Good news: it isn't the fault of the conversion process.
Bad news: People with perfectly good styles don't apply them perfectly.

Converting from QXP to InDesign (whether via direct conversion of a QXP 4.11
file or through the fine Q2ID plug-in) faithfully translates style sheets,
swatches, and master pages. However lousy a job the original designer did
with those building blocks is also faithfully translated.

In other words, if you opened up the original Quark file in
QuarkXPress, you'd see the same mess.

Hope that cheers you up! :-)

--Claudia

claudia@[Protected]
Author of Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications
(Peachpit Press, 2009)



On 6/28/09 5:37 AM, "InDesign Talk" <indesign@[Protected]> wrote:

> Subject: further on QtoID styles
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:48:54 -0500
>
> I must amend some of my description...looking at a bit more of the
> file, I find that some paragraph styles are applied to text, but most
> with local overrides. Perhaps the much admired originator of the
> files was not as pristine as expected. But I would like a short
> explanation of what to expect from the Q to ID conversion process
> with respect para and char styles.
>
> thanks again,
> Mary

That would be the long version of "garbage in, garbage out." :)

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: InDesign Talk [mailto:indesign@[Protected]] On Behalf Of
Claudia McCue
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:25 AM
To: InDesign Talk
Subject: Re: QtoID styles

Good news: it isn't the fault of the conversion process.
Bad news: People with perfectly good styles don't apply them perfectly.

Converting from QXP to InDesign (whether via direct conversion of a QXP 4.11
file or through the fine Q2ID plug-in) faithfully translates style sheets,
swatches, and master pages. However lousy a job the original designer did
with those building blocks is also faithfully translated.

In other words, if you opened up the original Quark file in
QuarkXPress, you'd see the same mess.

Hope that cheers you up! :-)

--Claudia

claudia@[Protected]
Author of Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications
(Peachpit Press, 2009)