Markzware is know for it’s invention of preflighting and of course the stand-alone application FlightCheck Professional. Markzware is also very popular for our easy-to-use desktop publishing conversion Plugins, XTensions and applications. Here is a small overview:

Q2ID – QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign – 199 – Macintosh/Windows
A great Plug-in for any Adobe InDesign user. With one click, open your QuarkXPress documents right within Adobe InDesign; the complete layout, ready to edit and use! Adobe CS4 Plugin or CS3.

ID2Q - InDesign to Quark XTension – 199 – Macintosh/Windows
A great tool for any QuarkXPress users, as there is a growing number of InDesign files. With one click, open your InDesign documents right within Quark; the complete layout, ready to edit and use!

PUB2ID – Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign – 199  – Macintosh/Windows
A CS3 or CS4 plugin which makes getting MSPub files into InDesign simple as can be!

MarkzTools 8 – Recovers bad Quark files – 199 – Macintosh
An XTension QuarkXPress 8 (Quark 7 version also available.) which can keep your files in good order, allow you to down-save to a lower version and can most amazingly fix or recover bad or corrupted Quark files, most of the time!  Read more... (350 words, 8 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

ID2Q und / oder Q2ID…

Q2ID v4 (QuarkXPress zu Adobe InDesign)

Mit Unterstützung von CS4 und QuarkXPress 8:

Markzware veröffentlichte kürzlich Q2ID v4 (199 Euro), das jetzt auch als Plug-in für Adobe InDesign CS4 erhältlich ist und mit einem Klick alle Versionen von QuarkXPress konvertiert! Upgrades für berechtigte aktuelle Anwender finden Sie unter:
http://markzware.com/q2id

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ID2Q v4 (InDesign zu Quark)

JETZT ebenfalls lieferbar!

Für diejenigen, die eine Konvertierung in die andere Richtung benötigen, hat Markzware gerade eine neue Version des ID2Q v4 XTension-Moduls (199 Euro) herausgebracht. Dieses funktioniert jetzt auch mit QuarkXPress 8 und konvertiert alle Versionen von Adobe InDesign – auch CS4! Siehe:
http://markzware.com/id2q

COMING SOON – PageZephyr!

Resellers in Deutschland:
http://www.markzware.com/resellers/europe/germany/

Resellers in CH:
http://www.markzware.com/resellers/europe/switzerland/

Resellers in AT:
http://www.markzware.com/resellers/europe/austria/

Deutsche Distributor:

ComLine GmbH
Main Office
Am Oxer 33
D-24955 Harrislee

Tel: 0461 / 773 03 30
Fax: 0461 / 773 03 90
info@comline-shop.de
http://www.comline-shop.de

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Markzware auf Twitter:
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MarkzwareTV auf YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/markzwareTV

Markzware Group auf Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/70725

Markzware Blog:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs  Read more... (187 words, 7 images, estimated 45 secs reading time)

Découvrez les meilleurs outils de contrôle de la qualité et de conversion de données ! La nouvelle version 6.5 de FlightCheck Professional est maintenant disponible. Pour plus d’informations, consultez le lien de notre partenaire Siener Informatique :
http://www.sienerinformatique.com/boutiques/emailing/markzare.html

DECOUVREZ LES MEILLEURS OUTILS DE CONVERSION

	FLIGHTCHECK PROFESSIONAL v.6.5 NOUVEAU L’outil incontournable pour assurer le contrôle de qualité de vos documents avant impression Le standard industriel du contrôle avant impression permet d’analyser des documents PostScript, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Photoshop, FreeHand, Illustrator, Microsoft Office, InDesign, et bien plus encore…	Contactez-nous par téléphone au +33 (0)1 56 20 24 20 ou par mail cliquez ici
	SOLUTION Q2ID V.4 Convertissez des fichiers QuarkXPress  en document Adobe InDesign Outil de conversion qui permettra aux utilisateurs d’Adobe InDesign de convertir des documents des versions 3.3, à 8.x de QuarkXPress au format de fichier natif d’InDesign.

Since ICANN, approved the use of non-Latin characters in domain names today, I thought we would stick on the Internet side with this post. Jörg Oyen, the publishing, Adobe and Quark QPS expert friend of ours over in Germany at Oyen.de, sent me a rather ominous Instant message on Skype the other day, “Do you like balls”? he asked. For some reason, I thought, “oh, must be Google Balls” for it sounds very Googlish (sp?) No, he meant Tagul balls or Tagul meta clouds. Here, you can see Jörg’s meta ball from his site here:

Here is the Markzware meta data cloud (no mystery here):

Beware! This Markzware cloud is not complete and this is limitation of Tagul only getting the first 350 keywords or something to that effect. We see FlightCheck in there, but no Q2ID or ID2Q, our popular Quark-to-InDesign and the other way around as well, conversion tools.

Want to see how we made this? Watch the video here, for good control over your meta data, keywords and general SEO is very important for graphic designers, publishers and printers alike (Yes, print-shops included!):

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“Electronic books may transform publishing industry” read the title on MarketWatch.com and the tag-line was, “Executives discuss impact of e-books at Frankfurt Books Fair.”

By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Electronic books may transform not only the publishing industry, but the very definition of what constitutes a book. E-books — whether read on an iPhone, a Kindle or a laptop — are a hot topic at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

“Books are just devices. Wikipedia is the new Britannica,” said Ronald Schild, managing director of Germany-based MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH.

“Digital content is superior in many ways,” Schild said Thursday at a panel discussion on electronic books at the fair. “Reading today is solitary process, but there are many other ways of reading. [In the future,] it may become more of a conversation.”

While electronic books still account for only a small part of global publishing, their popularity is growing. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN ) , which sells the electronic-book reader Kindle, is facing growing competition from other e-reader producers. In addition, many users are reading electronic content on their laptops, PCs and multi-functional mobile devices such as Apple Inc.’s (AAPL 189.91, -1.39, -0.72%) iPhone.  Read more... (695 words, 7 images, estimated 2:47 mins reading time)

The Q2ID v4 download makes converting QuarkXpress files into Adobe InDesign documents a true cool breeze on a warm summer evening. (If you have the Markzware Q2ID v3 download, you can update to version 4.)  With that in mind, we read:

How to Move From QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign

QuarkXPress was once the only page-layout graphics program that most serious designers would even consider using. PageMaker was in a far distant second place, and few designers really liked that program. However, Adobe has since produced InDesign. While moving from QuarkXPress to InDesign may be a bit cumbersome at first, the extra features you get and its seamless integration with programs like Photoshop and Illustrator make the switch worthwhile.
Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_2315138_move-from-quarkxpress-adobe-indesign.html

Read the full article for great tips.  Consider buying the Q2ID download (see Resources). It is a good return on investment if you are struggling with moving your Quark files to InDesign.  If you did download Q2ID for CS2 mac, you may have upgraded to the download Q2ID v3 mac version.  Is Q2ID downloadable for CS4? Yes, and you can even get the Q2ID demo download to check it out before you buy the full version. At 199, I am not sure how they see it as pricey, especially if you have a Markzware software Q2ID discount coupon to help you get it for cheap Q2ID v4 download discount, use a Q2ID coupon code, Q2ID discount code, or other Q2ID coupons. Then again, maybe they did not see this Q2ID ROI or Return On Investment report…  Read more... (260 words, 7 images, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

“Content is free. Formats are not” is the article’s title from cnet. Now, this strays away from purely printing, although content in the digital printing world and certainly the publishing sector faces a similar fate:

“Content may be free, but the format in which we buy it certainly is not. As Apple, Google, Red Hat, and others increasingly demonstrate, consumers and enterprises are happy to pay for “free” when packaged in convenient formats that add value to digital goods.
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All of these (re)purchases strike me that the media world may have problems, but they are mostly of discovering convenient formats in which to deliver content. Formats that suggest, and sometimes demand, payment.”
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Good content is a necessary precondition to getting paid, but it’s not going to be reason we pay anymore. That reason for payment is the format in which the content is delivered.
Perhaps it’s always been that way, but the physicality of the delivery mechanisms confused us: we were buying the paper but thought we were buying the news.”
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10369471-16.html  Read more... (351 words, 7 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Pat Berger of Mercer Color corporation, winner of the recent AMERICAN PRINTER’s first annual Environmental Excellence Awards, stops at PRINT 09 in Chicago to share with us how he uses preflight software application, FlightCheck, Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion plugin) and what he thought of the new PageZephyr (PageZepher) technology, to index, make searchable and extractable, Quark, InDesign and other proprietary file content at the Markzware booth-Pat Berger of Mercer Color on Markzware at PRINT 09:

Preflighting with FlightCheck Professional v6.5

We at Markzware have done countless FlightCheck Professional and Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) or ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXpress) live presentations. Generally, like most truly behind their computer software, it is best to give the audience a live taste of how the software behaves in a true workflow setting. Yes, I have had my share of bad software demonstrations, which is why this video is all the more funny for me and perhaps for you as well:

I HAVE DECIDED TO DELETE THIS VIDEO FROM WITHIN THIS POST. IT IS STILL LINKED BELOW, BUT AFTER SEEING THE ENTIRE THING (LESSON LEARNED) IT DAWNED ON ME THAT THIS MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO CHRISTIANS OR THOSE WHOM LOST LOVED ONES TO CANCER. SORRY.

GRRF – The Last Lecture from Lumalin Productions on Vimeo.

Whether you are a graphic designer, print production publisher or printer, this GRFF – The Last Lecture video may have you on the print production floor (For you have seen your share of software demo’s, that is for sure!)

From the show floor of PRINT 09, we post you this interesting film-

Xerox DirectMail on the “Prepress for Digital Printing” Book and retro FlightCheck; a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkj70fyy-CI

Transcript:
How many of you remember this one? Why fight it, preflight it! With FlightCheck. Now this is an old one, going a little bit retro here. I don’t know from when this was exactly, probably about 1999 and maybe even earlier, like 97, or 1996 But anyway that brings us to the next subject of today which is a little letter I got a nice direct mail piece, nice to see that. Not only was it a direct mail piece it was personalized and it came from no other than Xerox.

BREAKING- since this video was made, FlightCheck 6.5 with QuarkXPress 8 and CS4 or Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat and thus PDF support is now shipping! Save one hundred when purchasing here!