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Smartphone and tablet applications are becoming a popular means of distributing content. While organizations can design and develop apps from scratch, this can be costly and time-consuming, considering the programming expertise required. The latest release of QuarkXPress simplifies the process of creating branded applications for the iPad, with built-in Quark App Studio.

Quark Software, Inc., the 30 year-old desktop and multi-channel web publishing stalwart, and competitor of Adobe Systems, has been acquired by a California-based private equity firm. Details of the deal have been kept close to the vest, and management outlook is optimistic.

For Microsoft Word users, publishing just got a little easier. Quark released Quark XML Author 4.0 for Microsoft Word, which allows users to more easily create structured XML content. It’s no secret that most content gets created in Word, so it’s only fitting that now you can intelligently create and publish with it, too.

The Memorial Day holiday here in the States stretched into a week for the DAM Lowdown, but have no fear. We are back with: Two News Items Apiece for DAM Lowdown Regulars celum and KIT Digital, an Update to the DAM Vendor Tracking Spreadsheet, an Introduction to XMP, the Lines Between WCM and DAM Continue to Blur and Quick Hits.

Has it really been two months since QuarkXPress 9 came out? You know what they say, one good desktop product deserves a server version. Or something like that. Nerdy cliches aside, Quark (news, site) is back in the news with the release of QuarkXPress Server 9.

The popularity of smartphones and tablet computers has made mobile content distribution a viable means of reaching out to wider audiences. App stores are gaining traction as a content distribution model. With Quark's (news, site) latest QuarkXPress release, publishers can expect better access to varied mediums, including Web, smartphones, tablets and e-book readers.

It was October last year when Quark (news, site) and Microsoft announced their new partnership to bring dynamic publishing to Microsoft SharePoint  (news, site). Today, they take it a step further letting us that this integration will work for SharePoint 2010.

Quark (site, news) has been very busy this week, all in the name of digital publishing. At Untethered 2010, a digital media conference in New York that this year focused on Profitable Media in the Tablet Era, Quark announced a few initiatives aimed at making digital publishing more efficient for content creators and publishers across all platforms.
 

You are constantly being told that SharePoint is more than a simple document management and collaboration solution. It's a platform. Well here's an example of just what SharePoint (news, site) is capable of when it is leveraged as a platform.

Microsoft teamed up with Quark (news, site), a provider of publishing solutions, to demonstrate a new solution that supports publishers and multi-channel publishing.

It's just about a given that the businesses that are going to come out the other end of this downturn stronger than they went in are those that adapt.

A case in point is the announcement by Quark (news, site) that its XML authoring tool can now be integrated with EMC’s (news, site) enterprise content management system, Documentum, giving Documentum users the ability to develop intelligent and reusable XML content without having to bring in technical authors.

By integrating Quark XML Author with Documentum users will not only be able to create XML content, but validate existing content, manage links between XML documents and access it using XQuery and XPath standards.

Another new coupling in the Content Management industry has just been announced. This time it's between IBM (news, site) and Quark, a vendor of publishing software. This partnership, they say, will see the adaptation of XML across entire enterprises by integrating Quark XML Author in the IBM FileNet Content Manager.

This new integration is designed to eliminate existing problems surrounding the creation of enterprise-wide DITA-based XML and allow any user working in Microsoft Word to author content that can be used and reused in multiple channels or formats.

Quark Publishing System 8 and Alfresco Enterprise 2 are working together towards bringing web-based storage and collaboration to Quark assets. This brings the world of content management to Quark Publishing System, and they made a smart decision by choosing the open source ECM provider Alfresco.

It used to be that you weren’t a designer if you didn’t use QuarkXPress - the product that revolutionized the field of desktop publishing. That was before In Design and other Adobe products came to dominate the field and rallied the next generation of designers.

But Quark has been gaining ground during the past year. They launched QuarkXPress7 with incorporated XML capabilities and released Quark Publishing System 7 which helped to streamline the editorial and creative workflow processes while improving production.

Now, they’re partnering with Alfresco Software, Inc. to “develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers.”

Hot on the heels of the Morello/SmartNewspapers update, more exciting news for print media publishers.

Quark Software has released Quark Publishing System 7 (QPS 7), an update of their collaborative work-flow tool which integrates with the ubiquitous desktop-publishing behemoth: QuarkXpress 7.