--picklefish-- writes:
"The 6.1 and 6.1a patch relate to PDF libraries and the way that Quark handles fonts. Your other post describes erratic behavior with PDF files. The reason why only a portion of your computers are affected may be due to different fonts installed on different computers."
Yes. Erratic behavior on one computer in five total. (I address the topic of fonts below.) The Quark 6.0 known issues at their website offer this bullet point with no further explaination:
"Quark 6.0 will fail to import PDF version 1.5 files."
That tells me that a specific kind of PDF won't import into Quark 6.0. From my understanding, version 1.5 PDFs are PDFs created in Illustrator 6. Most other PDFs encountered are version 1.4 and 1.4, distilled from the 4.0 and 5.0 Acrobat distillers.
I'm trusting Quark when they say that their known issue realates to version 1.5 PDFs. I don't have Acrobat 6 so I have a trove of earlier version PDFs. Quark doesn't say that these won't, or even may not, import into my document. Only that the known issue deals with 1.5 PDfs.
Within the last two weeks, our office purchased Extensis Font Suitcase X1. Before I installed that program, I gathered all the fonts in the shop; created a master grouping; deleted all but the necessary system fonts from all the computers; moved any possible conflicting ones adminsiterd by the system to folders outside the Library > Fonts folders; reinstalled the master group of fonts in the 0S 9 >System Folder > Fonts_Active folder; and installed Suitcase and added the fonts in this master group to its database.
So everybody has the same font sets, to my knowledge (or dang well better), located in the same place (I've double checked) and adminsistered by the same program.
I don't know what else I can do. One user insist on keeping all fonts active on their dual processor G4 with 1GB RAM. The user with the problem Quark maintains a more reasonable font set and they have the same computer configuration. *shrug*
"It seems silly to question an update - - especially when the update seems to address your immediate issue."
It would seem silly. But it doesn't address my immediate issue as I've explained. It addresses a similar issue, but not the same issue, and that's why I am checking it out.
"If you cannot trust a company that has acknowledged problems with its 6.0 release and has freely offered a 6.1 update, what makes you think that the opinions in this forum are any better than Quark's?"
Because they have a 6.1 patch for their 6.1 upgrade. I don't expect product releases to be perfect. And if the problem I'm having were chronic to all 5 computers I'd probably jump in and do it. But I'd like to be sure that the 6.1 update covers my specicifc problem. So I'd like to hear from folks that have experience with the upgradea and patch before making the jump.
I suppose the weight of one user against Quark's is not a fair comparison. But if there is a body of opinion about the matter, perhaps I can gather enough new information to make a more informed decision.
Thanks for chiming in,
Brady
