QuarkXPress 3.32 68k, PPC & 3.32r5 Updater

the difference between a "virginized" installer and one like QuarkRenamer where you change after installation is simple. A "virginized" installer, you put in more than just your name and business...you fill out the registration for Quark again. With QuarkRenamer, you install whatever version you have and you use QuarkRenamer to change the name branding on the splash screen...note that using QuarkRenamer doesn't update the registration information, it just changes the splash screen. After using QuarkRenamer, I can still see the original registration person's information, not my own.

Hi tmm: I should have updated that comment ages ago on reflection. Read my previous post below, posted "2014, January 31". I get into describing how Quark Renamer for 4.0 appeared to work initially, but after a couple of restarts or less it went cactus and I had to reinstall from backups. I think I'd better update my post on that page now, too.

However, Quark Renamer for 4.0 (if it worked 100%) only lets you replace an installed copy of QXP's username in the About QXP dialog box, whereas blackholemac is really after an Installer floppy disk "virginizer" for QXP.

blackholemac may be onto something with his notes about xpress-re-serialize-v3-4 but its going to be a difficult find I think.

@themacmeister and @MikeTomTom

looked at all the options and having some trouble honestly with the ones that modify the installer. QuarkRenamer works, but it doesn't change the registration file I discussed...just modifies the splash screen. Of course I am using a read/write disk image (with an original put away safely) and I was able to modify it properly. The trouble I'm having is that after I run these resource replacements on the Installer Disk, the installer seems to think it is an upgrader.

According to the third download (a Word document explaining the whole thing) on: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/xpress-re-serialize-v3-4, there is a note midway down that document that says I might be missing an extension called "Read Registration" and notes that it is included. It doesn't seem to be included in any of your downloads. If someone has that, please feel free to upload it. I think this will work in the end, but I simply need that file.

blackholemac

@blackholemac: Thank you for the useful information in your post. I hadn't heard of the "option trick" with QXP before. Interesting tho' is the IE PPC copy I put up here. Holding the option key down and getting info on it, gives back good info on the application itself but buttons to open info on the registered user are grayed out and cannot be viewed. So maybe that's a plus. It was Mac OS 9.1 that I tried it on tho' and it might be different on earlier Mac OS's, which I'll test it out on later.

Of the QXP patchers here that themacmeister has pointed out, QuarkRenamer for 4.0 patches an installed copy of QXP 3 and later. I thought that it worked OK initially, but it after a day or so it develops a problem where it decides its no longer a legit program (reports a problem and informs you that you need to contact Quark, then exits). So I needed to then re-install QXP from unpatched backups. The patcher Xpress Repersonalize patches a registered floppy but it then becomes a floppy that wants to update a previous installed version of QXP so it fails to work on your existing QXP which will be the same version as the floppy you've patched. So I'm not sure if it works at all.

Sad to say, I haven't had any real success with QXP floppy disk patches to date...

Re your comment about Word 5.1a... I do have a unregistered floppy disk installation set for this. I'd assumed that this would be up here already so never checked. Guess I'll make a garden page for it sometime in the near future.

I would love to see an untouched copy surfacing on Macintosh Garden ! Can you upload images of your CD & floppies if you get the registration removed from the Registration Disk ? I believe there was some little tool for that purpose (do not know how reliable it was, if you get grab of it, please make sure to use it to a copy of your original floppy first !).

I recently purchased a boxed copy of QuarkXPress 3.32 that includes 68k and PPC installers on a single floppy combined with a single CD. It also included original floppy installers to update to 3.32r5 for both 68k and PPC. Got it for $5 on Amazon. Almost totally pristine save for the fact that the previous owner did go through the registration process with it. The problem is that Quark at that time required users to register and use a User Registration Disk to output the registration to and it was up to you whether to mail the User Registration Disk back to them or not. Once you completed said registration, it permanently modified the installer floppy with the registration info. Very similar to MS Word 5.1a. It's hard to find an MS Word 5.1a installation floppy set untouched. The only way I have gotten Word 5.1a untouched was to use an MS Office CD.

There used to be a utility out there somewhere that removed that personalization from Quark, but I haven't seen it online in a long time. If anyone knows of it, please post. I will consider uploading my Quark find to BetaArchive, but don't want folks hammering the original user. You can easily see all the user registration info for a given copy of Quark by holding down the Option key and going to About QuarkXPress under the Apple menu while in the QuarkXPress application. Granted...we are dealing with 15-18 year old info, but still...don't want that original user getting prank phone calls or mailings.

Let me know what others say on the issue,
blackholemac

Humm.. did you try it on real mac hardware or emulator? Can i take a shot at that cd?

hi everyone, don't forget to download the QPS_XTension.sit
that I just add on the second link too. bye

see new link above

MikeTomTom: hate to report, but... I got burnt on this purchase. Disks looked like someone had spilled coffee over them. Some disks were readable but not enough to recover either 2.1.2 or 3.0 to be be usable. Trying to recover my losses now

I am feeling sorry for your loss !
Perhaps someone else is able to provide a copy of Quark XPress 2.x and 3.x floppies.

Just to clarify: tracing back my files i just found out that the file i uploaded is the quark available at MacGUI, downloaded back in may. Sorry about the confusion.

Hi macjames,
When I click on the download link, an error message is displayed.

Thank you all for trying to reload it. Hope someone could accomplish it.

@macjames; No problem, maybe someone who did manage to DL the 3.32r2 copy will re-upload it.

@tmm: as only you know, who it was you donated your backup to... can you ask for it, please?

ps. are you freezing your proverbial's off right now? Just saw the Tassie weather report. Hoping it was heading up this way - bush fires all about and so dry here.

@macjames: > "Hope i reuploaded the file that was here."
It isn't. Your upload appears to be version 3.32 for PPC & not the version 3.32r2 + Xtensions that tmm had posted to mediafire (but not to here). I think tmm has lost his archives to 3.32r2 too, Sad to say, I didn't grab a copy while it was still available from MF.

I made a friggin' donation to this site for server space, so that Megaupload or Mediafire or Rapidshare or whatever, would not be an issue.

I will not be uploading again until a safe server space is in place.

@xy -- I originally learnt DTP on Pagemaker/Freehand, but a helpful employer trained me on Quark XPress and Illustrator (so that I may find paid work in the future!).

From InDesign 1.5 onwards, there was no chance that XPress would remain a player in the industry. I would suggest that at least 80% of the design and publishing market moved to InDesign, and that's a minimum figure guess!

The last 3 places I worked had changed to InDesign -- a 100% conversion rate!

@xy, thanks, these are aimed mostly at 3.1 -- use with caution on 3.31r2, I thoroughly recommend you update to 3.32r5, as it is the most stable version. I used this version for many years, as we saw no reason to update to 4.x or 5.x.

I still use Nisus 6.5 every day. It's much better than Nisus for Mac OS X. However, version 6.5 is not abandonware:

U.S. version:
http://nisus.com/NisusWriter/
German version:
http://www.computerworks.de/produkte/andere/nisus-writer/bestellen.html

The only nag is that they do not sell the Nisus Writer International Dictionaries / Dictionary Collection anymore. They are abandonware.

QuarXPress 3 is the last Quark version Nisus Writer 6.5 provides a Nisus2Quark filter for.