DATAformXT for QuarkXPress 8: popular publishing system integrates with databases

18th September 2008

The company XChange International has announced the product DATAformXT for QuarkXPress 8. This expansion XTension enables full two-way connection between the DBMS and the package QuarkXPress. It is a full tool for publishing database that supports three basic functions - creation, export and updating documents.
Through the use of tags DATAformTags any graphic or a text box QuarkXPress can be represented in the form of text ASCII and automatically replicated in the program for typesetting. More than seventy tags of DATAformTags can recreate any document of QuarkXPress.
Using a single generated by database file ASCII, Users can create a full mock of catalog ready for printing or designing. Boxes constructed by a database can be edited in the QuarkXPress environment, with the same ease as the boxes created manually.
In addition DATAformXT allows you to quickly enter information from the QuarkXPress documents to the database, and also allows for extremely fast updating finished documents layouts.
The product DATAformXT can be used with versions of QuarkXPress 8 for Macintosh and Windows. The software is also available in the form of the plugin to the package Adobe InDesign.