Here was a forum question over on the very popular InDesignTalk forum; which I get an email digest for. This had to do with how to convert page elements and paragraph styles from within Quark documents into InDesign Adobe files and of course applying those styles when you convert to Adobe files:

“In the past year or two I converted many files from Quark to InDesign for our education unit. I am now needing to make some changes to the files and my boss blithely pointed out that the original author was a faithful user of style sheets in Quark. I am a faithful user of styles in InDesign, but I must admit I paid no attention to them when I did the conversion. Now when I look at the files I see lots of styles in the InDesign panels, but none of them seem to be applied to any text. Am I correct about that? Did I miss a huge (and in retrospect ghastly) part of the conversion process?

Thanks as always for sharing your vast experience….
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Bekijk Markzware’s video over QuarkXPress naar Adobe InDesign (Q2ID v4) conversion tool:

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Hallo ik ben Arnold Roosch van Markzware, de makers van conversie en controlesoftware voor de grafische industrie. En welkom bij deze video over onze Q2ID Quark to InDesign conversie-tool.

Ik zal u nu laten zien hoe gemakkelijk het is een QuarkXpress document naar InDesign te converteren door gebruik te maken van onze Q2ID conversie-tool.

Dus dit is het originele QuarkXpress document, we zullen het later nogmaals openen om te zien hoe accuraat de conversie is geweest.

Laten we Adobe InDesign openen, hou in gedachten dat Q2ID werkt als een plug-in voor CS3 of CS4 het is beschikbaar voor macintosh en Windows en echt heel gemakkelijk te installeren.

Zoals u kunt zien is er een markzware pull-down menu toegevoegd aan de menu bar deze leid u gemakkelijk naar Q2ID functie. Selecteer, converteer QuarkXpress document en kies daarna een QuarkXpress project dat zal worden geconverteerd naar InDesign in enkele secondes.

Markzware Q2ID opent Quark documenten gemaakt in versie 3 tot en met versie 8.
Het hele document word opnieuw opgebouwd, inclusief lay-out, font-stylen, illustraties eigenlijk alles wat er in het document zit. Zoals u kunt zien zal dit gereedschap u veel tijd en geld schelen  Read more... (323 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Q2ID – QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign is a popular conversion plug-in for the layout program of Adobe InDesign for CS3 and CS4 from Markzware. When you buy Adobe CS3 or CS4, you can get compatible Markzware products.  Here we have a collection of our Q2ID video demos on one page or post, including some QuarkXPress training tips. For example, after learning InDesign CS3, you can learn Quark conversion tips.  It is easy to get .QXP documents into a .INDD type document layout; saving tons of time and thus money. Several language video demonstrations below (English, French, German and Polish) and more to come. (If you would like to partner with Markzware to make a joint video demonstration into Spanish, Italian or other languages- please let me know on david AT markzware [dot] nl):

English Q2ID demo version:

Français Q 2 ID demo:

“Convertir un fichier QuarkXPress au fichier Adobe InDesign”

Deutsch Q2ID demo video (by Andreas Moos):

“…Nun öffnen wir InDesign. Beachten Sie das Q2ID v4 in Version CS2, CS3 und CS4 arbeitet und Quarkdokumente von Version 3.3 bis einschließlich Version 8 öffnet…”

Nederlandse Q2ID Demo

“Quark naar InDesign”

Graphic Design Professional

Markzware recently had an opportunity to discuss with freelance graphic artist Jo-Ann LaForge from Cottage Grove, Minnesota about Q2ID.

Markzware: Please share with us how you learned of Markzware’s conversion tool, Q2ID.

LaForge: I desperately needed something to convert my older QuarkXPress files and did a Google search and found the Q2ID plug-in.

Markzware: Did you find the conversion from QuarkXPress to InDesign to be seamless and reliable?

LaForge: I was very pleased to find that the plug-in worked seamlessly. The files converted quickly and there was very little reformatting I needed to do, which has saved me a countless number of hours.

Markzware: Would you consider the investment of Q2ID worthwhile and would you recommend it to other creative professionals who need to convert content from QuarkXPress to InDesign?

LaForge: I thought the price seemed a little high at first, I have had experiences where I paid for other plug-ins and ended up very disappointed by the performance of the plug-in and in the end it did not fit my need or perform as it was represented. I remembered reading about Markzware’s product in MacLife magazine and it received good reviews and I needed a solution.  Read more... (231 words, 1 image, estimated 55 secs reading time)

Markzware’s Q2ID Wins Best Commercial Plug-in Award given by InDesign Secrets

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA ANA, California, April 15, 2009 — Markzware (www.markzware.com), the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software has taken first prize for it’s popular conversion tool, Q2ID (QuarkXPress To InDesign) for best commercial InDesign plug-in.

David Blatner, co-host of InDesign Secrets.com said,”Q2ID is a crucial part of many people’s InDesign workflow, and its quality and price point make it a winning solution for users. The fact that the InDesignSecrets audience voted Q2ID ‘best commercial plug-in’ was a clear validation on that point.”

Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) is an Adobe plug-in for InDesign. It provides a quick, easy and affordable method for you to migrate all your QuarkXPress content into a new Adobe InDesign document. The data conversion is enabled with a single click using InDesign File->Open. No more re-creating documents from scratch, Q2ID gives you a big head-start.

Q2ID provides intricate details of the content within the QuarkXPress document to be instantly re-created within InDesign. Items converted from Quark include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models.

For those switching from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS4 (or CS3 for that matter), Markzware has recently released Q2ID v4. This will now operate within CS4 as well as CS3 and with one-click you can convert Quark 8, 7 or 6 design layouts projects into new InDesign layouts! Watch the Q2ID video demonstration here:

by Claudia McCue
April 2008

If like many designers you are in the process of making the big switch from QuarkXPress to InDesign, you know it is not a trivial undertaking. You have to retrain your brain to a new way of working and remind your fingers which keys to hit for those newfangled shortcuts. You are in a hurry to get up to speed, and you have just been asked to create a client’s next newsletter in InDesign. The template for the newsletter is currently in QuarkXPress. You’ve finally come to that fork in the road: Do you build a new newsletter template from scratch, or do you take the easy way out and just open the file with InDesign? If there’s a lot of work in the template, go for File > Open. While it’s surprising this works at all, you should know what converts and what does not.

OPENING QUARKXPRESS FILES IN INDESIGN
Since the beginning, InDesign has had the ability to open QuarkXPress files created in versions 3.32 through 4.11—that hasn’t changed since InDesign One-Oh. What has changed, of course, is QuarkXPress itself; after all, we’re up to version 7.0 now. Yet InDesign CS3 still cannot open up documents created in QuarkXPress versions later than 4.11. Why is that? At the release of QuarkXPress 5.0, the file architecture of QuarkXPress documents changed—one imagines, to thwart opening by wily InDesign users.  Read more... (2018 words, 3 images, estimated 8:04 mins reading time)