Quark XPert Tools Pro 2.2 Known Issues

Following is a list of issues discovered in Quark XPert Tools Pro 2.2.

General

• Quark XPert Tools Pro was not updated to work with Composition Zones™ and shared items. Avoid modifying these types of items with modules such as XPert ItemStyles, XPert FindChange, and XPert Scale.
• Quark XPert Tools Pro is not localized into Passport languages and is disabled for supplemental languages.
• Quark XPert Tools Pro is not yet fully compatible with Quark Interactive Designer. Quark recommends that you avoid using XPert ItemStyles, XPert FindChange, and XPert Scale with interactive items.
• Quark XPert Tools Pro is disabled when a Web layout is active.

XPert FindChange

• The XPert FindChange palette (Window menu) sometimes fails to find items based on attribute search values that include a decimal portion with two or more digits (such as 1.25). To avoid this issue, use the Acquire All Attributes or Acquire Panel Attributes command in the XPert FindChange palette menu.
• If you drag multiple instances of a line or text path from the Shared Content palette into a project, and then use the XPert FindChange palette (Window menu) to change the location of one of the lines or text paths, the location of the other instances changes randomly.
• Even if you check only Text Boxes and Lines in the Limit Search To area of the XPert FindChange palette (Window menu), a search will find a text path.

XPert Guides

• Mac OS® only: If you change the color of a guide in the XPert Guides dialog box (Window > XPert Guides > palette menu > Preferences), then click Cancel, the color change is applied despite the cancellation.
• If you attempt to display the Quark XPert Tools Pro Guides palette (Window > XPert Guides) while working with a layout with hundreds of pages, performance may slow noticeably. On Windows®, a GetDIBits failed alert may display and QuarkXPress® may stop responding. To avoid this issue, make sure Display Current Only is checked in the Guides palette menu.

XPert ImageInfo

• The first time you choose Reveal in Finder/Reveal in Explorer from the ImageInfo palette menu (Window > XPert ImageInfo), it may take several seconds for the picture file to be displayed in the operating system. After the first time, the process is much faster.
• If you dismount a network drive after either importing a picture from that drive or opening a project on that drive that contains imported pictures, the Quark XPert Tools Pro ImageInfo palette (Window > XPert ImageInfo) should display the last known path for that picture. Instead, the path area of the palette is blank.
• If you open a project that was created on another platform or in an earlier version of QuarkXPress, the previews for any pictures in that project display at low resolution in the ImageInfo palette (Window menu).

XPert ItemStyles

• If you create an item style that uses a custom color, apply it to an item, and then copy and paste the item, a copy of the item style is created.
• If you define an item style (Edit > XPert ItemStyles) that includes a linear blend between two colors other than black, then edit the item style and change the Blend Type to Solid, then edit the item style again and change the Blend Type back to Linear Blend, and finally apply the item style to an item, the second color in the item's blend is black rather than the color defined in the item style.
• If you export an item style that uses a custom color and then import that item style into a different project, the custom color is not imported.

XPert Layers

• If you select a table, choose Delete Items from Viewgroup from the Quark XPert Tools Pro Layers palette (Window > XPert Layers), and then choose Edit > Undo, QuarkXPress unexpectedly quits.
• Even if OK to Delete Locked Items is checked in the Layers Preferences dialog box (Window > XPert Layers > palette menu > Preferences), you cannot delete an item from a layer that has been locked with the XPert Tools Pro Layers palette.

XPert Print

• If you create a Composition Zones item from a box (Item > Composition Zones > Create), then print the layout using XPert Print (File > XPert Print > Print), the Composition Zones item is not included in the output. To avoid this issue, draw the Composition Zones item with the Composition Zones tool.
• If you print an item using File > XPert Print, background items are visible in a narrow band around the edges of the printed item.
• Windows only: The keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+arrow keys and Shift+arrow keys) that allow you to adjust values in the XPert Print dialog box (File menu) do not work.
• If you print an item that lies partially on the pasteboard using File > XPert Print, the portion of the item that is on the pasteboard is blank in the output.
• If you print an item using File > XPert Print and choose Separation from the Mode menu in the Colors pane, the entire page prints rather than just the selected item.
• You may experience a typecheck PostScript® error if you print an EPS created by XPert Print if the item used to create the EPS contains a blend, if that item is in front of a white box, and if there is an item behind the white box that contains a blend that uses a mixture of process colors.
• Mac OS only: If you save an item in EPS format with XPert Print (File > XPert Print > EPS button), the item is shifted by about one point down and to the right within the bounding box of the EPS. To avoid this issue, draw a slightly larger output area larger using the XPert Print tool or manually adjust the values in the XPert Print dialog box.

XPert Scale

• If you print a layout with XPert Print (File > XPert Print > Print), apply horizontal and vertical scaling in the Flexo tab, and then set the page position to Centered (Device tab), the page does not print centered. To avoid this issue, use XPert Scale for proportional scaling.
• If you print a layout with XPert Print (File > XPert Print > Print) and apply horizontal and vertical scaling in the Flexo tab, save the layout as an EPS file, and then distill the EPS file, a PostScript error may occur.
• If you print a multi-page layout with XPert Print (File > XPert Print > Print) and apply horizontal and vertical scaling in the Flexo tab, only the first page is scaled correctly. To avoid this problem, print the pages individually.
• Mac OS only: If you use the Quark XPert Tools Pro Scale palette (Windows > XPert Scale) to scale a layout that contains linked text boxes on separate pages, the text in the linked text boxes may be scaled to the wrong size. To avoid this issue, put both boxes on the same page before scaling them.
• If you scale an entire layout using highly disproportionate values for width and height, the alert "You cannot link boxes across master pages or onto the pasteboard" may display several times and the layout may not be scaled properly. To avoid this issue, delete or unlink any automatic text boxes on the layout's master pages.

XPert TextLink

• If you use the Link Selected Text button on the TextLink palette (Window > XPert TextLink) to link two boxes that both contain text, and then repeat the procedure, a small amount of text at the beginning of the second box is deleted.
• If you use the Link Selected Text button on the TextLink palette (Window > XPert TextLink) to link two boxes that both contain text, and the first box is in a state of overflow, the overflow text is added at the end of the text in the second box rather than at the beginning. If the second box is in a state of overflow, all text beyond the overflow point is lost. To avoid this issue, click the Link Selected Text to Chain button instead.

XPert Toolbars

• Windows only: If you create a toolbar that contains all of the Layout commands in the Edit XPert Toolbars dialog box (Edit menu), none of the buttons in that toolbar work.

XPert Type

• If you apply a baseline shift to a selection of text using the XPert Type palette (Window menu), the baseline shift is applied to all of the text in the story.