Quark into Word?

[stephanie]

Can I include a Quark 6 graphic in a Word document?

I want to email a document that includes a page of Quark 6 graphics to
someone who does not have Quark.

I am working in Win200Pro with Word 2002.

I do not have Acrobat.

Got any other ideas (for this issue)?

Many thanks!

 

[Riduwan Zhang]

How about save your Quark file into JPG? BMP?

 

[stephanie]

I hope you are still receiving alerts regarding this.

Thank you very much. That sounds like a briliant solution. But when I am
in Quark, my only "Save as" options are .qxp (quark project) and .qpt (quark
template).

What program would the recipient have to have in order to read .bmp or .jpg?

thanks!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Windows provides the tools to view BMP and JPG files.

As for creating them from any application, you need a driver. I haven't used
Quark in several years so I cannot comment on whether it has the capability
to do this, but amongst the applications capable of writing documents to
jpg/bmp from any application is the excellent SnagIt from www.techsmith.com

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[stephanie]

I looked at snagit's website. I don't see anything about actually READING
what snagit has captured. And they have not responded to my query.

So, if I use snagit to capture the Word Document that includes a Quark file,
what does my recipient need to have to read and view it correctly?

Thanks.

 

[Graham Mayor]

SnagIt includes a 'printer' driver that will output printable material to a
graphics image (or in the case of multiple pages - one image per page). You
can set the output to be in any standard graphics format (and another
included tool will also convert between graphics formats should you get it
wrong). Windows without any help from additional software will open a
variety of image formats in its image viewer. (JPG offers a reasonable
compromise between image quality and file size.)

Bottom line, if you can print it, you can produce it in jpg format. I think
there's a demo. Give it a try.

FWIW all the illustrations on my web site were also produced with this fine
program which will do about 80% of the things I need to do with graphics.
The rest need the power of Photoshop

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[stephanie]

Ok.
So, when someone tries to open my attachment, and are asked "what do you
want to open this with?" what do they select?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Windows Picture & Fax viewer with Windows XP, which will be the default
unless the user has changed the default.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If it's a Word document, they shouldn't be asked (but they shouldn't be
opening the attachment directly from the email, anyway; they should be
saving to the HD and opening from there).

 

[stephanie]

If it were a Word document, I wouldn't be having this discussion, would I?

Are you saying that I should always (1) save the attachment, (2) open the
applicable program, (3) open the attachment to read it, (4) go back into OL
to read or re-read the message, and respond to the attachment? Possibly
e-mail the sender to tell them that the attachment was not what I was looking
for? And then (5) go back into the program, (6) delete the saved attachment?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm saying that (a) opening Word documents directly from attachments can be
hazardous if they contain macro viruses (a minimal risk), and (b) opening
Word documents directly from attachments, editing them, and saving them,
even multiple times, and then closing them has been responsible for a huge
quantity of lost work as reported in these NGs. Unless they are at some
point saved to a Word document folder, they are opened only in a temp folder
and deleted when closed.

As for the rest, if a SnagIt capture is used to convert a Quark document to
an image that is then inserted into a Word document (which I thought was the
general gist of this thread), then one would open it in Word.

 

[stephanie]

Good point. But, no, I don't work on things I receive as attachments. I
just read them, and save them to a specified folder if I think I might need
them for future reference.

I just read back thru the thread - it looks as though I suffered premature
exhileration at the notion that snagit might solve my problem.

But the problem still is that I want to send a Quark document to someone who
does not have Quark.

Any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, assuming that SnagIt could capture printer output from Quark (as
Graham seems to think it could), then you could save each page as a graphic
and insert each page-graphic into a Word document page (which I think is
what the gist of this thread has been assuming). Since I don't have access
to Quark, I don't know whether there is a simpler solution; for example, can
Quark save as RTF or some other easily-read format? Of course, the simplest
solution (which may have been addressed early on) would be to print from
Quark to a PDF, which anyone with Adobe Reader (which is basically anyone)
could read.

 

[stephanie]

Gee.

Why do you respond to threads you haven't even read?

Please go away.

 

[stephanie]

What is Win Pic & Fax Viewer the default OF? or FOR?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't respond to threads I haven't read, but I admit that over the course
of several days I seem to have lost track of this one. However, knowing that
Graham is traveling, with limited access to these NGs, I was hoping to be
helpful. Obviously I have only muddied the waters, and Graham seems to have
returned, so I will go away as you ask.

 

[Graham Mayor]

jpg and bmp which is what we have been discussing.

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[stephanie]

I think this is where I came in. Thanks, anyway.