Are there any quark experts out there?

External Since: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 5

Hi All.

I have been asked by a publishing company to improve the method by which
they update their website.

Basically, at the moment, they use a manual method of data entry via an
admin interface and upload images via FTP.

They currently use Quark for publishing purposes, [as I would expect] and
may be able to export this information into an XML file.

My question is has 2 aspects.

Firstly, can a batch process be run on Quark to export a whole directory of
files to a single XML file. This would be good, as I can then 'scrape' this
information into a database when an update script is run. Thus removing the
need for manual data entry.

Secondly. If the above is possible, the images then need to be handled. Is
there any method of taking pre-named images and either uploading them to a
directory when this script is initiated, or taking the images and loading
them into the database as BLOB's.

The server specifications have yet to be determined as I am coming in on
this project quite late on.

Any language/database can be used. I can write in .asp , .php & .jsp
(access, mysql & mssql db's) but have never undertaken a project with these
requirements. Sad

If the above method seems a long or complicated or almost impossible task,
does anyone have any suggestions?

I am also considering 'page milling' for their site, but this will require
additional hardware and dev time on my part.

I hope someone can help.

Si

PS, if anyone knows a good freelance graphic designer for site mock-ups,
that would be good. I'm not very good with Photoshop/Fireworks

If you want to reply, you will have to take off MY PANTS

External Since: Jun 27, 2003 Posts: 571

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:16:25 -0000, Simon <simon.TakeThisOut@YOUR-PANTSnetforma.com>
wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> I have been asked by a publishing company to improve the method by which
> they update their website.
>
> Basically, at the moment, they use a manual method of data entry via an
<font color=purple> > admin interface and upload images via <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://FTP.</font" target="_blank">FTP.</font</a>>
>
> They currently use Quark for publishing purposes, [as I would expect] and
> may be able to export this information into an XML file.

I don't know the latest version, but where I work we use version 5.0 and
it has no XML export capabilities :/ You can save in a grand total of 4
file formats: .qxd, .qxt, .eps, and .pdf. Other than that, perhaps there
are plugins you can install.

Grey

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