Re: Opening and Editing Quark Binaries

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Justin French wrote: > I've attached a file I received with Quark 3.32, which has sample text > complete with Quark Xpress tags. XPress Tags is a great format, and easy to work with for auto-generated content. However, all you can do with it is prepare text for a single running block - not lay out an entire document (unless you're extremely creative with rules and positioning, I guess). > Just to throw a complete spanner in the works, Adobe InDesign2.0 has a lot > of XML capabilities, and much more integrated PDF capabilities than Quark... > perhaps either an XML based solution, or a PDFLib based solution can be > achieved? > > Considering InDesign is about 1/3rd the price of Quark, *maybe* you might > want to consider other options aside from Quark. Good luck convincing seasoned Quark operators to change, though! miguel