The Page Layout Turf Wars

But after those similarities, it’s evident that Adobe’s InDesign, with its modular new code, breaks out ahead of QuarkXpress, whose code is beginning to show its age.

Adobe Systems is the second largest software company (behind Microsoft), and catalogers have relied for years on other Adobe products, such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat. Adobe has played to its strength with the introduction of InDesign.