QXPMarkz: Markzware launches the successor of ID2Q

QXPMarkz: Markzware launches the successor of ID2Q

QXPMarkz replaces the previous ID2Q


5. June 2020In PublishingBy Karsten Risseeuw3 Minutes

Markzware has just launched QXPMarkz, a software for converting QuarkXPress documents. The new tool replaces the previous Q2ID, which was available as a plug-in for InDesign.

A new generation

A new generation of Markzware tools is created. Previous plug-ins are gradually being transformed into standalone products. After IDMarkz, QXPMarkz has now been released. While IDMarkz converts InDesign documents, QXPMarkz enables the conversion of XPress documents. Such a development is logical and has several advantages.

First, it no longer requires any additional software. ID2Q was previously a plug-in for Adobe InDesign and could only be used in conjunction with InDesign. Current solutions are stand-alone software solutions.

Secondly, the functionality becomes more versatile. When an XPress document is opened with QXPMarkz, it can be saved in IDML, PDF or one of several image formats. In addition, these formats allow the converted file to be opened directly in another software. This allows an XPress file to be edited directly in Affinity Publisher, but just as easily in Adobe InDesign.

 

Universal tool for Xpress documents

QXPMarkz is a universal tool for XPress documents. You do not need an XPress license to open original XPress documents. You get a preview (directly from the document data) and some more information about the document. The preview even allows you to flip through all pages of the document. This is something like a mini-preflighting function. Afterwards, the document can be converted in several formats and also be opened directly in popular software solutions.

QXPMarkz is a cost-effective and flexible way to convert any XPress document on demand. Very old documents may need to be converted to a newer XPress format using Quark’s own free conversion solution before they can be opened in QXPMarkz.

 

The cryptic names remain

Markzware produces real tongue twisters with the product names. Although all names are logical, it takes special attention when using them. However, the trend towards renewal seems to offer some benefits here as well:

  • ID2Q has been dropped, in its place IDMarkz appeared
  • Q2ID has been removed, in whose place QXPMarkz was just released.

The name is mission statement: IDMarkz opens and converts InDesign documents. QXPMarkz opens and converts QuarkXPress documents. Currently, only one plug-in remains, namely PDF2DTP. If there were a successor, what would the name of the new product be?

 

Annual license or continuous license

QXPMarkz can be purchased either as an annual license including all updates, or as an unlimited license without updates. When purchasing, the preferred version can be specified. The annual license is not a subscription and you do not have to renew it. The license expires automatically, but you can renew the license at any time.


Convert publishing documents to InDesign in next to no time

Convert publishing documents in the blink of an eye

PDF to InDesign? No problem. InDesign to XPress? Works!


Once there and back again

Publishing documents can be converted. Of course, XPress, InDesign, VivaDesigner or Affinity Publisher have their own document formats. However, they are no longer isolated solutions. Today there are good conversion solutions with which documents of a certain program can also be opened in another program.

The best tools are from Markzware and can be purchased right here on the Kursiv website.

  • Q2ID converts XPress documents to InDesign
  • ID2Q converts InDesign documents to XPress
  • PDF2DTP converts any PDF document to InDesign

After the conversion, a new original domain is available. For example, if you open a QuarkXPress document in InDesign with the help of Q2ID, an original InDesign document is available when the conversion is completed (in no time at all). This can be changed, adapted, saved and used as if it were a regularly created InDesign document.

Before, afterwards

XPress documents can be opened in InDesign and processed immediately as genuine InDesign documents (Q2ID). The comparison image below shows a document: on the left in XPress and on the right converted to InDesign.

What can (not) be expected from conversions?

Conversions are never 100% identical. This has nothing to do with the conversion, but with the fact that publishing programs are not 100% the same. The interpretation of the same information and attitudes is almost the same, but there can (not: must) be differences. For example, what are the settings for text wrapping? Which special functions in one program are not supported in the other program? What is the spacing of a font? Are the settings rounded differently between different programs and is there a word that no longer fits on the page?

Conversion solutions, however good they are, cannot be used to keep moving documents back and forth. They are not suitable for the graphic artist to work in InDesign, but the customer with XPress, and for the data to be pushed back and forth in different formats.

Conversion software is intended to convert standing sentences or to do one-off conversions. You save the work, so to speak, from one program to the next software. Documents should then be checked and only then used. Years of experience have shown that you can get astonishingly close to the original document. This saves a lot of valuable time.

Anyone who uses conversion solutions has probably already earned the costs back with the first job. The only alternative would be to rebuild a document from scratch. However, if you do not have all the images but only a PDF file, for example, then a document cannot simply be rebuilt. With PDF2DTP, however, such a document can easily be converted and embedded images are exported cleanly and are then available again in InDesign.


Markzware adapts software to Adobe InDesign CC 2020

Markzware software now supports Adobe InDesign CC 2020

New versions for PDF2DTP and Q2ID


Latest updates free of charge for current licenses

Markzware has just announced several updates to its conversion products. PDF2DTP and Q2ID now support Adobe InDesign CC 2020. Customers who have a current license can download the latest versions via the personal download link.

Reliable conversions

Markzware products have been proven for many years and offer excellent document conversions in many directions. With PDF2DTP, PDF documents of any kind can be converted to InDesign in no time at all, where they can then be processed immediately as normal InDesign documents.

Markzware is also reliable because it can be adapted to the latest document formats at short notice. Because things are always changing, this reliability is very important in any production environment. It’s also a reason that Kursiv is 100% behind these products.

PDF2DTP update

  • New plug-in for Adobe InDesign CC 2020
  • Compatible with the last MacOS versions (10.14.5 and 10.15)

Q2ID update

  • New plug-in for Adobe InDesign CC 2020
  • Compatible with the last MacOS versions (10.14.5 and 10.15)


Markzware Version Support List

The Markzware Version Support List is a regularly updated PDF file with all information about the Markzware products. It describes on which versions and platforms the plug-ins run, as well as which file formats are supported.

The Markzware Version Support List also shows the supported languages and includes all versions of the plug-ins that are available for purchase or rental.

The list can be downloaded as a PDF file directly from the Kursiv website using the navigation> Software solutions> Publishing> Version Support List (PDF) or via the button in this article.

 

Markzware products.

  • Q2ID
  • ID2Q
  • PDF2DTP
  • FlightCheck
  • MarkzTools

Markzware produces proven software products for the graphics industry: conversion solutions and preflighting software. These products are made by Italic software distributed for about 20 years. We can recommend the products completely.