Process QuarkXpress 2016 files (12.2 ) in SDL 2017 possible?

Question

Hello, 
 I received a huge file in QuarkXpress 2016 (12.2 version). I understand that "CopyFlow Gold for QuarkXPress" only works for QuarkXPress 8 & 9. That means that it is not possible at all to translate higher QuarXpress version? 
 Is there an alternative? What would be the workaround? I have the latest version of SDL Studio (2017). 
 
 Thank you for your help. 
 
 Regards 
 Miriam M&uuml;ller

Paul · Answer

Hi Miriam, 
 
You can work with the tagged text files from Quark itself if this is what you have been given... or if you have a copy of Quark Express and export the file as their XPress Tags format (*.xtg). Studio has a "QuarkXPress Export" filetype built in, so if the file is *.xtg or *.tag then you can handle them out of the box. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Departamento Técnico Linguaserve 
 Apologies... years later this has been drawn to my attention again and I didn't respond. I believe this is the process:

In a QuarkXPress layout that has your desired style sheet or styling attributes applied to text in a text box, go to File > Save Text . 
 Name your file with an .xtg file extension in the Save Text dialog. 
 In the Format pop-up menu select XPress Tags , and in the Encoding pop-up menu choose Unicode (UTF-16). (Since QuarkXPress 9 is Unicode compliant, this is the best encoding method to choose when saving text.) 
 Click Save.

I don't have QuarkExpress but it seems you should be able to save your files in this way.

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Process QuarkXpress 2016 files (12.2 ) in SDL 2017 possible?