QuarkXPress

File Format
Name	QuarkXPress
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Desktop Publishing QuarkXPress
Extension(s)	.qxp, .qxd, others
MIME Type(s)	application/vnd.quark.quarkxpress
PRONOM	x-fmt/182, fmt/652, fmt/685, fmt/651
Released	1987

QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing application.

Identifiers

Many file extensions have been reported: .qcd, .qct, .qpt, .qwd, .qwt, .qxb, .qxd, .qxl, .qxp, .qxt. More research may be needed to sort this out.

Identification

Files have "IIXPR" or "MMXPR" at offset 2.

QuarkXPress legacy documents (QuarkXPress 3, 4, 5 and 6) need to be converted to the new format (QuarkXPress 9.1) in order to be opened by QuarkXPress 10 and newer. Free software is available.

Software

• QuarkXPress
• Re-lab / OLE Toy - Appears to have some support for parsing the format
• Libqxp library for LibreOffice, currenly only reads QuarkXPress versions 3-4

Links

• Wikipedia: QuarkXPress
• QuarkXPress website
• Planet Quark