Mon, Oct 1, 2007
When you install Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional on Mac OS X, a new print driver is also installed that lets you create a PDF from any document in any application by simply choosing Adobe PDF from the list of printers in the Print Dialog box.
However, some QuarkXPress 7 users aren’t able to generate a PDF that way. Quark’s new Quark CUPS Filter fixes that problem.
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1. October 2007 at 10:10 am
Finally… After having reported this issue to Quark since the release of 7.0 a long time ago they have release this fix. It works as expected. Probably only for peoples that have updated to 7.3.
1. October 2007 at 10:40 am
I wondered about Quark’s delay in fixing this problem as well. So I wondered some more and came up with this possible reason: while it’s “handy” to be able to choose Adobe PDF printer to generate a PDF, I don’t think that most professional users would use this feature. The ones I’ve spoken to either use the PDF generator built into QuarkXPress, or output a PostScript file and run it through Acrobat Distiller.
If that’s true, then this is more of a “convenience” fix than a “necessary” one. But that’s just my guess.
14. July 2009 at 9:30 am
We are running Mac’s System 10.5.7
I am trying to download cupfilter. I have a Color Canon ImagePress C1
and it will only pickup a Generic driver when I use Quark 7.5.
Thanks!
Deb Skaja
14. July 2009 at 3:51 pm
Boy, I sure don’t know about any of that. Will Canon help you, since it’s their printer? Or maybe Quark’s free support forums?