Gregory: I'm sorry, but what? What my printers get is a complete set of transparencies (if that's the word, I mean the color-separated transparent prints) and they don't have anything to do with color separation and trapping, much less with typography.
As I understand the processes are different where you work, but still, I wouldn't let any printer change my typography.
I've seen some quite complicated documents printed from InDesign without problems. My personal record is a 32-page catalogue of musicians for hire, with thousand or so images and a lot of tables.
Quark is entrenched in the design community, but so is Microsoft entrenched in personal computing, yet Apple is making it's inroads there too.
Are you still using the G3 tower? ;) My G4 boots up in a minute or so. I use auto-login so I don't see the login screen. I don't collapse windows, I hide whle applications. I use Expose so much, I'm still clicking the wheel on my home Windows system. And serious designers use InDesign, not Quark.
Get yourself a dual G5 with a gigabyte of RAM and start enjoying life.
That's probably the only thing I have against OSX -- slow interface. Switching between two apps (using Apple+Tab) takes somewhere close to half a second, whereas on my PC box (~$1000) with WinXP it's an instant.
I still think OSX is superior to any other desktop OS, but I'm not going to spend $2000 on a dual G5 just for the snappier interface.
By the way, have you used Quicksilver (quicksilver.blacktree.com) yet? Very cool productivity app.
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