Quark’s QuarkXPress 8.12 Updater fixes a number of problems, including text display, spacing, and wrapping issues under certain conditions. For a short list of fixes, see http://8.quark.com/en/techinfo/known_issues.html, and scroll about 75% down to the headline “Resolved Issues”.
The 8.12 updater does not appear to resolve any issues introduced by Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”.
These include:
- QuarkXPress documents created on Tiger or Leopard (and opened on Snow Leopard) will most likely reflow text or change leading of text, if the text is using PostScript Type 1 fonts. This affects the leading and vertical position of the text, as well as any drop shadows applied to the text.
- In an Interactive layout, if you create a Video object and choose a local (not external) movie file, then export the layout as an SWF file, the video displays incorrectly in the SWF file.
- You cannot print a layout that includes an imported raster EPS file to an HP Color LaserJet 5500 PS.
Recommendation:
Because of the text positioning problem, I wouldn’t recommend upgrading to Snow Leopard until Quark and Apple provide a fix.
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5. October 2009 at 7:42 am
Ive been using Q6.52 rather well with OS 10.5.x. After upgrading to OS 10.6 and finding Q6.52 wont open any docs, I upgraded to Q8.12.
In Q8.12 I found it also wont open the Q6.52 documents either. What do I have to do top open the documents created by Q6.52? I tried adding the extension to the file name, open commands and dropping it on the icon, nothing works…
Grrrr! Any ideas?