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So if you do have Quark, here's how to convert the file from QuarkXpress to InDesign. Make sure the fonts are installed and the pictures linked It was about 76 pages long and we really didn't fancy recreating it.īelow is an old publication which we needed to convert recently. There were loads of Quark stylesheets embedded, master page items and all sorts of other elements that would have taken ages to recreate, including plenty of images to re-import and so on. The file was a Quark 6 document, so we first needed to back-save it to version 5. First, make sure that all the necessary fonts are present. This is good practice so that you can see how well or badly the conversion has gone. Also, make sure all images are correctly linked, present and correct. Once everything is hunky dory, select FILE/SAVE AS. and select version 5.0 from the Save Dialogue Box. Give the filename a v5 suffix (before the. Click SAVE.ĭon't worry about the missing fonts in the Classic OS QXD) so that you don't overwrite the original. Open the newly saved file in Quark XPress 5. If you're working on a Mac this will cause the Mac Classic operating System to open. You'll probably get a missing font warning when the file opens and the text will be all over the place (see below). Don't worry about this - re-saving the file without the fonts present in Classic won't lose any of the font information. It'll still work fine when you re-open it in OSX. and select Version 4.0 in the Save Dialogue Box. Now we're ready to open the file in InDesign and complete the Quark InDesign conversion. Here I'm using InDesign CS2 - but CS3 will do much the same thing.
Select FILE/OPEN and select the Quark Version 4 file you just saved.
Click open and the conversion will begin. You might get the odd warning such as the one shown below - just click OK and fix the links once the file's been opened.Ĭheck and double check the converted file Sometimes when you convert Quark to InDesign the conversion can be rather time consuming it's quite a complicated process going on behind the scenes.
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