Please help! Im about to lose a ton of money!

Submitted by Triple One on Thu, 2008-03-20 19:36.

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Ok, I have a customer who wants me to take over all of his printing and designing.
He has workbooks, newsletters, forms, posters, theres sooo much stuff.
Whoever is printing his stuff now, is working in Quark 7.2
We only work in indesign, rarely in Quark 6.5.
I do not have quark on my computer at home, I hate quark, but he is willing to purchase it just so that I will have access to all his files, and he can email me changes on the fly and I can take care of everything.
He is a PERFECT customer, easy to please, pays right away and generously, Im just not sure how to go about this.
He wants to ensure that if he DOES pay for a copy of Quark, that he doesnt have to do it again a year from now (if something were to happen and I wasnt around to do this for whatever reason)

Heres my questions:
Is there ANY way to convert quark files to indesign?
Is there any way to convert quark 7.2 to 6.5?
If they supply him with PDFs are they going to be a nightmare for me to edit?
(example: indesign pdfs are a breeze, PUBLISHER PDFS ARE A NIGHTMARE)

any help with this crazy scenario would be greatly appreciated!

Hmmmm as we say here:

Submitted by ireid on Thu, 2008-03-20 20:19.

Preasshhhaaa!

Seems like you could open 6.5 in 7.2. BUT exactly what happens when you do. . . not good. See this: http://printplanet.com/discuss/thread.jspa?messageID=6169

That being said I had a client say the same thing to me. . . "We will SEND you a copy of Quark!"

Uhhh no. No thanks. See this thread: http://creativebits.org/quark_to_indesign_free

"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda