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Welcome to this exciting demonstration of PageZephyr, a new technology from
Markzware that allows you to index, search, and extract content from your
proprietary file formats, such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, and soon others.
Alright, let me show you how it works. PageZephyr, itself, is a desktop
application for Macintosh only, at this time.
The Windows version will become available soon.
Getting started is pretty much as easy as double-clicking,
but I'm gonna show you a few more other neat
tips and tricks, because there's a lot
into
or behind PageZephyr.
If you cruise over into your browser and
punch in PageZephyr.com,
you'll come to our web portal page for PageZephyr.
Here, you can download the demonstration version or purchase a copy of the
program, once you're ready to do that.
We'll be coming back to this page later, because there's a lot more to PageZephyr,
than just a desktop application.
You can extract the content up to
the PageZephyr blog,
or portal,
and thus, free your content from the constraints of that proprietary
file format in QuarkXPress or InDesign.
For instance, we click on one of the
latest posts here.
We can see the content
that just moments ago
was in Adobe InDesign,
now free
on the internet.
Of course, I can now take this and
copy and paste it and use it where I like.
The PageZephyr.com site has an About section, where you can learn more about the product,
a Store, where you can purchase the product,
and our Help section,
where, of course, if you have any issues, please feel free to email us.
There is documentation and there will be further tutorial movies.
If you want to check out our License Agreement Terms of Use, that's all there, as well.
Once you have an account, you want to log in
up top
this is where you can create your own little blog and customize it to your own needs.
So, down here, we can see where we can download the demonstration version.
You click on there.
You'll be able to download a full, working version.
We'll be coming back a little bit later to the PageZephyr.com home page to show
you how we can use that
to free our content,
but, now, I'd like to show you how you can first index and search,
because that is perhaps the most powerful feature of PageZephyr, the ability
to search for or look inside
proprietary file formats, without opening them.
Okay, let's go check it out. Inside of PageZephyr, and you see, I already have
some content
indexed,
and if I drill down on any one item,
any one file that I have here, a document
on my hard drive or on external drives that I'm connected to,
I can see all the
content and text stories that are inside.
I can go one by one, or i can
combine
two or more together
to form, even, new documents, which I'll get to in a moment. Before we go too much
into this right now, what I want to show you is the
Preferences and I'm not going to go into too much detail, because there are many other movies
on this,
but here in the
Searching section is where you
define what you want to have indexed.
It's relatively quick, of course, if you have
gigabytes and gigabytes of data, it might take a little bit of time,
but it's surprisingly very quick.
Once that's done, then it'll all show up here, on the left hand side.
There's one other little, neat, little
thing I want to show you,
and for that, I have to
back out of it,
and there, I can take a folder
and drop it in
and it will start to index
that folder
and display
the files
that are within there, as well.
So, that's very cool!
And we're going to let that work.
Alright, we've got all the content now indexed here,
and it's really neat, because you can drill down and
look inside, kind of like a viewing tool, an inexpensive way to view your
QuarkXPress or InDesign files, without opening them
in the proprietary application.
But what's really neat, and I think and, not only what I think, that what
many of our users have told us, is one of the main features is the Search feature.
What we can type,
for instance, RGB,
and we get a list of all files with RGB in it.
Or we can type in
Markzware
and we get a whole bunch of,
a whole bunch of files, of course, because
many files have the word Markzware in there.
But let's type in the word
trapping
and we'll
hit Enter,
and now, we'll see all the documents that have the word trapping used.
So, you can see what the beta testers are so excited about. You have hundreds or
thousands of documents, maybe
hundreds of pages long each document, with
all kinds of textual content that you need to find
certain keywords in, whether it's a
customer's name or a particular word
like trapping,
or you know, adjective, noun or whatever.
So, let's go in and see what we have here. So, if we drill down on one of these items,
FlightCheck Sales Guide. FlightCheck is our pre-flighting tool
and click on the
story box and we can see
right away
the word trapping,
where it's used.
And it's in the first text story here,
just, which is pretty handy to know.
What you can also do is mix and match content and recreate
a document,
of sorts.
So, now we see that the word's also used in, it's also used here and we can now
mix and match the content of both that by holding down the
Command key and clicking here, as well. Now, we have both documents
with combined content,
and this is really neat, because then you can free,
sort of make a new document of sorts and free it up to the internet,
where then,
we'll show you other options to
grab that content and use it for what you'd like.
So, it's sort of an excellent way to export
this content of yours and free it from the binds of the proprietary file formats
they are now sitting in.
So, it's as simple as hitting post
and you get this:
a little window.
We can set up a new account on the PageZephyr.com blog,
which we saw earlier. Here, we have an account, so I'll just log in.
I can give it a title.
I can even assign categories,
like I do now. I have to agree to the
Terms and Conditions, the copyright policy, of course,
and, once I hit Export, this content which was
now locked up on my harddrive, maybe because it's an older version
of Quark they don't even have anymore, that only runs on an old machine that I don't even
have. I could never get this information anymore, he was legacy data.
Now, I can free it up
to the internet.
And there we see
"The upload to your blog was successfully finished". It's now on the PageZephyr.com
portal. We can grab it.
Alright, let's go check it out over there, now.
Okay, great! Now, we're back in PageZephyr.com, the portal,
and we went over some of the basics before about the site
and down here, you'll see the latest member posts.
You'll see whoever has posted what. Now, to see all the posts, or to go find your own post, you can either login right away
and go right to your Admin section
or you can check it out
in here, in the latest member posts,
and if we click on there,
we'll see all the recent posts,
then, there we see
our post.
So,
now, we can just simply go in there
copy and paste that material
and it's now free
for us to use in other documents. We've now freed our content.
If you go and log in up here,
you can then get in
see all your most recent posts,
and go in there
and edit things,
once again
copy and paste
just put in onto the blog,
put in another
InDesign or Quark document, put in a Word file, whatever you want to do.
There it is! Download the trial version today, a 15-day,
no-cost
version of PageZephyr to
index, search, and extract your content
up to the
PageZephyr.com blog.
So, thank you very much. We appreciate your time and look forward to
getting feedback on how you
use PageZephyr.
This is David,
signing off.