PROBLEM

SOLUTION

Interface problems.
It's clear that the UI still needs to be fixed. For example, the Toolbar will not correctly highlight the selected tool. In Fig. 3 below, the Item tool is selected in both screenshots, but the button had to be clicked twice to correctly highlight in the screenshot on the right. There is, in fact, a slight shading on the Item tool button on the left, but it's too subtle to notice.

While the slight shading is too subtle to see by itself, it can be noticed if you move to another tool using the keyboard (Command-Option-Tab).

More interface problems.
The measurements palette now uses anti-aliased text in input boxes, but when highlighted has white fringes.

Other applications that have anti-aliased text in input boxes don't exhibit this behaviour, so I presume this is a bug that Quark needs to fix.

More interface problems.
The "Hide QuarkXpress" and "Hide Others" commands do not work.

This is clearly a bug that Quark needs to fix.

Naming problems with Projects and layouts.
QuarkXpress 6.x names layouts differently than documents (projects), so if your workflow consists of using only one layout per document, and you happen to rename the document's name in the Finder, the layout name will no longer match.

Quark's introduction of projects and layouts, while seeming quite useful, introduces some problems. For example, you may have many different layouts with different names in a project, but if you were to do a search for that layout by file name in the Finder, you won't find it. If you export layout as a PDF, it will not match the project's name either.

This is yet another reason to adopt carefully designed docket numbers in filenames. As long as the docket number is in the Layout file names as well as the project name, at least you know which project to search in. This is not perfect, but it's one way to get around the problems introduced by projects.

Of course you can completely avoid these problems by having only one layout per project. If you follow this route, you may want to set your preferences in the PDF section to create PDFs with the default name "Project.ps" instead of the default "Layout.ps" so that your PDFs will match your document names.

Command-Period doesn't always work.
In some places in the UI, like the print progress dialog, it specifically asks you to use Command-Period to stop printing, and that shortcut has previously worked in most other areas in the UI. Now, however, it doesn't work in some places, like the "Open" dialog.

Since the Mac OS continues to accept Command-Period to cancel out of most dialogs, this would appear to be a bug in QuarkXpress. But since the ESC key works for ALL cancel functions in QuarkXpress AND the OS, you should probably use ESC from now on.

F13 doesn't close Usage panel.
F13, which calls up the Usage panel, no longer closes it as well.

Use the ESC key.