Quark and InDesign Niche Search

December 11, 2009

You work all day long in Quark. You love to jiggle font baselines in thousands of a pica. Maybe you build pages manually, running type around whizzy art and using colors to highlight dingbats. If so, you know that you don’t have a clue what’s in the Quark and InDesign files. Now you can turn to PageZephyr, a search system that can index these file types. You can download a trial edition from the PageZephyr.com Web site. Niche search engines are useful. I work in Framemaker 7.2, a product that my favorite software company (Adobe) produces. I gave up on the weird Version 9, and I like watching the system go online every time I have to open a file to make a last minute change. The only thing that is more fun is calling Adobe to find out why the software suddenly thinks that my very expensive copy is suddenly very unregistered. The Quark outfit’s files and the wonder IDD files are nuisances. So if you want to search these puppies and perform some modest editing tricks, have a go. Mac only for now.

Stephen Arnold, December 11, 2009

Ah, ha. The Government Printing Office has jurisdiction over this free write up. I love reporting to a big red building, hunting for the door, and walking around the city block structure because I always go the wrong way.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, News, Search

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.