Index, search and extract desktop publishing formats; view InDesign & Quark content- PageZephyr
In this “making of” the AMERICAN PRINTER TV crew film an interview with Patrick Marchese, Co-founder and CEO of Markzware and a subsequent demonstration of some new, exciting desktop search technology, for indexing and extracting your desktop publishing formats, such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, from this well know preflight (FlightCheck) and conversion (Quark to InDesign) software developer… more below, but first the video:
Patrick tells us what PageZephyr, the name of this new technology is and briefly what it does. Doug Rosen shows how it works and I stuck in the middle there a small SnapzPro captured demo of some of the key functions of PageZepher. In a nut-shell, it is:
Index, Search, View, Extract and Distribute
QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign Content -
Partial Transcript:
Gonna do a video demonstration for American PrinterTV on the new PageZephyr…. the filming of, the making of… Basically start with your name… are you ready Doug, getting nervous? No more nervous than normal!
OK, whenever your ready (says the camera man to Patrick)…
Hi my name is Pat Marchese with Markzware and I’m here to introduce a brand new product by the name of PageZephyr (PageZepher). What PageZephyr is, is a reader for Quark, InDesign and soon Publisher PageMaker and other document types.
What we are doing is making previously unsearchable content, searchable. You can also edit, republish rearrange and distribute that content to the Internet, like for instance Google Docs, Scribd, WordPress BuzzWord and other online applications. In a nut-shell, what we are doing is bridging the print world (and publishing) with the Internet or the online world. And it is a product we have been working a long time on and it’s based off of our “Common Reader Architecture.” So, I would like you to see it, thus without any further ado, here is Doug Rosen to give you a demonstration…
blah, blah, blah…
Hello this is Doug Rosen from Markzware and I am going to show you a new technology we have released here at PRINT 09 called PageZephyr. This is a stand-alone application which can read Quark and InDesign files search the text, index and extract it out so let’s take a look at what the product is…
In the screen captured movie inserted, first I show you the “preferences” section of pz highlighting the file formats we support today, being QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign and how you can choose which folders or volumes to index; note that you can even get styled text with all formatting. Next, I show you how you can click down into any given indexed file and see all of the text storied used in that document. You can then view them one-by-one or as I do, combine several together with a simple shift-select process. Then, I briefly show you how you can take the combined text stories and edit them! Delete, make bold, add new content; you name it!
Then, we show you how you can search inside InDesign and Quark files without having them open! We highlight the found text and you can see all of the documents which contain this keyword search. It should be noted, that you can, right through PageZephyr, open the native layout file.
Lastly, we show you hoe we can upload the content to many portals, such as Google Docs, WordPress and our own portal site for content, PageZephyr.com. It is real easy, you can add tags and categories, hit export and off it goes; previously locked up content, now free on the Internet. You can also simply save the stylized text as a RTF file or text.
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View InDesign or View QuarkPress content WITHOUT needing Creative Suite CS4 or the Quark applications! Sign-up here and then you can download the PageZephyr application in the “admin” section of the blog…
http://www.pagezephyr.com/download/PageZephyr_Beta.zip
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