Cross-Platform On Ipad

[bainbrig]

Looking for a workround.

I have most of my documents saved in QuarkXpress, as I've been using it for 30-plus years.

Now, having linked my Mac to iCloud, I can SEE my documents on my iPad, but I can't open them, of course, not having Quark on my iPad...

The only crude way round that I've come up with is converting them to PDFs, which of course has drawbacks, one of which is that I can't easily change text etc. on a PDF.

I had some notion about saving them in Pages on my Mac, but Pages doesn't want to know.

Any ideas?

BB

[Zacs-Master]

There should be an App Studio Issue Previewer for iPad on the Apple Store

[Buenchico]

Quark DesignPad can definitely save files into the native QuarkXpress format (if you fork out $9.99 for the Pro Feature Pack), so there would seem to be a reasonable chance that it might be able to open documents from that format as well:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/quark-designpad/id551786067?mt=8

[bainbrig]

Thanks Chris. The basic DesignPad doesn’t do much except allow basic type designs, but I don’t mind paying an extra tenner for the facility. I’ll report back.

Bill

[bainbrig]

The answer seems to be 'No'.

I downloaded DesignPad, and upgraded it by paying the £9.99 for the Pro Feature Pack, but all you end up with is a clunky DTP package capable of 'designing' business cards and letterheads, and as one of the positive reviews put it,"Even my kids can do designs on this!"

Which of course they can't, do designs that is.

Anyway, that's beside the point. The point is that you can sort-of-save your 'creations' as things which proper QX can see, but you CAN'T pick up existing jobs from QX and take things from them, or even just look at them on screen.

I'm going to have to bite this bullet and start working in Pages on my Mac, as documents saved in Pages CAN be viewed on the iPad (which obviously also has Pages program). In the meantime, if there's anything on my Mac that I desperately want to view on my iPad (desperately?) then I'm going to have to copy the QX doc, paste it into a Pages doc, and save that instead! Or go down the equally awkward PDF route.

iCloud sharing seemed like a good idea at the time, but now of course...

Thanks for the attempts to resolve this, much appreciated.

BB