By: E&P Staff Canto, Berlin and San Francisco, and Denver-based Quark Inc. announced Wednesday the integration of Canto Cumulus digital asset management with the newly announced Quark Publishing System 7.
New capabilities for QPS 7 work groups include XMP and IPTC legacy and core metadata searching to find any image, text element or other asset. Full text contents of documents created in QuarkXPress, QuarkCopyDesk and Microsoft Word also are now searchable.
"We particularly welcome the release of Quark Publishing System 7, as QPS 7 is Java-based and supports open standards. This enables technology partners like us to smoothly integrate QPS 7 into existing systems," Canto CEO Ulrich Knocke said in a statement.
Cumulus provides QPS 7 work groups a central repository for assets. Its check-in/out and version control supports all formats, enabling QPS 7 work groups to better manage all files, not just those used in QPS 7 projects. Cumulus also provides a "portal" view onto the assets of QPS 7 workflows for managers or clients, even over the Web. Because Cumulus catalogs are "live" representations of collections, the moment an asset is updated by a QPS 7 user, it can be previewed from anywhere.
Assets cataloged in Cumulus can be assigned to new QPS 7 projects at any time, ensuring maximum ROI on assets created in-house. For protection when using the assets of others, Cumulus automation features can help ensure that only assets available by license are available for layout.
Cumulus also makes enables creation of PDF or JPEG versions of Quark projects, layouts or pages for fast Web publishing. Cumulus can create the files automatically, allowing an art director to see hourly JPEG renders of a layout in progress, while the layout artist remains focused on design.
Reports can be generated that list all assets used in a QPS 7 project, and include contact, fee and other information necessary to ensure contributors are paid.
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