As a graphic designer, has this ever happened to you?
The scenario: You’ve sent your marketing masterpiece that you have meticulously designed to your printer. The deadline is tight, but you made it. Then the phone rings. Its your printer calling to let you know they are having problems printing your piece. You are about ready to scream because the client is waiting to get this piece out to his customers.
This is an excellent article from sf8h.net on how Leo Burnett (Frankfurt office in this case), one of the world’s more prestigious advertising agencies, uses Markzware’s Q2ID or QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion plugin. It says in part;
“3f8h.net equips 20 workstations at Leo Burnett GmbH in Frankfurt with Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) from Markzware.
Existing Quark documents are now being converted to InDesign on a daily basis.”
You can read the entire article, with comments from their Group manager Production design here:
A few years ago, I visited Dalim Software in Strasburg with my colleague, David Dilling. This is the home of Gutenberg. (Check it out as we wondered allowed Would Gutenberg have use FlightCheck?)
Have any damaged InDesign files laying around? Markzware wants ‘em.
Markzware, developer of the Quark to InDesign conversion plug-in, Q2ID, is enjoying recent publicity for their role in helping a desperate designer recover a toasted InDesign layout, one so damaged that InDesign just couldn’t open it any longer.
