Quark 7.01 (Intel): Acrobat 7.08 options inprint dialogue not accessible

[Jason_Harder@adobeforums.com]

Hi there,

I have just installed QXP 7.01 on my Core Duo (not Core2 Duo) Intel iMac. Alongside, I use Adobe CS2 Premium with all the updates, including Acrobat 7.08.

When I try to print to the "Adobe PDF 7.0" printer from XPress, it is not possible to access the Acrobat settings within the print dialogue; they are striked out. When I access them, it says, that my version of the software is not compatible. It states my PPD is version 7.0.0.

Is there a newer version of the Adobe PDF 7.0 PPD than the one that comes with my "1st generation" CS2 CDs?

I'd rather use my classic way of "printing" PDFs than using the PDF export that comes with XPress...

Thanks for any ideas!

Jason

[Glenn McDowall]

a workaround is to set the pdf export prefs in quark to save ps for later distilling, and distill manually (drag and drop).

there may be a fix on the quark forum, I think it has to do with having your preferences in your quark application folder AND being an Administrator level User.

best of luck

[Mark_Douma@adobeforums.com]

Version 7.0.0 of QuarkXPress was a PowerPC-only application. Since you're on an Intel-based Mac, it would need to run in the Rosetta compatibility environment.

Acrobat 7.0 is also a PowerPC-only application, and, more importantly, the "Printer Dialog Extension" loadable-bundle (aka "plug-in") that allows you to set options in the Print dialog of applications is also PowerPC-only:

/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/AdobePDFPDE700.plugin

When you were using version 7.0.0 of Quark, it was running as a PowerPC application, and so it could properly load the PowerPC-only printing dialog plugin.

The QuarkXPress 7.0.1 update updates the Quark application so that it's a Universal Binary, rather than PowerPC-only. Since you're on an Intel-based Mac, that means that, by default, QuarkXPress 7.0.1 will run as an Intel-native process. For an application to be able to load a loadable-bundle (including printing dialog plug-ins), that loadable-bundle must include support for the same architecture that the application is running as. Since Quark 7.0.1 is Intel, and the plugin is PowerPC, Quark is unable to load that plugin in the printing dialog.

I guess you could say that the "best" solution would be to have a universal-binary version of the Acrobat printing plugin, which Adobe Acrobat 8.0 may provide.

Another possibility would be to force QuarkXPress 7.0.1 to run in Rosetta (in other words, as a PowerPC process), by checking the "Open using Rosetta" option in the General section of a Get Info window in the Finder. That would allow the Quark application to interface with the PowerPC printing plugin. Drawbacks of this would be that the application would likely use about twice the amount of RAM as it would if it were running natively.

Hope this helps.....