Quark Forums

I have a client that is crazy about a font he sent me as part of a Quark layout. I want to save the text as an image so I can keep the font as an unchangeable image.

Any ideas?

Ryan

Export the file to PDF or .ps (which can be distilled to PDF). Send the PDF if you like, or rasterise the thing in Photoshop and save it as a JPEG.

Or save the page as an eps (from the file menu) and run that in to Photoshop to resave as a JPEG.

Job done, I'd think.

Greg

Yes, I'll give that a go Greg. The last issue I had you suggested a solution that did work, thanks for you help with that too by the way.

Ryan :D

You're very welcome mate, hope this solves your problem too.

Greg

So, I've tried a few times to save the project as a pdf but the error message I'm getting says "to save the file as a pdf layout a postscript printer must be set up to print to a file".

I don't know what that means.

Your thoughts,

Ryan

Hi Ryan,

Sorry about the delay in replying to this post. Everything that everyone has suggested here will work... but XPress has a much easier way to do this. In fact, this is an area of functionality that QuarkXPress is great for... asset conversion from print layouts.

The simplest way to do this would be to duplicate the layout as a web layout via the Layout properties dialog (Layout > Duplicate, then change the Layout type to Web). Then in the new layout, select the box you are concerned with and go into the Modify dialog... There is a checkbox option in there called "Convert to Graphic" which should be checked by default... make sure it's checked. Under the Export tab of the Modify dialog, choose JPEG as the "Export As" file type for that text box (we default to GIF or PNG for text).

From there, you can either preview the layout in a browser (Page > Preview HTML) and save the picture of the text (right click or control + click and use the save picture as option)... or if you want multiple boxes or long runs of text, simply export the page (File > Export > HTML) and in the Images folder that is created after the export, your text boxes should be one of the image assets in that folder.

If you exported, also notice that there are all of the other images from the layout in that folder, converted into web ready formats... so if you need to get image assets out of a print layout (say an eps or a tiff) you just do the same thing... duplicate the layout and export it in HTML... they are automatically converted for you. You can change the file format and even have some control over compression quality in the modify dialog for each picture.

I hope that saves you some time and effort!

Ryan,

One overlooked often feature of Quark and the problem of using True Type or non Post Script Fonts that would also help you is the Text to Box Command.

Select All on the type/characters you want to become a graphic. Go to Style >> Text to Box. Quark will make a copy of the type as a Vector outline of the font - just like using Outlines in Adobe Illustrator. You will now have this as a Vector Object, thereby removing the font.

GD

Hello!

Okay so I have have multiple linked text boxes on separate pages with a lot of (imported from Word) text in them that I want to export to an image.. I'm trying the outlined method above, but when I duplicate the layout to web format, all I get is the very first page and then a blue line which runs down the length of where the rest of the pages should be... am I commiting horrible noobness?

Also (I haven't used Quark in a while..),  Shift+Click on linked text boxes should select them all together right?  Even if they're on separate pages?  I'm trying to select all boxes by dragging cursor over, but the selection box won't carry onto the next page if you know what I mean. I'm working on a trial of Quarkxpress 8.

Thanks!

Emily