QuarkCopyDesk® 7 is the latest release of the premier stand-alone text and picture editing software from Quark. It enables writers, editors, and other non-designers to meet the demands of fast-paced editorial workflows head-on.

Sharing the code base with QuarkXPress®, QuarkCopyDesk gives you Quark‘s renowned typographic controls. Layouts created in QuarkXPress can be exported to QuarkCopyDesk easily. When writers or editors open an article in QuarkCopyDesk, they can see the layout and write or edit to fit precisely within the established design.

The unique image-handling capabilities of QuarkCopyDesk and its support for QuarkXPress 7 features — such as drop shadows, opacity, and picture effects — make it the tool of choice for hybrid editors who want to manage both text and picture content in their articles. QuarkCopyDesk is compatible with QuarkXPress 7, so formatted files move seamlessly between the two applications, which streamlines production and saves time and money.

Key features

QuarkCopyDesk® is designed to streamline collaboration processes and improves the efficiency of your editorial workflow with features that facilitate copyfit text editing, picture editing and communication.

Choose from three views

Using the WYSIWYG view, writers and editors have the opportunity to see the same graphic-rich pages that designers see. QuarkCopyDesk fully supports QuarkXPress® colors, style sheets, and transparent text boxes.

Get precise information on how your copy fits in the layout. Choose the view you like best — Galley, Full Screen, or WYSIWYG — for viewing line counts, line breaks, and column breaks. QuarkCopyDesk continuously displays underset or overset amounts, word and line counts, and column depths. Not only does QuarkCopyDesk 7 show pictures in all three views, it even displays previews of images anchored in a text component in all three views.

View articles in split view and split your article view horizontally or vertically to display the content in Galley, Full Screen, and WYSIWYG at the same time. Content edited in one view updates in the other views simultaneously. The Split View feature even lets you display the different views of an article in different windows and supports working with two monitors perfectly.

Key Benefits

Simple and easy authoring environment

Offering a simple and intuitive work environment, QuarkCopyDesk’s straightforward user interface puts you to work immediately instead of forcing you to figure out how to get started.

QuarkCopyDesk’s split view allows the user to have different visual presentations of an article — WYSIWYG, Galley, or Full-screen — in the same window, or in different windows, and always with a live-update on any changes made to the content.

QuarkCopyDesk® users can write to fit because they know the exact amount of space designed in QuarkXPress® for their work. All attributes, such as style sheets, article geometry, and hyphenation and justification rules, are maintained. When text is imported back to the QuarkXPress layout, it will fit perfectly. And

QuarkCopyDesk can easily exchange text with Microsoft® Word, WordPerfect®, XPress Tags, HTML, and other word-processing formats.

Features such as Notes and Redlining are perfect for facilitating communication. Use Notes to place electronic communication directly in the text. Notes travel with the article, even when you import into QuarkXPress. With Redlining, tracking changes with QuarkCopyDesk articles provides production teams with a clear record of any and all changes.

Master Components text boxes that are created automatically when you set margins, columns, and gutter. Therefore, Master Components allow you to create article geometries in QuarkCopyDesk 7, even before a QuarkXPress layout exists.

Image support

Superior image-manipulation and display capabilities make QuarkCopyDesk the natural tool of choice for every edtor and writer who needs to control both text and picture content. After you import a picture, QuarkCopyDesk offers easy-to-use controls in the context-sensitive Measurements palette that let you crop, scale, rotate, and flip pictures horizontally or vertically.

Streamline your review workflow

Output Profiles and Output Profile Groups let you expedite your review and approval process enormously by enabling you to customize your output with metadata. Create output profiles with Output Enhancements for Print, PDF, and Article XML and combine them into output profile groups — allowing to output to multiple media with one mouse-click.

Improve your product and save money

Increased workflow efficiency gives writers more time to write and designers more time to design — inevitably creating a better product. And, ultimately, time saved through eliminating even minor inefficiencies results in greater profitability.

Support for multiple languages

QuarkCopyDesk® Passport is a complete, fully functioning version of QuarkCopyDesk that includes additional features for multi–language publishing. In QuarkCopyDesk Passport the user can switch the entire interface (menus and dialogs) to any of the 13 supported languages: Danish, Dutch, English (International and U.S.), French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss-German, Russian, and Polish. QuarkCopyDesk Passport also contains dictionaries and hyphenation information for over 30 languages:

Other QuarkCopyDesk Passport features include:

Translated user interface — Display the user interface in any of the languages supported by QuarkXPress Passport® with one click of the mouse.

Complete, localized documentation in PDF format — User manuals and documentation in PDF format are available in all supported languages. These files are included on the QuarkCopyDesk application CD.

Mac OS

Hardware:

·         Mac Intel® processor (G4 PowerPC® processor minimum)

·         1GB RAM (256MB minimum)

·         450MB hard disk space

·         TCP/IP network (if using a site license with Quark® License Administrator)

Software:

·         Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger™) minimum

Windows® XP

Software: Microsoft® Windows XP Service Pack 2 minimum

Hardware:

·         1GHz Pentium® 4 processor minimum

·         1GB RAM (256MB minimum)

·         450MB hard disk space

·         TCP/IP network (if using a site license with Quark® License Administrator)

Windows Vista™

Hardware options:

·         1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

·         1GB RAM

·         Support for DirectX® 9 graphics with 128MB of graphics memory minimum, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, capable of 32 bits per pixel

·         450MB hard disk space

·         TCP/IP network (if using a site license with Quark License Administrator)