QuarkXPress 2018 Known and
Resolved Issues
Contents
Known issues as of QuarkXPress 2018 ........................................1
Resolved Issues: QuarkXPress 2018 (14.0) ..................................5
Legal notices ................................................................................9
QUARKXPRESS 2018 KNOWN AND RESOLVED ISSUES | I
KNOWN ISSUES AS OF QUARKXPRESS 2018
Known issues as of QuarkXPress
2018
Following is a list of known issues in QuarkXPress® 2018
Multi code point Emoji sequences are not inserted as a single character, nor do•
the individual characters in correct sequence combine to form a single emoji
glyph. (4186)
Spot colors are not added to the Colors palette and are not outputting in the•
exported PDF if the layout contains an EPS file with spot colors. (8140)
PICT and PCT format images are not importing when opening IDML files in•
QuarkXPress 2018. (8351)
Font family name is blank in the font fields if the applied font face of the font is•
missing even if one or more font faces of the same font are available. (8472)
Combined book always creates untagged PDF. (9372)•
Fit Box To Text does not work with Footnote Span. (11456)•
IDML Import might be slow for files with a large number of Bezier items. (11487)•
Text box content is not visible if the box size properly fits according to the•
content for projects created from IDML. (15829)
(Windows only): All font styles for a font family are not enumerated in font menu•
for some fonts. (17661)
The tab position value is not honoured for bullets and numbering for projects•
created from IDML files. (18925)
Text Stroke does not work for color fonts. (19460)•
(Windows only): Font family and font styles for Type1 fonts are not enumerated•
together. (19472)
The Tri State option not available for OpenType features in Find/Change.•
(20406)
(macOS only): Fonts in suitcase format are replaced with Courier when exporting•
a PDF containg referenced fonts. (21885)
There is no UI option in the Glyphs palette to access all the variants of a base•
emoji together. (22566)
Font family and font style are not enumerated separately in some dialogs.•
(23549)
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KNOWN ISSUES AS OF QUARKXPRESS 2018
Safari crashes during Export as HTML5 Publication if OpenType•
Numerator/Denominator/Ornaments style is applied with any other OpenType
style. (23841)
(Windows only): An Unable to Create PDF... alert is shown when exporting a•
PDF if the installed path has Unicode or Umlaut characters. (23870)
(Windows only): WYSIWYG styling is not available for font styles in font menus.•
(24215)
When using Pinch Zoom, sometimes, in addition to the content, the HTML5•
reader slso zooms and is being corrupted. (24479)
Part of the heterogeneous box border is not rendering or rendering as•
transparent when a blend mode applied to any object in the spread. (24518)
The HTML5 reader gets corrupted when the orientation is changed from•
landscape to portrait while a fullscreen video is playing on iOS 11. (27038)
Some glyphs in OpenType SVG color fonts do not honor the specified color or•
transparency. (27684)
OpenType SVG color fonts containing vector data render in low resolution.•
(27887)
Color fonts are not rendering correctly for Reflow ePubs. (28530)•
Color fonts are not rendering correctly in fixed/reflow Kindle eBook output.•
(28532)
Content inside table cells are overflowing in projects created from IDML files.•
(28808)
Opacity applied to a COLR color font will not render and ouput correctly with•
flattened transparency. (28973)
Verification fails when an imported PDF contains text downladed in specific•
encodings (e.g. CID, Custom and Built-in encodings). (29117)
Layout focus shifts to the first layout when updating any attributes on other•
layouts via JavaScript. (29253)
The Set Tool Preferences From Selected Box option does not honor a•
heterogeneous border. (29786)
(Windows only): There is no way to specify the multiple border defaults for boxes.•
(29787)
(PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b): Verification/certification fails when•
verifying an XPress project containg gradation and text. (29800)
The distance between grouped lines with arrow heads increases when flipped.•
(29882)
The size of the story ditor becomes one-fourth of the screen size when using a•
dual monitor display. (29908)
On iPads, the Fullscreen button is disabled for YouTube, Viddler, and Vimeo•
videos, in HTML5 reader. (29951)
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KNOWN ISSUES AS OF QUARKXPRESS 2018
An applied Stylistic Alternate Open Type feature does not map when creating a•
new project from an IDML file. (29976)
Hyperlinks are exported with additional characters from the next line when•
creating tagged PDF, if an imported PDF already had hyperlinks. (30019)
Some of the glyphs inserted using the Glyphs palette do not map correctly when•
creating a new project from and IDML file, resulting in incorrect rendering of
text. (30071)
Capitalization errors are not flagged during Spell Check for country names and•
capital of countries, if they are in lower case anywhere within a sentence (except
at the start of a sentence) for US English language. (30834)
White space is shown below pages, if the browser’s address bar is hidden in an•
HTML5 publication on mobile devices. (31165)
Faux Bold gets applied when applying a stylesheet using the option Apply Style•
sheet and retain Local type styles, even though bold face font is available in
the font style menu. (31302)
Font styles are not mapped correctly when importing QuarkXPress 2017 or•
earlier Job Jacket tickets in QuarkXPress 2018. (31445)
A PDF file created from Word 2016 containing Arial and Times referenced fonts•
is outputting with the incorrect font in flattened output. (31449)
Descriptive names of Stylistic Set features appear truncated/overlapped in the•
Character Style Sheet dialog and the OpenType Styles palette. (23669)
Font face and styling button mismatch occurs when applying the same fonts on•
Windows and macOS. (8499)
Text reflows when opening legacy projects containing kerning pairs applied in•
QuarkXPress 2018. (11414)
Glyphs are truncated or displaced in some SVG fonts. (31513)•
The font style name field goes blank when you apply a character style that has a•
different font style on selected text that has a locally applied font style; Faux
Bold and Faux Italic gets applied. (16438)
Color fonts with less than 10pts are not outputting in flattening output.•
(SVG&SBIX). (31880)
Blending mode applied to color fonts are not outputting correctly in flattening•
output. (31902)
Rotated color fonts are cut off/incorrect output in flattening. (31970)•
(Windows only): Some fonts are not displayed with WYSIWYG styling in the font•
menu. (31984)
Measurement values (height/width and other dimensions) in picas and cicero•
units show an extra zero before the point, in QXML. (28189)
User actions/input (e.g. scroll, click, select) continue to work even when the•
JavaScript is running . (27262)
No operations can be done on a master page using JavaScripts . (29948)•
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KNOWN ISSUES AS OF QUARKXPRESS 2018
JavaScript function, getPrintLayoutOptions(), does not work for digital layouts .•
(31101)
QuarkXPress crashes when manipulating the size of spline shapes via JavaScript.•
(32117)
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RESOLVED ISSUES: QUARKXPRESS 2018 (14.0)
Resolved Issues: QuarkXPress 2018
(14.0)
Following is a list of issues resolved in QuarkXPress 2018. Note that the following is
not an exhaustive list of all fixes in this version.
RESOLVED: (macOS High Sierra only): Many fonts are not enumerated in the font•
menu. (8174)
RESOLVED: The picture path is not appearing correctly in the Usage dialog, if•
the picture path is too long. (2589)
RESOLVED: User cannot put items at the desired location in the library. (2594)•
RESOLVED: Endnote numbers do not display when scrolling down directly to•
the endnote page after saving and reopening a project. (2595)
RESOLVED: A layout slideshow placed in a pop-up layout is not showing•
correctly in output. (2599)
RESOLVED: A 1 Bit image outputted with CCITT Group 4 compression in many•
PDFs are not importing correctly and the same is outputting in native. (2604)
RESOLVED: Shortcuts on the Tools palette are not working in Russian. (2608)•
RESOLVED: The Convert to Graphic option is unchecked when duplicating a•
print layout into a digital layout, if it contains text with drop shadow applied.
(2609)
RESOLVED: (Windows only): The File Open (or Import) dialog locks the selected•
files, unable to delete/rename. (2612)
RESOLVED: Crash occurs when you undo after applying color blend on items in•
a locked project. (2613)
RESOLVED: Fixed layout ePub validation shows an SVG hyperlinks should•
have a human-readable title warning. (2614)
RESOLVED: A PDF created from Microsoft Word containing a referenced TT•
Font with attributes like Bold, Bold Italics and Italics text, is outputting as junk.
(2615)
RESOLVED: The Library palette position is not retained after you reopen it.•
(2616)
RESOLVED: Pictures with dropshadow are converted to static objects when you•
copy/paste across projects. (2622)
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RESOLVED ISSUES: QUARKXPRESS 2018 (14.0)
RESOLVED: Picture Zoom applied to text/picture boxes are not showing in•
digital output. (2624)
RESOLVED: Unable to accurately place the tab on the tab ruler. (2633)•
RESOLVED: Incorrect output when exporting a gradient frame with a clipping•
image in native path. (2635)
RESOLVED: Text in flattened PDF files is not rendering properly on screen when•
Lighten, Color Burn, Color Dodge etc., blending mode is applied and N
channel compositor is enabled. (2639)
RESOLVED: (macOS only): Raster images with spot colors/channels in Tiff and•
PSD is not rendering in CMYK document blending space. (2642)
RESOLVED: Objects created on a hidden layer are visible when opening a saved•
project if the object is selected before closing. (2648)
RESOLVED: (macOS only): Shadings in CMYK color space applied to the text are•
not importing correctly. (2649)
RESOLVED: Rulers flicker badly in CMYK/Grayscale N Channel while rendering•
two different pages partially if any of the pages contain an object with a
blending mode applied. (2651)
RESOLVED: PDF/EPS images are rendering in low resolution (pixelated) when•
the Usage dialog is invoked immediately after opening some projects. (2652)
RESOLVED: (macOS only): Color in a non-knockout transparency group PDF file•
is rendered incorrectly when importing into QuarkXPress. (2653)
RESOLVED: Text calcing issue occurs when modifying paragraph attributes/font•
size/typing text in spanned column paragraph if there are two different span
column blocks together or a span and split block together. (2656)
RESOLVED: A PS error, /UniqueID, occurs during printing if both Futura Bold•
and Futura Bold Oblique fonts are used in the same layout. (2657)
RESOLVED: Unable to increase or decrease the number of columns or gutter•
width of the parent text box on either the Home and Text tabs of the
Measurements palette on macOS, or on the Text tab of the Measurements
palette on Windows. (2658)
RESOLVED: Text fill and stroke are honoring the bottom object blend mode in•
native output when the text box is at the top of the stack order. (2660)
RESOLVED: A frame blend mode is applied to text and text stroking when text•
stroking and text box skew is applied. (2663)
RESOLVED: Different results wen outputting a Gray PDF & a Gray Tiff image in•
flattened transparency path when images are using specific transparency blend
modes. (2673)
RESOLVED: Color burn works incorrectly with the white color of a CMYK•
image. (2674)
RESOLVED: White color is not rendering properly when applying a blending•
mode to any object on the layout when the source setup is changed. (2675)
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RESOLVED ISSUES: QUARKXPRESS 2018 (14.0)
RESOLVED: Rendering of a PDF changes drastically when a transparency blend•
mode is applied at a certain zoom level. (2676)
RESOLVED: (Windows only): The program language menu is disabled after•
invoking and closing Story Editor view. (2685)
RESOLVED: The application crashes when you open the Table Styles palette•
twice on some machines. (2686)
RESOLVED: The application crashes when you click the Redline option in•
Preferences on some machines. (2688)
RESOLVED: An imported 1-Bit image renders corrupted after applying a•
blending mode if any of the attached RGB color profile is used at the source.
(2692)
RESOLVED: If two images have the same name, only one image will show in a•
digital layout. (2701)
RESOLVED: Opening projects across machines in different time zones causes•
images to be in a modified state. (2703)
RESOLVED: A mirror image of a line is created when applying Flip Text if a text•
blend mode is applied; the output is also affected. (2709)
RESOLVED: Object with group opacity applied are outputting wrongly in•
flattened output if the layout contains any object with a blending mode applied
to it. (2714)
RESOLVED: QuarkXPress hangs when merging text boxes using Top Down and•
Selection Order text if track changes is enabled. (2716)
RESOLVED: QuarkXPress crashes when you click Accept All Changes after•
merging text boxes based on selection order. (2718)
RESOLVED: A Line Between applied to a column box disappears while placing a•
runaround item. (2721)
RESOLVED: Images are re-importing as low resolution and rendering pixelated•
when a project is opened using a modifier key Command/Control. (2727)
RESOLVED: (Windows only): Many font names are not readable in WYSIWYG•
styling on the font menus. (2728)
RESOLVED: OpenType substitution doesn’t work correctly for the Ordinals•
feature in QuarkXPress. (2742)
RESOLVED: OpenType substitution doesn’t work for lower case Eszett glyph•
(U+00DF) and Upper case Eszett glyph ( U+1E9E) when applying OT Small
Caps and OT All Small Caps feature. (2860)
RESOLVED: An applied table frame is not appearing in digital layouts. (2863)•
RESOLVED: Scaled pictures are exported at a smaller size in HTML if pictue•
zoom interactivity is applied. (2880)
RESOLVED: Text shading and frame are not clipped or soft and hard return.•
(4993)
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RESOLVED ISSUES: QUARKXPRESS 2018 (14.0)
RESOLVED: Animation is not working in right spread pages for items•
originating from the pasteboard. (5893)
RESOLVED: Tab stops slightly jump to the right when placing the tab stops by•
clicking on the tab ruler in the Paragraph Style Sheet dialog. (6121)
RESOLVED: PSD images containing a layer mask with a decimal value in the•
feather property are not importing and throw a Bad File Format error. (6221)
RESOLVED: The Show Pop Up Position Offset is not honored in digital output•
if we apply button interactivity on any anchored box. (6355)
RESOLVED: QuarkXPress crashes when invoking te Story Editor if it is invoked•
on Monitor 1 while Monitor 2 is the main monitor. (7507)
RESOLVED: Text is missing in a scroll zone placed in a pop up layout if the style•
sheet name contains “body”. (9222)
RESOLVED: Fraction glyphs are not substituted properly when applying•
OpenType Fractions. (17899)
RESOLVED: The maximum character length of the URL field in the New/Edit•
Hyperlink dialog is 250. Longer links are truncated. (18871)
RESOLVED: Unicode characters in hyperlink anchor names are not exported•
correctly to ePub/Kindle/App Studio/HTML. (29019)
RESOLVED: The start position of the tab ruler is shifted in a multicolumn text•
box; as a result, the position of the tab in the text box doesn’t match with the
tab stop on the tab ruler. (30824)
RESOLVED: Type style attribute is not applied to all the replaced instances when•
searching text and replacing with text and type style attribute. (22436)
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Legal notices
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