By John P. Mello Jr.
MacNewsWorld
Part of the ECT News Network
12/28/09 5:00 AM PT
Proprietary file types from applications like Quark and InDesign have a knack for hiding from Mac OS X’s built-in search app, Spotlight. For users will vast stores of these types of files, search can be an awkward process of trial and error. Markzware’s new PageZephyr knows how to look for these types of proprietary files. Read more...
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Contact:
Mary Gay Marchese
949-756-5100, ext. 250
pr@markzware.com
Take Control of Your Data with New Desktop Search and Content Extraction
PageZephyr Makes Converting and Searching Content in Proprietary File Types a Breeze
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SANTA ANA, California – December 2, 2009 – Markzware, developer of FlightCheck® and inventor of preflighting, has released PageZephyrTM, a content search and extraction engine. PageZephyr has been developed using Markzware’s Common Reader Architecture (CRA), the high-performance technology at the heart of Markzware’s current and future products.
Benefits and Features of PageZephyr: Read more...
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tagged in Adobe InDesign, capture content, content management, Content Search, data control, Desktop Search, distribute content, legacy content, PageZephyr, QuarkXPress, search engine
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Save FreeHand! They call themselves FREE FreeHand, but let’s face it, when you are up against such factors as ex Macromedia and the mighty Adobe, a miraculous “save” (I guess they would settle for an effective “import”) comes to mind…
http://www.freefreehand.org/

Yes, you read it correctly. I guess there are a lot of Spaniards on their list, for last I heard, Spain was one place that would not give up their favorite vector drawing app that easily. Read more...
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How do you plan on profiting from your online content? Here is an interesting development:
Wikipedia founder ties with HP to add magazine printing platform to Wikia site
Tim Sheahan, printweek.com, 26 October 2009
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed a new tie-up between user-generated information site Wikia and HP’s MagCloud service that will allow users to create and print magazines.
“We are doing all kinds of things like that to think about ways to sustain this idea of participatory culture. We have no idea if this will be popular,” Wales told news agency Reuters. Read more...
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“Electronic books may transform publishing industry” read the title on MarketWatch.com and the tag-line was, “Executives discuss impact of e-books at Frankfurt Books Fair.”
By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Electronic books may transform not only the publishing industry, but the very definition of what constitutes a book. E-books — whether read on an iPhone, a Kindle or a laptop — are a hot topic at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
“Books are just devices. Wikipedia is the new Britannica,” said Ronald Schild, managing director of Germany-based MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH. Read more...
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Markzware launched, at PRINT 09 in September, a new content search engine technology called PageZephyr. This beta Macintosh application will index desktop publishing file formats such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and soon other document types, like PDF, Microsoft Publisher and even “the rage” of it’s day, PageMaker. Here we see some of the excitement generated from the show-floor and one simple exclusive press release, which Mary Gay (Public Relations) pushed up court… and re-tweets via Twitter! Watch Patrick Marchese, co-founder and CEO of Markzware, demonstrate PageZephyr…
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Now, I am quite sure there is more to this than meets the eyes.. or is this a sign of the Internet times we live and work in?
“…Please use either WordPress or InDesign. Don’t know of any other students using Blogger…“
said @scost1 on Twitter, apparently to a student- is this the ‘new world order of Graphic Design‘?

Source: http://twitter.com/barbaranixon/statuses/4788759496
Just a little WordPress or Adobe InDesign chatter on Twitter! Don’t even get me started on Google Wave. Sounds like this school and it’s students could use content conversion and text extraction provided by PageZephyr.com… Read more...
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tagged in Adobe InDesign, Blogger, Blogger or WordPress, content conversion, Google Wave, graphic arts student, graphic design, InDesign, new media publishing, New World Order, PageZephyr, publishing, student, Tweets, Twitter, WordPress, WordPress or InDesign
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