All marketing departments, corporations,
advertising studios,
printers, publishers have them:
PDF files,
not just any PDF but a PDF that you need,
and that's all you have left is that PDF,
nothing else -
no native, no source files,
no InDesign or Quark file, no Illustrator or Photoshop file, no images
only that file.
Yes, perhaps you have the fonts, but you don't have the artwork, the layout, the creative side
of the
content
Well, that's why, with great pleasure, I'm going to introduce you to a new product
Markzware
is working on and perhaps even by the time you see this, it might even be released,
and that is called PDF2DTP for QuarkXPress
and PDF2DTP for InDesign.
Today, I'm going to go show you the InDesign side. Let's go check it out.
Alright, so here we are with and InDesign
and we have to first get rid of this
registration from for Q2ID, one of our other products, to convert Quark to InDesign.
We have at
Markzware many conversion products, so this is nothing new to us,
but PDF has been described as chaotic,
so this is really quite incredible what we're able to do here.
Through the Markzware menu item up top, you'll find PDF2DTP,
and you select, simply, Convert PDF.
I should note, and it's good to take a peak here right now,
there is an advanced set of Preferences, because there are many things that you can
adjust to make the conversion,
with recovery that much better, of your PDF file.
Then, you can see here
some of the preferences, including
saving ICC profiles,
duotone EPS,
getting all the stylizations, tables, blends,
pretty much you name it, we're going to try to grab it,
if possible, out of that PDF.
PDF2DTP will even extract the images out.
So, if you don't have those anymore,
we'll even recover those for you.
So, we go up here to PDF2DTP, we hit Convert PDF
and we select a PDF job.
Let's choose a file which is kind of fitting here,
a PDF2DTP brochure we created in InDesign.
Now, can you imagine that all we have left is this PDF here now. That's it.
What do we do? Do we recreate the file? Yeah, you can, and particularly when you
are talking about a multi-page file, that can add up in hours quite quickly.
So, we just click PDF2DTP > Open,
and it's pretty much that easy.
PDF2DTP converts,
well, convert everything:
layers, text, formatting,
colors,
even like you saw, ICC profiles, etc., even extracting the images.
And you see here, now we have the file,
and if we zoom in,
you'll see that PDF2DTP has done a
really fantastic job
of converting this PDF file
and recovering it back into the DTP environment, in this case in InDesign,
that I'm familiar with.
Fantastic!
Alright, what I'm going to show you now... actually, first, this is kind of neat:
This is the new, in CS6, the new panels, as they're called, created with the Configurator
from Adobe,
a neat new way to educate people about
certain tasks, right within InDesign in this case, or Photoshop and
other tools.
Very, very interesting,
neat little panel
under the Window
Extensions
and there you get the panel
or extension, as I guess it's actually called.
So, now I'm going to show you how to extract images, so I'm going to go to Convert
PDF,
and
in the Preferences section, you can see
a designated folder where you can save
your images.
locations howling and save the file but OK, so it's now only going to save the file, but also all the images will be extracted.
Convert PDF file
and let's choose [a document]...
and there we get the
PDF
now as an Adobe InDesign
file for us to work with and edit and change things.
What was also neat,
I'll show you now
is that in the Documents folder, in the PDF2DTP folder,
you'll see the PDF2DTP InDesign folder and inside of there, it creates a job
folder
So, you see this job folder here is clearly showing the
PDF2DTP brochure we just converted;
and inside of there,
we get the InDesign file itself,
but also all the images that were used
inside of that InDesign file.
Now, this is really handy, I mean, I might not have this image anymore,
but now i have it
extracted out back for me to use, so I don't have to go through and
take screen shots and all kind of, you know, crazy things to get the same look the
customer wants. I have the images now back
on my computer ready to use,
with PDF2DTP from Markzware.
In the PDF2DTP Preferences, you'll also notice Tables.
Let's take a closer look at what PDF2DTP can mean for converting tables,
often very tricky
from PDFs back into the native source application.
Here, we choose a PDF from 2002,
a survey, 44 pages. Look at PDF2DTP slice through this
like a hot knife through butter, converting this PDF
right back into a source application for us to
design and layout in further.
Now, what you'll see right away in this nice document from,
you know, GATF
back in the day about chargeable versus non-chargeable down time
on the preflighting side of things;
and now we see the tables. What you see is some convert pretty good and others
convert
not great, but better than nothing.
Tables
are handled in PDF2DTP.
There might need to be some touching up in some cases. In other cases, it might
not work very well at all
However, in general, it's doing up
till now a great job of converting tables
using your PDF files
right back into your source,
in this case, Adobe InDesign CS6
layout application.
PDF here...
Let's see how it handles the Character Styles and the Paragraph Styles...
and what you see is that all character styles
are applied again,
and all paragraph styles are also applied.
So, no reason to redo your work when you can
easily convert your PDFs right back into a source application,
getting your images, getting your styles,
getting your tables,
really fantastic with PDF2DTP from Markzware.
If you need more information on Markzware's PDf2DTP,
cruise on over to
markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp.
There, you'll get more demonstrations, videos,
features and benefits,
a full description
demo download and, of course, system requirements.
PDF2DTP, at this time, is still in beta.
Hopefully, very soon, perhaps
when you see this,
it'll be released and able to be purchased.
PDF2DTP from Markzware,
a fantastic way to open PDF files
within
InDesign
or in QuarkXPress.
Thank you. David Dilling from Markzware, signing off.