![]() Ironically, today’s Adobe InDesign CC 2015 can open some old QuarkXPress files that QXP cannot, up to QXP v.4. ![]() ![]() After that the Lion OS and its successors could only open ‘Carbon’ applications written for the current Unix-based OS X code. This runs Snow Leopard, the last Apple OS that could still open ‘Cocoa’ programs that had originally been written for the non-Unix System 9. However, I could open it, because I still have a 2011 copy of QXP 9 on my Mac Pro (itself from 2009). ![]() PrintWeek features editor Nick Mansley pitched the idea to me after trawling through the mag’s archive and finding that a QuarkXPress Drupa layout from only 10 years ago couldn’t be opened on his current system. This question threw up a case where simply archiving wasn’t enough. Surely in these enlightened days of clouds and automated back-ups, nobody needs to worry about old files? Aren’t they automatically transferred from storage medium to new medium, server to server? The reason is that every other blue moon or so, I need to open up computer files dating back to the dawn of digitally produced magazines – roughly from 1990 onward.
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