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New Facebook Group about QuarkXPress

October 21, 2015October 21, 2015Learn, UsergroupNo Comments

QuarkXPress’ Facebook Group was founded 3 months ago today.

Here’s some history about it:

A bit over three months ago, customers asked Quark why we don’t create a Facebook Group for QuarkXPress.

Quark already had a Facebook Page for QuarkXPress, so I first was hesitant. The Facebook Page is handled by Quark’s Social Media team and “pushes” out news and information about and around QuarkXPress. Sure, Facebook pages also allow a back channel, via comments or a “post to page” at the side, however both is not very prominent. A Facebook Page still feels dominated by the creator of the page, it feels like a push channel. So I was hesitant to create “just another page”.

When I looked at Facebook Groups, it felt like this could be different. A bit more like forums, more user interaction, as everybody can post on the main page.

So exactly three months ago, on July 21, 2015, I created the QuarkXPress Group on Facebook, a bit of an experiment and to see whether that is valuable for QuarkXPress users and fans.

And it was. Almost 700 members after one month, currently at 870 members and every day another fan or user asks to join. So this Group will stay and has become an important communication method between the QuarkXPress team at Quark and QuarkXPress users. And it also helps QuarkXPress users and fans to communicate with each other.

There are many posts by the members of the group, sharing memories of QuarkXPress 3, asking questions on how to do something in QuarkXPress 10 or QuarkXPress 2015, seeking help or participating in small polls. For example an ongoing Facebook Group poll asked about the best version of QuarkXPress so far, and 66% think that it’s QuarkXPress 2015 (see here). And it feels a bit like a QuarkXPress User Group. Another poll asks which feature is more important and thus directly influencing development at Quark.

And it even spans into the real world, when I presented at a tradeshow in Birmingham last week, five members of the QuarkXPress Facebook Group came to the show to talk to me in person.

 

So if you are a QuarkXPress user, fan or just want to see what’s going on,
why don’t you join the group?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarkxpress/

 

QuarkXPressFacebookGroup

Matthias Guenther

Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people. Before joining Quark in 1997, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represented Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.

From 1997 until 2019 Matthias played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop, mobile and enterprise software. From February 2014 until January 2019 he headed Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit; and was therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.

Matthias does not work for Quark anymore. If you want to connect with him, please visit his LinkedIn profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguenther/

https://twitter.com/HamburQ

What is QXML?

August 2, 2011January 10, 2018Quark2 Comments

Several people have asked, what QXML is.

QXML stands for QuarkXPress Markup Language and has been announced by Quark on Jan 12, 2005:
http://www.quark.com/about/presscenter/prview.jsp?idx=514

It was first privately introduced in QuarkXPress 6.5 (2004) and has been further extended in QuarkXPress 7 (2006). Though vital part of QuarkXPress (Desktop), it is currently solely accessible through QuarkXPress Server.

What does QXML solve?

Most document formats are proprietary, meaning it is hard to reuse their content. Also, nowadays we see a trend towards open standards and many programmers know “web-friendly” programming languages such as JavaScript.

QXML provides the structure, the content and its formatting of a QuarkXPress document as a DOM.

The Document Object Model (DOM) is a W3C standard that provides a language-neutral interface for applications and scripts to dynamically access and update content, structure and styling of documents.

So XTension developers can access a QuarkXPress document and manipulate it in real time using open standards.

It’s more powerful than a proprietary API and makes QuarkXPress document accessible to web technology, using open standards.

Where is QXML used?

QXML is mostly used in automation workflows, e.g. for database publishing or where documents are created based on rules. Quark’s Enterprise solutions make heavy use of QXML. QuarkXPress Server is manipulating existing documents, creating new documents, filling data into dynamic templates created by designers in QuarkXPress, all using QXML.

It’s currently solely available in QuarkXPress Server, as Quark believes that automation requires a robust engine like QuarkXPress Server, which offers multi-threading, load-balancing and other high performance features.

Development partners of Quark’s Enterprise solutions are also actively using QXML to create and manipulate QuarkXPress documents via QuarkXPress Server.

Internally Quark calls QXML “Modifier XML”, as it pretty much describes what it does: It modifies QuarkXPress documents.

What about the competition?

In April 2005 Adobe introduced INX in InDesign CS2, which was a simple, XML-based exchange format between InDesign versions.

In 2008 Adobe replaced INX with IDML (InDesign Markup Language), which seems to be the analogy in InDesign CS4 to what QXML is in QuarkXPress (Server).

More info

Please also see here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050112005762/en/Quark-Commits-Open-Standards-Opening-QuarkXPress-File (English) and here: http://www.quarkvsindesign.com/quarkxpresss-file-format-goes-open-standard-with-xml

Sample QXML

X-Ray Magazine March/April 2005 listed some examples of QXML. I have uploaded screenshots of the pages here:

http://forums.quark.com/download/file.php?id=510

http://forums.quark.com/download/file.php?id=511

http://forums.quark.com/download/file.php?id=512

http://forums.quark.com/download/file.php?id=513

http://forums.quark.com/download/file.php?id=514

Matthias Guenther

Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people. Before joining Quark in 1997, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represented Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.

From 1997 until 2019 Matthias played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop, mobile and enterprise software. From February 2014 until January 2019 he headed Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit; and was therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.

Matthias does not work for Quark anymore. If you want to connect with him, please visit his LinkedIn profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguenther/

https://twitter.com/HamburQ

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