How It Works

Quark DPS automates and streamlines the publishing process from content creation, through management of the content, to publishing and delivering it to multiple channels. This links the value of your tools–and their benefits–across the entire publishing process.

To show you how Quark DPS works and how it can improve your publishing process, let's look at it using the core principles create, manage, publish, and deliver.

1. Create

• Create structured content using Quark® XML Author or regular content using Microsoft® Word, QuarkXPress®, or through a Web browser using Web Hub, a core component of QPS.
• Check content into QPS or, if you like, directly into your CMS.
• Content can also come from data sources such as databases, spreadsheets, and other business systems (such as ERP systems).
• Content can even come from wire feeds or from users such as through discussion forums.

2. Manage

• QPS pulls all of this content, aggregates it, and directs it to subsequent functions. You can use Automation Services (a component of QPS) to easily coordinate all of the connections between various capabilities and systems. An administrator uses a simple console to set up all of the automated tasks.
• QPS provides transformation services to translate: XML input into a format that QuarkXPress Server can understand; XML input into HTML and other formats for digital publishing; and QuarkXPress's XML export into digital publishing. We use MapForce to set up each of these. In addition, QPS helps you manage your content through easy integration with your content management system or ready–made adapters for Alfresco®, picturesafe, and Canto®.

3. Publish to Multiple Channels

• In a typical workflow, QPS aggregates incoming content and sends it to QuarkXPress Server, which uses a QuarkXPress template to lay out the content and pass it on for print and Flash output.
• An alternative workflow is to use QuarkXPress to 'hand finish' the document before sending it on for print and Flash output.
• QPS can publish to the Web either by converting print content into HTML (for print–to–Web publishing), or by transforming original XML content directly into HTML (Web–first publishing). It can then send the HTML to a Web Content Management System (Drupal support comes out of the box).
• And QPS can publish to other digital formats, such as mobile devices and e–mail, by transforming the content of print documents or the original XML to the format appropriate for each device.

Finally, with QPS Portal Services, an Application Programming Interface (API), you can customize QPS to deliver advanced functionality over the Web that meets the needs of your organization.