Planet Quark

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• 1 Bennett Gavrish // Oct 26, 2007 at 7:49 am

  Hi - I use Quark 6.5 for work, and I was wondering if you could also post if 6.5 will work with Leopard.

  Thanks.

• 2 Jay Nelson // Oct 26, 2007 at 9:56 am

  That’s an excellent and necessary question. (Although you really should upgrade to 7. Yes, it’s that much better.)

  I’ll see what I can find out. Hang tight.

• 3 Bennett Gavrish // Oct 26, 2007 at 1:36 pm

  Thank you sooo much -

  I really want to upgrade to Leopard, and I work for the school newspaper which is still running Xpress 6.5.

  If worst comes to worst I can probably upgrade to Xpress 7, because 6.5 files can open on 7 - is that correct?

• 4 Jay Nelson // Oct 29, 2007 at 10:42 am

  You’re going to have to upgrade to version 7. I just heard from Quark that version 6.5 won’t be compatible with Leopard. But like I said, it’s totally worth it to upgrade. Version 7 is way way way better, and the upgrade is going for about $249 these days. ($297 bundled with Quark InteractiveDesigner.)

• 5 Olivier Lepetit // Nov 8, 2007 at 2:48 am

  And what about QPS on Leopard ?
  When we try to connect to a Dispatch Server, Xpress (and CopyDesk and the others) bug directly…
  Any advice ?

• 6 Jay Nelson // Nov 8, 2007 at 9:05 am

  Which version of QPS? I would assume that the same considerations apply: if QPS 7, then it should work. If earlier, then not.

• 7 Olivier Lepetit // Nov 8, 2007 at 9:09 am

  My question is for QPS 3.5.2 and for 3.6…

• 8 Jay Nelson // Nov 8, 2007 at 7:02 pm

  I checked with Quark, and they said:

  “QPS 7 offers our customers the greatest benefits, features and stability and is optimized for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, since many of our enterprise customers will not switch to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard immediately. We plan on releasing an update to QPS 7 that is optimized to fully support Mac OS 10.5 Leopard next year. The update will be free to existing QPS 7 customers as a download from the Quark web site. We do not currently have plans to optimize previous versions of QPS for either system.”

  In other words, just like every other company, they’re not guaranteeing that versions other than their current version will work on Leopard, nor will they be updating those older versions to do so.

• 9 Nikki // Nov 13, 2007 at 11:43 am

  Question: I am in OS 9.2 I have Quark 4.1 I am going to buy the Leopard now and do I do that and then can I get the upgrade to the Quark 7 ? Not sure how that works. Any help would be appreciated.
  Thanks!!!

• 10 Jay Nelson // Nov 13, 2007 at 2:36 pm

  It’s easy. Upgrade to Leopard, and then upgrade to QuarkXPress 7. Be sure to also download the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater, if your version of QuarkXPress 7 is lower than that.

• 11 Nikki // Nov 15, 2007 at 12:22 pm

  Thanks so much for you quick responce and help!!

• 12 Diane // Nov 21, 2007 at 11:59 am

  Hello. Do you know .. Will Quark 4.1 work on OSX? Not sure if I can re-load it on my new computer. Or do I need to buy the upgraate to use it on 10. Thanks so much.

• 13 Jay Nelson // Nov 21, 2007 at 12:45 pm

  QuarkXPress 4 and 5 run natively in Mac OS 9, which is supported through the “Classic environment” in Mac OS X 104 and earlier. However, the Classic environment does not run on Intel Macs or on Leopard.

  So, if you want to continue using QuarkXPress 4 or 5, you’ll need to run Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier on a PowerPC Mac. You won’t be able to use any of the currently available models, which all use Intel processors.

  I hope this helps!

  P.S. QuarkXPress 7 absolutely rocks. You’ll like it a lot more than any previous version, especially on a new Mac. No kidding.

• 14 TOCHE11 // Jan 10, 2008 at 10:14 pm

  will classic documents in quark xpress 4.0open once i get quark 7 on my g4 with leopard 10.5???

• 15 Jay Nelson // Jan 11, 2008 at 11:26 am

  All your old QuarkXPress documents should open in QuarkXPress 7, but I’d keep an older Mac around that can run QuarkXPress 4, just in case you have trouble. Problems are rare, but they do occur.

• 16 Craig // Jan 30, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  I just installed Leopard and upgraded to QuarkXpress 7.31. I can print from all of my other programs, but not Quark. Any ideas?

• 17 Jay Nelson // Jan 30, 2008 at 1:49 pm

  Not really… Quark does offer 24-hour free technical support by phone and in my experience they know what they’re doing: 800-676-4575

• 18 Bill // Jun 15, 2008 at 7:27 am

  Do I need a running version of Quark to upgrade to 7? I use 3.3 and 4.1 on my G4 PPC but I now have a Intel-based Imac that I want to install QXP 7 on. How do I do that without buying a full-version again?

• 19 Jay Nelson // Jun 16, 2008 at 10:29 am

  Bill: I would definitely check with Quark about that, but my impression is that you can pay for the upgrade, and they’ll give you a complete new copy of QuarkXPress. You may need your previous serial number to install it, but that should be it.

  Quark’s being VERY reasonable these days, so you shouldn’t have any trouble. Just give them a call.

• 20 Diane // Jun 26, 2008 at 9:20 pm

  I’m getting ready to purchase a new imac. I’m currently using QXP 4.1 w/OS9. Should I download 4.1 and upgrade to the latest version of
  Quark or start over…just buying the latest version of Qaurk?

• 21 Jay Nelson // Jun 27, 2008 at 6:24 am

  Hi Diane. You won’t be able to run 4.1 on your new Mac because Intel Macs (and Leopard) don’t run Classic at all, which is required to run 4.1.

  So yes, upgrade to version 7 now, so you’ll get the version 8 upgrade for free later in July.

• 22 Steve // Jul 1, 2008 at 1:41 pm

  Regarding Quark 7. I work with another company that needs to access my Quark files. If I’m working on 7 and they’re still on 6.5, can I save my documents as a 6.5 file for them to open?

• 23 Jay Nelson // Jul 1, 2008 at 6:03 pm

  Hi Steve. Yes, just as every version of QuarkXPress has done, this one lets you save down by one version number. So, you can save down to version 6 from version 7.

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