Have any damaged InDesign files laying around? Markzware wants ’em.
Markzware, developer of the Quark to InDesign conversion plug-in, Q2ID, is enjoying recent publicity for their role in helping a desperate designer recover a toasted InDesign layout, one so damaged that InDesign just couldn’t open it any longer.
As reported by David in an earlier post, the designer found that by converting the InDesign file to a QuarkXPress layout with Markzware’s ID2Q (which worked, somehow), he could then use InDesign to convert the QuarkXPress layout back to a healthy InDesign one, courtesy of Q2ID.
Today, in the middle of a discussion of this same topic on the InDesign listserv, Markzware’s David Dilling (Marketing Director/Europe) posted a public request:
We at Markzware are ‘looking for’ bad InDesign files …
If you have a corrupted InDesign document, please email it to me at david AT markzware.nl (If larger than 10 MB, please email me first for our FTP details.).
This will assist our development team and hopefully ultimately help you as well.
I double-checked with Markzware that they really were seeking to be inundated with corrupted ID files (are there that many out there? I have none, myself) and it’s true. Sounds like they have a new product a-cooking, hmmm?
Please check your attics, basements, and garages for any bad ID files, and send them on to Mr. Dilling per his instructions. As he said, it should ultimately help all of us.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on April 2, 2008
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