Some transparency effects may change, such as dashed Frames (Strokes in InDesign).The text will convert, but without the associated hyperlink data (URL, etc.). QuarkXPress has more control over Bullet placement, so bullets may move a bit.Q2ID can convert one or all Layouts at once. QuarkXPress Projects can contain multiple Layouts of any size and orientation.Table of Contents and Indexes are not converted - the text is converted, but not as a “real” TOC in InDesign.Inline graphics are placed on top of the text.Also, grouped anchored boxes are not supported. If any item is locked in a group, then the item will become unlocked and the group itse.Markzware’s documentation lists a number of things that won’t convert exactly the same, mainly due to differences in the InDesign and Quark XPress feature sets. Therefore, we needed to create a new radial gradient fill in InDesign, from Paper to Orange: (For example, we changed +3 pt leading on 10.5 pt text to be 13.5 pt leading.) The text then converted as expected.Īnother unexpected change was that the original cover featured a circle with a radial gradient fill from White at 100% opacity to White at 0% opacity, which InDesign doesn’t support, so the gradient fill was converted to 100% Paper color. To fix this, I went back to the QuarkXPress document and replaced all relative leading with absolute leading. The converted text appeared to have double the intended leading. Many QuarkXPress users have enjoyed this ability for decades, but InDesign doesn’t allow it. This lets you keep the leading at 3 points greater than whatever the point size is, as you experiment with font sizes. The difference that affected this project the most was that QuarkXPress allows you to define leading in relative amounts, such as +3 points. There are just too many differences between the features in QuarkXPress and InDesign. As Markzware clearly states in their promotional material and in the documentation available from the Help menu, Q2ID does NOT convert with 100% fidelity. Other than a few slight changes to line breaks and pagination caused by InDesign handling leading and hyphenation differently from QuarkXPress, and text wrapping differently around some images, the conversion was fairly accurate.
#QUARKXPRESS 2015 REVIEWS MAC OS X#
(On my MacBook Pro with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 8 GB of memory, running Mac OS X 10.9.4.)
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#QUARKXPRESS 2015 REVIEWS PLUS#
The conversion of this 665 page document containing mostly text took 4 minutes, plus an additional 3 minutes for InDesign to display it. Q2ID then happily converted the 9.1 document. The quick solution was to open the document in QuarkXPress 10 and export it as a QuarkXPress 9.1 document. Our challenge was that, for whatever reason, Q2ID froze when attempting to convert the QuarkXPress 10.1 document. (You can even batch-convert multiple QuarkXPress documents by holding down the Shift or Command/Ctrl keys and selecting multiple documents in the Open dialog.)
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Or, even more seamlessly, you can simply use InDesign’s standard File > Open dialog box, which magically now shows QuarkXPress documents. It’s not that Q2ID is difficult to use - converting a QuarkXPress document is as easy as choosing a menu item: Getting to the moment of actually seeing our layout in InDesign had some challenges as well. (In the screenshot above, the QuarkXPress spread is viewed at 130%.) InDesign is more accurate - QuarkXPress displays pages 30% smaller than their actual size, so to see a realistic representation of the pages required zooming in to 130%.
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The second surprise was in how each program displays a page at “100%” size.
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Quark’s advantage in this area is especially valuable when working with Chinese characters, which require more attention than the English characters I’m more familiar with. QuarkXPress displays text much more clearly than InDesign does. My first disappointment wasn’t the fault of Q2ID: it was the difference in text clarity (and therefore production efficiency for my eyes). More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.