We have just upgraded our mac and relevant software, including moving from Quark 7.3 to 9.3.
It has been a bit of a learning curve, fewer tools etc. It has more of an InDesign feel to it now.
I have used QuarkXpress since the beginning in 1987 and have been almost evangelical in telling people about its benefits etc.
BUT…!!
…it turns out that since Quark 9, trapping/choking is no longer support??????? What????
Two issues.
One: As a printer we require colours to trap and to have control over the amount of trap or choke depending on colour combinations etc. This is an essential process in producing high quality print products.
Two: This change in functionality is not mentioned anywhere in publications relating to the release of QX9 or in any of Quarks own documentation. There are three or four sections within the user manual that state
“Beginning with version 9.0, the application no longer supports spread and choke trapping.
Spreads and chokes that you set up with the Trap Information palette (Window menu)
will not be applied at output. However, overprints and knockouts are honored.”
If this had been known previously, it may have affected our decision to waste money on investing in the upgrade.
Creative Suite may be the way forward now instead.
Are we alone in feeling slightly bitter over this drop in functionality or does every printer out there now have post process control of trapping???
How do you all feel about what must surely be an important issue for most printers?