Have you ever had a QuarkXpress project go bad on you? Could not open it, was crashing or gave errors like bad file format [70] -70, [39] or [108]? You are not alone and you have no need to stand as such, for Markzware has a fantastic tool for fixing or recovery bad Quark files called MarkzTools. Watch how easy it is to salvage your damaged or dead XPress file via this video demo:
Patrick interviews a lively street musician in San Ignacio, Belize. Then he plays the flute for us:
Here is an interesting article and related Google Trends comparison between QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign titled, “QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign - Google Trends Report“:
One thing is for sure; over here at Markzware, FlightCheck Professional can preflight both InDesign and QuarkXPress, as well as the resulting PDF… Plus, we have conversion tools such as ID2Q (InDesign to QuarkXPress) and Q2ID (QuarkXPress to InDesign) which could assist you no matter which layout application you choose today or in the future.
Here we see Patrick Marchese hiking the jungles of Belize into a river filled cave to an ancient Mayan ceremonial area called Actun Tunichil Muknal or ATM caves for short. The underworld was very important for the Mayans (9 levels of the underworld and 13 levels of heaven). Watch Pat in action here:
Wow — it has been over 15 years since I worked as a print production manager for a large advertising agency in California. Computer-To-Plate (CTP) was starting to garner industry buzz, and in my role, I had to best determine how to take digital creative files, produce them internally and ensure that once they were sent off to the printer or a publication, for example, they would work — meaning, they would render on press the way we expected them to and our clients, the advertisers, were pleased with the results.
Your design goes off to the printer and comes back a week later as 10,000 high-quality, full-color brochures. Yes, your graphic design talents were needed, but so was the art of the PrePress Production Operator:
Multiple Intelligence lesson plan, #4
Color bar, Crop marks, Resgister marks, Tick or Fold marks, Legend- all some of the elements that help tie your design together into what will be a predictable output via PDF. And oh yes, they preflight, as should you! As designers, several of the “tips” that are given often regard having a better understanding of the prepress process and a good communication with the printer. See link below to article:
What file format do you send to the printer / what do you receive as the printer?
There is a lot of debate going on in print-media about what file format to send to the printer. I would like to hear your feedback;
From the magestic mangrove lined tropical shores of Caye Caulker island to vine covered jungle trails leading to ancient Mayan under-world, river filled caves, this adventure in Belize and Guatemala was one we would recommend. The Mayan ruins in Tikal and the entire Mayan culture is extremely interesting, not to mention swimming with sharks, 4-wheeling and getting detained at the border! See the complete picture galleries by clicking on the image below:
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http://www.daviddilling.com/Belize-Guatemala-Mayan_Tikal_2012.htm
Patrick Marchese, co-founder and CEO of Markzware, is seen here working out a deal with the artists outside of Xunantunich (Cayo District) in Belizé. In Xunantunich are some of the most impressive Mayan ruins in the country and as you will see in this short film, also some impressive slate art-work carvings:
One of the leading suppliers of PDF technologies for print production and document management and archiving, Callas Software, has just announced a new version of it’s pdfToolbox software, version 4. Here is an excerpt from their press release;
“Powerful new features in pdfToolbox 4 include added functionality for imposing everything from business cards and booklets to N-up imposition; improved controls for creating great-looking PDF presentations; and easy creation of PDF versions for localized information or multiple-languages even when you don’t have the creator document or application.
