[AktiviX-discuss] QuarkXpress)

[ana]

Hi,

sorry for the cross-posting, but i _love_ this kind of gossip ;-)

If any one else is subscribed to any help-email-list of any free 
software project, it would be great to say here, so we can 'use' 
eachother... some of these lists are quite busy. so now you know i'm on 
the OpenOffice list (in various, actually)

ana

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [users] working with qxd ( QuarkXpress) files?
Date: 	Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:39:36 -0700
From: 	John Jordan <johnxj at hotpop.com>
Reply-To: 	users at openoffice.org
To: 	users at openoffice.org



On 26 Sep 2004, at 13:10, Mia Friedrich wrote:

> i'm a freelance writer and doing half of my work now in Oo Writer, which i
> LOVE. The other half of my work is done in QuarkXpress. 

You can copy and paste from QuarkXPress into a Writer document, but it 
won't paste any of the graphics, just the text. And Writer cannot open a 
.qxd file at all. In fact, nothing can open a qxd file from version 5 or later. 
Quark, Inc. deliberately coded their format to make it impossible starting 
with version 5.

Quark, Inc. did that because when Adobe started selling InDesign they 
made a QuarkXPress import filter for it in order to steal customers away 
from Quark. InDesign can still open QuarkXPress 4 files, but not the later 
versions.

I gave up on Quark, Inc. a long time ago. I use InDesign now exclusively. If 
you need support for languages other than English, it doesn't cost any 
more. I believe there is a lowered price for QuarkXPress users. InDesign is 
far ahead of QuarkXPress in features. 

I do all my writing in Writer, and then copy and paste into InDesign, which 
works perfectly. InDesign doesn't have a .sxw import filter, but the copy 
and paste works just as well. Or you could save from Writer as .rtf or .doc 
format, for which InDesign does have import filters.

Adobe has a free trial version of InDesign on their website. I recommend 
you give it a try.


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