Converting Quark Docs into InDesign Docs

[Talibah1]

I am working on a file originally done in Quark 4. To convert it to InDesign, I saved it as a Quark 4 template and tried to open it in Indesign. The file conversion starts then suddenly the app. quits. Am I doing something wrong??

 

[lvixen]

I don't know if this is the problem but you don't have to save the Quark document as a Template. Just open InDesign and go file...open and choose the document. It will open in ID. Just a small word of warning, we've found problems translating Quark documents that have runarounds on them. I would suggest removing them before translating the document. It causes problems creating pdf's and some font issues.

 

[msoule]

We've found that you need to ungroup everything in the quark document before trying to convert it to an InDesign document. Also, we've found that some, very few, of the quark files have corrupt elements in them, like color definitions, etc., that won't convert. Do a thumbnail drag in quark to create a new, uncorrupted document and then try to convert it, it should work.

 

[tad1952]

I found that if ID got hung up opening a quark4 document, saving the Q document down to quark3 and then opening it in ID solved the problem.