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We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Students Click Here. I want to convert a large Publisher document to illustrator or Quark.
Ha anybody had any luck doing that. I'm thinking PDF but I haven't been able to make that work yet. OK, first you need to decide what you wish to convert to - another page layout program such as Quark or a drawing program such as Illustrator. I guess that depends on why you want to do the conversion.
To make the PDF, you need to have Acrobat. Do you have this program, or something similar? None of it's output options are remotely useful, especially if you want to use it in conjunction with professional packages such as Quark or Illustrator.
Illustrator may allow you to open individual PDF pages, depending on the file. Try the nice application called qtZint , a versatile program which generates a lot more code formats and sizes than QuarkXPress does. Affinity Publisher works quite well with large files. Depending on the size of the book, there may be no need to separate the book into individual chapter files. For larger books like mine where the performance may be sluggish with a single large file, it is appropriate to break the book into some number of smaller files for editing purposes.
When it comes time to generate index and table of contents and to press the book, these files can be easily combined into a single large file. In may be difficult to imagine now, given its current sorry state, but during the s QuarkXPress was on top of the desktop publishing heap. But in subsequent years Adobe InDesign continually chewed away at Quark's market share, to the point that QuarkXPress eventually became just a bit player in this software field.
But Adobe was itself responsible for giving QuarkXPress a new lease on life when it decided to offer InDesign as a cloud based service only. Adobe software was never inexpensive, and they retained that pricing model when they went to subscriptions for cloud based InDesign. This put small and infrequent users of their software in a bind, and many publishing professionals simply continued to use their older computer based software, eschewing feature enhancements and support.
It was clear that doing so is not a viable long term plan, but for many small shops their own economics drove this decision. Quark took advantage of Adobe's greed, billing their software as an alternative that you own after buying it. Things may have worked out for Quark as an alternative to InDesign if they could keep their old and creaky software functioning, and if they had the computer based desktop publishing software market to themselves.
Unfortunately for them, Serif developed Affinity Publisher, a brand new product developed from the ground up. As computer based software, this robust product would offer distinct advantages that Quark could not match. And at the beginning of , this is where I stepped into it with my book project. Like so many small users I could not justify the expense of Adobe's InDesign subscriptions.
Prices for new unused earlier computer based versions of InDesign went through the roof, as demand for this older software greatly outstripped supply. At the time Affinity Publisher was still in beta release, and I needed to get some work done without dealing with the constant bugs that come with that territory.
QuarkXPress was really my only option. It was old software but I had no need for new features. The company had long since been sold by its founders never a good sign in the software business but the new owners seemed to be chugging along. So I bought QuarkXPress and started using it for my project. Right away I found it to be buggy. In fact, I don't think I have ever used commercial software that was as full of bugs as QuarkXPress and then I had just finished a small book project using the free and open source desktop publishing software Scribus.
Scribus was typical of open source software in that it was quite buggy, but I still could be productive using it, and it was free.
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