Planet Quark

Kill PasteBoard XT

Markzware’s $29 PasteBoard XT is tremendously useful when you need to increase the space above and below your QuarkXPress pages while working on them.
However, the very first version of it, way back in the QuarkXPress 3 era, wrote code into each document requiring the XTension to be present when re-opening the document. Some of those [...]

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List of Known and Resolved Issues in QuarkXPress

Quark maintains a list of known issues and resolved issues for each update of QuarkXPress 8 at www.8.quark.com/techinfo/known_issues.html.
I wouldn’t call it an entertaining read, but it does provide a glimpse into the incredibly detailed underpinnings of QuarkXPress!

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PostScript Font Problem Fixed, but Everything Looks Darker in Snow Leopard

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6.2 update does fix the PostScript font issue that affected QuarkXPress (yay!), but here’s another little issue to watch out for:
In Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, Apple has switched to a default gamma of 2.2, which is what Windows has always used because it’s closer to a home television. Because of [...]

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Apple Lists Snow Leopard-compatible Printers and Scanners

While it’s not wise to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” until QuarkXPress 8 has been updated, it may be helpful to know whether your existing printers and scanners will work properly.
Apple posted a detailed list of Mac OS X 10.6-compatible printers and scanners, including a large number of devices from HP, Epson, [...]

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