Good Morning, Mats and Gregor. Good Morning.
The company we work in is called Kommunicera Communications,
and we work
mostly with translations. Why is a PDF to InDesign converter,
yeah, attractive for you guys?
Well, we have a problem and, actually,
in this case, a PDF, which the customer, you know, the customer always
has PDFs laying about, the documentation. It's very good
to look at, but it's not good for translation
It's not good for anything. You can't do stuff in it...
when stuff is made in InDesign or Quark
and they make it into a PDF, and they make t into a PDF, we need to make it back
into an original format which is suitable.
What your experiences are with the,
yeah, different PDF Converters out there. Of course,
Markzware makes the PDF2DTP for InDesign
or Quark, but you also had used another
PDF to InDesign converter, correct? We've used a plugin for InDesign called
PDF2ID from a company called Recosoft.
We've been as pleased with the
results of the conversions. Your product works a
little bit differently than that product,
which is good for us.
It makes us more productive, the way your product works
right now. So, I'd like to, sort of, show you...
Okay. Please do. ...which ways it is different.
This is the original one page
from the original PDF. It pretty much looks like
a lot of the PDFs that we get from our customers.
If you take out a portion of this and
convert it with the plugin we had been using before,
which is, as I said, it's a great plugin.
It can convert InDesign files.
It's very good with the images, but
text-wise for us, since the text is really important, we really need to be
able to edit it afterwards and to work with it
afterwards. As you can see, it's
not as easy to work with as we'd
like. You see text frames and it's the
same thing in the second column here, as you can see.
It's a lot of text frames and I could go on through the document
and would do the same. Right. And, as you see, stuff has happened here.
It's not the the right distance between the lines.
And I'll go on doing this, I'll go on
trying to make frames. In some cases, they are already linked.
And in some other cases, I will need to relink.
You see, now I have one right here. Right, right.
And you have to do this page by page for, you know.
Yeah, page by page. That would take me forever.
to, sort of, get it to look good.
Right. So, for us it's the text part...
Right. For a lot of people,
of course, but I can certainly imagine in your case,
yeah. So, then we tried
your plugin out, the PDF2DTP
and this is the results from that one.
It sounds like it's...
one text frame. As you can see, I'm
moving it around. This is more what we want.
This is one text frame. Right. It's all one
text frame, which makes it easier for us to work with.
This thing works a lot better for us. Then, there's
the other thing, which is also really
nice, which I find really nice here, is you do have
this little interesting preference here
where you can choose not to Substitute Missing Fonts.
Right. And that saves us a lot of time.
I don't really want to substitute a
missing font. And definitely, if I
do it, I would do it with control. I don't want that
application to do it for me.
Convert PDF with your plugin. It just gets converted.
The plugin from our competitor will save you time, but
with our plugin, you're going to save even more time is what you're coming,
what you're getting at here, obviously. Yeah, that's it.
We'll save even more time because we need to edit the
text afterwards. You, technically speaking where the
differences are between PDF2ID
and PDF2DTP from Markzware. How much time, for instance, do you think this
would save you on, let's just say, this document here?
I would say half the time.
I would say we're down to about 50% of the time,
approximately three in a month.
Right. I understand, yeah. Yeah, and we're down to half the time
now on this document. Any tool that makes us more productive
is good for us. Right. So, cool, so, thank you for that
more in-depth look inside of the conversion process and
how, in this case, PDF2DTP is, yeah,
even a much better time saver than our
competitor, you know, yeah, yeah. Yes, absolutely. No doubt about it.
Fantastic. Would you recommend PDF2DTP to
other users, potential users out there?
Oh, yes, I would. Absolutely.
If you have to do some PDF commercial and you need to get it into
InDesign, it's
a good way. Right. And it's,
most of all I would say it's really easy.
It's not a lot of work to do for the conversion. It's good to get the feedback.
Once again, thank you.
Thank you for quoting us. And we will talk to you later.
For real. Alright. Take Care. See you. Bye bye.