Huge Problems after being downgraded from Vista to XP at work

Hi - I am a graphic designer, and have designed numerous documents in Quark Xpress using Vista.

Last week, my company downgraded me from Vista to XP Professional. I soon found out that whenever I make changes to any of the Quark files I created using Vista, they print horribly -- the colors are off and the images are pixellated. I was told that this is because XP and Vista use different color profiles. I fear that because I haved altered the files and saved them in XP format their quality is permanently damaged.

My boss has asked me to find out a way to restore the original quality of these files.

(If this is not possible, all the work I've done since I started my job has been destroyed. :cry)

 

Thank you. I'll give that a try.

 

It asks for a password to extract the file. Would you happen to know where I can get this password? Is it the serial number?


This what the dialog box says:

File 'Hexachrome0GOffset' is password protected.
Please enter the password in the box below.

 

It wasn't the serial key, but I'm still trying...

 

This one work's with Oracle, try in small case "ids"

Steve

 

Tech support is pretty stumped too -- they were the ones who suggested I try to find the answer online.

I even tried creating a password for my company's Quark account, but even that's not working.

Maybe it does have something to do with our network security, since you seem to be able to install it without any trouble.

Thanks for all your help and for finding that link ... I'm sure it's exactly what I'm looking for -- if only I could install it! rolleyes

 

Lol... sorry. I work right next to tech support so they were the first ones I thought about.

Somebody has offered to crack the files for me tonight. Hopefully that works.

 

Don't think much of your IT dept, they should be able to reset the colour profiles for you.

Any serious user of Quark should consider a monitor calibrator such as

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Spyder-2-Express

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10066

Will try to post more detail after my bath.

 

You can play with alternative color profiles by opening the scanners and cameras or the printers dialog boxes in the control panel.

Select an individual device and right click.

Select properties and the colour management tab

You need to be logged on as an administrator to effect changes

Your It dept can also set color management in GRoup Policy.

In Windows XP it is called ICM 2.0 (image color management)

In Vista it is called WCS (windows color system)

You can get help on these from the windows help system.

 

Thank you, studiot. I'll look into that. I'm expected to fix it myself, apparently, as no one else seems to be able to. confused