Once virtually unchallenged in the page layout space, QuarkXPress has seen its market share nibbled away by InDesign CS. Quark has finally responded with the long-awaited version 7 of its venerable layout application, QuarkXPress.

Quark has had a rocky past few years. Quark 6.0, although a needed update for Mac OS X, was a very buggy product and the new features that made it in were far from show-stoppers. That led many to look to Adobe InDesign for innovative new tools. But even before that, Quark had become the poster child for how to send Mac costumers away due to CEO Fred Ebrahimi's telling people to switch to Windows if they didn't like their lack of an OS X version.

Does it match up well against the upstart?