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Quark although better than it was working with PDF's is still not there all the way and not the application to use if PDF is your file type. It will flatten any imported transparent PDF and like your finding out no multipage import either. Remember Quark is still postscript based application unlike Adobe that runs on the PDF Engine and so was ...

Considering it took what 9 years to get partial transparency support for exported PDF files, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Did you clean out your font caches?

Make the shadow 1% yellow and see how that works.

White? Have you ever seen a white shadow? And I'm not talking TV shows here. White isn't an ink color it's the absents of all color, so unless it's sitting on another color you won't see it. Try putting that white shadow on top of a larger black box, and see it if shows up.

Did you call Visions Edge yet? They are really nice people there. When Bookletizer first came out the creep function worked backwards. I called and got it corrected. I never bother with un-booking because I always work on copies, and just go back to my original reader spread version if I need to.

I used Bookletizer from the day it was released for Quack 3 and never had any real issues with it. If any objects are crossing the gutters you can have odd things happen. Have you checked to see if they updated the extension for Quack 8? I know they were always good at updates in the past...

Have you notified the people at Vision's Edge about this?

Go right a head. I'm still not swayed tho. Until I can place a PDF with transparency and then export it, without flattening, Quark is useless to me. Try doing an ad book with over 500 ads, all created by different people, all containing transparency. If I use InDesign no worries, if I use Quark I gotta check every ad to see what flattening did ...

Thanks Matt. I just watched the video and it seems pretty good although since I don't have a copy of 8.1 there is no way for me to test this and see if it does indeed work. If it does work tho there still remains the issue of imported PDF files that contain transparency. It seems Quark has been listening but in order for a lot of us to go ...