QuarkXPress
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing application.
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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 | |
| QuarkXPress 10.1 | .QXP | 2014 | 0x4a | fmt/651 |
| 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 | |
| QuarkXPress 17 | .QXP | 2021 | 0x51 |
* 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
