Features
- Preserves intellectual property investment
- Enables easy data migration
- Eliminates time re-creating content
- Reduces costs re-creating content
- Freedom to choose your authoring system
ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) is an XTension for Quark. It provides users a quick and easy way to migrate their InDesign content into a new QuarkXPress document. The conversion is enabled by selecting Convert InDesign Document from the QuarkXPress Utilities menu.
Intricate details of the content within the InDesign document are instantly re-created within QuarkXPress. Items converted from InDesign 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 ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) document conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from within InDesign on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an QuarkXPress file, which then can be opened on both platforms.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- FOR MACINTOSH:
- Macintosh G5 or Intel based Mac
- 2 GB RAM
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- Mac OS v10.5 or Higher
- QuarkXPress 7 or 8 or 9
- Internet Connection for product Activation
- FOR WINDOWS:
- Pentium III or Higher
- Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
- 1GB RAM
- 1280 x 800 screen resolution
- QuarkXPress 7 or 8 or 9
- 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:
- PAGES -
The maximum page width or height allowed by QuarkXPress is 48”. QuarkXPress does not support a first
page left of the spine unless an even Section Format has been set. QuarkXPress does not support an additional
“slug” area in which case all objects on the pasteboard which are above or below the document page area may
not be converted. One solution is to obtain Markzware’s Pasteboard XTension to change the length of the
pasteboard to allow the conversion of the objects within the slug area.
- MASTER PAGES -
QuarkXPress does not support multi-page Master Pages (more than 2 pages for a double-sided document or
more than 1 page for a non-facing pages document.) Also, Master Pages based on other Master Pages are not
supported. However, the objects will be conveniently created on the referencing Master Page. QuarkXPress
does not support Master Pages Layers. An InDesign Master Page can be a single page but may not always be
applied to a double-page. Linked text boxes cannot cross master pages nor link to a pasteboard object. Note
that pasteboard objects on Master Pages will not be applied to regular pages.
- FONTS
If there are fonts reported as missing after a document conversion you might try locating them in the Adobe
application support folder where you will find several OpenType fonts that InDesign activates privately:
User:Library:Application Support: Adobe:Fonts:
- TEXT ATTRIBUTES
- Auto-Leading in InDesign is per ParaStyle whereas in QuarkXPress this is global preference.
- Character Spacing not supported for TextOnPath.
- If the Horizontal and Vertical Scale are different then the one not equal to 100% will be used.
- Text Skew is not supported because QuarkXPress applies Text Skew to the entire text box.
- QuarkXPress determines overflow using a font’s descent. To accommodate for this you can use the
- “Grow Overflow Text Boxes” feature which will increase the text box bottom 4 pts, the right side 1 pt,
doing so up to 4 times until the overflow stops.
- QuarkXPress has no Underline or Strikethru options.
- QuarkXPress does not support Align Last Line.
- Text Stroke Color not supported.
- None Text Color with a color stroke will be converted to Outline style with the stroke width ignored.
- A Section Marker will be displayed as Current Page.
- Only Characters and Letters of Nested Styles are supported.
- There is no specific H&Js in InDesign. Instead the settings are maintained within Paragraph settings.
- Right Indent Tab will not Justify text Full Right in QuarkXPress.
- Bullets and Paragraph Numbering are not supported by QuarkXPress.
- 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.
- Opacity will be either Normal or Multiply (non-Normal.)
- Gradients will be converted to QuarkXPress Blends using only the first and last colors. If a Linear Blend
has more than 3 colors, the blend will become Mid-Linear.
- IMAGES
- When an image file is missing, ID2Q will create a preview file in a temporary folder. Select the Usage menu
item, select the picture, twist down More Information and scroll to the bottom to see the original pathname.
- If a picture preview for a missing image is a TIFF without a resolution, QuarkXPress may consider the
resolution to be 101 DPI.
- QuarkXPress does not support the PCX image type.
- 1-BIT images may not display properly or loose their transparency, especially if the image is missing,
but should still print just fine.
- RUNAROUNDS -
InDesign’s Include Inside Edges turned on means Allow Holes and equals QuarkXPress’s OutSide Edges
Only turned off.
In InDesign you can base the runaround on the bounding box since an object is a container with content
whereas QuarkXPress does not handle objects this way. Therefore the runaround should be Wrap Around
Object Shape.
Text Wrap Above object is not supported. Also. Ignore Text Wrap is not supported, as well as some types
of Invert Text Wrap.
- TABLES -
An InDesign Table is essentially an anchored box within a text box. Often the Table is such a tight fit that
this causes an overflow in QuarkXPress. The remedy is to manually widen the QuarkXPress text box until the
Table can be fully displayed.
- ANCHOR BOXES -
Nested Anchor Boxes are not supported by QuarkXPress. For example, pasted objects (such as Pictures) in
Table Cells are considered to be “anchors within anchors” because an InDesign Table always resides (is
anchored) within a text box. Such boxes may be placed centered over the Table. Anchor boxes using Custom
or Above Line are not supported (as well as Space Before/After, etc.) NOTE: InDesign allows text to display
over the anchor box but QuarkXPress does not (even if one adjusts the bottom runaround to 1/2 height.) If the
InDesign anchor mode is not “Inline” or there is a space before or after, then the anchor box will be set to
Ascent. Additionally, Anchor Offsets are not supported.
- POLYGONS -
Open Polygon shapes cannot be filled in QuarkXPress and therefore they will be converted to closed paths.
Rounded Corners in polygonal shapes are not supported by QuarkXPress.
- MULTIPLE-OBJECT PASTE INTO -
QuarkXPress does not support the InDesign feature of Multiple-object Paste Into in which case some boxes
may be displayed at incorrect position on the page or in fact may not be converted at all.
- PREFERENCES -
Print Settings, PDF Output Preferences, Color and Profile settings are not supported.
- NOTES & FOOTNOTES -
Notes not supported and the text involved will be ignored.
Footnotes are likewise not supported.
- MOVIES & BUTTONS -
Movies and Buttons will not be converted.
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