9.2

As of version 8.0, the QuarkXPress Server XDK is Unicode-compliant.
The QuarkXPress Server XDK lets you create XTensions modules that provide the following
abilities:
• The ability to register request handlers
• The ability to register project providers
• The ability to register new render formats
• The ability to add items to the list of response properties, cookies, and HTTP header items
• The ability to log messages in log files
• The ability to initiate a new transaction to be processed by the server
• The ability to completely control how projects are processed by the server
In addition, QuarkXPress Server XTensions software can register for the following basic
callbacks:
• Pre-processing
• Content loading
• Layout modification
• Post-processing
• Removing slugs while running the QuarkXPress project renderer
• Analyzing the server after a transaction is complete
• Pre- and post-transaction callback
Configuring QuarkXPress Server for launch
To configure QuarkXPress Server prior to launch, open the file [QuarkXPress Server
application folder]/conf/ServerApp.properties folder) and modify it as follows:
•
To make the server run without loading any network interface, use the -nonetwork option
with the qxpservercore.serverRendererParameters. In this mode, the only
transactions a server can run are those passed to it by another process.
• To control whether renderers are monitored, set
qxpservercore.monitorrenderers.value to true or false.
• To specify the query interval for monitoring renderers, set
qxpservercore.monitorrenderers.queryinterval.value to a value in seconds.
• To specify the number of retries for monitoring renderers, set
qqxpservercore.monitorrenderers.noofretries.value to an integer. If a renderer
process has been attempting to fulfill a request for the specified number of retries (with
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