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Other Conversion Options

Opening an XPress document in InDesign isn't the only way to transfer your assets to your new page-layout program. You may find that it is easier, faster, or more convenient to transfer just parts of the document and rebuild the file in InDesign from scratch. Here are a few things to keep in mind.

You can export your text stories as Microsoft Word files (or Rich Text Format files in XPress for Windows) and import them into InDesign. However, you might get more reliable results by exporting in the XPress Tags format and then importing them into InDesign using the TagOn plug-in (which can read XPress Tags) from Late Night Software (

www.latenightsw.com ).

We also find it helpful to use XPress's Collect for Output feature to pull together all the graphics in one place, making them easier to import into InDesign.

One of the best ways to repurpose content from XPress or InDesign or any other program is XML. In our opinion, the Avenue.Quark XML tools that ship with QuarkXPress 5 aren't currently particularly useful. However, there are several other Quark XTensions on the market that help you get XML out of XPress, like RoustaboutXT from Apropos Toy & Tool Development (

www.attd.com) , WebXPress from Gluon (

www.gluon.com) , EasyPress from Atomik (

www.atomik-xt.com) , and Xtract from Noonetime (

www.noonetime.com) . Once you have XML files in hand, you can import them into InDesign. (For more on dealing with XML files in InDesign, see

Real World InDesign 2 .)