Customer Question: We have just purchased your ID2Q (InDesign to Quark) application (XTension) and I have followed the install notes but when I launch QuarkXpress, I receive the following error:
The application preferences file is damaged.  Please remove it and re-launch QuarkXpress.  [297]

I would appreciate any assistance you can provide.

Many thanks

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Dear Sir

Thank you for purchasing ID2Q. As you read and saw, in theory the installation of ID2Q is pretty straight forward. You can view a video on it here as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6j8bYpzlts

The error you are getting about QuarkXPress application preferences sounds more like something to contact Quark about, sorry. From what I searched online though, it may be as simple as this:

You need to recreate the Preferences of QuarkXPress.
Windows -
Location of the Quark preferences on Windows XP:
C:\ Documents and Settings \ (Name of User) \ Application Data \ Quark \ QuarkXPress x.x

Location of the Quark preferences on Windows Vista:
C:\ Users \ (Name of User) \ AppData \ Local \ Quark \ QuarkXPress x.x
“You need to recreate the Preferences of QuarkXPress. For that navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\Your user\Application data\\Quark Rename the folder from QuarkXPress 7 to old QuarkXPress and Relaunch QuarkXPress. Yes you need to reset all the Preferences of QuarkXPress afterwards. Note: Application data is hidden folder. You need to unhide that folder from Tools>>folder options>>View tab>>Show hidden files and folders.”
See: http://forums.quark.com/p/19705/79052.aspx  Read more... (354 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Jon Warner from Trade Press Media Group talks to us at PRINT 09 in this video on how he uses FlightCheck Professional AND Adobe Acrobat to preflight his incoming files for their print workflow. He uses both; but prefers FlightCheck (for everything first) due to it’s ease-of-use and support of more than 50 file formats such as InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, PDF and others. Much more effective to preflight before outputting to PDF:

In the last segment, you see Doug Rosen, Markzware project manager, going into some advanced details with Jon on font search paths for helping optimize your font preflighting in FlightCheck. FlightCheck Professional v6.5 is now shipping with CS4 and Quark8 support. See:
http://www.markzware.com/flightcheck_…

The reason it was so great to hear Jon’s comments, is that some out there in the graphic arts industry, or what is it called now, “print media“, like to think that it is best to funnel this multi-step process called preflight to the very end of the workflow and even some are trying to automate preflight checking. It is however, largely a human process which requires a simple checklist to work best and should be done at every step in the graphics workflow where the layout file switches hands or is due to be output (see preflight defined). As Dr. Demming said on quality assurance,

“Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”

When an InDesign.INDD file is really a Quark .QXP layout…….

Hi, David Dilling here from Markzware and here is yet another interesting one. A customer sent in a email with the dreaded “I have a bad InDesign file please help me!” This one was a little bit different in that he knew it was an old file and that there were defiantly issues with it and he couldn’t quiet figure it out. The subject of this movie is “When InDesign isn’t InDesign but QuarkXPress.” Yes follow me on this one. Come check it out on my screen here because it is quiet a common problem, in any event I’m hearing more and more about this and the type and creator being zapped in the file and other issues like this. It’s very important, the file extension use and how you use it on a Macintosh or even a Windows machine of course as well.

It is not as easy as just adding .INDD to a QuarkXPress file and woof magically it become a InDesign file. Visa versa you just can’t take a Jpeg add a .tiff and it becomes a tiff file, it just does not work that way. If it did life would be a lot simpler but that is just not so. Now come check it out on my screen and thank you for watching.

Ms. Klier, a valued customer of ours from  tür3))) Design in Austria and a layout designer, said this to me in an email: “I bought ID2Q and also Q2ID and still love to use it nearly every day – it is absolutely helpful!” Curious about how they use both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign and need to convert jobs to and from both, I asked for more details, which I include below in both English and German:

We are a graphic design firm, specializing in catalogue production for electrical installations and we receive layouts from different customers, some in Xpress some InDesign. We need to bring them together, mostly to an ID-product but also sometimes to Xpress- depending on the program, in which the greater part of pages were created.

Q2ID (XPress to InDesign) and ID2Q (InDesign to XPress) have become necessary parts in the daily design workflow. It would be impossible, to cope with a job like this, with a big amount of tables and charts within the layout – in just a minute!

Both software programs are a good value!!

Karin Klier
tür3))) design
Vienna

German Version — — —  Read more... (291 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

ZUR SOFORTIGEN VERÖFFENTLICHUNG

Neue Preflight-Software zur lückenlosen Qualitätssicherung im Digitaldruck

Markzware FlightCheck® Professional jetzt mit Unterstützung für QuarkXPress 8 & Adobe Creative Suite 4

RIJSWIJK, Niederlande, 31. August 2009: Das Unternehmen Markzware, anerkannter Preflight-Experte und -Erfinder, veröffentlicht ein wichtiges Upgrade der beliebten Preflight-Software FlightCheck Professional für Macintosh. FlightCheck Professional 6.5 bietet vollständige Unterstützung für QuarkXPress 8 und Adobe Creative Suite 4 / CS4. Die leistungsstarke neue Version gestattet Druckereien, Grafikdesignern und Verlagen ein effizientes Preflight zur Vermeidung kostspieliger Produktionsfehler.

Die mittlerweile üblichen kleineren Auflagen und kürzeren Abwicklungszeiten erfordern eine bessere Qualitätskontrolle bei digitalen Druckdateien. Adobe PDF-, InDesign-, QuarkXPress- und andere Dateien enthalten mehrere Elementkategorien wie Schriftarten, Farben, Bilder, Dokumenteinstellungen usw., die alle potenzielle Fehlerquellen bei der Druckausgabe sind. FlightCheck ist deshalb so beliebt, weil es flexibel zur Überprüfung sämtlicher Dokumentelemente in Dateien verschiedenster Formate eingesetzt werden kann. Viele halten es für das beste Tool zur Qualitätskontrolle.

Angesichts der derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Lage müssen Dokumente in Druckereien und Verlagen genau geprüft werden, um Neudrucke zu vermeiden und wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben. Drucker, Verleger und Grafikdesigner können sich hier voll auf http://www.markzware.com/flightcheck_professional/ FlightCheck 6.5 verlassen und von seinen Funktionen profitieren.  Read more... (534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

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)

What do q2ind, acrobat reader, adobe indesign troubleshoot, preflight pdf, adobe reader 8 and cs4 indesign file fix have in common?

These are all words or terms that people are searching for and reaching the Markzware blog via. Of course q2ind is what we call Q2ID or our Quark to InDesign conversion plugin and the InDesign bad file phrases generally is a no-cure-no-pay service we offer to fix bad Adobe files (And corrupt QuarkXPress projects as well.). Preflight PDF is quite clear and something very important, even though that is more the postflight stage in the print-production workflow. Naturally we hope as graphic media people, that preflighting or quality assurance is happening throughout your publishing workflow.

On that note, a little humor via this video-
Funny pre-flight announcement:

Got this interesting Linkedin message today about a new resource for QuarkXPress users:

Hey David,
They just launched this QuarkXPress Users/Pros site. Thought you guys might want to have a presence on there too: http://quarkpro.ning.com/

Check it out. It is like a social network site, but only for those into Quark Projects, layouts and XTensions.

Preflight or postflight, PitStop or FlightCheck? You should (and hopefully you are) doing both preflight and postflight! Here was a new thread over on PrintPlanet that my colleague Mark (and Charles) alerted us to:

Pitstop or Flightcheck?
We are a small print shop working with Macs, QuarkXPress & CS4 applications. We get some native files along with PDFs from customers for jobs, but mostly we get PDFs. Can you tell me the pros and cons to each of these software packages as a preflighting tool?
Source: http://printplanet.com/forums/prepress-workflow-discussion/18449-pitstop-flightcheck

Check out the full thread above, as there are some good replies. Watch FlightCheck Professional in action in this video demonstration, almost as good as a demo download FlightCheck itself!

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)