(See Usage Notes, below.)
This is a demonstration form allowing you to play with building a page "freehand" using Xtags in the Xtags input text edit area.
(We assume you've installed the Xtags Server XTension (including the Xtags demonstration files) under your XPress Server and have restarted the server.)
The form is pre-loaded with text appropriate to the Xtags Server
demonstration, including referencing a demo template document
(xtags/Demo template.qxd
) and some very simple sample
text that creates text in the auto flow.
Use a real server name (hostname or IP address, like qxpserver.emsoftware.com) if you're not running QuarkXPress Server locally in a testbed mode.
Use something other than port 8080 if your XPress Server is running on a different (non-default) port.
You can choose an output type (renderer, in XPress Server terminology) and an output scale. Note that if you have multi-page output, you'll need to use PDF rendering to see all the pages.
For the Xtags template, give a path name within the server document pool of a document template you've already uploaded in some fashion.
For the Xtags input text, you can use any Xtags tagged text you like, including tags to place text, create and fill anchored and unanchored picture and text boxes, group any created boxes, apply master pages, etc.
One useful approach is to use Xtags under a client version of QuarkXPress, selecting a group of page objects, invoking Edit > Copy Xtags Text, then pasting the results in this field.
See the Xtags reference manual for the full list of tags.
Error reporting controls whether Xtags outputs error messages in-line with imported text or not, in the form <<Xtags: message>>.
Quote handling controls whether Xtags converts straight quotes to "printer's (curly) quotes" or leaves them alone.
Press the Render button when you're ready to see the results.