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I am sensing some real momentum building for the adoption of InDesign. Though some of the news lately comes from Adobe’s PR department claiming a high rate of adoption of InDesign in newspaper production, I think that we may be soon to turn a corner and be able to say goodbye to Quark Xpress once and for all. Adobe has also recently announced the availability of the Adobe InDesign Server which will only be available from system integrators that will use the core InDesign engine running on central servers to design end to end workflow systems.

Another interesting bit of news is that a company called Markzware has released a converter plugin to export Quark Layouts to Indesign called Q2ID that promises to be much better than the conversion provided by InDesign. Though pricey at $199, if it works as advertised, may pave the way for some serious defection from Quark. Every shop I know is testing InDesign with more or less vigor, and if you aren’t yet, you should…