Quarkxpress 4.03 and OS verion help!!!!

[dan909]

Hi need some advice on OS versions and whether quarkxpress4.03 will work on the new systems

I need a laptop as i move around alot and the person I have started to do some work for has quarkxpress 4.03 installed on her mac however I dont have a mac but i do have quarkxpress 4.03

I therefore need to know can i go out an purchase a band spanking new macbook and install quark 4,03 on it or do i have to go and find an old mac and install it

thanks

 

[chaosbunny]

Quark 4 is approximately 10 years old. It will not run on any Intel Mac. You'll need a PPC Mac with Tiger an OS 9 classic environment for it. It won't run on any Intel Mac.

Apart from that I can't understand how anybody can still actually "work" with this program. You can't go multiple steps backwards and pdf creation with Quark 4 is a pain for example.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Well. literally millions of publications were successfully produced with Quark 4, so if the client has issues with paying $$ to upgrade, then I assume they still can be published... Falling behind on the Cool-o meter doesn't mean it's useless...

But Dan909, you're definitely looking at a PowerBook G4 with Classic and OS9 to run this.

 

[chaosbunny]

Well. literally millions of publications were successfully produced with Quark 4, so if the client has issues with paying $$ to upgrade, then I assume they still can be published... Falling behind on the Cool-o meter doesn't mean it's useless...

But Dan909, you're definitely looking at a PowerBook G4 with Classic and OS9 to run this.

I can assure you that my dislike of Quark 4 has nothing to do with the "Cool-o meter". It has to do something with countless and often unpaid hours I have wasted for nothing because of it. Thank god I almost don't need it anymore, but still have a classic environment on my G4 Cube for it just in case. It was good at it's time and in fact I enjoyed working with it in the year 2000 but 2005+ isn't it's time anymore.

Apart from that from the ops words it's not some huge production house but a single person he is working for. I know that and understand why Q4 still is used for magazines, publishing houses etc. that have 200+ licenses, but that doesn't make it less crap by todays standards.

Sry for going off topic.

 

[dan909]

Thanks been really helpful, I have been looking on ebay for PowerBook G4 but they all seem to come with os10

How easy is it to get classic or os9 on to the machine

Sorry if i have not got things 100% correct here i have never used a mac before i have always used windows and as far as i know you cant transfer files saved in quark on windows to mac

thanks

 

[chaosbunny]

Thanks been really helpful, I have been looking on ebay for PowerBook G4 but they all seem to come with os10

How easy is it to get classic or os9 on to the machine

Sorry if i have not got things 100% correct here i have never used a mac before i have always used windows and as far as i know you cant transfer files saved in quark on windows to mac

thanks

If your employer is running Quark4 on a mac he will have either an OS 9 machine or a classic system under OS 10.x. Could you get OS 9 from her?

Any newer (something around 600-800 mhz+ G4 PowerBook) won't boot into OS 9, but that doesn't matter. Just copy the system files from an older Mac to the PowerBooks HD and select it under system preferences/classic. Maybe the best way to get it would be to get some old G3 iMac or something off ebay with OS 9 on it (shouldn't cost more than 50 bucks max), if you can't get it from the person you are working for. It's really easy.

As for Windows Quark files not opening on a Mac that's not true, however you'll need to have the same fonts installed on each system.