Files derived from Illustrator or InDesign, which are much better behaved, work without incident either pasted or imported and converted. Some applications still try to send stuff across as images, but QuarkXPress will convert even them if you save as PDF. QuarkXPress will now take most kinds of graphics - including the nightmare Excel graphs - and convert them into a group of useable objects straight off. It was a Desk Top Publishing package, and you imported graphics print-ready, and used them like that. Until now, QuarkXPress resolutely refused to convert anything except text.
There are so many unnecessary bits and pieces that it takes up to twenty minutes to extract a simple chart. The same is true trying to open general document PDFs in Illustrator. Illustrator will do it, but it retains so much extraneous stuff that the files are huge and cumbersome. InDesign gives up when trying to import and convert even a relatively simple map, derived from GIS software. InDesign just pastes an unusable low-resolution image of the chart. It’s generally quicker to remake graph in Illustrator rather than to correct all the garbage. The problem is, when you paste them into Illustrator, the text turns to garbage. They can quickly make graphs that look so good. People supplying files for design love Excel. The problem comes when you try pasting from Excel into either of them. That shouldn’t be surprising, given that they are part of the same Adobe Creative Suite. Illustrator and InDesign already happily cross copy into each other. Sound like something everything else already does? Well, not really. It will do the same thing (if asked) with EPS files, PDFs and others. It’s this: QuarkXPress now pastes graphics from other applications, and converts them into native Quark objects. One of them - based on my pre-test of the Final Release candidate - will change my workflow for ever. QuarkXPress 2016 is due for imminent release. It has a lot of new features.
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