Quark 7 Export to PDF issues in 7.1/7.2 resolved in Quark 7.3
The Gemini studio have been aware of bugs in Quark 7 for some time now, but we have had to find work arounds for them, as quickly as possible. But it just goes to show that you have to have eyes in the back of your head these days with all new software - one such instance is a fairly common every day occurence of Exporting to PDF from Quark 7, and this does seem only to be a Quark 7 issue, it would appear! If any image placed in Quark (7.1-7.2 resolved in 7.3) is made to appear at say 17% then exported to pdf using the standard high res pdf settings with picture commpression at ‘Zip/Jpeg High’ the resulting picture is high res, but, if you zoom in closely in Acrobat you will find that there is a repixalization going on around the darker areas of the image, this seems to give the impression of it being low resolution.

Quark 7.3 update seems to generally resolve this issue, however we have had the same problem with some files, if you have any doubts just take the commpresson off buy setting the compression to none.

As with all updates they have to be taken at face value, Quark have resolved a few bugs with the 7.3 update, but have introduced a few more annoying bugs; the most annoying of which is when you come to export a pdf to your desktop, it looks like its completed it and then tells you ‘you don’t have permission’ to save a pdf to your desktop folder! working around this just means saving it to a folder on you desktop which seems to work fine, frustrating, but not the end of the world!