InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Appendix A. Converting QuarkXPress Files

Perhaps the greatest concern to XPress users who want to use InDesign is the large store of QuarkXPress files on our hard drives. Fortunately, you can convert most of your QuarkXPress files and templates into InDesign documents. In this appendix, we'll tell you what you need to know to make this feature work for you.

Note that InDesign 2 can open QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.x documents and templates. It can open QuarkXPress Passport files of the same versions if they have been saved as single-language files. QuarkXPress 5 files must be saved backward to QuarkXPress 4 format. (InDesign can also open Adobe PageMaker 6.5 and 7.0 files as well, but that's less relevant for this book.)

Although we don't know what Adobe has planned for later versions of InDesign, it would surprise us if they ever update this feature so that it can open files from XPress 5 or later; we think of it as a "limited time opportunity."