For those of you eagerly waiting to download QuarkXpress 9.5 (at least I was 
), this version of QuarkXpress is NOT compatible with the FontExplorer XTension. I already contacted Quark and the bug will be resolved in version 9.5.1.
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QuarkXpress 9.5 not compatible with FontExplorer
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How to make pages to scroll vertically?
Hi, I can't find any resources for this. I know this is possible because Blag is using it.
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Callouts
I am pretty new to Quark so I might be doing something wrong, but for some reason I cannot get the Callout Anchors and Callouts to work correctly. I have already updated to 9.5 and the issue continues. Here it is in a nutshell...
I have 2 text columns and numerous Figures that have to be labeled. This document will be updated many times in the next few years so the Figure names and numbers will change frequently. For example I have Figure X in its own line of Text. After that I have put a Callout Anchor. Underneath there is an image which I have associated with the Callout Anchor. This works great if my image is in the middle of the page, however if I go back and edit something and the "Figure X" is sent to the next column then the image doesn't follow. Many times the image will revert to the top left hand corner of the text box or above the Figure label, or anywhere.
I have played around with the different alignments, horizontially and vertically aligning the Callout to the Anchor and Paragraph, I have tried to change the position of the callout anchor. Placing it before the Figure Label, after, and even placed it on a seperate line. As a last resort I have tried to give my figure lable a Paragraph style that leaves 3" of space after the figure label where I could then insert a box. Nothing has worked. My Image boxes still end up going wherever they feel like.
Even some of my different callout styles will occassionally change format or jump between pages. Is this due to my current version of Quark?
Ideally what I want to happen is the instant my Image box will no longer fit within my Text Column, both the Image and the Figure Label will both go to the next text box. Should I be using a different way to label the Images? At this point any help would be appreciated.
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Issue Previewer for Android?
Is there an App Studio Issue Previewer application for android devices?
Help.
Amber
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Independent re-size of picture or picture boxes
In versions 8 and below one could hold the Command and Control keys to re-size either width or height of a picture box, or simply click on the handles of a picture and resize its width or height independently of each other.
In Q9.5 I don't seem to find those keys work any longer and either picture or picture box are resized proportionally.
I would like to re-size the width of a picture box independently of its height, or vice versa.
What am I missing here?
Javier
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Nothing lines up
I've started laying out with the new HTML 5 palette and things look fine in the preview (for the most part). But on the iPad nothing lines up correctly. Headlines are way off and the layout isn't even close to WYSIWYG. I've converted heds to graphics but they're still off. Any suggestions?
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QuarkXpress: Previewing on the iPhone
Hello! I'm quite new at doing all of this, so forgive me if my question is rather simple or has an easy explanation.
Right now I'm working on a multi-issue Newsstand app that is intended to be for both iPad and iPhone. When I create the ad hoc binary, my client is able to open it on the iPad to preview it but not on the iPhone, even though both devices are registered. Am I missing a step? Do I have to do something specific when I build the app to make it work for both iPhone and iPad? Or will the final (non ad-hoc) binary work on both iPhone and iPad?
Also, when previewing the app (not the issues in the previewer) on the iPad, my client can open the app but it won't let him open up the issues that are displayed.
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HELP! White boxes around vector images when exporting to PDF???
I have a newsletter with a dark border across the top. The company logo is a standard vector .eps file....and appears normal in the Quark 8.0 preview. However, when I export to PDF and distill, the resulting PDF document has a huge white box behind all the logos. What am I doing wrong? I've been doing this for 15 years, never came across this. What settings are I missing??? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
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quark 9 crashes when exporting large pdf files.
I keep having this issue when exporting from quark 9 to pdf.
The most recent is a large file of 28 x A3 pages with graphics - so pretty big, 27mb. It saves as pdf/x-1a:2001 (90mb) but crashes when saving at low res and medium screen res! It gets to page 28, then starts finishing the pdf and crashes. I have had this before - spent ages pdf-ing each page or 5 pages at a time and no crashing. When i split the document in two it saves fine. Shouldnt be a memory issue as Im running 8gb memory and 832 gb free out of 999. Im running OSX 10.8.2 on a 27 inch imac with quark 9.3.1.1.
Quark 8 did the same to me!
if it was an image or a font it would happen however many pages I exported?
Any ideas appreciated!
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I can't create a new issue
Hi,
We are trying to create a new issue in the AVE publishing portal, and we can't complete the process because we are getting these errors:
- If we try to input the zave URL, the portal rejects the URL, says it's incorrect (and it's not, we can download the zave file using the browser).
- If we try to check the box that allows specifying the URL in a later moment, the error is "malformed data"
Anyhow, it's impossible for us to create a new issue. Please help.
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Joe
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Issues with previewing the binary
I'm having another issue relating to the binary preview, when I create an Ad Hoc distro.
I've gone through all the steps and made sure that my certificates, provisions, etc. are correct, but when I (or the other people I have testing) go to the link we get in the 'binary finished' email, it says "Can't connect to (null)" and we're unable to download it. I don't know if this is a server issue or if there's something I've done wrong? It worked the very first time I made a binary, but since then I've added the social media, Apple Subscriptions and Newsstand information. Would that change the result and not let us be able to preview it?
Thanks!
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Formatted text now not showing font in qxp9.2
Hi, I've formatted over 20 pages of text using styles (headings, subs, body etc.) and now I re-open the file (no font errors) the fonts have been subsituted for Helvetica and the text is nolonger show the individule paragraph/character styles although the text is showing that styles are attributed in the style sheets.
OSX 10.6.8/QXP9.2
Anyone?
best
martin
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Webster's?
Hello all.
Is there a way I can buy and load Webster's Dictionary hyphenation to QuarkXPress 8?
Thanks in advance.
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QuarkXPress 9 & Mountain Lion printing problem
When printing to our Xerox 5550DN networked printer, the contents of most Quark documents are being shrunk by about 80% and shifted over to the right edge of the page. We're running QXP 9.3.1.1 and OS 10.8.2.
The same documents will print fine to a different, also Xerox, networked printer. They will export to a pdf correctly. They will also print fine from a Mac Pro running OS 10.6.8 and Quark 9.3. This has been happening to most, but not all documents, most but not all the time from two different iMacs. I've updated the printer drivers and reinstalled the printer. I've also tried printing from Quark 8 and printing using a generic ppd instead of the correct one; both of these efforts still produced the same problem.
Does anyone have any ideas for me to try next? This is really making us crazy.
Thank you!
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Combiningh separate files into one file
I have 14 separate stories for a book I am finishing. I want to combine these into one file wherein the pages flow consecutive 1 --- to 175. I once did this on a first book but have not been able to figure out how to do it this time. Someone suggested copy and past, but the result was not good. Appreciate help.
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Quark 9 PDF url hyperlink dropping out when converted into vitalbook
I've got a book with hundreds of hyperlinks. Some are created with anchors and others with manual url's and others just left to automatically link when viewed in a browser or acrobat etc. The pdf was created with the hyperlinks & bookmarks ticked/activated. The links that were all done manually or with anchors appear correctly in vitalbook but the links that were left to be automatically linked have not come through. These same pdfs have worked in other programs and not presented the same problem before.
Is the problem with my Quark settings, Acrobat (distiller) settings or with Vitalbook or something else completely? My instincts tell me its not Quark but the contacts using Vitalbook say the problem is on my side...
Any suggestions?
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Saving outline styles?
Good day to all!
As a sort of newcomer to Quark I’m currently setting up and optimizing my workflow/space and have come across a little “snag”. I am hoping that someone more experienced could perhaps just nudge me into the right direction.
The problem pertains to using bulleted lists. I have discovered how to create new bullet styles and even link them to paragraph styles which makes formatting a lot faster. Last night, before falling asleep, I finally figured out how to create bullet outlines which is something I will need a lot.
It then dawned upon me just how much time and effort is spent just preparing the bullets alone before I can start working. My quest now is to find out from you guys whether there is some sort of way to save these created outline styles and bullet styles (perhaps even the regular paragraph styles and font styles too) for re-use in new documents in order to prevent having to recreate them each and every time — that would just be awful.
During the night, I did manage to dream of one possible solution. I dreamt that I could perhaps create all the styles in a blank project file and then save it and then use it kind of like a template to create future projects with.
I suppose I’m just hoping that there is a better way to manage and save these custom styles. Any advice would be sincerely appreciated.
Best wishes,
Digital Nomad
As a sort of newcomer to Quark I’m currently setting up and optimizing my workflow/space and have come across a little “snag”. I am hoping that someone more experienced could perhaps just nudge me into the right direction.
The problem pertains to using bulleted lists. I have discovered how to create new bullet styles and even link them to paragraph styles which makes formatting a lot faster. Last night, before falling asleep, I finally figured out how to create bullet outlines which is something I will need a lot.
It then dawned upon me just how much time and effort is spent just preparing the bullets alone before I can start working. My quest now is to find out from you guys whether there is some sort of way to save these created outline styles and bullet styles (perhaps even the regular paragraph styles and font styles too) for re-use in new documents in order to prevent having to recreate them each and every time — that would just be awful.
During the night, I did manage to dream of one possible solution. I dreamt that I could perhaps create all the styles in a blank project file and then save it and then use it kind of like a template to create future projects with.
I suppose I’m just hoping that there is a better way to manage and save these custom styles. Any advice would be sincerely appreciated.
Best wishes,
Digital Nomad
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Text workflow in the new AppStudio
I wanted to share some of what I've come across using AppStudio and what I consider to be the "workarounds" or "what works" for me. I am finding that as a designer I'm fighting the new AppStudio but I think it's more because I have years of print design working against me and then also to have published an iPad App/Issue using the earlier App Studio (now AVE Publishing). Having just sorta figured out AVE Publishing we are all now jumping into the new AppStudio and are finding that the differences are significant. QuarkXPress 9.5 doesn't look all that different except for a few different dropdown menus. However, how you use the tool is signifcantly different now.
I just spent a few hours trying to "fix" how my text looks in a scroll zone, so I would like to address that here by sharing what I've learned works, hopefully you can avoid the headache on your own.
First, and I'll address more of this in another post...setting up your workflow. Since we are building "issues" chapter by chapter in their own document families (as opposed to having a 60 page issue all in one Quark document), I have found that it makes sense to create ONE generic document that has all of the margins, guides, master pages, style sheets, colors, etc. prepared in advanced and saved...I use the name "AppStudio_base" and save the document in my main issue folder. Whenever I start a new chapter, I open this document and save it as a new name, such as "Issue_01_Covers" or whatever the chapter is. This way I can have consistency throughout my issue.
There is good and bad with this. The good thing is not having to redo style sheets, redo colors, redo guides, etc. for every new chapter. The downside is that you can't just change one Style Sheet to effect the whole issue, you must go into each "chapter" individually to change a style sheet (or color or whatever). So, it's important to get this right as early as possible.
Now, on to the issue of text. Since the new AppStudio utilized real fonts on export you need to be sure that you design with device specific fonts if you care at all how the end result text is giong to look. iOS has many standard fonts. I find that I'm using Helvetica because it is clean, crisp and used on all iOS devices. Also, bold and italic versions are supported on the devices which is great for the headers, titles, etc. For Kindle Fire the same can be said for Arial. For Android, the only font supported on all Android devices is Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif, none of which have bold or italic so keep that in mind. However, some newer Android devices now come standard with Roboto in many forms that also include Black, Bold and Italic version. So...you will have to decide if you turn fonts into graphics if you want Black, Bold or Italic...or use Roboto and hope the end user has it installed.
On that last note above, I made an earlier comment in another post about turning unsupported fonts into graphics using Illustrator and Photoshop to active the exact look I want and still have transparent backgrounds. It's the 3rd comment in the post titled "Nothing lines up" if that helps you.
So anyway, I setup my Style Sheets for all the font sizes I wanted to utilize in my issue. As a print designer I'm used to setting up the Indents, Leading, Hyphenation, etc. in QuarkXPress using Edit > StyleSheets... So, I set everything up as I'm used to doing.
My Problem (finally): I setup a simple scroll zone in my document. I pasted my plain text (no formatting) in the scroll zone layout. I selected all text and assigned the appropriate StyleSheet "04 Normal iOS" (Helvetica, Plain, 16 pt., Black) and it looks as it should on screen in my Quark scroll zone layout. Switching back to the main layout that references the scroll zone and all looks as it should. I upload the document to AppStudio. The thumbnail looks as it should after compiling the document. When I preview the chapter online in my browser the first three rows of text in every paragraph appear double spaced which is INCORRECT. When I download to the iPad, same thing...WRONG. So I spend a long time making adjustments to the scroll zone thinking that may be the issue. Maybe it's a runaround issue, maybe it's that I adjusted the text box in the scroll zone to make room for the scroll bar - which is another silly point...you need to make room for the scroll bar or it will go over the top of your text...anyway, spent hours making changes. I tried different StyleSheets, etc. Always the same problem and if you have been doing this you know how seemingly long it takes to save a document, upload to AppStudio...wait...wait...wait, ok now go compile on AppStudio, maybe a refresh or two...hit the TEST button, download to my iPad...still downloading...still downloading...zzzzzzzzzz...OK and and AND...oh it's still wrong. again.
So my latest thought process was along the lines of "this has to be a font-related issue somehow" even though I'm using the correct fonts for my iOS devices. Everything looks like it's suppose to. Then however, I thought well maybe the StyleSheet is messing it up somehow even though there is not a hard return or page break. In my StyleSheets I typically put in the "Space After:" box a value of 10 px so that after a hard return there will be a proper space before the next paragraph. Looks much cleaner than doing a double space. Well, unfortunately when the QuarkXPress document is converted to HTML5 that gets lost in the translation somewhere.
My Solution (again, finally): I removed the 10 px value from my "Space After:" box in the "Formats" tab of "Edit Paragraph Style Sheet". Then, I manually double spaced my paragraphs. Not quite the spacing I want but now everything looks as it should in the document, online in the browser and on the iOS devices.
Dumb your text down, don't setup any sort of formatting beyond the name, size, color. Anything beyond that and it will typically look fine in your Quark document but it will look some variety of incorrect in your exported layout. I have found that even using the Item > Modify > Text to vertically align the text as centered or bottom doesn't work. Sometimes even simple align centered or align right doesn't work WYSIWYG. So, again, keep your text simple or the formatting will get lost on export.
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centering a web page - in Quark - boo to 9.5
I was told by Quark that Quark 9.5 would allow me to centre a web page.
Well boo.
It still doesn't.
I've followed the steps.
Doesn't work.
And there's no way on God's green Earth that I can drop in code as a fix to some CSS file.
I was just hoping, as I was told, that I could say, here - centre please make this webpage centre itself.
I've tried the little boxes on the left and right -- doesn't work.
Boo.
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ASCII codes for bullets?
Hi folks,
I’m in the process of building my Bullet Outlays and was just hoping someone out there could spare a moment and share with me the ALT codes for the small white circle bullet as well as the small black square bullet (the ones that are the same size as the defualt black round bullet in QXP9).
Thanks in advance,
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