[tpicco]

Argggh... Sometimes, when I try to make PDFs from Quark 6.1, Quark freaks out and quits... it's always with a particular file, not a random quitting... all of the files I use have imported graphics, ie: jpegs, tiffs & pdfs... so all of the different files are essentially composed of the same elements, but certain ones insist upon quitting before they are PDFed, consistantly...

I have Acrobat Professional 6.0... I am using an iMac with OSX 10.2.8... any ideas of what I can do to solve this?

InDesign never does this... but I am stuck working on this job in Quark, and the printer only accepts PDFs for printing...

help
help
help

[siMac]

Are you using Quark 6's [lousy] built-in PDF export or are you printing to file and distilling?

I strongly recommend avoiding Quarks built-in PDF 'functionality' altogether - it's very poorly implemented. If you must use Quark and need PDFs from it do it the old-fashioned way.

If you are doing it this way and it's bombing out when you try to print to file, what PPD/driver are you using? It might be worth trying a different one - generic imagesetter will sometimes work well.

Otherwise it could be a corrupt image, like many things, Quark doesn't handle these well and just kinda keels over. If this is the case you will need to identify the culprit by opening all the used images in Photoshop. Sorry.

[tpicco]

>>>sigh<<<
i was afraid that was gonna be the answer...
...but thank you nonetheless.

...I have really been enjoying learning and using InDesign over the past few months...

[KeriVit]

Quark ---> PDF= crap or crapshoot.

write to PS and distill- the only reliable way to go.

I WISH it worked since I must send out 30 a day as proofs that I then have to re-rip when approved.

bleaahhh

what's so hard about:
Save As
Choose PDF job settings
and acrobat does the rest.

I WISH!

[tpicco]

Duuuhhh... how does one write to PostScript? Does it involve changing the Adobe Acrobat settings?

[chris.p]

I quite like setting the main Quark PDF prefs to 'Create Postscript File for distilling later', and choosing export- save as pdf. This makes a .PS file and you can do as you please with. Dropping that on distiller will make the pdf, and you an make hi, lo etc pdfs from the same file.

[KeriVit]

Originally posted by tpicco:
Duuuhhh... how does one write to PostScript? Does it involve changing the Adobe Acrobat settings?

Oversimplified instructions w/o going into detail...

PRINT
Choose the appropriate driver- assuming there is PS printer installed or just choose Distiller if necessary. Adjust Page size to accommodate crops and bleeds, (i.e. please print 8.5x11 with bleeds on 9.5x12 with registartion and bleeds declared.) Click Printer, slect appr. printer, from dropdown menu, choose output options, save as, choose postscript, type file name and save, the click print. The PS file is then brought into Distiller and PDF according to settings you want.

Gee- sounds simple- not! It's not so bad really. But once u do it 30 times day it becomes old hat.

I'm interested in what chris p suggested " I quite like setting the main Quark PDF prefs to 'Create Postscript File for distilling later', and choosing export- save as pdf. This makes a .PS file and you can do as you please with. Dropping that on distiller will make the pdf, and you an make hi, lo etc pdfs from the same file."

I'm gonna check that and see if it works for my Acrobat Hot Folder Setup.

[godzookie2k]

Yes, its very very simple. I'm not joking, either. Especially once you get your presets down, and if you just leave distiller running all the time and you distill to one of its watched folders. Yall really need to streamline those workflows.

KeriVit: you pussy, I used to send out 70 pdf's before lunch, and that was in the os9 days! Streamline, boy streamline!

[eyevaan]

Originally posted by KeriVit:
Gee- sounds simple- not! It's not so bad really. But once u do it 30 times day it becomes old hat.

HAHAHA!

but the first 29 times til you get the flow it is somewhere between and finally

a successful PDF...

[art_director]

ugggghhhhhhh,,,,quark,,,,,,