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Okay, so this is pretty neat. Many of you know us for our bad file recovery service here at
Markzware,
where we can fix your
bad InDesign or QuarkXPress file.
Now, and here's a little form, where, you know, you can get more information on that, which is,
you know, naturally very useful if you
have a corrupt
InDesign or QuarkXPress
type of file,
but what we can also often recover
are PDFs and
Adobe Illustrator native .ai files,
and that's what I'm going to show you today: how that works. With the customer's file, we had
permission to show this.
So, pretty neat. Let's go check it out.
Okay, so let's launch
Adobe Illustrator here,
CS5 in this case, but doesn't really matter.
Alright, so here's the
Illustrator file in question.
And please excuse my voice;
I have a slight flu here.
In any event, if you try to open the file
in Illustrator, just double-click it,
you see Illustrator
strives to open it here,
and you get "An unknown error has occurred"
and they're not openable.
Now, it should be mentioned this customer sent in a block of bad files:
Illustrator, InDesign.
They had a whole drive go bad. They used some recovery software,
but recovery software often damages or, let's say,
doesn't fully recover
InDesign and Illustrator type files. It works fine with standard type files
in a lot of cases, but seems to have problems with InDesign and, in this case, Illustrator.
So, they couldn't use all of their files,
and we fixed all of their InDesign files,
and they had a couple of Illustrator files, and now we'll show you how we can fix this
"An unknown error has occurred" problem and get this content recovered.
Let's show you that now, and for that, we're going to actually jump into
InDesign and
a very important third-party extension from Markzware,
PDF2DTP,
our new PDF to InDesign conversion tool.
We'll show you how that can help in this case, believe it or not.
And now, we'll go into InDesign
CS5, in this case. Open up that tool.
Here we are in InDesign
and, up in InDesign,
you have the Markzware menu item, where you have many of our
various conversion tools: Quark to InDesign, Publisher to InDesign,
and our brand new PDF to InDesign, which is really, really incredible and selling
really well, and for good reason, because it
converts PDFs
with great accuracy, all matters considered,
you know, with tables, everything, styles, in most cases, right back
into InDesign. It doesn't matter where the PDF was originated from.
It'll bring it into InDesign, so, really cool.
In any event,
we can
also use this tool
and not only convert PDF files,
but also many
Illustrator files.
That's because Illustrator files are,
in effect,
you know, wrapped up as a PDF file.
If you save out an Illustrator file,
there's a certain setting,
Save PDF Compatibility, that's checked on by default.
So, most people are saving
native Illustrator files with the ability to
be PDF compatible,
and with that little, you know,
nugget of data,
can Markzware's PDF2DTP also convert Illustrator files.
So, this is a bad Illustrator file. We can also convert
corrupt
Illustrator files, as you'll see here.
So, this is a much better sign than what we saw in Illustrator. We're now seeing three of
six pages converted,
and the "Pack-in Pieces.ai" file is going right up into
InDesign.
Now, look at that.
A "Find Font" warning,
and there we have a completely recovered
set of content
from Adobe
Illustrator
now right up in InDesign.
Okay, so,
what can we do now?
And I have permission to use this customer's file.
Thank you very much.
What can we do now to get this file, so, if we want it back, in Illustrator?
Well, you could copy, paste, but you can also just go
File >
Export >
PDF.
And remember now,
by the way, PDF2DTP also extracts all the images, which is quite cool, all the
graphics.
If we had the fonts loaded, this would be obviously better.
Then, we hit Save
and
the Export, the PDF
file with missing fonts, but okay, you get the idea.
Now, let's go see how that works.
Now, we go into Illustrator here, File > Open,
and I can choose that PDF we just
created,
and now, you see we have the
file, right back into
Adobe Illustrator,
ready to be...
to be used.
So that's how you can, with Markzware's
bad file recovery service, also recover and fix Adobe Illustrator files;
.ai files are recoverable with this Markzware service, which, as you saw, you can do yourself,
if you have InDesign, which most people do, with our PDF2DTP
plugin,
for InDesign CS6, CS5.5, or CS5,
a great new way to not only convert PDFs,
but also Illustrator files right into InDesign, but also even corrupted
Illustrator,
or even sometimes corrupted PDF files,
can be fixed
with this new conversion technology from Markzware.
Now, thank you. This has been David Dilling from Markzware,
wishing a fantastic day,
and if you have any questions, please feel free to call us or
email us at sales@markzware.com .