Comments for Planet Quark

Comment on Kill PasteBoard XT by Matthias Guenther

Matthias Guenther — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:09:16 +0000

Hi Ralph, the new QuarkXPress Document Converter 1.1 can remove the reference to the Pasteboard XT: http://www.quark.com/Support/Downloads/Details.aspx?fid=289

Comment on QuarkXPress on El Capitan by Matthias Guenther

Matthias Guenther — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:47:39 +0000

Hi Andrew,

“Not support” does not mean “will not run”. I have QuarkXPress 8, 9, 10, 2015 and 2016 running on my El Capitan machine.

The biggest hurdle is the Installer for QuarkXPress 8 and 9, as it doesn’t recognize Apple’s version count correctly. A migrated copy will run though.

And for QuarkXPress 10 we are offering an unsupported version that does not crash on El Capitan: http://www.quark.com/Support/Downloads/Details.aspx?fid=328

Does this help? Thanks!

Comment on QuarkXPress on El Capitan by Andrew Lowe

Andrew Lowe — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:27:10 +0000

All very well Quark saying they won’t support older versions of Quark – I use Quark 15, but I have clients still running 8 and 9 who won’t upgrade, so I need to be able to use 10 and 9 in order to backsave to files my clients can use. Therefor the limitations of Quark prevent me from changing my OS to El Capitan.
Or life would be a lot simpler if Quark could just backsave to older versions than the one immediately preceding.

Comment on First Review of the beta version of QuarkXPress 2016 in English by byMonaco

byMonaco — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:31:39 +0000

I am also a beta tester of the new version of Quarkpress 2016 I had the honor to test preview (sorry for the English but my native language is French). I fully share the opinion of this first review and can say that Quark has developed here the best version of its software. I am user of the Windows version since 3.

The launch is very fast. Less than 7 seconds to be operational (since the click until the appearance of functional menu). I work under: OS: Windows 10 – Intel I5 – 4670K 4 CORE 3.4 GHz – RAM: 16 GB – SSD.

The new GUI is clear and pleasant. The display is fluid and efficient. QuarkXpress is always the most intuitive to use. You must test it and adopt it!

Comment on QuarkXPress 8: Hanging Characters, Quark’s Answer to Hung Punctuation by Matthias Guenther

Matthias Guenther — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:03:00 +0000

Hi siregarmar, yes, that was implemented in QuarkXPress 8. It’s under “Hanging Characters”.

Comment on QuarkXPress 8: Hanging Characters, Quark’s Answer to Hung Punctuation by siregarmr

siregarmr — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:57:04 +0000

Hello,

I know this post was written in 2008, but I think this issue remains valid. I am using QuarkXpress 2015 and I am still looking for the implementation of micro typography package as in (La)TeX, or in newer typesetting suite, InDesign.

What I really need is a clearly defined way to enable protrusion for certain character, that is, slightly move some characters like hyphen, or round edge character like “o” out of margin bound. Is there a package to help achieving such optical alignment in QuarkXpress???

Thanks!

Comment on QuarkXPress 2015 now supported on El Capitan by Matthias Guenther

Matthias Guenther — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:07:48 +0000

As you know, QuarkXPress 10 is NOT supported under El Capitan and Quark also doesn’t plan to add support for this combination.

If you need a supported version of QuarkXPress under El Capitan, then please use QuarkXPress 2015.

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However some users absolutely needed QuarkXPress 10 to work under El Capitan (10.5.2 crashes almost immediately under El Capitan), e.g. for downsaving.

Therefore Quark just released a special version of QuarkXPress 10, which is completely unsupported, however does not crash under El Capitan e.g. when moving the mouse cursor over a palette:
http://www.quark.com/support/downloads/Details.aspx?fid=328

IMPORTANT: AS THIS IS A JUST BRIEFLY TESTED VERSION OF QUARKXPRESS 10 AND IS NOT SUPPORTED BY QUARK, PLEASE TEST THOROUGHLY YOURSELF BEFORE USING FOR PRODUCTION!

Comment on AutoCorrectXT Fixes Spelling As You Type, in Multiple Languages — Now with Bullets and Numbering! by Matthias Guenther

Matthias Guenther — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:05:38 +0000

In November 2015 AutoCorrectXT for QuarkXPress 2015 is free of charge with every commercial upgrade or full license of QX2015:
http://content.quark.com/autocorrect-us.html

Comment on Tip: Use PDF2DTP to Extract Images from PDFs by Matthias Guenther

Matthias Guenther — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:34:54 +0000

Hi Andy, you might want to ask people in the new QuarkXPress Facebook group to vote on this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarkxpress/

Comment on Tip: Use PDF2DTP to Extract Images from PDFs by AndySmith

AndySmith — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:39:33 +0000

PDF2DTP is still a brilliant piece of software but Markzware don’t have any plans (as yet) to write a Quark 2015 version – as they haven’t had the demand. Perhaps readers of this site could contact them and ask them to? Email david@markzware.nl