Quark Problems
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- HumanMale
Hi all.
I'm using QuarkXPress 7 now... been setting up advert pages for a publication – mostly print ready PDFs. Importing them into picture boxes, nothing strange there.
Now, all of a sudden, I can't import any PDFs and get a message 'Bad file format. [69]'
On top of that the document also says 'Unable to import preview. [334]' when I try and switch to full resolution preview, sometimes when I scroll through the document and also when I save it.
I've tried all the obvious things – updaters, re-installing, quitting, rebooting etc... no joy.
What's going on?!
I used to use InDesign as my old workplace and never had any problems like this...
Damn you Quark!!!
- _salisae_0
did you try resaving the pdfs?
- blastofv0
we've had some problems with PDFs placed into Quark, and it seems to be related to how the PDF was created. a clean .ps file run through Distiller to create the PDF places and behaves just fine, but another Quark layout - like for an ad - that is just file>exported from Quark to PDF won't show up at all.
- HumanMale0
The thing is that the PDFs are sent from lots of different sources, they are company adverts so have either come from the actual company or from an agency.
The stupid thing is that they were all fine earlier today and late yesterday when I started it, now even the PDFs that did import won't anymore...
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have no control over how the PDFs are created, and can't understand why they used to work and don't now.
- HumanMale0
Just out of curiosity – they import into InDesign like a dream...
- doesnotexist0
well, they would, because adobe likes to make things easy for you. im guessing youre going to have to open those pdf's up in illustrator or something and save as EPS, then distill them. quark is a HUGE pain in the ass, glad my place of employment is making the switch to INDD.