Quark Xpress : the worldwide industry standard Xpress is the well known standard for any professional looking DTP document. If you are serious about publishing, there is great chance that you already know and use Xpress or that people you work with prefer Quark. Xpress also has the widest set of extensions. Now there is an excellent reason to upgrade to the latest Quark version: Leaflet pages can now be output to Quark. Regarding database publishing, Xpress remains a workhorse: it doesn't slowdown and remains stable with large documents and even complex pages are output from Leaflet to Xpress fast.

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A Quark document is an exact copy of the Leaflet document

Leaflet is very accurate in layout. Using dynamic templates, graphical objects are fitted to content and overflow automatically to the next page when needed. The resulting page layout is copied "AS IS" to Quark in a few seconds. You start with an exact copy of the Leaflet page.

Steps when using Leaflet together with Quark
	Draw dynamic templates fetching any data from any structure of ODBC compatible database. Tag any frames you want to be updatable after first output to Quark. Fill automatically or semi-automatically a Leaflet document according to your blueprint Export pages of this document to Quark Make any layout changes to the Quark document and update the XML contents at will. Output to Acrobat from Quark. Your document is ready! Step 1 happens only once and can be done without programming. Steps 2, 3 and 5 take only a few seconds a page. This leaves you plenty of time to customize each Quark page.
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Leaflet is Quark compatible

Every single color, gradient, paragraph style or character style defined in Leaflet and used throughout the document is automatically carbon copied to Quark.

Leaflet object groups are preserved in Quark. This allows for quick and efficient moves of logical entities.

Text flows exactly the same way as in Quark. This way a frame filled with text will occupy exactly the same space in both applications. Word wrap will happen the same way.

Effects on pictures are translated to Quark.

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Use Leaflet to generate roughs and Quark to finish it up.

When designing B2C or less structured documents, the manual finishing touch makes the difference.

Use Leaflet to generate a draft fetching all data from the database following the blueprint of the document. This rough document contains all live data formatted according to advanced dynamic templates.

Leaflet has placed objects and frames on the pages according to a space saving algorithm.
At this stage exporting to Quark allows to further optimize space utilization by allowing overlaps, rearranging freely blocks of objects and moving and resizing pictures in order to get an artistic layout that fits in the boundaries of the page.

Generating the Leaflet draft only takes a few seconds a page and further layout modifications in Quark can be consequently speeded up because Leaflet already generated and formatted the building blocks of the page.

The designer can concentrate on the artistic part of the job instead of struggling with formatting manually all necessary data elements.

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Interface now, update later with XML

XML (eXtended Markup Language) is the most versatile and up to date method of interfacing data today. XML support is built into Quark. That means that it is the best way to import and export data from Quark documents. Any graphic object can be tagged in a Leaflet template. When exporting to Quark, a set of unique tags will be generated and included in the XML structure of the Quark file.

Moving or resizing of objects in Quark or Leaflet will keep the XML structure intact.

Updating the tagged data in the Quark document is straigthforward and uses standard functions of Quark :

1. In Quark export the XML structure to a file.
2. From Leaflet update this XML file.
3. In Quark import the updated file, all tagged data are instantly updated.

The tagging and update process have been enhanced in order to be sure that data are updated a consistent way whatever happens to the Quark layout between updates.

Updates can be used for taking changes into account between the initial export and publish time, but they can be also very efficient for effcient switching between several languages (knowing that both Quark and Leaflet are Unicode compliant and hence can be used for publishing worldwide)

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Summary of features and benefits of the Leaflet Quark option
Features	Benefits
WYSIWYG!	What you see in Leaflet is what you get in Quark. Get the same document in Quark as in Leaflet. No time consuming editing. Every graphical object on the page will have exactly the same size because objects like text take exactly the same space in Leaflet as in Quark
Do the job only once	Styles and colors defined in Leaflet are copied exactly in Quark in order to get identical rendering
Leaflet & Quark : Best of both worlds	In Leaflet prepare roughs that are very close to the final copy capitalizing on dynamic templates and live database links. Edit the layout in your familiar Quark environment. Update seamlessly the data through the smart XML link
Smart XML updates	In the Leaflet templates, tag once the data elements that you want to update later. Leaflet will be able to trace every single data to be updated whatever changes occured to the layout in the meantime. Update is fast and XML import/export is a native Quark functionality.
Multiple languages : one single design	Use the smart XML update feature to switch easily between several languages.
Use the world standard	Today most (and by far) of the files submitted to printers are still made with Quark.
Export pages faster to Quark Xpress	Speed is always welcome, but when you need to generate hundreds of pages it becomes a necessity. Leaflet and Quark team together to provide stunning performance.
Export hundreds of pages without fear	Hefty documents can be generated and worked with without loss of generation or browsing speed. Quark Xpress program stability is outstanding even when working with complex documents with lots of pages.
Work cross platform	Leaflet can drive Quark running on a PC or a MAC. Quark files generated on a PC can be opened on a MAC and vice versa