Quark 7 extremely slow!

[Kelley0328]

Thanks for the info Al. I will definitely look into it. I would love to switch everything over to ID.

[xtant64]

Not to thread jack, but we used to change files over to ID from Quark when we wanted to send them to certain shops we were dealing with. We didn't have Q2ID and it wasn't in the budget, but since they were easy to proof read, we had another solution.

We had old (legal) versions of Quark (6.5, 5 and 4). We mainly dealt in 6.5 until we started switching to ID, so if we wanted something in ID we would retro-save it to 5, open it in 5, retro save it to 4 and voila! We had a Quark 4 file that ID would happily open. I wouldn't recommend this on a large document, but if you have something small, and can look it over, it works pretty well. It actually worked better for us than trying to save something from Quark 7 back to 6.5.

[Kelley0328]

Sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately we don't have anything prior to 6.5. But thanks for the info.

[Lsmith3280]

Hi, all.

Had a look at all the Quark 7 posts, and see that there seems to be some issues with CM, and transparency. I just loaded Q7 the other day and was literally pounding on my desk in frustration at how slow it was. From the searches I did, it seems I am not alone. Just wondering how you guys are getting along with the speed issues. Whether it's printing pages (even with OPI set to low-res), or doing basic page layout, this app crawls at a snails pace.

Not sure if I would see more optimized performance if I was running an Intel-Mac, but on my dual-processor G5 quark 7 blows!

The same was happening with my machine. I just upgraded to Quark 8 and the problem is no more....

[Lsmith3280]

I think it is Quark version 7. Version 6 had no speed issue. It worked fine. Once Quark 8 came out, I ordered the upgrade and loaded it in. It works "like normal" again. I couldn't tell you why Version 7 was slow in saving or completing tasks. But, Quark obviously got out the kinks in Version 8. But, I'm getting frustrated now in that the program quits unexpectedly on occasion. I've got ID and think I'm going to be switching soon. I'll let you know how things roll after running Quark 8 for a while.