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BeyondPress 4.0: Introduction
BeyondPress is an XTension to QuarkXPress that allows you to create page layouts for the Web using the powerful and familiar page layout tools of QuarkXpress, and then output them as Web pages without having to manually code them in HTML. You can even take existing Quark documents used for print and allow BeyondPress to convert them to HTML. Either way, you can create professional-looking Web pages that include formatted text, image maps, multiple columns, hypertext links, GIF and JPEG images, and multimedia elements like animated GIFs, Java applets, and more.
Authoring
To create Web pages , you simply select BeyondPress Authoring mode, then design your layout in QuarkXPress just as you'd like it to appear on the Web. Or take an existing document and rework it so it looks just as yo u 'd like it to appear on the Web. Or even simpler, take an existing document just as it is. Then use the BeyondPress "Export" function to automatically create the necessary HTML codes and tags, outputting one Web page for each page in your document, ready to be uploaded to the Web Server. And you can use the BeyondPress "Preview" feature before exporting to see how your Web page will look in the Web Browser, to examine file statistics, and to identify potential conversion problems.
Conversion
When converting certain kinds of documents for the Web you may want to use BeyondPress Conversion mode instead of Authoring mode. Conversion mode uses a list paradigm where you choose which elements of your QuarkXPress print-ready documents you want placed on your Web pages and which items you want left off, without affecting your print layout in any way. Conversion mode also allows you to combine multiple document pages into a single Web page. When your export list is complete, you use the BeyondPress Preview and Export functions just as you do in Authoring mode.
BeyondPress adds the following palettes to the QuarkXPress interface:
* Document Content palette, which lets you switch from Authoring to Conversion mode.
* Elements palette, which allows you to share images, HTML items, and media files across multiple Web pages.
From these palettes, you can also format and modify text, image, and multimedia files.
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