However, he stresses that Quark has not left users in the lurch – there is a free downloadable opener for older files, that can open single files or batches in nested folders, details of which can be found at the end of this feature. We decided to cut the fat in QXP 10, so that we do not carry over, for example, type engines that were invented in the early 1990s.” Guenther says: “In QXP 7 we implemented a lot of modern technologies, such as OpenType, Unicode, JDF, transparencies, drop shadows, etc. However, QXP 10 and today’s QXP 2015 only open files from v.7 onwards. Meanwhile, Quark senior product manager for Europe, Matthias Guenther, says QXP 9 could open all Mac and Windows documents types back to 1990’s v.3.1. Ironically, today’s Adobe InDesign CC 2015 can open some old QuarkXPress files that QXP cannot, up to QXP v.4. After that the Lion OS and its successors could only open ‘Carbon’ applications written for the current Unix-based OS X code. This runs Snow Leopard, the last Apple OS that could still open ‘Cocoa’ programs that had originally been written for the non-Unix System 9. However, I could open it, because I still have a 2011 copy of QXP 9 on my Mac Pro (itself from 2009).
PrintWeek features editor Nick Mansley pitched the idea to me after trawling through the mag’s archive and finding that a QuarkXPress Drupa layout from only 10 years ago couldn’t be opened on his current system. This question threw up a case where simply archiving wasn’t enough. Surely in these enlightened days of clouds and automated back-ups, nobody needs to worry about old files? Aren’t they automatically transferred from storage medium to new medium, server to server? The reason is that every other blue moon or so, I need to open up computer files dating back to the dawn of digitally produced magazines – roughly from 1990 onward.
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