MarkzTools™ PRODUCT MANUAL
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Table of Contents MARKZTOOLS.........................................................................................................................1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................................................1 TECHNICAL SUPPORT...........................................................................................................1 MARKZWARE SALES & INFORMATION ............................................................................
MARKZTOOLS MARKZTOOLS MarkzTools is a QuarkXPress XTension which allows you to verify and maintain file integrity when Saving documents, downsave to lower versions as well as salvage corrupted documents or extract text from them. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • G5 or Intel Macintosh • Mac OS X Version 10.
INSTALLING MARKZTOOLS INSTALLING MARKZTOOLS 1. Quit QuarkXPress if it is currently running. 2. Drag and drop the MarkzTools folder to a desired location on your hard drive. (e.g. Desktop) Next, copy the MarkzTools XT into your QuarkXPress XTension folder. 3. To obtain the latest version and news about MarkzTools, please visit: http://www.markzware.com/markztools/ ACTIVATION Upon initially launching QuarkXPress, you will be asked to enter your MarkzTools activation code.
ABOUT MARKZTOOLS ABOUT MARKZTOOLS Would you wait until your house burns down BEFORE you purchase fire insurance? Of course not! By then it will be much too late. MarkzTools is an extremely valuable utility that serves not only as “document insurance” but can often salvage corrupted document files.You can use MarkzTools to verify the integrity of your document before the precious original master file is over-written, thus preventing an unwanted disaster.
MARKZTOOLS PREFERENCES MARKZTOOLS MENU Select the Markzware Menu located in the Main Menu bar of QuarkXPress, then select the “MarkzTools™” Menu item.
MARKZTOOLS PREFERENCES Verify Layout Before Saving Select the checkbox to instruct MarkzTools to verify the integrity of the current Layout of your Document Project just prior to it being Saved. If a problem is discovered then your original document file on disk will not be updated, thus serving as a type of “document insurance.” Note that you can turn this function on or off by selecting it directly from the MarkzTools menu.
MARKZTOOLS FUNCTIONS CONVERT DOCUMENT FILE Select the “Convert Document File” menu item from the MarkzTools menu and an Open dialog will be presented allowing you to choose the desired file you wish to convert.
MARKZTOOLS FUNCTIONS Text Attributes Use Styles: Use this option to convert all text stories by retaining their original Character and Paragraph style attributes. Plain Text: Use this option to convert all text stories using plain text. This method is the advised choice when trying to resurrect a bad document which may have corrupted style attributes. Empty Box: Use this option to convert the document using empty text boxes. This method, of course, results in a handy “template.
MARKZTOOLS FUNCTIONS Layout Use the Layout menu to select the Layout you wish to convert. An asterisk (*) will indicate the document’s Default Layout. Choose “All Layouts” to either merge All Layouts into a single Project or to activate and select “Create Separate Projects.”When the conversion begins a progress window will appear showing you the percentage of the conversion process. Type command-period to abort the conversion process at any time.
MARKZTOOLS FUNCTIONS SALVAGE DOCUMENT FILE Select the “Salvage Document File” menu item to instruct MarkzTools to attempt to recover a corrupted document. Use this method if “Convert Document” is not successful. The Salvage function will bypass specific complex elements in the document which individually could be corrupted.
MARKZTOOLS FUNCTIONS EXTRACT TEXT FROM DOCUMENT FILE Select the “Extract Text from Document File” menu item and an Open dialog will be presented allowing you to choose the desired file from which you would like to scan, find and extract text. Normally this function is performed on corrupted document files that cannot be salvaged, in which case you at least might still be able to locate and pull out most text stories. Upon selecting a file you will be presented with the Scavenge Text floating palette.
Stories: Select “Stories” to instruct MarkzTools to locate a text story. You should try using this method first. [Block Read]: Select “[Block Read]” in order to locate raw ASCII data by going through each physical Block of the file. Use this as a last resort to locate text as it will often pick up garbage data that you will need to manually edit out.
CONVERT IMAGE PREVIEWS TO GRAY Select the “Convert Image Previews to Gray” menu item in order set all picture box previews to a simple Gray. This will make each preview size quite small, as opposed to the larger colored sizes, and can drastically reduce the file size of the document when saved to disk and therefore can serve as a convenient and efficient backup, or for sending small e-mail files.
EXPORT PROJECT TO VERSION 4 Select the “Export Project to Version 4...” menu item and a Save dialog will be presented allowing you to select the desired destination for your new Version 4 document. The resulting file(s) will be named starting with “Q4_.” Needless to say, when converting down to a lower version many higher version features will not be converted.
