InDesign-To-QuarkXPress conversion tool
updated 05:25 pm EDT, Fri August 18, 2006
Markzware ships ID2Q7
Markzware has released an update to its InDesign-To-QuarkXPress conversion utility: ID2Q7 is an XTension that easily and effectively converts Adobe InDesign files (v1.5 through 4.x) into QuarkXPress v6.x or 7 documents with a single click. The conversion process includes elements of the documents such as object positions, colors, fonts, text attributes, images, etc. Additionally, ID2Q also converts between cross-platform files, i.e., converting PC InDesign files to Mac QuarkXPress and vice-versa. "ID2Q solves a giant problem for many design studios. Being able to open an InDesign document in QuarkXPress makes it possible for those who tried InDesign but prefer QuarkXPress to salvage the projects they created in InDesign. It vastly increases page layout options for the entire industry," according the company. ID2Q7 is $200 and currently available for Mac users only (a Windows version is in development).
is there anyone...
08/18, 05:44pm reply
who prefers Quark after using inDesign? I can't imagine...
dwoodruff
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Joined: Jul 2006
!!!
08/18, 07:11pm reply
who the heck wants to do that!
suhail
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Joined: Nov 1999
Well...
08/18, 08:48pm reply
...at least there's a solution for the 2-3 designers stuck with Quark...
ZinkDifferent
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Joined: Jan 2005
quark still better for...
08/19, 12:50am reply
large projects, like textbooks. And for those of us who "grew up" with QuarkXPress, InDesign is not an easy transition.
Maybe it's because I couldn't get beyond the "man, this feels just like PageMaker" part, but Quark is much more intuitive to use for me... and I really wanted to make the switch, as there's stuff I love about InDesign (besides the fact that it's not Quark). I do use InDesign for some stuff, but it still doesn't feel "right" to me.
lockhartt
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Joined: Apr 2000
it still won't save QUACK
08/19, 02:12am reply
if anyone truly gives indesign a try, they will find it's more powerful, faster, more stable, full of more features (ones that you don't have to pay upwards of 1000 to get, like markzware's), and just more intuitive than anything from this horrendous excuse for a software company that still, after years of eroding marketshare, can't get it right.
and as someone who loathes the thought of losing an independent company like quack, er quark, to a monopoly like adobe, in this case i say GOOD RIDDANCE.
software like this only helps the backwards production departments still stuck in 1998 make their lumbering but inevitable transition.
zl9600
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Joined: Oct 2003