QuarkXPress to InDesign - How to Convert with QXPMarkz

QuarkXPress to InDesign: Learn how to convert QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign, with QXPMarkz, Markzware's QuarkXPress document converter. This is a QXPMarkz tutorial on how to convert QuarkXPress to InDesign.

Three ways to convert QuarkXPress to InDesign, with QXPMarkz:
1. Within InDesign, click the Markzware menu item, and select "QXPMarkz".
2. Drag-and-Drop a QXP file into QXPMarkz and click “Open in InDesign”.
3. In the QXPMarkz menu, select FILE – CONVERT TO IDML.

Get details on batch processing QuarkXPress to InDesign, in this other video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlgs2ga5KHk

Contents:
0:00 - Intro by David Dilling for Markzware
0:11 - QXPMarkz application vs Q2ID plugin
0:30 - QXPMarkz Windows beta testers - Q2ID for Windows
0:40 - QXPMarkz overview - QuarkXPress to INDD, PDF, Affinity and more
1:02 - Three ways to convert QuarkXPress to InDesign
1:10 - Background on what QXPMarkz is and why
2:00 - Method one - Script to open in InDesign
3:19 - QXPMarkz conversion examples
4:13 - Method two Quark to InDesign - Drag-and-drop on QXPMarkz
6:16 - Method three - File, Convert to IDML without Preview
6:32 - What is IDML?
8:03 - Bonus method 4 - Quark to InDesign Automations for publishing workflows
9:46 - QuarkXPress to PDF without Quark!
10:20 - Contextual macOS menu in QXPMarkz
10:37 - Share QuarkXPress content top Twitter!
11:13 - Follow Markzware on Twitter @Markzware
11:40 - Share this video on Twitter, Tag us and get a surprise
11:50 - Closing how to convert QuarkXPress to InDesign

It’s that easy, to convert QuarkXPress files to Adobe InDesign, with QXPMarkz.
Markzware's stand-alone QXPMarkz (QuarkXPress to IDML) application allows users to open QuarkXPress in InDesign, Affinity Publisher, older QuarkXPress versions, and more:
https://markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz/

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QuarkXPress to InDesign - How to Convert with QXPMarkz

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Closed Caption:

Hi, everybody. David Dilling,
on behalf of Markzware, here.
This is a quick video for those who are
using QXPMarkz and particularly those
that are used to using
Q2ID from Markzware.
The new process to convert QuarkXPress
to Adobe InDesign is simpler than ever,
with the new QXPMarkz. Maybe the slight
problem is there are three different
options for converting
QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign,
with the new Markzware QXPMarkz. Q2ID
will be slowly phased out and still
available, certainly for Windows users.
And, by the way, the QXPMarkz for Windows
is coming, soon. If you want to be a
beta tester for QXPMarkz for Windows,
please send me an email
on sales@markzware.com.
The beauty of QXPMarkz is, not only
a preview, which is free for anybody,
of your Quark document, you can convert
to a PDF. Many users are using it,
just for converting Quark documents to
PDF, without even having QuarkXPress
or any other DTP applications.
Yet, others are using QXPMarkz to go to
Affinity Publisher, or
Illustrator, or many other options.
So, check it out. QuarkXPress to Adobe
InDesign has never been easier.
Let's go check out the examples, now.
Okay. Now, I’m over here, on my desktop.
This is on Big Sur, but it will work on
lower OS’s, as well. Once again, see
markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz,
for the full System Requirements.
It's a standalone application and I have
QXPMarkz down here,
with the rest of my Markz line.
That's the new line of Markzware
products, replacing our
plug-ins and extensions. So,
QXPMarkz. We load up a plug-in (I want
to say extension, but that's Quark),
with a plug-in to InDesign.
And Q2ID, there are
still so many users, out there.
So, if you are a Q2ID user
(I’m getting me out of the way, here.),
you’ll want to check out the
Scripts Installer, which we'll say
installs it up to date, or update,
because you can also get updates,
if you have a new version of QXPMarkz.
Then, you can use QXPMarkz, just like
you would Q2ID, within InDesign. And
that's going to be one of the methods
I’ll show you, on how to convert
QuarkXPress documents InDesign in a
moment. And actually, maybe,
we'll start there.
The first method to convert
QuarkXPress files. It’s not my
preferred method, anymore, now
that I’ve used QXPMarkz for many
months, but this is the way,
just like Q2ID, to convert
QuarkXPress documents, right into
Adobe InDesign, within InDesign.
So, if we … I'm going to go into
InDesign 2021. I'm going to launch it,
up here. It'll take a few seconds.
Alright. So, there we go.
You see it popping open, here.
Q2ID. Work, up top in the
Markzware menu item. And, now, that's
gone. There's no Q2ID, but there’s a
new item, that script we just installed.
And that's Convert QuarkXPress Document.
So, this is the first method,
on how you can convert
QuarkXPress documents to Adobe InDesign,
with QXPMarkz.
You launch InDesign 2020, 2021.
It doesn't matter.
Convert QuarkXPress Document.
You choose a document, this one, here.
It will convert, just like Q2ID,
right within Adobe InDesign,
although you did see QXPMarkz pop up,
for a second. So, it actually calls up
the app, does the process and,
then, throws it back up,
into InDesign, for you. Then,
we get it opened up, here.
We can just skip the fonts. And we
see this test file converts over, 100%.
Styles, text, colors, tables,
you name it.
Everything's converted, just like Q2ID.
Even better, in some cases.
The engineers claim, “in many cases,”
technically speaking. So, many things,
you won't notice, but there are going
to be a lot of improvements to the
conversion. So, obviously, the fonts
are missing, for me. So, I won't …
But I can go in there and I can
edit text, whatever I want to do.
So, that's Method 1 for
QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign,
with the scripts, up top,
under the Markzware menu item,
Convert QuarkXPress Document,
with QXPMarkz.
Now, with the next method,
I don't even need to be in InDesign.
I don't even need to have InDesign on a
machine, actually, to do the first part.
But, of course, going from
QuarkXPress to InDesign,
but that's what we're after,
so, it's going to help. So,
Method 2 is take a document and just
drag and drop it, onto the interface
or onto the application.
I’ll do the interface.
It's more visual, in this case.
I drop it, on there.
We prepare a preview of the
Quark document, before actually allowing
you to convert it. Let me get me
out of the way here. I mean,
it’s like a little thumbnail in the
QXPMarkz. Now, what's neat,
where I am, right now,
if it's a multi-page document, you'll
see another page 2, page 3, page 4,
over here, and this is what you get.
Now, I can actually show you that,
because I can actually take that
test file we just had
and drop it, on QXPMarkz, wherever.
It doesn't matter where I drop it.
And it'll open up a new tab.
So, this is very cool for, like,
comparing Quark documents, like,
which version do I want to convert?
In this case, it's not viable,
but you see, now, or where I’m sitting,
you see all the
thumbnails of a multi-page document.
You can click on a thumbnail and go
right to that page. And you can see
the spreads, etc. So, pretty amazing,
right? And this is free.
To preview QuarkXPress documents,
is totally free, right in,
with the download.
The Export and conversion is not.
So, now, the
#2 method, to convert a
QuarkXPress document to InDesign,
is to click, here,
Open in > Adobe InDesign.
And I click there.
I can check out all kinds of … more
file information, if I want.
Old Quark document, Quark 7.
I just click Open in > InDesign and
voila! Off it goes, opening my
QuarkXPress document, right up,
in Adobe InDesign, for us. So, now,
we’ve got this entire file, with all of
these advertisements, all of those
images, just converted right on over.
So, pretty neat, huh? Alright.
So, that's Method 2.
Now, just make note. There's also
many other … You can also
convert to Affinity Publisher,
or Illustrator, etc. Alright.
I’m going to get out of those.
The third method, I’m going to
highlight how to convert
QuarkXPress, with QXPMarkz from
Markzware, is without the preview.
Just a simple, very fast and easy
way to do it, and that's under
File > Convert to IDML.
IDML (InDesign Markup Language) is the
interchange format for
Adobe InDesign files. IDML will
open in CS4 of InDesign or higher,
right up to 2021.
That's their file format, their internal
file format, for sharing files. So, if
you convert to IDML, that file will
open InDesign, for you. So, now,
if I open, I can actually go and
select the Quark document.
You see it tells us which
version the Quark document is.
So, that's pretty neat!
I can take that document
and I can click.
You can start to get one, here.
Click Convert to IDML.
Now, what you get,
in the original folder,
you get the IDML file,
with the low-res previews, for making
the viewing of the file a lot better.
And this IDML, like I said, will just
open, in InDesign. There you go.
So, now, you get everything,
right up there, in
InDesign, for you. So, that's how you
can use the third method of opening
a QuarkXPress file, via the
File > Convert to IDML.
You don't have a preview.
So, for heavy files, every once in a
while, a preview will cause a crash
or cause it to be very sluggish.
So, if you cut out the preview part and
just go Convert to IDML, it's a great
way to convert QuarkXPress files
to InDesign.
And, sometimes, you get
bad QuarkXPress files.
It's a great way to
fix bad QuarkXPress files.
Convert them right to IDML. Boom!
A Quark document, very often
fixed. Not always, but often.
So, by bypassing the previews,
Convert to IDML is a great little trick.
So, that's the third method, but
there's actually a fourth method,
a bonus method, to convert
QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign,
and that's under our Preferences.
Now, this, under the Automation part
of the Preferences,
you'll see that it actually has to do
with File > Open, which I already
showed you that one method,
drag and drop. It's basically the same
as File > Open. On Export, you can,
actually, automatically, when you
open a document, convert it to IDML.
You can even save it
to specific locations. You can
Suppress the Enclosing Subfolder,
if you like. So, if you have multiple
documents you want to convert,
like 10, you can do a batch processing,
which I have a video on.
I’ll put a description, down below, and
you can put all the preview images in
one folder and have the IDML files
loose from the enclosing folder.
You can Open in Default Application.
You can tell it where you want to go.
You can Show in the Finder, etc.
So, then, if we have that on, what
happens is you take a Quark file, here.
Take a totally different one and you
drop it on, what you're going to see
happen, it actually automatically
exports the file, for us,
which we see, right here. You
get all the images and everything.
It just converts that easily.
Also, like I mentioned in the intro,
you can go to Export, here.
Click that and you can get, also,
go to IDML. And you can
even do more slightly
automated things, like Open in,
automatically in, a specific version of
InDesign, or a specific version of
Affinity Publisher.
You can convert to PDF.
So, I take this Quark document,
I click Export to PDF and, now,
it's actually going to take this
PDF file and create …
Sorry. It's going to take this
QuarkXPress document and
create a PDF from it.
Very handy. A customer in Germany
was just using it to make
previews of all of their Quark
files, in PDF, so that people,
without Quark or InDesign, can
preview. “Well, do we want to work
with this file, in the
first place, anyway?”
The PDF. Of course,
I don't have that font,
so, it's going to convert a little
bit oddball, here and there, but
pretty neat, isn't it, huh? So …
And there's much more, like
exporting Text Stories as
RTF, HTML, individual pages as TIFFs.
I can even go as far as taking these
thumbnails, here, right clicking,
and doing “Export as …”.
So, I can save as a PNG and
use it in my social media,
for Facebook or Twitter.
Or I can do a Share.
I can even copy the preview and
paste it, into a
Keynote, or PowerPoint, or
Photoshop, whatever.
But I can also …
I can AirDrop an image,
right from here. Boom!
Right over, to my mobile phone.
You can take a file, here,
and the thumbnails.
For instance, if I want
to take a thumbnail
and actually Tweet that out,
I can do Share and I can, now,
Tweet this, to all
my Twitter followers.
We hit Tweet, and off it goes.
Oh! On that note, Follow.
You can follow Markzware,
over on Twitter, @Markzware.
And, now, if you scroll,
down here, there's the
last video we did. Pretty cool, if
you're an InDesign user, this video.
But, now, we see
here's our last Tweet.
So, we get a full preview of that
file we just had our desktop.
Boom! Out and share,
with social media.
So, you can also
repurpose your content,
in a very quick and easy way. So,
QXPMarkz is a lot more than just
Quark to InDesign. And,
if you share this video on Twitter,
tag Markzware, @Markzware,
and we'll get you a surprise.
How does that sound? Fantastic!
If you need more information on
QXPMarkz, cruise on over to our
web page at
www.markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz.
Alright, everybody, have a great and
very productive day. Take care!