Quark Xpress to FrameMaker - is it possible?
Peter
I wonder can anyone answer this...
A project that I will have to work on soon is where I will be receiving
Quark Xpress Files and then want to convert them over to Framemaker files. I
am wondering does anyone know of any software, Plug-in, conversion kit or
method that could help me acheive this.
Thanks,
Pete.
Ken Benson
"Peter" <jgs...@DONTSPAMoceanfree.net> wrote in message
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kind of markup from the source program (I think you can use Save Text in
Xpress Tags) and then bring this text back into Framemaker and use S&R to
find paragraph tag markup, replacing by pasting with paragraph styles.
Ken Benson
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Thomas Michanek
> Quark Xpress Files and then want to convert them over to Framemaker files.
Here's a collection of previous suggestions concerning this:
(the best bet seems to be to use http://www.goldwein.com/products/)
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From: "Martinek Carla-CMARTIN4" <CMAR...@motorola.com>
Subject: RE: Quark Files to PC
> > Is there *anything* I can do with Frame (or any Adobe product, or any
> > product) to open a Quark file?
>
> InDesign:Opens QXP files.
> PageMaker: "... the QuarkXPress Converter 3.x should convert QuarkXPress
> publications to PageMaker format without error. "
> FrameMaker: No chance but to have the QXP file saved as RTF
> Word: Use QXP's internal filter to save as a MSWord file.
On searching the archives, the other options I found were:
1. If the QXP docs are set up with good stylesheets for para and char
formatting, ask the Quarkies to export the text to MSWord. When you import
the Word files into FM, you should get a good deal of the font styling and
maybe even the spacing. Master pg elements cannot be imported -- you will
need to reconstruct them from specs. (paraphrased from msg dated 10 May 2000,
by Camille Trentacoste. See archive for full text, including some guidelines.)
2. You can d/l an Xtension to output to RTF, or better yet, directly to
a .doc file through the Save Text As... command. Graphics are lost.
(paraphrased from msg dated 25 Oct 2000, by Wil Gaffga.)
3. Use the QXPConverter bundled w/ PageMaker 6.5. (paraphrased from msg
dated 23 aug 2000, by Laurence Burrows. See archive for full text,
including some instructions.)
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From: "Lindsey Thomas Martin" <lma...@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: Quark to ??? (longish)
> > I've been tasked with updating a manual that was authored in
> > Quark Xpress. I think it's version 3.3, at least that's what the Save As
> > dialog box indicated. It was written on a Mac by a contractor, and I have
> > access to FrameMaker, and PageMaker on a PC.
> > My goal is to convert this documentation to FrameMaker. I tried opening
> > the qxd file yesterday and ran up against a number of very unpleasant
> > obstacles.
>
> Here's how I would tackle it.
> First stop should be InDesign, which reliably imports Xpress documents.
My little test using RTF. A chapter from a book originally typeset in
XPress 3.32 under Win95, saved as XPress 4.1 on Mac OS9. Chapter
contains text and ersatz tables (i.e., constructed with tabs) in
separate text boxes.
Opened the chapter in InDesign 1.5, which did a nice job on the
conversion. Exported the text to RTF. Tables in separate flows would
have to be exported one at a time.
Opened the RTF in FrameMaker 6.0 and the text was imported cleanly
with formatting intact. Style tags also came through though they had
been given odd names (e.g. 'jsl240f3fs20 1stPara) and the definitions
of the formats had been changed.
Might be feasible for Paul Kent's project; depends upon the number of
separate flows in the original document.
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From: "Lindsey Thomas Martin" <lma...@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: 2-way filter between Quark and MIF -- first test
> Has anyone used the Goldwein MIF filter II product (price $99 US)
> that integrates with the Quark Express environment? It purports to
> work both ways--exporting quark files to MIF, and importing MIF
> files into Quark, preserving page layouts, tables, styles, etc. in
> both directions.
I have made a quick test of MIF filter in both directions.
(1) From an FM6 document (928kb) of 150 pages with 54 tables but no
ross-refs, conditional text and so on. Conversion was
traightforward -- save the document as MIF and open from within
XPress -- but took some time and I had to increase the memory
assigned to XPress. The resulting document is usable but would
require some cleaning up. It is also very large (3.3MB); I suspect
that this is because the cells of the tables are each converted to a
separate text block. All styles came across but leading, character
formats and fonts were not converted perfectly.
(2) From an XPress document (64kb) of 8 pages of text only. Again,
conversion was straightforward -- in XPress choose Utilities > Export
as MIF and open the MIF file with FM. Conversion of text seemed
better in this direction and all styles imported correctly. One
problem I noted: headers and footers were placed on the document
pages and not on the master pages.
y initial assessment: useful if one needs to move a document started
in one application to the other for completion; one would not want to
be moving the documents back and forth many times. It would be very
useful in a workflow in which one did the editing and tagging in
FrameMaker and the final typesetting in XPress, though it looks as if
an FM document with a lot of tables would be very cumbersome to
handle when converted to XPress.
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http://www.goldwein.com/products
This company has a FrameMaker/Quark or Quark/FrameMaker filter that works
OK. I checked it out early this year. We didn't end up using it because
our documents had lots of sideheads and Quark doesn't support sideheads in
a user friendly way. We were considering going FrameMaker to Quark because
we were told Quark is the "industry standard." Can't guarantee it, because
I downloaded the trial version that didn't allow you to save the results
but it appeared to work OK.
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MIF Filter II for QuarkXPress. See "http://www.goldwein.com/products"
Full working demo is avaliabe. Get it from
"http://www.goldwein.com/products/demo.html"
As I wrote to this list some time ago it is a well-written two-way MIF
converter for QuarkXPress. A piece of pre-conversion and post-conversion
work should be done with your hands, yet it works with a tolerable result.
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