File Conversion

I am not familiar with quark express, I gather you have tried doing a direct 'Import' into MS Word and had no luck.

I also gather that you are trying to change files that have been copied onto the PC from the CD not the original files opened fromthe CD.

Can you convert the quark express into a .html file? MS Word can open and convert back.

If you can e-mail me a not too large file in quark express I will try some options and let you know. My e-mail is ebywater@bigpond.net.au

An alternative approach is to use PDF to publish on the CD and proof reading rather than RTF. This should give you the quality of graphics you need. It is also a readily understood format for many computer users.

There are at least two ways of doing this conversion:
The low cost way is to "print to a file" using a post script printer driver in Quark. Then use a utility like FreePDF or Distill to convert the postscript file to PDF.
By Adobe Acrobat full version, import the Quark file and use Acrobat editor to produce the PDF.
Check your version of Quark - there was talk that a new version would produce PDFs.

Adobe acrobat reader is freely available at www.adobe.com(and with the latest versions you can annotate the text with noteswithout changing the original typesetting or copy text to paste into MSWord).

Thanks for sending the file to look at, tried to e-mail a response direct but it got rejected by the mail administrator. Here is what I could find out.

This is a multiple processed file, hard to sort out and convert. The quark file is a compressed file of other files.

The test file is on Networking by Rita Puzmanov
and includes several pictures that were created in Adobe Illustrator and are Adobe specific
image files (.eps ), you will need a program that will display or convert this format to jpg etc.

It also includes some text style files that were
created using a style sheet and designed for HTML rendering in a browser. The stylesheet formatting makes it almost impossible to display in a manner that does NOT need so much editing that it may be
quicker to retype.

If you can identify and get a copy of the HTML editor that they used you should be able to use it to convert it into a rich text format file (.rtf) which can then be easily opened in MS Word, or any text program. The HTML editor may be called Freebie HTML (deduced from some of the
info in the formatting code), but its is a MXPR3 format, the file header type info.

I unzipped the original file using a shareware program called Aladdin Expander which is available from www.aladdinsys.com as the zip file appears to have been created in a program called Aladdin StuffIt (similar to WinZip).

Try to open the files from the CD as normal program with a browser, then place the mouse in the middle of the text and 'right-click' to open the menu and select 'View Source', to show the source code in a text format in Notepad (or your default HTML editor). You can then go 'File' >> 'Save As' to save it as a standard .html format file readable in MS Word.This can be resaved in Word without the html code, there are shareware programs that will remove the html code out of a file and save it as .txt to .rtf.