Box borders and lines are translated to the closest InDesign styles.ĭashed borders may change pattern (short dashes may become long dashes), and the fancy bitmap borders, such as the Certificate and Yearbook styles, become solid strokes. Guides are retained at proper locations.7. Master pages become InDesign master pages.6. Character and Paragraph styles become InDesign styles.5.
Text boxes become InDesign text frames.4. Picture boxes become InDesign graphics frames and retain any content (but see the Not-so-good news section for some caveats).3. That is, facing pages don’t come unglued, and no pages disappear.2. You’ve no doubt read poorly translated handbooks for electronics: “Please to not be pressing ON with this hairs dryer when the bathing will happen.” You get the idea.That said, a lot of things survive the trip:1. The following sections are based on conversions of QuarkXPress 4.11 files, without help from.Good newsKeep in mind that, even though it’s as easy as File Open, converting a QuarkXPress file to InDesign is a translation process.Īnd you know what happens when translations aren’t perfect. Even though you’re probably dealing with QuarkXPress files of later vintage, put that aside for the moment so we can consider the issues you face in conversion, regardless of version. Markzware’s plug-in (as in ) is a plug-in for 2/CS3 that allows users to open files to convert digital images and text created in all versions of QuarkXPress - up through and including version 7.0.We’ll get back to the joys of Q2ID in a bit.įirst, you should know the basics of file conversion so you can be prepared for the process in general - and the results. The bridge was out.You’re probably acquainted with the fine folks at, who market the products I hope you’re using to preflight your files before you send them off to the printer. And QuarkXPress 6.0 offered no method for saving to the ancient version 4.11 format.
Q2ID TRIAL MAC OS
Many skipped that version and waited for QuarkXPress 6.0 to ship so they could finally use QuarkXPress under Mac OS X.
Q2ID TRIAL UPGRADE
That would have worked just fine, except that an awful lot of QuarkXPress users didn’t upgrade to 5.0. The solution, then, was for those scheming InDesign users to save QuarkXPress 5.0 documents as QuarkXPress 4.0 documents.
At the release of QuarkXPress 5.0, the file architecture of QuarkXPress documents changed-one imagines, to thwart opening by wily InDesign users.Don’t blame for not providing a way to open late-model QuarkXPress files in InDesign: It was a matter of respect for the proprietary nature of a competitor’s file format. Yet still cannot open up documents created in QuarkXPress versions later than 4.11. What has changed, of course, is QuarkXPress itself after all, we’re up to version 7.0 now. While it’s surprising this works at all, you should know what converts and what does not.OPENING QUARKXPRESS FILES IN INDESIGNSince the beginning, InDesign has had the ability to open QuarkXPress files created in versions 3.32 through 4.11 – that hasn’t changed since InDesign One-Oh. You’ve finally come to that fork in the road: Do you build a new newsletter template from scratch, or do you take the easy way out and just open the file with InDesign? If there’s a lot of work in the template, go for File Open. The template for the newsletter is currently in QuarkXPress. You are in a hurry to get up to speed, and you have just been asked to create a client’s next newsletter in InDesign. You have to retrain your brain to a new way of working and remind your fingers which keys to hit for those newfangled shortcuts. Is an Adobe from to XPress to. Q2ID allows you to content in, and CS5.5. Here is a Q2ID review by Claudia McCue:If like many designers you are in the process of making the big switch from QuarkXPress to InDesign, you know it is not a trivial undertaking.
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