XPress to InDesign: Overcoming the Top Three Pain Points

[SABryant@gmail.com]

Hey, there's a new tutorial up at publish.com about switching to
InDesign and changing up how you do certain things.

"Whether making the switch or just staying marketable, many long-time
QuarkXPress professionals are busily learning InDesign. While they're
quickly getting the hang of InDesign-centric features like object
transparency and blending modes, OpenType support, and the ability to
export PDFs that print, certain fundamental features like runaround,
overriding master page items, and linking text frames are tripping them
up."

[url]http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1895,1885198,00.asp[/url]

-s.

[Bob]

There is also a link there to a new converter product.
The problem of converting legacy QuarkXPress documents to Adobe
InDesign has come up many times; particularly as it concerns versions
newer than 4.1.

Markzware has released Q2ID (QuarkXPress to InDesign). This is an
InDesign Plug-in which automatically converts QuarkXPress documents
into new InDesign V3 (CS) or V4 (CS2) compositions.

Q2ID is a conversion tool that enables Adobe InDesign users to
painlessly convert QuarkXPress 3.3, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x documents into the
native InDesign document format. Q2ID converts QuarkXPress layout
elements including, but not limited to: page size, style sheets,
fonts, text, images, layers, lines, tables, etc.; provided that
InDesign supports the layout item.

This release if for OSX users with Windows soon to follow. You can get
full details at [url]www.Q2ID.com[/url]