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OK, I'll bite: Noticeably less quality in what way? Just wondering what specifically needs troubleshooting.

Go to the Quark folder on your desktop and copy the contents of the Output Styles and PPD folders into the corresponding folders inside your new Quark preferences file in users/login/preferences (when you moved the folder onto your desktop, Quark generated a new preferences file in the original location). You might have to restart Quark for it to ...

My Quark help shows up by going to Help / Help Topics (it's right under the Spotlight search box).

You could go to File/Save Page as EPS, then either import the EPS into Power Point (though I don't remember if Power Point will take an EPS), or you could pull the EPS into Photoshop and save it out as a TIFF or JPEG. Unfortunately it's one page at a time with this method.

Make sure the item with the drop shadow is behind everything else. When a drop shadow is on top of another item, the item below it gets rasterized, which is particularly noticeable on vector elements like type and Illustrator files.

You can use Utilities/PPD Manager to select only the printers you want to show up in the list. Command-click one of the check boxes to deselect everything, then scroll thru and select the ones you want.

Hmm, 15 minutes is definitely not normal. What kind of machine/OS is it? Quark 7 definitely runs better on the Mac Intel boxes than on older machines. (If it's a PC, I have no idea...Mac guy...) :-) Have you thought about updating to 7.31 or 7.5? Are you using a font management program to auto-activate fonts? Sometimes it can ...

The fonts might be a problem if you needed to keep the materials in Quark, but you don't; they're going to the web, where they'll most likely end up as default web fonts. So even if all the fonts default when you use Quark on the PC to open the Mac Quark file, you can still "select all" to grab all the text, then paste it ...

Are you using any Opacity settings, like to screen back a color or something? It really does sound like there's transparency somewhere, and the type is being rasterized.

Emma pretty much covered it...you really do want all your dots to line up, and since they start on the right and space evenly toward the left, the varying length of the text on the left determines the space before the first dot. You can put the cursor between the word and the first dot and use tracking to either add or remove a dot. Sometimes ...