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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2008/quark-quitting-desktop/
Wow. August 1998 I began work at Adobe. One of the things that was talked about was "K2" - a product that eventually became InDesign.
Don't know how I feel about Quark changing tack. It is interesting how the world turns.
Thanks for the link, Andrew.
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