Converting Quark to InDesign
reference InDesign 10.5.6:
I have some old Quark files in 4.01 that I need to access, can I save them as editable pdfs and if so, further open these editable pdfs in InDesign? Or, is there some other way to convert these files without having to recreate from scratch?
> have some old Quark files in 4.01 that I need to access
InDesign can open Quark 4.01 files.
There will be some text reflow, but they do open.
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How to convert quark file to Indesign
Hi publisher,
You can choose File > Open, select the file wants to be opened in InDesign to open documents and templates created with QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress. There are some recent verions of Quark that are not supported by InDesign. So if your file is created in earlier versions of quark, it may seem working in InDesign when opening, else recent versions are not supported.
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this is related question to my previous one.
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How to solve this out.> have some old Quark files in 4.01 that I need to access
InDesign can open Quark 4.01 files.
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What is the best software/plugin for converting Quark files to Indesign?
What is the best software/plugin for converting Quark files to Indesign?
I don't want to upgrade to the latest Quark now i've got CC so going to make the leap to indesign only. Does Indesign auto convert or do I need anything else?ID does not load QXD files. There is a respective commercial third-party plug-in to that effect, but it's rather pricey and I'm not up to speed which versions of Quark and ID it supports and which features come over. Inquire in the ID forum.
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Please share your experiences moving from Quark to InDesign
My company's design group is pushing to move from Quark to Indesign, starting with one of my projects, which is our largest (400 pages), highest profile document (it is currently in Quark, and the plan is to pour the text and graphics into InDesign). Our schedule is very lean--leaving little room for surprises. None of the compositors in the design group have used InDesign. They are expected to recieve some formal training--but only about 1 week's worth total over a period of several weeks. I am all for making the transition to InDesign, but feel that the wiser path to take is to start on smaller and less high-profile documents that have more time in the schedule for the learning curve. However the design manager is adament that the transition will be problem-free. My experience is that any transition like this has bumps, and most are unexpected, and create havoc and panic. This document has only gone to print on time once (in 10+ years)--with me managing the project and with much sweat and tears. My hope that this year we could go to print on time AND do it with less wear and tear on all who work on it. I just don't think this will happen making this tranisiton now. Can anyone share their experiences when they made the transition?
Everyone else has had really good advice about starting with a 400 page doc, particularly if it's complex. If it's just text with a couple illustrations every 4 or 5 pages, it might be do-able, but if it's a complex document with lots of stuff on every page, it could be tricky.
Try this link for the official converter's guide.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs3ip_quarkmigration.pdf
Some practical tips for the beginning XPress converter that I learned the hard way...
- Cmd-shift-click pulls stuff off the master page.
- The lack of master anchors may limit your ability to accomplish certain master page layouts (with prelinked text boxes) that are easy to do in XPress. Everyone here will tell you to simply use the margins to control your text flow, which may or may not work well for your particular case.
- Always scroll around a document by holding down option+spacebar. This insures that you will get the scroll hand tool every time instead of accidentally inserting a zillion spaces into your text.
-Cmd-shift-A deselects everything in a text box so that you can select another tool. There is no next/prev tool shortcut, but rather keys for each tool. (T is text, A is the white arrow, V is the black arrow)
- You "thread frames" rather than "link text boxes" despite how I wrote this. :)
- Don't set text wrap to effect only the stuff underneath in the prefs because...
- All text should go in a separate layer on top of the graphics layer because...
- InDesign dynamically resolves transparency effects at print time, which means if part of your text is layered under a transparent element it may get rasterized.
- If you need to get text to show even when it's on top of an object with a text wrap, select the text box and check the "Ignore text wrap" option.
- Overprint Preview is your friend. It'll help show you all those things that you didn't notice were going to print strangely before you commit them to print. (Overprinting white type, etc)
- When you're just starting out, so is the Flattener Preview because you will start to get a feel for what is going to be bitmapped and what won't.
- XPress documents imported into InDesign should always be exported as Adobe InDesign Interchange and reimported one more time. .inx is the equivalent of the "thumb-nail drag" trick in XPress to clean up a document that is acting funny.
- XPress documents with placed EPS files may come in with the "Non-printing object" attribute checked on some of the EPS graphics. There's a script floating around that Dave Saunders wrote to fix this. Also, turning Overprint Preview will help you spot this (look for the disappearing objects).
- If you are placing EPS objects, be sure to set your import options to "Render preview from postscript" or your previews won't look right and/or may be deceiving.
- Don't every base your paragraph styles off of "Basic Paragraph Style", because if it ever changes in another document your type will suddenly change when you paste it from one document to another.
- Don't base anything off of "Basic Object Style" for the same reasons.
- Your defaults change whenever your change the options in a palette/panel without anything selected. Curious why every new object you draw comes in with a drop shadow or a 3pt rule, for example? You accidentally set those options with nothing selected.
- InDesign's paragraph composer may drive you (or your proof-readers) wonky because it will change the flow of text paragraph-wide if you redo a line of text. You can either adjust it for decent text flow and leave it alone OR turn it off by basing all your stylesheets on single-line composer. People in here will largely recommend option one, but if it doesn't work for your stuff, don't be afraid to disable it.
- Make sure to upgrade to the latest CS3 update, because CS3 v5.00 had some fairly crashy behavior.
- If CS3 feels really sluggish, try turning off page previews in the Pages palette.
- CS3 and OS X 10.5 are not fully compatible yet.
Best of luck! It's not really that big a change, but everything is slightly different so expect a bit of time to really get your feet under you. -
Quark to InDesign conversion?
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I would appreciate any feedback on which is the best product to go for; and whether it is worth the money.If you don't want to buy the conversion software, there is a prompt service that will do it.
Here QuarkXpress files can be converted into Indesign files for a small fee, which will save you purchasing the whole conversion software for only a single file or so: link deleted by forum host -
Need to import a Medical Dictionary from Quark to InDesign
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I have their .QUD file from Quark but am having difficulty loading it through the preferences.
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Thanks in advance!From your description I'm guessing a .qud is a Quark User Dictionary file from Windows XPress. If so, then it should be a simple text file.<br /><br />The best thing to do is open it in a text editor, make sure it all looks clean, and then paste all of the text into InDesign and run a spell check, keeping all of the words as you go. A bunch of clicks for the conversion, but it will create a user dictionary file as InDesign requires, which is a different format from Quark's.<br /><br />When done back up your new file from ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/Dictionaries/Adobe Custom Dictionary/<language of the file>. (Mac location, Windows should be similar.)
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The CS6 trial version converted ALL my InDesign files to CS6!!
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CS6 only converted any documents you opened and saved. CS6 is likely associated with indd files, but that is a separate issue. Try opening a file you have not saved from CS6 by first starting CS5 and opening that file from the File | Open menu in CS5.
Mike -
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Hi guys,
I have a trifold piece which is created in illustrator. There're two sides of this trifold. Inside and outside, each in a separated illustrator doc. It has vector logos, place photoshop EPS images, vector shapes and text. My printer said he needs an inDesign file. Since I'm mainly a web designer who never actually used inDesign before. Is there anyway I can convert Illustrator into InDesign? I can convert all text into outline if that makes things easier. Ideally, I'd like to preserve all alignment and layout of the page.
Is it possible?
Thanks.
ShaunAlthough it is true, you can deliver a PDF, there is a way to get a PDF natively into InDeisgn. Here is a a how-to video on a product I represent called PDF2DTP for InDeisgn. In this case, it can also be used to convert an Illustrator artwork file into a brand-new InDeisgn layout, with active fonts, vector obects and everything converted over:
Maybe that will assist.
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Markzware -
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Kathlene,
My post wast't directed specifically at you as much as meant to be a clarification of the rules. Someone (perhaps you) said they knew people who used the software to convert files for other users. I just wanted to make sure future readers would understand the difference between using Q2ID as part of the normal get-a-file/convert/work-with-file/return-new-file-to-client workflow and offering an I'll-convert-your-files-for-you-so-you-don't-have-to-buy-a-copy service. -
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Currently have had problems converting a Quark 5.0 file into ID CS3 Windows platform. It is my understanding that ID CS3 only accepts Quark 4.1 and under...is there anyway around this? The person with the Quark 5.0 file is not able to 'Save As' a 4.1 or lower version; the software doesn't allow it. Any suggestions?
Thanks!Email it to me and I'll convert it for you. If you get a lot of these,
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Click my name, go to my website and you'll find contact info there.
Bob -
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i have a QuarkXPress4.0 document, my client need to convert this document to IndesignCS3. I converted the document easily to CS3, but the style sheet shows the external style symbol. Now I am edit the style and convert it to IndesignCS3 style. My QuarkXPress4.0 having lots of style names, In this stage the conversion process takes a huge time, Is there any short way to convert those styles as indesignCS3 style or any script is available, please kindly help on this, it is urgent for me.
Thanks in advance
PrithiviTry the scripting forum. I'm sure there's something floating around for
this. That said, in my experience, it certainly doesn't hurt to go
through all of those styles anyway.
Bob -
Importing Quark into Indesign cs3
I am importing a quark 4.1 file into indesign cs3 and it seems all the text frames I had tabs formated on didn't translate into indesign cs3 well. Specifically the last couple tabs were off making the text jump to the next line and moving other text over. Is there anything I could do to fix this isssue? I tried to export the text from quark to a word doc and then I tried to import that word doc into indesign and it still was messed up. Any suggestions?
My guess is that the tab settings are exactly the same as you had them
in Quark, but that the text is wrapping a little differently. Figure out
what's making the text a little bit longer in Indesign and fix that.
Conversions from Quark, or Pagemaker, or even from previous versions of
Indesign always involve some fixing up. For me, it's not worth
converting from Quark unless the document is being completely reworked.
Otherwise, I just leave it in Quark.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com -
I'm switching from Quark 6.5 to InDesign. To convert an existing 6.5 file, I'm told to first save it back to 4.0 BUT Quark will only let me save back to 5.0. How can I open the file in InDesign without having to purchase Marksware? Thanks.
Joel AIf you have a full library of files, then the money spent on the
Markzware plugin will pay for itself over and over again.
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Bob -
Markzware's Quark-to-InDesign Plugin
I saw someone mention the Markzware plugin on here a while back. Glad I saw that post! We just got new computers at work, and no one could find the QuarkXpress installation CDs to install it on my new computer. I don't design in Quark any more, but I often need to access old files that were created in it. So I asked for that plugin (work was happy to buy it for me since they didn't want to shell out the money for the software again, whereas I didn't want to be stuck with no way to access old files). Just curious if anyone has used it regularly and could comment on it (?). I experimented with converting a 68-page magazine in it yesterday. Took 5 minutes or so but appears to be a good conversion. Just wondering what sort of thing I should look out for.
The only confusion after installing it was that it doesn't really show up in an obvious manner in InDesign. Quark files aren't listed as open-able (except the really early versions which InDesign could already open). But if I go to open a file and then say "show all files," I can pick a Quark 7 file and it works.
Anyone use it much?
Thanks, PhyllisThe first thing to do after the conversion is export to INX and open
that to work on.
Text frames will likely have a slight offset, EPS files may be set to
non-printing. Text will likely reflow.
But generally speaking, the conversions are very good.
Bob
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