QuarkXPress Is Doing My Head In
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I have just got this 6 month contract to work for a college in my local area and they are using QuarkXPress 6. So I open up QuarkXPres for the first time in 6 years and It's just so out of fucking date when it comes to the user interface for an application, it fills like I have gone back 10 years.
Can someone tell me how I turn my font to a simple Out line, and what with Style Sheet in QuarkXPress if you can call it that, more like style HIT or Miss. Nightmare is what happening to me right now. I Just forgot how crap QuarkXPress is to Indesign?
- ********0
Just me then
- dan53820
I dont think you can turn fonts into outlines in Quark....... I dont know haven't worked in it for years now.
- jaylarson0
F9 should bring up the preferences panel and therein should have the lovely outline type feature.
- but it isn't like trye outlines though. it is just a lame looking duck.jaylarson
- trye = truejaylarson
- So having something like turn font to outline on the bloody interface would not work in Quark land?********
- correct. good luck in yr own personal hell. i've been there. do it in illusrator (outlines) if you can.jaylarson
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- marychain0
No text to outlines.....you have to use
STYLE > TEXT TO BOX
- Raniator0
quark: being shit, since v0.1
- ********0
I what to go home. I said in the interview that I have my own copy of Indesign I could bring in and use in the studio, but they insisted I use the mind fuck which is QuarkXPress. Fuck.
- CALLES0
you said quark??
* runs away from thread never to come back!
- ********0
I forgot to ask, anyone here on QBN still using QuarkXPress?
- Dennis_Moore0
I don't even know why you would want to outline the font.
- OnesandZeros0
I use quark on a daily basis and it does a fine job for my needs. I never had time to learn indesign.
I don't recommend tracing fonts in quark. Use illustrator.
- stem0
http://www.quark.com/products/xp…
'More people use QuarkXPress® for creative design and page layout than any other software in the world. Period'
...is this true? I don't know a single person who uses it (unless they HAVE to)
- FACT: 99% of ad or product copy is a frothing cup of bullshit.
harlequino
- FACT: 99% of ad or product copy is a frothing cup of bullshit.
- stem0
I guess this is just clever words. Maybe indesign, being lumped together with cs is not classes a just a page layout tool (it's much more).
- Cultr0
on the outlines issue, definitely outline in illustrator and place an .eps in quark.
I have to use Quark 4 everyday, InDesign doesn't work with our pagination software =( and it does suck balls. What I hate the most is the tiny ass pasteboard that it sets up for itself.
I would assume that a lot of newspapers probably still use quark + ACT pagination software together.
- In the old days (ie: 5 or so years ago) you could get Pasteboard XT to increase the size of the board. Might cock up your inposition software though.MSL
- ********0
I forgot to say, lynda.com have a 7 day free try before you buy, and it give you full access to all there training content. I think it stop on April 3rd if I am right in thinking. I am using it at the moment, for bloody nightmare which is QuarkXPress®.
- stem0
Cultr, I would have thought that most printers/newspapers now are using pdf based imposition software???
- We do that for our tabloids but broadsheets are still eps > tiff > ctp. But that's a different issue.Cultr
- when layout out the paper we use ACT to control where ads are placed; then it's easy in quark to get the ads to "flow in" InDesign doesn't have an ACT plugin.Cultr
- InDesign doesn't support ACTCultr
- and apparently I don't support proper grammarCultr
- onewhoslaps0
quark is pigeon holed on multiple page layout.
of the 5000 large format prepared artwork files my company receives each year, maybe 1% come in quark. 85% ai, eps, or pdf / 10% tiff, jpeg, etc... / 4% indesign / 1% quark. And that 1% is usually huge pain in the ass to deal with.
just some market research for ya coming from a print and signage house
- chuparosa0
If you don't have to deliver the file back to the client in quark, you can buy an extension that will convert your quark file to an indesign file. I've used it and it's not that bad.
- honest0
When I was in college, I was told that QuarkXpress was like a beautiful and mysterious stranger. You'll get led on, go for a few dates and even have sex but one day you'll wake up and find your kidneys are missing.