Are Your Pictures Too Far Away?
This one’s kind of obscure, but if it bites you, it’ll bite you repeatedly…
If you import a picture file into a page layout, and that picture file is nested deeply within a series of folders, QuarkXPress may be unable to understand where it is.
Apparently, there is a limit as to how many characters can exist in the path to the linked file. If you exceed it, QuarkXPress may refuse to print the high resolution version of the picture, or may list its location as unknown and refuse to let you relink it. Just move the picture file closer to the page layout file and reimport it.
(By the way, the same is true for InDesign.)
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.
Any idea what that specific character-limit-for-the path is?
It’d be neat to have a number I can check all of my paths against.
I imagine it depends on the operating system, since both InDesign and QuarkXPress are affected. Perhaps someone at Quark knows… I’ll give them a shout and ask.