If you're thinking of upgrading to QuarkXpress 6 here's my experience after just a day:
Unexpectedly quits if you even look at it funny.
A version 4 document has to be saved as Version 5 and then you cannot "save" again, instead you have to keep "save as" writing over you old file. (major time waster)
Text Box and Picture Box black dots on the corners stay black, even on a black background - you can't see them!
Text generally appears not anti aliased.
Auto save does not work properly.
Then specific things that happened to me while working:
Document suddenly turned "bad file format" (as good as lost)
Text became erratic when being selected, disappeared. Whole lines could not be selected.
Images changed (!!!)
Text sizes and fonts changed (!!)
Document "saved as pdf" came out incomplete.
The whole thing feels like it could go at any time and that coupled with Apple's moronic new "open" and "save" dialog boxes made Xpress4.1 and OS8.6 very inviting experience
Unexpectedly quits if you even look at it funny.
A version 4 document has to be saved as Version 5 and then you cannot "save" again, instead you have to keep "save as" writing over you old file. (major time waster)
Text Box and Picture Box black dots on the corners stay black, even on a black background - you can't see them!
Text generally appears not anti aliased.
Auto save does not work properly.
Then specific things that happened to me while working:
Document suddenly turned "bad file format" (as good as lost)
Text became erratic when being selected, disappeared. Whole lines could not be selected.
Images changed (!!!)
Text sizes and fonts changed (!!)
Document "saved as pdf" came out incomplete.
The whole thing feels like it could go at any time and that coupled with Apple's moronic new "open" and "save" dialog boxes made Xpress4.1 and OS8.6 very inviting experience