Markzware, the leading developer of data extraction and conversion software and inventor of preflighting, released an upgrade to its highly recommended conversion tool PUB2ID for InDesign CS3 and CS4. PUB2ID v2 (Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign) is a plug-in that enables users to convert native-application Microsoft Publisher files (MS Publisher versions 2002 through 2007) to Adobe InDesign while preserving the content, as well as the styles and formatting.
A Simple Two-Click Process
The Adobe InDesign user simply clicks on “File” in the toolbar, then “Open,” and selects the Microsoft Publisher file for conversion. This simple two-step process initiates the conversion and opens the document in Adobe InDesign, saving graphic artists, prepress and printing professionals countless hours that would otherwise be spent recreating the document from the ground up.
User Feedback
Dave Matthews, who heads up the prepress department for Progressive Printing, said, “We have around 10-percent of our customers who use [Microsoft] Publisher. The PUB2ID plug-in has allowed me to stop booting up the PC for that one job per week… PUB2ID makes it very easy to deal with these files from customers… [It] was a great investment and paid for itself in the first week; because I had a big book to deal with, and if I didn’t have the PUB2ID plug-in, I would probably still be working on that book!”
Pricing and Availability
The MSRP is $199, and the upgrade is $99 for PUB2ID v1.x users.
Markzware’s PUB2ID v2 is available from Software House International (SHI), Software Spectrum, Programmers Paradise, MacConnection, CDW, and at Markzware’s online store.
For more information please visit www.markzware.com/pub2id/.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on March 12, 2009
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