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The year is 1998. I'm working on a G3 iMac with translucent blue casing—matching keyboard and mouse. The mouse is a sleek and ergonomic, circle. There's a dongle connected to one end of my keyboard to take advantage of the 'print' feature; the other end connects to open air. I use the 'speak text' feature in OS9 to taunt our professor in broken, monotone voices,
"Aren't you glad you have this fancy computer".Yes, yes I am.When I see this startup screen—that's the place I go.
I'm working with tools like Item Tool, Content Tool, Rectangle Picture Box tool, and my favorite, Starburst tool. Most things in Quark are extremely descriptive, for example: "H&Js" obviously stands for Hyphenation & Justification. Did I mention the excitement that flowed through me when trying to save an image with a transparent background—ecstatic.
I'm currently renaming files from 2001 to contain less than 35 characters—making sure they're still descriptive—and then relinking those files in the document. Joy.
I'm not bitter—just enjoying the memories.
So, what are you working on?
about 1 year ago
1998? Thought you started in 2001, same as me. You're talking about the G3's that were in the computer lab downstairs in the Art building, hmm? I hated those mice...
When I saw that image it brought me back there because there was the only place I ever used that app period. I only ever used it in that one class where they taught the basics of the software. It was cost prohibitive for me to even get the program. Thinking back it was kind of weird for us because we landed there during sort of a transition period. We were taught to use Quark despite their switching everything to InDesign the year afterwards. We were one of the last classes to even do the ruling pen thing. They even had us buy zip drives when we all could just burn a 10 cent CD. I remember mine just flat out broke a year later. Heck, they even changed the name of the program the year after we left.
about 1 year ago
@Dustin
I had an opportunity to take a few semesters of "graphic arts" during high school. I think most students took the classes for an easy 'A', but I was the nerd exporting Shockwave animations from layers in FreeHand.
FreeHand also had a 'mirror' feature. We'd have races to see who could create the least complex image, mirror the hell out of it, and win by crashing the program the quickest. Good times.
In college, I do remember our professor starting to teach us Quark. That lasted an entire two days before he said "f*ck Quark—I'm teaching you guys InDesign". That was an awesome day in design history. When I open Quark (rarely)—I instantly hear the phrase "f*ck Quark" from our professor that day. That should be the startup theme in my opinion.
The zip drive—another failed device of our past. No one told me about the '6 month, self-destruct feature' all zip disks carried. I lost a bunch of really shitty work I did back in the day that I'd love to revisit and laugh at today.
They're just growin up so fast. *sniff*
about 1 year ago
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Derick Carss
Just spent a week wrestling with updating an old job created in Quark before saying the same thing as your prof and rebuilding from scratch in InDesign.
about 1 year ago
@Derick
I wanted so badly to convert that beast to InDesign. Now I'm dreading the day the file comes back for further updates.
Good for you with the conversion—we both know it'll save lots of headaches in the future, no matter how long it took.
about 1 year ago