Destop Publisher QuarkExpress v.5 legally at £3.50

Jim02

Serif were giving PagePlus away for free a few months ago in the Telegraph or Mail or something. I missed the offer by about a week, only spotted it when I went to line the wife's guinea pigs' hutch with the newspaper!

I was going to phone them and ask them about giving me a free copy, as I've just started editing the newsletter for a local branch of a national charity. But now I don't need to bother, as I picked up my Computer Shopper at lunchtime!

stugib

lipidicman wrote:

On the subject of PrimoPDF and CutePDF:

You might also want to try PDF Creator - open source equivalent, without any upgraded versions to upsell to.

Mike_S_8

Quark for £3.50! Great tip! All installed and working.

Thanks. :T

Just got to learn how to use it now

By way of making a contribution - you can download CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) free from http://www.ccleaner.com/

It really does tidy up your machine - including deletion of intrusive cookies

I'm always suspicious of free software - but this works.

lipidicman

stugib wrote:

You might also want to try PDF Creator - open source equivalent, without any upgraded versions to upsell to.

Has a toolbar (which looks like spyware to me) bundled and some problems from my quick research.


Mmmn, just tried it and it seems ok, but the interface is odd and I think overall Primo with a firewall seems the easiest. I will try Cute, Primo and Creator some more and report back!

lipidicman

Mike_S wrote:

By way of making a contribution - you can download CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) free from http://www.ccleaner.com/

I was going to get this a while back, but their forum (I think it was this program) were having fits because it was removing some essential files! Do some research before you deploy it!

Mr_Squiddy

Some more tutorials here:
http://www.sketchpad.net/quark.htm

I think this is for v4 rather than v5 but I worked through the Tech Manual tutorial and had no problems with my v5.

stugib

lipidicman wrote:

Has a toolbar (which looks like spyware to me) bundled and some problems from my quick research.

Hmmm, that's new - we used this successfully for about 6 months but upgraded to a cheap paid-for app (Neevia docuPrinter LT if you're interested) because we wanted hyperlinks from Word documents. Bad move on their part to bundle this - seems the regular users aren't too impressed either. Consider my recommendation withdrawn!

Mr_Squiddy

MidnightToSixMan wrote:

You should be able to get the January issue in the shops for another couple of weeks, though. I think it's on sale until mid-December some time.

I'd get in quick though. The newsagents around here have run out already.

billieboy_2

Mr_Squiddy wrote:

Numpty answers own question. CutePDF Writer can be used. It installs as a printer driver and all you do is go to File->Print... and select 'CutePDF Writer'. Easy.

Sorry if this is going a bit off topic but I installed CutePDF writer this morning and now I can't open PDFs from websites, just comes up with a blank page with an icon in the corner, I have to save them to my desktop, open Adobe Reader and open from there. Any ideas? Something in properties of Adobe Reader? (V7 by the way.) Thanks in advance.

Joey_82

Does anyone know if you get this PC-version cd or dvd of Quark 5, can you then upgrade to Quark 7 for a Mac, or would it have to be the PC version again? And is it really worth getting the DVD over the CD?

Thankyou,
Jo