Angelique is from Holland, but her Francias is fantastic. (I guess it did not hurt to live in lovely Strasbourg for a semester!) Here we hear and see a complete demonstration of Markzware’s QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion tool, Q2ID, in French.

Convertir un fichier QuarkXPress au fichier Adobe InDesign

La conversion est surprenament complète, mais normalement un peu daméliorations sont nécessaire. Vous pouvez voir que la position du texte et des images et les couleurs sont converties. Cest un programme très facile pour tous les individus qui désirent convertir des fichiers quark aux fichiers InDesign.

We are blessed to have with us, at Markzware’s European office, some fantastic interns from around the globe. Here Ola (Olga) from Poland gives us a Polish demonstration of Q2ID or QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign conversion filter:

Demonstracja Q2ID (konwersja QuarkXPress na Adobe InDesign)

Valentin from OCHEDA Graphic Creatives recently called in with a small support question. In assisting him, I learned of his great zeal for using FlightCheck Professional on every job that he produces in QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. SO much so that we asked if we could interview him to learn more about his graphic design workflow and how he works with preflighting, PDF and DTP layout applications. Watch the English interview here:

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Some interesting facts from Valentin:

• * He ALWAYS first preflights than makes a PDF

Adobe Creative Suite 4 or CS4 has been officially announced. It appears to be an Upgrade largely focused on web and multi-media designers, yet delves into some production stream-lining as well. In this print-production area, InDesign CS4 itself does appear to have some interesting things for layout artists and preflight operators alike. Chiefly what they are now calling ‘Live Preflighting‘:

“Preflight while you design. Continuous preflighting alerts you to potential production problems in real time so you can quickly navigate to a problem, fix it directly in layout, and keep working.” SOURCE: http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/features/?view=topnew

Exciting news below for preflight operators whom use Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional or Designer (Or those that want to buy a copy.); see the announcement below…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Markzware Releases Free Update To Popular
Preflighting Software, FlightCheck

Markzware’s FlightCheck v6.12 provides the most up-to-date enhancements for greater productivity.

SANTA ANA, California, September 16, 2008 — Markzware, the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, announced a free update for its preflighting solution, FlightCheck v6.12.

“Markzware continues to provide the level of support to our customer base to ensure efficiency, flexibility and ease of use of our popular and award-winning preflighting solution,” said Mary Gay Marchese, public relations director of Markzware.