Doing design, publishing and print trade shows is a lot of fun. Throw in a video camera and industry personalities walking around and it is a blast! Sandee Cohen (Vectorbabe.com), industry trainer, designer and InDesign author, comments on her personal experience with Markzware’s Q2ID or QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion tool. I have to admit, her glowing remarks were above and beyond what I figured would be relative praise. Check it out (Full transcribed text below):

“And what was more fascinating was, I had that page one which I had done on my own to do as a comparison and I have to tell you Q2ID did a better job than me and I do InDesign.” – Sandee Cohen

Vectorbabe, Sandee Cohen tells us about Graph Expo, InDesign and more

Interview with Sandee Cohen by Mary Gay Marchese

MGM: Hi everybody, we’re here at Graph Expo here in Chicago and I have Sandee Cohen here and Sandee I’ve a question for you. How did you first find out about Q2ID?
SC: Well I’ve always known about Q2ID, but what happened for me was, I had a job, I had a client who came in and they gave me a Quark file and I see, I started with ID before Quark 5, 6, 7, 8 happened so InDesign always opened Quark files for me, but they sent me a Quark, I guess it was a Quark 6 file and I looked at it in Quark and I said well you know this is an easy file, I’ll replicate it in InDesign. It was a simple one-page thing. I didn’t think anything of it. I finished it and suddenly realized there were 5 other pages in the file and I thought this is taking too long. This is not what I signed on for this project. So I immediately that day, that moment went to your website and downloaded Q2ID, opened it and tada…. And what was more fascinating was, I had that page one which I had done on my own to do as a
SC: So that was the story of how it happened.
MGM: Wow that’s a great story and hey everybody you heard it right from the expert Sandee I mean, it doesn’t give that on the $%&* …What here at the show… How is the show going for you? Are you finding some other interesting software?
SC: Ahh… You know one of the things that I just love about GraphExpo and for a printing, not a print person, but a software designer teacher as me. Some of these machines are a little too much hardware, but I really recommend to designers to come and see shows like this and if you aren’t at a show like this, go visit a print shop near you. It is really important to find out exactly what’s happening when ink hits the paper. What do you mean there’s glue. What do you mean there’s, ahh, saddle stitching. What does that mean? And finding out about this stuff. So when I go around, I’m really finding out what is the final product. And that’s what this show is really good for.
MGM: You whispered a little bit about $%&* on your company and you know expand upon that so people know how good, you know. I mean pretty much everyone knows Sandee but.
SC: Hahaha.
MGM: I mean everybody in the States. Hahaha.
SC: Well I actually, people know me, my website is vectorbabe.com and I’m vectorbabe. Off course my cats name is pixel and I’ve been working with computer graphics, vector graphics and page layout for who knows how long. I, when people ask me what I do for a living, I teach computer graphics. That’s pretty much it. However, I am the author of the InDesign visual quick start guide and I’m actually the only non-Adobe person to have written a book on every version of InDesign.
DD: Wow.
SC: So that’s who I am and you can always find me on http://www.vectorbabe.com

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