New in Quark Publishing System

Automation Services: Easily Automate Your Publishing Process

"An XML–based publishing solution provides multi–channel publishers and marketers maximum flexibility. Quark's new Automation Services streamline the XML publishing process, enabling users to publish content from across the organization that originates in different formats to diverse channels."

– Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies at IDC.

Using Automation Services, a core component of Quark Publishing System® (QPS®), you can overcome dependency on technical experts, reduce the cost of building and customizing an automated publishing process by up to 80%, and connect all of your Quark software in a streamlined, dynamic publishing solution.

Using predefined functions through a simple interface, a regular computer user can set up predefined, automate functions and automate routine manual tasks, such as:

Enabling reuse and re–purposing of content by automatically converting:

  • Content from formats such as XML, Excel, QuarkXPress®, QuarkCopyDesk®, and databases into Web and print –formats, including Flash®, HTML, and PDF (including PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3)
  • High–resolution print from formats such as TIFF, EPS, and JPEG into Web formats including JPEG, GIF, PNG, and SWF

Integration with industry–leading XML tools:

  • Users can seamlessly integrate content created with Quark® XML Author into QuarkXPress files and the Quark DPS workflow.
  • Integrates with Altova MapForce, an award–winning XML mapping and conversion tool

Automation Services is a component of QPS. More »

QPS Portal Services: Extend the Power of QPS to the Web

With QPS Portal Services, an add–on Application Programming Interface (API) to QPS, system integrators and in–house developers can rapidly develop Web–based access to QPS and precisely tailor the system to meet the needs of each individual customer.

Users have access to QPS functionality, such as:

  • Editing layouts and articles
  • Editing QuarkXPress tables
  • Creating PDFs from layouts
  • Getting flat plans of layouts
  • Checking in new assets
  • Downloading assets
  • Editing asset attributes and user profiles

Because of its focus on extending QPS to the Web, Portal Services delivers QPS's capabilities to geographically dispersed users without requiring local installation of desktop software that may be slow and costly to administer.

QPS Portal Services is an optional API for QPS. More »

CS4 Support: Use QuarkXPress 8 and Creative Suite® 4/Adob®e InDesign® in One Workflow System

QPS now supports Creative Suite 4 (CS4). This means:

  • As you can with any file type, using QPS Connect Client or QPS Web Hub, you can check in / check out any CS 4 file – including Photoshop® CS4, Illustrator® CS4, InDesign CS4, InCopy® CS4, or Acrobat Professional.
  • Multiple users can work on Photoshop and Illustrator files with both QuarkXPress and InDesign simultaneously.
  • With QPS XTensions® for InDesign and InCopy, you can automate the routing of projects from either QuarkXPress/QuarkCopyDesk or Adobe InDesign/InCopy in one workflow; manage your QuarkXPress/QuarkCopyDesk and InDesign/InCopy assets more efficiently; and monitor the status of projects in both programs.

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Time–saving Feature Enhancements

Streamline production and enhance efficiency with powerful new functionality for QPS article geometry and QuarkXPress Library support

Users can now take advantage of these new time–saving capabilities:

Article Shapes:

Create ready–made content by using pre–configured and pre–formatted groups of text and picture boxes. Some advantages of Article Shapes are:

  • Geometry is retained with the article, which allows editors to write text to fit, even if the article is not attached to a layout
  • Save time and drag and drop the complete article (including all components) along with geometry directly from the QPS Search Palette – instead of component by component
  • Drag article templates directly on to the layout and automatically create articles based on templates
  • Drag article shapes to existing boxes on the layout
  • Automatically create new boxes for each component of an article based upon the article (shape) geometry
  • Automatically create boxes that fit the content in the component based upon number of columns, column width and other criteria
QuarkXPress Library Support:

You can now centralize your QuarkXPress Libraries in QPS, giving all of your QPS users immediate access to the most current assets in your QuarkXPress Libraries.

QuarkXPress Libraries are convenient for storing items that may be needed at any time in a layout. For example, corporate logos, legal information, commonly used pictures and text, chart formats, and groups of items with complex formatting are all good candidates for library entries.

Through QPS support of QuarkXPress Libraries:

  • Instead of using individual QuarkXPress libraries on each computer, all users have access to the same items stored in one or more libraries that are managed centrally in QPS
  • Changes made to QuarkXPress Libraries are available to all QPS users instantaneously
  • You can easily route QuarkXPress Libraries to another QPS user or to a group
  • You can search QuarkXPress Libraries using the powerful built–in full–text search functionality of QPS
  • You can drag library shapes to layouts directly from Libraries stored in QPS
Anchored Picture Box Support

In QuarkXPress, text and picture boxes and lines of any shape can be anchored in text, which makes them act like characters and flow with the text. When text reflows, anchored items reflow like characters in the text, which makes it easy to keep related information together. Now images stored within QPS can be attached to anchored pictures boxes.