Quark debuts QuarkXPress Server 7
updated 12:45 pm EDT, Mon October 16, 2006
QuarkXPress Server 7
Quark today launched QuarkXPress Server 7, a dynamic publishing solution that combines QuarkXPress with server-based performance. Leveraging a a Web-based, template-driven process, the technology enables users to preview communications online, customize design and content, and print locally or remotely. Users can develop and deploy data-driven applications to automate production, eliminate redundant steps, and publish to multiple channels. Quark said that the solution can be easily integrated with existing infrastructures and data sources and is typically offered as part of a packaged solution from a Quark system integrator or OEM partner. QuarkXPress Server incorporates the new features of QuarkXPress 7, granting users access to productivity-enhancing functionality, such as layout-independent spaces and Job Jackets technology for collaboration, and enhancements for variable-data printing, including Personalized Print Markup Language (PPML) and optimized PDF output support.
"We are proud of our achievements with QuarkXPress Server 7 because it empowers our customers to communicate and collaborate through the Web to deliver outstanding products," said Nick Howard, Quark director of enterprise products. "Our customers and partners will notice that we have changed the product name from Quark Dynamic Document Server to better represent this technology, which is the server edition of QuarkXPress."
QuarkXPress Server also includes QuarkXPress Server Manager, a Java-based tool that centralizes system administration, manages processing load on multiple servers, and provides reporting on automated publishing tasks. QuarkXPress Server Manager provides high- level programming interfaces, including HTTP, SOAP, PHP, .NET/ASP, and Java/JSP.
Quark is demonstrating QuarkXPress Server 7 in booth 4807 this week at Graph Expo and Converting Expo in Chicago, which runs from October 15-18.
Quark Server 7 runs on Mac OS X 10.4.x (client/server) and 1.5GHz or faster Mac. The company said that it will offer support for Intel-based Macs in early 2007.
