QuarkCopyDesk

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QuarkCopyDesk
Basic data

developer Quark
Publishing year 1991
Current  version QuarkCopyDesk 8
operating system Windows , Mac OS
category Text editor
License Proprietary
CopyDesk product page

QuarkCopyDesk (often just CopyDesk ) is a text editor - program of the company Quark, the to working with QuarkXPress is designed.

Possible applications

With CopyDesk, an editor can either create a new text document with style templates from QuarkXPress or fill an existing layout from QuarkXPress with text or images. Since CopyDesk and QuarkXPress are generated from the same source text and thus also have the same text engine, the editor not only sees the layout as in QuarkXPress, but also the text in a line-binding manner. The wrapping , length and typography of the text looks 100% what it will look like later in QuarkXPress.

CopyDesk is mostly used in connection with editing systems , such as B. QPS . As of CopyDesk 2.2, the program can also be purchased individually and used (without an editorial system in connection with QuarkXPress).

Direct competition to CopyDesk has been Adobe InCopy since the end of 1999 .

functionality

CopyDesk works in a similar way to other text editor programs, with the difference that texts are wrapped in the same way as in QuarkXPress.

CopyDesk has three view modes , a WYSIWYG view, a column view and a text view, between which the editor can switch. Since CopyDesk allows several view windows, you can also display two or three view modes in parallel.

The text mode looks like any other text editor, here only the text is displayed in the window. In column mode, the editor sees the text flag , a line counter and the same break as in QuarkXPress. This way, unsightly separations can be assessed and, above all, whether the text fits into the layout. In WYSIWYG mode, CopyDesk shows the layout as in QuarkXPress (without having to have access to the original QuarkXPress document), but the editor cannot change the geometry of the frames or the layout.

CopyDesk also allows changes to be tracked and displayed visually so that version changes can be made visible on the screen. In addition, notes can be inserted that are also visible in QuarkXPress.

CopyDesk allows the text to be created in a structured manner using components, e.g. B. to mark one component as a heading , one as running text and a third as a caption, which can then be incorporated into the layout separately or together.

From CopyDesk 7 onwards, the editor can also load pictures into frames; a visual marking in the dimensions palette shows whether the quality of the pictures is sufficient.

The general rule in CopyDesk is that an editor can only edit texts and upload images, thus achieving a strict division of tasks between text editing and page design. This separate way of working is often desired in editorial workflows .

history

  • CopyDesk 1.0 (1991): Support for QuarkXPress 3 and QPS 1
  • CopyDesk 2.0 (1998): Support for QuarkXPress 4 and QPS 2; Support for Windows too
  • CopyDesk 2.2 (2003): Support for QuarkXPress 5; first version that works without QPS
  • CopyDesk 3.0 (2004): Support for QuarkXPress 6 and QPS 3; Support for Mac OS X too
  • CopyDesk 3.5 (2006)
  • CopyDesk 3.6 (2007)
  • CopyDesk 7 (2007): Support for QuarkXPress 7 and QPS 7, image workflows, version tracking functions (redlining)
  • CopyDesk 8 (2008): Support for QuarkXPress 8

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