McIlroy--QuarkXPress and InDesign Battle it Out

At that time, the feature set of PC PageMaker was well behind Macintosh PageMaker. Adobe had to hold up the progress of the Mac version, while bringing the PC version to parity. Quark took advantage of the lag, and moved QuarkXPress for Macintosh well ahead of PageMaker in terms both of features and of its stability for PostScript output in professional production environments. Before you could say "collect fonts for output," prepress professionals had begun to recommend QuarkXPress to their customers.