Hi, everybody. David Dilling, on behalf of
Markzware, here.
Today, we have sort of, like, a general tip, on one hand.
The other hand is going to
dive directly into the Markzware products,
with an InDesign, actually even lower than 2021,
which I'm in, right now.
And any version back to, like, CS6, maybe even before that,
you can do something with the contextual menu items on the macOS,
where you can, in the Links panel,
actually edit files that are already placed or
embedded, within your InDesign documents.
But how about PDF files? They're placed as static one-page images.
But what if you want to edit multiple pages, where you
want to get access to the other pages in the PDF? What if you don't know
what's in that PDF that you want to find out,
but all you see is something in your Links panel, from a colleague or
from something you forget what you did?
Well, let me show you how that works.
Get me out of the way, here. I’m going to open up this file, here,
a little test file I created.
Now, we can see this test file.
This is our Dealer Sales Guide, for any dealers, out there, or
resellers. Contact Markzware on
sales@markzware.com and get a copy of this.
We'd love to have you reselling our hot selling products.
Of course, QXPMarkz and Q2ID are top sellers, but
PDF2DTP is another top seller and that's what we're going to get into, right now.
So, I have here some files and, if I click on one, you see,
in the Links panel, in InDesign, what they are. They're PNGs,
in this case. And you can see exactly what you're dealing with.
Very, very handy, the Links panel.
And you get a lot more information, on the link, here.
Now, I've added this little nugget, right here.
This is a placed file, but it's a PDF. Now, we can see that it's A4.
You can see the size is 98 megabytes. So, it's probably more than one page.
We don't really see how many pages it is or anything like that, in here.
But what's cool, if I’m in InDesign, I can, now, right click on my mouse
and I get the Contextual Menu item, on the macOS.
I’m not sure if this works on Windows, to be honest with you.
It probably does, to some certain degree.
And what you can do, is you can go to the link. You'll find out where
the file’s located.
Or you can do Edit Original, which, if you do, in that case,
which, again, just opens up in the
Preview or Acrobat, if you have that set up.
It's what's set up within your macOS. But, if we go back in there, again, and
we Right-click PDF, and we click Edit With, we can now get an
option of many different possibilities. So, then, what you can do is choose the
Markzware PDFMarkz, which is a new standalone application,
which is going to be, well, it's already available, for those who own PDF2DTP.
I’ll show you that, in a moment. What happens, now, is I actually
open the PDF that's placed within InDesign
and I can actually see everything used within it.
This part of PDFMarkz is actually going to be totally free,
once it officially ships. It's now in beta,
for people who own PDF2DTP. What we get, here, is an
overview of the file. And we see, right away, that
It's got multiple items, within it.
Then, what you get is a nice overview of the file.
And we can see, here, a preview of the file.
This page, we see in InDesign. It's the same one used, in InDesign,
but you see there are many more pages, in this file.
It's a huge file, from a customer of ours, in England.
So, you can scroll, through the entire document.
It’s a really neat document, by the way.
All these old buses, in England, you know.
And you can actually, then, very easily click, here, Open in InDesign.
So, when I do that, now, what's going to happen is
it's going to actually, in the background, export IDML
and, then, pop that open, right up in InDesign 2021, in this case.
You can also set PDFMarkz, to automatically do it, in 2020, 2019,
whatever you like, even CS6. And there we go. It's missing fonts.
Now, we've got this PDF. Going back to where I
originally started, this PDF that's placed as an image,
what you get, now, with the Markzware PDFMarkz conversion,
you can actually get in there, you can go in there and
edit the text. You go in there, in the toolbar. You can actually go in there
and move images around or whatever you need to do.
So, this is, now, a fully editable InDesign,
a multi-page PDF, now, fully in InDesign, fully editable.
I can delete things, move things, whatever I need to do.
So, this is a really amazing way, if you're curious.
“Well, hey, I wonder what's more, in that PDF?
Is it just one page? It looks like it's pretty chunky.
I’m kind of curious. I might need some of that content.
I might want to use a different page.” Or that PDF has other pages and
you want to use it. So, with PDFMarkz, you can just go
click Edit With > PDFMarkz, and boom!
It just pops right open, for you, in PDFMarkz. You can go in there and,
then, preview, which you have.
You can resize all this, to be however you want.
You can just go through your thumbnails
and navigate to whatever page you want to go.
So, as you see, it's a great way to actually, within
InDesign, to go in and Right-click, on any given link, and
click Edit With. And you can do the same, to Adobe Photoshop,
or Illustrator, if it's a native .ai file, or whatever. But, in this case,
the PDFMarkz link is just amazing, to help you pop open and preview and pop
open embedded PDF files, linked PDF files.
Now, just to show you, now, I’m going to
switch over to InDesign. I’m going to quit InDesign 2021.
Don't save. Don't save. And I already have 2020 opened, here.
And, up top in 2020, you see PDF2DTP. That's Markzware's
PDF to InDesign converter, the original version,
with many options, to help you convert your PDF files. And we're going to be
phasing out PDF2DTP, for PDFMarkz, but that's not quite there, yet.
PDFMarkz is available, in beta. It works great!
Actually, fantastic. You just saw. So, if you're an owner of PDF2DTP, you get
PDFMarkz, for free! And PDF2DTP works in InDesign 2020 or lower.
And PDFMarkz, it doesn't matter which version of InDesign.
You don’t need InDesign. You can, you see, you can link great into
InDesign, but that's PDF2DTP, how it works.
PDFMarkz, you just saw. And that's what you get,
when you purchase PDF2DTP. You get both products in one, right now.
Eventually, it'll all be going PDFMarkz. So, now,
you see, that's the tip for today. This is our Sales Guide online,
but if we just go to markzware.com, directly, and
cruise over to Products > PDF2DTP, that's where you can purchase
PDF2DTP, right now. And, if you buy now, you get a link,
in your License link, to PDFMarkz, now in beta. So, go check it out.
That’s the quick tip for today. It's a general tip, on one hand.
On the other hand, dive directly into Markzware products. Alright, David,
on behalf of Markzware, saying have a great day!
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