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Okay, great, everybody. We got this bad file in today from a
very concerned lady. She had tried everything, she said, and she just,
yeah, couldn't get this file opened.
And you'll see when we try to open it in InDesign,
we get this
very ominous,
yeah, Cannot open.
Clearly, it's not opening.
So, what do we do? We try our Markzware method
of going into QuarkXPress,
QuarkXPress 8.
And using our tool,
ID2Q,
convert that InDesign
into Quark.
Now, it is a bad file,
so, it is a risky attempt,
but our research and testing has shown us it's working.
So, we choose that file that just did not open in
InDesign and we
get our conversion options through ID2Q InDesign to Quark conversion,
that'll take InDesign files, good and bad
it appears,
and convert them into
Adobe InDesign
Now, we see it's converting the file.
It's making progress.
That's very good.
Let's zoom out here to give you a more complete view.
We'll see that it's actually
creating all the colors and
styles used in the file, recreating them in effect.
And, yeah, 10, 15, 20 %. Who knows? It's hard to say, but a certain amount of
time it fails. It's just, you know,
you get the beach ball of death
spinning here and
won't complete the conversion on the bad files, huh?
It generally works fine with good files,
but as we can see here,
it is making progress, and this is a good sign.
So, we just patiently wait
and we take a sip of coffee here.
And I'm showing you this for a reason,
we have other films showing you how successfully we
have been recovering and fixing these bad InDesign files,
but this one runs into a twist at the end of the
converting the bad file in QuarkXPress.
Now, so far... So far, so good. Everything is
looking fine.
We would expect the file to pop up a little bit quicker here.
And that's one sign that things might not be going as smoothly as they should.
It spins. We can see the file. It looks,
you know, all sides looking good. It's...
Let's just zoom in on the beach ball. Don't you just love that beach ball?
All sides looking good,
but I still can't get to my data. I'm so close,
so close to helping this lady here,
and,
as it will turn out, yet, so far,
it's so far away.
And what's going to happen, and that's why I'm filming here is
we're going to crash. There we go.
Not a good sign. Quark has just crashed.
It's not Quark's fault. I mean, this is a bad Adobe InDesign file that we're converting with
Markzware's ID2Q
into Quark.
So, the file has some problems that we're just going to
back out here.
We're now going to see
one of the great things in QuarkXPress 8 is they create
a Quark rescue folder,
and inside that folder,
is your rescue file.
So, if we now try to open this again in Quark,
we should be able to, you know,
get going with this file again. It's a great feature in the newer
Quarks. We have MarkzTools for fixing that in Quark files, which still are out
there, but this has helped a lot, because
many times,
if your file crashes because of a small corruption reason,
you can recover it
and in this Quark rescue folder, you'll often find
a file,
which might need repairing, might even not open, you might still need MarkzTools
to help open that.
MarkzTools, by the way, also helped me open that
and also can prevent your files from going bad in the first place. In any event, here we see it's loading.
It appears to be working,
but we run into another
little twist in the road, a little curve, a little,
little hairpin turn that turns out to be a little more difficult than we thought,
but there's been some items to repair. Do we want to fix it? We say yes,
Now, remember this is a bad
Adobe InDesign file
that we could not open in InDesign that just wouldn't allow us.
It was crashing Quark
and ID2Q,
that even needed repair after we took the Quark rescue folder and here,
finally,
we've done it.
We've recovered
the complete file,
and as we can see, it's no small file.
It's quite a complex
magazine.
Items on the pasteboard, images all over,
etc., etc.
So, this is what I would consider
a very successful
Adobe InDesign file that's been corrupted,
recovered
with Markzware's
ID2Q.
And then
finally,
we get it back into Adobe InDesign, because this
person has Adobe InDesign,
with Markzware's Q2ID,
running in Adobe InDesign.
It's kind of like a round trip.
We go from InDesign,
a bad InDesign file into Quark,
from Quark,
we go back
into
Adobe InDesign.
We go in here in InDesign.
We go up to our Q2ID item, up top here.
Convert QuarkXPress Document.
We choose
that file.
Hit Open,
and now you see we're converting
back into
InDesign.
Once again, it's a pretty big document, pretty complex.
It takes a little bit of time here,
but still very reasonable
with all things considered.
This file was done.
She tried everything to open it.
She was ready to restart on that file, and you saw it was no small file.
That would have taken days,
days of work,
perhaps multiple people.
That was no,
you know, it's a situation none of us want to be in.
So, here we go. This... By the way, Sorry about my messy desktop, and I thought,
you know,
let's just get this movie going really quick here,
so you won't see it,
and we see
finally, that bad
InDesign file
is back to life again.
Everything complete,
all the text
flowing in nicely and ready to be used.
File > Save As...
What I also recommend is after you fixed bad files is you
don't only do a File > Save As..., you should actually export
as an InDesign
InterXchange file, which can be
opened in CS4, or CS3, or CS2,
so that you can...
it sort of de-corrupts any small corruption that might be in there.
Of course, now we've probably fixed it with this
conversion, most the time,
it fixes anything,
but there you go. Thank you very much.
Markzware, signing off. Have a great weekend!