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20 May, 2006 | Filed under “QuarkXPress”
You have experienced the situation if you have worked with QuarkXPress in the Classic environment on the Macintosh: screen artefacts and redraw problems. One suggested workaround has been to install the RedrawClassic XTension. I never tried it myself, partly because I always strive to keep my system lean and clean, partly because software begs for upgrades around the next bend, but most importantly because there is a keyboard solution to this particular problem.
I had the following note published on MacFixIt in January of 2003:
“Hitting command-option-period forces a redraw of the screen and cures the problem with screen artifacts (‘leftover ghosts’) and horizontal font shifts with QuarkXPress 4.11 in Classic. It is a routine, not a permanent fix, but it bypasses the need for yet another XTension.”
When QuarkXPress was ported to Mac OS X, nothing had been done by Quark to remedy the behaviour and it was one of several reasons which finally sent me in the direction of Adobe’s InDesign, come version 2, then finally a mature publishing tool. I still use QuarkXPress with old documents and templates, though, and (with version 6.5, at least) use the keyboard shortcut whenever the annoyance surfaces.