Product

• Brisque 4.1.53
• QuarkXPress 5.0

Platform

• E30 - Victory
• 43P-140 Tiger 1
• 43P-150 Tiger 2
• F50 - Wildcat (2 and 4 CPUs)
• 44P-170 Hammerhead
• 6F1 Condor (2, 4, and 6 CPUs)

Macintosh

Operating system

IBM AIX 4.3.3

Macintosh OS

Background

The QuarkXPress layer functionality enables you to organize your design page in a layered structure as in a graphics program such as Adobe FreeHand™ or Adobe Illustrator™.

When you send the finished job to print, all visible layers in the QuarkXPress file are printed (can be a single layer or all layers). If all layers are visible, then all visible layers are printed one on top of the other.

Therefore, the QuarkXPress 5.0 layering feature does not replace the Creo Versioning XT nor can it create versioning files.

To create a versioning job,  print single PostScript files from the QuarkXPress and merge the base and version layers in the Brisque Versioning module.

Handling the base layer in QuarkXPress 5.0 is more of an option than a requirement. You can create versioning jobs via Creo Versioning XT without using the QuarkXPress 5.0 layer option.

Benefits:

The benefit to using the layering feature in QuarkXPress 5.0 is that you have all version data stored in one file.

The benefit to using the Creo Versioning XT is that the extension merges all version data and produces a single file that contains all information (base + versions). This is useful as you can then RIP and output the single file on the Brisque.

This procedure explains how to create versioning jobs using the QuarkXPress 5.0 layering feature and the Brisque Versioning model.

Procedure

In QuarkXPress:

1. Create your layered image. For example, there are 5 layers, 4 layers contain a different language version and the default layer contains the base.
2. In QuarkXPress, print each layer separately to PostScript. For example, turn layers 2 to 5 off and print the default layer to PostScript. Then turn the default layer off and layers 3, 4, and 5 off to print layer 2 to PostScript, and so on. You should end with 5 separate PostScript files.

In Brisque:

1. RIP each PostScript file, creating a Base.job and Version.jobs.
2. In the Versioning application, merge the Base.job with the Version.jobs to create a single Versioning.job.
3. Send the Version.job to output.

See also

For more information on Brisque Versioning, see the Brisque 4.0 User Guide, or the Brisque 4.0 Versioning Customer training package.

Technical contact(s)

Content owner: Eli Cohen

Submitted by

Iris Ben Natan and Oren Keinan

Date submitted

26 Jun 2002