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1. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
P Spier Jan 3, 2011 12:15 PM (in response to BobS71)Q2ID is your only option for opening anything newer than Quark 4.1.
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2. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
BobLevine Jan 3, 2011 12:19 PM (in response to BobS71)Yes it works, Yes it's necessary, no...there's no reasonable alternative without owning Q8,7,6, and 5.
FWIW, it's worth every dine.
Bob
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3. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
BobS71 Jan 3, 2011 12:31 PM (in response to BobLevine)Thanks Peter and Bob!
I'm headed over to the Markzware site to buy Q2ID...
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4. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
Joel Cherney Jan 3, 2011 12:32 PM (in response to BobS71)The import procedure (for the older software) looked to be quite cumbersome. I'm hoping that InDesign CS5 is more capable and efficient at importing QuarkXpress files. I also read about Q2ID by Markzware. Does that product work with InDesign CS5, or is it even necessary with InDesign CS5?
My friends/associates/etc. who have purchased Q2ID have, for the most part, been happy with both the functionality of Q2ID and the responsiveness of Markzware. The few who haven't been happy, sorry y'all if you happen to read me being snarky about you, had extremely unrealistic expectations. Complex layouts tend to suffer when converted - maybe you are expecting that your insanely overdesigned eye-burning layouts are going to look & behave exactly as they did in Quark. If so, you are bound to be disappointed. It'll save you a lot of time - but if you are expecting to spend no time on cleanup/rebuild then you are in for a bit of a shock.
I never bought it myself, so consider the above as hearasy.
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5. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
BobLevine Jan 3, 2011 12:38 PM (in response to Joel Cherney)Even Markzware will warn you about that.
Bob
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6. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
BobS71 Jan 3, 2011 1:01 PM (in response to Joel Cherney)Hello Joel,
Thanks for your comments. I've done enough conversions in the past 25+ years as a tech writer to know that I will be faced with some clean-up efforts after the import.
My Quark template is pretty simple... one big text box on the right-hand side of each page (landscape), leaving the left-hand side of each page for my illustrations and graphics to be placed.
I think my biggest conversion problem is going to involve these graphics. Many of them have text callouts (in text boxes) with arrows (made with Quark graphics) pointing to the proper spot on the illustration or graphic. I'm wondering how well those will all convert and import. I do have them all grouped in Quark. By that I mean that one graphic and all of its associated text callouts and arrows are grouped.
I guess I'll find out!
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7. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
P Spier Jan 3, 2011 1:06 PM (in response to BobS71)Watch out for text wrap issues. Last version I used for Quark only had text wrap affect objects below. That is not the default condition for ID.
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8. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
BobLevine Jan 3, 2011 1:35 PM (in response to P Spier)It is for Quark files converted to InDesign. At least it used to be.
Bob
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9. Re: How to Best Import QuarkXpress 8.0 Files into InDesign CS5
P Spier Jan 3, 2011 1:38 PM (in response to BobLevine)Well that's good.



