums, this appears to only work with Windows XP or 2000

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=1003496&sid=8e16fbc513df25aecb6ad88b5a08291c

mobilez

hitsuzendo wrote: »

anyone know if the version on the dvd is apple mac friendly? Have checked their web-site and doesn't specify

thanks a lot

I think the DVD is Windows only. This is implied as being true by the Quark site:

Q. Can I upgrade my QuarkXPress 5 Windows promotional license to a Mac OS version of QuarkXPress 7?
A. No. The promotional licenses of QuarkXPress 5 for Windows can only be upgraded to QuarkXPress 7 for Windows.
(from: http://euro.quark.com/en/service/desktop/training/five/faq.html)

hitsuzendo

Thanks Mobilez - that saves me money then - just a shame it is only £3.75 saved.

Skeenfleent

Yeah but you can run PC/Windows emulation software on a reasonably fast Mac, and it should work OK for this kind of thing, no?

sausagefans

Skeenfleent wrote: »

Yeah but you can run PC/Windows emulation software on a reasonably fast Mac, and it should work OK for this kind of thing, no?

You can but its a little bit of a faff to have to run both OS to do things!

When I moved to mac originally I had some free software that allowed me to put a copy of my whole PC (programmes, files and OS) onto the mac but since I've moved over any files I need I don't bother.

jestera

If you upgrade this to Quark 7, whether it is a Windows PC or Mac upgrade you can contact Quark to make it cross platform. This only applies to versions of Quark 7. I can speak from experience having upgrading from a previous cover disk. It just took a phone call to Quark support and they made the serial number activate on a mac also.

jamief

Skeenfleent wrote: »

Yeah but you can run PC/Windows emulation software on a reasonably fast Mac, and it should work OK for this kind of thing, no?

Yes, should work fine.

Also will work under Linux using WINE.