Hi, everybody. David Dilling, for Markzware, here.
Here's an amazing one. In between the Christmas and the
New Year break, here, we got in a bad file
recovery request. We fix bad files like you see over here
under products recovery service, on the markzware.com site.
And we fix InDesign files, with about a 70% success rate.
Now, what's really cool is one of our products can also help in this process.
So, the recovery service is for those that want a slightly
higher chance of recovering it, but, with our product
for InDesign, IDMarkz, which is a stand-alone application
that also recovers the files, a lot of the time, because it actually,
like in the process that exports the IDML of the file, which
will scrub, as everyone knows, exporting to IDML, in InDesign,
will scrub your file of a lot of corruption. Not all of it but a lot.
Problem is, if you can't get it open in InDesign, anymore, how do you scrub it?
Well, that's where IDMarkz comes into play. Now, watch this.
So, I'm going to grab the bad file. I’ll put that over here.
And I’m just going to grab the bad file, right here,
and I drop it on InDesign 2021.
It says, “InDesign detected your file is bad.
Do you want InDesign to try to fix it?” That's what Adobe's saying in InDesign.
Well, yeah. Fix it. Let's go. Great. And it chugs away and
it actually looks quite positive, to a certain degree. I mean, the progress
bar’s moving along. By the way, I’ve tried this a million times.
Well, I’m exaggerating. I’ve tried it several times numerous times,
more than I can count on my two hands. It doesn't work.
And you see it doesn't work. So, now what?
You can't open the file.
So, what do you do? Well, watch this. We'll take that same file, right here.
We'll drop it on our IDMarkz. That's our standalone application,
like I just showed you, which actually creates or generates
previews in the background, which is actually
quite intensive. So, this takes a little bit longer, especially with a bad file
and a complex file. There's a way to bypass this, to just go
and export right to IDML, under File > Menu, up top here,
but we'll just let it chug away. And we create these high resolution previews.
So, you get a full preview of the file, which has always been a big request of ours
in the Preflight area, with our FlightCheck product,
to first get a preview, like a soft proof.
Well, now, we have that, with our technology in the
Markz line. IDMarkz, QXPMarkz (Quark to InDesign) does the same.
And the forthcoming PDFMarkz will do the same, as well, although a preview of
PDF is a little bit different, because you can preview
that preview or Acrobat, but that, in combination with file info and the
ability to convert to other file formats that you see, up here,
is quite attractive. So, once this file gets open in IDMarkz, the preview,
we can, then, export it back to InDesign or to Quark or to Affinity
Publisher, which is quite popular, right now.
Now, what we get, right here, is a little bit of file info on the product.
And this is already amazing. This file would not open InDesign. You just saw it
and here it is, open, right in front of our eyes.
So, now, you can just scroll through and get a complete
preview of this file. You can open it, directly, in one of the
applications. But, because it's bad, I’m not going to try to. I’m just going
to export right away to IDML and I did not do any automation. So,
what kind of automation’s in this product? Just going to export to IDML. We're going
to save that out. I actually, of course, fixed the customer's
file, already. Then, we go back, over here,
and we open up a test. What you see is you get the … we get all the
images exported, at resolution used, and we get the IDML.
Now, they probably have the images. So, it's not a big deal, but it's important,
for a lot of people, to have that. So, now, we'll just
try to pop this IDML from the bad file, which just would not open for
us through InDesign 2021, and try to open it again, in 2021.
Oh, that's a good sign, already, right? And look at that! This is now
opened and fixed, right back in InDesign, for the customer.
So, that's really a great one, like you just saw, to preview and export your
InDesign files to IDML, or lower versions of InDesign,
or higher versions of InDesign, or going to completely other
applications. It’ll even export every page, as an image, or even
export stylized text to RTF or to HTML, even. And, right here, you can see
the latest Markzware tweet that you can pick up IDMarkz, right now.
It's normally just $99, right, or 99 Euros, and you can get it for
21% off, between now and January 4th, so, a great reason to go get IDMarkz.
Kevin Slimp just called it, “a no-brainer”. As a matter of fact, I’ll …
… great product. Excellent. Yeah, excellent! So, you would recommend IDMarkz?
Well, sure. Yeah, yeah. We really appreciate you taking the time to
let everyone know about your experience with IDMarkz.
Yeah, I’d say it’s one of the best … one of the best that’s been. Well, there you go.
You heard from Kevin.
He’s a newspaper expert, in the publishing area, a pre-press/PDF guru,
back in the day, well, still is, of course, but he helped to create the
PDF Print Method, which actually saved PDF from being something that
would just be an irrelevant part of history, and
maybe something else would have been what PDF is, today.
Anyway, that's for another video. It's in that video, in that interview. I'll leave
a link to it, down below, from Kevin's full interview, here, on YouTube.
But the good news is, not only is it only 99 dollars,
IDMarkz, you get it now, for 21% off. So, that’s, like, even a lot cheaper.
So, check it out, Markzware's IDMarkz, to
fix bad InDesign files that even InDesign can't fix.
Alright. David Dilling for Markzware, wishing you a fabulous
New Year 2021! It can't be worse than 2020, right?
Let's, in any event, let's hope not. Let's pray not.
That 21% off is good on any Markzware product. So, if you need anything
Quark to InDesign, InDesign to Quark, InDesign to Affinity, fixing bad files,
a file conversion service, it's all, right there, on markzware.com.
21% off, with that coupon code. And that coupon code is NEWYEARS21,
all one word, all capitals, NEWYEARS21. We’ll obviously have a sale on that.
A little Tweet, right here. So, thank you. Wishing you a fantastic New Year,
a fantastic rest of the year, everyone,
on behalf of Markzware. Signing off.