[Nobody]

BS"D
MY SIL publishes small newspapers for a niche audience. She publishes 5 times a year (around various Jewish holidays in the calendar) and makes upwards to 50 different editions for different organizations around the U.S. and Canada.
She wants me to help her assist with basic pdfing: to make the pdfs and to ftp then on the servers of her printers. Fine. Here's her setup:
XPress 4.1 (They got XPress 6 but my SIL's designer says that he still doesn't think its stable enough for a production environment -no WONDER people are flocking to InDesign!- and they are using an XTension from Extensis QX-Tools (they use the layers XTension)
Adobe Distiller
They run Mac OS 10.2 I think and then run Quark in classic under OS X
I've got 10.3.4 and XPress 6.
We were planning on installing XPress 4.1, the Extensis stuff and Distiller. Is there a good way to do this? The problem with running 6 is that XPress doesn't let you save down to 5 which is a problem for my SIL's office, given that they're working in 4.
Any tips and advice on how to avoid pitfalls in either using my current set up or installing the software would be very appreciated.
(Please don't bother with any answers that sound like: "get them to use InDesign" because right now its not happening)

[almaink]

Quark 6.1 works fine for me. You have to try it sooner or later or it's a waste of money.
Quark 4.1 works ok in classic IF you have a fast Mac.

[Nobody]

I don't understand your response. I have XPress 6 and my SIL's office has 4. I'm not here to convince them to use XPress 6 but to either use their software and/or come up with workarounds so I can use what I already have. A nice way would be if i could use XPress 6 but still save down to XPress 4. Is this possible? This way I could keep using XPress 6. I'd have to buy a copy of the Extensis software and probably a newer version of Distiller than they have. Is this worth the effort or should I go with what they already have on hand?
I don't know if my mac is considered fast; probably not. Information is in my sig...

[almaink]

Sorry, I thought you said they had Quark 6.1 they just didn't think it was ready for "prime time "yet.
Unless you also have Quark v5 there is no workaround , you need to go from 6 to 5 to 4 no direct way to backsave to v4. If they won't use v6 then yes install v4.11 and use the classic enviroment, your Mac should be fast enough. Although I'd hate to have to work in Quark on an iBook with it's small screen.

[Nobody]

They do have 6 but they're not ready to use it in production and its not my job to try and influence them to change their minds. I thought I read somewhere on this board of an XTension or something I could get so that I can save back to 4 from Quark 6. Of course then I would have to figure out if the rest of the setup (Extensis Layers and Distiller) would work fine). So now I'll look back into the threads to see this product exists or maybe I dreamt about it

[Nobody]

Excuse me responding to myself...
I can forget that idea that there might be a workaround. The company that was mentioned in another thread was markzware and if I'm looking at the right product its for XPress 4 and people in XPress 4 could open XPress 6 documents and it costs $199. (ouch!) I wanted something that would be an XTension for my side. I guess it looks like I'll be running two version of quark, afterall!

[roperdoug]

I can't remember in Quark 6 but in Quark 8 your have to "Export" as "Project" in order to save backward.

[daffodil255]

Nobody, on 09 August 2004 - 07:44 AM, said:

BS"D
MY SIL publishes small newspapers for a niche audience. She publishes 5 times a year (around various Jewish holidays in the calendar) and makes upwards to 50 different editions for different organizations around the U.S. and Canada.
She wants me to help her assist with basic pdfing: to make the pdfs and to ftp then on the servers of her printers. Fine. Here's her setup:
XPress 4.1 (They got XPress 6 but my SIL's designer says that he still doesn't think its stable enough for a production environment -no WONDER people are flocking to InDesign!- and they are using an XTension from Extensis QX-Tools (they use the layers XTension)
Adobe Distiller
They run Mac OS 10.2 I think and then run Quark in classic under OS X
I've got 10.3.4 and XPress 6.
We were planning on installing XPress 4.1, the Extensis stuff and Distiller. Is there a good way to do this? The problem with running 6 is that XPress doesn't let you save down to 5 which is a problem for my SIL's office, given that they're working in 4.
Any tips and advice on how to avoid pitfalls in either using my current set up or installing the software would be very appreciated.
(Please don't bother with any answers that sound like: "get them to use InDesign" because right now its not happening)

Thanks you for the post.
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