In QuarkXPress, you can view pictures in full resolution by selecting them one at a time and either choosing Item> Preview Resolution> Full Resolution or right-clicking the picture and selecting Preview Resolution> Full Resolution from the contextual menu that appears.
Unfortunately there is no way to create full-resolution previews for all of the pictures in a document at one time. There is, however, a way to turn them all off to increase performance: View> Hide Full Res Previews.
Another performance tip: if you open a lot of QuarkXPress documents, or have documents that have lots of pictures, you may want to increase the maximum size of the Cache folder in QuarkXPress’s Preferences.
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19. August 2010 at 2:32 pm
Jay,
I’ve been using Quark since its first version back in the 80s… but now that I have upgraded to Quark 8 (ver 8.1.6.2) I’m having consistent issues with imported eps images previewing very bitmappy. I do have the Full Res Preview extension installed and active, and have Full Res Preview preference set to “All Full Res Previews” and the EPS preference set to “generate”. I have selected imported eps files (from AI and PS) and set the Item –> Preview Resolution to Full Res, and with all of this they are still hardly legible (though they print fine).
So…can you tell me if there is something I’m missing in order to get a reasonably good preview in Quark? Or should I start taking the Indesign path more often?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Susan
9. September 2011 at 6:24 pm
EPS files appearing clean and smooth has been a long standing issue with Quark. Years ago I came up with a fix that improves the appearance of such file. It’s not perfect but really helps the preview.
Import the art, then size and position it as you normally would. Then open the EPS art in Illustrator [or other parent app] and increase the size by ’400%.’ Go back to your Quark document and update the art, which will now be considerably larger! Then you will scale the art ‘by 25%’ [of whatever the percentage currently is]. For example, if the art is sized to 82%, change the percentage to ’20.5%’. The position of the art will return to where it was and the preview will look much better.
Now-a-days I typically size art to be placed in Quark much larger than it needs to be, based on the idea that it will be considerably reduced for preview purposes. Hope this helps. And better late than never.
10. September 2011 at 2:29 pm
Paul: that’s a GREAT tip — I forgot about that one! Bravo!
3. October 2011 at 9:26 am
This workaround is ridiculous. Who has time to do this kind of double-effort? You should be able to place a file without having to go into .eps and fix as well. Also, all the re-adjusting to size when it comes to prepping for offset work is asking for trouble. InDesign has this feature (being able to have an entire doc preview at low-med-high resolution) nailed. That Quark doesn’t allow a “way to create full-resolution previews for all of the pictures in a document at one time” is a total inconvenience. Unless something has changed and I am in the dark…
8. November 2011 at 5:04 am
I agree with MissMer68. Why should we have to go backwards and forwards resizing images for the convenience of Quark.I have used Quark for many years and just upgraded to 8 and having the same resolution problems. Bring on InDesign!
24. November 2011 at 5:46 pm
I have been using Quarkxpress version 4 since it first came out. I have an xtension called Enhance Preview XT that provides embedded in Quark very high resolution photo images with just a click of the mouse. Have just installed the latest and greatest upgrade, version 9.1, but the photo appearance stinks. Unless Quark can tell me how to get as good a look as in version 4, I am going back to it. The other version 9 “improvements” don’t compensate for the lack of photo resolution.
25. November 2011 at 9:16 am
Ron: I agree that Enhance Preview XT was phenomenal. In the most recent versions of QuarkXPress, you can right-click or Control-click on a picture and choose Preview Resolution> Full Resolution to get a full-res preview. Does that work for you?