“It really is a secret weapon,” said David D’Apice, founder of The Simon Group marketing agency, when describing Markzware’s PDF to InDesign solution.

Adobe InDesign does not allow users to edit text or move elements in a placed PDF. With PDFMarkz, users can convert multi-page PDFs into brand new InDesign layouts, making them editable. This stand-alone tool converts all objects, elements and attributes of PDF files. These include all pages, images (links), colors, styles, fonts, live text, etc. PDFMarkz is effectively a PDF editor for InDesign.

IDMarkz, which is PDFMarkz’s sister product, is a way to preview, export, and convert Adobe InDesign files. It is perfect for exporting .indd files to IDML without the need for Adobe InDesign. Many customers use it as an InDesign file viewer. IDMarkz is also ideal for converting InDesign designs to other desktop publishing (DTP) applications, such as Affinity Publisher, QuarkXPress, and more.

Both PDFMarkz and IDMarkz are stand-alone apps that preview, export, and convert the host DTP file format to IDML, InDesign, Affinity Publisher, QuarkXPress, and more. No plugins, extensions or third-party apps are needed, to use these Markzware applications.