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)

Many of you QuarkXPress users out there may have heard of our PasteBoard XT. For those new to it, this Quark XTension, one of the oldest out there, changes the width and height of the QuarkXPress pasteboard. It allows one to adjust by value as well as by percentage, giving a wider range of options than that within the QuarkXPress application. Pasteboard costs only $29.00 and is available for Mac and runs in Quark 7 or Quark 8.

In the past, as in QuarkXPress v3.33 past, there was a version of Pasteboard XTension that was a requirement in order to work with the document. (Ask some of the older ones of us about those times!) We of course adjusted that, however you may find the need for our free XTerminator Quark XT, now called the  Kill PasteBoard XT which will remove the requirement of needing Pasteboard, for really old, almost legacy files you may come across.

Pasteboard XT Xpress 8

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)

Here is a great survey on PDF preflight, that which many also call postflight, which was introduced in this blog post:

Posted by Marco on Jun 23, 2009 in cPDF
In 2008 Enfocus wanted to find out who exactly their clients were. They held a survey. 4.840 users responded. Now who was using what kind of software and on what platform? Where do they live? What’s their primary business? How frequently do they use PDF-files? Do they even check incoming PDF files? And… what were the errors those files contained? See: http://www.digital-engineer.net/archive/entry/preflighters-around-the-world-this-is-you/

The most common preflight problems with PDF print-jobs.

About half have see their print destined PDF’s failing often and the most common problems are non embedded fonts, low res image usage and RGB color space used. Exactly what the problems were about fifteen years ago (Replace non-embedded fonts with missing fonts.) when Markzware first brought out FlightCheck Professional, which can postflight PDF files from Adobe Acrobat (and other software’s) as well as a range of source or native files like XPress, InDesign, MSPublisher and more. View the full survey results here.

Specials going on FlightCheck- save 20-50%! See:
http://www.markzware.com/promotions/  Read more... (208 words, 1 image, estimated 50 secs reading time)