PSD codec for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows 7
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- This is basically the official tool, designed to create, format and open INDD files. Adobe InDesign, from Adobe Systems, is cross-compatible with both Windows and macOS computers. It is widely regarded as the ultimate tool if you need to open an InDesign file without using InDesign. And it has the largest user base, compared to others.
The PSD (Adobe Photoshop Document) Codec is a plug-in for Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Viewer, and Windows 7 Media Center.
InDesign CC supports accessible cross-media publication, allowing you to export InDesign documents to PDF, XHTML, and XML. Users can add tags and alternative text attributes to InDesign documents that support the production of accessible content in these exported formats. Q2ID is an affordable InDesign plugin which allows you to convert and open your QuarkXPress documents in Adobe InDesign, without the need for the QuarkXPress application. No more re-creating documents from scratch. The Q2ID InDesign plugin gives you a big head-start on QuarkXPress to InDesign file conversion.
View PSD filesView PSD files in Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Live Photo Gallery. You can view PSD files in Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Media Center on Windows 7. Now you can also view your Adobe PhotoDeluxe PDD files as well. |
Find files instantly with Explorer ThumbnailsSee thumbnails for PSD files in standard file open dialog boxes. View PSD and PDD files throughout Windows, including PSD files exported from other third party applications such as Lightwave3D and Modo. You can see thumbnails for
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View metadataView XMP, IPTC, and EXIF metadata from PSD and PSB files. Search the file system based on metadata using Windows Desktop Search. |
Notes
- For unsupported formats or color modes, the embedded thumbnail image will be shown if present.
- Current supported color modes are 8 bit per channel RGB, Indexed, CMYK, and Grayscale. Thumbnails and previews for these files will be shown even if the embedded thumbnails is not present as long as the flattened image is available.
- Any previous version of the codec should be uninstalled before installing an updated codec
Build History
Stay up to date on the lastest versions of our software by following us on Twitter and Facebook. - Installer update for Windows 10 support
- Fix: issue with generating thumbnails for INDD files on Windows 8.
- Improved support for 16 bit RGB files.
- Improved support for PDF 1.4
- Fix: issue with generating thumbnails for linearized PDF files that have been incrementally updated
- Fix: issue with generating thumbnails for some INDD files
- Fix: crash with INDD files that don't include thumbnails.
- EPS thumbnails for XP and legacy API users
- Fix: Issue with generating thumbnails for some AI and EPS files.
- Remove black border on INDD thumbnails.
- AI and INDD thumbnails for XP and for legacy API users (e.g., Total Commander)
- Fix: compatibility issue with XP
- Fix for conflict with Acrobat on 32 bit systems/subsystem
- Fix for stability issue with zero byte AI files
- Explorer thumbnails for PDF files on 64 bit Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
- Fix: issue with generating thumbnails for .AI files modified by Extensis Suitcase
- Add support for Adobe Photoshop Large Document Format (PSB) files
- Improved support for volume license deployment.
- Windows 7 thumbnails for InDesign INDD files saved with embedded preview images for InDesign CS2 and later.
- Windows 7 thumbnails for AI files from Adobe Illustrator 8 and earlier.
- Windows 7 thumbnails for AI files from Adobe Illustrator 9 and later.
- Fix for issue generating thumbnails for some older version PSD files.
- Use Photoshop's PSD icon as thumbnail overlay when Photoshop is installed.
- Generate thumbnails for most common EPS files on Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- Stability and performance improvements
- Adobe PhotoDeluxe PDD file support
- Fix: issue generating thumbnails for PSDs from Corel Painter 11
- Fix: crash loading large images under low memory conditions
- Fix: memory leak
- Fix: issue generating thumbnails for 16 bpc images
- Register PSD mime type for codec
- Support for 8 bpc CMYK files
- Support legacy thumbnail interfaces on Vista and later (confirmed with Total Commander)
- Improved integration with Windows Desktop Search
- Fix: issue with user selection mask layers
- Support for 8 bpc RLE compressed Grayscale
- Expose ICC profile
Indd File Viewer
- Explorer thumbnails for files with maximize compatibility set.
- Full preview and Explorer thumbnails for 8 bit per channel RGB and Indexed color mode images that contain the flattened image.
- View XMP, IPTC, and EXIF metadata
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The good news is if you want a free Quark to InDesign conversion tool, you'll find it built right into InDesign. The bad news is you can only import Quark version 4 files. If you're converting Quark to InDesign and you only have the latest (or a recent) version of Quark, you'll need to purchase a plugin like Q2ID. First though, find out if you have what you need for a free Quark to InDesign conversion:
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- If you do have legacy versions of Quark, see below for instructions on converting files yourself.
- If you don't have legacy versions of Quark, either:
- Purchase the Q2ID plugin:
Apple OSX or Microsoft Windows:Q2ID for InDesign CC 2017, CS6, CS5.5, CS5
or - Use our Quark conversion service (Converts Quark 2016 or earlier to InDesign CS3 - CC).
- Purchase the Q2ID plugin:
Converting Quark to InDesign
So you've got archives full of Quark files and you've long since made the transition to InDesign... What do you do?
Recently I was working on an enormous book project for a publishing client in Greece. There were two 300+ page documents of fairly complex text and diagramatic content, both of which were nearing completion. During one of my conversations with the client it was revealed to me that the files had to be created in InDesign. Their in-house team had switched to InDesign entirely and they no longer accepted Quark files.
Potentially a complete nightmare... Both books had been created using Quark XPress 7. But using the procedure below I managed to convert both books without any problems. The positioning of all text boxes and images were the same, and with only the odd spacing glitch where I'd embedded images within text boxes, all was fine. I spent a lot of time checking each page, but not nearly as much time as I would have spent recreating the documents from scratch. And I found that InDesign ended up being much nicer (and more stable) to work with.
So it's perfectly possible to perform a free Quark to InDesign conversion; if a little long-winded! As I said, this assumes that files are Quark version 4... InDesign won't read files above version 4 natively. So if the Quark file is already version 4, no problem. If it's version 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or 2015, read on!Quark XPress 4 free Quark to InDesign conversion
Whatever version of InDesign you're using, make sure you have the latest update from Adobe. For these free updates, Mac users click here and Windows users click here.
Once you have the latest update installed, all you need to do is select the Quark file through the File/Open InDesign menu, enable 'All Documents' instead of 'All Readable Documents' and it'll start converting. Done!
You might have to re-establish image links, but that should be about it. InDesign will import most of the document information intact - and that's it! You can now save the file as an INDD file. Make sure you check the content carefully though - no conversion is perfect.
Quark XPress 5 free Quark to InDesign conversion
What about converting Quark 5 files? No problem. Open them in Quark 5 (which you will need), select File/Save As, and save the file as a version 4 file. Then you'll be able to open the file in InDesign as explained above.
Quark XPress 6 free Quark to InDesign conversion
How about converting Quark 6 files? No problem! Open them in Quark 6 (which you'll need!), and back-save it to Quark version 5 as demonstrated above. Then you'll need to open them in Quark 5 and back-save them to version 4! And then you'll be able to open them in InDesign.
Quark XPress 7 free Quark to InDesign conversion
If you're converting Quark 7 files the procedure is slightly different. Instead of selecting File/Save As... you'll need to export the document as a Quark 6 Project. Just select File/Export>Layouts as Projects instead. Then open the file in Quark 6 (see above steps).
Quark XPress 8 free Quark to InDesign conversion
Same again for Quark XPress 8. Select File/Export>Layouts as Projects, export the document as a Quark 7 project, open in Q7 and follow the steps above.
Quark XPress 9 free Quark to InDesign conversion
Same again for Quark XPress 9. Select File/Export>Layouts as Projects, export the document as a Quark 8 project, open in Q8 and follow the steps above.
Quark XPress 10 free Quark to InDesign conversion
Same again for Quark XPress 10. Select File/Export>Layouts as Projects, export the document as a Quark 9 project, open in Q9 and follow the steps above.
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Quark XPress 2015 free Quark to InDesign conversion
Same again for Quark XPress 2015. Select File/Export>Layouts as Projects, export the document as a Quark 10 project, open in Q10 and follow the steps above.
The long and the short of it is that you'll be able to convert Quark files to InDesign, but the newer the Quark (QXD) file version, the more hoops you'll have to jump through.
Converting Quark to InDesign Commercially (CS5, CS5.5, CS6 and Q5, Q6, Q7, Q8, Q9, Q10, Q2015, Q2016)
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The free Quark to InDesign conversion is fine, and will get you out of a hole - but what if you don't have earlier versions of Quark? Or what if you want something a little more convenient, and more thorough?
The answer is to look at the commercial possibilities. The only one I've had experience with is Markzware Q2ID, a conversion tool which checks the boxes missed by the native QuarkXPress to InDesign conversion.
Markzware have been a name I've been familiar with for years. My first experience of their software was with an early version of Flightcheck which scanned Quark files, images and fonts to ensure that everything that should be there was there (Quark didn't include fonts in the collect for output option until version 5).
This is what Markzware does very well - it looks for gaps in the big software titles and then designs the plugins and software to fill those gaps. Their customer service is excellent as well - I remember e-mailing a hurried message of to the support guys late on a Friday, not really expecting any help until the following week. They called back within two minutes - I've been a fan ever since!
Q2ID will convert versions 3.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 2015 and 2016 of Quark to InDesign CS5, CS5.5, CS6 and CC 2014-2017 in the same way that the native InDesign plugin converts version 4 (at the time of writing). Just select File/Open. However, Markzware are up-front about the fact that no conversion is perfect, and some reworking will probably be required.
So if you're looking for a perfect facsimile of the original, you'll be disappointed unless the document being converted is very basic. Any conversion will, however, save you an enormous amount of time which would otherwise be spent on recreating the Quark files manually. If you'd like to see Q2ID in action, click here to view a test conversion I made using InDesign CS4 and Quark XPress 8.
If you'd like us to convert your Quark file for you, click here to get started. (Converts Quark 2016 or earlier to InDesign).
Video of a free Quark to InDesign Conversion (no plugin)
What about converting InDesign to Quark?
Markzware cater for this requirement as well with ID2Q. This converts Adobe InDesign v1.5, v2.0 and CS through CC 2015 files (Windows and Mac). If you'd like to see ID2Q in action, click here to view a test conversion I made using Quark XPress 8 and InDesign CS4.
Resources & More Information
- Q2ID - converts Quark Files to InDesign Files
- ID2Q - converts InDesign Files to Quark Files
- Quark to InDesign Conversion Service - Tinstar Design
- Case Study: Convert InDesign to Quark Using ID2Q Quark XPress Plugin
- Case Study: Using the Pub2ID plugin to Convert Publisher Files to InDesign
- Case Study: Convert Quark to InDesign Using Q2ID InDesign Plugin
- Case Study: Convert Quark to InDesign CS4 Using Q2ID
- InDesign updates from Adobe - Mac users click here and Windows users click here
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