Quark Released QuarkXpress v7.1 Update

QuarkXpress v7.1 Update is available for download via MacUpdate.com. Here are the issues resolved:

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.

[Bill Fox]