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#QUARKXPRESS 8 HOW TO#
#QUARKXPRESS 8 PDF#

There are essentially two ways of creating PDF files from QuarkXPress pages:

#QUARKXPRESS 8 HOW TO#

How to create PDF files from QuarkXPress 7.x pages To avoid output issues with placed PDF files with subsetted fonts, make sure to upgrade to QuarkXPress 7.31 or later. Unfortunately it sometimes fails to do so properly. In fact, when you import a PDF in a QuarkXPress page, the software will internally also wrap these data in an EPS. If the PDF contained compressed data, the EPS may be a lot bigger but fortunately QuarkXPress is pretty good at handling EPS. If you run into problems importing PDF files in a QuarkXPress publication, try converting the PDF to an EPS.

These issues may be solved in a future update of the product. There have also been some complaints in the Quark forums about imported PDF files that move after opening and closing a document a few times. Issues with QuarkXpress throwing up error messages for files it should be able to import are fairly common.PDF 1.4 files should not contain transparency.Acrobat 8 offers a neat ‘PDF Optimizer’ function which allows you to save the document to an earlier version. More recent PDF versions are not supported. It will only import PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5) or less.The PDF import module of QuarkXPress 7 still has some fundamental limitations doing so. Importing PDF into a QuarkXPress 7.x pageįrom version 4 onwards, you can directly place PDF files in a QuarkXPress publication. QuarkXPress 7.xĮven though PDF support improved with each new version of QuarkXPress, it still leaves something to be desired in version 7.

XPress 6 and 7 actually work in a similar fashion.

The italic style is created by skewing the glyphs about 12 degrees to the right.Įven though this approach to faux styles is ‘safe’ and leads to proper PDF or PostScript output, it is not recommended to do this.

The thickness of the outline is calculated from the size of the text.

A bold style is created by adding an outline around the glyphs.

QuarkXPress 8 builds such styles artificially: you select ‘Avant Garde Black’ for some text and then set the font style to ‘Bold’ even though an Avant Garde Black Bold typeface does not exist. A synthetic font is a font that is created artifically, e.g. QuarkXPress 8 handles synthetic fonts, which are sometimes called artificial or faux bold and italic, in such a way that outputting them should be no problem. This can avoid issues with staircasing in the edges of images. It still flattens transparency in imported PDF files though.Īs with previous releases, users should change Quark’s default fill from ‘white’ to ‘None’ in the Preferences/Tools section. QuarkXPress 8.1 is the first release that offers output support for native transparency. This page contains a collection of notes on the way PDF is supported in QuarkXPress.