8.5
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Getting started with QuarkXPress Server
- The QuarkXPress Server user interface
- Server Configuration dialog box
- Server preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — EPS
- Preferences — Application — Error Reporting
- Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Modifier
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — PSD Import
- Preferences — Application — Placeholders
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Preferences — Application — Picture Effects
- Preferences — Project — General
- Preferences — Project — XML Import
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Trapping
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Style sheets
- Colors
- H&Js
- Output styles
- Font mapping
- Source setups
- Output setups
- PPML consumers
- Server XTensions Manager
- Status Monitor
- Other QuarkXPress Server menu items
- Creating URL requests
- Modifying layouts with XML
- QuarkXPress Server XTensions software
- Telegraph XTensions software
- QuarkXPress Server Monitor
- QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Understanding QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Working with QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Starting QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Request handler binding
- Configuring QuarkXPress Server instances
- Managing the cache
- Managing logs
- Controlling load balancing
- Using a proxy server
- Generating automatic e-mail messages
- Using other global settings
- Saving a server configuration
- Exporting a server configuration
- Using custom error messages
- Sending requests from a browser
- QuarkXPress Server Manager Scripting Environment
- Glossary
- Legal notices
- Index
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 example, 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 language edition of QuarkXPress 5.0 or later. QuarkXPress Server can save and export
projects in QuarkXPress 7.x and QuarkXPress 8.x format. QuarkXPress Server can also
export projects in QuarkXPress 6.x Japanese format and QuarkXPress 6.x Korean format.
The document pool
QuarkXPress Server reads server templates and static projects from a directory 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 "Telegraph
XTensions software.")
For more information about the document pool, see "Server Configuration dialog box."
QuarkXPress Server 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 layouts
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.
Caching
To maximize efficiency, QuarkXPress Server uses cached versions of all rendered projects
whenever possible. You can configure projects so that they are never cached, so that they
are cached for a particular amount of time, or so that they are rendered every time they
are served. For more information about caching, see "Server Configuration dialog box
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