Just so you know–when it’s converted it’s not simply a matter of making minor corrections, especially if it’s a book with several pages and hundres of pages. The text will definitely reflow, H&Js will be similar but not exact when converted, tracking and kerning will differ a little. Basically most of your line breaks are going to change. If the Quark file has art with runarounds on it (called text wrap in InDesign), that will change as well.
I’ve had to convert plenty of Quark files and there is a lot of work to be done afterwards. Converting the files mainly is giving you something to work with–it ain’t perfect.
Also–all the style sheets will have the plus sign next to them, and if a style is based on another, it gets a little whacky. For example, if TXF (text with no indent indent) is based on TX (text with a paragraph indent), the TXF will have that paragragraph indent in the style sheet, though it won’t be indented in the actual story. So if you apply TXF to a new paragraph, it will have an indent. Does that make sense?
That is when you use Q2ID. A better method is to downsave through the various Quarks (i..e, downsave from Quark 8 to 7, open in 7 and downsave to 6, etc., etc., right down to 4 and then open a Quark 4 file. CS6 sucks at opening/converting higher Quark versions. You will have text boxes scattered all over the place.
I’m not sure how other forum members feel about such a thing, but I’d recommend downloading the demo version of the Quark the file was originally done in, and do your corrections that way. And if you know you will possible be getting more of those jobs, to buy the full version. But in the interim I’d download a demo of that version of Quark and use that, if you are familiar with Quark.
If not, I can convert the file for you. Email me at:
d w a y n e . h a r r i s @ g ma i l . c o m
(remove the spaces)
NOTE: I’m on a Mac, but there should be no problem with me converting and you opening the new file.
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