Comments for Planet Quark http://planetquark.com by Quark users for Quark users Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Video Tutorial: Backward Compatibility by Patsy Zimmerman http://planetquark.com/2009/04/03/video-tutorial-backward-compatibility/comment-page-1/#comment-9050 Patsy Zimmerman Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:19 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=1969#comment-9050 I have a number of Quark documents that that were created in Quark 6.52. The docs did not have a file extension. I am transistioning to Quark 8 and went through (just this morning) and added .qxp extentsion to all of these docs. Now when I try to open them, I get a message that indicates that "This document can not be opened by this version of Quark". I did the "File, Get Info, chose Quark 8 and clicked the "Change All" button, still get the same message. What happened?????? I don't want to have to recreate of all these. Patsy I have a number of Quark documents that that were created in Quark 6.52. The docs did not have a file extension. I am transistioning to Quark 8 and went through (just this morning) and added .qxp extentsion to all of these docs. Now when I try to open them, I get a message that indicates that “This document can not be opened by this version of Quark”. I did the “File, Get Info, chose Quark 8 and clicked the “Change All” button, still get the same message.
What happened?????? I don’t want to have to recreate of all these.
Patsy

]]> Comment on Tip: Select an Object Behind Another Object by Alistair Dabbs http://planetquark.com/2008/03/05/tip-select-an-object-behind-another-object/comment-page-1/#comment-9048 Alistair Dabbs Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:03:06 +0000 http://planetquark.com/2008/03/05/tip-select-an-object-behind-another-object/#comment-9048 I know exactly what you mean: when an item is small on your screen, the handles around the item seem to swamp the clickable area of that object. What I do in this situation is simply to zoom in very closely to the small items, make my adjustments, and zoom straight back out again. This is less troublesome than you might think, once you get the hang of the zooming shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+drag to zoom in to a specific area, then Cmd+0, Cmd+1 or Cmd+Opt+click to zoom out (that's Fit In Window, 100% or 200%, respectively). I know exactly what you mean: when an item is small on your screen, the handles around the item seem to swamp the clickable area of that object. What I do in this situation is simply to zoom in very closely to the small items, make my adjustments, and zoom straight back out again. This is less troublesome than you might think, once you get the hang of the zooming shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+drag to zoom in to a specific area, then Cmd+0, Cmd+1 or Cmd+Opt+click to zoom out (that’s Fit In Window, 100% or 200%, respectively).

]]> Comment on Tip: Select an Object Behind Another Object by Lenny http://planetquark.com/2008/03/05/tip-select-an-object-behind-another-object/comment-page-1/#comment-9043 Lenny Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:51:55 +0000 http://planetquark.com/2008/03/05/tip-select-an-object-behind-another-object/#comment-9043 Hi, I am trying to select small objects close to each other over many objects. The cursor after an object is selected changes in to a rotate icon or stertch icon and I am unable to select the object close by. How can I force to icon to change to the arrow icon. Hi,

I am trying to select small objects close to each other over many objects. The cursor after an object is selected changes in to a rotate icon or stertch icon and I am unable to select the object close by.

How can I force to icon to change to the arrow icon.

]]> Comment on Download Old Adobe Acrobat Readers by Pariah Burke http://planetquark.com/2010/03/10/download-old-adobe-acrobat-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-9041 Pariah Burke Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:48:03 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=2911#comment-9041 Excellent tip, Jeff! I'm that archive will come in handy for a lot of people. Excellent tip, Jeff! I’m that archive will come in handy for a lot of people.

]]> Comment on Avoiding Text Reflow When Opening Legacy Documents in QuarkXPress 7 or 8 by Russell http://planetquark.com/2009/12/28/avoiding-text-reflow-when-opening-legacy-documents-in-quarkxpress-7-or-8/comment-page-1/#comment-9040 Russell Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:47:41 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=2701#comment-9040 @ Steve Brannon If you wanted to preserve the text wrap, wouldn't you want to open old docs WITHOUT holding the Option key? @ Steve Brannon

If you wanted to preserve the text wrap, wouldn’t you want to open old docs WITHOUT holding the Option key?

]]> Comment on Avoiding Text Reflow When Opening Legacy Documents in QuarkXPress 7 or 8 by Steve Brannon http://planetquark.com/2009/12/28/avoiding-text-reflow-when-opening-legacy-documents-in-quarkxpress-7-or-8/comment-page-1/#comment-9020 Steve Brannon Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:43:30 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=2701#comment-9020 Thanks for this information. We were having an issue with a Quark document (running OS 10.4.11 on a G5 PowerPC). When saving a QuarkXpress 7.5 document, text would reflow. This document contained many ads built in QuarkXpress 6.5. In 7.5, holding down the alt/option key while reopening the document did the trick. No more reflow problems. Thank you, thank you! Steve Thanks for this information. We were having an issue with a Quark document (running OS 10.4.11 on a G5 PowerPC). When saving a QuarkXpress 7.5 document, text would reflow. This document contained many ads built in QuarkXpress 6.5. In 7.5, holding down the alt/option key while reopening the document did the trick. No more reflow problems.

Thank you, thank you!

Steve

]]> Comment on The Faces of Quark: Joshua Duhl on Dynamic Publishing by Jay Nelson http://planetquark.com/2008/10/24/the-faces-of-quark-joshua-duhl-on-dynamic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-9019 Jay Nelson Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:24:02 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=858#comment-9019 Hi Bev. I wish we had something to offer you, but that's pretty far out of our sphere of knowledge. Best of luck! Hi Bev.

I wish we had something to offer you, but that’s pretty far out of our sphere of knowledge. Best of luck!

]]> Comment on File Courier Simplifies Complex File-Sending Needs by Cecily Hazlip http://planetquark.com/2010/02/19/file-courier-simplifies-complex-file-sending-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-9016 Cecily Hazlip Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:18:03 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=2848#comment-9016 It's a useful entry, really easy to understand. Thanks for making time for you to tell all of your opinions. It’s a useful entry, really easy to understand. Thanks for making time for you to tell all of your opinions.

]]> Comment on The Faces of Quark: Joshua Duhl on Dynamic Publishing by Bev Dettinger http://planetquark.com/2008/10/24/the-faces-of-quark-joshua-duhl-on-dynamic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-9015 Bev Dettinger Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:10:14 +0000 http://planetquark.com/?p=858#comment-9015 Hello, I found this article while searching for help with fixing Microsoft Silverlight. I've recently changed browsers from Chrome to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Just recently I seem to have a problem with loading sites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Every time I go on a page that needs Microsoft Silverlight, the site doesn't load and I get a "npctrl.dll" error. I cannot seem to find out how to fix it. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to work is greatly appreciated! Thanks Hello, I found this article while searching for help with fixing Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently changed browsers from Chrome to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Just recently I seem to have a problem with loading sites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Every time I go on a page that needs Microsoft Silverlight, the site doesn’t load and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I cannot seem to find out how to fix it. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to work is greatly appreciated! Thanks

]]> Comment on QuarkXPress 8: The New Tools Palette by Slobodan Tabakovich http://planetquark.com/2008/07/08/quarkxpress-8-the-new-tools-palette/comment-page-1/#comment-9012 Slobodan Tabakovich Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:58:19 +0000 http://planetquark.com/2008/07/08/quarkxpress-8-the-new-tools-palette/#comment-9012 Jay, I appreciate your insights, you are a professional who has a lot in his pocket. Having made a tirade upstairs, I should explain myself. I work in a mother of fast-paced environment and am responsible of hand-crafting (due to machine-un-replicable quality of our catalog) staggering number of pages with my design team on daily basis. We do notice, I am proud and sad to say, when Quark tool has a fraction-of-a-second shorter delay. our process has led us to expect PROMPT response from apps. We run top-of-the-line machines and keep up-to-date on software. So, when I said that it is sluggish, it is sluggish in that context. We just don't have the benefit of spare time, almost all the time. So, with introduction of Quark 8, we're witnessing the switching pains, re-learning and that's OK. However, we're also feeling painfully every fraction of a second we lost (again) to Quark UI. The same happened with the switch from 4 to 6. I'm sure we all remember the CRISP response it had, compared to this. As far as your quite correct statement about Quark's direction, yes, you are right. They will do what they want. But there are few companies who had such an honor to have users IN LOVE with them, just to push them away with greed and one bad step after another. And, by all means no, no free advice. The last advice I gave them was when they showed up with two poorly trained customer service pups to receive our numerous complaints about ver. 6 here, in MN. The pups tried to apply the crowd pumping tactic of throwing free tee shirts into the crowd. Some fell to the floor, bouncing of frozen faces. My advice was: change the profession guys, you've been taken for a ride, as well as all of us here, in front of you. Few tee shirts won't fix that. One laughed, the other seemed to ponder...the laughing one suggested I don't like Quark... I told him that I probably liked Quark more than he ever did, before he ever knew about it. And that gives me the perspective no free tee shirt can wipe off. That wiped off the smile of the remaining face. The following were the years of Quark Customer Service overseas fiasco...once I spent hours trying to establish a common base with...Jenny from...Madras or wherever. Yes, those were the days...So, when I hear Quark cheer these days, I look behind me, just to make sure the semi isn't about to run me over. Jay, I appreciate your insights, you are a professional who has a lot in his pocket. Having made a tirade upstairs, I should explain myself. I work in a mother of fast-paced environment and am responsible of hand-crafting (due to machine-un-replicable quality of our catalog) staggering number of pages with my design team on daily basis. We do notice, I am proud and sad to say, when Quark tool has a fraction-of-a-second shorter delay. our process has led us to expect PROMPT response from apps. We run top-of-the-line machines and keep up-to-date on software. So, when I said that it is sluggish, it is sluggish in that context. We just don’t have the benefit of spare time, almost all the time. So, with introduction of Quark 8, we’re witnessing the switching pains, re-learning and that’s OK. However, we’re also feeling painfully every fraction of a second we lost (again) to Quark UI. The same happened with the switch from 4 to 6. I’m sure we all remember the CRISP response it had, compared to this.
As far as your quite correct statement about Quark’s direction, yes, you are right. They will do what they want. But there are few companies who had such an honor to have users IN LOVE with them, just to push them away with greed and one bad step after another. And, by all means no, no free advice. The last advice I gave them was when they showed up with two poorly trained customer service pups to receive our numerous complaints about ver. 6 here, in MN. The pups tried to apply the crowd pumping tactic of throwing free tee shirts into the crowd. Some fell to the floor, bouncing of frozen faces. My advice was: change the profession guys, you’ve been taken for a ride, as well as all of us here, in front of you. Few tee shirts won’t fix that. One laughed, the other seemed to ponder…the laughing one suggested I don’t like Quark… I told him that I probably liked Quark more than he ever did, before he ever knew about it. And that gives me the perspective no free tee shirt can wipe off. That wiped off the smile of the remaining face.
The following were the years of Quark Customer Service overseas fiasco…once I spent hours trying to establish a common base with…Jenny from…Madras or wherever. Yes, those were the days…So, when I hear Quark cheer these days, I look behind me, just to make sure the semi isn’t about to run me over.

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