Comments on: Video Tutorial: Backward Compatibility

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:29 +0000

Patsy: try giving Quark’s technical support a call — it’s free. If you’re in North America and call technical support (800-676-4575, option two), you now connect directly with Quark’s Denver team Monday through Friday between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time. After-hours support is available through the same number and is provided by Quark’s technical support team in India.

By: Patsy Zimmerman

Patsy Zimmerman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:19 +0000

I have a number of Quark documents that that were created in Quark 6.52. The docs did not have a file extension. I am transistioning to Quark 8 and went through (just this morning) and added .qxp extentsion to all of these docs. Now when I try to open them, I get a message that indicates that “This document can not be opened by this version of Quark”. I did the “File, Get Info, chose Quark 8 and clicked the “Change All” button, still get the same message.
What happened?????? I don’t want to have to recreate of all these.
Patsy

By: William Rabon

William Rabon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:49:13 +0000

Jay:
You are “The Man”! I did as you suggested, added those three little letters (.qxp) at the end of the file names, and it opened ‘em up as easy as slicing butter with a hot knife. I cannot thank you enough! Please don’t retire from helping us Quark users (especially us old geezers), at least not any time soon. Again, Thank You!
William Rabon

By: William Rabon

William Rabon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:41:49 +0000

Jay, thank you for your advice! I will try them immediately. You’ve saved me a lot of time and tired fingers. Again, thank you! William

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:39:24 +0000

William: “It’s possible.” ;-)

Seriously, though, you may have to do one or two things to get your Mac used to the idea of opening those older Quark documents. First, remember that you can always drag and drop the document onto the QuarkXPress icon, or open them from the File> Open dialog.

Another thing to try: add the file extension .qxp to the end of the file name. It sucks, but that’s what we’re living with since Apple capitulated to Microsoft’s limitations.

And try this: Get Info on one of the QXP documents (File> Get Info), and choose QXP 8 as the “Open With” application — then click the “Change All” button. With luck, all those documents will then open into QXP 8 by default when you double-click them.

If none of these does the trick. write back and we’ll see if there are other options…

By: William Rabon

William Rabon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:19:18 +0000

Jay: I’ve just installed Quark 8 into a new iMac w/ an OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and I’m having trouble opening files that were originally created in Quark 4.0 (which was recently upgraded to 4.1). These files are mainly “documents,” not fancy graphics or artwork or anything. But they are very important and I’d like to open them up and revise, edit, and print them out, if possible. Please tell me “It’s possible.”
Any solution?
Sincerely, William

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:40:10 +0000

Bruce: I’ll take those magazines! I loved National Lampoon. To answer your question, you should be good with QuarkXPress 8, 7, or 6 (or 5 if you can run Classic). All versions of QuarkXPress read files that were created as far back as version 3.3.

However, if you’re planning to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), you’ll want version 8. The others aren’t too happy in Leopard, having been written years before Leopard was released.

By: bruce henkin

bruce henkin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:31:46 +0000

Please:
Which version(s) of QuarkXpress operate under MAC OS 10.4.1 yet open files as far backwards as QuarkXpress 4.1? If you can provide me with an accurate answer, I bequeath you my entire kingdom and stash of 1970′s National Lampoon magazines. Thank you. Bruce