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QuarkXPress 7.02 resolved issues

Following is a list of issues resolved in QuarkXPress® 7.02.

Performance improvements

  • Actions involving text selection — such as scrolling, spell checking, and Find/Change — are substantially faster in this version than in version 7.02.
  • General layout manipulation is substantially faster in this version than it was in version 7.02 for layouts that use images with clipping paths.
  • Flattening of layouts that use transparency is faster than it was in version 7.02.

Other improvements

  • Layouts that include the following things could take a long time to print, export as PDF, or save as an EPS: tables that use opacity, numerous or highly blurred drop shadows, and drop shadows over lines of text. This issue has been resolved.
  • Text editing was sometimes slow, especially in multi-column text boxes. This issue has been resolved.
  • Zooming and scrolling were slow when displaying a clipping path with a large number of points or a layout with a large quantity of selected text. This issue has been resolved.
  • Low-resolution drop shadows sometimes printed with a slightly different resolution when they occurred over high-resolution images than they did when they occurred over a plain background. This issue has been resolved.
  • Mac OS only: If one person had a project open, another person could also open that file and save changes. The second person is now notified that they are opening the project in read-only mode.
  • If you printed a layout to a non-PostScript printer, clipping-path runarounds in that layout were not honored. This issue has been resolved.
  • QuarkXPress now properly honors the Accents for All Caps preference setting (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Character pane).
  • "Ukraine" is now spelled correctly in spell check.
  • Various cosmetic issues having to do with control placement, text truncation, and stylistic inconsistencies have been corrected.