QuarkCopyDesk 7 Available for Text and Picture Editing

The latest version streamlines content editing and works in conjunction with QuarkXPress 7, Quark Publishing System 7 and third-party workflow systems.
QuarkCopyDesk acknowleges the fact that after writers and artists contribute text and graphics for a publication, which is then put together in QuarkXPress, there is often the need to make editing changes to the text and graphical elements. Sure, this could be done directly within QuakrXPress itself, but workflow efficiencies are possible when a subset of XPress is made available to those who simply need to make minor changes to a publication. Adobe follows the same approach, by providing InCopy for use with documents created with InDesign.
QuarkCopyDesk is a mature, product, having been introduced in 1991, and is typically used by newspapers and magazines to write, edit and format text, via the provision of such typical wordprocessing functionality as spell checking and change tracking. Writers and editors see the same pages as the document designers, with QuarkCopyDesk maintaining such attributes as colors, article geometry, style sheets, and hyphenation and justification rules, to allow formatted files to move accurately between it and XPress. QuarkCopyDesk 7 can also exchange text with Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, XPress Tags, HTML and other word-processing formats.

New in QuarkCopyDesk 7 is image manipulation and picture effects, providing the ability to import an image in any format supported by QuarkXPress, including native Photoshop files. They can they be scaled, cropped, rotated and flipped, and adjusted for brightness and contrast, or modified via the application of blur, mask and despeckle filters. Also new is the ability to split artile views horizontally and vertically, to display the content in Galley, Full-screen and WYSIWYG views simultaneously. Output profiles for Print, PDF and Article XML can be combined into output profile groups, providing one-click output to different mediums. Also notable is the inclusion of XTensions for Notes, which lets users place comments directly in the text that travels with the article.
More information about QuarkCopyDesk 7 is available on the Quark site.