Below are the release notes that document the new features, improvements and bug fixes that were included in the various releases of the XV4 version of Q++Studio in 2025 (previous years' release notes can be found here).
January 28, 2025 (XV4 build 24814)
New
•Q++Studio's support for InDesign from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2025, now includes tested support for the latest update to InDesign 2025 (version 20.1.0 of January 2025).
Improved
•Changed references to the C:\ and Q:\ drives in this documentation to a more general reference to the server folder to better cover both standalone-workstation and multiple-workstations configurations.
•Added more information to message 172170 and the message now also triggers preemptively before the undefined color request is sent to InDesign or QuarkXPress.
Fixed
•Fixed some issues, and made the documentation clearer, with the moving or resizing textbox macro functions when applied to InDesign rotated boxes (JMata, 23-jan-2025).
•When using multiple layers for the box keep, box modify, and box delete minicalendar dates framing and shading, only the first layer objects would be processed (JMata, 22-jan-2025).
•Fixed the spurious appearance of message 177955 under certain conditions (Yangjisa, 21-jan-2025).
December 31, 2024 (XV4 build 24788)
New
•Q++Studio's ongoing QuarkXPress support for all versions from QuarkXPress 8 to QuarkXPress 2025, now includes tested support for the latest update to QuarkXPress 2025 (version 21.0.1 of December 2024).
•Q++Studio's ongoing InDesign support for all versions from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2025, now includes tested support for the latest update to InDesign 2025 (version 20.0.1 of December 2024).
•Q++Studio's ongoing InDesign support for all versions from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2025, now includes tested support for the latest update to InDesign 2024 (version 19.5.1 of December 2024).
Improved
•Removed unneeded occurrences of macro compiler message 115110 when the declared but not used variable is a local variable of an inline function which itself is defined but not used anywhere (and hence is already causing the compiler to emit the message 181005).
Fixed
•The contextual help of the macros editor would not show the help for the current word under the cursor if that word (built-in function or system variable) was immediately preceded or followed (without a space) by a plus, minus or times sign (18-dec-2024).
•Fixed an offset bug in the macro function MoveBoxVert (18-dec-2024).
•The occurrences of message 108056 would not immediately be removed when updating all the files of a script which had more than one matching file located by the find file dialog (3-dec-2024).
November 30, 2024 (XV4 build 24754)
New
•November 22, 2024: Q++Studio supports the newly released version of QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress 2025 (version 21), as well as all the previous versions of QuarkXPress from QuarkXPress 8 to QuarkXPress 2024.
Improved
•The exportation of Sun data now includes the date and time of the mid-point of all 4 seasons.
•Documented the macro compiler messages 110201, 110202, and 110203.
Fixed
•Under certain circumstances, message 108514 would not be triggered (Brepols, 27-nov-2024).
•Under certain circumstances, recent updates to Windows 11 might not be properly identified by Q++Studio as being Windows 11 (GinhuaPSN, 14-nov-2024).
•Fixed a bug in the opening of the tokens and translations manager (Diarpell, 8-nov-2024).
•If no formatting was selected for the holidays1 and holidays2 minicalendar options, then the corresponding selected holidays list was reset to none, which made sense, except for old scripts using the legacy alternate font formats minicalendar options (Blueline, 6-nov-2024).
October 31, 2024 (XV4 build 24697)
New
•Support for the latest update to QuarkXPress 2024 (version 20.1.4 of October 2024). Q++Studio currently supports all QuarkXPress versions from QuarkXPress 8 to QuarkXPress 2024.
•As usual Q++Studio supported InDesign 2025 on the date of its official release, October 15, 2024.
Improved
•Added a button to display the rules of the currently selected holidays set in the holidays (override) property editor.
•Expanded the section on special characters that are specific to InDesign with the mention, where applicable, that a specific marker has a non-breaking behavior by default, such as em-spaces, and tips on how to display such markers in a way that lines do break around them.
•The code that calculates astronomical data, tokens, macro functions, and events, has been updated with improvements to the visibility criteria (which is used to calculate the rise/set of the Sun, the Moon, planets, and stars, as well as planetary and stellar visibility during the year) and the use of updated values for DeltaT, reflecting the fact that the rotation of the Earth has slowed down less in the 5 past years than the generally accepted models had predicted.
Fixed
•Tokens whose date had been shifted by the nResult action of a macro could in some cases erroneously be treated as falling outside the month and therefore trigger unexpected monthly outside days options such as deletion, group deletion, or text format changes (Brunnen, 17-oct-2024).
•When using the box keep, box modify or box delete types of minicalendar dates framing and shading, InDesign frames with an unassigned content would be ignored (QuoVadis, 16-oct-2024).
•On some servers, updated license files would not be automatically downloaded (12-oct-2024).
•Increased the database request timeout from the default 10 seconds to 120 seconds when trying to copy saras from one set to another, as some users with a lot of saras were getting timeouts (JMata, 7-oct-2024).
•Fixed a spurious error message which occurred when trying to apply an item, table, or cell style as the result of a macro or when using the FormatText macro function (JMata, 4-oct-2024).
Previous Years
See also: release notes 1999-2024.
Topic 151700, last updated on 28-Jan-2025
