Where QuarkXPress layouts looked terrible without plug-ins to aid visualization, InDesign even made linked EPS files look good. It also rendered colors, accurately reflecting inks onscreen: The.


Convert Quark files to InDesign, without having QuarkXPress on your computer. Send IDML files to Affinity Publisher version 1.8+. QXPMarkz can export QXP file text and save it as plain text, RTF. If you have to convert a Quark version 4 file, you don't need Quark at all - you only need a copy of InDesign (in this case I used InDesign CS2). Just open the Quark file in InDesign and you're away. It will natively convert version 4 files. Jan 12, 2021 Screen Fonts and Fonts Available to QuarkXPress and InDesign The Installed Fonts tool displays the list of fonts installed on your workstation, and available to the Screen, QuarkXPress, InDesign,and any combination thereof, in an advanced data grid. ➢ The Installed Fonts tool is accessible from the Tools menu of the main window.
What is converted
Script conversion replaces all the references to .QXP QuarkXPress files, of the current script, to references to the same name file, but with the .INDD extension of InDesign files (and vice-versa when converting a script from InDesign to QuarkXPress).
➢This affects the value of the Output FileName property of the Book Format script line, as well as the Quark Filename of all the Quark Pages script lines of the current script (or the InDesign Filename of all the InDesign Pages script lines of the current script, in the case of converting an InDesign script to QuarkXPress).
Additionally, the file name extension of each Grid Template used in any of the Diary Grids script lines of the current script will also be changed from .QXD to .INDD (or vice-versa when converting a script from InDesign to QuarkXPress).
What is not converted
What the script conversion does not cover is the creation of InDesign .INDD files, from the existing QuarkXPress .QXP files. Below is a table of the available options to automate the conversion of QuarkXPress files to InDesign, and vice-versa.
QuarkXPress to InDesign | Markzware proposes well-established solutions to convert QuarkXPress files to InDesign; Q2ID (Quark to InDesign), for Windows, or QXPMarkz, for Macintosh. Both plug-ins give you a head-start on QuarkXPress to InDesign file conversion, although some manual tweaks are almost always needed, to address the differences between QuarkXPress and InDesign document structure. |
InDesign to QuarkXPress | To convert InDesign files to the QuarkXPress format, the simplest option is to use the IDML Import (InDesign Import) feature, available from within QuarkXPress, since QuarkXPress 2017, without the need for a third-party solution. Other options, are also available from Markzware, namely IDMarkz for Macintosh and ID2Q, whose development has been discontinued, for Windows and/or older versions of QuarkXPress. |
All the above options require some manual tweaking, but they do get you very close to a fully converted document. In particular, these automated solutions have vastly improved over the past 10 years.
Conversion Options
When you launch script conversion, the dialog shown on the right, appears, letting you choose between converting the current script, or converting a copy of the current script.
Convert a copy of the current script (RECOMMENDED)
Quarkxpress Vs Indesign

1.A duplicate is made of the current script.

2.A duplicate is made of all the Grid Templates of the current script.
3.A duplicate is made of all the Quark Info Pages or InDesign Info Pages of the current script.
4.A duplicate is made of all the Saras used by the current script.
5.The duplicated copy of the script is then modified so that it refers to all the duplicated Grid Templates, Quark Pages, InDesign Pages and Saras.
This means that you now have 2 identical scripts, one based on QuarkXPress and one based on InDesign, and that none of the existing Grid TemplatesQuark Pages or InDesign Pages, possibly used by other scripts, have been modified.
➢Note that the individual Grid Templates, Quark Pages, InDesign Pages and Saras are only duplicated if they have never been duplicated as part of the conversion of a Script (from QuarkXPress to InDesign, for example). This means, for example, that if you convert multiple QuarkXPress script that use the same Sara, then that Sara is only duplicated once, and all converted scripts use the same duplicated Sara.

It also means that, if you need to modify some of the Saras due to differences between QuarkXPress and InDesign, then any other script that uses those Saras is not affected.
Convert the current script
When you choose this option, the changes of file references extensions from .QXP to .INDD are made directly to the current script.
In addition, as mentioned above, the file name extension of each Grid Template used in any of the Diary Grids script lines of the current script will also be changed.
➢If some of these templates are used by other scripts, then this conversion between the QuarkXPress and the InDesign file formats may have unintended side-effects, as it may make other scripts, using the same Grid Templates, unusable.
For the above reasons, we do not recommend this option.
Conversion from QuarkXPress Preferences
Additionally, there are a few options in the InDesign preferences which assist in the handling of attributes and options used in QuarkXPress but which do not exist in InDesign (such as italics).
Quarkxpress To Indesign Converter Free
Topic 184955, last updated on 14-Mar-2021
