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Jezza · #11 (**permalink**) 08-24-2007, 09:26 PM

I was flamed when I said the same thing about Freehand! Them's the breaks I suppose, bloody funny though.

I've never installed any version of Quark on a machine I've owned personally.

y2b · #12 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 07:09 AM

QX7 ain't all that bad...go to a seminar or something

Joe · #13 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by y2b

QX7 ain't all that bad...go to a seminar or something

Point me to that seminar where they can show me how to place a PDF 1.6 with full transparency and then output it correctly.

y2b · #14 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe

Point me to that seminar where they can show me how to place a PDF 1.6 with full transparency and then output it correctly.

Quark doesn't support transparency

that'll be $100

Joe · #15 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by y2b

Quark doesn't support transparency

Exactly...

Jezza · #16 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 04:17 PM

Wrong. Go here

Quark: QuarkXPress 7 Resource Center

Postscript doesn't support transparency. Not Quarks fault. If I've misunderstood feel free to kick me.

Quarks pdf output/handling however does suck

y2b · #17 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 05:30 PM

That is also correct. EPS or Postscript does not support it, anything exported out of Quark is postscript. Even you Illustrator EPS is flattened.

The key is to not ask a program to do what it is not designed to do

Other than that, Quark is a very powerful program.

Joe · #18 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Jezza

Wrong. Go here

Quark: QuarkXPress 7 Resource Center

Postscript doesn't support transparency. Not Quarks fault. If I've misunderstood feel free to kick me.

Quarks pdf output/handling however does suck

I think both you and Quark are stretching it when you say Quark "supports" transparency. Quark has very limited internal transparency that it cannot even output without flattening. I cannot help it if Quark is stuck in a postscript world.

Joe · #19 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by y2b

That is also correct. EPS or Postscript does not support it, anything exported out of Quark is postscript. Even you Illustrator EPS is flattened.

The key is to not ask a program to do what it is not designed to do

Other than that, Quark is a very powerful program.

Tell that to my customers that are trying to place PDF's into Quark. My customers are magazine and newpaper publishers. They are creating a magazine/newspaper. They receive PDF's from several 3rd parties. Many of these PDF's contain transparency. What does Quark advise them to do with those PDF's? I'd tell you but I can't get Quark to comment on it.

cjwworld · #20 (**permalink**) 08-25-2007, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe

Tell that to my customers that are trying to place PDF's into Quark. My customers are magazine and newpaper publishers. They are creating a magazine/newspaper. They receive PDF's from several 3rd parties. Many of these PDF's contain transparency. What does Quark advise them to do with those PDF's? I'd tell you but I can't get Quark to comment on it.

Right-On Joe!. Any time I expect an PDF from a certain Ad Agency. I have to have the Newspaper do the content in Quark, make an PDF from that, then I will have to import the PDF into InDesign template, put the original PDF from the Ad Agency into the page. All because Quark DOESN'T handle transparency correctly

cjwworld
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