anybody online right now who has quark 5 and can help me out? my comp that runs classic has decided not to cooperate tonight and i need to convert some 6.0 files down to 4.1. it should merely be a matter of opening a file and resaving it, ignoring any missing fonts. i'll pay a few bucks via paypal, but since it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes, I'm not sure what would be appropriate. PM me if you see this before midnight central time, sat night. thanks!
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Okay, I ran into a snag. Got the file, but stupid Quark 6.1 only seems to save down to version 5.0!
Anybody know how to dumb it down to 4.1?
*EDIT: Nevermind. With help from another party with 5.0, it's done. Don't know why you have to save from 6 to 5, open in 5, then save from 5 to 4 to dumb it down. You can export a legacy file in Adobe apps. to any damned version you please! Thank God for InDesign.
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Power Noodle
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Because Quark sucks, that's why.
Although to be fair InDesign CS2 doesn't let you save down to CS. You have to export as Interchange format for that to work. Illy and PS are much better at lower version compatibility, with the obvious exception of trying to save with features that aren't available in those older versions.Comment
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Okay, you are right about that Interchange to open CS2 filse in CS. That is a major pain! I have to do that all the time at one place I work (I hold several part-time design jobs to keep me employed), because my computer is the only one operating on CS (there's a reason for that, and it has to do with language barriers). I hate that - but Quark is still stupider.
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It's weird, Shelle, given how Illustrator still lets you save down to version 3, for pete's sake. You'd think Indy would try to distinguish itself from Quark just one step further by allowing downsaves to more than one version older.
Does 2.0 not have the ability to open .inx files?Comment
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Nope!
I ran it by my mom who is a computer programmer. I figured there must be some magic string of code that makes all the file types within various editions of a program talk to each other. She said it isn't that easy. But still, I'm surprised Adobe hasn't figured it out.
We just got a lesson in planned obsolesence with my mom's year old Epson printer. I say ID is heading down the same track!Comment
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It's the text engine updates mostly. Plus the flattening of transparency.
When you save down, even in Illustrator you get point text going from CS2 to CS or from CS to 10 or lower and your transparency gets really mucked up if you go lower than Illy 9.
InD CS2 has the same text engine problems.
Used to be too that eps format would open in any version of Illustrator but now even CS2 eps files won't open in CS. Major PITA. Especially when a designer designs cut lettering in InD. For some reason, the InD export to eps feature does all kinds of nasty things to shapes and stroked paths. We have to save as pdf and cross fingers when bringing into the sign program. It gets crazier every day.Comment
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