QPS for Magazine Publishers

Create a virtual workforce, control editorial and advertising planning, and shorten production cycles to meet deadlines time after time.

What does it take to produce a magazine, on time, issue after issue, with accurate content and impactful design? Do you struggle to bring articles, pictures, and graphics together from contributors working not just in the office but dispersed around the country or across the world? And are you forced to choose between today’s leading page-layout and design software applications, inevitably disappointing some staff while pleasing others?

It's not easy. Quark Publishing System can help.

• Flexibility: Use Both QuarkXPress and InDesign in the Same Workflow System
  Through QPS® XTensions® for Adobe® InDesign®, easily include existing projects from QuarkXPress with QuarkCopyDesk and InDesign with InCopy® in a single workflow system. Manage all of your creative assets more efficiently; automate the routing of projects from either application in one workflow; monitor the status of projects in both programs; and achieve savings from reduced administration, training, and hardware costs.
• Collaboration: Create a Virtual Workforce
  Using the QPS Web Hub, integrate freelance contributors, field reporters, and photographers into the workflow via a Web browser so they can create and edit text as well as upload digital pictures to the system from anywhere in the world.
• Control: Coordinate Editorial and Advertising Planning
  Out-of-the-box integration with Dataplan's Journal Designer — a leading and advanced page-planning system for magazines — makes it easy to plan and create a magazine’s issues while updating editorial planning against advertising planning.
• Efficiency: Manage Content Easily
  Archive and repurpose content easily by sharing a single content repository with Alfresco™, picturesafe myCONTENT, or Canto® Cumulus®.
• Speed: Shorten Production Cycles
  Through component-level collaboration, let multiple contributors work on the same page simultaneously. While a writer works on an article, a designer can perfect the graphics on the same page.
• Precision: Track Changes from Start to Finish
  Versioning combined with redlining capability lets you track the progress of layouts and content from the first draft to the published asset.
• Productivity: Automate Tasks
  Create server-side scripts to automatically create Flash® and XML output, PDF/X, EPS, or PostScript® files, or to automatically convert images from one format into different formats.