Quark launches QuarkCopyDesk 7 for text, picture editing
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 4, 2007 at 8:03am
Quark has launched QuarkCopyDesk 7, a new version of the text and picture editing software designed for writers, editors and others who contribute to publishing workflows. Now any image format supported by QuarkXPress, including native Photoshop files, can be imported to QuarkCopyDesk 7.
Pictures can be scaled, cropped, rotated, and flipped. Adjustments to brightness and contrast, as well as blur, mask, and despeckle filters can also be applied. QuarkCopyDesk 7’s Split Views allows users to split article views horizontally and vertically to display the content in Galley, Full-screen and WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) views simultaneously. Content edited in one view updates the other views automatically.
The update sports a streamlined output process. Output Profiles and Output Profile Groups allow users to incorporate metadata into the output data stream using an internal placeholder framework. Output profiles for Print, PDF, and Article XML can be combined into output profile groups—allowing output to different mediums with one mouse click.
In addition to new functionality, QuarkCopyDesk 7 features XTensions for Notes, which enables users to place comments directly in the text that will travel with the article, and Redlining, which lets multiple users review an article while tracking and highlighting editorial changes. In addition, QuarkCopyDesk 7 works in conjunction with Quark Publishing System 7 (QPS 7), Quark’s workflow management system launched in October. Purchasing options can be found here.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
