Alright, so, here I have
a whole folder full of PDFs. I got these from a customer,
in this little demonstration here.
Let's pretend that,
and I need to get these all into InDesign, re-designed. So, it would take me forever to
recreate all this, and
I couldn't even edit it all in Acrobat with a PDF editor. It would just
take way too long and be way too dangerous.
There are too many
design changes that need to be done. I need to have this back in InDesign.
How can I do that quickly when we open up
the PDFs?
We have full-on PDFs
and
these files
I want to get right back into InDesign.
We at Markzware have a tool to do that,
called PDF2DTP.
Up top in InDesign, you'll see the Markzware menu item.
You can choose,
amongst our other products,
PDF2DTP
and Convert PDF file.
Now, what's neat about this is you can choose, not only
one file,
but, with holding down the Shift key or the Command key
to select individual,
you can select multiple PDF files.
Then, when you click Open,
it'll open all those PDF files,
actually convert them
into InDesign DTP layouts that I can edit
and design in further.
Watch.
One after the other, here a 22-page
document. Actually, this is a PowerPoint file
made to a PDF and now come into InDesign.
So, actually it's really a PowerPoint via PDF
into InDesign.
It's a way to get
Word files via PDF
into InDesign. It's a way to get
all kinds of files, whatever they are,
if you have a PDF of it, it'll convert
back into InDesign.
Extremely handy!
Many of you know Markzware for our pre-flight
application, FlightCheck,
or our other conversion tools, like Q2ID for Quark to InDesign,
or even ID2Q for InDesign to Quark.
This new PDF2DTP is very exciting, because it converts
PDFs and native Adobe Illustrator files
right back into a native desktop publishing environment,
for instance, in this case, InDesign,
where you can further work with the file.
PDF2DTP is also available for QuarkXPress. Alright, now we see InDesign
brings up the font warning.
We'll say Done. Now, we see
that file.
Now, we see
this file.
Now, we see
this file.
Now, we see
this file,
and now we see this file.
All
once
PDF files,
now right up
into InDesign
via Markzware's PDF2DTP.
Now, some things will need some touching up, because
all PDFs are not created the same way, and all source applications don't have the
same, you know, compatibility as available in InDesign.
So, you can see we can get
everything over, really nice.
Look how nice that is.
And now, to go in and edit, I can just go in here and edit
anything I want.
So, perhaps, now it's,
instead of 70, it's 75, or 79%.
The top ten preflight problems. So, you see, you can change everything around,
just like you would in a normal
desktop publishing environment. These are now InDesign files.
So, folks,
that's the quick tip of the day:
how to convert a batch of PDF files
right into InDesign with one click with Markzware's PDF2DTP.
For more information on Markzware's PDF2DTP, cruise on over to
markzware.com today
and, under Products,
choose PDF2DTP.
There, you can see a
full, in-depth video demonstration
and get more details
on how
this program will help you migrate PDFs
right back into QuarkXPress or, as, in this case, you saw, Adobe InDesign.
Thank you very much. David Dilling from Markzware,
wishing you a fantastic day!