[thelist] Web to print solutions

[Mark Howells]

I develop a content management system which powers the websites at
<http://www.jungfrau-zeitung.ch/> and <http://www.zugermedia.ch> (among
others). We use an Xtag plugin to pull the articles from a 4th Dimension
database <http://www.4d.com> to create Quark documents, which are then used
to make the weekly newspapers.

4D doesn't currently have a plugin for SQL connectivity (which is a real
pain for me as I come from an ASP / PHP / SQL background), so it wouldn't be
the direct solution for you: a search on Google
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Xtags> does bring back some
interesting sites though, which might help.

Regards
Mark Howells
Working in a Winter Wonderland
http://www.mark.ac

> Von: Moe Rubenzahl <moe at maxim-ic.com>
> Betreff: [thelist] Web to print solutions
> 
> We produce a catalog that has several sections of pretty intensive
> data content -- electrical specs, etc. All this data exists on our
> website and is in our SQL database on the web server.
> 
> [snip] I want to instead
> publish from the web-based data (which is always fresh).
> 
> Am looking for semi-automated approaches.
>
> [snip]
>
> I expect the right answer is to generate text files with style tags,
> that could be imported directly into Quark Xpress (perhaps via a
> plug-in to interpret the tagging?)