Reply To: Why are designers so shy?

What I've been noticing more and more is that many freelance designers (book publishing) don't seem to keep current with their software. And in all honesty, some publishing houses don't, either. I know of one client who only wants the jobs done in Quark 6 or CS2.

And in the past few years, I've had to do jobs where the designer *needed* the files back to *tweak* them. And because of that they had to be in the old software. One job was in Quark 3 and the other was in InDesign 2.0.

One would think that any decent designer would be within a version of the latest software, not 10 years behind.

Thankfully, my company keeps some older Macs around with OS9 and the older software around for such things.

The company I work for keeps current (we have to), and I keep current at home for when I freelance (or do OT at home). Hell, I have Quark 8 and I don't use it. But I got it because I have to keep current.