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.
With Markzware’s new desktop search engine for page layout file formats such as Adobe INDD and Quark QXP just out, makes this article all the more interesting:
Five “Real Time” Search Startups You Should Know
“For the past few years, there have been many ways to navigate the web to find out what is going on right now. You could go to cnn.com to see breaking news, or you could perform a search at Google news to search multiple media outlets. However, while media outlets aren’t able to cover every story, the power of the internet enables most every story to be discussed. From this, the real time web was born.”
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-five-real-time-startups-you-need-to-know-2009-12
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:
POUR PARUTION IMMÉDIATE
RIJSWIJK, Pays-Bas – 8 décembre 2009 – Markzware, développeur de FlightCheck® et inventeur du contrôle en amont, commercialise PageZephyrTM, un moteur de recherche et d’extraction de contenu. PageZephyr est conçu autour de l’architecture CRA (Common Reader Architecture) hautes performances, qui est au cœur des produits actuels et futurs de Markzware.
ZUR SOFORTIGEN VERÖFFENTLICHUNG
RIJSWIJK, Niederlande, 7. Dezember 2009 – Markzware, der Entwickler von FlightCheck® und Erfinder von Preflight, brachte PageZephyrTM heraus, eine Engine zur Content-Suche und -Extraktion. PageZephyr wurde mit Markzwares Common Reader Architecture (CRA) entwickelt, der Hochleistungs-Architektur, die sich im Herzen der aktuellen und zukünftigen Projekte von Markzware befindet.
Vorteile und Funktionen von PageZephyr:
Die PageZephyr-Technik ermöglicht die Durchsuchung von proprietären Dokumenten und bringt den Vorgang dann auf eine höhere Ebene, indem sie die Untersuchung und Extraktion von Text aus Dokumenten in den Dateiformaten der meisten bekannten Publishing-Anwendungen wie Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress und bald auch Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker und anderen ermöglicht.
Contact:
Mary Gay Marchese
949-756-5100, ext. 250
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:
ID2Q und / oder Q2ID…
Q2ID v4 (QuarkXPress zu Adobe InDesign)
Mit Unterstützung von CS4 und QuarkXPress 8:
Markzware veröffentlichte kürzlich Q2ID v4 (199 Euro), das jetzt auch als Plug-in für Adobe InDesign CS4 erhältlich ist und mit einem Klick alle Versionen von QuarkXPress konvertiert! Upgrades für berechtigte aktuelle Anwender finden Sie unter:
http://markzware.com/q2id
—> +++ Dateikonvertierung +++ <—
ID2Q v4 (InDesign zu Quark)
JETZT ebenfalls lieferbar!
Für diejenigen, die eine Konvertierung in die andere Richtung benötigen, hat Markzware gerade eine neue Version des ID2Q v4 XTension-Moduls (199 Euro) herausgebracht. Dieses funktioniert jetzt auch mit QuarkXPress 8 und konvertiert alle Versionen von Adobe InDesign – auch CS4! Siehe:
http://markzware.com/id2q
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.
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.
