Hi, everybody. David Dilling, on behalf of Markzware, here.
This is a quick video for those who are using QXPMarkz and particularly those
that are used to using Q2ID from Markzware.
The new process to convert QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign is simpler than ever,
with the new QXPMarkz. Maybe the slight problem is there are three different
options for converting QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign,
with the new Markzware QXPMarkz. Q2ID will be slowly phased out and still
available, certainly for Windows users. And, by the way, the QXPMarkz for Windows
is coming, soon. If you want to be a beta tester for QXPMarkz for Windows,
please send me an email
on sales@markzware.com. The beauty of QXPMarkz is, not only
a preview, which is free for anybody, of your Quark document, you can convert
to a PDF. Many users are using it, just for converting Quark documents to
PDF, without even having QuarkXPress or any other DTP applications.
Yet, others are using QXPMarkz to go to Affinity Publisher, or
Illustrator, or many other options. So, check it out. QuarkXPress to Adobe
InDesign has never been easier. Let's go check out the examples, now.
Okay. Now, I’m over here, on my desktop. This is on Big Sur, but it will work on
lower OS’s, as well. Once again, see
markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz, for the full System Requirements.
It's a standalone application and I have QXPMarkz down here,
with the rest of my Markz line. That's the new line of Markzware
products, replacing our plug-ins and extensions. So,
QXPMarkz. We load up a plug-in (I want to say extension, but that's Quark),
with a plug-in to InDesign. And Q2ID, there are
still so many users, out there. So, if you are a Q2ID user
(I’m getting me out of the way, here.),
you’ll want to check out the Scripts Installer, which we'll say
installs it up to date, or update, because you can also get updates,
if you have a new version of QXPMarkz. Then, you can use QXPMarkz, just like
you would Q2ID, within InDesign. And that's going to be one of the methods
I’ll show you, on how to convert QuarkXPress documents InDesign in a
moment. And actually, maybe, we'll start there.
The first method to convert QuarkXPress files. It’s not my
preferred method, anymore, now that I’ve used QXPMarkz for many
months, but this is the way, just like Q2ID, to convert
QuarkXPress documents, right into
Adobe InDesign, within InDesign. So, if we … I'm going to go into
InDesign 2021. I'm going to launch it, up here. It'll take a few seconds.
Alright. So, there we go. You see it popping open, here.
Q2ID. Work, up top in the
Markzware menu item. And, now, that's gone. There's no Q2ID, but there’s a
new item, that script we just installed. And that's Convert QuarkXPress Document.
So, this is the first method, on how you can convert
QuarkXPress documents to Adobe InDesign, with QXPMarkz.
You launch InDesign 2020, 2021. It doesn't matter.
Convert QuarkXPress Document. You choose a document, this one, here.
It will convert, just like Q2ID, right within Adobe InDesign,
although you did see QXPMarkz pop up, for a second. So, it actually calls up
the app, does the process and, then, throws it back up,
into InDesign, for you. Then, we get it opened up, here.
We can just skip the fonts. And we see this test file converts over, 100%.
Styles, text, colors, tables, you name it.
Everything's converted, just like Q2ID. Even better, in some cases.
The engineers claim, “in many cases,”
technically speaking. So, many things, you won't notice, but there are going
to be a lot of improvements to the conversion. So, obviously, the fonts
are missing, for me. So, I won't … But I can go in there and I can
edit text, whatever I want to do. So, that's Method 1 for
QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign, with the scripts, up top,
under the Markzware menu item, Convert QuarkXPress Document,
with QXPMarkz. Now, with the next method,
I don't even need to be in InDesign. I don't even need to have InDesign on a
machine, actually, to do the first part. But, of course, going from
QuarkXPress to InDesign, but that's what we're after,
so, it's going to help. So, Method 2 is take a document and just
drag and drop it, onto the interface or onto the application.
I’ll do the interface. It's more visual, in this case.
I drop it, on there. We prepare a preview of the
Quark document, before actually allowing you to convert it. Let me get me
out of the way here. I mean, it’s like a little thumbnail in the
QXPMarkz. Now, what's neat, where I am, right now,
if it's a multi-page document, you'll see another page 2, page 3, page 4,
over here, and this is what you get. Now, I can actually show you that,
because I can actually take that test file we just had
and drop it, on QXPMarkz, wherever.
It doesn't matter where I drop it. And it'll open up a new tab.
So, this is very cool for, like, comparing Quark documents, like,
which version do I want to convert? In this case, it's not viable,
but you see, now, or where I’m sitting, you see all the
thumbnails of a multi-page document. You can click on a thumbnail and go
right to that page. And you can see the spreads, etc. So, pretty amazing,
right? And this is free. To preview QuarkXPress documents,
is totally free, right in, with the download.
The Export and conversion is not. So, now, the
#2 method, to convert a QuarkXPress document to InDesign,
is to click, here, Open in > Adobe InDesign.
And I click there. I can check out all kinds of … more
file information, if I want. Old Quark document, Quark 7.
I just click Open in > InDesign and voila! Off it goes, opening my
QuarkXPress document, right up,
in Adobe InDesign, for us. So, now, we’ve got this entire file, with all of
these advertisements, all of those images, just converted right on over.
So, pretty neat, huh? Alright. So, that's Method 2.
Now, just make note. There's also many other … You can also
convert to Affinity Publisher, or Illustrator, etc. Alright.
I’m going to get out of those. The third method, I’m going to
highlight how to convert QuarkXPress, with QXPMarkz from
Markzware, is without the preview. Just a simple, very fast and easy
way to do it, and that's under
File > Convert to IDML. IDML (InDesign Markup Language) is the
interchange format for Adobe InDesign files. IDML will
open in CS4 of InDesign or higher, right up to 2021.
That's their file format, their internal file format, for sharing files. So, if
you convert to IDML, that file will open InDesign, for you. So, now,
if I open, I can actually go and select the Quark document.
You see it tells us which version the Quark document is.
So, that's pretty neat! I can take that document
and I can click. You can start to get one, here.
Click Convert to IDML. Now, what you get,
in the original folder, you get the IDML file,
with the low-res previews, for making the viewing of the file a lot better.
And this IDML, like I said, will just open, in InDesign. There you go.
So, now, you get everything, right up there, in
InDesign, for you. So, that's how you can use the third method of opening
a QuarkXPress file, via the File > Convert to IDML.
You don't have a preview. So, for heavy files, every once in a
while, a preview will cause a crash or cause it to be very sluggish.
So, if you cut out the preview part and just go Convert to IDML, it's a great
way to convert QuarkXPress files to InDesign.
And, sometimes, you get bad QuarkXPress files.
It's a great way to fix bad QuarkXPress files.
Convert them right to IDML. Boom!
A Quark document, very often fixed. Not always, but often.
So, by bypassing the previews, Convert to IDML is a great little trick.
So, that's the third method, but there's actually a fourth method,
a bonus method, to convert QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign,
and that's under our Preferences.
Now, this, under the Automation part of the Preferences,
you'll see that it actually has to do with File > Open, which I already
showed you that one method, drag and drop. It's basically the same
as File > Open. On Export, you can, actually, automatically, when you
open a document, convert it to IDML. You can even save it
to specific locations. You can Suppress the Enclosing Subfolder,
if you like. So, if you have multiple documents you want to convert,
like 10, you can do a batch processing, which I have a video on.
I’ll put a description, down below, and you can put all the preview images in
one folder and have the IDML files loose from the enclosing folder.
You can Open in Default Application. You can tell it where you want to go.
You can Show in the Finder, etc.
So, then, if we have that on, what happens is you take a Quark file, here.
Take a totally different one and you drop it on, what you're going to see
happen, it actually automatically exports the file, for us,
which we see, right here. You get all the images and everything.
It just converts that easily. Also, like I mentioned in the intro,
you can go to Export, here. Click that and you can get, also,
go to IDML. And you can even do more slightly
automated things, like Open in, automatically in, a specific version of
InDesign, or a specific version of Affinity Publisher.
You can convert to PDF. So, I take this Quark document,
I click Export to PDF and, now, it's actually going to take this
PDF file and create … Sorry. It's going to take this
QuarkXPress document and create a PDF from it.
Very handy. A customer in Germany was just using it to make
previews of all of their Quark files, in PDF, so that people,
without Quark or InDesign, can preview. “Well, do we want to work
with this file, in the first place, anyway?”
The PDF. Of course, I don't have that font,
so, it's going to convert a little bit oddball, here and there, but
pretty neat, isn't it, huh? So …
And there's much more, like exporting Text Stories as
RTF, HTML, individual pages as TIFFs. I can even go as far as taking these
thumbnails, here, right clicking, and doing “Export as …”.
So, I can save as a PNG and use it in my social media,
for Facebook or Twitter. Or I can do a Share.
I can even copy the preview and paste it, into a
Keynote, or PowerPoint, or Photoshop, whatever.
But I can also … I can AirDrop an image,
right from here. Boom! Right over, to my mobile phone.
You can take a file, here, and the thumbnails.
For instance, if I want to take a thumbnail
and actually Tweet that out, I can do Share and I can, now,
Tweet this, to all my Twitter followers.
We hit Tweet, and off it goes. Oh! On that note, Follow.
You can follow Markzware, over on Twitter, @Markzware.
And, now, if you scroll, down here, there's the
last video we did. Pretty cool, if you're an InDesign user, this video.
But, now, we see here's our last Tweet.
So, we get a full preview of that file we just had our desktop.
Boom! Out and share, with social media.
So, you can also repurpose your content,
in a very quick and easy way. So, QXPMarkz is a lot more than just
Quark to InDesign. And, if you share this video on Twitter,
tag Markzware, @Markzware,
and we'll get you a surprise. How does that sound? Fantastic!
If you need more information on QXPMarkz, cruise on over to our
web page at www.markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz.
Alright, everybody, have a great and very productive day. Take care!