Q2ID v5.0 for Macintosh (QuarkXPress to InDesign CS4. Instant Document Conversion for InDesign Users. NEW - InDesign CS4 for Macintosh Compatible. Now Universal Binary for MacIntel. Q2ID v4.0 for Windows Users.
Features
- Supports Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS5
- Converts QuarkXPress v3.3 - v8.x
- Simple to install
- Quick & easy to use
- Swift return on investment
- Preserves intellectual property investment
- Enables easy data migration
- Eliminates time re-creating content
- Reduces costs re-creating content
- Freedom to choose your authoring system
Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign. It provides users a quick and easy way to migrate their QuarkXPress content into a new Adobe InDesign document. The conversion is enabled with a single click using InDesign File->Open.
Intricate details of the content within the QuarkXPress document are instantly re-created within InDesign. Items converted from Quark include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models.
The Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) document conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from within QuarkXPress on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an Adobe InDesign file, which then can be opened on both platforms.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- FOR MACINTOSH:
- G5 or Intel based Mac
- 2 GB RAM
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- Mac OS v10.5 to v10.6x
- Adobe InDesign CS4 or CS5
- Internet Connection for product Activation
- FOR WINDOWS:
- Pentium III or Higher
- Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
- 1GB RAM
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- Adobe InDesign CS4 or CS5
- Internet Connection for product Activation
It is important to understand that it is not possible to achieve a 100% conversion due to the fact that
QuarkXPress and InDesign handle text in differing ways. Simply stated: you wouldn’t want to be too brave by
converting and blindly printing the new document. Instead, you will need to visually inspect the converted document
and in some cases manually edit a few objects. Therefore, the primary goal of the conversion is to essentially
move the basic document objects from one application to another, thus saving you a tremendous amount of
time and effort as compared to recreating the entire document from scratch. Furthermore, the most ideal way to
convert one desktop publishing file to another application is to simply avoid any features which are known to not
convert well, such as features that are not supported by the destination application. In most real cases, however,
this is not possible since you may already have a number of documents that you would rather not have to re-work,
but instead wish to magically convert over to another application. With this in mind you should take some time
and consider the following points regarding the conversion:
- FONTS -
When activating missing fonts, if InDesign mistakenly considers the fonts to be OpenType or substitutes
with an unwanted font.
- TEXT ATTRIBUTES
- Subscript, Superscript and SmallCaps will use the
- Horizontal value if it is not 100%.
- Justified Center or Right Drop Caps are not supported.
- Rules Above and Below for Drop Caps will not be positioned correctly.
- Rules Below may be displayed in InDesign even if the paragraph has no Paragraph Return.
- Forced Justification will be converted to “Justify with last line aligned left.”
- The Outline typeface is supported by converting the text to a stroke of .25 pts with a fill of None.
- Shadow typeface is not supported in QuarkXPress 6. However, a Shadow could be emulated by setting a
- Drop Shadow on the text box or by manually duplicating the text, placing it underneath the original text
and setting the tint to say 60% and offsetting its position.
- Only Nonbreak Hyphens are supported by InDesign.
- FRAMES -
An object’s Frame will be centered in InDesign (except for Polygons which will be framed inside.) Note that Dotted, Dashed or Multiple Line Frames with a gap color of “None” in InDesign will display the
Fill area equal to the entire object size whereas in QuarkXPress the Fill area is inset the width of the Frame.
- ARROWS -
Feathered arrows are not supported by InDesign.
- RUNAROUNDS -
A Runaround for a picture box might not cause the text underneath to flow as expected. This is because
InDesign allows text to appear on both sides of the picture box.
- COLORS
- Hexachrome colors will be converted to CMYK.
- Process Coated EURO may convert to CMYK.
- For InDesign 3, Metallic and Pastel colors are converted to LAB.
- Multi-Colors must contain at least two colors and one must be Spot.
- OPACITY -
Opacity in InDesign is applied to the entire box whereas in QuarkXPress you can uniquely set the Frame
Opacity. If the Fill Opacity is 100% then a Frame Opacity will be converted as a Tint.
- BLENDS -
If a Blend does not appear on the InDesign Swatches palette, select the object until the color appears on the
Color palette and drag it to the Swatches palette. A QuarkXPress Blend used in a single Table Cell will not fit
exclusively within that Cell because InDesign spreads a Gradient across an entire row of columns.
- TRAPPING -
All QuarkXPress Trap settings will be ignored.
- IMAGES
- If an image file is missing Q2ID will create a preview file in a temporary folder in which case you will
need to manually locate and relink the original image.
- 1-Bit images may loose their transparency, especially if the image is missing. The solution is to locate the
image and ensure it contains the desired clipping path, or manually set the clipping to “Detect Edges.”
- QuarkXPress 7 “Picture Effects” (including Picture Background Color) are not supported.
- TABLES
- Sometimes Tables will not be fully displayed due to an overflow. In this case you will need to manually
adjust the height of the text box until the Table is fully displayed.
- Additionally, If left or right Table Cells use the same color they will overlap on the inner rows. Linked
Table Cells are not supported. InDesign does not support Skewed text in a Table Cell. A rotated Table Cell
should be in increments of 90 degrees or it may not be visible. Table Cells chained to text boxes outside a
Table are not supported by InDesign and therefore the text will remain within the starting Cell.
- Also, InDesign does not support Combine Merge. In this case the merged objects should be changed to
Exclusive Or in QuarkXPress before the conversion for the best effect.
- GROUPS -
If any item is locked in a Group, then the item will become unlocked and the Group itself will be locked.
Also, Grouped Anchored Boxes not supported.
- LAYERS -
Layers set for Suppressed Output will be converted to “Show Layer” turned off. Note that the QuarkXPress
“Default Layer” cannot be renamed and therefore the first InDesign Layer’s name will be ignored.
- GUIDES -
If any Guide is locked then all Guides will becomes locked.
- TOC & INDEXES -
Table of Contents and Indexes are currently not converted. However, simple Bookmark type hyperlinks
will be converted.
- PREFERENCES -
The following Preferences will be set based on the values from the QuarkXPress document, otherwise the
InDesign default values will be used:
- Horizontal and Vertical Measurement Units
- Superscript/ Subscript Scale and Offset
- Small Caps Scale
- Ruler Coordinates Page/Spread
- Show Baseline Grid, Offset, Increment (but not Color)
- Snap To Zone (Guides only) and Snap Enable
- Guides in Back and Show Guides
- PDF Preferences and Color Management Preferences are currently not converted.
- LAYOUTS -
If the QuarkXPress document contains more than one Layout you will be asked to choose a specific Layout
or you can elect to convert All Layouts.
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