Every once in a while, we hear people looking for, Adobe Publisher! Now we know they really mean Microsoft Publisher or wait, did they mean Adobe InDesign? Nine times out of ten though it is someone who needs Publisher to InDesign conversion to get an indd file and are looking for the InDesign Plugin, PUB2ID (Mac or Win; $199) from Markzware.

Since this just happened today and it’s Friday, I thought it as good as any time to share this little tidbit of page layout information. You can try an InDesign demo by clicking here and a Microsoft Publisher demo by clicking here. No matter which you end up using, an InDesign file extension or MSPUB, we are here to help you free your content!

Here was a forum question over on the very popular InDesignTalk forum; which I get an email digest for. This had to do with how to convert page elements and paragraph styles from within Quark documents into InDesign Adobe files and of course applying those styles when you convert to Adobe files:

“In the past year or two I converted many files from Quark to InDesign for our education unit. I am now needing to make some changes to the files and my boss blithely pointed out that the original author was a faithful user of style sheets in Quark. I am a faithful user of styles in InDesign, but I must admit I paid no attention to them when I did the conversion. Now when I look at the files I see lots of styles in the InDesign panels, but none of them seem to be applied to any text. Am I correct about that? Did I miss a huge (and in retrospect ghastly) part of the conversion process?

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It was an honor to get to film this interview between Mary Gay Marchese (PR; Markzware) and Anne-Marie Concepcion, InDesign expert, InDesignSecrets.com co-founder and author. She tells an incredible story about how Q2ID (Markzware’s QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion plugin) saves her literally DAYS worth of time on just one document! Check it out here:

The October 24th edition of MacUser, UK edition, had starting on page 62 an article titled, “23 Essential Add Ons” and in the section called “QuarkXPress + InDesign” we found that they not only choose, but highlighted Markzware’s Q2ID plug-in. They had this to say about Q2ID or the popular QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion tool;

“…You get a document that looks almost identical to its XPress equivalent.”
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“Q2ID does what it claims: it lets you import any XPress document into InDesign.”

Q2ID is available for Mac or Win and costs only 199 per copy. Site licenses are available upon request.