A2i and Quark Collaborate to Improve Print Catalog Publishing; A2i's xCat System to Integrate More Tightly with Enhanced Features of QuarkXPress 6.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2003 A2i, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-wide product content management and catalog publishing solutions, today announced that its xCat system will support QuarkXPress 6, the latest version of the industry-leading desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, program from Quark, Inc. In addition, the companies will work together to provide even tighter integration between the catalog publishing capabilities of xCat and the page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. capabilities of QuarkXPress. xCat allows customers to create and manage a single, centralized repository of highly structured product information. In addition to support for product content management, enterprise integration, high-performance search, and electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. to the Web and other media, xCat also includes tightly integrated print publishing functionality that both streamlines and dramatically improves the economics of the print catalog production process. In particular, xCat generates fully populated A circuit board whose sockets are completely filled with chips. and formatted page layouts, all while maintaining bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. connectivity between product information within the QuarkXPress page layout and within the xCat system. A2i has been working closely with Quark for over five years, and as a result of today's announcement, A2i will not only support QuarkXPress 6, A2i and Quark will also work together to further integrate the A2i xCat system with Quark's entire suite of professional publishing tools. "The A2i xCat system coupled with QuarkXPress 6 is a tightly integrated solution that finally delivers on the promise of single-source catalog publishing," said Jurgen Kurz, senior vice president of product development at Quark. "Building upon a deep foundation of data management functionality, xCat's WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. table layout engine A layout engine, or rendering engine, is software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen. , data-driven templates, and automatic page layout generation complement its extraordinary ability to publish highly searchable Web catalogs. The print publishing functionality that A2i has created is very impressive." "Quark continues to improve and evolve its industry-leading platform for desktop publishing, and QuarkXPress 6 has allowed us to further push the envelope of very tight integration with our system," said Paul Weinberg, president of A2i. "The A2i xCat system is truly database-driven and dynamically 'pushes' structured catalog data into page layouts as part of the publishing process, unlike most other catalog publishing systems that offer loose integration, rudimentary structure, and simplistic sim·plism n. The tendency to oversimplify an issue or a problem by ignoring complexities or complications. [French simplisme, from simple, simple, from Old French; see simple database publishing Using desktop publishing to produce reports of database contents. See desktop publishing. functionality, or simply use QuarkXPress as a front-end and then store all of the catalog data and final page layout information back into the database." About A2i, Inc. A2i develops and markets the xCat system for enterprise-wide product content management and catalog publishing. xCat efficiently creates and manages catalogs containing from thousands to millions of products in a centralized repository of product content, supports both printed and electronic output from a single data source for Web-based electronic commerce, CD-ROM-based electronic catalogs, and custom paper catalogs, and delivers performance that is 100-1000 times faster than SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. alone. A2i customers include many of the largest distributors in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. such as Applied Industrial Technologies and Digi-Key, large manufacturers such as GE Appliances and NIBCO, and others. Founded in 1993, the company has offices in the United States and Israel. For more information about A2i, please visit www.a2i.com. About Quark, Inc. Quark, Inc. is a leading developer of tools and technologies for desktop, workgroup, and enterprise publishing. Quark has been providing award-winning software for professional publishers since its flagship product QuarkXPress changed the course of traditional publishing. Today, as QuarkXPress is used by more than three million customers around the world, Quark is developing the next generation of tools to let publishers create and manage content flexibly so it can be delivered anywhere at low cost. Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark, Inc. is privately held. For more information about Quark, please visit www.quark.com. A2i and xCat are trademarks of A2i, Inc. Quark, QuarkXPress, and Quark-related marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Quark, Inc. and all applicable affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. . All other marks are the properties of their respective owners. |
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