Help!!! Quark 6 not compatible with 5!!

[tangducminh]

I am running Quark 6 on MacOSX. When I save the quarkfile as version 5, I can't open those files on Quark 5 on Mac OS9, it would say:

this file cannot be open by this version of QuarkXpress.

How can it make it compatible between Quark 6 on X and 5 on OS9?

Thanks.

[D-Zine]

Wierd. Seems like when you save down to V5 it should work in OS9 because v5 doesn't work in OS X. Why do they have to make crap so difficult sometimes ;o)

What is the file name EXACTLY that it saves as when you save it for v5??

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[PrintDriver]

Yeah, DZ you may be onto something. Is the file name extra long? If it has more than 30-ish characters os9 won't recognize it.

The other prob might be if you used some of the new features of Q6 that don't backsave correctly.

I don't have Q6 up and running yet. Waiting for a comp upgrade so I don't have to talk to the schmoes at Quark when I need to move the program to a new machine.

PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[Big Perm-dizzle]

it works for me....must be something wrong on your side

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[PrintDriver]

That's good to hear Perm. Got a project coming in next week done in 6 saved to 5 and was wondering if I was gonna have to load 6 prematurely.

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[tangducminh]

well, I am doing it to see the compatibility with V6 on OS10 and V5 on OS9. Maybe I don't have the latest 6 version or something like that. The filename is ok. It doesn't even show the correct icon on OS9. We are on a transition to 10, but most clients are still on 9.

It just doesn't work.

[thelobst]

You could try cahnging your file extension. Q6 uses .qxp (project) and Q5 uses .qxd (document)

[production unit]

This is probably too late to be of any use, but I found that this worked for saving back to quark 5 (for classic environment). Save as Version: 5 and then click on there again until the Type: "project" became "document". If you save as Version: 5; Type: project; then the icon shows up as Quark 6 not five. It has to be a document not a project. (This info is at the bottom of the window when doing a save as).

[jimking]

This is probably too late to be of any use, but I found that this worked for saving back to quark 5 (for classic environment). Save as Version: 5 and then click on there again until the Type: "project" became "document". If you save as Version: 5; Type: project; then the icon shows up as Quark 6 not five. It has to be a document not a project. (This info is at the bottom of the window when doing a save as).
This is exacly how you do it. I have to hit version 5 twice in order for it to save down.
:D

[DOZER]

When saving down to Quark 5 - be sure that when you change from 6.0 to 5.0 that the bottom section that says "Type:" it says Document and not Template. This could give you a problem.