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The Quark Publishing System (QPS) was created in 1992 to make QuarkXPress more useful to people in the publishing industry, but the initial release of QPS was lacking in many areas. Its QuarkDispatch module tracked data in RAM in a proprietary database that was difficult to rebuild after a crash, and its Administrator application often required that the entire system be restarted to add new users or change preferences. Version 2.0 of QPS features an enhanced QuarkDispatch Administrator that allows files to be edited and settings implemented without the server having to be taken down. Administrator now features version control of configuration files and support for field constraints. The query interface now shows triangles that display the hierarchy of folders, pages and stories when clicked. The QuarkDisplatch Notifier notifies users when files have arrived, and QuarkCopy Desk will support 32-bit Windows systems.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format (PDF) was originally created as the basis for its Acrobat suite of applications but is being extensively used for other purposes. These include uses in the World Wide Web, Acrobat Catalog and prepress operations. PDF has also received endorsements by the Newspaper Association of America for advertisers to send digital advertisements to newspapers. Quark is one of the few leading suppliers of publishing technology that does not support PDF for either an export or an import function. A PDF file cannot be placed in a Quark document in the same way as an EPS or a TIFF file, even though Quark customers have been wanting such a feature. The only Quark Xtension that allows placing PDF bookmarks and links in QuarkXpress without running Acrobat Exchange, is called PDF Design and comes from Techno Designs.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Standing on stage, put on the spot
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HTML-based Web presentations tend to be too slow to please the audience or even the presenter. Most organizations that sponsor speeches cannot set up a high-speed data connection on the stage; the path to the site may be slow even if they do. Users should make three changes to the browser before starting a session: clearing the cache, setting it large and setting the Update Pages or Check Documents option to Never. Visiting all the Web sites to be demonstrated allows them to be quickly cached to the hard drive, and about 20 sites will fit in a 50MB cache. It is still difficult to make up HTML pages that get the spacing right, although the Cascading Style Sheets specification promises some relief. Using unfamiliar products such as Adobe Acrobat can backfire.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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