quark to indesign CS3?

[nyutnyut]

used to be able to open quark documents in CS1, seems CS3 won't do that. is there a work around to this?

[Joel Beason]

what do you save the files as

[nyutnyut]

what do you save the files as

the quark files? it's just a regular quark file i got from a client. don't have quark right now, but i have a friend that can convert it, if it needs to be.

[Joel Beason]

yeah, you'd have to do that because I have cs2 and it doesn't let me do that, use this I think this is the article...

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs2mrquark.html

[Blue Velvet]

It's not CS. At QuarkXpress v5 or 6, probably v5, Quark apparently decided to put a form of encryption upon the files, which prevented Adobe working with them.

When you say work on, do you mean being able to fully edit? If so, depending on the scale of the job and how much it's worth to you, you've got two straightforward options:

1. Go to Quark.com and download the 30-day full trial to get the file to press or...
2. Use something like http://www.markzware.com/q2id/ for $200. And it won't be perfect, there's often a glitch or two which needs some manual tweaking. Check separations and proofs carefully.

[nyutnyut]

It's not CS. At QuarkXpress v5 or 6, probably v5, Quark apparently decided to put a form of encryption upon the files, which prevented Adobe working with them.

When you say work on, do you mean being able to fully edit? If so, depending on the scale of the job and how much it's worth to you, you've got two straightforward options:

1. Go to Quark.com and download the 30-day full trial to get the file to press or...
2. Use something like http://www.markzware.com/q2id/ for $200. And it won't be perfect, there's often a glitch or two which needs some manual tweaking. Check separations and proofs carefully.

man, i can't wait till everyone stops using quark

[jerryrock]

Open QuarkXPress files in InDesign

InDesign can convert document and template files from QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.1x. InDesign can also convert document and template files from multi-language QuarkXPress Passport 4.1x files, so there is no longer any need to save these files as single-language files first. (To convert documents created with QuarkXPress 5.0 or later, reopen the documents in QuarkXPress and save them in 4.0 format.)

[CMD is me]

2. Use something like http://www.markzware.com/q2id/ for $200. And it won't be perfect, there's often a glitch or two which needs some manual tweaking. Check separations and proofs carefully.

I've used this and it works very well. Pretty pricey, but better than recreating a Q file.

[InLikeALion]

I've used this and it works very well. Pretty pricey, but better than recreating a Q file.

And MUCH less expensive than buying a quark license.