3 september 2011

Quark, Adobe, iPad

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Adobe heeft een nieuwe set van hun gereedschappen voor DPS uitgebracht, de Folio Producer Tools versie 1.5 (gratis te downloaden) waarmee je publicaties voor tablets als de iPad kunt maken.

Maar ook Quark biedt deze mogelijkheid voor de iPad aan met hun reeds aangekondigde App maker gereedschap. Deze werkt met de update van QuarkXPress 9.1.

Zoals je in inDesign CS5 niet direct documenten van versie CS5.5 kunt openen, zo leest QXPress 9 geen 9.1 documenten!

Ik ga volgende week eens stoeien met QXPress 9.1 en de App Studio en kom er dan hier op terug.

Hier alvast de 'What's new' van QXPress 9.1:

Version 9.1:
App Studio: The App Studio feature lets you create and publish content that your customers can purchase and download from within your own custom app.
App Factory (Mac OS only): The App Factory application lets you create a customized app for the iPad®, for distribution through the Apple® App Store. You can use your custom app to distribute the issues you create with App Studio.
Trim View: The Trim View command (View menu) simulates what the page will look like when trimmed by cropping any items that extend beyond the page boundary. You can control the color of the pasteboard that displays when this item is selected in the Display pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences).
Hide Suppressed: The Hide Suppressed command (View menu) hides all items for which the Suppress Output box is checked in the Box, Line, Picture, or Layout pane of the Modify dialog box, as well as layers for which Suppress Output is checked in the Attributes dialog box. In addition, this option hides underlines on hyperlinks, hyperlink anchors, index markers, and the text overflow symbol.
View sets: The View menu provides various options for how a layout displays. You can display or hide guides, grids, invisible characters, visiual indicators, and more. The View Sets feature lets you store and recall different combinations of these settings.
Style sheet to reflow tag mapping: You can now map style sheets to tags in a reflow article. This makes it much easier to prepare existing styled content for distribution in the ePUB and Blio eBook formats. For more information, see "Mapping style sheets to Reflow styles." in A Guide to QuarkXPress.
Panning while a Pen tool is selected: To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and drag.
Support for PSD files in Job Jackets rules: You can now create rules that evaluate Photoshop (PSD) files.
You cannot open files saved in QuarkXPress 9.1 or later directly in QuarkXPress 9.0. However, you can export a project in QuarkXPress 9.0 format with the File > Export > Layouts as Project command.
REQUIREMENTS
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later


1 opmerking:

walter bravenboer zei

Ik kan eigenlijk geen enkele reden bedenken om nog iets met Quark te doen... Al is het jammer dat Adobe veel te veel monopolie lijkt te krijgen. Voor iPad-productie is het lastig kiezen, voor kleinere bedrijven is het voorlopig nog niet rendabel, al is het wel erg interessant.