Markzware rescues the dreaded bad file format
Michael Shaw, President of MaUsE in Toronto Canada and Editor of MaUsE DoubleClick most recently reviewed Markzware’s popular XTensions Pasteboard XT and MarkzTools, which can be used to rescue the dreaded bad file format regarding QuarkXpress files. Please enjoy his review.
To lose a Quark Document is always very bad and it can happen without any prior message from QuarkXPress.
MarkzTools is able to verify the document prior to saving. This can almost rule out (not 100%) the crashing of your documents.
You can verify your saved Quark documents, so you will immediately know when the integrity of your file is suspect. Furthermore, using a special temp file MarkzTools can try to help you recover documents that have become corrupted during a save operation while using Quark. (*Note, this special temp file is only available to MarkzTools behind the scenes and is not selectable by the user.)
So, if you have a dreaded bad file format within QuarkXPress, MarkzTools can pull you out of bad file format into a positive way!
MarkzTools is an XTension that can be used to prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents, overcoming the dreaded bad file format [70], [39], and [108].
In the case of a badly corrupted file in which the page layout data cannot be salvaged, the (scavenge text) feature may extract text stories from a document file.
MarkzTools alerts you whenever you are about to save a lower version document to a higher version. It also makes QuarkXPress backwards compatible, allowing you to open higher version Quark documents.
