QuarkXPress makes beautiful, clean PDFs directly from the File> Export menu. However, if your workflow requires that you use Acrobat Distiller to generate the PDFs, you can tell QuarkXPress to create a PostScript file instead. Here’s how:
1. Change Quark’s preferences (QuarkXPress> Preferences> PDF) to “Create PostScript File for Later Distilling“.
2. Optionally, enable the “Use Watched Folder” checkbox. This will send your PostScript files to a folder you’ve set up as a “hot” or “watched” folder in Distiller. Click the OK button.
3. Choose File> Export Layout as PDF
QuarkXPress will then create a PostScript file of your Layout and deposit it into whatever location you’ve told it to.
Here’s an additional tip for that Preferences dialog:
The “Default Layout” popup menu determines the naming convention Quark uses for your PDF. If you don’t like the default of “Project_Layout”, you can change it!
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30. March 2012 at 1:38 am
Hi Jay! I make PS-files the way you suggest and it works but the PS- files get very big. A Quark-dokument of 50 Mb results in a PS-file of 1,5 GB and when I run it in distiller the PDF-files is almost as big. When I print to post script printer i version 7 of Quark the PS file 300-500 Mb. So how do I solve this problem?
30. March 2012 at 7:58 am
Christer: everything depends on your settings in Distiller. The PostScript file should be big — it has to contain everything that could be needed to produce a PDF of any quality. But you can set Distiller to make a tiny PDF or a big one. It sounds like yours is set for a big one. :-)
6. April 2012 at 2:07 am
Hai Jay Nelson
i nee to your help
how to do leading in manually quark press 8- before its working in quark6
please help me
thanks regards
6. April 2012 at 11:38 am
Abdullah: nothing has changed regarding leading… it’s still in the Measurements palette. Have a look at the “Paragraph” tab.