And they are going through the same struggle that many of us went through.Ĭheck out this e-mail I just received from a newly-hired designer: I mentally throttled the previous designer with every format application.I know it’s hard to believe for some of us, but there are still large organizations who are just now making the move to Adobe InDesign from QuarkXPress. Then they got mad because it took me so long. I asked the manager for direction and the manager said “exact size, exact format!!!” OK. For example, I was working with sizes that were “9.3338 on 9.3348”. I was dealing with six or seven sizes of regular and bold weight, and italic, Helvetica in a paragraph. The previous designer had taken their text boxes by the handles and resized them to make the type fit the page. Which at first was OK, but I had to match the QxP formatting exactly. So I had to cut/paste between the two – and the formatting from QxP was lost or restyled by InDD. My point is, once I had QxP on the machine again, InDD would not open the QxP file – the ages and versions of both programs simply wouldn’t allow it. The company had taken QxP off the machine I was on. I wanted to share an experience I’d had with migrating a file from QxP to InDD a few years ago, picking up as a contractor from where another designer had left off. The only solution that worked so far was saving the WP file as text – thereby losing all the formatting – then pasting into Word. Perhaps you can do a piece on bringing WordPerfect files into MS Word. Thanks for the help with the QxP/InDD issue. For more information on attending one or bringing it to your company, organization, or school, go to her site, call The Type Studio at 20, or email Ilene at Sign up for her e-newsletter at Jat 3:17 pm Love type? Want to know more? Ilene Strizver conducts her acclaimed Gourmet Typography workshops internationally. If you’ve used either plug-in, feel free to share your experiences by clicking on the Comments icon. Just go to this page on the Markzware site to add the free two-year subscription to your purchase.įor those of you who have to go in the other direction - that is, from InDesign to QuarkXPress - check out Markzware’s ID2Q (also $199). If you decide you like Q2ID and want to buy the plug-in, give yourself a little present and get a free two-year subscription to InDesign Magazine along with Q2ID. Quark documents (circled in red) show up as importable elements in InDesign once you install Q2ID.Īs an incentive to give this plug-in a try, Markzware will convert one document for free. So while Q2ID is not always a 100% guaranteed solution for every conversion problem, it is a time-saver when migrating Quark content that’s quick and easy to use.įigure 1. I suggest careful proofing after you convert. I’ve also heard of occasional discrepancies with kerning, tracking, text reflow, and the occasional missing font or two, particularly Zapf Dingbats. I’ve never had problems with Q2ID, but for some documents, you may have to tweak the converted type slightly to make it match the original exactly. Q2ID converts all elements, including type, images, and fonts. Once you install the plug-in, open InDesign and go to File > Open, then navigate to and click on the QuarkXPress document you want to convert. InDesign on its own doesn’t recognize more recent Quark files, but there is help in the form of a great plug-in from Markzware Software called to Q2ID ($199). While this is not strictly a type question, it certainly relates to typography, especially when you’re faced with converting or recreating designed content that contains type. Is there a way to open a QuarkXPress 5, 6, or 7 document in InDesign? I can only open QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.1 files in InDesign.Ī. If Ilene answers your question in the blog, you’ll receive one Official T-Shirt! Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography.
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