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Quark 6.52 Compatability with newest version (8.0?)

Last post 06-16-2009 9:33 PM by Shelley Minardo. 2 replies.
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  • 06-16-2009 12:03 PM

    Quark 6.52 Compatability with newest version (8.0?)

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    I don't use Quark too much, I'm an Indesign user, but at my current job I’m doing all of the design work in house but it’s been quite the process trying to make updates when I don’t have any of the source files. My boss wants me to make small updates to a 10 page folder but it was originally designed in Quark 6.52. We were playing with the idea of buying a license because the designer wants to charge us almost $800 to convert the files to Indesign and it might be more cost effective to just buy a Quark license to avoid this situation again in the future. I obviously don’t want to get an older version of Quark and I just wanted to make sure that all of the files that were used for the Quark 6.52 would be fully compatible with the newest version of Quark. Help! Does anyone have any advice?

  • 06-16-2009 2:08 PM In reply to

    Re: Quark 6.52 Compatability with newest version (8.0?)

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     You can open QuarkXPress documents as far down as version 3.x with XPress 8.x. The one issue you are likely to encounter is fonts. Unless you have the same fonts as the person who did these documents, you are probably going to have to change them.

    It might be cheaper (and more desirable for you) to go and purchase Quark2ID, which is an InDesign plugin designed by Markzware that will convert QuarkXPress documents to InDesign documents. The conversion won't be perfect of course and you'd probably have to clean things up, but that'd be easier than trying to recreate the documents (and at $399 cheaper than buying a license from Quark). The guy charging you $800 for this probably would be using the same plugin (but I don't know that for certain). BTW, Markzware also makes ID2Quark (which works in the other direction) and a number of other XTensions/Plugins.

    Hope that helps.

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  • 06-16-2009 9:33 PM In reply to

    Re: Quark 6.52 Compatability with newest version (8.0?)

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     Great timing!  I'm hoping your suggestion for the Markzware plug in will help me, too.  I just upgraded my old iMac to Leopard and the ONLY issues I'm seeing is my Quark 6.5 fonts-   I used to use Quark all the time... but my day job started using InDesign and so I followed suit at home.  Thanks for the tip!

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