QuarkXPress

File Format
Name	QuarkXPress
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Desktop Publishing QuarkXPress ; ; ; ;
Extension(s)	.qxp, .qxd, others
MIME Type(s)	application/vnd.quark.quarkxpress
PRONOM	x-fmt/182, fmt/652, fmt/685, fmt/651
Type Code	XDOC
Wikidata ID	Q678036
Released	1987

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Revision as of 18:53, 10 November 2021

QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing application.

Identifiers

QXD - QuarkXPress legacy Document (Version 3.1 - 5)
QXT - QuarkXPress legacy Template (Version 3.1 - 5)
QWD - QuarkXPress Web Document
QWT - QuarkXPress Web Template
QXL - QuarkXPress Library
QXB - QuarkXPress Book
QXP - QuarkXPress Project (Version 6 - 15)
QPT - QuarkXPress Project Template (Version 6 - 15)
QCD - QuarkXPress Article

Identification

Files have "IIXPR" or "MMXPR" at offset 2.

QuarkXPress legacy documents (QuarkXPress 3, 4, 5 and 6) need to be converted to the new format (QuarkXPress 9.1) in order to be opened by QuarkXPress 10 and newer. Free software is available.

Versions

QuarkXPress file versions can be determined by hex values offset 8 or 9^[1].

Version	Extension	Year	Hex	PRONOM
QuarkXPress 1		1987	001C001C
QuarkXPress 2		1989	00260026
QuarkXPress 3.0		1990	00360036
QuarkXPress 3.1 Mac	.QXD	1992	0x39*	fmt/1317
QuarkXPress 3.1 Win	.QXD	1992	0x3e*	fmt/1317
QuarkXPress 3.2 Mac^[2]	.QXD	1993	0x3c
QuarkXPress 3.3	.QXD	1996	0x3f	fmt/1318
QuarkXPress 4	.QXD	1997	0x40 or 0x41	fmt/1319
QuarkXPress 5	.QXD	2002	0x42	fmt/1320
QuarkXPress 6	.QXP	2003	0x43	fmt/652
QuarkXPress 7	.QXP	2006	0x44	fmt/1321
QuarkXPress 8	.QXP	2008	0x45	fmt/1322
QuarkXPress 9	.QXP	2011	0x46	fmt/685
QuarkXPress 9.1	.QXP	2011	0x47	fmt/1323
QuarkXPress 9.2	.QXP	2011	0x48
QuarkXPress 10	.QXP	2014	0x49	fmt/651
QuarkXPress 10.1	.QXP	2014	0x4a	fmt/1446
QuarkXPress 11	.QXP	2015	0x4b	fmt/1324
QuarkXPress 12.1	.QXP	2016	0x4c	fmt/1325
QuarkXPress 13.2	.QXP	2018	0x4d	fmt/1326
QuarkXPress 14	.QXP	2018	0x4e	fmt/1327
QuarkXPress 15	.QXP	2019	0x4f	fmt/1328
QuarkXPress 16	.QXP	2020	0x50	fmt/1494
QuarkXPress 17	.QXP	2021	0x51	fmt/1495

* QuarkXPress version 3.1 may have values of 0x39, 0x3A, 0x3B, 0x3D, 0x3E

Software

QuarkXPress
Re-lab / OLE Toy - Appears to have some support for parsing the format
Libqxp library for LibreOffice, currenly only reads QuarkXPress versions 3-4

Links

References

[0] ttps://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/libqxp/+/master/src/lib/QXPHeader.h

[1] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=-zoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA8&ots=cOmG8ELjlG&dq=quarkxpress%203.2%20windows&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=quarkxpress%203.2%20windows&f=false

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[2]

@@ Line 65: / Line 65: @@
 |QuarkXPress 9.2 || '''.QXP''' || 2011 || 0x48 ||
 |-
-|QuarkXPress 10 || '''.QXP''' || 2014 || 0x49 ||
+|QuarkXPress 10 || '''.QXP''' || 2014 || 0x49 || {{PRONOM|fmt/651}}
 |-
-|QuarkXPress 10.1 || '''.QXP''' || 2014 || 0x4a  || {{PRONOM|fmt/651}}
+|QuarkXPress 10.1 || '''.QXP''' || 2014 || 0x4a  || {{PRONOM|fmt/1446}}
 |-
 |QuarkXPress 11 || '''.QXP''' || 2015 || 0x4b  || {{PRONOM|fmt/1324}}
@@ Line 79: / Line 79: @@
 |QuarkXPress 15 || '''.QXP''' || 2019 || 0x4f  || {{PRONOM|fmt/1328}}
 |-
-|QuarkXPress 16 || '''.QXP''' || 2020 || 0x50  ||
+|QuarkXPress 16 || '''.QXP''' || 2020 || 0x50  || {{PRONOM|fmt/1494}}
 |-
-|QuarkXPress 17 || '''.QXP''' || 2021 || 0x51  ||
+|QuarkXPress 17 || '''.QXP''' || 2021 || 0x51  || {{PRONOM|fmt/1495}}
 |}

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