20 Most Recent QuarkXPress 6.5 Questions & Answers

Below is a standad mac fix-all and a quark fix-all but it could be something else that has happened, after looking on forums there appears to be a problem with this type of problem which quark never bothered fixing in 6.5. I would also instal the quark update from 6.5 to 6.52 from http://www.quark.com/support/downloads/Details.aspx?fid=122 before you do this it may correct it. Mac Fix-AllAnother thing I would do is go to the applications folder and then the utilities folder open up disk utility once opened click on your hard drive and then click on repair disk permissions and let it complete the verification and repair (it could take 20 minutes or more) depending upon the size of your hard drive. A lot of people do not this but to keep your machine running efficiently it should be done on a monthly basis.Quark Fix-AllIt could be that your quark preferences have corrupted, I would go to your users folder then go into the library folder, then the preferences folder and then the quark folder within the quark folder there should be a file called "XPress Preferences.prf" move this to the trash (But do not delete it yet). When you open quark next it will recreate the preference file and hopefully that will sort it out. If this has corrected the problem you can then delete the file in the trash. Please note that you will have to reset your preferences once you open Quark again. Hope this helps in some way.

You ave to uninstall the entire program. Then reinstall.

Go to "Preferences" and "PDF" There should be a line there that asks if you want it to go out as a PDF or as a .ps file.

YES.
I don't have it open in front of me, but you should be able to go to "Edit" and "Output Settings" From here you can create any kind of setting for printing or creating PDFs that you need.
I have quite a few of these set up on my computer at work.

This is most likely a version problem. Quark 6.5 won't open any file from a newer version (Like Quark 7 or 8)

It could be that your quark preferences have corrupted, I would go to your users folder then go into the library folder, then the preferences folder and then the quark folder within the quark folder there should be a file called "XPress Preferences.prf" move this to the trash (But do not delete it yet). When you open quark next it will recreate the preference file and hopefully that will sort it out. If this has corrected the problem you can then deleted the file in the trash. Please note that you will have to reset your preferences once you open Quark again.

Hope this helps.

Quark QuarkXPress 6.5 (119854PROMO) - uninstall and INSTALL drivers. Also, as it says in head line it could be just something that has gone obsolete if it's a promo...

The number lock key was engaged. When I unengaged the number lock, Quark functioned correctly.

Please make sure that the "Automatic text box" option is unchecked whenever you create a new project to avoid the addition of the pages

This is not possible

Please Navigate to HDD>>Users>>Home User>>Library>>Preferences>>Quark>>QuarkXPress 6.5 folder and delete all the files present in that folder.

Also check if there is any Preferences folder under HDD>>Applications>>QuarkXPress 6.5 folder, if yes then delete that folder as well.

Now launch QuarkXPress and check the results.

I had this problem also. Found software from MarkzTools to recover Quark files. You may also want to try having someone with Quark 7 see if they can open the file.

Quark 7 will do 2,000 pages according to what I have read.

What OSX version are you running? Quark 6 will run on 10.3 & 10.4 but not 10.5

3 thoughts
It could be the page numbers on the old document going beyond 999. Check whether the pages go beyond 999
It could be one of the tab measurements on the page going beyond the page or it could be one of the measurements e.g. space before or after

Hope this helps

Try updating Quark first and reopen the document, if the problem persists, remove the preference file - this may have become corrupt.
Often a Quark crash is related to corrupt fonts, or fonts sharing the same id number as others already on the machine. Do you use a font manager such as Suitcase?

yes you can, look, I found this on the internet: Are you referring to the old "small" keyboard with the hockey puck mouse? if so I would recommend investing (about $40) in a Macally Extended Keyboard (108 keys)-and maybe an optical mouse (about the same price) Without the full range of function keys F1 - F15 the program may not be able to boot, Though I have never heard of it, but then again I don't know anyone still using those old keyboards. ----------------------------------------------- And this: make sure that you have US keyboard settings selected under System Preferences > International > Input Locales...

Which version of QuarkXPress are you using and on which platform?

Also is it happening with one document or all of them?