QuarkXPress: PDF

Export to PDF with network account

ukgrafik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:20 GMT

I‘m using QuarkXpress 8.12 with snow lepard and a network account on a snow leopard server. Allways if I a want to export to PDF the following error occured: "Unable to create the "/Networl/Servers/.../Desktop/Layout.pdf" file." But if I use a local account everything works fine. This is not the resolution I prefere. Does anyone know this problem? ukgrafik

Insufficient memory to rasterize a transparent element

dmeyer44 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:48:09 GMT

Ever since I updated to 7.3 I am unable to create a PDF, print or save an eps that has a drop shadow in the document. I have upped the virtual memory to1024mb and that made no difference. Does anyone have any suggestions... I am dying here!

Quark 8 does not print to pdf under leopard

pithom — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:42:59 GMT

My company just recently upgraded al macs to 10.5.8. Now Quark 8.0.2 would not print to pdf any more, i.e. it looks like as if it would print but then the pdf printer just flushes the job without any warning and no pdf is produced.

I tried the upgrade to Quark 8.1 but to no avail. Printing to PDF looks fine at the beginning but then the print job just disappears in a black hole again. I also upgraded to Acrobat 9 and Adobe PDF 9.0 but still the same result.

Saving a ps file and distilling manually works fine but I really would need a fix for printing directly to PDF. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

drop shadows disappear when I make a PDF

arttart — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:23:40 GMT

I am trying to make a PDF. The file has a photo background and there is type on top of it. The type has a white drop shadow appllied. Whenever I make a PDF, no matter what resolution, I cannot get the drop shadow to show up. Any ideas?

problems with pdf and drop shadow/opacity

Vic112 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:21:01 GMT

I have created a piece of artwork in Quark 7.5 which consists of a round picture box (which has a drop shadow). The picture box is positioned so that it slightly overlaps 2 large circles of colour. These 2 circles overlap each other also - the bottom one is a solid pantone colour, the top one is a pantone colour but with an opacity of 75%.

After creating a high quality pdf file, the pdf does not display (or print) these circles/picture box correctly. It looks as if there is a slightly transparent square picture box just below the round picture box but on top of the coloured circles. This only appears to happen when the round picture boxes are positioned on top of the circle which has a 75% opacity.

I can't figure out how to fix it. I tried making the coloured circles cmyk instead of pantone but that didn't fix it. I've also tried increasing the resolution of the drop shadows in the pdf settings but that didn't work either.

Can anyone help?

Quark and Blurb.com PDF problems

_SiD_ — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:56:30 GMT

Trying to create a PDF/X-3 format for a Blurb Book but it continually fails to pass the specific criteria to pass as a valid PDF/X-3 file. Here's the error log: ================================================================================ Document information ================================================================================ File name: "Business as Usual_Blurb Book (Page 08).pdf" Path: "/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/jaws318" PDF version number: "1.3" File size 3.0 MB (3102344 Bytes) Title: "Business as usual book 72pp" Author: "10on12.com" Creator: "QuarkXPress(R) 7.5" Producer: "QuarkXPress(R) 7.5" Created: "17/11/09 20:34" Modified: "17/11/09 20:34" Keywords: "10on12 stuge business as usual dungannon" Subject: "business as usual dungannon 2009 ©stuge" Trapping: "False" PDF/X Version: "PDF/X-3:2002" Number of plates: 4 Names of plates: "(Cyan) (Magenta) (Yellow) (Black) " +++ End of Report pdfInspektor3 www.callassoftware.com ++++ %%[Distiller generating /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/jaws318/Business as Usual_Blurb Book (Page 09).pdf]%% %%[ DIAGNOSTIC: %%ViewingOrientation: 1 0 0 1, rotation = 0 ]%% %%[ WARNING: Ignoring unknown distiller param: MaxSubsetPct ]%% %%[ Info: auto-filter using JPEG encoding (metric=0.001343). ]%% %%[ get_dct_encode_params: DCTEncode cannot be used for an image in /Indexed colour space. Using FlateEncode instead. ]%% %%[Distiller operation succeeded.]%% %%[PDF/X creation report!]%%

Quark 6.5 and Leopard, just installed can't export to PDF

DANA CARLSON — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:46:39 GMT

Any solutions for 6.5 failure to make a PDF now that I am in Leopard?

Truncated page numbers in pdf exports

BarbaraRollins — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:33:48 GMT

In some layouts all the time (and in others never) I have double-digit page numbers truncated on the pdf file, no matter how many times I rework it, move it, try to make allowances for whatever might be wrong. These are page numbers done on the master page, and they appear appropriately in the Quark program on the pages, but in the pdf, only the first digit of the two- or three-digit numbers show. This is true both on the right page and the left, so it's cutting off text mid-line as well as at the end of the line or box. I am using QuarkXPress 7.31 on a Mac using Leopard. Help?? Thanks for any sanity you can send my way.

Issue with Garamond Pro Italic

LuckyDog — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:17 GMT

I have a shiny new box with Quark 8 just waiting to be installed but I need to complete a large project first. So, currently I'm using Quark 6.5 with Mac OS 10.4.11. When trying to create pdfs to send to the printer, I get a a postscript error... %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: restore ]%%. I've narrowed down the problem to pages using Adobe Garamond Pro Italic. Does anyone know of a fix or work around? I'm on deadline and don't want to have to substitute a font and deal with changes in copy flow. Thank you.

quark 4.1 pdf writer

Terry Potter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:23 GMT

Hi all.

New to this........To cut a long story short....i am using a power mac G4, quark version 4.1 (old i know). My hard drive crashed new one replaced but now i cant write PDF's properly, it was ok before. it doesn't see the pdfs. is there anyway i can upgade or get it working again

Thumbnail pdf border missing

hfma — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:25:02 GMT

Hi,

I just upgraded to Quark 8.02 from 6.1. I am using a Mac OS 10.5.8 and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.

When I make a thumbnail pdf from the layout of a large magazine for emailing to other staff members, there is no border around the pages and it is very hard to discern one page from the next. Especially at this early stage when there is not too much on the page. I used to do this with QXP 6.1 and it worked fine. Is there some setting in the print thumbnails screen I am missing? Hope you can help. Thanks!

PDF compression settings in Quark 6.5 - what is best for print?

Country Publications — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:58:11 GMT

We are a magazine publishers and produce print-ready PDFs straight from Quark. (We use Quark 6.52 on OS 10.4.11.) Our printers' guidelines are to use 'Compression - Automatic ZIP/JPG Low' and 'Downsample to 300dpi' for colour and greyscale image.

We understand that 'Low' in Quark means low compression and therefore high quality (the opposite of Adobe terminology), but should we be using 'None' - surely that would be best quality?

Do the compression settings just apply to JPG images? Or does it compress the whole page, as it were? We always use TIFF files - are these compressed? (We thought that TIFF files couldn't be compressed.)

I see from other posts that the Quark JAWS engine in 6.5 is not perhaps the best way of producing PDFs. For best possible print results, should we use another method, eg produce a Postscript file and then use Distiller? Are there other methods?

Does Quark v7 and/or v8 handle PDF production in the same way?

Lots of questions! Any comments, advice or recommendations would be appreciated.

thanks in advance,

Mark

pdf/x-1a: 2001 "document area offset"

geoff.hobbs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:43:09 GMT

Hi im making high res pdf's (pdf/x-1a: 2001) for consumer magazines in the UK, and making a postscript file from quark xpress 7.5 then exporting to adobe distiller 7.0, everythings ok with doing this but a few magazines have asked for an "document area offset" that im not sure how to do within the quark postscript settings. Heres the paragraph from the magazines spec thats causing the problem... The final PDF document size should be 20mm bigger than your publication size to allow for bleed and trim marks. The advert should then be centred within the PDF document with a 10mm offset from the trims marks to the edge of the PDF document. The PDF document must not be trimmed down using the trim tool in Acorbat Professional. If anybody knows how to do this then this would be a big help Many thanks Geoff

Quark 7.01, OS Upgrade and Adobe PDF issues

bernst — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:51:04 GMT

We were running Quark 7.01 on OS X 10.5.6 and everything was working fine. We make our PDFs using the Print dialog box, the Adobe PDF printer (Acrobat 9) and our specific settings. Someone updated the computer to OS X 10.5.8 and now our PDF creation is not working. I reinstalled the CUPS patch from the Quark website still no luck. When a file is sent to print, I open the printer and watch the progress on the Mac. The file shows up in the printer queue, it says something about starting Distiller across the top and then something about libex/cups/quarkpstops - I think - it flashes across the screen so fast I don't have time to catch all of what it says. The file status then says stopped. I'm also unable to delete these jobs from the printer queue. For the foreseeable future we are tied to Quark 7 so I need to stick with it and not upgrade to 8 at this point. Is there something in the 10.5.8 upgrade that breaks the compatibility with the Adobe PDF printer? Any steps I can try to fix this?

PDF colour space issues

michelleg — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:16:14 GMT

We have a very strange problem happening. We have 2 computers running v8.02 and 1 running v8.1. We have a supplied PDF that is RGB and placed into the Quark document. When using the Export>Layout as PDF function we are getting different results between the 2 versions. The older version 8.02 creates an acceptable pdf where the colour conversion of the RGB elements looks great. But if we export the exact same page from 8.1 using all of the same settings, the colours are completely washed out. In the Export PDF settings, we have tried 2 different colour setup options: Composite CMYK and Spot and AsIs. Again, the 8.02 version looks great and the 8.1 looks like crap. We have compared preferences, etc between the 2 and cannot find anything different other than the versions of Quark. If the newer Quark cannot properly handle colour conversions, it doesn't encourage us to buy more versions for our other staff. Please help.

Pdf within Quark page has rough text when output

GreatWhite — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:28:15 GMT

Hi all,

This problem has occurred a few times recently.

We receive pdf adverts which get placed with in a Quark pages, usually with no problem.

However when proofing them as a pdf some of the adverts have rough/bitmap style text.

Tried with various settings with no luck.

Have tried in Quark 7.5 and 8.1 exactly the same.

Annoyingly it works fine in Indesign.

Creating an eps of the pdf also works (kind of)

It appears to be a new problem (to us anyway)

Any ideas

Cheers

Mac 10.4.11

urgent help needed

katdesign — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:10:45 GMT

I have Quarkexpress 6.5.........I have been making layouts for mag pages and the files are HUGE, I have seen other files from other people working for same client and their files are not anywhere near as big.......Is there something I am doing wrong, some click I can't see......I do see that their files when called up the images are more rastered and mine are flawless.....There must be something easy click that I can do...HELP...some files are 100 GB plus..

Weird dotted line when exporting

bydox — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:50:09 GMT

Hi :)

I'm a new user of Xpress (8.0), usually using Indesign.

To get a little of training, I'm designing my new résumé with Xpress. But when came the first PDF test export ... then came the first problem.

Here is the URl where you can download the PDF : http://www.karbonyt.com/cv.pdf

As you can see in the pictures below, my dotted line is deformed when check in Acrobat. There is no problem when checking it in Mac's Finder.

And when zooming ...

I never got this problem with dotted lines with Indesign :(

I tried to export in PDF width "File > Export > PDF", then exported it in EPS and convert it to PDF with Distiller, but this is always the same result .

This is not a printing issue, since I think it would print normally, but I would like to share my résumé on the internet.

Is anybody have a solution to this ?

Thank you very much ;)

Quark and PDF variable colour output

Andy Downton — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:11:53 GMT

Quark 8.12 on intel Mac Pro Imported PDF files Why do I get two different depths of Colour for each PDF when printed on the same page at the same time from 2 PDF files from the same original artwork (one is 80% ish and one is full strength) Printing to Xerox 700 through a Fiery RIP These were made on a PC by my client Pitstop Pro cannot detect any difference between them Yet when the same PDFs are printed from inDesign - colour depth is identical Trust I have explained it well enough

Remove PDF Watermarks???? Please help

RuthC — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:49:38 GMT

I export my quark file to PDF but i can see some (not all) of the borders of my pictures overlapping, some of them on top of other pictures which makes the picture below seem faded in parts.

Can anyone tell me how to remove these so when i can view my PDF with just the pictures & text i.e. no ugly watermarks?

Solution is probably really simply but i am a pretty novice user?

Thanks in advance

Quark 8 Large Low Res Pdf Files

NoseToTail — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:06:50 GMT

Hi - Hmmmm more bugs. I think my hair is going grey since having to use OSX 10.5.8, Quark 8 and SF2. Specs first - Quark 8.12, Suitcase Fusion 13.2.1, Acrobat Distiller 9.1.0, Mac OSX 10.5.8. When we create pdfs from Quark - we print them through the print dialogue box (using the acrobat PPD) - save them - and it prints like if it were going to a printer (output device) but creates a pdf. This is the way we have always done it and the way we want to continue to do it. What we are experiencing in Quark 8 is that even though we have specified create "Low Resolution" or "Standard Resolution" pdfs it outputs/saves them as "High Resolution" Pdfs. The other day it was the opposite we specified "High" and it save a "Low Resolution" pdf. I have tried deleting settings, creating new documents and pasting the information in, pdfing on other computers all with the same results. Yes, some of these documents were originally created in Quark 7.1 but it is not happening to all Quark 7.1 documents. Some output from Quark 8 they way they should. What am I missing here? (Sorry about the big block of text but the Quark forum and or Safari deletes all my paragraph spacing for some reason??!!)

Hyperlink, Bookmark or what? Please advise

nellbern — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:30:03 GMT

I'm writing some Quark procedures for the department I work for. In the current document I'm working and I'm making reference of another type of procedure that I involves how to make a PDF for press from Quark. I would like to achieve is when the reader gets to the part I'm making that PDF reference they can click & the document will open. I don't know if I can achieve it from Quark or if I need to create PDF & then do the hyperlinks or bookmark or what. Any advise?

Q8 to PDF

NickDanger3rdEye — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:47:02 GMT

I set up a Q8>file>Export to PDF workflow. I was testing outputting pages for a coworker and midway thru, I quit suitcase. I went back to Quark (I did not get a warning of missing fonts) The new PDF's had Courier embedded as a substitute. We processed these pages thru Prinergy and everything passed... My question is why didn't I get a warning of missing fonts when going back to the same doc and why would it automatically embed Courier in its place?? Thanks in advance, NDtE

drop shadows and transparent text

ssykes — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:18:18 GMT

I am getting irritated at the inability of Quark to play nicely with others. The black boxes and odd transparencies around lighter opacity text when distilling a file for print are ridiculous when it actually distills. The new drop shadow feature causes problems with distilling anything usually.

I have to go into pitstop and remove the balck borders quark creates. Is there a way to avoid those or is Quark's effort to keep up with InDesign futile.

Quark 8 PDF Export Grayscale - Black text goes gray

Mike Heaslip — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:10 GMT

As the subject describes, when Grayscale is selected when exporting to PDF, all text that is 100% black becomes gray (about 90%). This behavior is common to Quark 7 and 8, but exporting to PDF in Quark 6.5 is O.K. ??