Cumulus Bridge Products
by Canto
Quark Server Product Integration
Benefits
- Catalog legacy layouts, making their content searchable—and usable!
- Add complete DAM services to QPS.
- Bridge entire asset collections, using Cumulus as the hub.
- Find layout pages and elements, not just entire files.
Features
- Easy integration for minimal pipeline interruption.
- No per-user licenses required—one license works for all Quark users.
- No QuarkXPress licenses required.
- On-demand PDF creation of layouts, even over the Web.
The Cumulus Bridge products help link Cumulus to other mission-critical applications within your organization.
QuarkXPress (QXP) Server Bridge
QXP Server Bridge integrates Cumulus with the QuarkXPress Server to provide fantastic productivity options with regard to in-production, archived and legacy QuarkXPress documents.
QuarkXPress documents can be “deconstructed” into individual pages and elements that are cataloged into Cumulus. Even better, Cumulus extracts the text inside your QuarkXPress documents and makes it all searchable from within Cumulus. This allows you to easily located individual layout pages within larger files.
Cataloging into Cumulus from inside the Quark Publishing System is easy. After selecting a few options, Cumulus takes over the rest of the processing, parsing the layout into per-page asset records, each with its own metadata. In addition, all page elements can be cataloged individually too, making it easy to keep track of where logos and other files have been used.
In addition, QXP Server Bridge can render cataloged QuarkXPress documents into PDF and other formats on demand—even over the Web. This means your customers can download PDF versions of your cataloged layouts—24/7—from anywhere. No more manually creating and emailing PDFs of layout updates. Update your layouts as needed, and know that Cumulus always delivers the most recent approved version.
Quark Publishing System (QPS) Bridge
QPS Bridge brings all the power of Cumulus to users of the Quark Publishing System. No need to go outside QPS just to find and manage files. Users can check in/out files of any type, automatically create PDF variants of layouts, manage projects and more. Layouts checked into Cumulus are deconstructed into individual elements, making it easy to find individual pages and page elements—see all pages that contain a logo, or see all images used in last year’s layouts. It's all easy.
RedDot Bridge
Benefits
- Add complete DAM services to RedDot, including version control, powerful searching, and more.
- Bridge entire asset collections, using Cumulus as the hub.
- Create on-demand Web-ready versions of cataloged masters.
- Speed approvals using preview and commenting tools.
- Control access to your files using the most powerful and flexible permissions models available.
Features
- No per-user licenses required—one license works for all RedDot editors.
- Place any Cumulus cataloged file using RedDot templates you already use .
- Supports RedDot versions 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.5.
The RedDot bridge allows you to maintain a single, permission-controlled asset repository, accessible to all users. RedDot Bridge turns Cumulus into a central hub for your entire asset library, offering easy access right from within RedDot.
Inside RedDot, Cumulus appears as an external application, offering easy “live” access to metadata fields.
RedDot users can quickly search and find any file, and place it right where it’s needed. The files RedDot users access are always “live,” so the moment a designer or editor makes an update, the revised file is available to RedDot editors, permissions permitting.
Access permission-controlled files from within RedDot, the moment they’re approved—ensure the content on your websites remains current and that nothing gets posted before it’s approved. Get on-demand Web-ready variants of Photoshop, TIF and EPS masters—everyone “self serves” files they need, without assistance from designers or IT.
RedDot Bridge is invisible to your RedDot content editors. Files are added to Web pages based on RedDot templates you already use—all users know is that they suddenly have access to many more content options, without hunting through file servers and hunting down approvals.
Cumulus permissions make it easy to manage a multitude of system access points, including who can add new assets; access, approve, edit or delete assets; edit metadata, etc.
Get Started
For all Cumulus Bridge products, integration and/or configuration services from Canto Professional Services or a Canto partner are recommended. Contact Canto for more information.
