Now, on iCloud,
I'm going into my Pages account, my
desktop publishing online.
I can drag and drop images into documents.
I can create, from templates, all
kind of cool, quick and easy, dirty DTP.
I mean, it’s, you know. So, here's a document
and I want to get this Pages layout into
InDesign. You can see with, here, I can
download a copy. In other words, output a copy, in various
formats, EPUB, Word, PDF, and, of course,
native Pages, to use my
desktop. It’s all online here, but I want
InDesign. How can I do that? Well, just choose the
PDF. It’ll prepare a PDF for you.
And once you have that PDF, we can use a special
Markzware tool, to convert it into an
InDesign document, with 1-click. Here’s a
PDF. I moved on to another
machine. This is the Apple Pages PDF.
I did a couple adjustments. I added a
shadow with a yellowish tint to it, to give
it a “Supermoon” flavor. And this mistake,
I actually let it in. It appears okay on
screen, but when Pages outputs it,
it has a different black than the other blacks.
What’s neat is that, in Pages, you get these
hyperlinks and they work. And they work right in the
PDF, or whatever it may be.
Yes, now, we're going to go into InDesign CC 2015.
We're gonna go up top to “Markzware” menu item,
PDF2DTP, which we’ve downloaded after we
bought a license for a mere 199
Euros or Dollars. We click “Convert PDF…”
We can select the PDF. I click “Open”. Hey, it
converts right over. Styles, fonts,
images. It extracts the images even. And there
you go. Look at that! It looks
remarkably the same. You even see better, here,
the different black
than on the other machine. It could be a
screen issue. In any event, you get the entire
file, as it was in Apple Pages,
even with the shadowing and the exact
font use. This should be Futura and, indeed, it’s Futura.
And that's the Headline A
and that’s Headline A. It's just so amazing. It
saves you so much time, effort, and money. You know,
obviously, this is just a small test document. If you’ve got a bigger
file, a bigger Pages
newsletter or document you want to convert over, this’ll
just (snaps fingers) do it for you, like that. Now, the example
I wanted to show you, ‘cause, you see over here, you
get all of your images. And I can click on this
image and I can see it right here, and I go,
“Oh, well, I want to put an image with a
richer black background.” So, I can delete this out and
I can add another image.
This is now a fully editable InDesign document.
It's that simple.
You can edit, save, do what you like.
And one thing I want to show you… We’ll close this
out right now. What you get over here is a
document folder from that PDF that’s now an
InDesign file. And you get all of the
images extracted out, as used in the
document. So, you'll get exactly the size used in
this background image I had in there.
There's one on the moon. So, pretty neat stuff.
It’s all done with Markzware's PDF2DTP. Click on that
right there, on the markzware.com
site, and get more information and see
how you can download it right now and
get busy with this incredible PDF to InDesign
conversion filter. In this case, effectively, an
Apple Pages to InDesign converter.