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It does solve the problem. At least for now.

Thank you:

Montanus 

Went on quark support yesterday (I'm in version 8.1.6 , abandoning quark 7 and 8.0 which were buggy) - after much time, we finally came to a simple fix, which did the trick: 1.Navigate to Mac Hdd>Applications>QuarkXPress 8.x>XTensions folder & look for a file named as Specialline.xnt 2. Rename this file as old_SpecialLineBreak.xnt Hope this helps others

Happened to me today. Working on a document created in v8.5. I saved the doc and the non-breaking dialogue pops up. Moved the SpecialLineBreak.xnt to the XTensions Disabled folder and all is good again. Thanks for the how-to-fix-it tip. Is this going to be fixed, Quark? Or this work-around good enough for you for now?

The big trouble for me is that I need EAText.xnt in order to script text in QXP. EAText.xnt on its side require SpecialLineBreak.xnt to launch properly… And I suspect one of those two extensions to badly interfere on text in QXP (wrong breakings at the end of some lines with » -French ending quotation mark- and , -comma- for example…).

After reading the various suggestions here, I removed the SpecialLineBreak file in the extensions folder and replaced it with the one that came on the disk. - So far it seems to be working.

 . . . we'll see :-)

In version 9: (Make a copy of the Xtension first). Ctrl + click on the SpecialLineBreak.xnt file. Open folder "contents". Then open folder "Resources". Delete the folders ja.lproj, ko.lproj, zh_CN.lproj zh_TW.lproj. Restart QuarkXpress.

I learned that if Quark ask for editing these character sets, that these characters exist in your document. Sometimes when I copy text from a PDF and paste it into XPress, some characters get in some strange way emulated, which is not visible at the first look. To check this, go to the usage dialogue and look for some strange fonts in the used fonts list. Klick on show... You get pointed to the location of the font problem. Remove it with your standard font or style and/or edit the emulated type. After searching and removing of all appearances of the strange font, the message is gone forever. I would be happy about some feedback.

Thank you, Mac_nick. In the meantime I had to re-install Quark 8 because of a computer crash, and since then the message does not pop up any more. If it does later on, I shall proceed as you advised. Aper from all that: I never copy text from anywhere into my Quark 8 documents except from a pure text editor; from either WordPerfect or Word or any other word processor there are too many well-hidden features active which usually come out quite strangely (as you described) in the Quark document. Thank you again: Montanus

Hi,

mac_nick gets credit for this fix and credit for doing it right. The dialog box that pops up when I go to print is there for a reason.... something is wrong in my document.

Got to Utilities->Usage and highlight "Fonts" in the left hand column. Highlight the first font and replace it... yes, even with the exact same font, then click "OK". Do this for all of your fonts.

The why --- In my case, I am opening older documents that were from different systems using different font sets and font manufacturers. 

Replacing the fonts in the document, replaces them with my current “good” fonts even though there is no difference in the name.
Other methods may work but I don’t believe the get to the root cause of the problem.

Thanks mac_nick!