Does anyone know how to stop 9.5 from crashing when handling book chapters, and when copying files? Is it unstable with other operations such as synchronising? I have written two books in Quark 5, so I know my way around.
I resumed work today on a cookbook in Quark 9.5,
having transferred it to Windows 8 in the hope that this would stop Quark from
crashing as it did repeatedly in Vista. Within the first hour, Quark crashed several times on using the book
facility to collate the chapters.
I decided I could not risk using this facility (it did not work well in Quark 5 either)
and I therefore started to reassemble the individual chapter files into a single
document.
Instead of assembling them as usual in facing pages, the pages were
copied as spreads.
I was almost finished the awkward job of
repaginating, and removing unwanted items which had been copied from irrelevant
master pages when Quark crashed again thus destroying an hour or so of work,
once more.
I
upgraded to Quark 9.5 because I wanted the synchronisation feature. I dare not
put work into this if it is going to be as unstable as the rest of Quark
9.5.
I am now considering whether to switch to Serif. It cannot read
Quark files, so they will have to be imported by way of Acrobat - a laborious
process. I am therefore reluctant to leave Quark (which I know well) if there is a solution to this instabiity.
