Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
PDFMarkz review from Hands At Work Africa with Mr. Daytona Swarbrick, who frequently needs to get PDF to InDesign. In this video, Daytona tells us about how that organization uses PDFMarkz and more.
Daytona says, “a product (PDFMarkz) like this is amazing. Thank you, Markzware.” We hear details of their extended workflow, across many offices all around the world, how their US office receives Affinity PDFs and converts these multi-page PDFs to InDesign, with Markzware PDFMarkz.
Hands At Work Africa
handsatwork.org
Graphic Designer and Videographer Daytona Swarbrick: linkedin.com/in/daytonaswarbrick
Markzware's stand-alone PDFMarkz (PDF to IDML) application allows users to open PDF files in InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and other graphic design formats: markzware.com/products/pdfmarkz
Video Content:
0:00 Intro to PDFMarkz customer interview by David Dilling
0:23 Daytona Swarbrick intro
0:45 from radio DJ to graphic design and videography
1:45 from Canada to Africa, a journey of faith
3:16 Hands At Work Africa, where Daytona volunteers
4:00 What does Hands At Work do, in Africa?
7:10 How did they find Markzware & PDFMarkz for PDF to InDesign?
8:01 Daytona is an Adobe Creative Cloud user and InDesign user
8:49 Switching from PDF2DTP to PDFMarkz
9:04 Hadada African Ibis bird sound!
10:00 Hard drive crash, lost all .Indd files, only had PDFs left!
10:30 Other Offices Send only a PDF, but needed in InDesign
10:45 Affinity Publisher PDF to Adobe InDesign
11:10 Brochure native files lost, only a PDF – PDFMarkz to the rescue!
12:23 “PDFMarkz is so amazing!”
13:06 PDF to InDesign as stand-alone vs plugin
14:02 IDMarkz for InDesign to Affinity Publisher - side note
14:23 PDFMarkz to extract images from PDFs
15:39 Recommends PDFMarkz to other potential users
16:20 PDFMarkz vs re-working a PDF by hand in InDesign
17:15 Charities need workflow tools that save time and money
15:50 Discounts for Register Charities - email us on sales@markzware.com
18:26 PDFMarkz Coupon Code, MWE15
18:54 African Proverbs
19:47 Closing interview with graphic designer Daytona Swarbrick
As you heard, PDFMarkz is a real work-horse with Daytona and Hands At Work Africa. It helps them recover missing InDesign jobs where all they have left is “that PDF.” It also helps Daytona with Affinity Publisher PDFs from the USA. He can convert Affinity PDFs to InDesign with PDFMarkz. Not to mention extract images from PDFs and so much more. Like Daytona said, “to ope a PDF in PDFMarkz and being able to get the images out of there, that’s a life-safer as well!”
PDFMarkz is a stand-alone application, extremely easy to use, and allows you to Save PDF files as IDML! It also eliminates the need to re-create PDFs, does not require Acrobat to work, and provides a way to deal with tricky PDF files. PDFMarkz lets you preview PDF files, share pages or entire files as images, and even open PDF files in Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, QuarkXPress, and many other formats! It also provides File Info in a (mini preflight) panel that is very handy.
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PDFMarkz Review - Hands at Work Africa - PDF to InDesign with Daytona Swarbrick
PDFMarkz review from Hands At Work Africa with Mr. Daytona Swarbrick, who frequently needs to get PDF to InDesign. In this video, Daytona tells us about how that organization uses PDFMarkz and more.
Daytona says, “a product (PDFMarkz) like this is amazing. Thank you, Markzware.” We hear details of their extended workflow, across many offices all around the world, how their US office receives Affinity PDFs and converts these multi-page PDFs to InDesign, with Markzware PDFMarkz.
Hands At Work Africa
handsatwork.org
Graphic Designer and Videographer Daytona Swarbrick: linkedin.com/in/daytonaswarbrick
Markzware's stand-alone PDFMarkz (PDF to IDML) application allows users to open PDF files in InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and other graphic design formats: markzware.com/products/pdfmarkz
Video Content:
0:00 Intro to PDFMarkz customer interview by David Dilling
0:23 Daytona Swarbrick intro
0:45 from radio DJ to graphic design and videography
1:45 from Canada to Africa, a journey of faith
3:16 Hands At Work Africa, where Daytona volunteers
4:00 What does Hands At Work do, in Africa?
7:10 How did they find Markzware & PDFMarkz for PDF to InDesign?
8:01 Daytona is an Adobe Creative Cloud user and InDesign user
8:49 Switching from PDF2DTP to PDFMarkz
9:04 Hadada African Ibis bird sound!
10:00 Hard drive crash, lost all .Indd files, only had PDFs left!
10:30 Other Offices Send only a PDF, but needed in InDesign
10:45 Affinity Publisher PDF to Adobe InDesign
11:10 Brochure native files lost, only a PDF – PDFMarkz to the rescue!
12:23 “PDFMarkz is so amazing!”
13:06 PDF to InDesign as stand-alone vs plugin
14:02 IDMarkz for InDesign to Affinity Publisher - side note
14:23 PDFMarkz to extract images from PDFs
15:39 Recommends PDFMarkz to other potential users
16:20 PDFMarkz vs re-working a PDF by hand in InDesign
17:15 Charities need workflow tools that save time and money
15:50 Discounts for Register Charities - email us on sales@markzware.com
18:26 PDFMarkz Coupon Code, MWE15
18:54 African Proverbs
19:47 Closing interview with graphic designer Daytona Swarbrick
As you heard, PDFMarkz is a real work-horse with Daytona and Hands At Work Africa. It helps them recover missing InDesign jobs where all they have left is “that PDF.” It also helps Daytona with Affinity Publisher PDFs from the USA. He can convert Affinity PDFs to InDesign with PDFMarkz. Not to mention extract images from PDFs and so much more. Like Daytona said, “to ope a PDF in PDFMarkz and being able to get the images out of there, that’s a life-safer as well!”
PDFMarkz is a stand-alone application, extremely easy to use, and allows you to Save PDF files as IDML! It also eliminates the need to re-create PDFs, does not require Acrobat to work, and provides a way to deal with tricky PDF files. PDFMarkz lets you preview PDF files, share pages or entire files as images, and even open PDF files in Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, QuarkXPress, and many other formats! It also provides File Info in a (mini preflight) panel that is very handy.
Like this Video & Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
youtube.com/c/Markzware
Follow us on Social Media:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/markzware
Facebook: facebook.com/MarkzwareSoftware
GETTR: gettr.com/user/markzware
Pinterest: pinterest.com/markzware
Tumblr: markzware.tumblr.com
Twitter: twitter.com/markzware
Visit our Website:
markzware.com
Read Industry Articles:
markzware.com/blog
Get the Latest Markzware News:
markzware.com/support/mailing-list
#indesign #graphicdesign #charity #pdfmarkz #pdfmarkzreview #pdftoindesign #handsatworkafrica #daytonaswarbrick
PDFMarkz Review - Hands at Work Africa - PDF to InDesign with Daytona Swarbrick
