Hi. David Dilling here from Markzware,
and here's yet another interesting one. Another customer sent in an email
with the...
the dreaded "I have a bad InDesign file. Please help me."
This one was a little bit different
in that he knew it was an old file
and that there was definitely issues with it.
He couldn't quite figure it out.
In any event,
the subject of this movie is
when InDesign
isn't InDesign,
but QuarkXPress.
Yeah, follow me on this one.
Well, come check it out on my screen here, because it's quite a
common problem. In any event, we're getting... I'm hearing more and more about this and
type and creator being exact in the file and
other issues like this.
It's very important...
the file extension use and how you use it
on a Macintosh.
It's not as easy as just adding .indd to a QuarkXPress file and poof!
Magically, it just becomes an
InDesign file.
Vice versa, you just can't take a JPEG and add a
.tiff and it becomes a TIFF file. It just doesn't work that way.
If it did, life would be a lot simpler, but it's just not so.
Now, come
check it out on my screen and thank you for watching.
Okay, everybody. Got an interesting one here. First of all, please excuse my messy
desktop. A lot of things going on, things downloading, other bad files, etc.,
but I got this bad supposed InDesign file and... but there's more to this story.
It doesn't appear to be an InDesign file, even though it says .indd
and gives us the appearance of an InDesign file
CS3 is picking that up on my system here, which I have primarily running on this
machine;
however,
you'll see, if I drop it on FlightCheck, and I'll drop it on our 6.5, which
will be out soon with CS4
and Quark 8 support.
You'll see, right away, besides a couple pre-flight errors
and different things along those lines,
is that
it's showing us it's a Quark file,
QuarkXPress file version 5,
the customer did say it's quite an old file and it's causing him problems and see
if we could help.
So, someone along the lines decided to just name it .indd and see if that would
turn it, magically, into an InDesign file,
and obviously it did not.
You can see here, clearly,
what... what's going on with this file.
...
Right. So, basically, get a preview of the images, which is...
which is a nice feature in FlightCheck.
In any event... So,
the customer claims... Sorry. FlightCheck claims it's a Quark file.
The customer claims InDesign file. So, let's just go in there
and see if it's as easy
as this. It will
warn us
they want to change the extension.
let's say, use a qxp
Now, you see it's changed.
It's changed into
a Quark file here.
So, let's network
and we see
what happens there.
This file opens
in Quark
without a problem.
Okay, now if we
Save As...
and if we know then switch over to
InDesign
and use Q2ID
to convert Quark files into InDesign,
we can now find
that file, which the customer thought was InDesign and was actually Quark,
and now we can actually convert that Quark file into InDesign
with Markzware's
FlightCheck.
Markzware's FlightCheck. Sorry. FlightCheck is for checking. Q2ID, ID2Q, etc. are for
converting.
And there we have it. It's converted.
And that's a wrap.
Another happy customer. Another interesting case. I just wanted to share it with you.
We can fix your bad InDesign files. Just send them over to Sales or send an email to
sales@markzware.com and we'll tell you where to send your files.
We can preflight your files with FlightCheck. You see how handy FlightCheck was there. Just to give you a
quick
overview on what
that file is.
The customer didn't know.
I knew, because FlightCheck told me. It was as simple as dragging and dropping.
And we have our conversion tools: Q2ID Quark to InDesign and
ID2Q InDesign to Quark, and, of course, Pub2ID Publisher, Microsoft Publisher to InDesign.
Alright. David signing off. Have a great day and hope this will help you.