Hi, everybody. David Dilling for Markzware here. And, on behalf of the Markzware team,
we’re very happy to introduce you to a new version of ID Util,
a free app available on the Apple App Store. Already has great abilities to
preview your InDesign files, without opening them in InDesign, and also seeing
information like
which version is the file, before you try to open it in a higher, or seeing if you have a
lower, version of InDesign. Very handy and absolutely free. Today, we're going to
introduce some new powerful features, which will cost a little bit, an In-App Purchase,
as they call it in the app itself, but if you want to get those, you can, to enhance
your ID Util.
And those are the ability to extract stylized text, very cool,
you’re gonna like this one, and to package your InDesign file, without even
having InDesign open.
Alright, let's go see a demo of how all these new things work. Alright, let’s show
you how the stylize text extraction works. You just drag a file on there, like this
old sales guide we want to renew, and you can see, of course, the previews. When you
click on Stories, you get all the stylized content. Color, size, fonts, images,
you name it, right? So, we can just take, say, okay, we want to take this here.
You copy that and, for instance, go into Dreamweaver, to put into Wordpress or
what have you,
or go into Word. Copy and paste and you get all the stylized text right
there now in Word. Colors, size, font usage, etc.
Very, very cool.
Packaging files.
Drop a file on here. What we now see is the file, you know, with the
full previews. We see three pages. You can see the stylized stories,
you can see the images, used or missing. Very handy, like a little, mini
FlightCheck, and the fonts. And, if we go now up top here to Package, you can then
package everything used in that file. And I mean everything, everything that's
available.
Package to our Desktop. Save. And now it shows up in the folder. We can close this, because
it's right here. And we open that up. And this is really neat. In that folder, you get
an HTML report, an in-depth pre-flight report on the file, to send to your
printer, but not only that.
Look at that. We’ll get you previews of the files that have been collected, that
are available. And we'll get you the previews per page.
So, how handy for a printer or pre-press person to get a report like this?
Fantastic!
You’ll see we also get the report in XML. We get all fonts that were available,
collected, and all images that were available,
packaged, copied over, and the InDesign file itself, with preview, in this case,
because we have ID Util installed, and the previews extracted. This could be useful,
if you want to use online, you know, for different things.
Very, very handy stuff here.
So, that was ID Util. You can get more information on
markzware.com under the Freebies section or just do a
search for ID Util (U-T-I-L) on the App Store from Apple. If you need more
information on FlightCheck, for full preflighting for both InDesign but also
Quark, PDF, Illustrator, Photoshop, and many other file types, also check out
markzware.com under Products > FlightCheck.
This will get you more in-depth preflighting for many file types.
Thank you, folks, for watching. If you have any questions, email us on
sales@markzware.com
We want to hear how, you know, what you're thinking of ID Util,
what new features and functions you’d like to see. What do you need as a user?
Let us know. On behalf of Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!