Easypress launches its latest releases of Atomik Xport to support the leading page layout platforms for both Adobe InDesign CS4 and QuarkXPress 8

LONDON – March 8th, 2010 – Easypress has today announced the launch of two major releases of its Atomik Xport technology. These releases of Atomik Xport continue Easypress Technologies commitment to delivering web-ready content and XML from the millions of Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress desktops across the global publishing market.

“I am very pleased by this announcement as it is our intention to carry on supporting through the Company’s Plug-ins and XTensions the ability to quickly create and deliver web-ready content and XML from the 1,000s of publishing companies across the global who have millions of Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress desk-tops providing print-layout products today; and who need to extract from those print-layouts web-ready content they can re-purpose to web products quickly and cheaply.” commented James Macfarlane, CEO of Easypress Technologies. “Our company has 100s of Clients with thousands of our products and they need a continuing roadmap of product improvement to aid them in repurposing their print content as cheaply as possible to maximise their revenues and the lowest possible cost.”

“Our commitment to upgrading our Atomik Xport products to the latest releases of Adobe InDesign CS4 and QuarkXPress 8 clearly sends a message that we believe in the future of print-to-web XML content from the desktop for some time to come” continued James Macfarlane; “Atomik Xport is a unique product and still is the only fully functional software product to extract rich and valid XML from Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress in just a few minutes”.

Atomik Xport is Easypress Technologies leading XML export software XTension for magazine, catalogue, newspaper, book and journal publishers who want to use Adobe InDesign CS4 and QuarkXPress 8 software to create, layout and publish print product from online XML based content.

Atomik Xport is the only globally XML product to work with Adobe InDesign CS4 and QuarkXPress 8 as a boxed product which provides its users with an out-of-the-box solution which streamlines and integrates both Adobe & Quark platforms into seamless publishing workflows for the mass production of web ready XML from a range of print products such as catalogues, brochures, magazines, newsletter and journals. In addition, Atomik Xport for Adobe InDesign QuarkXPress 8 has a number of new features which dramatically improve the usage of the product and further reduce the work required by publishers to get “Print-to-Web” content in an XML or XHTML format. These new features are:

1. Extraction of web-friendly graphics: Atomik Xport v4.2 can generate a web-optimised version of each extracted image and link to this from your XML. These images are displayed in the XML Preview Palette.

2. Support for QuarkXPress Hyperlinks and Anchors: hyperlinks and anchors stored in your QuarkXPress pages can be retained in your XML and used to navigate through whatever electronic media you choose for repurposing your content.

3. Footnotes in Adobe InDesign: an integrated method to dynamic links in your content to footnotes.

4. Non-modal palettes: you can now switch between the XML Preview, the Proofing Palette and the Ruleset Editor effortlessly. Edit your mappings and then immediately re-extract without closing palettes or re-creating an archive file.



A live demo copy of the product plus a facts sheet can be downloaded for Atomik Xport for either Adobe InDesign CS4 or QuarkXPress 8, for Mac OSX or Windows 7. The product is available for download from:

www.easypress.com/products/atomik/demoform.epml


About Easypress Technologies

Easypress Technologies ( www.easypress.com ) provides multi-channel publishing software that allows XML formatted content to be imported into, or exported from Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress or Microsoft WORD. Its flagship products include Atomik Xport, providing automated QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign-to-XML conversion software, Atomik Dynamic Publisher which allows Browser based editing, proofing and approval of Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress documents with no prior knowledge of either software layout products from anywhere in the world. The company has an extensive global magazine clients list including Centaur Publishing, The Economist, Les Express, Roularta Media Group, Sotheby’s, Harvard Business Publishing, Rogers Publishing, Time Out, US News & World Report, ThomsonReuters, Health Network Laboratories and EPE Magazine. In addition, Easypress has a growing list of eBook Publishers including Random House, ECW Press, Infinity Publishing, 36L and Grammata Publishing. Easypress Technologies is an operating division of EvolvedGroup Limited and is headquartered in Guildford, England, UK.

Published on the 8th March 2010