quark to indesign 1

[p171]

Anyone who can tell me why indesign
1) puts text over images
2) makes wrong textflowconnections (text page 7 appears on say page 54
3) alignment text and illustrations is sligtly wrong.

Are there steps to take in quark which can prevent conversion problems.
I am talking quark 4.11 and adobe indesign 3 cs Mac Panther

Like to hear suggestions and helpfull tips. I have my own prepresscompany and need to convert 140 travelguides, about 50.000 pages with about 300 illutrsations per guide
Thanks

Peter

 

[Genimuse]

This may not solve your problem, but I've found that doing a Save As out of Quark first (then importing that new file) can make a real difference... stuff seems to get "cleaned up" in the Save As process.

Not saying that will fix your problems, necessarily, but it might help.

 

[p171]

thanx i will try first thing tomorrow! and et you know if problems disappera!

Peter

 

[p171]

it works much beter! thanks a lot

 

[Genimuse]

Excellent!

I think it has to do with (and lots of applications do this, including MS Word) the fact that when you change a layout, Quark just kinda appends stuff onto the end, saying, effectively, "ignore the old description of this object above, use this new one instead," piling those on one after the other at the end of the file. This makes it a lot harder for ID's processor to figure out what the page is supposed to look like.

When you perform a Save As, Quark just writes out the current descriptions of all the objects, resulting in a "cleaner" file that makes it easier for ID to process.