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June 24, 2024
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QuarkXPress to InDesign

  • June 24, 2024
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Can I open a QuarkXPress file created on a Mac in my InDesign on my PC?

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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July 20, 2024

Check out Markzware's OmniMarkz software.

https://markzware.com/products/omnimarkz/

(Warning--not inexpensive.)

 

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Brad @ Roaring Mouse
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July 20, 2024

What version? InDesign can open 3.3.- 4.1 file from either platform (works well, btw). If you have newer than that, in addition to selling utilities to convert newer Quark files to InDesign, markzware also has a conversion service where they do the work for you priced according to the size of the file. That might be a better option for you if you just have one or two files. I had them do a client's huge Publisher file for me a few years back and was very satisfied with the results.

If it's QXP 6.x or less I can probably give it a try for you as I have an old Q2ID plugin on an old Mac system here.

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
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June 24, 2024

There is some continuity, as older versions of ID could open certain file types created by certain QXP versions.

 

I suggest you simply try it.

 

If not, there are both conversion apps (which may be too pricey for a one-shot job), and services. A few of the folks on here have multiple older systems in play just for this kind of conversion as well.

Peter Spier
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June 24, 2024

It would have to be a decades old Quark file...

Support for direct opening quark ended with Q version 5 or 6, I think, and was dropped after InDesign CS6, if I remember correctly.

Mike Witherell
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June 24, 2024

Yes, up to Q version 4.1 and up through InDesign CS6, as I recall.

Mike Witherell