I work with Russian documents in QuarkXpress 4.0 (where I am a new user) for Windows XP. I get sent Russian documents produced in QuarkXpress for Macintosh.
Understandably, the Russian comes out as gibberish on my Windows machine. I need help in implementing one of two possible solutions.
I am very exprienced in issues of cross-platform rendition of character sets and conversation of codepages to Unicode in Windows XP applications - but not in QuarkXpress.
Possible Solution 1. Upgrade to Express 6 - IF(!) it recognizes the Mac Rusian character set and automatically converts it to either Unicode or CodePage 1251. But I don't want to upgrade unless I'm sure that this will work, and I consider that unlikley. While Windows XP allows users to set the system to interpret all 8-bit characters from other OSs as the appropriate subset in Unicode, this doesn't seem to be working for my version of QuarkXxpress.
Possible solution 2. Multiple find/change. In Microsoft Word, before the full adoption of Unicode, I used to be able to convert from the Mac Russian character sets to Windows by writing a search/replace macro that found all 66 Russian characters in the Mac set and changed them to their Windows countrparts.
I was hoping to be able to do something similar in QuarkXpress, but apparently there's no macro language. Do anyone know of any workarounds? I would like to stay within the QuarkXpress environment and NOT have to export and reimport text. There's just two much of it.
Understandably, the Russian comes out as gibberish on my Windows machine. I need help in implementing one of two possible solutions.
I am very exprienced in issues of cross-platform rendition of character sets and conversation of codepages to Unicode in Windows XP applications - but not in QuarkXpress.
Possible Solution 1. Upgrade to Express 6 - IF(!) it recognizes the Mac Rusian character set and automatically converts it to either Unicode or CodePage 1251. But I don't want to upgrade unless I'm sure that this will work, and I consider that unlikley. While Windows XP allows users to set the system to interpret all 8-bit characters from other OSs as the appropriate subset in Unicode, this doesn't seem to be working for my version of QuarkXxpress.
Possible solution 2. Multiple find/change. In Microsoft Word, before the full adoption of Unicode, I used to be able to convert from the Mac Russian character sets to Windows by writing a search/replace macro that found all 66 Russian characters in the Mac set and changed them to their Windows countrparts.
I was hoping to be able to do something similar in QuarkXpress, but apparently there's no macro language. Do anyone know of any workarounds? I would like to stay within the QuarkXpress environment and NOT have to export and reimport text. There's just two much of it.