General Guidelines

Your template needs to be compliant for QuarkXPress

TAGGING FOR AUTOMATION

While tagging the boxes for automation, make sure to use InDesign’s layers palette to name the boxes.  

Note: Group box naming is not supported for automation 

TEMPLATE DOCUMENT FORMAT

The document should be saved as IDML and not as INDD before uploading it to Colateral.

TEXT BOX FITTING

Although QuarkXPress converts the IDML text into QuarkXPress text with precision, but still because of the difference between the proprietary properties of some text units such as leading etc., the conversion may not be 100% accurate. 

So, try to have some extra space in the box to compensate for any overflows. 

FRAME STYLES

There are some differences in the InDesign frame styles and QuarkXPress frame styles, So the frame styles should be used cautiously to avoid any problems. Below are the InDesign frame styles that gets converted into respective QuarkXPress frame styles 

            InDesign                                               QuarkXPress 

1. Japanese Dots                                    All Dots 
2. Dotted                                                ID Dotted  
3. Thick-Thick                                         Double 
4. Dashed (3 and 2)                                 Dotted 2       
5. Dashed (4 and 4)                                Dotted 
6.  Dashed                                               Dotted 

CORNER STYLE

Few of the styles are different in both the applications, so their one-to-one mapping is as followed in IDML conversion. 

Unsupported Features of InDesign

PASTE INTO

Paste into feature is not supported by Quark, so this property gets ignored in IDML  conversion, and all the grouped objects pasted into another object will be display separately in QuarkXPress. 

Alternate: Try to avoid using paste into functionality. But in case you want to use grouped objects within the clipped box, then generate an image of the grouped objects and paste/import them into the clipped box. 

OBJECT EFFECTS

Object effects are not supported within QuarkXPress. So please avoid using these following effects  

• Inner Shadow 
• Outer Glow 
• Inner Glow 
• Bevel and Emboss 
• Satin 
• Basic Feather 
• Directional Feather 
• Gradient Feather 
• Global light 
• Drop Shadow: Will work only with object level don’t apply on content level like on image in the image box. 

IMAGE TYPES

Kindly don’t use PCX & SCT images in template as these types are not supported by QuarkXPress/Colateral and these images will be ignored during IDML conversion. 

HANGING CHARACTERS

Hanging characters are not supported during conversion from InDesign to QuarkXPress/Colateral.

HYPHENATION AND JUSTIFICATION IN PARAGRAPH STYLE

InDesign to QuarkXPress hyphenation and justification are generally supported, however only the following hyphenation and justification properties are not supported 

                                ID Hyphenation                                               

1. Better Spacing - Fewer Hyphens    
2. Hyphenate Last Word                    
3. Hyphenate Across Column 

                                ID Justification                                    

1. Glyph Scaling                     
2. Auto Leading                                             
3. Composer                                                  

Note: Boundary values for H&J editable text fields are different in both the applications. So, in InDesign, if any text field contains min/max boundary value; while opening the document in QXP, it will fall back to QXP text field min/max boundary value (if it does not match) 

ANCHORED ITEMS

Kindly don’t apply angle value on anchored grouped items in the template