Qatari Daily Goes Quark

Middle-eastern daily newspaper opts for XPress 6.5/Arabic XT solution

On 13 November 2005 the online news source AMEInfo​.com announced that the Qatari dai­ly news­pa­per Al Watan, esti­mat­ed cir­cu­la­tion 18,000*, would inte­grate QuarkXPress 6.5 com­bined with Layout Middle East’s ArabicXT 6.1 soft­ware into its pro­duc­tion workflow.

ArabicXT is Layout Ltd’s set of XTensions soft­ware that turns QuarkXPress into an Arabic-based DTP tool with­out actu­al­ly alter­ing XPress in any way. It pro­vides spe­cial­ized func­tions for han­dling the unique demands of Arabic type as well as a vari­ety of professionally-designed Arabic fonts exclu­sive to ArabicXT. Along with the soft­ware the dai­ly is get­ting a full pack­age of train­ing on Mac OS X and imple­men­ta­tion of Layout’s NewsPaperXT mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem, pro­vid­ing for web-based edi­to­r­i­al and man­age­r­i­al pro­duc­tion mon­i­tor­ing on a web-browser based interface.

Read the full AMEinfo​.com arti­cle by fol­low­ing this link.

*Al Watan circ. est. source: Chart “Statistics on Arab Media”, Arab Reform Bulletin, December 2004, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, PDF at http://www.carnegieendowment.org/pdf/ARB-12–04-charts.pdf