Hi, everybody! Markzware's new PDF2DTP
for the Macintosh for InDesign CC or CS6 is out.
It's a bundle subscription, yearly, and it's called the
PDF2DTP Bundle Subscription,
1 Year. It does not renew automatically, so you don't
have to worry about that. Today, we're going
to show you how to install. You will have received an
email from Avangate, so make sure they're
in your, you know, white-listed on your email system, which will have something like this,
your product, and, of course, your order information.
The URL I've blanked out here is for your use only.
It's private and directly linked to your license ID, or
license code, which is also here. To get going, you just click on the link,
and that brings up a web page, where you can see these
various details. Hiding the top, because there is the license ID again.
And, down below, you'll get your
products you can choose from, out of the bundle,
which will always... This URL will be always your latest
version available for you via this URL. So, save this link,
and then you can download the CS6, or the CC version. Well, I'm going for CC.
Click there, and what we then get, I can show you...
"Started building your application"...
is the end-user license agreement, which you
should read and agree to. When you click "I agree",
you can then activate and download the installer.
Just click there. What we then have is,
in our Downloads folder, we get the installer. We decompress that,
double clicking it. For some reason, the...
sometimes get corrupt, it gets corrupted from the same thing over again.
That's the installer again, and this time it extracts,
right there, in one go. Well, you get the installer
here, and you see we have three files, the Manual,
the Setup, and the View Files. You only need to go into View Files
if you need to actually do a manual installation.
Then you can fill in our Support Form on markzware.com,
then we can lead you through that, if, for some reason, the Setup CC
installer is not working. We recommend, of course,
that you open and read the manual,
in particular, how to install.
We just saw how you download and decompress,
and now we're going to go through the other parts here about
how to actually install
the product. You just hit
Setup CC. You want to open it?
Yes. And then you simply choose here
"Install". I should note, if you ever want to remove
the license from the machine, this is where you hit "Remove".
But, today, we're just installing,
so we click "Install". We have to
use our password, and that's it.
Installation complete. It's not really it.
The installation's complete. We have to do
one more thing and that is launch InDesign CC,
and this will, then, start the activation process of the plugin,
because PDF2DTP is a plugin for InDesign CC or CS6.
Same installation process applies for CS6, by the way. PDF2DTP for CC is
only for Macintosh. We have older PDF2DTPs
for CS6, CS5, CS5.5,
for Mac and Windows. See our discontinued products list.
Alright, so now you see, in a matter of seconds,
you saw it happen there, the entire process of activation
was done. It just happens automatically.
Now, what you can do is fill in this Registration Form,
which we recommend you do. You fill in the
the information, and then you click "Submit" down here.
I can't show you this. Their... the code's right here, but if you click Submit,
it's done.
There, you see "Thank you for registering!" Excellent. Click "Close".
Active. "Activation process is now complete. Your product is ready to use."
Fantastic! I should note, for any technical support questions,
always feel free to contact us on Markzware Technical Support,
which can be found on
markzware.com/support/support-form
And that's it. Now, Markzware's PDF2DTP shows up in our
Markzware menu item, along with other products, like
Q2ID for converting Quark to InDesign, and then I can simply
go to "Convert PDF" and convert PDF files right into InDesign.
It's very important to be aware of the PDF2DTP Preferences, and, once again,
review those in the manual.
What you want to watch out for is simple.
By simply checking, for instance, "Substitute Missing Fonts",
you can cause a greatly different conversion,
than if you have it off.
We recommend having it off. Another one, "Replace Marked Content"
for files with a lot of marked content, this will increase conversion time and might
result in, yeah, actually a screwed-up layout
So, sometimes, you might want to turn this off.
With certain files, you want to toggle on or off certain preferences
to see how the conversion works. If it's really not working,
go to that Support Form and send us the file and description. We want to check it out.
There are thousands of ways to bake a PDF.
So, to re... to unbake it can be sometimes
tricky, but Markzware's PDF2DTP does a great job.
Just read all the testimonials. And to use PDF2DTP is simple. It's PDP2DTP,
Convert PDF. You select the PDF.
Click "Open".
You get prompted with the preferences. You can turn that off, if you like,
and the conversion process starts.
Look at that. In mere seconds, it cuts through
this Word file, that's now a PDF, like a hot knife
through soft butter.
What we get back is exactly how the Word file looked,
then we get back in, to get the converted file.
If you have any questions on Markzware,
cruise on over to markzware.com. You can click on the
PDF2DTP page,
and get a lot more details and tutorials and resources,
especially over on the right-hand column here, you'll see a bunch of links
that might be useful, many videos.
This has been David Dilling on how to install Markzware's PDF2DTP,
wishing you a fantastic day!