Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 115)

107 USING INDESIGN CS4
Working with documents
Export metadata as an XMP file
You can save metadata in an XMP file to share with other users. These XMP files can be used as templates for
populating InDesign documents and other documents created with XMP-enabled applications. Templates you export
are stored in a shared location that all XMP-enabled applications can access. They also appear in the pop-up menu at
the bottom of the File Info dialog box.
1 Choose File > File Info (InDesign) or File > Content File Info (InCopy).
2 Choose Export from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box.
3 Type a filename, choose a location for the file, and click Save.
To view metadata templates in Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (Mac OS), click the pop-up menu at the bottom of
the File Info dialog box and choose Show Templates Folder.
Import metadata from an XMP file
When you import metadata into a document from an exported XMP template file, you can specify whether to clear all
metadata in the current document and add the new metadata, keep all but the matching metadata, or add matching
metadata to the existing metadata.
❖ Choose File > File Info (InDesign) or File > Content File Info (InCopy).
• Choose an XMP file from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box, select an import option, and click OK.
• Choose Import from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box, select an import option, and click OK. Then
double-click the XMP template file you want to import.
Converting QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
Open QuarkXPress files in InDesign
InDesign can convert document and template files from QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.1x. InDesign can also convert
document and template files from multi-language QuarkXPress Passport 4.1x files, so there is no longer any need to
save these files as single-language files first. (To convert documents created with QuarkXPress 5.0 or later, reopen the
documents in QuarkXPress and save them in 4.0 format.)
For more information, see the QuarkXPress Conversion Guide (PDF) at www.adobe.com/go/learn_quarkconv .
Open a QuarkXPress document or template
1 Make sure that the original application file is closed.
2 To ensure that all links are maintained, copy all linked files to the same QuarkXPress document folder.
3 In InDesign, choose File > Open.
4 In Windows, choose QuarkXPress (3.3-4.1x) or QuarkXPress Passport (4.1x) from the Files Of Type menu.
5 Select a file and click Open.
Note: If InDesign cannot convert a file or a specific part of a file, it displays a warning describing the reasons it cannot
convert it and the results of the conversion.
6 If a warning dialog box appears, do one of the following:
• Click Save to save a copy of the warnings as a text file, and then open the file in InDesign.
• Click Close to close the dialog box and open the file in InDesign.
Updated 18 June 2009