Dual-Publishing with Desktop Search Engine
Here is an interesting new dual-publishing model that combines publishing to the Internet – Web and Print via one online graphic design template solution and associated service called Sweeble.
Here is the sentence from their “How does it work” section that interested me:
“Publish your news to your printed newsletter, or your own sweeble website, or both! Without getting technical, we’re giving you a dual-publishing, content management and desktop publishing system for free.”
Source: See Step 6 – Sweeble: How does it work?
So, sweet as Sweeble sounds, it is likely not a threat today to serious design, publishing and printing customers. Yet it is, again, another opportunity for you to review your own operation and see how you can use the Internet to help improve ROI for your business and, perhaps, even win more customers. Whether a graphic designer, publisher or printer, there are many opportunities to go from print to online or Internet to print.
With that in mind, remember to check out the PageZephyr application by Markzware for Mac, allows you to quickly and easily search or extract content from Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher or QuarkXPress files or archives right to a WordPress blog or RTF text document.
Internet search engines provided by companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing are typically used to search the web for content within common file-types, such as text in PDF, RTF , TEXT or Word documents. On the desktop, indexing and search engines such as Microsoft Windows Index and Apple’s Spotlight work in the same manner with the same limitations. However, none of these companies possess technology that performs like PageZephyr.
When it comes to proprietary formats those file ferrets can be blind as olms. That poses a big problem for publishers of every stripe who have countless documents in those formats and need to find something in them.
PageZephyr is very different, providing a new approach that takes search much further by discovering content inside popular file formats that are ‘non-common’ such as .indd (Adobe InDesign), .pub (Microsoft Publisher) and .qxd (QuarkXPress) for examination and important decision making. Beyond that, PageZephyr allows searching in a specific area of interest across these different file types, to merge, edit and combine content for easy creation of new and relevant information pertinent to that topic. PageZephyr also responds to detailed boolean queries by using AND as well as OR to further refine the search.
You can view the video below to see how PageZephyr can index, search and extract DTP desktop publishing content for use in dual-publishing.
PageZephyr – Index View Search and Extract Adobe InDesign & Quark Publishing DTP Content
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