CS4 users. HELP!

I’ve been working with the page layout program, Quark Xpress (version 7.0 right now) for about 4 years. I’ve always had InDesign installed on my laptop, but since I was taught the little tips and tricks in school using everyone’s hated program Quark, I stuck with it, since I used it at work too.

At work we’ve upgraded to Adobe Creative Suite 4—Design Premium, it comes with the luxurious InDesign CS4. Now, converting all of my files shouldn’t be a problem. Yay so simple! (Or so I thought.) Except for the fact that CS4 will not open any Quark files over version 4. I’ve called Adobe’s 1800 number, I’ve been scouring the interweb’s for about an hour and a half trying to come up with conversions, and everything I come across says “Does not work with CS4” lol.

Luckily, my Mom is a Graphic Designer as well. However she has Quark 6.0 (and even though she can save to version 5, I still need it saved to version 4 or 3! Who still uses that old stuff!?) and is looking into answers for me as well.

I’m getting frustrated. I tried using the trial software of Q2ID (Quark 2 InDesign), which would be wonderful if I was only using CS3 or CS2. But I doubt it’s going to work since in big bold red letters it’s telling me it’s not compatable with CS4 yet.

Agh! But wait! My Mom had a brilliant idea of saving the Quark page as an EPS file. But no, it cannot work because all computers hate me and want me to suffer. This is the error message that pops up regardless of if I bring in a regular quark file, or even an EPS file. YES my Quark program was closed when I tried opening it with InDesign.

* Five hours later, a brand new InDesign document has been created and somewhat replicated of the Quark document. I’d rather not do this again…

Bonerific font: Burges Script. Last week we purchased it at work, and I had no idea how to use it at first, because I went into Photoshop and tried to just type some random crap. It didn’t look as fancy as it did online! Trying to figure it out for myself after 5 minutes I got annoyed and I called the Veer 1–800 customer service number and was like “Wtf am I doing wrong?”, apparently I had to use either InDesign or Illustrator (my pick) and use the Glyph’s palette. OMG WONDERFUL. I’m in love with this font.

So I created a little image banner for you all to look at and drool over, and ponder whether or not you’ll get it too.

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So, got any plans for this weekend? Last night I had a really late soccer game (10:30PM!!)—we are so unbeatable. Ever since we started both of our indoor leagues back in mid–October we haven’t lost a game. However, last night was an exception. We’re at the top of our tier with other teams not even close to beating us. I’ve managed to somehow score a goal if not two, pretty much every game. We’re on such a high right now. We have also only tied one game. I’m on the same team as I play with my outdoor ladies, except we’re split in half. So sometimes we have to play our other half team, but in indoors. It’s really quite fun, especially getting out of the house twice a week on Thursdays, and Sunday evenings. It keeps me from committing to purchasing a year long gym membership. They want the money up front! Anyway, we’ll see how the new year goes as far as money is.

This weekend I plan on getting my Christmas party dress out of storage, along with the fancy dancin’ shoes. I also plan on going to take another trip into Toronto tomorrow morning to do a little shopping for myself, since I’m done the whole Christmas shopping for everyone on my list. YAY!