Hi and welcome to MarkzTool 8 introduction video from Markzware.
Hello, I am Crystal Clerical and I will show the great features of
Markzware's MarkzTools XTension for Quark.
Would you wait until your house burns down before you purchase a fire insurance?
Of course, not. By then, it will be much too late.
MarkzTools is an extremely valuable utility that serves not only as document
insurance,
but can often salvage corrupted document files.
You can use MarkzTools to verify the integrity of your document before the
precious original master file is overwritten,
thus preventing an unwanted disaster.
How to install MarkzTools:
Quit QuarkXPress, if it is currently running.
Drag and drop the MarkzTools folder to a desired location on your
hard drive.
Copy the MarkzTools XTension into your QuarkXPress XTension folder.
To obtain documentation,
visit the Markzware page on our web site.
Download the manuals and obtain valuable information regarding updates.
Upon initially launching QuarkXPress,
you'll be asked to enter your MarkzTools activation code.
You can find this number on the inside of the MarkzTools package,
or in the confirmation email you received from your online retailer.
You can find the MarkzTools menu item under the Markzware item from the menu bar.
Let's first have a look at the MarkzTools Preferences,
for they allow you to set up your MarkzTools, as desired.
Select the checkbox to instruct MarkzTools to verify the integrity of the current layout of your
document project,
just prior to it being saved.
If a problem is discovered,
then your original document file on disc will not be updated,
thus, serving as a type of document insurance.
Note that you can always turn this function On or Off
by selecting it directly from the MarkzTools menu.
Select the project folder checkbox to instruct MarkzTools to create a
temporary file in the same folder as the source document, or select the other
folder checkbox and click the Browse button to choose a
different location.
Select the Verification Sound checkbox, if you want a special sound to be heard
upon verification.
You may also choose between high volume and low volume.
The Always Force Save As... checkbox will instruct QuarkXPress to always put up
a Save window whenever you save your document.
This allows you to create a brand new
fresh file, by giving your document a new name.
Note that performing a Save As... from time to time can often compact or optimize
a document file.
Let's take a look at the other items in the MarkzTools menu.
The Convert Document File menu item from the MarkzTools menu will present an Open
dialogue, allowing you to choose the desired file you wish to to convert.
This should be your first option, if you want to salvage a document.
After selecting the file and before the conversion process begins,
you will be offered a Conversion Options window,
which gives you various choices you can use for converting a document.
Checking Use Styles will convert all text stories while retaining their
original character and paragraph style attributes.
Checking Plain Text will convert all text stories using plain text.
This method is the advised choice when trying to resurrect a bad document,
which may have corrupted style attributes.
Empty Box:
Use this option to convert the document using empty text boxes.
This method, of course, results in a handy template.
For handling picture previews, you can checkmark Use Picture.
It will convert the pictures previews in color, as contained within the image
or embedded into the document file.
Choosing Gray Preview will convert all picture previews to simple gray.
All links to the actual image files will be retained.
Thus, allowing you to later ask QuarkXPress to update all picture previews
to their original full color at anytime in the future.
It is always recommended you try this
option when salvaging a bad document.
Empty Box is the option to convert the document using empty picture boxes.
Last, you can use the Layout menu to select the layout you wish to convert.
An asterisk will indicate the document's default layout.
Choose All Layouts to Merge all layouts into a single project,
or to activate and select for 8 separate projects.
Select the Salvage Document menu item to instruct MarkzTools to attempt
to recover the corrupted document.
Use this method if Convert Document is not successful.
The Salvage function will bypass specific complex elements in a document,
which individually could be corrupted.
You can also select the Verify Document File menu item to check an
existing file on disk.
Sometimes,
a document file has become so physically damaged, that it might be very difficult
to recover.
A file might be physically incomplete,
and, therefore, absolutely impossible to salvage.
In this case,
MarkzTools will attempt to recover whatever portion of the document it can.
In extreme cases where the document cannot be salvaged at all, your only hope would
be to, at least, extract text stories.
To do so,
select the Extra Text from Document File menu item,
and an Open dialogue will be presented,
allowing you to choose the desired file from which you would like to scan,
find, and extract text.
Upon selecting a file,
you will be presented with a Scavenge Text floating palette.
For convenience,
a new document window will be created for you
and set up with an Automatic Text Box and Auto Page Insertion set to
End of Story.
This is so you can instantly extract text and insert it into the text box
in the new document.
Enter a value into the Ignore Count Less Than box to inform MarkzTools that you
want to skip finding text boxes only containing a small word, such as a
page number.
The next previews in First button will help you to navigate through the file and
select the story to start from.
Select Stories to instruct MarkzTools to locate text stories.
You should try using this method first.
If the Stories option failed, you can select Block, in order to locate raw
ASCII.
Use this as a last resort to extract text from a damaged file.
Note that this process will often pick up garbage data that will need
to manually edit it out.
Select the Extended ASCII checkbox to avoid some of the unwanted characters
found in Block data.
Apply.
When you have located a story, you can click the Apply button to insert the text.
Select the + checkbox to insert a return character before
applying new text.
The All button simply locates and applies all text stories found.
Back in the MarkzTools menu,
we can also select the Convert Image Previews to Gray menu item.
This will set all picture box previews to a simple gray.
This will make each preview size quite small and can drastically reduce the
file size of the document.
The Update Modified Images menu item
will set all gray or gray picture box previews back to color,
provided, of course, the image files exist in this.
Last, but not least, you can select the Export Project to Version 4 or 6
or the Convert Document File to Version 4 or 6 menu item to down-save
either the open file or a file you can locate yourself.
A Save dialogue will be presented, allowing you to select the desired
destination for your version 4 or 6 document. Yes, yes, that.
Needless to say, when converting down to a lower version,
many higher version features will not be converted;
however,
MarkzTools will attempt to convert some features,
such as changing an object's shape
to simulate opacity,
or by creating an additional shaded box, offset to simulate a trapped shadow,
or by converting a table so that cells become individual boxes, and so forth.
That completes the MarkzTools introduction video. I hope it was useful.
This is Crystal Clerical, signing off.