8.5

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Mapping for projects that use custom characters
If characters in a legacy project use an extended code range, those characters may display
incorrectly when you open that project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later. To fix this problem,
you can change the way the problematic characters are mapped to Unicode characters by
using a custom mapping table. A mapping table is a text file that tells QuarkXPress how to
convert text that uses a particular flavor of encoding to Unicode. Each mapping table
contains a list of encoding-specific code points and their corresponding Unicode code
points.
To create a mapping table, first navigate to the "CustomMappingTables" folder:
Mac OS:
[DRIVE]:Users:[USER]:Library:Preferences:Quark:QuarkXPress:CustomMappingTables
Windows: [DRIVE]:\Documents and
Settings\[USER]\ApplicationData\Quark\QuarkXPress\CustomMappingTables
Within this folder are the following mapping table files:
chinsimpmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS Simplified Chinese encodings.
chintradbig5.txt: Used for legacy files that use Traditional Chinese encodings.
japanesemac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS Japanese encodings.
japanesewin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Japanese encodings.
koreanmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS Korean encodings.
koreanwin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Korean encodings.
As installed, these mapping tables contain instructions for creating custom mappings, but
they do not include any actual mappings. To create custom mappings, open the file that
corresponds to the encoding used by the target project, and then follow the instructions
in the file to create the mappings you need. Then quit QuarkXPress, relaunch, and open
the project. When you open the project, QuarkXPress uses your custom mapping table to
convert the project's characters to Unicode.
Mapping tables are used only when opening pre-8.0 projects. Once you have saved a project
in the current QuarkXPress version format, the text is in Unicode and the mapping table
is no longer required.
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