Quark 8.5 Compatability

Hi Len,

sorry, I am just seeing this post today.

As several people pointed out here, there's a difference between "being supported" and "will run".

On a Mac QuarkXPress 8 officially supports

• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard),
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard),
• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

As it is a UB, it supports Power-PC based Macs as well as Mac Intels.

Of course Quark didn't put anything into QuarkXPress 8 to prevent it from running on higher versions of OS X. However you need to try yourself. Here are some steps how I made QuarkXPress 9 run under Yosemite: http://forums.quark.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=26849

Your experience might vary though and I cannot offer more help on this, sorry.

I know that version 8.5 runs under Yosemite (with a few problems though), see image:

However if you need an officially supported version of QuarkXPress under Yosemite, you need to use QuarkXPress 10.5 or QuarkXPress 2015 please. QuarkXPress 2015 will also support El Capitan in a few days.

Thanks

Matthias

handl.graphics wrote:

What is the latest OSX system that Quark 8.5 will work on Leopard or Mountain Lion. On a Macbook. Thanks Len K.

Since it sounds like you've already got it installed, I'd suggest cloning your internal drive to an external, upgrading the external to Mountain Lion and give Quark a try. The "Official" support is not necessarily the full extent of OS support.

The reason I'd suggested cloning and then upgrading is because Quark, like most software, has files installed in places other than the Applications folder which support and/or authorize the use of that software so having just the Quark program, which is actually a folder with many files in it, on the thumb drive wouldn't be enough to make it work.

But cloning assumed it was an installation on an Intel Mac. Since you say it was installed on a PPC Mac, it's likely it was configured for that and wouldn't run on your Intel MacBook even though it is capable of running on "Mac OS 10.4.11 (Tiger), Mac OS 10.5.8 (Leopard), Mac OS 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) or later" which, in fact, it does. A fresh install on your MacBook would require reactivation through Quark but if you have the installer (8.5.1 is the latest version) and records of your original purchase, it might work.

Since we don't know which MacBook you have, we don't know if it would run Leopard. Instead, since it is either currently running Snow Leopard (which can support PPC code) or started with it, I'd suggest installing Quark on the internal (if it's running SL) or booting from the SL DVD and installing it on an external and, after booting from that, installing Quark on it. My own experience with Quark 8.5.1 suggests it would do just fine with Lion. BTW, I believe you could run Quark for a short time in Demo mode in case you wanted to test it on the internal.

This may get complicated. First in order to install an OS on an external drive, it needs to be connected to a Mac which you've booted from. Since you've already got Yosemite installed on your MB, it won't let you install an earlier version which Lion is. However, if you installed Snow Leopard, it'd come on a DVD which you could boot from and it probably wouldn't even recognize your internal since it's likely to be a Core Storage volume which was introduced after SL. You could use that to partition and format the external before installing SL on it. Then, booted from the SL external, you could try installing Quark on it to see if it works.

Again, an advantage of using SL is that if there is any PPC code in Quark, especially in the installer, SL is the last version of OS X able to execute it.

As noted in your other topic by Király, Quark 8.5 is in compatible with Yosemite. It still contains some PowerPC components. As such, it will not run properly under Lion 10.7.x or later.