QuarkXpress was the industry-standard and my exclusive page layout program for a long, long time. Around 2007, I began the migration from Quark to InDesign CS3. Among the many reasons for the change was the seamless integration of InDesign with the other Adobe products I use, notably Photoshop and Illustrator. Once I made the full commitment to InDesign, I had to find a way to convert all of those Quark files. InDesign CS3 was not capable of opening QuarkXpress v5 files. A colleague told me … [Read more...] about QuarkXpress to InDesign
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InDesign Saving Back to Earlier Versions
There is a way to "save back" an InDesign CS5 (or 5.5) file to an earlier version. But, it's not the powerful and flexible "SAVE AS" technique that you use in Photoshop and Illustrator. Instead, you must export the InDesign file using the InDesign Markup format, or IDML. It will be saved with the same name as the CS5/5.5 file, yet with the suffix ".idml" at the end of the file name. When you open the IDML file in CS4, it becomes an "Untitled" document that you need to rename. To export an … [Read more...] about InDesign Saving Back to Earlier Versions
InDesign CS5 and SMALL CAPS
There is a bug in the InDesign CS5 "Package" feature. It's a concern, but not a big deal if you know about it and how to work around it. InDesign small caps may revert to upper- and lower-case after packaging the document. The package tool is useful for preparing files for outside vendors. Its usual process is to create a separate folder into which it collects a copy of the document as well as copies of the document's related files (images and fonts). With CS5, there's a new feature in the … [Read more...] about InDesign CS5 and SMALL CAPS