Hi, everybody.
Today, we're going to show you how to install and activate
Markzware's ID2Q v6.60
just out for the Macintosh and Windows.
Alright. Let's go check that out.
You will have gotten in,
likely, an email
with the product and the product code,
or the product ID,
and a
unique
download URL.
It's very important to save this. You can always use this to
get the latest version.
This is not for open distribution. This is yours only,
your private download URL.
There will no longer be any installers or
updaters on our webpage.
You'll only get it via this URL.
To start with, you just click there and go download the installer.
We'll show you how that works now.
Okay. So, we click in there
and we now get the End User License Agreement for ID2Q.
Obviously, I will read and understand this and
when I click I Agree, the download button will appear,
or become more visible. Then, I can click Download
and the download, a very small download, starts.
In Safari, it's up here in the right hand corner
of your browser.
Once done downloading and decompressing, please make sure, if using modern decompression
utilities, sometimes, you can
only allow it to decompress the outer shell. Please make sure you decompress all
parts and components of the download package.
It's very important that when we go in here that we have all these files
decompressed. Do not move any of these files. Please leave them all here.
So, what you'll get is this folder here
and this is how it will look.
The Setup QXP 9 installer
and the View Files,
where we just were.
Really, all you need to do is go here and click Setup QXP 9 now.
Let me show you how that works.
So, we doubleclick Setup QXP 9
QuarkXPress 9 is closed at this moment. It's not open.
Click there.
On Windows, it'll be a similar process. On Mac,
it warns you it's an application from the internet. That's fine.
Down here, in your Dock, there will be a bouncing
icon for the... from the installer. Go down there and select that
and up will pop this: ID2Q Setup - Markzware
Welcome to ID2Q for QXP 9!
and you quickly select or click on Install.
It then says Choose QuarkXPress
or QXP 9's
Application folder.
QXP is, of course, the dot extension
that QuarkXPress projects use.
And we just go in and we choose in our Applications folder QuarkXPress 9.
We don't go inside of the folder.
And, by the way, inside your QuarkXPress 9 folder,
you should have your QuarkXPress application,
your XTensions folder, and everything as it is after installation; otherwise,
our installation for
ID2Q might fail.
You just go in there,
you choose the
QuarkXPress 9 folder,
just like that,
and you click, or select Choose.
It'll ask for your password to install ID2Q.
Click OK
and there! It's that quick to install ID2Q in QuarkXPress 9.
Thank you for using Markzware for your Content Solution provider!
We click Finish and we'll show you now the next step, which is simply launching
QuarkXPress 9 with an active internet connection.
Alright, so now we simply
launch QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress 9 in this case.
It's always best to make sure that your QuarkXPress is on the latest version,
9.3.1.something at this point
and that your Macintosh, in this case on the Macintosh, on Windows the same, that your
OS, that your operating system is also up to date.
You must have an active internet connection
with no firewall. With a firewall blocking, you won't be able to activate,
which isn't the end of the world, you can still use the product,
but you won't be able to use it forever, you need to activate sometime.
Now, what you saw pop up first was that it was trying to activate.
Sometimes, it'll try to activate and it won't be able to. Maybe the server is busy,
maybe there is ...
something else is blocking the access temporarily.
In that case, just quit your Quark,
start it again a minute or two later, and, generally, it works.
Alright. So, it says here Activation process is now complete, your product
is ready to use. ID2Q for QuarkXPress 9
v6.60 for Macintosh.
So, we can click Close here.
Now, the next screen
is our registration screen.
Now, I'm not showing you what's down here, because that's the unique code.
That, along with your unique download URL, you should save.
The unique download URL is where you'll always get the latest version.
There is no installers or updaters on our web page.
The registration form is for you to fill in for technical support
or special offers in the future, etc., so,
hence, it is very wise to fill this in.
Fill it in and down below, you hit Submit. It's that easy.
Very simple. You just go up top in QuarkXPress, and this will also let you see
right away if it's installed correctly.
You will find a Markzware
menu item.
Under Markzware, you'll find the Markzware Products.
We have our PDF2DTP, which converts PDF files right into
QuarkXPress.
And we see the new file we just installed,
our ID2Q v6.60
and now we can
go and check out the options.
We can set up our Conversion Options.
It's best to always leave these with
full stylization under Text Attributes
and Use Picture with full stylization under Picture Previews.
Post Conversion Options
I turn on, generally,
most of the Post conversion options.
I do not "Overflowed Text Boxes". I don't allow that so quickly.
I'll turn off some of these,
like "Items with Runaround Specified" or "Auto Adjust Tables".
when it's a big file with a lot of tables, it might take forever to do
that, and if it's converting fine in the
beginning, I don't need to auto adjust them.
These are Post Conversion Options that make the conversion that much better.
Alright, we click OK. We just go up to Markzware and the way to use
ID2Q v6.60 is you go ID2Q > Convert InDesign
You then simply select the InDesign file you want to convert.
ID2Q v6.60 is support for
Adobe InDesign CS6 files.
This will allow you to get
CS6 InDesign documents right into QuarkXPress 9.
Very handy.
You click Open.
Like I said, we leave all
options the same. We can click "don't show" to hide that.
We click OK,
and the conversion process begins.
Markzware's ID2Q will convert all elements of the InDesign file,
CS6 or lower,
right into QuarkXPress 9.3 .
ID2Q is indispensable for any Quark user working in a mixed
environment who might have the odd InDesign file come along.
No reason to miss out on InDesign jobs when you can convert
them right into QuarkXPress for you to use in your desktop publishing environment.
And there you see it.
It converts right over,
a 120-page magazine that was just in InDesign now right in
QuarkXPress.
It's that simple with Markzware's
ID2Q v6.60
for QuarkXPress 9.
If you need any more information
or support, if your file, if your ID2Q is not installing correctly,
go to markzware.com and under Support,
you'll see Get Product Support.
Click there.
Then, choose ID2Q and fill out this form completely
with the version of your ID2Q and everything
and its full description. You can even
attach screenshots of the errors or files that might be,
you know, that you think are tricky or the problem itself. If you have an
InDesign file not converting correctly, send it on over.
ID2Q will generally work out of the box really well. It's been on the market for years and
years. One little tip to help you fill out that support form:
In that download file, we have the installer,
a shortcut in the View Files. If you go in the View Files,
and you go into Plugins,
you'll see the actual
extension, the .xnt,
which will have already been installed,
but if you do a
Command-I on the Macintosh, or a File > Get Info,
similar on Windows,
you can then find out exactly which version it is.
Here, we see it's v6.60.41 .
You can copy that information out,
and then fill it in in the form. Thank you. Once again, this is David Dilling from Markzware
an that was how to install ID2Q v6.60
on the Macintosh, similar applies on Windows
for QuarkXPress 9.
If you want more information on our products, cruise on over to markzware.com
Once again, this is David, wishing you a very pleasant day.
Till the next time...