QuarkCopyDesk

QuarkCopyDesk (often just CopyDesk ) is a text editor the company Quark, which is designed to work with QuarkXPress.

Applications

With CopyDesk an editor can either create a new text document with style sheets from QuarkXPress to create or fill an existing layout from QuarkXPress with text or images. Since CopyDesk and QuarkXPress are generated from the same source and thus have the identical text engine, the editor not only the layout as in QuarkXPress, but also the text line by line looks authentic. Break length and typography of the text looks 100% as it is later look into QuarkXPress.

Most CopyDesk is used in connection with content management systems, such as QPS. Since CopyDesk 2.2 you can program also purchase one and use (without content management system in conjunction with QuarkXPress ).

Direct competition with CopyDesk since the end of 1999 Adobe InCopy.

Operation

CopyDesk works much like any other text editor, with the difference that text will wrap as well as in QuarkXPress.

CopyDesk has three view modes, a WYSIWYG view, column view and a text view, between which the editor can switch. Since CopyDesk allows multiple viewports, you can represent two or three viewing parallel.

The text mode looks just like any other text editor, only the text is displayed in the window. In column mode, the editor sees the text banner, a line counter as well as the same breaks as in QuarkXPress. Thus unsightly separations can be assessed and, above all, whether the text fits into the layout. In WYSIWYG mode CopyDesk shows the layout as in QuarkXPress ( without have to access to the original QuarkXPress document must ), but the editor can not change the geometry of the frame or the layout.

CopyDesk it also allows you to track changes and visual display so that the screen version changes can be made visible. In addition, notes can be added, which are also visible in QuarkXPress.

CopyDesk allows the text by means of structured components to create, eg a component as a title, a mark it as scrolling text and a third as a caption, which can then flow separately or together in the layout.

From CopyDesk 7 the editor may also invite pictures into frames, a visual indication in the Measurements palette shows whether the quality of the images is sufficient.

The general rule in CopyDesk that an editor can only edit texts and invite images, thus a strict division of responsibilities between text editing and page design is achieved. This separate operation is often desired in editorial workflows.

History

  • CopyDesk 1.0 (1991 ): Support for QuarkXPress 3 and QPS 1
  • CopyDesk 2.0 (1998 ): Support for QuarkXPress 4 and QPS 2 support for Windows.
  • CopyDesk 2.2 (2003 ): Support for QuarkXPress 5 first version that works without QPS.
  • CopyDesk 3.0 (2004 ): Support for QuarkXPress 6 and 3 QPS support for Mac OS X.
  • CopyDesk 3.5 ( 2006)
  • CopyDesk 3.6 (2007)
  • CopyDesk 7 (2007 ): Support for QuarkXPress 7 and QPS 7, image workflow, version tracking functions ( redlining ).
  • CopyDesk 8 (2008 ): Support for QuarkXPress 8
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