Special Report Printing, Paper & Production

After using it for about two months, Lazarus says, Q2ID has enabled his team to cut QuarkXPress out of its workflow. "I no longer have to support Quark in my department, but I can continue to maintain our six-plus-year library of Quark documents as a live resource."

As with most digital content conversion tools, Q2ID doesn't always provide a 100-percent success rate, according to Lazarus. "Any conversion process will cause changes to the original document, and we expected this to be the case," he notes. "But thankfully, the problems are minor. Every QuarkXPress document we've converted to date has maintained its formatting and general layout characteristics."