Quark Publishing System

The Quark Publishing System (better known by the acronym QPS ) is a content management system from Quark Inc. It is mainly used for print production in the magazine and newspaper industry used, but also in advertising agencies, catalog producers and book publishers.

History

QPS was introduced to the world in 1991 for the first time, before there was to QuarkXPress base only the editorial system P.INK.

It is rumored that Tim Gill, founder of Quark, the central element, the dispatch server, have programmed in one weekend alone.

QPS 1.0 was first used in Germany in 1992 productive at the newspaper The Week.

Operation

In addition to the workflow control, ie the routes and assigning components, allows QPS, same content (images, texts) to edit and design ( layout ). These items are automatically routed and assigned to the appropriate users depending on their status. QPS notifies users edit a page, for example, whether changes in components included have taken place and updated, this. In addition, can be for each item, track every page and every publication of the respective status.

Technology

The central element of QPS is the QuarkDispatch server that manages the requests, rights and alerts the user, the user had to run in version 1 on a dedicated machine.

Up to and including version 3.5 of the dispatch server needed necessarily a Macintosh computer, while clients are also available as a Windows version for Macintosh and version 2 from version 1. Supported clients are QuarkXPress and InDesign ( as a layout program ), QuarkCopyDesk and InCopy (as WYSIWYG text editor) and any other programs (such as Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, etc. ) as a supplier.

Since version 7 QPS uses a building on Java " Services Oriented Architecture " server that can run on Unix, Mac OS X or Windows.

QPS used up to version 3.6 not a relational database, but a ( quark- proprietary) RAM-based database and is therefore very fast. Already in 1991 were to send notifications and changes instantly (less than 1 second). Since the data structure is mapped to the file system that reads the server at start-up into RAM, database inconsistencies as in relational databases, in this system are not possible and simple backups also. The disadvantage of this method is the lack of extensibility on the server side.

From version 7 QPS also supports relational databases such as Oracle, MS SQL or HSQL.

Up to version 2.1 QPS took advantage of the early 90s still revolutionary AppleTalk as the communication protocol. With version 2.2 QPS turned over to the now common Internet Protocol ( IP).

Market

QPS is sold in terms of the installed base market leader in print editorial systems with 900 systems and over 50,000 jobs in the area of ​​content management systems; there are now but strengthened competition from other editing systems either QuarkXPress or InDesign base basis.

Example customers

Since publishers often use a wide variety of content management systems, so as not to be dependent on a content management system manufacturers, publishing references are often waste today. Therefore, by way of example some objects that are currently (June 2007) are produced in German-speaking with QPS:

  • Berliner Zeitung, Germany, newspaper
  • Der Spiegel, Germany, magazine
  • Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland, daily newspaper

Version History

  • QPS 1.0 (1991 ): Support for QuarkXPress 3.1
  • QPS 1.1 ( 1996 ): Support for QuarkXPress 3.3
  • QPS 2.0 (1998 ): Support for QuarkXPress 4, first support for Windows clients, Passport support in the server.
  • QPS 2.2 (2003 ): Support for QuarkXPress 5, first version with IP support
  • QPS 3.0 (2004 ): Support for QuarkXPress 6, support for MacOS X Server
  • QPS 3.5 (2005 ): Support for QuarkXPress 6.5
  • QPS 3.6 (2007): java based server, hence for Windows.
  • QPS 7 (2007 ): Support for QuarkXPress 7, support for relational databases. Change to "Service Oriented Architecture ", web editor for editing text banners on the internet
  • QPS 8 (2008 ): Support for QuarkXPress 8, support for InDesign and InCopy. Parallel operation possible.
  • QPS 9.0 ( 2011): Support for QuarkXPress 9, support for the Z.sub.AVE and ePUB output format. Support of AppStudio for creating interactive editions for the iPad
  • QPS 9.1 (2011): Support for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion )
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