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.
Here was a popular discussion over on the “Prepress, Print & Color Management Professionals” group on Linkedin.com where Sean Runchman of Tunicca posed an interesting post and something I think many on our side of the printing fence have been thinking of for while, titled, “Premedia – the new Prepress?”
“We are seeing more and more encouragement for printers to diversify from a product offering based solely on print to more service oriented solutions. This requires printers to embrace the digital age even further and look at providing additional services demanded by the marketers within large brands.”
See full post and details here:
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
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.
“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.
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…
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?
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…
Markzware most recently gave a sneak preview of our new technology of PageZephyr at Print 09 in Chicago last month.
While at the show Stephen Beals, who has spent more than 30 years in the industry as a pre-press manager and has written hundreds of articles for several print and computer publications over the years stopped by the Markzware booth to check it out and has written a post about it sharing his thoughts….
