how to export printed pages in quarkxpress 2017 to html5

InDesign has tended to port features across from Illustrator, and to integrate more tightly with other applications in the Creative Suite (or, later, Cloud). Quark has tended to introduce more production-led features, such as job jackets. There’s been an arms-race of features between InDesign and QuarkXPress for the last ten years. Which brings us back to the question. What is DTP, really?ĭTP pulls in pictures and text, lets you move them round the page, and allows you to output them to a printing press, at a level of quality that matches the phototypesetting and compositing of the pre-DTP era, or better. So when Aldus released Pagemaker in 1983, they were just putting back into the hands of the individual the power that had been lost for a brief century and a half: the power to assemble, composite and produce printed pages. It wasn’t until the 19th century that printing left the desk top (or the work bench) and became, at least for a while, a purely industrial process. Six hundred years before that, the early Christians were busily exploiting the new publication format, the book (it was scrolls before then) to publicise their subversive ‘Gospels’.įast forward from there fourteen hundred years, and Johannes von Gutenberg and later William Caxton are turning the handcrafted works of the monks and mass-producing them. The story is that the monks of Lindisfarne invented the pencil in order to draw the lines for the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels, arguably the greatest treasure of the Dark Ages.

Desk top publishing (with a space) is something people have been doing for two-thousand or more years. Here’s a philosophical question which probably doesn’t make it onto many university courses: What is DTP?ĭesktop publishing was a term coined at Aldus in the 1980s for a new category of software.

Delighted to have a guest blog by Martin Turner - author of Desk Top Publishing with QuarkXPress 2016, 20!

How to export printed pages in quarkxpress 2017 to html5