The customizable dashes in QuarkXPress are converted to solid and dashed lines. (It does retain any kerning applied manually.) InDesign doesn't retain kerning-table adjustments in QuarkXPress files. Leading as the automatic leading method in QuarkXPress. Leading to sometimes vary significantly, especially if you use additive QuarkXPress leading model is different from that of InDesign, so expect Examples include any documents built with QuarkXPress's XTensions (a type of plug-in) to add capabilities (such as tableĬreation), it does not convert correctly into InDesign and may not even Here are some common conversion issues you should The good news is that a great many things work

QuarkXPress and InDesign, it's impossible to predict all the conversion Though Markzware offers a conversion utility for these formats.)īecause there are so many differences between Support files in the version 5, 6, 7, or 8 formats of QuarkXPress, Passport files from versions 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1. InDesign can read QuarkXPress and QuarkXPress InDesign shows the Warnings dialog box if there are any conversion issues when importing foreign file formats. Process, but expect to spend time cleaning up the converted files byįigure 3. Use this feature as the first step in the conversion InDesign's, and their capabilities differ as well, the chances of beingĪble to import a foreign document and have it flawlessly convert to Because other programs' formats are so different from

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