Opening old Quark Xpress files on a newer Mac

The non profit I used to work for has lost it's PDFS of our old newsletter, which they want to re-post on their website. It seems our only option is to make new ones, but the files used in their creation all date between 1997-2003--most of them are Quark 4 for OS 9 (plus the associated images created in versions of photoshop or illustrator that date to that period) because at the time I was not using an OS X enabled Mac. 1) is this the right place to ask this question; might i be better off inquiring on another forum, 2) Aside from potential problems opening files created in an OS 9 environment, might their be additional complications were we to try and do this on an intel machine? (I know little about how various SW applications handle backwards compatibility) 3) any suggestions on how best to go about this? I recall whenever I ran Quark in classic mode on my Ibook there were always font issues. 4) any pitfalls I might not be anticipating? 5) Might the best option be to find on old G4 running OS 9 in native mode loaded with Quark and the fonts we need (I have one, but it's not working. Not sure what's wrong)

I'm a bit out of practice; I did this stuff years ago. So you're saying you could use the old font files for Mac OS 8-9 with Mac OS X?
Kurt Lang wrote:
As far as fonts, we've never had an issue opening any old fonts as long as they're not corrupt in some way. Type 1 PostScript, old legacy OS 9 and earlier TrueType suitcase fonts, doesn't matter. As long as they're good, they'll work.
As far as fonts, we've never had an issue opening any old fonts as long as they're not corrupt in some way. Type 1 PostScript, old legacy OS 9 and earlier TrueType suitcase fonts, doesn't matter. As long as they're good, they'll work.

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