Markzware is know for it’s invention of preflighting and of course the stand-alone application FlightCheck Professional. Markzware is also very popular for our easy-to-use desktop publishing conversion Plugins, XTensions and applications. Here is a small overview:

Q2ID – QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign – 199 – Macintosh/Windows
A great Plug-in for any Adobe InDesign user. With one click, open your QuarkXPress documents right within Adobe InDesign; the complete layout, ready to edit and use! Adobe CS4 Plugin or CS3.

ID2Q - InDesign to Quark XTension – 199 – Macintosh/Windows
A great tool for any QuarkXPress users, as there is a growing number of InDesign files. With one click, open your InDesign documents right within Quark; the complete layout, ready to edit and use!

PUB2ID – Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign – 199  – Macintosh/Windows
A CS3 or CS4 plugin which makes getting MSPub files into InDesign simple as can be!

MarkzTools 8 – Recovers bad Quark files – 199 – Macintosh
An XTension QuarkXPress 8 (Quark 7 version also available.) which can keep your files in good order, allow you to down-save to a lower version and can most amazingly fix or recover bad or corrupted Quark files, most of the time!  Read more... (347 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

DTP software ripens at 25!
anno 1985…

There is a little discussion going on over at the Linkedin Group called, “Group of Prepress, Print & Color Management Professionals“. Had to do with this post we did, “Quark caters Quickly to gap in service to printers left by Adobe“. Basically, those users that commented are fine with Adobe and it’s service level, even though many others, such as Frank Romano, who are a bit peeved at Adobe neglecting the market that formed DTP really. Then there was this neat little comment on that Linked in Group, which got me thinking about the interesting history of page layout applications and desktop publishing in general:

“Quark is the modern day Aldus!”
Quote by: Willie Soto Freelance Graphic Designer

If that is so, then the circle of Desktop Publishing (DTP) is near completion! Especially when you look at the history of this all important field…  Read more... (768 words, 4 images, estimated 3:04 mins reading time)

History of Desktop Publishing or DTP software -
Aldus, Adobe, Macromedia and Quark – 25 years in the making…
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• 1985 – Aldus Corp releases PageMaker for the Macintosh in July 1985, and relied on Adobe’s PostScript page description language.

No need to spend thousands just to mine text content
from Desktop Publishing file archives any longer!

Liberate YOUR content locked up inside expensive native applications such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and Microsoft Publisher with this exciting new and simple search engine for your Desktop Publishing layouts and texts:

Look at it like Google for your DTP layouts or a simple Digital Asset Management (DAM) search and find application. This new search-engine goes beyond simple searching, but provides advanced queries and text mining. You also can extract text from .INDD or .QXP material, with a simple click to RTF or up to a WordPress blog! See:

http://pagezephyr.com

You can get a demo here:

http://bit.ly/5BMOLN

Great for book, magazine and newspaper publishers, content managers, eDiscovery technicians, scientific discovery, editors, journalists, prepress operators and many others. Have archives or detailed InDesign or Quark files? Yes, then you will want to try this demo today!

— — — Democratize your Content — — — —> Search | Edit | Extract —> PageZephyr

We reported last week about how Adobe dropped their service program for printers in a post titled, “Adobe drops Print Service Provider Program – a Quark opportunity?“. Today we see an interesting offer from Quark via their Quark Alliance program for printers:

Adobe Service Network members are invited to join QuarkAlliance and Quark Promote output provider programs at no cost

Quark is offering Adobe® Service Network (ASN) members, current QuarkAlliance™ members, and all printers interested in Quark Promote the opportunity to join Quark® output provider programs at no cost. This special offer will expire on June 30, 2010, so act now to take advantage of member benefits that can include:

• Priority technical support
• QuarkXPress® 8 or upgrades
• Increased market visibility
• New potential revenue opportunities

“At a time when some in our industry are moving away from print, Quark is aggressively maintaining its investment in this community,” said Cyndie Shaffstall, director of QuarkAlliance.

Continues – read more: http://www.quarkalliance.com/

Printers- is this interesting for you? What’s your take on this?

Was reading this article about how Adobe is dropping a program it had to aide printers, titled, “Adobe Discontinues worldwide Adobe Partner Connection Print Service Provider Program.”

One printer commented to the effect that they were actually more aiding Adobe, by helping customers use the software to properly prepare files for print, as many, even agencies, had problems (i.e. preflight) [see comment from "Robert Arena" in article link.]. And then there was this comment (from the many), and since we just highlighted how Quark is networking with print providers via their new Quark Promote program, this indeed may be an opportunity for the Quark stalls:

“… Quark should do a quick PR and announce they will take all your CS seats and extend their Quark print program the number of months left with Adobe with all new memberships. Also offer to cross upgrade all seats of CS at the upgrade cost of Quark.

Adobe was aggressive with getting printers from Quark with the provider program. Now that they have got what they can of us, they are dropping it. I am sure for money is the reason as Adobe see’s little increase in market share at this point. This opens a huge door for Quark if they move quickly.  Read more... (522 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

On Apple’s web page under Mac OS X productivity tools, you can see the new and exciting tool from Markzware, PageZephyr- perfect for publishers of all sorts (Book, magazine and newspaper publishing houses) or of course anyone with archives of DTP files which need to be easily searchable. This Macintosh application allows you to search your entire drive or network full of Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress documents, WITHOUT opening them.. and so much more, like extraction:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/pagezephyr.html

—> Do not forget to preflight and then check again your application print files with Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional v6.5. Supporting more than 50 file formats, it takes quality control in the publishing workflow to the next level…

- Here was a great article about PageZephyr over on TechNewsWorld, with deeper insights into the desktop search and extraction capabilities this technology and app offers for proprietary page layout documents like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress; expanding where Spotlight stops. Here is just a sniplet from this detailed and insightful piece titled, “PageZephyr Sees What Spotlight Can’t“:

“Considering the length of time programs like Quark and InDesign have been in the market and the key role search plays in almost every facet of computer use, one might think a program like PageZephyr would have been introduced long ago, but it wasn’t.”
SOURCE: http://www.technewsworld.com

See full story here:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68966.html

Avec PageZephyr, rien n’est plus simple que de convertir et de rechercher du contenu dans les formats de fichiers propriétaires

POUR PARUTION IMMÉDIATE

RIJSWIJK, Pays-Bas – 8 décembre 2009 – Markzware, développeur de FlightCheck® et inventeur du contrôle en amont, commercialise PageZephyr^TM, un moteur de recherche et d’extraction de contenu. PageZephyr est conçu autour de l’architecture CRA (Common Reader Architecture) hautes performances, qui est au cœur des produits actuels et futurs de Markzware.

Avantages et caractéristiques de PageZephyr :
La technologie PageZephyr permet d’effectuer des recherches dans des documents propriétaires et d’aller plus loin encore, puisqu’elle permet d’examiner et d’extraire le texte des formats de fichiers PAO natifs les plus répandus, comme Adobe InDesign ou QuarkXPress, et bientôt Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker et d’autres types de documents.

PageZephyr est donc particulièrement intéressant pour les secteurs où le contenu est un élément essentiel et qui ont à gérer, retrouver et réutiliser de gros volumes de données, notamment la publicité, l’édition et l’impression, l’industrie, les finances, les professions juridiques (e-discovery / e-forensics), les agences d’informations et les organismes publics.  Read more... (881 words, 1 image, estimated 3:31 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)