Set Up Some Default Folders
If you find yourself constantly juggling folders when in Quark’s File> Open/Import/Save dialog boxes, try setting up a default folder for each! Tucked away in the Preferences is Default Path:
As you can see, you can assign a folder where Quark will first go when you invoke a dialog box that wants a location to save a file or get some content. You can assign a different location for each kind of import — in this example, Quark will show my “Pictures for QXP” folder whenever I ask it to import a picture.
This feature is especially helpful in workgroups, because you’ll often be opening files from one folder, importing pictures from another, importing text from a third, and saving to a fourth. Quark can handle it all for you!
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
thanks but we don’t work that way, above. we work on lots of different projects, each with their own project folders -an image folder among them.
When we are importing files into quark, if I import one graphic from a specific folder, then go back and import another graphic from the same folder, I end up having to navigate back through all the folders to get down to the same folder. Is there a preference for setting this behavior? We work in Quark 9.5.3.1. Use to be the behavior of quark would stay in that same directory, making it much easier to import graphics from the images folder for that project.
Before you import a picture change to “List View”. Quark will remember the folder. You can then change to “Icon Preview”. This has to be done for each new document.
Chris: I recommend Default Folder, from St. Clair Software (http://www.stclairsw.com). We’ve used it for many years to quickly access current project folders, and recently used folders. Totally worth it. I wrote about it here: http://www.planetquark.com/?p=321