QuarkXPress: Fonts (Mac OS)

FontStubs folder? Problems Extensis Universal Type Server font activation

zikan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:49:38 GMT

Can anoyne tell me, what the FontStubs-folder is used for? (user->Library->Preferences->Quark8->Jaws->FontStubs->WesternFonts)

We are using Universal Type Server 2. But some fonts are not auto activated, when a document is opened. When we try to activate them manually, an error tells us, that font activation could not be completed because of an operating system activation error.

We guess, that the font is already on the system and because of that, Universal Type Server does not activate the font.(occurs not only for this one font.. in this case, it's Formata BQ Regular)

We only found in FontStubs some PS-Files, which are named like fonts. When they are deleted, they are replaced automatically....

We are using OS 10.4.11.

Arabic - Persian Font Problem

TurhanSah — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:25:54 GMT

Hi Everybody!

Firstly, im sorry for my english. I have a problem. I have some arabic word files. I copy arabic words to quark but quark seperate letters. I couldn't find a resort.

How do i copy paste properly, arabic words to quark?

Thank you.

Snow Leopard, Quark, Helvetica

bullamakanka — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:36:24 GMT

I successfully updated my OS to the new Snow Leopard.

Everything looked fine until I opened a document in Quark... all the Helvetica Condensed / Helv Cond Bold was messed up. Kerning for the Helv Condensed looked like it was tracked out to 200, didn't fit text boxes, etc. The Bold was tracked IN by 200, all squished together.

All the other weights of Helvetica were fine. It was just these two.

Switching the font from Helvetica to Helvetica Neue did not help. Same result.

Eventually I switched the Helvetica Condensed to HelvCond Light, and the Bold to Light with a faux bold (it worked, oddly enough).

There has to be a better solution...

Caron/hácek marks

BelPro — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:53 GMT

Any clues how to put a caron over a c? Using type 1 Cochin but can substitute.

Quark displays same font twice in menu

NoseToTail — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:00:48 GMT

Hi All, New member to this forum - hopefully someone can help me with this problem. Unfortunately a few weeks ago we were broken into and all our computers were stolen. As a result we have had to upgrade all our computers, software etc. All our computers are Intel Macs running OSX 10.5.8 (didn't go to OSX 10.6 after reading so many disaster stories). We are running Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2.0 with QuarkXPress 8.12. The Macs are new and all programs have been freshly installed. Being that we are in Graphic Design and need to use Helvetica Neue - I have done the work around to get the Postscript Version to work instead of the OX System Helvetica Neue. The problem I seem to be experiencing though seems only to be happening in QuarkXpress 8.12 - the Adobe CS4 programs seem to run and display the fonts fine. In QuarkXPress however the fonts seem to be in the drop down list twice. For Example (lets use Helvetica Neue but it also happens with other fonts) - it will display in the drop down menu "55 Helvetica Roman" then the same font as "Helvetica 55 Roman" in the same list - basically doubling up. I have checked in the "Usage" area of Quark to make sure that it isn't using two different fonts. It tells me both are exactly the same font. Is there are way to make it show just one name of the font rather than two in QuarkXpress? I have written to Extensis and they have told me - "Suitcase Fusion 2 has no control or influence on how fonts are grouped and displayed in Application's font menus so this is a Quark specific issue. Activated fonts in Suitcase Fusion 2 are broadcasted to the operating system ( specifically a background process called ATSServer ) then it's down to the application vendor to determine how new fonts get picked up by the application and how the fonts are grouped within their menus." While it is not a major drama - it is annoying. Any help would be appreciated.

Incorrect leading on one Mac in workgroup

mitchcohen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:08:07 GMT

I have a customer with an odd leading issue affecting just one of four users with identical configurations. Setups are Quark 7.5 on OS X 10.5.8 MacPro. Leading with the default 20% should be 12pt for a 10pt font. On this users' computer the setting is 20%, but it displays at an additional 20% (14.4pt). This can be best demonstrated with this screen capture: http://www.mitchcohen.org/quarkforum/Sabrina_Quark_leading_issue_2009-10/optima_test.png The box on the left has Optima 10pt with auto leading. The next box has the leading set to 12pt, and the righthand box is 14.4pt. The expected result is for the first two boxes to match; instead the left and right boxes match with the center using a smaller leading. Optima happens to be the font used here, but it isn't specific to the font - several were tried with the same results. If this same document is moved to another computer in the workgroup, it opens as expected - the first two boxes match, and the box on the right has larger leading. The 12pt and 14.4pt leadings remain as-is; it's the auto-leading that changes. I trashed the entire Quark preferences folder (~/Library/Preferences/Quark/QuarkXPress 7.0/), with no change. I also trashed the local copy of Optima and used a fresh copy from a computer operating properly, no change. I confirmed the preferences do show the auto leading at 20% on all computers. If anyone is curious, the Quark file used to generate the screenshot is here: http://www.mitchcohen.org/quarkforum/Sabrina_Quark_leading_issue_2009-10/optima_test.qxd One of the interesting aspects of this to me is the leading is an additional 20%, not 40%. Everything else on this computer is operating properly. I'd be much appreciative of any suggestions! Thanks, Mitch

Kerning Value Tables

Roger Emerson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:17:46 GMT

Having received an email from JRS, I tried opening up the .krn in text editor and saving as a text file and then importing them into my Quark 8 document with success. However my new kerning value tables created in Quark 8 and saved as .xml do not work in the same way. I still do not understand how they dont work when Quark now only allows you to save these kerning value tables as .xml files. Is there something in Quark preferences that I need to switch on or off to allow these .xml files to actually work? Point of interest I am using Suitcases XI. RE

Kerning Value Tables

Roger Emerson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:03 GMT

Does anybody know why the new files when exporting from Kerning Value Tables have .xml after them instead of .krn in Quark 8?

Kerning Value Tables

Roger Emerson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:18:03 GMT

I have created hundreds of kerning value tables in Quark 6.5, and we have just got Quark 8 and I cannot get any of my existing kerning value files to work in any new documents. Also when I call in some new kerning value tables created in Quark 8 they do not work in any new documents either. Can anybody advise me. RE

Certain fonts not working

jchisholm — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:49:05 GMT

I'm having a problem with certain fonts (Butterfield, Coaster and others) where the fonts do not fit in the text box. What happens is the font aligns vertically but I cannot seem to maneuver it horizontally. Anyone else having this problem?

Can't see Zapf dingbats

bruce1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:34:20 GMT

Hopelessly out of date but still using 6.52 and cannot see Adobe Zapf dingbat font on the screen, but it prints in PDF. Using suitcase fusion and the font shows up but gives no preview. it appears in the Quark font menu, is occupying a space on the layout, but isn't visible. Don't have any other copies of dingbats that I can find on the system. Frustrating so any help would be grateful

Thanks

Bruce

Fonts look chunky - thicker than actual weight

e p — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:59:22 GMT

This has been driving me nuts for couple of months.
The fonts print fine, but display chunky.
It happens with any font and only in Quark (if I use the same font in Photoshop or Illustrator, everything looks fine).
They look noticeably thicker (or fatter), almost like the next weight size, no matter what zoom level I'm in. (for example Frutiger Regular looks almost like Frutiger Bold).
It is especially bad if I place white font over dark background.
If I drag a zoom marquee over the type, the marquee seems to "erase" the extra pixels around the type, so the type inside the marquee displays correctly. As soon as I let go of the zoom, it goes back to chunky. Sometimes moving a box over the type produces same results while you're moving it.

I dumped the preferences, reinstalled Quark... nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Font Tracking from machine to machine

iwinchell — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:08:40 GMT

I have 2 mac G5 they both have the same version of Quark (8.1) and have the same setup, we use universal type server/client same version and osx 10.5.7 on both. We have a document created completely in Quark 8.1, with tracking done on certain section of text, then saved to the server. Then they are opened on the other machine in Quark 8.1 and the tracking is all off again. Any ideas of what could be causing this, I've checked the h&js and all the preferences and they are the same. I'm not seeing any font issues, other then the tracking as both would be using a server bases font manager so they are using the same font file. Any Ideas as to what could be cause this tracking issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Suitcase Fusion 2 update crashes my Quark 8

Justina — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:15:50 GMT

I updated my Suitcase Fusion 2 this morning to Version 13.2.0 and now my Quark keeps crashing. I get the window that says it's optimizing my file then my Quark quits. Any suggestions, comments, jokes, wisecracks... anything that'll make this better... or at least laughable?

Formatting problems Q8 / SL

Alexis V — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:24:31 GMT

I've recently wiped my machine and done a fresh install of Snow Leopard and Quark 8. I'm using Linotype Font Explorer Pro's Quark 8 font plugin. Now certain layouts are having problems with certain fonts, with regards to spacing. For example: http://www.violetmount.com/quark2.png http://www.violetmount.com/quark3.png http://www.violetmount.com/quark4.png http://www.violetmount.com/quark1.png All these layouts were created in Quark 8 under Leopard, yet they work fine if they're collected for output, saved down to 7.52 and opened on a Tiger machine. Others, with different fonts, work with no problems. Q8 is activating the correct fonts, so I'm wondering if this is a SL issue?

Activated fonts do not appear in Quark 8 font list

Ivaylo — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:00:19 GMT

Using Snow Leopard. This used to happen in Leopard too every now and again and, since the issue has clearly been reported before, I wonder why it hasn't been addressed. Activated fonts are available for all applications but Quark. Is that what makes it special?

Quark 8.02 Mac, no font families, fonts mixed up

maxon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:13:49 GMT

Here it goes, a dual G5 platform w. Tiger 10.4.11, QXP 8.0 updated to 8.02, FontBook management only, having three problems: ((1)) doesn't show the whole font family for most fonts especially TrueType. ((2)) mixes up fonts altogether, shows a regular or semibold font as heavy bold. Strange thing is if I click B on that text it reverts to the correct semibold variant which is hilarious, it's exactly the other way round. Does this with several fonts. ((3)) Choppy navigation takes ages to scroll, edit a letter or a word irrespective of page number/project complexity as text is concerned. Makes no difference if there are images in that project or not so seems to be related to text manipulation. What I found is as follows: - Some system fonts have been removed by mistake. I returned the Mac in what I call a 'golden state' by putting back all necessary fonts as originally installed, cleaning all caches, resetting FontBook cache via safe boot, repairing permissions etc. It solved problem no.((3)). All fonts passed FontDoctor diagnose. Tried various schemes to enable or disable fonts through FontBook to no avail, problems ((1)) and ((2)) are still there. Having read the 8.1 update release notes, it seems this would solve at least problem ((2)) which I'm going to try tomorrow. Will be back with results. Has anyone encountered such problems? Any suggestions more than welcome. Did the 8.1 update solve font family problems to you ?

Quark 7.31 and Suitcase X1

Joe Hankin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:57:38 GMT

Hi, advise please. I purchased Suitcase some time ago because it was useful when I was given quark files (outputted with fonts) for adverts etc that went into a catalogue. Now every advert file I receive is a PDF. So do I need Suitcase? The program quits without an alert and seems to cause more problems that it solves and I'm not 100% sure that it is compatible with quark 7.31 on a mac running OS10.4.11 The total fonts controlled by Suitcase is only around 200 - if I removed Suitcase from start-up items and moved the fonts into user/libary/fonts etc - would quark, photoshop etc find the fonts when they load? I guess I can always run a font doctor to check if my fonts are healthy. Many thanks and kind regards. Joe. Ps I intend to upgrade to version 8 later this year if/when my budget is approved!

Same job on different machines gets different output

GreatWhite — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:13:01 GMT

I know this is what usually happens, however we have just had Qk 8 installed on two mac pros

A job has come in and we have installed the fonts supplied.

Opening the job on one machine causes different text flows to another machine

As these are two brand new versions of Quark and we are using the supplied fonts I am suprised at such differences.

Any ideas welcome

Missing Fonts/ Fonts not auto activating

ccharles — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:21:54 GMT

I've been looking over some similar posts but haven't found an answer for my problem, so here it goes...

I'm on Quark 7.3, and using Font Agent Pro 3.3.2

I've been having repeated problems the past week or so, opening various Quark files and getting the missing font warning. They have been different fonts, and all are loaded into Font Agent. Some are already activated, some just didn't auto-activate like they are supposed to. If I manually activate them, they still don't show up in Quark. I've also reloaded all my fonts. The only thing that seems to help is running FontNuke (sometime it takes several tries to clear the caches), but I can't close everything down and run that everytime I want to open a Quark file! Any idea what's going on?

Missing Font

graphics2 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:45:09 GMT

I work for a newspaper and we just recently upgraded from Quark 6.5 to Quark 8.02 One of the fonts that we use in the newspaper (New Century Schoolbook) always comes up missing when I open the template for the paper. I can click update and the type in the missing font and update it because it is actually there. Is there a way to not have to update all the time? The font is there I don't know why it shows it missing. Thank you

Special Characters not rendering in Quark 6.52

eadoherty — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:31:51 GMT

Special characters in Quark 6.52

I need to insert a Euro symbol and a macron over an “a”. I can do it using the keyboard palette on my PowerMac G5, OS 10.5.6, Quark 7.31. But this is for a freelance project and I own an older version of Quark at home. OS 10.4, Intel MacBook, typeface on both is Sabon MT (postscript).

The keyboard palette (tried U.S. and U.S. Extended) on my MacBook won’t let me insert the special characters. I did it in Quark 7 at work, saved the file down, but when I opened it in 6.5, the Euro became a question mark and the a with a macron was a blank space.

I’ve tried using the function key and other tips and tricks I found online, but none work to give me the two characters.

Since the keyboard palette isn’t an option on the MacBook, I can’t switch to another typeface just for those characters and I can’t change the typeface, as the client has been using it for several years and wants to keep it for this book.

Any ideas on how I can work around this? Thank you.

Using expert characters in Open fonts

JoyceWeston — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:14:51 GMT

I am a long-time Quark user (version 6.5), but have recently upgraded my system to 10.5 and installed Fusion 2. I also purchased the Adobe Open font library. I am having trouble with Quark now. How do I get ligatures and old-style figures in the open fonts, such as Minion? When I try using the Minion Type 1 fonts in my Quark documents, the expert characters disappear.

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Fill characters STILL giving me problems!!!!

Stickwood1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:43:42 GMT

Hello all, OK, I've sussed out how to get the fill characters working but the problem is this: Let's say you have some words and you want to appear like this: 'Blah blah blah...........................................Word' 'Blah blah blah ........................................Word' The space after the first words and the beginning of the dots varies on each line and I've checked all the tabs and they are the same. Now I'm stumped. Any suggestions? Many thanks