Lori Evans, graphic designer for Scuba Schools International purchased her first copy of Q2ID (QuarkXPress To InDesign) at the Denver InDesign user group meeting. Evans shares her experience with us, “I sold it (not for profit) to the company I work for because I knew we really needed it. We had a lot of Quark files that wouldn’t open at all in InDesign.” I thought it was odd because all the files were either created, or had been updated to Quark 4, so it seemed like these files should have opened in InDesign.”
Evans continues, “I am always coming across these Quark files that won’t open, but need to be converted to InDesign. The solution used to be to either open it in Quark 6 or to recreate it from a hard copy. Neither one of these is a good solution. Opeing it in Quark 6 means that down the road I still need to find a way to convert it to InDesign or continue supporting Quark which is no longer our software of choice. And, of course, recreating the document is not an efficient use of time.”
“I have not yet come across an old Quark file that Q2ID wouldn’t open. So, I have been happily converting all those files from Quark to InDesign using Q2ID. And as I come across the files that had been opened in Quark 6, I will be converting those, too.
