How to handle quarkxpress files

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Does anybody has experience in working with quarkxpress files in studio 2015? Are their any known issues? Or do you have any tips how to prepare them the best way for translation? Thank you Jutta

Jerzy Czopik · Accepted Answer

You have to use Copy Flow Gold appstore.sdl.com/.../ 
This is a Quark extension, which allows you to export stories from QXP to a translatable file and import them back. 
A good means in preparation of a file would be removing all unnecessary paragraph marks, paying attention also to superfluous tabs and similar issues - just like with any other file. Then also check, if the local formatting does fit the styles. 
I did not use Quark since more than 4 or 5 years, as the demand dropped to zero for Polish, but my last experience with CFG and QXP 8.32 was quite OK.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Jutta, 
 
Copy Flow is good, but you can also 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. Studio 2015 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

Luca Pesenti · Answer

Oh god, I think it's time to buy new glasses... 
 Thank's Paul!

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