PDFMarkz Quick Start

PDFMarkz Quick Start: Brief overview of Markzware's PDFMarkz PDF to InDesign converter. In this video, see how to install PDFMarkz and convert your first PDF to Adobe InDesign, plus how to extract the text out of your PDF.

Markzware's stand-alone PDFMarkz (PDF to IDML) application allows users to open PDF files in InDesign, Affinity Publisher, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, and many other formats: https://markzware.com/products/pdfmarkz/

Read more about how to enable PDF editing for Adobe InDesign, in our article, at:
https://markzware.com/pdfmarkz/how-to-enable-pdf-editing-adobe-indesign/

How to Install PDFMarkz
Double click on the .dmg file.
This will bring up the PDFMarkz “Installer” window.
Now, Drag the icon onto the Application folder alias which will copy it in.
Close the window to eject the .dmg file.

Launching PDFMarkz
When you start PDFMarkz, you’ll see a security message.
Click on “Open” to bring up the Activation window and the License Agreement.
Click on “Agree” and enter your email.
This should be the email you used when you purchased the product.
For your License ID, copy and paste it from the email you received, when you purchased.
Click “Activate”.
You will now see a “Successful Activation” screen with PDFMarkz information.

Convert Your First PDF File
Select your PDF file and drag to the “Drag and drop” area and let go.
PDFMarkz will scan the file and create a preview.

PDFMarkz Inspector Panel
To the right, you will see the Inspector panel.
The Inspector panel has information about file size, modification date, and number of images.
Images will show as missing, because they are not linked,
in the PDF file, but they can be extracted.
You can toggle this window on and off, by doing a Command-I.

Open & Edit PDF in InDesign
To Open the file in InDesign, click on the “Open in InDesign” icon.
This will launch the default version of InDesign, on your system.
The file is now open in InDesign and the PDF text is now 100% editable.

PDF Export features in PDFMarkz
You can export as IDML, PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, GIF, RTF and Stories,
which extracts the text out.

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PDFMarkz Quick Start

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First, let's install. Double 
click on the .dmg file.
This will bring up our "Installer" window.
Drag the icon onto the Application folder alias.
That will copy it in.
And close the window.
And you can eject the .dmg file.
Now, we're ready to start up PDFMarkz.
First time you start it up,
you'll see a security message.
Click on "Open".
This will bring up the Activation window
and the License Agreement.
If I try and activate, I can't do that,
until the License has been agreed to.
So, click on "Agree".
And, now, you can go ahead and
enter in your email.
This is the email you purchased the product using.
And, for your License ID, I would suggest
that you copy and paste it from the email
you received, when you purchased.
Once the license is in there, click "Activate".
And, when it's done,
you'll see a "Successful Activation" screen
with some information about PDFMarkz.
So, go ahead and close that.
We'll close the Scripts window and
look at that, in a separate tutorial.
And, now, we're ready to
convert our first PDF file.
So, I have a test file, over here,
which is a PDF created out of Keynote.
I'm just going to drag that onto the
"Drag and drop" area and let go.
This will scan the file and
create a preview.
And we can see, on the right,
the Inspector panel.
The Inspector panel has information
about things, such as file size,
modification date, and
number of images.
Images all show as missing,
because they are not linked,
in the PDF file, but they can be extracted.
So, I can toggle this window on and off,
by doing a Command-I.
And, now, if I want to open the file in InDesign,
what I need to do is simply click on the
"Open in InDesign" icon.
And this will fire up the
default version of InDesign, on your system.
So, now we have the file open in InDesign.
You can see that I have editable text.
And I can also resize the window, here,
and reflow the text.
I can page down and
look at all the pages.
This is a multi-page InDesign document
from the PDF. It's nine pages.
Now, we'll save the document.
I'm going to select the location,
click on "Save" and
close out the document.
So, now, let's take a look at
some of the "Export" features.
We can export as IDML, PDF, TIFF,
PNG, JPEG, GIF, and Stories,
which extracts the text out.
Here, let's extract the text as RTF.
So, I'll select the location
where I want to save that RTF file,
and, then, click on "Export".
And you can see that it's writing it, here,
into the window.
Let's take a look at it.
And you can see in the RTF file,
it's now extracted all of the text
out of the PDF and
held whatever formatting it can.
This has been a quick overview of PDFMarkz,
Markzware's new PDF to IDML converter that
allows you to repurpose your PDFs
and their contents.