Special Report Printing, Paper & Production

He found an inexpensive plug-in tool called Q2ID (stands for Quark to InDesign) from Santa Ana, Calif.-based Markzware Software. Q2ID is a plug-in for Macintosh-based Adobe InDesign (versions 3 and 4) that allows users to open QuarkXPress files in Adobe InDesign, simply by using InDesign's File>Open command. The software tool promises to convert most of the elements in a QuarkXPress document to a native InDesign format, including page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes.