QuarkXPress 8.01, Beyond the Call of Duty

By Mark Tennent in Reader

Posted in QuarkXPress on October 6, 2008 at 11:35 am

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Quark Inc. has slipped out an update to their latest and greatest. In their usual manner, this was no little update but a completely new version of QuarkXPress, needing installing and activation. On the same day, our copy of newly released Call of Duty 4 for the Mac arrived. Decisions, decisions, which to play with first?

Sad bozos we are, Quark got it. The installation process was rapid but Quark’s servers would not accept our serial number. This was 18.30 on Friday. As a test, we called Quark’s free telephone support line and a nice American-sounding lady answered immediately and emailed the validation code. Ten out of ten for Quark.

We haven’t worked out what has changed yet and cannot find a Read-me detailing the amendments. Certainly not the book pallet which still won’t let the page number column resize enough to include three or four digit numbers.

Fitting end
The end is in sight for a 208 page book we’ve been making in QuarkXPress 8.0 where we have been getting quite frustrated by the new text engine making copy-fitting difficult. Why should deleting a comma in one paragraph make the next paragraph reflow? Why, when working on one page of the book, should a previous page reflow automatically and knock the copy onwards by one line? It meant our usual method of squeezing paragraphs by as much as minus 3 points of tracking, couldn’t be relied on to gain a line in a long run of text. However, the new text engine does make handsome text with few rivers, even in unhyphenated and justified columns.

QuarkXPress 8’s new interface is to our liking as well. For compatibility with client’s we’ve had to down-save our book to QuarkXPress 7 and complete the final touches there. We immediately noticed how much faster QXP 8 is by comparison. Files open almost instantly, working is faster (due to the new interface), as is saving, making PDFs and so on. No watching the spinning beachball as in QXP7. On the downside, we had to refit the text again because of slight differences between QXP7 and 8 even though they are supposed to be the same.

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