About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 5/3/2007 Subject: Adobe Illustrator files to Quark
Question I'm working on a project in Adobe Illustrator. It is saved as and AI file, but I need it to be a Quark file. How can I do that?
Answer If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can save the file as an EPS and place it into a Quark XPress document - then save. This would enable you to give someone a Quark XPress document page that could be opened in Quark and printed.
If you are actually asking "can I somehow convert the AI file into a native Quark Xpress document that I can edit like any normal Quark document that was created in Quark - well - a quick search in Google for "Adobe Illustrator to QuarkXpress conversion" gives me - well - not much. Sounds like you may need to rebuild the file in Quark if you need a Quark document.
Or you might consider changing the AI file into PDF -- THEN ...
