Quark

[ldg40]

I am wondering if any of you super knowledgeable Quark users can tell me what it mainly works with...Raster or Vector?

[Scott]

Either. Xpress is a container.. layout application.. closer to Indesign or pagemaker than anything. It's not an image editor. It doesn't care what you import. It'll import either raster or vector.


Now indesign... that application will create it's own vectors right within the application. Xpress will create shapes, but last I looked the drawing tools were pretty rudimentary.

[ldg40]

Thanks Jolt :)

[edward]

yeah linda. as what jolt said. are you planning to get one? :D

[ldg40]

No, no..no Quark for me Edward! :) I just have to rebuild some ads done in Quark, these ads were presented to me in .pdf. Like to get them as close as possible to the originals, I thought perhaps knowing what basis they were built from would be helpful.

[lionheart34]

we use Quark at school...lol, I am currently having massive issues with it (we are making a brochure) and I actually might be posting up a question for help here in a bit, lol.
But yeah, it's not too bad once you get a hang for it, but can be very frustrating.
I want to say I hate it...lol. But it gets the job done. But I have MASSIVE issues with images with the program. But all my newsletters I have made, with mostly text, comes out looking good.

[edward]

[QUOTE=lionheart34]we use Quark at school...lol, I am currently having massive issues with it (we are making a brochure) and I actually might be posting up a question for help here in a bit, lol.
[/QUOTE]

just post your questions and hopefully we can give you answers (i've used quark from 4.1 to 6 for over two years now:D). QuarkXpress is really not too bad (that is, till you get to use indesign :D)

[swillox]

[QUOTE=ldg40]No, no..no Quark for me Edward! :) I just have to rebuild some ads done in Quark, these ads were presented to me in .pdf. Like to get them as close as possible to the originals, I thought perhaps knowing what basis they were built from would be helpful.[/QUOTE]

Lpg: Note that Quark is able to export both an .eps or a .pdf file !!, (I just had to use this capacity to rearrange some elements of an ad yesterday)... An .eps file you can easily open in photoshop in any dpi you want, and in wich you can work on the elements as far as they aren't to much overlayed. It's really usefull (and quicker than redraw the whole stuff) when you need to exchange lay'outs with someone who doesn't own Quark. (only be sure you got all the fonts)

PS: I don't understand all that blabla 'bout Xpress vs Indesign, I never draw something but with illustrator or photoshop, so what ? Quark is simply excellent for speedproduction in prints I think.

[reddaisy]

Hi Swillox

I see for the second time that you advise people to "not forget to include the used fonts". In that area I want to remark the following: if you make a pdf (or a postscript file that you later on use as the basis for a pdf) always click "subset fonts" and keep the percentage of the usage of the font as high as possible (preferably 100%). In that way it includes the whole font in the pdf itself, and leaves the layout unchanged. Of course the document becomes heavier, but hey: who cares about heavy docs in these cable and dsl times! ;)

Cheers and success
Tom