QuarkXPress 9 Now In Stores
I asked Quark about why they didn’t begin selling QuarkXPress 9 through their online store when they released the final version of QuarkXPress 9 on April 6th. (This was the final, complete version, but stops working 30 days from its first use.)
It turns out that it takes a few weeks to get all the physical media together and into the retail channels. Quark wanted to protect retailers sales and so they wouldn’t sell QuarkXPress 9 before the resellers could ship the product.
Anyway, it’s all good as of today. Go forth and buy QuarkXPress 9 from your preferred source! Upgrades from version 7 or 8 cost $299. (If you’re using the free 30-day trial version, all your documents will be read perfectly by the retail version.)
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.
I downloaded trial of Quark 9 and I noticed that a few bugs are still not fixed. Quark 9 is much better and it has some features that should be available a long time ago. But programmers have forgotten some things. Again.
Marek: I’d love to know what bugs you’ve found. I’m sure our other readers would appreciate any heads-up you can share!
Ok.
0. Strange problem when I edit text – see: http://studio-ksiazki.pl/quark.m4v
1. The problem with text searching in long documents. Quark does not show the place where the text was found, but another place. I must click “Find next” several times to force Quark to show the next correct location.
2. Small problems with the translation. Some of the subtitles do not fit in the window and you can not read them.
3. Quark 8 blocks Spotlight (fixed in Quark 9). You can not use Spotlight when Quark is active.
4. Welcome screen does not work at all (not fixed in Q9)
5. Sometimes (but especially when searching for text) the screen “freezes” and I have to restart Quark – see: http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8562/79398650.jpg
6. Quark 7.5 (i still need it) does not work on my mac (FireWire conlict…) – see: http://studio-ksiazki.pl/ISUHD.mov
Marek: Thanks for taking the time to list these problems, which are significant. I don’t want to imply that the problems are not widespread of important, but I haven’t seen any of these problems myself, and I do all the things you mentioned.
I noticed that the language you’re using isn’t English. Perhaps a font or some other font-related thing is causing the trouble? If you haven’t contacted Quark’s technical support, I encourage you to do that. They may be able to pinpoint the cause of all these errors.
Thanks. I was in contact with Support several times. Nice people live in India, but none helped :)
I think the issue # 0 can be caused by font. Issues # 1, # 3 and # 5 appeared in the Quark 8 but not in 7, (I use version 8.5), and these problems occur with varying frequency. I do not know what it depends. Problem # 1 and # 5 is an obvious error in the Find/Change. Sometimes I work with files that have one million characters, then this error occurs most often.