Found these short video clips and photos going through some old files… Markzware adventure (and business trip) to New Zealand in 2004… Kris Coppieters, whom is now an Adobe InDesign Plugin Developer and trainer for software programmers, lives down there. You can check out his site (I like his freebie, ImageHorn, to dynamically fit images) here, http://www.rorohiko.com – enjoy the short slide-show and vids:

Free data conversion services look good on the shiny web-page surface, but I recommend you try these out before jumping up and down. For instance, check this out. Some of my colleagues forwarded me this and asked me to post our findings. They tried http://www.pdftoword.com/ and both got back a message similar to this:

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From: “PDF to Word” <no-reply@mail.pdftoword.com>
Subject: [PDF to Word] Failed to convert Xxxxxxxxxxxx.pdf
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Now, this could be just a fluke, but the point is you don’t get nothing for free. As the Dutch often say about making purchases (loosely translated), “A cheap purchase is a bad purchase.” (Well, anyway, rhymes in Dutch, really!)

And on that investment note, this one was rather interesting:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2162894  Read more... (360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

We are working hard on new features and functions for our preflight and conversion software and as such, are always glad to share other customer experiences, including with QXP, Adobe InDesign CS3 and Adobe InDesign CS4 (preflight a file without InDesign missing quality control checkpoints). You can also convert QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign and move content with the Q2ID plug in in InDesign.  Markzware has a nice growing list of video testimonials and also a page with customer quotes. We have taken some of the more interesting ones and highlighted them in this video:

Hi, I’m Khristyl Clerigo and I’m going to show you some of the most interesting Markzware product testimonials.

Let us hear what Shellie L. Hall of Ducktype Digital and Get Creative News has to say about FlightCheck Professional.

As a prepress professional I have spend many hours going through customers’ digital files one by one, checking for everything from fonts, to page size and image resolution to make sure the files would print correctly on press.  Read more... (671 words, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

Bekijk Markzware’s video over QuarkXPress naar Adobe InDesign (Q2ID v4) conversion tool:

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Hallo ik ben Arnold Roosch van Markzware, de makers van conversie en controlesoftware voor de grafische industrie. En welkom bij deze video over onze Q2ID Quark to InDesign conversie-tool.

Ik zal u nu laten zien hoe gemakkelijk het is een QuarkXpress document naar InDesign te converteren door gebruik te maken van onze Q2ID conversie-tool.

Dus dit is het originele QuarkXpress document, we zullen het later nogmaals openen om te zien hoe accuraat de conversie is geweest.

Laten we Adobe InDesign openen, hou in gedachten dat Q2ID werkt als een plug-in voor CS3 of CS4 het is beschikbaar voor macintosh en Windows en echt heel gemakkelijk te installeren.

Zoals u kunt zien is er een markzware pull-down menu toegevoegd aan de menu bar deze leid u gemakkelijk naar Q2ID functie. Selecteer, converteer QuarkXpress document en kies daarna een QuarkXpress project dat zal worden geconverteerd naar InDesign in enkele secondes.

Markzware Q2ID opent Quark documenten gemaakt in versie 3 tot en met versie 8.
Het hele document word opnieuw opgebouwd, inclusief lay-out, font-stylen, illustraties eigenlijk alles wat er in het document zit. Zoals u kunt zien zal dit gereedschap u veel tijd en geld schelen  Read more... (323 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)