Using Quark 6.0 on Tiger

Question

I'm still using Quark 6.0. I recently had to redo a Quark file that had been in the previous Mac platform.
All looked fine, but when I went to print it and make a pdf (with my new 8 Pro Adobe Acrobat) from this Quark file the euro symbols embedded in the type face would not print, nor would they show up in the pdf file. Only a blank space was where the euro symbols should be. I made sure all the type faces being used were not corrupted. I even used a different type face, and the euro symbol would not print nor show up in my pdf of the Quark file. All else was fine. Does anyone have a clue to my problem?

Answer 1

What I’m suggesting is to typeset a Euro character (anywhere), select it (with the Content tool), then from the Style menu choose “Text to Box”. This should create a picture-box in the form of the glyph, which you can then fill with colour. (I would also change its content type to None.) You can then copy this element (first selecting it with the Item tool) and paste it into your layout where needed, possibly as an anchored graphic that will flow with the surrounding text. This has several advantages over a JPEG—mainly that being a vector object (made of geometric paths rather than pixels) it will render as sharply as the rest of the type, while an image is likely to be slightly fuzzy and more noticeably different from the neighbouring characters.