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SERVER TEMPLATES AND STATIC PROJECTS
QuarkXPress Server can open, render, and serve two types of projects:
• Static projects are QuarkXPress projects that can be rendered and served as-is
in a variety of formats by the QuarkXPress Server application. For example,
you might make a product manual available as a static project and allow
customers to download that manual in a variety of formats.
•
Server templates are QuarkXPress projects that can be manipulated by the
QuarkXPress Server application before being rendered and served. For exam-
ple, you might make a sales piece available as a server template so that each
person who downloads it receives a personalized copy.
QuarkXPress Server can open QuarkXPress documents, projects, and templates
created in any non-East-Asian edition of QuarkXPress 5.0 or later. QuarkXPress
Server can save and export projects only in QuarkXPress 6.x and
QuarkXPress 7.x format.
THE DOCUMENT POOL
QuarkXPress Server reads server templates and static projects from a direc-
tory called the
document pool. The document pool can be any directory that
is available to QuarkXPress Server through a file system or an FTP server. You
can use any of the following methods to place files in the document pool:
• Drag the files to the document pool directory.
• Upload the files using FTP to the document pool directory.
• Use Telegraph XTensions
®
software to upload the files to the document pool
from within QuarkXPress. (For more information about Telegraph XTensions
software, see Chapter 5, “Telegraph XTensions software.”)
For more information about the document pool, see “
Server configuration
dialog box” in Chapter 2, “The QuarkXPress Server user interface.”
QuarkXPress Server 7 can also serve documents from a database, a content
management system, or other sources. Collectively, the document pool and
any other source of files to be served are referred to as
document providers.
PROJECTS AND LA
YOUTS
QuarkXPress projects can contain one or more layouts, and only one layout can
be rendered at any given time. If you do not specify a layout when you send a
rendering request, QuarkXPress Server renders the first layout in the project.
UNDERSTANDING QUARKXPRESS SERVER
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CHAPTER 1: GETTING ST
ARTED WITH QUARKXPRESS SERVER