Converting QuarkXPress 5 documents to PDF

QuarkXPress 5 does not provide the export to tagged PDF feature for its documents that are converted to PDF.
You can also get information about the PDF Filter XTension utility that integrates Distiller options into Quark. Otherwise, to convert a Quark 5 file to Adobe PDF, follow these steps:

1. Open the document you want to export and choose File➪Page Setup or File➪Print. The Print dialog box appears.
2. Choose Acrobat Distiller (Windows) or Create Adobe PDF (Mac) on the Printer drop-down list.
3. Select the eBook job option on the PDF options drop-down list.
4. Click the Print button.

Using InDesign 2.0 to create tagged PDF files

The latest version of InDesign is a feature-rich hybrid of layout and graphics editing programs. To date, it has the most advanced integration of Distiller properties of any Adobe program and allows complete configuration within the program. It also has the advantage of directly opening Quark 3.3–4.1 and PageMaker 6.5–7.0 documents. InDesign 2.0 is a great tool for designing and developing eBooks because of its extensive PDF conversion tools, and for Mac users, OS X and Acrobat 6 compatibility. But for this overview, here are the simple steps for exporting a document to tagged PDF:
1. Open the document you want to export and choose File➪Export. The Export dialog box opens.
2. In the Save as Type (Windows) or Formats (Mac OS) drop-down list, choose Adobe PDF.
3. Type a name for the converted PDF file, select a location on your hard drive, and click Save. The Export PDF dialog box opens.
4. In the Export PDF dialog box, shown in Figure above, select an export style from the Style drop-down list. To edit a selected style, choose the panel names on the left side of the dialog box and go to town.
5. Click the Export button.

What about other layout programs?

As mentioned earlier, InDesign 2.0 is capable of converting its documents to tagged PDF, and the process is similar to the export function in PageMaker 7.0. It also has the added advantage of having Mac OS X and Windows XP versions, so there are no problems exporting documents directly to PDF in Acrobat 6. The following sections provide an overview of this program, as well as FrameMaker 7.0 and Quark 5, should you prefer using those authoring programs to create your eBook, rather than PageMaker. Acrobat Distiller 6.0 does not provide the ability to specify the exporting of tags to PDF as part of configuring its job options. All layout programs, whether they are Windows or Mac OS versions, perform the conversion of documents to PDF by using either a Save as PDF, Export to PDF, or Print to Distiller type of command. The Save As and Export to PDF commands allow you to choose or edit Distiller job options right inside the program, and Adobe has only recently integrated the export tags feature within those programs listed at the beginning of this chapter. Older versions of these programs do not have this capability, and this is also the case with programs such as QuarkXPress 5 and FrameMaker 6.0 that use the Print to Distiller command for converting their documents to PDF.