Quark Xpress 6.0 (at last)

Nice try, Quark. The company I work for just began our transition to InDesign 2.02. Had Quark been on the ball, we’d be rolling out OS X Quark right now. Too little, too late, as far as we’re concerned.

Richard McPike · www · 5 years, 5 months ago

I’m with the previous poster. We just finished our migration to InDesign2 from Quark.

Justin Williams · www · 5 years, 5 months ago

Because it took Quark so long to ready Xpress for OS X, I had kinda forgotten all about them in the DTP market. Which is strange as in pre-OS X days, they were no.1.

In general my regard for Quark dropped considerably after they bought mTropolis (multimedia authoring application) from mFactory, then promptly killed it. But that’s a whole different story...

Phil · www · 5 years, 5 months ago

I’m wondering why all those people want to transit to indesign. Was XPress no good enough? Did XPress did not work?
Transperancy and XML seem to be a hype...and then knowing that the most Printers out there don’t have the latest RIPs for working with trancperancy correctley...and also knowing that the most
companies did not transit to OS X jet....Everybody seem to run after the other..blind...But that’s my opinion:)

Dirk · 5 years, 5 months ago

In answer to Dirk’s question, the reason that a lot of people switched to InDesign is because there was no version of Quark that would work with Mac’s new O/S X. I have continued to use Quark 5.0 in System 9 but do everything else on my Mac in System 10. Frankly, I will be really glad to be rid of System 9 as it is really antiquated compared to 10.

I did get InDesign and have been using it to some degree in 10 but frankly, it is so different from Quark, which I have been using for about 8 years, that I am looking forward to getting Quark 6.0 and totally getting out of System 9.

I do have one concern and that is with the new Quark 6.0 if I attempt to open older Quark files that are in version 4.0 or 5.0, will that require my Mac to open up System 9 in order to see these files? I hope not because I am trying to get to the point where I never have to open System 9 again.

Jim · 5 years, 5 months ago

For Jims question will Quark still open older XPress files without opening OS9...i have tried it and there seems no propblem doing so. But don’t get me wrong. i don’t saying that Undesign isn’t a good programe..it’s a good programme but people must consider good what all the consequenses are if u decide to tranist...and why do u want to transit? And i have one question: when u translate Xpress documents in Indesign there seem to be that not all the clipping of illustrations are not cobverted correctley...now i must by hand all the clipping set right..does anyone has the same ‘problem’ or do i something wrong?...

Dirk · 5 years, 5 months ago

Quark 6.0 opens older files just fine. But some have experienced problems going the other way. Quark 6.0 allows you to save as 5.0, but 5.0 users can’t always open those files.
Does anyone have experience making .pdfs directly from Quark 6.0?
Sometimes it works great, really fast. Way faster than with Distiller. But other times, it makes the pdfs incorrectly. Weird stuff.

sean · 5 years, 3 months ago

A former printer has my files in Quark. Could I import those into PageMaker 5.0 or Indesign?

Lorraine · 5 years, 2 months ago

I designed books for years using Pagemaker and never got comfortable with Quark. Any advice out there from folks who’ve switched from PM to Quark? I’m contemplating a System X upgrade, and have been impressed with what I’ve heard and seen of InDesign.

Todd · 5 years, 2 months ago

Guess there’s nobody here to answer?

Lorraine · 5 years, 2 months ago

Sorry Lorraine - this is probably not the place to get answers on Quark Xpress. Your best bet is probably to find a Quark Xpress related support forum or mailing list.

Phil · www · 5 years, 2 months ago

Lorraine try this link may help to answer your questions.
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/37052-1.html

George · 5 years, 2 months ago

We’ve been Quark heads for years, but the transition to Quark 6.0 for Mac OSX.2.6 has been terrible. To us PhotoShop and Illustrator users, InDesign seemed very intuitive and has some great features Quark 6.0 doesn’t have. Also have had trouble getting support from the Quark team in India and still can’t use Quark 6.0 in OSX as smoothly as Quark 5.0 in 9.2. Has anyone else had trouble printing eps files in Quark 6.0? And that fictitious IP printer address you have to install to get 6.0 to open anything seems bogus.

Tom Pixton · www · 5 years, 1 month ago

Does anyone like Quark 6.0 for OSx.2.6?

I am hearing some bad things about it and not sure what to do.

Laura · 5 years ago

After working with Quark 6.0 for 3 months now, I get the impression they missed the boat to OSX completly, performance is much slower than previous versions and the advantages Quark had over ID (faster and more reliable printing, speed and handling of imported files, creating consistent PDF’s etc..) are now its weakest points.
Apart from that, I’d expected a major face-lift of the interface but nothing has changed there, we’ll still need QX tools. (no dockable pallets, lots of big,seperate dialog boxes).
I’m working with Quark for over 10 years now, but I think this was my last upgrade. Sorry Quark, too little, too late and too slow.

Willy · 5 years ago

i am trying to open a quark 6.0 (PC) with Indesign CS - it is possible?

Jake · 4 years, 11 months ago

Various Quark Complaints (these are just the ones I have writen down)
Diacritic Issue:
When typing a key command for a diacritic (alt and the coresponding vowel) it set whatever type your curser is in to ìnormalî Style Sheet

PDF with EPS Duotones Crashing:
Having more than two or three Photoshop EPS files (Such as a duotone or spot color file) Quark will crash when Export PDF is used. Saving as a PS file and trying to distill in Acrobat will error out.
Work Around: save all EPS files as RGB TIFFs for PDF creation and then re-import for Pre-Press

Very Slow Open and Import directory listing:
When there are a lot of files within a directory and you type a letter sequence to navigate to a particular file it will only jump[ to the first letter typed (ie. typing SMITH will jump from ìSî to ìMî to ìTî and so on instead of going to Smith)

Focus in import dialog box:
Also a related issue is the focus for the import dialog box is in the ìgo toî field so you have to either tab or click on the directory listing befoe typing letters to get to the file you want. Honestly how many people have the need type the FULL PATH NAME to get to a file?

Slow print dialog box:
on large documents with multiple images placed there is between 30 and 90 second delay before the dialog box displays.

Slow Typing and re-draw:
On large files Quark has trouble keeping up with simple typing. Often I will type and wait 10-15 seconds before the text displays (I am a slow typist)

Fading Fonts:
Various fonts (postscript type 1) when printed to a Color LaserJet 8550 fade colors for small blocks of type (3 to 5 characters)

Fit Picture to box:
Fitting a picture to a box will almost always leave a pixel or two of white on the bottom edge. Necesitating the need to manualy size the image a a percent and centering it in the box to get it to trap to a border.

Copying text with Index markers
When you copy and past text that contains index markers it will loose all those entries. This has been a problem ever since there was indexing in Quark. (oh and why canít we get a key short cut for adding a first level index entrie)

Print Jobs Named ìUntitledî
The name displaied in the of any Quark 6 file that is printing Print Center is always the unhelpfull ìUntitledî

Print previe on Tiled Vertical Shaped Documents
The Print preview on verticly shaped documents that are being tilled to print on multiple pages looks like the image will print off the page. The job will print fine but the print preview is of little help.

HappyDancingSnoopy@ComCast.net

Nivlac Noslen · 4 years, 11 months ago

I’M USING OSX WITH QUARK 6 INSTALLED AND QUARK 6 STINKS. THERE ARE SO MANY PROBLEMS AND THEY KNOW IT. QUARK CHARGES YOU $900 FOR THE PROGRAM KNOWING THAT IT HAS PROBLEMS. THEY SUGGEST THAT WHEN THE FREE UPGRADE (FOR THESE PROBLEMS) IS AVAILABLE, TO INSTALL IT. QUESTION ISÖWHY WOULD THEY KNOWINGLY DO THIS TO LOYAL CUSTOMERS THAT SPEND THE MONEY TO PURCHASE THE PRODUCT AND WHEN IS THIS SO-CALLED HANDYMAN UPGRADE GOING TO BE AVAILABLE?

melis · 4 years, 11 months ago

Has anyone any clue when an upgrade for Quark 6.0 is available?

Joakim · 4 years, 10 months ago

Quark 6.0 on 10.3 G5–when I print to HP4600dn Color Laserjet the file downloads and then flushes away. But if I run same file from it’s native Quark 4.1 in Classic mode or on Old Trusty G3 it prints. All other graphics apps print OK...shall I deduce that Quark 6.0 has a difference with latest HP driver? I’m weary of being blindsided by the next little trick, and there’s always a next one. Dammit Jim, I’m a designer, not a TV technician.

corpimage · 4 years, 10 months ago

Tom Pixton mentioned problems printing EPS files - I’ve got a nightmare on my hands with a freelance client. I sent a Quark 6.1 file with Photoshop Tiffs with an "Export Transparent Image Assistant" path embedded (bear with me, the EPSs are coming) to the printer, and the proof came back with the images shifting all over the place, and with white backgrounds.

Next, I tried switching back to my original Illustrator EPSs, and now they don’t print in the same places they’re displaying on-screen. What the heck? This is with and also without the high-resolution preview option turned on.

My Adobe Creative Suite arrives on Tuesday, and I can’t wait to learn InDesign... Sorry, Quark, I loved you, but 5.0 corrupted my files when saving down to 4, and now this...

miserabledesigner · 4 years, 8 months ago

I have about four thousand fonts that I want to be able to access them when I need them. I’m informed that some fonts don’t work with the new Quark 6 or OZX So-called open fonts only. After the hefty $900 zorks for Quark... do I have to go out and spend $$$$ for all new fonts?

Maybe I should take up landscaping or become a vaccum cleaner salesperson.

Patricia · 4 years, 8 months ago

I am at a loss.

Thinking that this maybe the turning point for Quark Xpress and hoping that it may have the edge over InDesign - I fork out some hard earned cash.

After a frustrating couple of days I have arrived at this messgae board. I can be of no help to anyone, I have become selfish in my pursuit to produce a PDF from Quark Xpress 6. My comments contain expletives and therfeore cannot be repeated.

Make way for Adobe.

Matt Horseman · 4 years, 7 months ago

Anyone having problems with the whole - Making PDFs from Quark 6? I need to be able to make custom size, custom resolution PDF’s - I was about to throw my new G5 out the window. Help please!

Should I switch to InDesign? I just bought the newest version as well as Quark 6.

Kelly · www · 4 years, 7 months ago

All I have to say it OS9 Quark 5.1, zero problems. Now that Mac has a G5, mac users now have power and speed. Before they only had eyecandy with OSX. Now the developers don’t know what to do with the eyecandy and the raw speed and power. You were forced to use Jaguar and then Panther.

If its not broken don’t fix it. I’m a printer in Florida and all our machines are on OS9 running Quark 5.

And about switching to Indesign. Its not the best thing to do. Clients send files over here and we alot of problems with them. Quark is still the best for PRESS work.

Matthew Philips · 4 years, 7 months ago

Very nice.

Just installed Xpress 6.0 and it seems to me that it is the slowest program since my Spectrum ZX days when I waited several minutes for a game to load.

After typing at an enormous speed my text I can now get a coffee and watch the letters appear on the screen.

So this is evolution.

Anyone wanna trade? Xpress 6.0 for InDesign CS?
Or should I just toss it away right away.

mattijn boer · 4 years, 7 months ago

Anyone know if it’s possible to save Xpress v6 to v4 on a pc?

Helena · 4 years, 7 months ago

Does anyone know how to assign more memory to Quark 6.0 because mine is so slow and I get the little spinning colour wheel up all the time. I can’t add memory like I do to my other programs... or maybe adding memory isn’t going to make it stop trugging like a tractor??

Any help much appreciated.

Hannah Moo · 4 years, 6 months ago

There is no way to assign extra memory to an application in OS 10. Memory allocation is automatic unlike OS 9 where you could manually allocate extra memory. I also think quark is junk. Everything Adobe makes works wonderfully

Ryan · 4 years, 5 months ago

I just bought a new imac, my damn dongle kept me from using Quark 4.1 on my new toy. After reading all your feedback I quess it’s time to slip into indesign, and dangle my dongle into the trash.

steve · 4 years, 5 months ago

Help
quark 6 upgrade on mac os 10 is a nighmare for our marketing and visual departments
Biggest problems with fonts.
All old files opened have missing fonts - all helvetica what we use all the time, Suitcae change from ATM deemed many fonts corrupt.
who has time to change fonts in documents that we use as templetes for the next. tech people no sense of urgency to try to fix the problem s.

lisa · 4 years, 2 months ago

Well, I still earn my money with Quark (6.1) and it works well, if you know what you are doing. 6.0 had many bugs, 6.1 works.

InDesign is nice too for some jobs but too slow and too many preferences that you can set wrong. And it has many bugs/problems too, just look at the forums.

Anyhow, keep away the religion.

Fish · 4 years, 2 months ago