I didn't learn Quark in school either. It was all about good ol' Freehand! I remember starting at TMS back in 2000 and the folks at KRT grumbling about Freehand! I "helped" out more than once! The bittersweet story is that Freehand was replaced by Quark in most firms and agencies ... the day I graduated. I was screwed; so, while I have a design degree, I'm not a graphic designer because I didn't know Quark. I knew Freehand though and wore it like a badge of honor [just like my PageMaker badge!] whenever I could whip it out at TMS.
Posted by: Tom on May 17, 07 | 6:55 am
I went to school with Matt (spudart). So we share many of the same FreeHand experiences. I remember we did ONE project in Quark XPress. It was a terrible disaster. We, the students, had no clue. Our teacher had no clue. Needless to say, we did only ONE project in Quark XPress. We went back to everyone's comfort zone known as Aldus FreeHand.
along with your schools BODOXI fonts! ha! I've never used Freehand.
Posted by: Fred on May 17, 07 | 12:00 pm
I graduated with my design degree in 1994 but I didn't go to school with spud and moose ... tragic, I know!
Posted by: Tom on May 17, 07 | 6:23 pm
FreeHand originally came bundled with several hundred high-quality fonts, which I always appreciated. Macromedia also made a valiant effort to automate conversion of FreeHand documents to websites with an odd little companion program called InstaHTML, which never worked well for me.
What I liked best about FreeHand is that it handled multiple pages. Adobe always had this arrogant delusion that by preventing Illustrator from doing multiples, you'd naturally buy InDesign.
I can well remember the lengths to which some of us went to get Illustrator to spit out multipage documents. Like creating layers and printing the layers separately, or (my favorite) making the document something like 8.5x2000 and having the output tiled.
Sheesh!
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