Version 10.0.1: OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatibility including improved support for working across multiple monitors Text input performance Range of output issues related to PDFs with native transparency including correctly outputting feathering and glow effects, drop shadows, bevels and gradients On screen rendering and PDF output for outlined text OpenType font rendering in PDFs Output and rendering of multi-channel TIFF and PSD files Improved color profile support Improved support for Adobe Illustrator PDFs containing transparent objects General stability and reliability related issues.

1. Quarkxpress Passport V8.0 For Mac Mac

Released new MacBooks and MacBook Pros recently, and today I received a question about whether it was safe to use QuarkXPress 6.52 with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The answer is: QuarkXPress 6.52 and earlier will NOT work 100% properly with Leopard (nor does Adobe Creative Suite 2, which is of the same vintage). And unfortunately, since no recent Macs can run on earlier operating systems, you’ll need to either upgrade QuarkXPress or find a used Mac that can run 10.4 or 10.3. (I’d strongly encourage upgrading QuarkXPress!) You see, Mac OS X 10.5 was nowhere on the horizon when Quark shipped QuarkXPress 6. In fact Mac OS X 10.3 was current when QuarkXPress 6 was released, almost two full years before Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which was the predecessor to 10.5. Apple changed a LOT of basic-level things from 10.3 to 10.4, and then again in 10.5.

Since I couldn’t find a one-stop source that listed the problems you’re likely to encounter when trying to use QuarkXPress 6.5 in Mac OS X 10.5, I thought I’d try to collect as many broken bits as I could find. Picking through Quark’s user forums, here are the problems I found so far:.

File corruption, especially when opened across a network. Unexpected quits when saving a file. “Unexpected end-of-file occurred.39” errors.

Font confusion in existing documents, especially Zapf Dingbats. Fonts don’t print correctly, defaulting to Courier.

Quarkxpress Passport V8.0 For Mac Mac

Loss of some printing capabilities. Loss of printer PPD file location.

Loss of PDF generation. Not everything shows up in menu items, dialog box components, or palettes. Can’t input values for new Section. Can’t input values when adding pages. Can’t input values for Step and Repeat.

If you hide the application, it sometimes won’t come back — you have to force quit it. As you can see, it isn’t pretty. You may not run into all of these problems, but even one or two would be a showstopper for me.

And before you ask: QuarkXPress 7.5 works relatively well in Leopard, except for the window hiding issues and the PPD file location issue noted above. For a solution to the PPD problem,. If anyone has additional problems running QuarkXPress 6.5 in Leopard, we’d love to hear about them — just use the comments feature below. (But please, keep it to version 6.5 AND Mac OS X 10.5!).

Tiger and Quark 6.5 is far from flawless. We have both Tigers and Leopards, and Tiger is not that much better. The big difference with Leopard is when saving files (and opening them) over a network – mac or windows. When you then save a Q6.5 file in Leopard you get a template file, through the template function that has been in mac OS since decades.

A big mystery why, but that what’s happens. You can see it if you choose ”Get info” on the Q file. Quark here in Sweden didn’t know about this. The only solution for us is to ALWAYS do a ”Save as” instead of a ordinary ”Save”, thus overwriting the original file. Not a good solution, but it works. We can’t drag the Quark files to the icon in the dock because we use an editorial system which opens the Quark files through a web browser.

Moving over to Quark 7 has it’s problems too. When you open a Quark 6.5 file in Q7 some of the text changes. Q7 has changed how it handles fonts.

So making a new document from a Q6.5 template is fine, but if you want to use an old Q6.5 file you got trouble. The printing problem of loss of printer PPD file location is easy to remedy, you find them by browsing in the Quarks ”PPD Manager” to ”/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources”. PADILLA, To get a v6.5 file from v8, you’d have to have QuarkXPress v7, too. Current versions of QuarkXPress will only downsave one version back. My department is just now updating to v8 from v7 and it hasn’t been pretty, either.

QuarkXPress will not update the on-screen preview of a modified PDF. The only way I can get Quark to update the preview is to change the name of the PDF file and re-import. And, no, just deleting the box and re-importing doesn’t work. I long for the simpler days regards, MAJ. I see where you have a couple “Save Page as EPS” items. Here’s my two cents.

The focus is on both the “Save As:” and “Page” fields. The result is both fields simultaneously accept typed input. Not what you really want. Tabbing out or clicking on anything to change the input focus will de-couple the typed input so that only one field accepts type. The insertion point and the input area don’t match.

Tabbing on mine will bring up a focus area that doesn’t match the insertion point. Mousing around from field to field doesn’t work. You have to use keyboard command period to cancel or keyboard enter key to Ok the dialogue boxes. After looking over your blog and seeing the Step and Repeat and Insert Page issues, I tried them out too. This is too flaky for any real use.

I’m going back to 10.4.x for Quark 6.5.2 This is on a G5, OSs 10.5.6 and 10.5.7 and Quirk 6.5.2. Here’s a real bad one for me. In Leopard (and now Snow Leopard), if I try to use the space/align dialogue and call it up by pressing XPress crashes almost every time. It doesn’t crash as often if I call it up from the pulldown menus, but I like to work faster with keyboard commands. Imagine my chagrinI’ve lost a lot of work over the last couple of months and have resorted to extremely paranoid work habits, like saving every 2 minutes or every time after typing in a sentence or two.

Inevitably, XPress 6.52 will crash. It’s just not stable in Leopard. If you are committed to using XPress, do yourself a favor and upgrade. I have phased out XPress over the last couple of years because all of my clients have switched to InDesign.

There a just a few XPress users leftit’s not really worth it to me to invest in an upgrade. I’d used to import lots of images and text into Quark by using Applescript and predefined Quarktemplatesand FilemakerDbase for catalogue production: for example replaced «prodname» in Quarckdoc with name of product fetched form FilmakerDbase Used to work perfect on OSX 10.3.9 – Quark 6, but since I have OSX 10.5.8 and Quark 6.5.2 it doesn’t: Importing images/text in empty image/textboxes works, but when I predefine the textstyles for a textbox, nothing gives. Anyone, what has changed? Read about a header needed for importing text?