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Quark Publishing System (QPS) Classic 3 core components

QPS® Classic is a cross-platform workgroup publishing solution that streamlines workflow and provides tools to manage workloads. It incorporates a central repository for content with modules for file management, file locking, monitoring, tracking, version control, revision management, page design, and copyediting.

With support for third-party applications such as Microsoft® Word and industry-standard file formats such as PDF, EPS, TIFF, and more, users can work with familiar applications and file formats. Plus, QPS Classic supports remote accessibility, enabling you to work from anywhere. This complete system is easy to install, configure, and use.

QuarkDispatch

QuarkDispatch® is the database server component at the heart of QPS Classic that keeps track of all the files in your system. It manages and maintains information about your unique environment, including metadata, workflow, preferences, users, privileges, versions, and revisions.

• Map the specific details unique to your workgroup
  Define project, job, and publication types; specific workflows; rules for automatic file routing, style, and formatting preferences; and version and revision requirements.
• Maintain searchable metadata for every file
  See important information such as due date and time, file type, creator, route to, word count, checked-out duration, who has checked out the file, and up-to-the-minute status. Everything is searchable so that finding files is easy. You can even save searches (queries) for easy access and re-use.
• Automate file and job routing
  Ensure that files, projects, jobs, and publications move through a specific, predefined status-driven workflow. The system immediately sends a notification of anything routed or assigned to you and lists all assignments in a customizable personal workspace palette.
• Track a wealth of information
  Generate accurate scheduling, production, licensing, and billing reports.

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QuarkDispatch Administrator

Use QuarkDispatch Administrator to set up, define, and map your creative environment so that QuarkDispatch database server has all the details it needs to manage your production environment.

• Configure and modify the QuarkDispatch database server
  Create a unique QuarkDispatch configuration file that the QuarkDispatch database server uses to manage your creative workgroup.
• Map your workgroup’s specifications into the system
  Provide details, such as the server storage location that will act as the central file repository, and the type of content you create, user and group settings and privileges, style and formatting preferences, custom metadata (header) fields, workflow and rules for automatic file routing, version management, and revision control settings.

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QuarkDispatch Manager

Workgroup members who have library and assignment responsibilities can use QuarkDispatch Manager to archive, delete, and transfer files from within QPS Classic.

• Monitor, track, and manage users and monitor workloads
  Assign and track QuarkXPress® projects and QuarkCopyDesk® articles, make new assignments in the system, re-assign tasks, and re-route files and projects.
• Manage a specific project or multiple publications
  Track and manage your clients and monitor their projects and jobs. Administrators can archive, delete, replicate, and transfer files, projects, jobs, and publications. Production managers, traffic managers, managing editors, department managers, and directors can monitor, track, and manage files, projects, and publications throughout the production process.

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QuarkDispatch XTensions module for QuarkXPress

Connect QuarkXPress users to the QuarkDispatch database server and provide full-featured access to QPS Classic for advanced management, control, monitoring, tracking, and collaboration.

• Track and assign page elements
  A QuarkXPress user can monitor and track assignments and the overall production of any project, job, or publication.
• Track and assign page elements
  A QuarkXPress user can monitor and track assignments and the overall production of any project, job or publication.
• Enable status notification
  Notify others in the workflow of any changes to any component of the page, and update the content.
• Collaborate freely
  Enable multiple people to work on different components of a QuarkXPress layout space or project for true simultaneous collaboration. Internal and external users can access and work within QPS Classic.

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QuarkCopyDesk

QuarkCopyDesk streamlines editorial processes with text editing and word processing for easy, write-to-fit copy.

• See accurate line count and copy fit
  Eliminate guessing line counts and copy-fit. QuarkCopyDesk is based on the same text editing engine as QuarkXPress — which means copy will fit with absolute fidelity to the QuarkXPress page.
• Use built-in notes and redlining
  Make comments in the actual QuarkCopyDesk file and access and view them within QuarkXPress.
• Proof and review
  Set privileges and preferences based on the application and give specific users or groups read-only access or read-only access with the ability to insert notes.
• Display multiple views
  See exactly how text displays using WYSIWYG (see a picture representation of the entire layout), full-screen (use for normal screen, margin-to margin text editing), or galley view (provides line count, exact hyphenation, line and page breaks, and space allotment).
• Access real-time information
  A measurements palette provides word count, length and measurement, over and under, and precise fit information.

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QuarkConnect

QuarkConnect™ expands QPS Classic beyond an editorial-only workflow, making it a complete system for tracking and managing the live creative process from start to finish. It accommodates multiple applications and file types.

• Support third-party applications
  Users can work with Microsoft® Word, Microsoft Excel®, Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Macromedia® Freehand®, CorelDraw®, and more. Users can work with file formats such as PDF, EPS, TIFF, and others.
• Use familiar applications
  Workgroup members can use the applications they know and love to check in and check out files, perform and save searches (queries), and view and revert to a file revision. They receive notifications of new assignments and can track and manage files, projects, jobs, or publications that are in the system.
• Provide remote access
  Work from anywhere to access files, check in assignments, and more.

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Quark License Administrator (QLA)

Keep access to Quark® products in step with the peaks and valleys of your company’s changing workflow and streamline software license management. QLA eliminates the hassle of activation, hardware keys, and the risk of violating license agreements.

• Simplify maintenance and installation
  Provide complete control over when, where, and how users access QPS Classic and other Quark software.
• Empower mobility and flexibility
  Traveling or offsite employees can use Quark applications on their laptops or other remote computers by checking out extended licenses through QLA or using remote license check out. You can even send a license to a remote user through your e-mail system.

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