Offtopic? Reading .qxd in Linux
This isn't strictly Inkscape oriented.
I'm running an all-linux system, and I really need to read some of my old work, which was saved in .qxd (Quark Xpress) format. Anyone out there managed this with a *nix box?
On Friday 25 May 2007 09:07, Kat Tanaka Okopnik wrote:
This isn't strictly Inkscape oriented.
I'm running an all-linux system, and I really need to read some of my old work, which was saved in .qxd (Quark Xpress) format. Anyone out there managed this with a *nix box?
I keep a Win 2000 partition around for such emergencies. You can perhaps use a demo version of Quark to look at the work and cut and paste the text into e.g., Typepad or MSWord. You lose the formatting and the graphics of course. Unfortunately Quark has a proprietary layout and there is no Open Source software I know of that will import it directly. If you can find someone with Quark on their system who can take your files and reproduce them in xml or rtf or PostScript you can then work with those files in various ways. Xml may be the best bet, but you had better be prepared to do some recoding. If that doesn't suit you then rtf is probalbly the most painless.
John R. Culleton schrieb:
On Friday 25 May 2007 09:07, Kat Tanaka Okopnik wrote:
This isn't strictly Inkscape oriented.
I'm running an all-linux system, and I really need to read some of my old work, which was saved in .qxd (Quark Xpress) format. Anyone out there managed this with a *nix box?
I keep a Win 2000 partition around for such emergencies. You can perhaps use a demo version of Quark to look at the work and cut and paste the text into e.g., Typepad or MSWord. You lose the formatting and the graphics of course. Unfortunately Quark has a proprietary layout and there is no Open Source software I know of that will import it directly. If you can find someone with Quark on their system who can take your files and reproduce them in xml or rtf or PostScript you can then work with those files in various ways. Xml may be the best bet, but you had better be prepared to do some recoding. If that doesn't suit you then rtf is probalbly the most painless.
Or you use VivaDesigner which is able to open QuarkXpress-files directly under Linux:
http://software.viva.de/english/
Best,
Tom
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