QuarkXPress: PDF

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

Glenn McDowall — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:04:57 GMT

Once you've set the quark prefs as described you need to Export to PDF this will now make a .ps file

You will need to set details like font embedding and image resolution in the Export menus, or you can save all these as an Output Style (PDF).

Fire up Distiller, Select the correct Settings and drag the .ps file over Distiller. Ask your printer to provide Distiller settings if you are not sure which to use.

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

jessicag — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:58:34 GMT

Sorry, but do I have to set up my distiller or something in order to get the pdf made?

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

Tim Schatz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:20:53 GMT

->File->Export->Layouts as Project

Pull "Version" from 8.0 to 7.0

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

jessicag — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:49:21 GMT

How do you save down to Quark 7?

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

tbanister — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:37:32 GMT

That's correct

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

jessicag — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:05:02 GMT

Ok thank you. So Quark 8 can make pdf's to send to newspapers, correct?

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

tbanister — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:59:43 GMT

No worries - Under QuarkXPress in the top left menu, scroll down to and select Preferences. After the Preferences Dialog appears, scroll down PDF. In PDF, then select the second radio button from the top on the left- "Create Postscript for later Distilling" This will then create a postscript file the Acrobat can consume and generate a PDF.

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

jessicag — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:06:51 GMT

Thank you. Where would I find that? I am new to this.

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

tbanister — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:19:21 GMT

I just updated my post with the settings in the XPress preferences to enable you to use Acrobat. Please let me know if you need more info -

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

jessicag — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:17:29 GMT

Hi, I ordered Quark Xpress 7, but they sent me 8 instead so I wanted to make sure if I can use Acrobat 7 to make a pdf so that I can send that to a local newspaper to print an ad. The newspaper wanted me to make sure I could make a pdf before I downloaded Quark 8. Once I download Quark 8 I will need to know how to set the pdf up.

Re: Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

tbanister — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:11:56 GMT

Hi- The answer is yes In the QuarkXPress preferences > PDF you will need set it to distill later. This will allow you to use Acrbat to create the PDF. Thanks -

Can I make a PDF with Quark 8 using Acrobat 7 Professional

jessicag — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:46:29 GMT

If anyone can help me that would be appreciated.

Thanks