Apple Users - QuarkXPress
Colin Ferris (399) 1753 posts |
Are there any ‘Apple’ users here? There are some old ‘RISC User’ 1990’s ‘QuarkExpress’ files – that would be nice to able to read. Any ideas how this could be achieved? As a note someone scanned & OCRed all the Mags – to be put on a DVD. (Richard Hallas I believe – said in 2015 was going to distribute the files) |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3136 posts |
I have an Apple Mac – typing at it right now in fact. I don’t have QX, but it’s possible LibreOffice or Pages might be able to import QX files. I can try if you like. (email cliveksemmens@gmail.com) It’s also possible that the file format might not be so arcane that I couldn’t write a little BASIC program to at least pull the text out – I did a lot of that in the 90s for my work, from all sorts of file formats. Modern file formats are mostly too arcane for little me! |
Stuart Painting (5389) 684 posts |
QuarkXpress runs on Windows as well as macOS. Most software claiming to do QXD (or QXP) to PDF conversion won’t convert the file formats directly: instead they work as a virtual print driver (i.e. they add “print to PDF” as a printing option on a Windows machine). So you need something to open the QXD file as well, which means either QuarkXpress or Adobe InDesign as far as I can tell. I do know someone who uses QuarkXpress on their home PC (or at least I think they still do: the subject hasn’t cropped up for quite some time). If you only need a handful of files converted I may be able to get something done. If you’re talking about 100+ files, well let’s just say that favours can only be stretched so far. |
Colin Ferris (399) 1753 posts |
Years ago I opened up the McStuffet files. And looked at some of the files inside in something like Zap. Someone has just had a look with a free demo of QuarkXpress – and seems to have got nowhere. Looking on the Web there seems to converters to the modern version but only from v3. The problem is what version are they in v1-2? RiscUser came out in the early days of the Arc – alongside BeeBug for the BBC. |
Willard Goosey (5119) 257 posts |
I got my ’030 Mac up and running, and installed QuarkXpress 4.0. It won’t admit rather or not it can read old quark files, and as far as I can tell it can only export as ASCII text and EPS. Mac has no network and no printer. I’m not sure I can do much to help you. :-( But if you want to, send me a sample at goosey at |