But what happens when your workflow requires both? What if your legacy client uses QuarkXPress, but your current design team only knows InDesign? Or what if you need to extract data from a Quark file without owning a license for the software?

Designers who receive client Quark files weekly and want them to open like native InDesign docs.

Plugins save . A 50-page catalog that would take a junior designer two weeks to manually rebuild in InDesign can be converted by a plugin in 15 minutes (followed by 2 hours of clean-up).