QuarkXPress 7.31 updater

The regular release of maintenance updates underscores Quark’s commitment to quality. This QuarkXPress® update includes functionality improvements and enhancements and is available as a free download to existing QuarkXPress 7 customers.

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QuarkXPress 7.31 offers the following enhancements:

• Certification on Windows Vista® and support for Mac OS® Leopard

• Enhancements to spell checking that allow you to:
  • Find and correct duplicate words
    (For example: The reports reports are out.)
  • Find and correct spacing errors after punctuation
    (For example: See, spot can run.Can you?)
  • Ignore Internet & file addresses when spelling is checked
    (For example: http://rootcellr/mac/ctm.htm, https://, ftp://, file://, and tcbr@fastcow.org)
  • Ignore words with numbers
    (For example: model numbers fx25b4, fx30b4)

• The QuarkXPress Passport 7.31 updater also includes:
  • Spell checking and hyphenation support for Norwegian (Bokmål) and Norwegian (Nynorsk) languages.
  • Spell checking in German, Reformed German, and Swiss German that finds and corrects capitalization errors at the beginning and within a sentence.

QuarkXPress 7.31 resolves various customer-reported issues, including:

• Text reflow issues:
  Customers may have experienced text reflow when opening projects created in earlier versions of QuarkXPress 7 that contained justified text with tracking applied or text set with right index tabs and negative tracking applied. These issues have been resolved.
  
• Import and output of projects containing Creative Suite 3 (CS 3) PDFs:
  Customers may have experienced issues with placing PDF files created in Creative Suite® 3 or lost alpha and spot channel information when importing PSD files created in Creative Suite 3. These issues have been resolved.  
  
• Output of hairline rules on non-PostScript devices:
  Customers may have experienced incorrect output of hairline or fractional point rules on non-PostScript devices. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Recurring error message with older versions of fonts:
  Customers on Windows may have experienced a recurring error dialog when opening legacy projects that used older versions of some fonts. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Bounding Box To Use settings for PDF import
  Customers may have noticed that selections made in the Bounding Box To Use drop-down menu in the Import Picture dialog box (File > Import Picture > PDF Import) were not retained. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Updating single occurrences of modified images
  Earlier versions of QuarkXPress had no option to update a single occurrence of a modified image in a layout through the Usage dialog box. Users can now use the Shift key to update a single occurrence of a modified image in a layout.
  
• Technical issues:
  • QuarkXPress 7.31 known issues
  • QuarkXPress 7.31 issues resolved
  
  
• Installation: For step-by-step instructions on how to install the QuarkXPress 7.31 updater, including important information on how to prevent problems during the update process, please refer to the ReadMe file included with your download.
  
• Important note: If you use Mac OS®, you must have QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport® 7.0.1 or later installed before updating to QuarkXPress 7.31. If you use Windows®, you must have QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport 7.0 or later installed before updating to QuarkXPress 7.31.

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