QuarkXPress

Latest revision as of 08:46, 9 April 2024

QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing application.

[edit] Identifiers

• QXD - QuarkXPress legacy Document (Version 3.1 - 5)
• QXT - QuarkXPress legacy Template (Version 3.1 - 5)
• QWD - QuarkXPress Web Document
• QWT - QuarkXPress Web Template
• QXL - QuarkXPress Library
• QXB - QuarkXPress Book
• QXP - QuarkXPress Project (Version 6 - 15)
• QPT - QuarkXPress Project Template (Version 6 - 15)
• QCD - QuarkXPress Article

Current versions may create a QX bundle file on MacOS, which is a multi-file directory.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Versions

QuarkXPress file versions can be determined by hex values offset 8 or 9^[1].

* QuarkXPress version 3.1 may have values of 0x39, 0x3A, 0x3B, 0x3D, 0x3E

[edit] 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

[edit] Sample files

• dexvert samples — document/quarkXPress

[edit] Links

• Wikipedia: QuarkXPress
• QuarkXPress website
• Planet Quark
• QXP File Format & Sample File

[edit] References

1. ↑ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/libqxp/+/master/src/lib/QXPHeader.h
2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=-zoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA8&ots=cOmG8ELjlG&dq=quarkxpress%203.2%20windows&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=quarkxpress%203.2%20windows&f=false