In Word, you see that, for instance, page two,
here's the photoshop file
and the table.
You see this.
"Place..." And if I hold down Shift while I do that,
because that's...
or Select, and I'm going to Shift-click Open.
Then what you get is a host of options
on how you want to import the Word file.
These are the advanced options for placing a Word file.
Preserve styles, formatting. I want to
preserve page breaks. We click OK.
It warns us there are some missing fonts, which
is strange, because they're not missing. They've been
artificially stylized as italic, but I have them on my system, which FlightCheck sees.
Anyway, other movie, right? And this is what we get.
And there, you get the full
three pages. And what you'll see, right away, is
that this text and the Word Art
didn't come on the right page. The Word Art disappeared.
The text frame completely disappeared.
The text runaround is, of course, no longer there, because the
frame's gone. It does a good job with these fonts
and these images, and did...
It did a pretty good job with the table. I was kind of surprised with that,
but, in any event, you'll see, once again, why
it's important to use Markzware's PDF2DTP
to make your job and your life a lot easier. Alright, now, here's the
Markzware way. What we're going to do
is, up top in InDesign, you'll see the
Markzware Products and, in particular, PDF2DTP, which we're going to use now to convert
PDF into InDesign. So, what we need to first do is go back in that Word file.
Open up the Word file, which you can see here,
and a three page file, and we're going to save it out as a PDF.
PDF is a great way to
interchange documents. Portable Document Format not for nothing, right?
So, this one customer had a problem.
He needed to get the embedded images,
but, not only the images, we need the whole layout structure,
at least as close as possible. It'll save him hours, days, of work, right?
So, here's the PDF file. So, now, we just go into
InDesign, or Markzware PDF2DTP > Convert PDF.
And now we're taking, effectively, that Word file via the PDF and converting it
right into InDesign. There's a host of
preferences. You can tinker with these to get all kind of,
you know, different results sometimes. Click OK.
PDF2DTP will convert the entire PDF right into InDesign with a click,
and in seconds, there it is. And what you'll see,
it looks exactly like it just did in Word,
an InDesign file that PDF2DTP just converted and
dropped on FlightCheck, but,
most importantly, I'm going to hide colors for right now,
not that they're not important, but we get all of the fonts
that were used right on into
the new file and available for packaging.
And we get all the images used, at
the resolution. So, very effective.
And if we go to Page Layout, I can actually go back into the file.
In this case, it's launching CC. I have Setup CC.
It doesn't matter. If we actually go into the file, and we see that
it's exactly like it was in Word. We get the Word Art,
we get the text frame,
the text runaround, we get all of the images used.
The only thing is, in EPS is, we create
an actual vector-based graphic.
Copy, you know, like in Illustrator, and paste it in.
So, that's how you can, if you want to get the
hard, the hard, you know, the hard image here,
and save it out, but, in effect, you know, you have it
already in your InDesign file, but if you
need the image itself, that's how you do it.
One method is to, as our tutorial highlights, to turn a doc,
to create the Word file into a Doc X, put a .zip extension,
open it up, and you get the media in there.
Nope, sorry. You get the media in here.
There are some drawbacks to that with EPSs,
or the other option is to use Markzware's
PDF2DTP
for CC or CS6, and older versions for Windows and Mac, as well.
And there, you can get all your images
extracted automatically as TIFF files,
at resolution used, at size used,
and you get the complete layout within the InDesign
format here,
with all kind of graphics and text, and stylization.
A pretty complex document, okay?
Save As also a PDF.
Word file here. Let's go into InDesign.
File > New Document > Print Document.
Command-D and we choose the Word,
a docx file.
And we hold Shift.
See now. Seeing a lot more processing,
a lot of work going on, a lot of missing fonts.
That's fine, in this case, and we place it,
and this is what we get.
You know, not
terrible. Let's get rid of this.
Preflight. We use FlightCheck anyway, right? It's not terrible terrible,
but there's definitely work,
touching up to be done. So, let's leave this one open. Let's now go into
Markzware PDF2DTP > Convert PDF File. The file, now the PDF we
exported out of it seconds ago. We can even substitute
missing fonts. This could be quite useful.
We're not going to do it, in this case.
There you go. Look at that. I mean what do you see, right away?
Well, right away, you see, we preserve the file name.
Not a big deal, but also you see the way it
looks right away. It looks a lot better
Cruise down to like here,
you see this and then you see down here the
Exploring the Arctic, how that should look,
right? Then, we go over here
and PDF2DTP. Well, you see, look at that. It does it just exactly the same,
exactly the same. Exploring the Arctic,
exactly the same. Really,
really amazing. Over here to
the InDesign CC method. What we see is it,
everything, is shifted and it's not
exactly the same as in the native original layout.
So, there's another side example to show you a real-life document,
how powerful Markzware's PDF2DTP is.
If you need more information on Markzware's PDF2DTP
to extract images, or recreate entire
layouts in Word, or from PDF files that come from any source, really,
then Markzware's PDF2DTP will do
the trick. As you just saw, it's as easy as a click to
convert PDF files right into InDesign.
The conversions are,
sometimes, really amazing, and it's really
easy to do. Some touching up may be required,
but Markzware's PDF2DTP is a great tool for
every graphic designer to have in their toolbox
You can buy
PDF2DTP here, if you click the Buy Now button,
and we look forward to servicing your order.