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PUB2ID translates the intricate details of the content within the Microsoft Publisher document and instantly re-creates it within InDesign. No more re-creating documents from scratch PUB2ID gives you a big head-start. The conversion is enabled with a single click using the InDesign File-> Open menu. It provides a quick, easy and affordable method for you to migrate all your Microsoft Publisher content into new Adobe InDesign documents. PUB2ID works with InDesign v4.x or 5.x (CS2 or CS3). In order to use it you will need a Mac running Tiger or better or a PC running Windows 2000, XP or Vista and 250 Megs of hard drive space.

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The latest offering from Markzware, called Microsoft Publisher to InDesign, or PUB2ID, is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign that can convert all of your Microsoft Publisher into Adobe InDesign documents so you can update and work with them. When it’s time to go beyond what Microsoft Publisher can offer in the way of professional document design, it has typically been necessary to rebuild such publications from scratch in InDesign, a process that’s both slow and fraught with the possibility of introducing errors.

This means that documents created with Microsoft Publisher can not generally be imported into more popular applications like Adobe InDesign. Publisher’s proprietary file format is, unfortunately, unsupported by most other applications. This reflects Microsoft’s emphasis on Publisher as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the “heavyweights” and also its focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents. Publisher is included in high-end editions of Microsoft Office.

#PUBLISHER TO INDESIGN COVERTER PDF#

Publisher 2007 also includes the capability to output commercial press quality PDF with embedded fonts as an optional download from the Microsoft website. Recent versions of the program have greater capabilities concerning color separations and proper process coloring output. Microsoft Publisher, a Windows only application, has historically been less well-liked among professional designers and high end commercial print shops when compared with other desktop publishing applications like PageMaker, InDesign & QuarkXPress but its very ubiquity in the corporate environment ensures its wide usage. The magic part is that Markzware plug-ins do it quickly, accurately, and elegantly. As such, many of you may not be familiar with their products but in the world of desktop publishing Markzware is a name associated with a long history of wonderful document conversion utilities that make it possible to radically reduce the time it takes to import and use text and pictures from documents created in other desktop publishing applications.įor people who use InDesign, Quark and PageMaker, Markzware makes plug-ins that make it possible to easily import content and convert entire documents between creator applications without losing the appearence of the original document.

#PUBLISHER TO INDESIGN COVERTER SOFTWARE#

Markzware is famous for their FlightCheck software and their PM2Q, ID2Q and Q2ID plug-ins for QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. Clarke put it, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic).

(In fact, when my mother asks me about a lot of stuff she sees me doing on the computer I tell her that its magic.

In past issues of the DoubleClick we have looked at a lot of scathingly brilliant software from Markzware.

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