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Xcatalog for QuarkXPress

£333.00 – £9,000.00 + VAT

Xcatalog for QuarkXPress can help you automate the publishing, updating, and versioning of projects ranging from one-page advertising flyers displaying a handful of products, to thousand-page industrial products catalogues detailing tens of thousands of products.
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SKU: N/A Category: Em Software Tags: Automate, Automation, Book, Booklet, Catalog, Data, Database, Directory, Export, Mail, Mailing, Merge, Output, Productivity, Publishing, Quark, QuarkXPress, Template, Templates, Workflow
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Praise for Xcatalog for QuarkXPress

 Xcatalog fits the bill in many places. In our Harmon Autos magazine and Harmon Homes magazine divisions, we plan on connecting Quark to a SQL database so we can have a one time entry point for data that gets used in both print and electronic media. Xcatalog is perfect for what we need and it’s very easy to use and train people on. And we really like the fact that we can communication both ways, from database to Quark and Quark to database. 

-Brian Hebert, at United New & Media

 Have just used your product to help assemble a catalogue with over 34,000 prices in it. Thank you! Price updates which would take a week were reduced to less than an hour. 

-Greg P., at Xcatalog User

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 When it comes to servicing, an upgrade or anything dealing my favorite plug-in, I get in touch with XChange. I have had my dealings with other software resellers and look for a company that can provide customer service and support as well as prompt delivery. I found these things in XChange when I purchased my most recent upgrade through them. After receiving my product promptly after purchase, I also received a phone call from a representative who wanted to make sure I had seen the arrival of my new software version and asked if I needed anything else. She was very nice it was such a refreshing experience. I would recommend this company to anyone with print software needs.  

-Betsy Graham, Creative Director at Sierra Heritage Magazine

 I have worked with hundreds of vendors and very rarely come across any as technical and understanding of the Enfocus products as XChange's Account Manager, Brittany is [...] I can't say enough about how fast she provides solutions and how pleasant she is throughout the problem solving process.  

-Rich Wojtas, Digital Workflow Support Specialist at EPI Marketing Services, Inc.

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Description

If you work with a database and QuarkXPress, why not allow them to interface directly? Chances are you’ve been spending countless hours getting data back and forth “the hard way.”

What if you could have a software robot to flawlessly synchronise your documents’ contents with your data in one click? Xcatalog — with the easy-to-use data linker panels — enables you to create transparent links between your documents and your databases or spreadsheets. Once you have links in place, you can update prices, graphics, or product information with a simple menu invocation—or even change versions or swap languages.

Xcatalog is an XTension for QuarkXPress that enables you to link document elements (both text and graphics!) to corresponding database elements, and gives you the power to update in both directions (document from database, database from document). You can also make locale-sensitive versions (e.g., changing prices or swapping languages), and more.

Using Xcatalog, you can work with delimited ASCII text files created from any database, spreadsheet, or other application, on-line using FileMaker Pro under Mac OS, or on-line using any ODBC-accessible database under Mac OS or Windows (Pro version only).

As an XTension to QuarkXPress, Xcatalog becomes a seamless part of the QuarkXPress publishing system, once installed. Xcatalog runs inside QuarkXPress, under its own menu.

With Xcatalog, you can:

Solve version control headaches

Be sure that your document shows the latest info and prices in your database, and that your database shows last-minute changes you’ve made to your document.

Update in both directions

Make changes in either the document or the database, and push the changes in the other direction with no extra work. (No need for intermediate steps such as report creation and extraction.)

Enjoy flexible data sources and destinations

Use off-line simple delimited text data “snapshot” files, on-line FileMaker Pro (and Runtime) databases under Mac OS, and on-line SQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and Access, using ODBC under Mac OS and Windows (Pro licence).

Use transparent data linking

Use the intuitive linking palette to establish links between any database element and any document text element (from a single character to a phrase to a paragraph to a whole story) or any picture element.

Forget about links affecting the printing process (they don’t affect any page layout), but view links on the screen (if you choose) so you can see what you’re doing.

Move links between documents and libraries transparently, for ease of building new documents from old document elements with links intact.

Update interactively as you work

Use the linking palette’s interactive update capability to update the current single link, whole frames/stories, whole groups, or the current spread, even update automatically each time you make a change.

Greatly speed up creation

With pre-linked modules in libraries, drag a module, fill in a key value in one link, and watch the Plug-in fill in the whole module automatically.

Use one-step batch updating

With just one menu selection, make sure all linked document elements match their corresponding database elements.

Work with multiple documents and data sources/destinations

Use multiple open documents and use multiple data sources and destinations for complex jobs, even per-document, switching among them as needed.

Get automatic price styling

Define any number of price styles per publishing project using full tagged text for arbitrary formatting, apply those styles per-link, and have prices fully styled as part of the automated update.

Use powerful key linking options

Select different strategies for obtaining a link’s key field value direct from the link, direct from the linked contents, indirect from another direct link in the current group, or indirect from linked text before or after the current link.

With grouping and indirect keys, build whole modules that require only one key to be set to fully link everything in the module, or build lines or paragraphs of multiple links that are controlled from a single item.

Use tagged text

Enable tagged text support on any link, to capture the full Xtags document formatting for any data element.

Use multiple picture placement options

Update graphics, automatically resizing them to fit their destination frame in various ways, or to be left sised as-is.

Be flexible in graphic file naming

Point Xcatalog to your picture folders, using aliases/shortcuts in your project control folder. Enable “fuzzy lookup,” which even finds linked graphics files that have filename prefixes or file types/suffixes not given by the data.

Automate with scripting

Script all updating operations for powerful workflow automation.

Enjoy full Unicode support

Use the full Unicode character set in various encodings, for all data files and ODBC connections.

Xcatalog comes in two versions, normal and Pro. The only difference is that the Pro version is ODBC-capable, able to talk to any database server that is ODBC-accessible.

Stop worrying about product prices and descriptions in your documents being up to date with your database or spreadsheet, and vice versa. Synchronise everything (in either direction) in a matter of seconds or minutes. With Xcatalog, you can rest assured—your documents will always reflect your database contents.

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Mac OS®

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  • QuarkXPress 10, 2016, 2016

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  • QuarkXPress 10, 2016, 2016

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Category: Em Software.
Tags: Automate, Automation, Book, Booklet, Catalog, Data, Database, Directory, Export, Mail, Mailing, Merge, Output, Productivity, Publishing, Quark, QuarkXPress, Template, Templates, Workflow.

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