9.2
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Getting started with QuarkXPress Server
- The QuarkXPress Server user interface
- Navigation pane
- Administration menu
- General Preferences dialog box
- Renderer Preferences dialog box
- Preferences — Display
- Preferences — Input Settings
- Preferences — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Open and Save
- Preferences — Fonts
- Preferences — EPS
- Preferences — PDF
- Preferences — Project General Settings
- Preferences — Print Layout Settings
- Preferences — Print Layout Measurements
- Preferences — Paragraph
- Preferences — Character
- Preferences — Trapping
- Preferences — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layers
- Preferences — Full Res Preview
- Job Jackets dialog box
- Check Out License dialog box
- Creating URL requests
- Modifying layouts with XML
- Using SSL
- QuarkXPress Server XTensions software
- Telegraph XTensions software
- QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Understanding QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Working with QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Glossary
- Legal notices
- Index
Understanding QuarkXPress Server
QuarkXPress Server lets you output customized QuarkXPress layouts in a variety of formats
— including JPEG, Portable Document Format (PDF), and PostScript® — from a centralized
QuarkXPress Server application. To send a request to a QuarkXPress Server application, all
you need to do is enter a URL into your Web browser's address field. For example, the
following URL instructs the QuarkXPress Server application named "QXPServer" to return
the file "MyProject.qxp" as a PDF file:
http://QXPServer:8080/pdf/MyProject.qxp
The QuarkXPress Server application receives these requests, renders (creates) the requested
projects in the requested formats, and then returns the rendered file to the client application
(in this case, the Web browser).
The format of QuarkXPress Server URL requests is described in detail in "Creating URL
requests" and in the QuarkXPress Server Web Integration Guide.
You can also create custom applications that communicate with a QuarkXPress Server
application using HTTP, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), or another protocol. For
more information, see the QuarkXPress Server Web Integration Guide.
You can think of QuarkXPress Server as a special version of QuarkXPress that runs on a
server with the following main differences:
• Instead of accepting input from a keyboard and mouse, QuarkXPress Server accepts input
in the form of URLs and other types of requests.
• Instead of sending a project to a printer, QuarkXPress Server renders (creates) output in a
particular format and sends the rendered file to a client.
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 8.x and QuarkXPress 9.x format.
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