Hi there... Utilizing Quark Xpress 1

[mono570]

Hi there...
Utilizing Quark Xpress 4.01, I've almost finished a 100 page book which contains many color and Grayscale images. Most of the images are in .tiff format @ 300dpi. As it stands now, the completed Quark document is too large to burn onto one disk so I cannot bring my work to the commercial printer. With respect to the experts, what should I do? Shall I downsize all the images to 200 dpi to decrease overall Quark file size or is there another way to split the Quark document so I can burn onto 2 disks?
Thanks for the help.
Ashley

 

[GeorgeMack]

Suggestions:
1) If you have a CD burner, that should get you quite a lot of room. Probably the most common solution for DTPers, now that disk burners and media are less expensive. (Used to cost $100/disk (90M) for Bernouillis, then $10/disk (100M) for Zip disks, now somewhere around $.50 (720M) for CDs.) All these media hold so much more than floppies, I rarely send a job out on floppies anymore. Printers usually can read most of these formats/media, but it pays to check first.

2) If you must put it on floppies, pack the art into as many disks as you need to, try a "Save as" to possibly compress your Quark file a bit more (not sure how useful that is), store it on a separate disk.

3) If your Quark file won't fit on a single disk, try Stuffit to compress it. (a really good investment for this kind of thing, or uploading.)

4) If it still won't fit, see if Stuffit will let you segment the compressed file to more than one floppy. Or try a backup program like Retrospect to get it onto different disks.

5) Your printer may have an e-mail or FTP address where you can upload your files directly. If you have Cable Modem or DSL, that can be very practical; if you're on dial-up, with a lot of files, probably not.

 

[Balwant]

Hi Mono

A 100 page quark document with High-resolution images placed is not a good idea to work with.
Instead split it into two or more smaller size documents. (More Images placed, more splitting should be done.) This makes work fast & easy and also less change of a document to go bad.)

Splitting can be done easily. Go to the page no. from where u want to split the document. Note the folio no. of that page. Select that page from the document layout palette. Give it the same Section start Folio no, as it had originally. Duplicate the document. From one document delete the starting pages and from second delete the rest of pages.

Hope this helps