Comments on: Will QuarkXPress Run on Leopard?

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:33:25 +0000

@MA: On mine, if I hold down the Option key when I choose QuarkXPress> About QuarkXPress, it shows a special window containing all that info. If you’re using Windows, try using Alt instead. (?)

By: MAWillcock

MAWillcock — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:44:14 +0000

Can someone please tell me where identification code is on Quark 7.

Thank you

M A Willcock

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:01:16 +0000

Ada: I have to correct myself. Quark’s press release indicates that the minimum requirement for QuarkXPress 8 is Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or higher. So… I would expect it to behave itself on Tiger.

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:00:47 +0000

PinkAsimov: I don’t know Quark’s release schedule, but now that XPress 8 is completely out the door, I imagine they’ll be releasing an update for XPress 7 pretty soon.

We’ll be the first to mention it (I hope) when it’s released.

Adobe does a similar thing with InDesign, so that the older version can better understand documents saved down from the newer version.

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:58:34 +0000

BBHC: QuarkXPress 8 loves Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It was built using Leopard, and in fact takes advantage of some of its unique features such as Quick Look previews within a project window.

I’ve been using XPress 8 on Leopard for quite a few months, and am enjoying it. I’ve heard grumblings from some users about the color management in Leopard not working well, so if that’s critical to your work, I would look into that. Maybe Google Quark 8 Leopard 10.5 color management?

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:54:50 +0000

Ada: QuarkXPress 7 was built for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, much as QuarkXPress 8 was built for 10.5 Leopard. Yes, they’ll run on those earlier OSes, but you may encounter some strangeness. With each of those OS upgrades, Apple changed quite a bit of the underlying mechanisms for print, file management, color management, etc.

However, many people are using XPress 7 on Panther and XPress 8 on Tiger with minimal trouble. It just depends on your particular workflow, OS setup, network, fonts, phase of the moon, altitude, and birth sign. (Just kidding about those last three, of course.)

By: PinkAsimov

PinkAsimov — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:49:02 +0000

And when do the update 7.4 (both Xpress and QPS) will be realease ?
Quark have mntion it for mid july, and there’s nothing for now……

By: BBHC Graphics

BBHC Graphics — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:54:33 +0000

We are looking at upgrading from 7.3 to 8, and to Leopard. Any word on problems being run into with Quark 8 on the Leopard operating system.

By: Ada

Ada — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:56:41 +0000

Will Quark 7 work on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther?

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:15:17 +0000

That’s true! All of those old programs require either Mac OS 9 or Apple’s “Classic” environment within Mac OS X to run. Since Leopard does not have Classic, those apps won’t run on it. If your Mac can run on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), you’ll be able to run those old programs. Otherwise… it’s time to upgrade your software.