...but can ID open Mac Quark files, too?

[Andy_Fielding@adobeforums.com]

A client has sent me a set of QuarkXPress files produced on a Macintosh. I know that ID can open Quark files---that's a big reason I switched to it---but can it open Mac-version Quark files as well as Windows-version? (So far I haven't been able to figure out how to do this.) Thanks!

[Simon Warner]

You just open them. You open InDesign, go to file open and point it at
the Mac Quark file you want to open. It won't even care that there isn't
a file extension.

It will care however if the Quark file is too new. It needs to be
Version 4, afaik.

[Jens Schulze]

> It will care however if the Quark file is too new. It needs to be

> Version 4, afaik.

Version 4 and single language, that's right.

Jens

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Actually either XPress 3.3 or 4, to be more precise. But not 5 or 6. Single language. And not depending on any third-party XTensions.

[Andy_Fielding@adobeforums.com]

I've "pointed" ID to all folders on the client's CD, but ID doesn't list any of them as "readable" types, and thus won't open them.

In case it helps, here's the CD's structure:

[folder] Fonts
Mac fonts. (I think I can convert most of them to Windows fonts, but I'll deal with that later.)

[folder] Hires
All EPS files. I recognize some of their names as illustrations in the project. Some of the others are quite big (one is 42 MB), so I assume they're the rest of the content---but native Quark files wouldn't say .EPS, would they?

[folder] Source
Cover graphics, apparently.

There are also three files in the CD root:

Desktop DB
Desktop DF
Icon_

....which I gather are just Mac system things.

So, any ideas what I should be able to open, but which ID doesn't seem to recognize? Thanks again.

[Andy_Fielding@adobeforums.com]

Ah---I just heard from the guy who prepared the files. He's using Quark 5. So I'm definitely out of luck? (The ID 3 user guide doesn't say anything about specific versions.)

And while Adobe makes such a large deal out of ID's Quark-opening abilities, d'you think they should mention that they're two versions behind?

[Simon Warner]

It is really unfortunate, but Quark deliberately began to encode its
files with version 5.

Still, so little changed from 4 to 5 your supplier should be able to
save down to 4 and send you a file you can import.

[Andy_Fielding@adobeforums.com]

Why, those sneaky Quark guys...

But sure, I'll ask my client to do that. Thanks very much for the suggestion, Simon.

Cheers, Andy

[Jens Schulze]

> I've "pointed" ID to all folders on the client's CD, but ID

> doesn't list any of them as "readable" types, and thus
> won't open them.

Make sure the quark file will have an qxd extension, if not rename it, then
ID should find it.

Jens

[Bryce_Steiner@adobeforums.com]

add a *.qxd to the end and then ID will see them.

Bryce

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

or just select All Files in the open file dialogue.

k

[Andy_Fielding@adobeforums.com]

Whoa, it worked! (I'd been using the "All Readable Files" filter, which showed only the PostScript files.)

I guess Quark isn't so sneaky after all---or at least they hadn't started yet w/v5. Anyway, thanks!