Hi. I'm Arnold Roosch from Markzware Europe and I would like to give you an update on the
latest videocast about the repairing flaky InDesign files using both Quark
Markzware's InDesign to Quark XTension for Quark,
and Markzware's Quark to InDesign conversion tool for InDesign.
We received a huge number of positive reactions on our first videocast of this
subject,
after which we asked you, as an InDesign user, to send in your
flaky InDesign files.
Well, to be honest, we did not know there were that many
corrupted files out there.
We are still receiving one or two corrupt files per day
and using the Quark-InDesign way of salvaging the file, we are now
able to salvage about 90 to 95% of them.
Since our Research and Development department is working hard on a
solution to prevent InDesign files from getting permanently damaged,
I hereby ask you to keep sending us your flaky files.
We will try to salvage your file, send it back to you and
use it to create you a product
that will put an end to InDesign files getting corrupt
that took you hours to create.
As an update, let me show you how I recently salvaged a corrupt InDesign
file that came in.
So, here you can see the file I got in. It's a really huge file, 2.32 gigabytes
and it took them a lot of time to create this file.
When I open it, or try to open it, I get an Error Code 5,
which defines it to me as a flaky InDesign file, because it cannot be opened.
In Quark, we will find the InDesign to Quark utility under Utilities.
With this Markzware XTension, you are now able to find the file
we got in. This is the one: 2.3 GB
and open it.
Quark will give you some options, after which the InDesign to Quark XTension
will start converting the file.
As you can see, where InDesign failed to open the file,
with the InDesign to Quark XTension, we are now able to open the file
in Quark, which is quite amazing, I think.
We just scroll through the file here,
and, as you can see, there's a whole document here with...
completely with texts and images and everything.
So, now it's a Quark document,
but they want to have it as an InDesign file. Well, what we do is just save the file as
a Quark document.
Save it in a nice
area that you can find it.
Click OK.
Click Save, in this case.
Close the document,
and go to InDesign.
in InDesign, we have the Markzware
plugin
named
Quark to InDesign,
which allows us to select Quark files, in this case, the Quark file which was saved,
and open it.
The Markzware
plugin,
the Quark to InDesign plugin,
is now converting the file back to an InDesign file and what do you know?
The document opens fine and is now back to InDesign.
Remember that the first time we tried to open the file, we got an Error 5,
meaning that the file could not be opened in InDesign.
So, using the
InDesign to Quark XTension for Quark
and the
Quark to InDesign plugin for InDesign, both from Markzware,
we were now able to salvage the whole document,
and open it again in InDesign. We can now save the file again,
give it a new name, because there was
already a file with that name recovered,
save it, and now we save the whole document as an InDesign file
that we are able to open over and over again.
And to show that it worked, let me try to open the file again.
We named it Recovered InDesign,
so I can now open the file, and it opens fine,
only some missing fonts, but that's not
really going to be a problem.
The file opens fine. We can go to every place that we like
and
scroll back and forth and we can just start
working with the file where we left off.
So, that' show we do it now,
but, as I said before, please keep sending in your flaky InDesign files to
david@markzware.com
or give us a call to receive FTP details, so we can create you a product
that will put an end to these flaky files.
Product information and contact information for Markzware Europe can be found
on our website
at markzware.com
Oh, and before I forget,
have a look at YouTube.com/MarkzwareTV
to see more interesting and funny videocasts we make.
This is Arnold Roosch from Markzware, signing off.