Markzware Preflight Applications and Conversion Tools

• ID2Q v4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) - NOW Supporting QuarkXPress 7 & 8 and converts InDesign CS. ID2Q v4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) is an XTension for Quark. It provides you a quick and easy way to migrate your InDesign content into a new QuarkXPress document. The conversion is enabled by selecting Convert InDesign Document from the QuarkXPress Utilities menu. Intricate details of the content within the InDesign document are instantly re-created within QuarkXPress. Items converted from InDesign include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models. The ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) document conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from within InDesign on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an QuarkXPress file, which then can be opened on both platforms.

• Q2ID v4 (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) - NOW SUPPORTING QuarkXPress 8 and Adobe CS4. Q2ID v4 (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) is an Adobe plug-in for InDesign. It provides a quick, easy and affordable method for you to migrate all your QuarkXPress content into a new Adobe InDesign document. The conversion is enabled with a single click using InDesign File->Open. No more re-creating documents from scratch, Q2ID gives you a big head-start. Q2ID provides intricate details of the content within the QuarkXPress document to be instantly re-created within InDesign. Items converted from Quark include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models. The Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) document conversion technology will save you countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product converts and transforms files created from within QuarkXPress on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an Adobe InDesign file, which then can be opened on both platforms.

• FlightCheck Designer, a simplified version of FlightCheck Professional, enables the professional designer to preflight, check and collect all elements of the document or job from an easy to use interface. Provides quality control of Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign, PDF, QuarkXPress and other documents. FlightCheck Designer analyzes documents and warns you about potential printing problems to help you repair the issue. It issues an analysis of the document highlighting potential errors, item by item, including missing fonts, incorrect colors, transparencies, incorrect image resolution and much more. FlightCheck then collects all required elements of the print job, such as images and fonts, to insure that jobs print as expected. One of the key capabilities of FlightCheck Designer is its power to scan a wide variety of file formats and image types. A partial list includes - QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat PDF, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe FreeHand, MS OFFICE, CorelDRAW, EPS, TIFF and many more. It is a stand-alone application.

• FlightCheck Professional is a robust PDF preflight tool for printers and publishers. Checks and reports all aspects of the the document including document size, fonts, colors and images and much more. Collects all images, fonts and other associated elements of the job. Enables complete quality control of Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign, PDF, QuarkXPress and other documents. FlightCheck Professional analyzes documents thoroughly and warns you about potential printing problems while guiding you directly to the problem for repair. It issues a complete analysis of the document highlighting potential errors, item by item, including wrong document size, missing fonts, incorrect colors, transparency of spot colors, incorrect image resolution and much more. FlightCheck then “collects” all required elements of the print job, such as images and fonts, to insure that jobs print as expected. The key capability of FlightCheck Professional is its power to scan a wide variety of file formats and image types. A partial list includes - QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat PDF, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe FreeHand, MS OFFICE, CorelDRAW, EPS, TIFF and many more. FlightCheck Professional generates a detailed preflight report highlighting specific print problems; providing an easy means to navigate to them for repair.

• MarkzTools is a document insurance tool for QuarkXPress. It converts higher versions to lower versions, salvages bad files, secures QuarkXPress content and maintains document integrity. MarkzTools is an XTension that helps to prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents. Users can verify the Saved Quark document, to alert them about the integrity if your file is suspect. Common QuarkXPress error codes that alert the user about corrupted documents are [70], [39], and [108]. MarkzTools makes QuarkXPress backwards compatible, allowing users to open higher version Quark documents.

• PUB2ID (Publisher to Adobe InDesign) converts Microsoft Publisher document content into InDesign with 1-click. Eliminates re-keying or formatting previously created documents. It is an Adobe Plug-in. Pub2ID is a quick, easy and inexpensive solution for converting Publisher 2002 through 2007 content into a new Adobe InDesign CS2 or CS3 document. Q2ID conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and re-formatting documents.

• FlightCheck Designer v5.8 WIN
• FlightCheck Designer v5.8 WIN 10-User License
• FlightCheck Designer v5.8 WIN 5-User License
• FlightCheck Designer v6 MAC
• FlightCheck Designer v6 MAC 10-User License
• FlightCheck Designer v6 MAC 5-User License
• FlightCheck Professional v5.8 WIN
• FlightCheck Professional v5.8 WIN 10-User License
• FlightCheck Professional v5.8 WIN 5-User License
• FlightCheck Professional v6 MAC
• FlightCheck Professional v6 MAC 10-User License
• FlightCheck Professional v6 MAC 5-User License
• ID2Q v4 MAC -10 User License
• ID2Q v4 MAC -10 User Upgrade
• ID2Q v4 MAC -5 User Upgrade
• ID2Q v4 MAC 5 User License
• ID2Q v4 MAC for QuarkXPress v7 & 8 Only
• ID2Q v4 Mac Upgrade from v2 and v3 Only
• ID2Q v4 Win -10 User Site License
• ID2Q v4 Win -10 User Upgrade
• ID2Q v4 Win -5 User Site License
• ID2Q v4 Win -5 User Upgrade
• ID2Q v4 WIN for QuarkXPress 7 & 8 Only
• ID2Q v4 Win Upgrade from v2 and v3 Only
• MarkzTools 7 MAC 10-User License
• MarkzTools 7 MAC 5-User License
• MarkzTools 7 MAC for QuarkXPress 7 Only
• Markztools 8 MAC - 5 User Site License
• Markztools 8 MAC - 5 User Upgrade
• Markztools 8 MAC -10 User Site License
• Markztools 8 MAC -10 User Upgrade
• Markztools 8 MAC for QuarkXPress 8 Only
• Markztools 8 Mac Upgrade from MT7 or MT6 Only
• PUB2ID v2 MAC - 10 User Upgrade
• PUB2ID v2 MAC - 5 User Upgrade
• PUB2ID v2 MAC 10-User License
• PUB2ID v2 MAC 5-User License
• PUB2ID v2 MAC for ID CS3 & CS4 Only
• PUB2ID v2 MAC Upgrade v1.x to v2
• PUB2ID v2 WIN - 10 User Upgrade
• PUB2ID v2 WIN - 5 User Upgrade
• PUB2ID v2 WIN 10-User License
• PUB2ID v2 WIN 10-User License
• PUB2ID v2 WIN 5-User License
• PUB2ID v2 WIN for ID CS3 & CS4 Only
• PUB2ID v2 WIN Upgrade v1.x to v2
• Q2ID v3 MAC for ID CS2 Only
• Q2ID v4 MAC -10 User Site License
• Q2ID v4 MAC -10 User Upgrade
• Q2ID v4 MAC -5 User Site License
• Q2ID v4 MAC -5 User Upgrade
• Q2ID v4 Mac for ID CS3 & CS4 Only
• Q2ID v4 Mac Upgrade from v2 or v3 Only
• Q2ID v4 Win -10 User Site License
• Q2ID v4 Win -10 User Upgrade
• Q2ID v4 Win -5 User Site License
• Q2ID v4 Win -5 User Upgrade
• Q2ID v4 Win for ID CS3 and CS4 Only
• Q2ID v4 Win Upgrade from v2 and v3 Only

ID2Q v4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) NOW Supporting QuarkXPress 7 & 8 and converts InDesign CS.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW:

ID2Q v4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) is an XTension for Quark. It provides you a quick and easy way to migrate your InDesign content into a new QuarkXPress document. The conversion is enabled by selecting Convert InDesign Document from the QuarkXPress Utilities menu.

Intricate details of the content within the InDesign document are instantly re-created within QuarkXPress. Items converted from InDesign include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models.

The ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) document conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from within InDesign on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an QuarkXPress file, which then can be opened on both platforms.

BENEFITS:

• Preserves intellectual property investment.

• Enables easy data migration.

• Eliminates time re-creating content

• Reduces costs re-creating content.

• Freedom to choose your authoring system.

FEATURES:

• Supports QuarkXPress v7.x - v8.x.

• Converts InDesign v1.5 - v6.x (CS4) .

• Simple to install.

• Quick & easy to use.

• Swift return on investment.

• Universal Binary for Intel/Mac.

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NEW Q2ID v4 (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign)

Q2ID MAC Version 4 NOW SUPPORTING QuarkXPress 8 and Adobe CS4

• Preserves intellectual property investment.
• Enables easy data migration.
• Eliminates time re-creating content.
• Reduces costs re-creating content.
• Freedom to choose your authoring system.

• Supports Adobe InDesign CS3 & CS4.
• Converts QuarkXPress v3.3 - v8.x.
• Simple to install.
• Quick & easy to use.
• Swift return on investment.

• Mac OS v10.4 to v10.5 (Leopard)
• Macintosh G4 or Higher
• Adobe InDesign CS3 or CS4
• 128 MB of available RAM
• 250 MB of free Hard Disk space

• Windows XP or Vista
• Pentium III or higher
• Adobe InDesign CS2 or CS3
• 128 MB of available RAM
• 250 MB of free Hard Disk space

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Markzware FlightCheck Professional v6.12 is your prepress application used to manage quality control for print jobs. This solution provides both native file and PDF preflight checking and is backed by a United States patent.

FlightCheck is the essential tool for Print Shops, Creative Designers, Prepress Departments, Customer Service Reps and Graphics Professionals within the digital print and publishing industries; helping you prepare PDF and other document types for commercial printing. FlightCheck helps you create excellent PDF files for magazines, catalogs, brochures, advertisements, manuals, and virtually any printed document. It provides complete quality control saving printers and publishers time and money by avoiding re-printing jobs.

FlightCheck preflights digital files thoroughly and warns you about potential printing problems while guiding you directly to them for repair. It issues a complete analysis of the print job highlighting potential errors, item by item, including wrong document size, missing fonts, incorrect colors, transparency of spot colors, incorrect image resolution and much more.

FlightCheck then collects all required elements of the print job, such as images and fonts, to insure that jobs print as expected. One of the key capabilities of FlightCheck Professional is its power to preflight a wide variety of file formats and image types. A partial list includes - QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat PDF, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe FreeHand, Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW, EPS, TIFF and many more.

The FlightCheck Ground Control tool gives you full control to create and manage hundreds of preflight checklists. Simply by turning on warnings or errors, you can customize inspection to focus on certain aspects of the document. Print production managers can save these profiles, or rule sets for specific print or publishing workflows.

The Ground Controls Sets can then be shared by importing them into other user FlightCheck applications. Industry standard specifications for PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 for print compliancy as well as the Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) PDF/X PLUS V2 are special Ground Control Sets built directly into FlightCheck ready for use.

After verification of the print job, FlightCheck Professional generates a detailed preflight report highlighting specific print problems; providing a quick and easy means to navigate to the error for repair. Print shops can review these reports with customers; helping to communicate their print requirements. This communication process helps to educate everyone involved in the print process to create better print-ready documents. FlightCheck Professional is the recipient of many awards for impacting quality control and profitability.

Benefits:

• Preflights both PDF and non-PDF files
• Preflights multiple print jobs in one session
• Preflights wide range of file types for print
• Minimizes time to identify print errors
• Minimizes time to correct print errors
• Maximizes printing operations capacity
• Maximizes feedback to your customers
• Maximizes print quality and continuity
• Save money by eliminating job re-prints
• Native applications are not required

Features:

• Stand-Alone application
• Refined Interface for PDF preflighting
• Categories of potential problems
• Customizable rule sets to check PDF and non-PDF files
• QuarkXPress 7 and InDesign CS3 support
• Support for third-party font applications
• Customizable font & image paths
• Scans, reports and collects the entire job
• Much, much more !

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Markzware FlightCheck Designer is a streamlined version of FlightCheck Professional. This is the preflight application used by creative designers and others who are users of page-layout tools such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign to manage document quality control before printing.

FlightCheck Designer v6.12 for Macquickly analyzes details of digital documents, then warns the user of potential printing problems that may occur. It provides an overview of potential errors, for example, missing fonts, incorrect colors, transparencies, incorrect image resolution and much more. One of the key capabilities of FlightCheck Designeris that it is a stand-alone application. Being a stand-alone application allows designers and creative artists to preflight a wide variety of file formats and image types. A partial list includes - PDF, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. The FlightCheck Designer Ground Control tool provides full control to create and manage multiple preflight checklists. Simply by turning on warnings or errors, the user can easily customize inspection that focuses on specific aspects of the document. The profiles, or rule sets can apply towards a wide-range of design, print or publishing workflows. Ground Controls Sets can be shared by importing them into other users of FlightCheck Designer, resulting in quality control continuity.

After verifying the print job, FlightCheck Designergenerates a detailed preflight report highlighting where errors occur that can lead to printing problems, providing an easy means to locate the errors for repair. Members of the design team are then able share the reports with others within the workgroup, which may also include the printer or publisher. This helps communicate the status of digital files and prepare better print-ready documents. Major industry standard specifications such as PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 compliancy as well as the Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) PDF/X PLUS are built directly into FlightCheck as special Ground Control Sets and ready-for-use, out of the box.

Benefits:

• Basic preflighting for artists and designers
• Focuses on fonts, colors and images
• Simplified interface for ease of use
• Low cost of ownership, high productivity

Features:

• Stand-alone application
• QuarkXPress 7 and InDesign CS3 support
• Support for third-party font applications
• Scans, reports and collects

PUB2ID - Microsoft Publisher To Adobe InDesign

Markzware Introduces The New PUB2ID v1.51 For Macintosh or Windows

PUB2ID (Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign) is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign. It provides a quick, easy and affordable method for you to migrate all your Microsoft Publisher content into new Adobe InDesign documents. The conversion is enabled with a single click using the InDesign File->Open menu. No more re-creating documents from scratch; PUB2ID gives you a big head-start.

PUB2ID translates the intricate details of the content within the Microsoft Publisher document and instantly re-creates it within InDesign. Items converted from Publisher include: page size, positioning, color models, fonts and styles, text attributes and tables, layers, word wrap, linked text boxes as well as automatic extraction of images embedded in the Publisher file.

The PUB2ID (Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign) document conversion technology will save you countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product converts and transforms files created with Microsoft Publisher into an Adobe InDesign file on either Macintosh or Windows platforms.

BENEFITS:

• Preserves intellectual property investment
• Enables easy data migration
• Eliminates time re-creating content
• Reduces costs re-creating content
• Freedom to choose your authoring system

FEATURES:

• Supports InDesign CS2 & CS3

• Converts MS Publisher 2002 through 2007

• Available for Macintosh or Windows

• Simple to install

• Quick & easy to use

• Swift return on investment

It is important to note that even though PUB2ID provides many benefits, conversion is not perfect. This is because manufacturers of Desktop Publishing applications have their own, unique methods of text rendering and graphical representation.

Therefore, text flow and certain graphical elements will not be 100%. Depending on the use of custom kerning, tracking, leading, graphic formatting and effects, etc., more or less rework may be required, but some rework will always be required. It is suggested that all converted documents are proofed before output.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

FOR MACINTOSH:

• Mac OS 10.4 and higher
• InDesign V4.x or 5.x (CS2 or CS3)
• 128 BM of available RAM
• 250 MB of free HD space

FOR WINDOWS:

• Windows 2K, XP, Vista
• InDesign V4.x or 5.x (CS2 or CS3)
• 128 MB of available RAM
• 250 MB of free HD space

MarkzTools is an XTension that can be used to prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents, overcoming the dreaded bad file format [70], [39], and [108]. You can verify your saved Quark documents, so you will immediately know when the integrity of your file is suspect. Furthermore, using a special temp file MarkzTools can try to help you recover documents that have become corrupted during a save operation while using Quark.

(*Note, this special temp file is only available to MarkzTools behind the scenes and is not selectable by the user.)

In the case of a badly corrupted file in which the page layout data cannot be salvaged, the (scavenge text) feature may extract text stories from a document file.

MarkzTools alerts you whenever you are about to save a lower version document to a higher version. It also makes QuarkXPress backwards compatible, allowing you to open higher version Quark documents.

• Preserves intellectual property investment
• Enables easy version conversion
• Eliminates time re-creating content
• Reduces costs re-creating content
• Prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents
• Retrieve text from corrupted documents
• Save your Quark files to lower version
• Images display in GRAY PREVIEWS to reduce file size

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NEW ID2Q v4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress)

NOW Supporting QuarkXPress 7 & 8 and converts InDesign CS.

ID2Q v4 (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) is an XTension for Quark. It provides you a quick and easy way to migrate your InDesign content into a new QuarkXPress document. The conversion is enabled by selecting Convert InDesign Document from the QuarkXPress Utilities menu. Intricate details of the content within the InDesign document are instantly re-created within QuarkXPress. Items converted from InDesign include: page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes & anchored boxes, pantone colors and other color models. The ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress) document conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from within InDesign on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an QuarkXPress file, which then can be opened on both platforms.

NEW Q2ID v4 (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign)

Q2ID Version 4 NOW SUPPORTING QuarkXPress 8 and Adobe CS4

PUB2ID (Publisher to Adobe InDesign) converts Microsoft Publisher document content into InDesign with 1-click. Eliminates re-keying or formatting previously created documents. It is an Adobe Plug-in. Pub2ID is a quick, easy and inexpensive solution for converting Publisher 2002 through 2007 content into a new Adobe InDesign CS2 or CS3 document. Q2ID conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and re-formatting documents.

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You can verify your saved Quark documents, so you will immediately know when the integrity of your file is suspect. Furthermore, using a special temp file MarkzTools can try to help you recover documents that have become corrupted during a save operation while using Quark. (*Note, this special temp file is only available to MarkzTools behind the scenes and is not selectable by the user.)

In the case of a badly corrupted file in which the page layout data cannot be salvaged, the (scavenge text) feature may extract text stories from a document file.

MarkzTools alerts you whenever you are about to save a lower version document to a higher version. It also makes QuarkXPress backwards compatible, allowing you to open higher version Quark documents. The (gray previews) features allows you to convert your full color picture previews into gray pictures, greatly reducing the file size on your hard drive. Languages supported are English, French and German.

• Prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents
• Retrieve text from corrupted documents
• Save your Quark files to lower version
• Allow view images in GRAY PREVIEWS to reduce file size
• Down save files to Quark 4.1

Need to Fix a File? - Prevent and repair corrupted Quark files with MarkzTools.