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HI: Quark 6.2; Mac OS 10.4.10 I'm reasonably experienced with Quark's print layout world but a complete newbie to web design and layout. Last weekend I decided to give it a shot and so far I'm loving it. However, I've run into a snag. I've got my design nailed down. There are 6 pages and I'd like to create relative hyperlinks that will take the viewer from the first page through the other 5 ... but when I call up the Hyperlinks palette, none of my pages are listed under the 'pages' drop-down window. I've already exported them as HTML files and they're in the designated folder and are labelled Export1.htm and so on. The only missing piece of this puzzle is that I'm not connected (yet) to a server. I'm able to preview my web pages on Safari, which is pretty neat considering I didn't even expect to be able to get this far in the process, but now I'm stuck on creating the links. I've checked Quark's online help and a third-party Quark manual and I can see what I'm supposed to be able to do at this point, but it isn't. In order to be able to actually create links, do you have to have already uploaded your web pages to a live server? This part is not clear to me from the instructions I'm reading. Any help would be appreciated. Maggie

Sorry about the above run-on paragraph. I put an extra return between each paragraph, but they're not showing up. What am I doing wrong here???

Hi Maggie,

Sorry you are having this problem... I agree it isn't very clear in the UI as to how you accomplish this but thankfully it's pretty simple.

In the hyperlinks dialog, you simply create a hyperlink, name it whatever you want and put in the page name and the extension of .htm (e.g. Export1.htm) in the link field.  Then you just apply those links to whatever you are using for your page navigation elements.  I believe in the edit hyperlinks dialog, there actually is a dropdown which lists each page link but it is missing in the new hyperlink dialog (I'm not sure why, but that was done before my time at Quark).  To test that they are working correctly, apply them and do a full export of the project... the relative links should then work between pages.

As for the hard paragraph breaks, I'm not sure why they aren't showing up on the forum posts.  I'll talk to our IT department to find out why they aren't working correctly. 

Hope that helps! 

-Drew

Hello Drew: Thanks for stepping in, but I'm still having trouble. Here's what's happening. In the Hyperlinks palette, I hit NEW, and in the first box (Name:) I type in the name for this link. I'm calling it book. Then under the Type dropdown menu: I choose Page because iI want to link to a page in my layout (there are 6 total pages). But when I drop down the menu called 'Page' it's empty. No list of pages, yet I've exported all the pages in the layout and they're called Export1.htm, etc., and they're inside a folder I named and placed inside the folder with all my other stuff. Which one is the 'link field' you refer to? Maybe I"m totally missing something here. If I can't get this working, would it be possible for me to talk with you on the phone about this? If so, give me your email address and I'll email you with my phone number. Maggie

Hi Maggie,

The problem as you have described it sounds like you are trying to apply the hyperlink as an absolute path hyperlink to an existing page... meaning you are describing the entire path of the page (e.g. http://www.domainname.com/foldername/pagename.htm), not the relative path of the page which is more commonly used in HTML (a relative path is a type of hyperlink which automatically assumes it starts from the directory where the page currently is and then navigates to another page/file/folder in the directory structure using an abbriviated notation in the HTML instead of the full URL path).  QuarkXPress will correctly manage the relative path links for you if you apply those links before you export... using the way I described earlier, but for the absolute path, you will need to know the URL for your site, the folder structure and the page name.  In that case you would create a regular hyperlink to the page and apply it to whatever you want to use for your navigation structure.  You can use either/both methods, but I would strongly reccomend using the relative path...

Now, all that background info aside, the problem you are experiencing with the page hyperlink type (the pages aren't appearing in the dropdown list in the hyperlinks dialog) is a known defect in QuarkXPress 6... and it was fixed in versions 6.5, 7.x and 8.  So to ultimately fix the problem, I would highly reccomend downloading and updating to the latest maintenance release of QuarkXPress 6 (http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/six/  I believe the most current is version 6.52). Upon doing so, when you open your layouts and create the links using the hyperlinks pallet, the page names should appear under the dropdown if the link type is set to "Page"...

Also, I would reccomend downloading and playing with the QuarkXPress 8 "60-Day Test Drive". On it's own merrits there are lots of great changes (especially if you are coming from version 6), including the ability to author flash files... but also this issue has been resolved in there as well.

Hope that helps!

-Drew