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Someone (who uses Quark 7 mac) sent me a file which she saved as a Quark 6 file. When i opened it, it gave me some message about using a different profile. I forget what button I clicked in the message dialog, but now ALL of the color on my screen is screwed up. Everything is very very saturated and very bright. Lighter colors are now blown out to pure white.

I tried different profiles in the colorsync utility, but nothing gets it anywhere near where it should be. It's like there is some invisible color profile somewhere that is somehow overpowering all the others.

Does anyone have any clue what I can do??? I've never seen aything like this before. My screen is so bright and saturated that I can barely look at it.

I am having the same problem, but I am working in 6.5 and it just suddenly did this while I was in the middle of a document. Need help. Please reply.

6.5 is easy to fix just turn off Color management in Preferences.
Version 7 I have no idea.

I had the color management turned off when it happened. I thought maybe if I turned it active it would help, that doesnt either.
Thanks for the suggestion though. Any others?

Unfortunately there is no great solution that we have found. I was actually coming back today to see if Quark was making ANY headway on getting us a patch to turn Color Management off. Here is what we have found not that it will solve your problem but it may give you a bit of solice to know your not alone.

Quark 7 does not play well with others. Ie you can not save in 6.5 and hope it works in 7 and versioning down does not give you the desired results.

Color management can not be shut off no matter what you do. Emulating legacy is a joke at best. The options to turn off profiles is hopeless as well.

Documents supersede your Program settings. So if you are opening documents from other users with different settings.. they win. Hard on the print world.

We save everything out to a PDF unless absolutely necessary. Print from there.

If your system color has gone askew you might go into system preferences and verify your monitor's profile there.

After nearly 6 months of bashing my head against the wall and begging Quark to patch it with a complete turn off the color management program I am ready to throw in the towel and pray my client goes to In design soon.

Don't get me wrong, Quark 7 has some nice features but I am unsure why we went so far backwards in time. Leave color management to the folks who really know how to use it. I love how in the books they tell you if its important, hire a color expert.. Even our color experts can't figure out WHY even with everything set to legacy that Quark is still outputting strange and unusual color settings.

The mystery continues.. I know this didn't help but I am as frustrated as you are in the continual downplaying of this issue within Quark.

Good luck

Hi! Here is some info from the Quark knowledge base

Applies to: QuarkXPress 7.x – Mac OS, Windows

Problem Description: When I open a QuarkXPress 6.x project in QuarkXPress 7.x, the Yellow color displays with a lime green tint.

Background: This display issue occurs because the QuarkXPress Color Manager is always ON in version 7. When you open a legacy document, the problem occurs when the Color Manager is set to “QuarkXPress 7.0 Default”. You can change the Color Manager preferences to emulate legacy QuarkXPress treatment of color information if you make changes in your display and Color Manager settings.

Solution: To set QuarkXPress 7 to treat color in the same manner as version 6, change the Monitor Profile from Automatic to QuarkXPress Legacy RGB (QuarkXPress/(QXP Windows:Edit) > Preferences > Display > Monitor Settings). If this fails:

Open the version 6 project in QuarkXPress 7.x.
Go to QuarkXPress/ (QXP Windows:Edit) > Preferences and select the Color Manager pane.
In the Source Options area, choose QuarkXPress 7.0 Default from the Source Setup drop-down menu

Good luck!