With Markzware’s new desktop search engine for page layout file formats such as Adobe INDD and Quark QXP just out, makes this article all the more interesting:

Five “Real Time” Search Startups You Should Know

“For the past few years, there have been many ways to navigate the web to find out what is going on right now.  You could go to cnn.com to see breaking news, or you could perform a search at Google news to search multiple media outlets.  However, while media outlets aren’t able to cover every story, the power of the internet enables most every story to be discussed.  From this, the real time web was born.”
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-five-real-time-startups-you-need-to-know-2009-12

They mention several cool new Internet based search engines such as Sency and Topsy. So if Internet users are getting real-time search, why not you graphic designers, advertising agencies, publishing houses, printers and marketing departments able to search their DTP (Desktop Publishing) documents with ease and in a split second on their desktop?  Read more... (248 words, estimated 60 secs reading time)

Scanning my watchlist, came across this Italian Tweet from Apple Italia: “PageZephyr, cerca ed estrae testi da documenti XPress e InDesign.”

Thus, the rest is for our Italian speaking freinds:

PageZephyr, cerca ed estrae testi da documenti XPress e InDesign

di Mauro Notarianni | 5-12-2009

Nuova utility commerciale da Markzware che consente di eseguire ricerche complesse ed estrarre testi dai documenti creati con i software d’impaginazione quali InDesign e XPress.

PageZephyr è una nuova utility commerciale (129 euro) di Markzware che consente di estrarre testi dai documenti creati con i software d’impaginazione quali InDesign CS (i file .indd fino alla 4) e XPress (dalla 6 alla 8, file .qxp). Il software, inoltre, mette a disposizione un sistema per l’indicizzazione dei file su volumi locali o di rete, e un sistema che consente di effettuare ricerche per parole chiave, dimensioni dei file, data di modifica o creazione. Possiamo cercare nei vari impaginati presenti in rete o sui dischi locali solo i file che contengono una determinata parola o individuare i documenti che soddisfano determinate condizioni.  Read more... (339 words, 1 image, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

PageZephyr macht Konvertierung und Suche von Content in
proprietären Dateitypen zu einem Kinderspiel

ZUR SOFORTIGEN VERÖFFENTLICHUNG

RIJSWIJK, Niederlande, 7. Dezember 2009 – Markzware, der Entwickler von FlightCheck® und Erfinder von Preflight, brachte PageZephyr^TM heraus, eine Engine zur Content-Suche und -Extraktion. PageZephyr wurde mit Markzwares Common Reader Architecture (CRA) entwickelt, der Hochleistungs-Architektur, die sich im Herzen der aktuellen und zukünftigen Projekte von Markzware befindet.

Vorteile und Funktionen von PageZephyr:
Die PageZephyr-Technik ermöglicht die Durchsuchung von proprietären Dokumenten und bringt den Vorgang dann auf eine höhere Ebene, indem sie die Untersuchung und Extraktion von Text aus Dokumenten in den Dateiformaten der meisten bekannten Publishing-Anwendungen wie Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress und bald auch Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker und anderen ermöglicht.

Content-intensive Berufe, die auf das Management, die Auffindung und Wiederverwendung großer Mengen spezifischer Daten spezialisiert sind, werden wesentlich von diesem Produkt profitieren können. PageZephyr kann zum Beispiel in den folgenden Branchen äußerst gewinnbringend eingesetzt werden: Werbung, Druck- und Verlagswesen, Fertigung, Finanzen, Recht (E-Discovery/E-Forensics), Information und Regierungsbehörden.  Read more... (817 words, 1 image, estimated 3:16 mins reading time)

Contact:

Mary Gay Marchese

949-756-5100, ext. 250

pr@markzware.com

Take Control of Your Data with New Desktop Search and Content Extraction

PageZephyr Makes Converting and Searching Content in Proprietary File Types a Breeze

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA ANA, California – December 2, 2009 – Markzware, developer of FlightCheck® and inventor of preflighting, has released PageZephyr^TM, a content search and extraction engine. PageZephyr has been developed using Markzware’s Common Reader Architecture (CRA), the high-performance technology at the heart of Markzware’s current and future products.

Benefits and Features of PageZephyr:

PageZephyr technology makes it possible to search proprietary documents, then takes that to a higher level allowing you to examine and extract text from the most popular publishing native file formats, such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and soon Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker and other document types.

Content-intense professions that specialize in managing, locating and re-using large volumes of specific data will substantially benefit. PageZephyr is especially valuable to businesses such as: advertising, publishing and printing, manufacturing, finance, legal (e-discovery / e-forensics), information and governmental agencies.  Read more... (757 words, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

Save FreeHand! They call themselves FREE FreeHand, but let’s face it, when you are up against such factors as ex Macromedia and the mighty Adobe, a miraculous “save” (I guess they would settle for an effective “import”) comes to mind…
http://www.freefreehand.org/

Yes, you read it correctly. I guess there are a lot of Spaniards on their list, for last I heard, Spain was one place that would not give up their favorite vector drawing app that easily.

FlightCheck supports preflighting FreeHand 11.0 (MX) down to version 7. Although not on our short-list for other file formats to add to our new indexing, search and text extraction technology, PageZephyr, it would also make sense to be added here in the future.

Free Freehand aims actually state this VERY PROBLEM that legacy files pose and Markzware, with it’s file format conversion knowledge, often helps solve:

“We want FreeHand to have a future. Not only because we love to work with it, but also because we have thousands of files from the past we may need access to on any given occasion (well, they open in AI, but are converted into chaos).” SOURCE: http://www.freefreehand.org/index.shtml  Read more... (572 words, 1 image, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

How do you plan on profiting from your online content? Here is an interesting development:

Wikipedia founder ties with HP to add magazine printing platform to Wikia site

Tim Sheahan, printweek.com, 26 October 2009

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed a new tie-up between user-generated information site Wikia and HP’s MagCloud service that will allow users to create and print magazines.

“We are doing all kinds of things like that to think about ways to sustain this idea of participatory culture. We have no idea if this will be popular,” Wales told news agency Reuters.

Users can source content to print from the 3m web pages and more than 50,000 communities presently on Wikia, which is now making a profit for the first time since it was founded five years ago.

MagCloud enables user to produce bespoke glossy, full-bleed, full color magazine printing through a web interface that allows them to select content and do online magazine printing.

HP has also announced it is using its BookPrep digitizing and printing service with the University of Michigan Library to make 500,000 out-of-print books available for on demand digital printing.  Read more... (304 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Markzware launched, at PRINT 09 in September, a new content search engine technology called PageZephyr. This beta Macintosh application will index desktop publishing file formats such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and soon other document types, like PDF, Microsoft Publisher and even “the rage” of it’s day, PageMaker. Here we see some of the excitement generated from the show-floor and one simple exclusive press release, which Mary Gay (Public Relations) pushed up court… and re-tweets via Twitter! Watch Patrick Marchese, co-founder and CEO of Markzware, demonstrate PageZephyr…

It is amazing how fast information can travel in this day and age; which is one of the said purposes of PageZepyr; to bridge the printed world with the Internet or online world.

TRANSCRIPT:

All right, so “Content Search Engine“, so Mary Gay, tell us…. Hey everybody, were here at Print 09 in Chicago. It has been a pretty interesting show here, because we have announced a new product that, which is completely different from our “normal joe” that we’ve been showing here at the shows with preflighting. Were going into a whole new direction, which is ‘exciting’! Because were looking into the future with, well, here it is- Content Search Engine.  Read more... (925 words, estimated 3:42 mins reading time)

Now, I am quite sure there is more to this than meets the eyes.. or is this a sign of the Internet times we live and work in?

“…Please use either WordPress or InDesign. Don’t know of any other students using Blogger…“

said @scost1 on Twitter, apparently to a student- is this the ‘new world order of Graphic Design‘?

Source: http://twitter.com/barbaranixon/statuses/4788759496

Just a little WordPress or Adobe InDesign chatter on Twitter! Don’t even get me started on Google Wave. Sounds like this school and it’s students could use content conversion and text extraction provided by PageZephyr.com…

Don’t forget that you can also follow Markzware’s Tweets on Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/Markzware

“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.
….
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.”
….
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... (348 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

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