(See Usage Notes, below.)
This is a demonstration form allowing you to play with building a page by referencing a document template file and an Xtags input file, both in the server document pool, the latter which is poured in to the auto text flow by Xtags to create a final rendered document.
(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 a demo template document reference
(xtags/Demo template.qxd
). If you've manually loaded the
xtags/
folder into the XPress Server document pool at
top-level, you can try xtags/Basic 1.txt
,
xtags/Basic 2.txt
, or xtags/Boxes.txt
. (Be
sure to select the PDF output type for most of these samples to
see all the pages.)
For another kind of example (one that sets different master pages as
you flow in text), set the output type to PDF, use the Xtags
template xtags/Masters template.qxd
, and the Xtags input
file xtags/Masters.txt
.
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 file, give a path name within the server document pool of an Xtags tagged text file you've already uploaded in some fashion.
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.