We've been as pleased with the results of the conversions. Your product works a little bit differently than that product, which is good for us. It makes us more productive, the way your product works right now. This is the original one page from the original PDF. It pretty much looks like a lot of the PDFs that we get from our customers. If you take out a portion of this and convert it with the plugin we had been using before, which is, as I said, it's a great plugin. It's very good with the images, but text-wise for us, since the text is really important, we really need to be able to edit it afterwards and to work with it afterwards. As you can see, it's not as easy to work with as we'd like. You see text frames and it's the same thing in the second column here, as you can see. It's a lot of text frames and I could go on through the document and would do the same. And, as you see, stuff has happened here. It's not the the right distance between the lines. And I'll go on doing this, I'll go on trying to make frames. And in some other cases, I will need to relink. And you have to do this page by page for, you know. For a lot of people, of course, but I can certainly imagine in your case, yeah. So, then we tried your plugin out, the PDF2DTP and this is the results from that one. It's all one text frame, which makes it easier for us to work with. Then, there's the other thing, which is also really nice, which I find really nice here, is you do have this little interesting preference here where you can choose not to Substitute Missing Fonts. I don't really want to substitute a missing font. And definitely, if I do it, I would do it with control. I don't want that application to do it for me. The plugin from our competitor will save you time, but with our plugin, you're going to save even more time is what you're coming, what you're getting at here, obviously. We'll save even more time because we need to edit the text afterwards. You, technically speaking where the differences are between PDF2ID and PDF2DTP from Markzware. How much time, for instance, do you think this would save you on, let's just say, this document here? I would say half the time. I would say we're down to about 50% of the time, approximately three in a month. Yeah, and we're down to half the time now on this document. Any tool that makes us more productive is good for us. So, cool, so, thank you for that more in-depth look inside of the conversion process and how, in this case, PDF2DTP is, yeah, even a much better time saver than our competitor, you know, yeah, yeah. Would you recommend PDF2DTP to other users, potential users out there? Oh, yes, I would. If you have to do some PDF commercial and you need to get it into InDesign, it's a good way. And it's, most of all I would say it's really easy. It's not a lot of work to do for the conversion. Sometimes old original PDFs dating back 5 years are keep and wished to be update and changed, but the original INDD has since been lost/deleted, being able to open these PDFS in InDesign as an editable INDD would be very handy, this conversion allowing the document being able to be edited the same way the PDF's are edited in Acrobat: changing text, images etc. The reason of wanting to do this in INDD and simply not just Acrobat is that InDesign has a lot more control for Graphic Designers than Acrobat, in terms of text settings, set styles, smart guides, creating shapes etc.Ģ. Note sometimes entire PDFs are only a few pages anyway.ģ. Use-case: At the company I currently work at I'm the in-house Graphic Designer. I am the '3rd' in-house Graphic Designer to work at this company in the past 10+ years. A big part of my job at the moment is editing errors and adjusting the format of old INDD documents and exporting them to PDFs, the company packages these printed PDFs with there products.
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