RE: Converting Quark 6.5 files to InDesign CS2
RE: Converting Quark 6.5 files to InDesign CS2
- Subject: RE: Converting Quark 6.5 files to InDesign CS2
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:36:57 -0700
Classic shouldn't make a difference. I will certainly be easier if they're all running when you start the script. If each Quark version is named differently, you can just address each version by the name it has on your system.
You could set it up as a droplet and pass the file from one version to the other. I don't have the time to try out the sample code right now.
Rick Gordon
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On 8/17/05 at 8:59 AM -0400, Alex Husted wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Converting Quark 6.5 files to InDesign CS2":
>Rick,
>Thanks for the tips. I am not expecting any miracles (although that would be nice). I guess I will have to do some experimenting with the saving technique. This would be much easier if I could automate the save-back process. I have all the quarks, but I am not sure how to separately address them from applescript, especially since the previous two versions are on Classic. Have you ever automated this process?
>Alex
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>>At 8:59 AM -0400 8/17/05, Rick Gordon wrote:
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>>I think your partial solution will be to save back to Quark 4 and then import into InDesign. If you don't find a save-back to Quark 4 from Quark 6.x satisfactory, you're never going to find any translation into Indy satisfactory, because it's going to be much worse.
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>>An AppleScript solution otherwise would probably have to be analyzing every aspect of your Quark document, translating it into InDesign terms (not at all parallel, in most cases), and creating an Indy document and laboriously creating each aspect -- which sounds like a horrendously non-trivial job -- probably with results no better than saving back to Quark 4 and importing.
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>>If you're expecting an extremely precise translation from Quark to Indy, forget it anyway. It ain't gonna happen. Fine for moving over templates and then tweaking them from the Indy side, but don't expect miracles.
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>>Rick Gordon
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>>On 8/16/05 at 4:49 PM -0400, Alex Husted wrote in a message entitled "Converting Quark 6.5 files to InDesign CS2":
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>>>I can't find any commercial (or otherwise) solutions to convert Quark 6.5 docs into InDesign. I need to be able to edit them afterwards in InDesign so the simple EPS or PDF export solutions are not going to cut it. Neither is saving the files back to version 4, because that does not really work that well anyway.
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>>>I am sure this can be done using AppleScript, but it seems like it is such a common problem that someone must have already done it (or at least tried). Do the experts out there have any advice about whether or not this is an achievable goal? Or should I just be telling my creative team that they are going to have to be spending nights and weekends doing this manually. I would be willing to pay for even a partial solution if one already exists.
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