You do not need to read the QuarkXPress® documentation from beginning to end. Instead, use this guide to quickly look up information, find out what you need to know, and get on with your work.

What we're assuming about you

In writing this guide, we assume that you are familiar with your computer and know how to:

• Launch an application

• Open, save, and close files

• Use menus, dialog boxes, and palettes

• Work within a networked computing environment

• Use the mouse, keyboard commands, and modifier keys

Consult the documentation provided with your computer or other resources if you need more information in any of these areas.

Where to go for help

If you're new to QuarkXPress, or if you want to explore one of its other longstanding features, consult the following resources:

• A Guide to QuarkXPress

• QuarkXPress Help

• Third-party books

• General books about desktop publishing

If your issues are at the system level — saving files, moving files, activating fonts, for example — consult the documentation resources provided with your computer.

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Conventions

Formatting conventions highlight information to help you quickly find what you need.

• Bold type style: The names of all dialog boxes, fields, and other controls are set in bold type. For example: "Click OK."

• References: In descriptions of features, parenthetical references guide you in accessing those features. For example: "The Find/Change dialog box (Edit menu) lets you find and replace text."

• Arrows: You will often see arrows ( >), which map out the menu path to a feature. For example: "Choose Edit > Style Sheets to display the Style Sheets dialog box."

• Icons: Although many tools and buttons are referenced by name, which you can see by displaying ToolTips, in some cases icons are shown for easy identification. For example,

"Click the button on the Measurements palette to center text."

• Cross-platform issues: This application is quite consistent across operating systems. However, some labels, buttons, key combinations, and other aspects of the application must differ between Mac OS® and Windows® because of user interface conventions or other factors.

In such cases, both the Mac OS and Windows versions are presented, separated by a slash, with the Mac OS version presented first. For example, if the Mac OS version of a button is labeled Select, and the Windows version is labeled Browse, you are directed to "Click

Select/Browse." More complex cross-platform differences are mentioned in notes or parenthetical statements.

Technology note

Quark developed QuarkXPress for Mac OS X and Windows to give publishers control over typography, color, and collaboration. In addition to unique typographic controls,

QuarkXPress offers comprehensive font support, including support for TrueType®,

OpenType®, and Unicode®. Designers can use PANTONE® (the PANTONE MATCHING

SYSTEM®), Hexachrome®, Trumatch®, Focoltone®, DIC®, and Toyo to add color to page layouts.

QuarkXPress acts as a hub for collaborative publishing environments because it allows you to import and export content in multiple file formats, and to share design components with other users. You can import files from applications such as Microsoft® Word, Microsoft

Excel®, WordPerfect®, Adobe® Illustrator®, and Adobe Photoshop®. You can output content as PostScript® or in PDF format for Adobe Acrobat® Reader®. You can also export files that can be viewed using QuickTime®, Internet Explorer®, Safari®, Firefox®, and

Netscape Navigator®. With Quark Interactive Designer™, you can export layouts in Flash® format. Using features such as Job Jackets® and Composition Zones®, you can be sure that multiple people share specifications to produce consistent publications, even while working on a single publication simultaneously.

The QuarkXPress software architecture lets you and software developers expand publishing capability. Through XTensions® software technology, third-party developers can create

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custom modules for QuarkXPress. QuarkXTensions® (Quark® XTensions software) also provide a modular approach for meeting your particular publishing needs. And if you can write AppleScript® scripts, you can use this scripting language from Apple® to automate many QuarkXPress activities.

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The user interface

Skimming through the QuarkXPress user interface, you will find that many commands are familiar or self-explanatory. Once you become familiar with QuarkXPress menus and dialog boxes, you will discover that keyboard commands and palettes offer convenient access to features that you can also access through menus.

Tools

The Tools palette

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The Tools palette includes the following controls:

• Use the Item tool to select, move, resize, and reshape items (boxes, lines, text paths, and groups). When the Item tool is not selected, you can press Command/Ctrl to temporarily access the Item tool.

• Use the Text Content tool to draw text boxes and work with text in boxes.

• Use the Text Linking tool to link text boxes.

•

Use the Text Unlinking tool to unlink text boxes.

• Use the Picture Content tool to draw picture boxes and work with pictures in boxes.

• Use the Rectangle Box tool to create a rectangular box. To draw a square box, press and hold Shift while drawing.

• Use the Oval Box tool to create an oval box. To create a circular box, press and hold

Shift while drawing.

• Use the Starburst tool to create a star-shaped box.

• Use the Composition Zones tool to create a Composition Zones box.

• Use the Line tool to create straight diagonal lines of any angle. To constrain a line angle to 45 degrees, press and hold Shift while drawing.

• Use the Bézier Pen tool to create Bézier lines and boxes. To constrain a line angle to

45 degrees, press and hold Shift while drawing.

• Use the Add Point tool to add a point to any type of path. Adding a point to a content box automatically turns the content box into a Bézier item.

• Use the Remove Point tool to remove a point from any type of path.

• Use the Convert Point tool to automatically convert corner points to curve points, and curve points to corner points. Click and drag to change the position of a point, the curve of a curved line segment, or the position of a straight line segment. Select this tool and click a rectangular box or straight line to convert the item to a Bézier box or line.

• Use the Scissors tool to cut an item into distinct paths.

• Use the Select Point tool to select curves or points so that you can move them or delete them. Press Shift and click to select multiple points. Option-click/Alt-click a point to make it symmetrical.

• Use the Freehand Drawing tool to draw any shape line or box you want. If you don't close a freehand box, it remains a line. To automatically close a freehand box, press

Option/Alt.

• Use the Tables tool to create a table.

• Use the Zoom tool to enlarge or reduce the document view.

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• Use the Pan tool to reposition the active layout.

You can use key commands to declare the box content type as you draw using the Rectangle

Box tool: Press R while drawing to declare Picture content or press T while drawing to declare Text content. To change the content type of an existing box, right-click on the box and choose Content > Text , Picture or None

For more information about Bézier boxes and lines, see " Creating Bézier boxes " and "

Creating

Bézier lines

To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and drag.

To add text to a line or path, select the Text Content tool and double-click the line or path.

For more information about Composition Zones, see "

Creating a Composition Zones item ."

Users can display the Tools palette (Windows menu) horizontally, as well as vertically.

To display the palette horizontally, on Windows Ctrl+double-click the title bar and on Mac

OS X dock the tool palette to the top edge.

Tool

Item tool

Text Content tool

Tool key commands

When no text box or text path is active, you can switch tools quickly using the following key commands:

Windows

Mac OS X

Text Linking tool

Text Unlinking tool

Picture Content tool

Rectangle Box tool

Oval Box tool

Starburst tool

Composition Zones tool

Line tool

Bézier Pen tool

Add Point tool

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Tool

Remove Point tool

Convert Point tool

Scissors tool

Select Point tool

Freehand Drawing tool

Table tool

Zoom tool

Pan tool

Windows

Mac OS X

Menus

The topics below describe the menus and menu items available in QuarkXPress.

QuarkXPress menu (Mac OS X only)

The QuarkXPress menu is a part of QuarkXPress for Mac OS X. This menu contains the same commands as in the application menu for other Mac OS X applications — to hide or show QuarkXPress and other applications, to access preferences, and to quit QuarkXPress.

This menu includes the following commands:

• About QuarkXPress: Use this command to display information about QuarkXPress, such as the version number.

• Edit License Code: Use this command to change the validation code of an installed copy of QuarkXPress. By changing this code, you can change a Test Drive version (formerly called "evaluation copy") of QuarkXPress into a fully functional version, change the languages supported by the user interface, or change QuarkXPress into a Plus edition.

• Activate QuarkXPress: Use this command to activate QuarkXPress on your computer.

Available only when QuarkXPress is running in demo mode.

• Check for Updates: Use this command to check for updates to QuarkXPress.

• Quark Update Settings: Use this command to configure automatic update settings.

• Preferences: Lets you modify default values and settings. For more information, see

Preferences

• Quit QuarkXPress: Use this command to exit the application.

File menu

The File menu enables you to manipulate electronic files in a number of ways, including the ability to create, open, print, and save. This menu includes the following commands:

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• New: Choose an option from the New submenu to create a project. If you choose New

Project from Ticket, you can select a Job Ticket from which you can create the project.

You can also use this submenu to create new libraries.

• Open: Use this option to open project files.

• Open Recent: Use this option to open a project from a list of recently opened files.

• Close: Use this option to close the active project.

• Save: Use this option to save the active project.

• Save As: Use this option to save a copy of the active project.

• Revert to Saved: Use this option to return the active project to the state it was in when it was last saved.

• Import: Use this command to import text into a text box or to import a picture into a picture box.

• Save Text: Use this option to save the contents of the active text box as a separate file.

• Append: Use this option to append style sheets, colors, layouts, and a variety of other types of resources from another file.

• Export: Use this option to export a layout as another file type or version.

• Collect for Output: Use this option to copy a file, an output report, and selected resources into one folder.

• Job Jackets: Use this submenu to access the specifications and rules for creating and inspecting a layout, link a project to a Job Jackets file, modify a Job Ticket, and evaluate a layout.

• Print: Use this option to print the active file.

• Exit (Windows only): Use this option to exit the application.

Edit menu

The Edit menu includes the following commands:

• Undo: Undoes the last action.

• Redo: Redoes an undone action.

• Cut: Cuts the selected content.

• Copy: Copies the selected content to the clipboard.

• Paste: Pastes the clipboard contents on the active page.

• Paste Without Formatting: Pastes the clipboard contents as plain text.

• Paste In Place: Pastes a duplicated or copied item onto the active page at the same position from which it was originally copied.

• Paste Special (Windows only): Lets you choose how the object is pasted into your document by using the Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) function.

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• Delete (Windows only): Deletes the active content.

• Select All: Selects all content in the active box or text path.

• Show Clipboard (Windows only): Displays the contents of the clipboard.

• Find/Change: Displays the Find/Change palette, which you can use to find and change text based on content, formatting, or both.

• Item Find/Change: Displays and hides the Item Find/Change palette.

• Preferences (Windows only): Lets you modify default values and settings. For more information, see "

Preferences

•

Colors: Lets you add, edit, and delete color definitions. For more information, see " Working with colors

• Style Sheets: Lets you add, edit, and delete style sheet definitions. For more information, see "

Working with style sheets

• Item Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete item definitions that you can apply to

QuarkXPress items with the Item Styles palette (Window menu).

• Callout Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete callout styles. For more information, see

Working with callouts ."

• Conditional Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete conditional styles. For more information, see "

Working with conditional styles

• Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete bullet, numbering,

and outline styles. For more information, see " Bullets and numbering

• Underline Styles: Lets you access and modify underline styles.

• Hyperlinks: Lets you add, edit, and delete hyperlinks including URLs, anchors, and page links.

• Hanging Characters: Lets you add, edit, and delete custom hanging character definitions.

For more information, see "

Working with hanging characters ."

• Lists: Lets you add, edit, and delete list definitions. The Lists feature is a tool for automatically generating tables of contents and other types of listed content. For more information, see "

Working with lists

• H&Js: Lets you add, edit, and delete H&J (hyphenation and justification) definitions. H&Js let you control how text breaks. For more information, see "

Controlling hyphenation and justification ."

• Grid Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete patterns of non-printing design grids that you can apply to text components. For more information, see "

Working with design grids ."

• Dashes and Stripes: Lets you add, edit, and delete custom line patterns.

• Font Sets: Lets you add, edit, and delete custom scaling, sizing, and direction for specific fonts.

• Mojigumi: Lets you add, edit, and delete Mojigumi sets and classes. For more information, see "

Working with mojigumi sets and classes ."

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• Non-Breaking Character Sets: Lets you add, edit, and delete rules for two-byte character sets.

• Kerning Pairs (Mac OS X only): Lets you control kerning for installed fonts.

• Font Tracking Tables (Mac OS X only): Lets you control tracking for installed fonts..

• Set Tool Preferences From Selected (Mac OS X only): Lets you set the tool preferences to the currently selected box's attributes.

• Restore Tool Preferences To Default (Mac OS X only): Lets you restore the tool preferences back to the defaults.

• Color Setups: Lets you access and modify setups for Source and Output Setups.

• Output Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete output style definitions. Output styles let you easily switch between different sets of output options. For more information, see

Working with output styles ."

• Program Language (Windows only): Lets you change the language of the user interface.

• Special Characters (Mac OS X only): Lets you add, edit, and delete special character definitions..

Style menu

The Style menu changes depending on whether a text box, a picture box, or a line is active.

Style menu for text

The Style menu for text includes commands for specifying character attributes and paragraph formats. This menu includes the following commands:

• Font: Lets you change the font of selected text.

• Size: Lets you change the size of selected text.

• Type Style: Lets you apply type styles such as bold, italic, and underline to selected text.

• Color: Lets you change the color of selected text.

• Shade: Lets you set the tint of an applied color.

• Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of selected text.

• Horizontal/Vertical Scale (Windows only): Lets you stretch selected text horizontally or vertically.

• Story Direction: Lets you specify horizontal or vertical story direction for the selected text box.

• Rubi: Lets you control rubi characters applied to text.

• Group Characters: Lets you place horizontal text in a vertical story.

• Alignment: Lets you align active paragraphs to the left, right, or center. Also lets you justify or force-justify selected paragraphs.

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• Character Alignment: Lets you align active characters to the top, center, baseline, or bottom.

• Track/Sending (Windows only): When the text insertion point is between two characters,

Track lets you control the spacing between all selected Roman characters. Sending lets you specify a fixed distance between characters, irrespective of font or font size.

• Baseline Shift (Windows only): Lets you move selected text up or down in relation to the baseline without changing line spacing.

• Character (Windows only): Displays the Character Attributes dialog box, which lets you control every aspect of character formatting for selected text.

• Leading (Windows only): Lets you change the line spacing of selected paragraphs.

• Formats (Windows only): Displays the Paragraph Attributes dialog box, which lets you control every aspect of paragraph formatting for selected text.

• Tabs (Windows only): Lets you set tab stops for selected paragraphs.

• Rules (Windows only): Lets you create automatic lines above and below selected paragraphs.

• Paragraph Style Sheet: Lets you apply paragraph style sheets to selected text.

• Character Style Sheet: Lets you apply character style sheets to selected text.

• Update Style Sheet: Lets you update a character or paragraph style sheet definition based on local changes to the applied style sheet.

• Item Styles: Lets you view and update applied item styles.

• Change Case: Lets you change case of selected text to uppercase, lower case, or title case.

• Flip Horizontal: Lets you flip selected text horizontally.

• Flip Vertical: Lets you flip selected text vertically.

• Hyperlink: Lets you modify and apply a hyperlink, page link, or anchor to selected text.

• Anchor: Lets you create or modify an anchor for selected text.

• Remove Manual Kerning : Lets you remove all manual kerning applied between characters, or remove kerning from a kerning pair.

• Underline Styles (Windows only): Lets you modify and apply an underline style to selected text.

Style menu for pictures

The Style menu for pictures includes commands for formatting and editing pictures. This menu includes the following commands:

• Color: Applies a color to a selected grayscale or one-bit picture.

• Shade: Lets you set the intensity of an applied color.

• Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of a selected picture.

• Halftone (Windows only): Lets you apply a halftone screen pattern to a selected grayscale picture.

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• Center Picture: Centers the selected picture in its picture box.

• Stretch Picture To Fit Box: Reduces or enlarges the selected picture horizontally and vertically to fill its picture box.

• Scale Picture To Box: Reduces or enlarges the selected picture proportionately to fill its picture box.

• Fit Box To Picture: Reduces or enlarges the picture box to fit the size of the selected picture.

• Item Styles: Lets you view and update applied item styles.

• Flip Horizontal: Flips the selected picture horizontally.

• Flip Vertical: Flips the selected picture vertically.

• Hyperlink: Lets you modify and apply a hyperlink, page link, or anchor to a selected picture or box.

• Anchor: Lets you create or modify an anchor for a selected picture or box.

Style menu for lines

The Style menu for lines includes the following commands:

• Line Style: Lets you apply a line style to a selected line.

• Arrowheads: Lets you apply an arrowhead style to a selected line.

• Width: Lets you adjust the width of a selected line.

• Color: Lets you change the color of a selected line.

• Shade: Lets you set the intensity of an applied color.

• Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of a selected line.

• Item Styles: Lets you view and update applied item styles.

• Hyperlink: Lets you modify and apply a hyperlink, page link, or anchor to a selected line.

• Anchor: Lets you create or modify an anchor for a selected line.

Item menu

The Item menu includes commands for controlling item attributes, positions, grouping, sharing, and more.

• Modify (Windows only): Lets you access a comprehensive set of controls such as color, shade, position, size, frame, runaround, clipping path, and more for an item.

• Frame (Windows only): Lets you specify frame attributes such as width, style, color, and opacity for an item.

• Runaround (Windows only): Lets you specify whether text runs inside, outside, or through a picture or its picture box.

• Clipping (Windows only): Lets you select the clipping type for a given item and control its outset.

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• Duplicate: Lets you create a copy of an item and its contents.

• Step and Repeat (Windows only): Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times and in any position you specify.

• Super Step and Repeat: Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times and specify scale, rotation, and shading for the duplicates.

• Delete: Lets you delete a selected item and its contents.

• Lock: Lets you prevent accidental changes to items and their contents by locking its position or content.

• Send & Bring (Mac OS X only): Lets you move an item one level backward in the page or layer's stacking order, move an item to the back of the page or layer, move an item to the front of the page or layer, or move an item one level forward in the page or layer's stacking order.

• Send Backward (Windows only): Moves an item one level backward in the page or layer's stacking order.

• Send to Back (Windows only): Moves an item to the back of the page or layer.

• Bring Forward (Windows only): Moves an item one level forward in the page or layer's stacking order.

• Bring to Front (Windows only): Moves an item to the front of the page or layer.

• Group: Lets you combine two or more active items (including lines, boxes, text paths, tables, and other groups) into a group.

• Ungroup: Performs an Ungroup on the currently selected grouped items.

• Ungroup All: Lets you break a group into its component items or groups.

• Space/Align: Lets you position the selected items evenly with regard to each other or with regard to the page or spread.

• Constrain: Lets you restrict an item so that it cannot move beyond the boundaries of the item to which it is constrained.

• Content: Lets you change the content type of an item.

• Shape: Lets you change the shape of an active item.

• Merge: Lets you merge selected items in a number of ways. (Mac OS X : Merge or Split Paths)

• Split: Lets you split boxes that contain non-overlapping shapes, split boxes that contain shapes within shapes, or split boxes that contain a border that crosses over itself (such as a figure eight). (Mac OS X : Merge or Split Paths)

• Point/Segment Type: Lets you change the point or segment type of an item so you can manipulate points, curve handles, and line segments.

• Convert Text To Boxes: Lets you convert the contents of a selected text box to a Bézier box.

• Edit: Lets you modify item shape, runaround, or clipping path.

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• Flip Shape: Lets you flip a Bézier shape in its frame either vertically or horizontally.

• Share: Lets you access sharing properties of an item and synchronize or re-use content such as text, pictures, boxes, lines, and Composition Zones.

• Unsynchronize Size: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes).

• Unsynchronize Item/Content: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes).

• Drop Shadow (Windows only): Lets you apply or modify an item's drop shadow.

• Copy To Other Layouts: Lets you copy to selected items to another layout.

• Callout Anchor: Lets you configure callout anchors and callouts. For more information, see "

Working with callouts

• Composition Zones: Lets you create or modify Composition Zones.

• Digital Publishing: Lets you configure items for digital publishing in ePub and App Studio

formats. For more information, see " eBooks

" and A Guide to App Studio.

• New Box From Clipping: Lets you to create a box from a clipping path.

• Scale: Lets you set the scale settings.

Page menu

The Page menu includes commands for inserting, deleting, and moving pages; working with guides, grids, and sections; navigating through pages, and more.

• Insert: Lets you add new pages.

• Delete: Lets you delete pages.

• Move: Lets you move a page to a different location.

• Master Guides and Grid: Lets you modify the placement of page guides and design grids on master pages.

• Section: Lets you change the numbering system for a layout or a range of pages in a layout.

• Previous: Navigates to the preceding page.

• Next: Navigates to the following page.

• First: Navigates to the first page.

• Last: Navigates to the last page.

• Go to: Lets you navigate to a particular page.

• Display: Lets you display a page or a master page.

Layout menu

The Layout menu includes commands for working with and navigating to layouts.

• New: Lets you add a new layout.

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• Duplicate: Lets you duplicate one layout to copy its items and content to another.

• Delete: Lets you remove a layout.

• New/Edit Layout Specification: Lets you create or modify Job Jackets properties for a layout.

• Layout Properties: Lets you modify layout properties such as name, type, and size.

• Advanced Layout Properties: Lets you modify sharing properties of a layout.

• eBook Metadata: Lets you apply metadata to the layout for eBook export. For more information, see "

Working with eBook metadata

• Add Pages to Reflow View: Lets you add pages to a reflow article. For more information, see "

Working with Reflow view ."

• Previous: Activates the layout tab that was active prior to the current layout.

• Next: Activates the layout tab that is positioned to the immediate right of the active layout.

• First: Activates the far-left layout tab.

• Last: Activates the far-right layout tab.

• Go to: Lets you activate a specific layout and then choose the layout from the submenu.

Table menu

The Table menu includes commands for adding rows and columns to tables, modifying table attributes, converting tables, and more.

• Insert: Lets you add a row or column to a table.

• Select: Lets you select a pattern of rows and columns or other table elements. This makes it easy to apply alternating formatting — such as shading every other row.

• Delete: Lets you delete a selection from the table.

• Combine Cells: Lets you combine a rectangular selection of adjacent table cells — including entire rows or columns — into a single cell.

• Table Break: Lets you continue a table in another location. The table break is the maximum size the table can reach before it splits into two linked tables.

• Make Separate Tables: Lets you sever the link between continued tables so each table becomes completely separate. This prevents changes to one portion of the table from affecting all the continued tables.

• Repeat As Header: Lets you specify a header row to repeat automatically in continued instances of a table.

• Repeat As Footer: Lets you specify a footer row to repeat automatically in continued instances of a table.

• Convert Text to Table: Lets you convert text that has already been imported or typed into a text box to a table. This works best with text that is delimited in some way to indicate how to divide the information into columns and rows.

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• Convert Table: Lets you convert the information in a table to text or to a group of related boxes. You might convert a table for easy exporting of the current data or to save a document containing features that are not supported in earlier versions of QuarkXPress.

• Table Direction: Lets you specify horizontal or vertical orientation for a table.

• Link Text Cells: Lets you link table cells to each other just as text boxes and text paths can be linked. Text that is typed, imported, or pasted into a linked cell fills the first text cell, and then flows on to each subsequent linked cell.

• Maintain Geometry: Lets you prevent the width and height of a table from changing when you insert or delete rows or columns.

View menu

The View menu provides options for viewing your document and specifying what you see on screen when the menu item is checked. This menu includes the following commands:

• Fit in Window: Automatically scales the view to fit (and center) an entire page in the layout window.

• 50%: Scales the layout view to 50%.

• 75%: Scales the layout view to 75%.

• Actual Size: Scales the layout view to 100%.

• 200%: Scales the layout view to 200%.

• Thumbnails: Displays small representations of each page that you can rearrange and copy between projects.

• Enter Full Screen (Mac OS X only): Lets you switch to full screen mode.

• Guides: Displays nonprinting lines used to position items on pages, including margin guides, the outlines of boxes, the "X" pattern in empty picture boxes, and ruler guides.

• Hide Selection: Allows you to put QuarkXPress into a mode where selections are not indicated visually in the document (no text highlighting, no handles), but the selection is still honored by QuarkXPress.

• Page Grids: Displays nonprinting gridlines defined for the master page on which the active layout page is based.

• Text Box Grids: Displays nonprinting gridlines applied to text boxes.

• Snap to Guides: Lets you quickly align items with guides so items will snap to the nearest guide.

• Snap to Page Grids: Lets you quickly align items with page grids so items will snap to the nearest guide.

• Rulers: Displays rulers, which you can use to position items and guides, along the top and left edges or top and right edges of the layout window.

• Ruler Direction: Lets you position page rulers on the top and left or top and right edges of the layout window.

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• Invisibles: Displays editable, nonprinting characters such as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns in text.

• Visual Indicators: Displays indicators for non-printing elements, such as hyperlinks and rollovers.

• Trim View: Simulates what the page will look like when trimmed by cropping any items that extend beyond the page boundary. You can control the color of the pasteboard that displays when this item is selected in the Display pane of the Preferences dialog box

( QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences).

• Hide Suppressed: Hides all items for which the Suppress Output box is checked in the

Box, Line, Picture, or Layout pane of the Modify dialog box, as well as layers for which

Suppress Output is checked in the Attributes dialog box. In addition, this option hides underlines on hyperlinks, hyperlink anchors, index markers, and the text overflow symbol.

• Proof Output : Lets you preview how the layout will look when output to different media and for different printing methods. This display simulation is accurate enough for soft proofing.

• Reflow View: Displays the Reflow view (if any) for this layout. For more information, see

Working with Reflow view ."

• Story Editor: Displays the active story in Story Editor view. For more information, see

Using Story Editor view

• View Sets: Lets you create and easily switch between different view options.

Utilities menu

The Utilities menu includes the following commands:

• Insert Character: Lets you easily insert special characters, including special breaking and nonbreaking spaces.

• Check Spelling: Use the submenu to display the Check Spelling palette to check the spelling of a word, a selection of text, a story, a layout, or all master pages in a layout.

• Word and Character Count: Displays the Word and Character Count dialog box. This dialog box displays the number of full-width characters, half-width characters, and various other kinds of characters in the active text component.

• Auxiliary Dictionary (Windows only): Lets you specify an auxiliary dictionary for use in spell checking.

• Edit Auxiliary (Windows only): Lets you edit the auxiliary dictionary associated with the active layout.

• Word And Character Count: Displays the Word and Character Count dialog box.

• Line Check: Displays a submenu that lets you find widows, orphans, loosely justified lines, lines that end with a hyphen, and overflow situations.

• Suggested Hyphenation: Displays the suggested hyphenation for the word containing the text insertion point.

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• Hyphenation Exceptions: Lets you specify whether and how particular words should be hyphenated in the active article.

• Convert Project Language: Lets you convert all of the characters in the active article that use a particular character language to a different character language.

• Usage: Lets you view and update the status of fonts, pictures, QuarkVista effects, color profiles, tables, Composition Zones, assets used in App Studio layouts, and assets used in

Blio interactivity. Multiple missing digital files can be updated all at once using the Usage dialog.

• Item Styles Usage: Lets you view and update applied item styles.

• Job Jackets Manager: Displays the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.

• Build Index (Windows only): Lets you create an index from the contents of the Index palette.

• Insert Placeholder Text: Generates random text in the active text box so that you can preview how text will flow and be styled, even though you might not have actual content yet.

• Cloner: Displays the Cloner dialog box. For more information, see "

Cloner XTensions software ."

• ImageGrid: Displays the ImageGrid dialog box. For more information, see "

ImageGrid

XTensions software

• Tracking Edit (Windows only): Lets you control tracking for installed fonts.

• Kerning Table Edit (Windows only): Lets you control kerning for installed fonts.

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Linkster: Displays the Linkster dialog box. For more information, see " Linkster XTensions software ."

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ShapeMaker: Displays the ShapeMaker dialog box. For more information, see " ShapeMaker

XTensions software

• Remove Manual Kerning (Windows only): Lets you remove all manual kerning applied between characters, or remove kerning from a kerning pair.

• Font Mapping: Lets you create and edit rules for substituting a new font for a font that is requested by a project but which is not installed on your computer.

• Component Status (Windows only): Lets you view the status of required software components.

• PPD Manager (Windows only): Lets you control which PostScript Printer Description files

(PPDs) are loaded in the Print dialog box.

• Convert Old Underlines: Converts all underlines in the active text chain from

QuarkXPress 3.x (Stars & Stripes) format to Type Tricks format.

• XTensions Manager: Lets you control which XTensions modules are loaded when the application is launched.

• Profile Manager: Lets you control which color profiles are loaded in the application.

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• Make QR Code: Lets you generate vector Quick Response (QR) codes directly within

QuarkXPress then style and color them the way you want..

• Check Out License/Check In License: Displays only if you have installed the application for use with Quark License Administrator (QLA). Lets you check licenses in and out.

Window menu

The Window menu enables you to control the on-screen display of open windows and palettes. This menu includes the following commands:

• New Window: Displays the active project in a new window. You can then view different parts of the project in each window.

• Split Window: Splits the project window into two parts. You can then view different parts of the project in each part of the window.

• Bring All to Front (Mac OS X only): Positions and displays all open windows.

• Cascade (Windows only): Layers multiple open projects so just a portion of each project's menu bar displays.

• Tile (Mac OS X only): Tiles all open windows horizontally to fit on the screen.

• Tile Horizontally (Windows only): Tiles all open windows horizontally to fit on the screen.

• Tile Vertically (Windows only): Tiles all open windows vertically to fit on the screen.

• Arrange Icons (Windows only): Minimizes all active projects.

• Close All (Windows only): Closes all active projects.

• Palette Sets: Use the submenu to store and recall arrangements of palettes.

• Turn Hiding On (Mac OS X only): Allows you to display and hide groups of docked palettes.

• Advanced Image Control: Displays and hides the Advanced Image Control palette.

• App Studio Publishing: Displays and hides the App Studio Publishing palette. For more information, see A Guide to App Studio.

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Callout Styles: Displays the Callout Styles palette. For more information, see " Working with callout styles

• Colors: Displays and hides the Colors palette.

• Conditional Styles: Displays the Conditional Styles palette. For more information, see

Working with conditional styles ."

• Content: Displays and hides the Content palette.

• Glyphs: Displays and hides the Glyphs palette.

• Grid Styles: Displays and hides the Grid Styles palette.

• Guides: Displays and hides the Guides palette.

• HTML5: Displays and hides the HTML5 palette.

• Hyperlinks: Displays and hides the Hyperlinks palette.

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• Index: Displays and hides the Index palette.

• Item Styles: Displays and hides the Item Styles palette.

• Layers: Displays and hides the Layers palette.

• Lists: Displays and hides the Lists palette.

• Measurements: Displays and hides the Measurements palette.

• Page Layout: Displays and hides the Page Layout palette.

• Profile Information: Displays and hides the Profile Information palette.

• Reflow Table of Contents: Displays the Reflow Table of Contents palette. For more information, see " Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle ."

• Reflow Tagging: Displays the Reflow Tagging palette. For more information, see "

Editing content in Reflow view

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Scale: Displays and hides the Scale palette. For more information, see " Scale XTensions software ."

• Style Sheets: Displays and hides the Style Sheets palette.

• Tools: Displays and hides the Tools palette.

• Welcome Screen: Displays the welcome screen.

In addition, this menu includes an item for every open window. You can use these menu items to easily switch between windows.

Help menu

The Help menu provides access to the online help. This menu includes the following commands:

• Search Use this command to search the local help file.

• Help Topics (Mac OS X only): Use this command to display the online help.

• Contents (Windows only): Use this option to view the Contents tab of the Help window.

• Index (Windows only): Use this option to view the Index tab of the Help window.

• Transfer QuarkXPress License (Windows only): Use this option to transfer your license to another computer.

• About QuarkXPress (Windows only): Use this command to display information about

QuarkXPress, such as the version number.

• Edit License Code (Windows only): Use this command to change the validation code of an installed copy of QuarkXPress. By changing this code, you can change a Test Drive version (formerly called "evaluation copy") of QuarkXPress into a fully functional version, change the languages supported by the user interface, or change QuarkXPress into a Plus edition.

• Check for Updates (Windows only): Use this command to check for updates to QuarkXPress.

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• Quark Update Settings (Windows only): Use this command to configure automatic update settings.

Context menus

QuarkXPress offers a wide variety of functionality through context menus. To display a context menu, Control+click (Mac OS X) or right-click in text, on a picture, or on a palette.

Palettes

To open or display a palette, check the palette name in the Window menu.

To close an open palette, click the close box in the upper-left corner of the palette, uncheck the palette name in the Window menu, or use the appropriate keyboard equivalent.

(Mac OS X only) Palettes can be vertically docked to the left and right edges of the screen, and docked palettes on screen edges form a group and can be moved as a group. You can also hide groups of docked palettes by choosing Window > Turn Hiding On. Docked palettes contain snaps giving a unified look to the application. In the document window, the resize (+) button can be used to unsnap / snap a window to the palettes. A splitter is added between the window and palette edges so that resizing the palette also resizes the window.

Due to its width, the Measurements palette can only be docked horizontally to the upper or lower edge of the screen. The Tool palette can be docked either vertically or horizontally.

(Mac OS X only) Palettes can be dragged and merged into any palette groups. When dragging, a thumbnail is shown indicating whether the palette will be merged or placed above. A blue line indicator is shown in the palette group to indicate the location the palette will be dropped.

Advanced Image Control palette

The Advanced Image Control palette lets you control the display of imported images.

For more information, see " Working with PSD pictures

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The Advanced Image Control palette lets you manipulate imported images.

Callout Styles palette

The Callout Styles palette lets you work with callout styles. For more information, see

Working with callout styles ."

Colors palette

The Colors palette lets you view and apply colors defined in the active project. The buttons at the top of this palette let you create, edit, and delete colors.

Users create colors through the Colors dialog box (Edit > Colors). For more information,

see " Working with colors

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The Colors palette lets you view and apply colors.

Conditional Styles palette

The Conditional Styles palette lets you work with conditional styles. For more information,

see " Working with conditional styles

Content palette

The Content palette provides access to items in the shared content library. From this palette, you can duplicate and synchronize that content across different layouts. The buttons at the top of this palette let you add, import, insert, edit, and control the synchronization of content.

Users can create shared items through the Shared Item Properties dialog box (Item >

Share). For more information, see "

Working with shared content ."

The Content palette provides access to items in the shared content library.

Glyphs palette

The Glyphs palette gives you easy access to every character in each font on your computer.

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an option from the second drop-down menu. The selected characters Unicode value is visible at the bottom right. You can add characters to a story by double-clicking them.

Using the Favorite Glyphs area at the bottom of the palette, you can store often-used characters for easy access.

The Glyphs palette gives you easy access to every character in every font.

Grid Styles palette

A grid style is a named package of settings that describe a grid — like a style sheet for a design grid. You can apply grid styles to text boxes and can use them as the basis for master page grids. You can also base grid styles on other grid styles. Grid styles are displayed in the Grid Styles palette (Window menu). For more information, see "

Working with grid styles

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The Grid Styles palette lets you create and apply grid styles.

Guides palette

The Guides palette lets you work with guides. For more information, see "

Using the Guides palette

HTML5 Palette

The HTML5 palette lets you create and configure movies, slideshows, buttons, and more for App Studio issues. For more information, see A Guide to App Studio.

Index palette

The Index palette lets you tag text for indexing. When you create an index, all of the tags you created with the Index palette are automatically turned into a customizable index.

For more information, see " Working with lists

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The Index palette lets you tag text for inclusion in an automatically generated index.

Item Styles palette

The Item Styles palette lets you work with item styles. For more information, see "

Item

Styles XTensions software ."

Layers palette

The Layers palette lets you create layers, edit layer properties, control whether those layers display and print, and move objects between layers. For more information, See "

Working with layers

The Layers palette lets you work with layers and the objects on those layers.

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Lists palette

The Lists palette helps you view and generate lists. This feature is useful for creating things like tables of contents. You can create lists in the Lists dialog box (Edit > Lists).

The List Name drop-down menu lets you choose from among the lists defined in the active project and the Update button lets you refresh the list currently displayed in the palette.

The Find button enables you to locate items in the Lists palette. You can also navigate to a word or heading by simply double-clicking it in the palette.

The Build button lets you insert the active list into the active text chain. If the list already exists in the story, you can update it rather than inserting another copy. The Format As style sheets for the list are applied automatically.

The Lists palette lets you create things like tables of contents

Measurements palette

With the Measurements palette (Window menu), you can quickly edit many commonly used controls. Options in the Measurements palette change to reflect the selected tool or item. When you select multiple items of the same type (such as three separate picture boxes), the Measurements palette controls apply to all selected items.

The Measurements palette displays a row of icons called the navigator tab above the center of the palette. You can cycle left-to-right through the Measurements palette navigator tab icons by pressing Command+Option+;/Ctrl+Alt+;. You can move in reverse (right-to-left) by pressing Command+Option+,/Ctrl+Alt+,.

To continuously display the navigator tab, Control+click/right-click the Measurements palette title bar and choose Always Show Tab Bar. To permanently hide the navigator tab, Control+click/right-click the Measurements palette title bar and choose Always Hide

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Tab Bar. To make the navigator tab bar display interactively. Control+click/right-click the

Measurements palette title bar and choose Show Tab on Rollover.

Measurements palette - Mac OS X

The selection of tabs displayed on the Measurements palette depends on which items are active, and the display of any tab changes to fit the item or items that are active. The available tabs are as follows:

• Home tab: Contains often-used controls. Displays differently for text boxes, picture boxes, lines, and tables.

• Character tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the character attributes of the currently selected text.

• Paragraph tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the paragraph attributes of the currently selected text box.

• Rules tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the rules attributes of the currently selected text box.

• Tabs tab: Contains controls allowing you to set up the tabs in the currently selected text box.

• Text Box tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the text attributes of the currently selected text box.

• Picture Box tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the picture attributes of the currently selected picture box.

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• Clipping tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the clipping attributes of the currently selected picture box.

• Frame tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the frame attributes of the currently selected box.

• Runaround tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the frame attributes of the currently selected object. Displays differently for text boxes, picture boxes, and lines.

• Space/Align tab: Contains controls from the Space/Align submenu (Item > Space/Align).

• Drop Shadow tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the drop shadow attributes of the currently selected object.

• Table tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the table attributes of the currently selected table.

• Composition Zones tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the attributes for the currently selected composition zone .

• Component tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the attributes of the currently selected component.

When you select a picture box that contains an image, the number next to the Effective

Image Resolution icon in the Home tab of the Measurements palette displays the effective resolution of the image. The actual image resolution divided by the scale of the image equals the effective resolution. For example, if you import an image with an actual image resolution of 100 dpi and then increase the scale from 100% to 200%, the effective resolution is 50 dpi. The higher the effective resolution is, the higher the quality of the

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reproduced image will be. Note that if you select multiple picture boxes with varying effective resolutions, no number displays next to the Effective Image Resolution icon.

Measurements palette - Windows

• Classic tab: Contains often-used controls. Displays differently for text boxes, picture boxes, lines, and tables.

• Text tab: Contains controls from the Text tab of the Modify dialog box (Item >

Modify).

• Frame tab: Contains controls from the Frame tab of the Modify dialog box.

• Runaround tab: Contains controls from the Runaround tab of the Modify dialog box. Displays differently for text boxes, picture boxes, and lines.

• Clipping tab: Contains controls from the Clipping tab of the Modify dialog box.

• Character Attributes tab: Contains controls from the Character Attributes dialog box ( Style > Character).

• Paragraph Attributes tab: Contains controls from the Formats tab of the Paragraph

Attributes dialog box (Style > Formats).

• Text Path tab: Contains controls from the Text Path tab of the Modify dialog box.

• Space/Align tab: Contains controls from the Space/Align submenu (Item >

Space/Align).

• Export tab: Contains controls from the Export tab of the Modify dialog box. (Web layouts only).

• Grids tab: Contains controls from the Grid tab of the Modify dialog box. (selected tables only).

• box.

Drop Shadow tab: Contains controls from the Drop Shadow tab of the Modify dialog

• box.

Tabs tab: Contains controls from the Tabs tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog

When you select a picture box that contains an image, the number next to the Effective

Image Resolution icon in the Classic tab of the Measurements palette displays the effective resolution of the image. The actual image resolution divided by the scale of the image equals the effective resolution. For example, if you import an image with an actual image resolution of 100 dpi and then increase the scale from 100% to 200%, the effective resolution is 50 dpi. The higher the effective resolution is, the higher the quality of the

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reproduced image will be. Note that if you select multiple picture boxes with varying effective resolutions, no number displays next to the Effective Image Resolution icon.

The tab bar displays above the center of the Measurements palette.

Page Layout palette

The Page Layout palette provides a variety of features having to do with pages and navigation.

The Page Layout palette lets you work with master pages and layout pages.

The top portion of the palette lets you create, duplicate, and delete master pages. To view and edit a master page, double-click it; the master page displays in the active project window. A single-sided master page displays as a rectangle, while a facing-page master page displays with two folded corners.

The bottom portion of the palette lets you navigate through the pages in the active layout.

To go to a layout page, double-click in this portion of the palette.

To apply a master page to a layout page, drag the master page icon onto the layout page icon. Alternatively, you can select the layout page icons in the palette and them

Command-click/Ctrl-click the master page icon.

Profile Information palette

The Profile Information palette lets you view and update color management settings for pictures. For more information, see "

Color management

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The Profile Information palette lets you precisely control color management settings for pictures.

Reflow Table of Contents palette

The Reflow Table of Contents palette lets you create a table of contents for ePUB or Kindle export. For more information, see "

Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle ."

Reflow Tagging palette

The Reflow Tagging palette lets you tag content in Reflow view. For more information,

see " Working with Reflow view

Scale palette

The Scale palette lets you perform advanced scaling operations. For more information,

see " Scale XTensions software ."

Style Sheets palette

The Style Sheets palette (Window > Show Style Sheets) enables you to apply character and paragraph style sheets by clicking style sheet names. The buttons at the top of each section of this palette let you create, edit, duplicate, update, and delete style sheets.

A plus sign next to a style sheet indicates that local formatting has been applied.

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The Style Sheets palette lets you view and apply paragraph and character style sheets.

Tools palette

The Tools palette lets you easily switch between a wide variety of tools for working with

layouts. For more information, see " Tools

Palette groups and palette sets

QuarkXPress offers two features that help you to manage palettes: palette groups and palette sets.

Using palette groups

The Palette Groups feature lets you combine several palettes into one.

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This palette group shows the Colors, Advanced Image Control, and Style Sheets palettes attached as one, which economizes space while providing easy access to functions.

(Windows only)To attach a palette to a palette group, Control+click/right-click the title bar of a palette group and choose an unchecked palette name. When you attach a palette that is already displayed, the palette moves to become part of the palette group. To detach a palette from a palette group, Control+click/right-click the palette name and choose Detach

[palette name].

(Mac OS X only)To attach a palette to a palette group, click the icon in the top right of a palette and choose an unchecked palette name from the list. Palettes that are already displayed can also be dragged and merged into a palette group. When dragging, a thumbnail is shown indicating whether the palette will be merged or placed above. A blue line indicator is shown in the palette group to indicate the location the palette will be dropped.

(Mac OS X only)Docked palettes on screen edges form a palette group and can be moved as a group. Palette groups can be set to auto show/hide.

Using palette sets

The Palette Sets feature lets you store and recall the position and status of all open palettes and libraries, so that you can easily switch between different palette configurations.

To create a palette set, first display all of the palettes you will need for a particular task and hide all other palettes. Then choose Window > Palette Sets > Save Palette Set As to display the Save Palette Set As dialog box, enter a name, and optionally assign a key command.

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To retrieve a palette set, choose Window > Palette Sets > [name of palette set] or press the keyboard combination for that palette set.

Layout controls

When you open a project, you have immediate access to some basic features at the bottom left of the project window.

Layout controls

1 Zoom: Enter a zoom percentage or choose a zoom value from the drop-down menu (the maximum zoom limit is 800%).

2 Page Number: Enter a page number in the Page Number field or choose a page from the page list that displays when you click the upward facing arrow to the right of the field.

3 Previous Page: Navigate to the previous page.

4 Next Page: Navigate to the next page.

5 View Master Page: Switch back and forth between the active layout page and its master page.

6 Split Screen Horizontal: View the layout in two or more separate panes one above the other.

7 Split Screen Vertical: View the layout in two or more separate panes side by side.

8 Export: Display the same export options that are available when you choose File > Export.

Click the up arrow next to the Page Number field to see a thumbnail view of all of the pages in the layout. Mac OS X users can continue to click the up arrow to enlarge the thumbnails.

Views and view sets

QuarkXPress gives you multiple ways to view your layouts. You can split a window or create a new window to show two different layouts, or two different views of the same layout. You can use Story Editor view to concentrate on text without having to look at

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the layout. And the View Sets feature lets you create and easily switch between different view options.

Splitting a window

By splitting a window into two or more panes, you can display multiple views of one project at the same time, and you can see changes in all panes simultaneously. You can even use different view modes in each pane, and see your edits in one pane and update in the other pane in real time. You can split multiple views horizontally or vertically within a window.

By splitting a window, you can view your work at different magnifications at the same time.

There are three ways to split a window:

• Choose Window > Split Window > Horizontal or Window > Split Window > Vertical.

• (Windows only) Click the split bar to the right of the scroll bar (for a vertical split) or at the top of the scroll bar (for a horizontal split).

• Click the split-screen icons in the layout controls bar at the bottom of the project window.

Once a window has been split, you can change the width and height of the split by dragging the bars between the splits.

To remove splits from a window, use one of the following techniques:

• Choose Window > Split Window > Remove All.

• Click the close button in the top right corner of the window.

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Creating a window

To create a new window that displays the active project, choose Window > New Window.

If you open multiple windows for a project, make changes to that project, and then begin closing the windows, the application will not prompt you to save the project until you attempt to close the last window that displays the project.

Using Story Editor view

Story Editor view lets you concentrate on the text of a story without the distraction of the layout. In Story Editor view, all text is the same size and the same font, the text fills the entire window, and only the most basic character formatting (such as bold and italic) are displayed. A red background indicates where text has overflowed beyond the last text box or path in the story.

To display the contents of the active story in a new Story Editor window, select a box or line that contains the target story and choose View > Story Editor. (If a Story Editor window is already open, the selected item's story displays in that window.)

If you want to monitor the overall appearance of a page as you edit its text at an easy-to-view size, you can position a Story Editor window next to a layout window that shows the same story.

A story in layout view (left) and in a Story Editor window (right)

View sets

The View menu provides various options for how a layout displays. You can display or hide guides, grids, invisible characters, visual indicators, and more. (For more information, see "

View menu .") The View Sets feature lets you store and recall different combinations of

these settings. The settings that are stored in a view set are as follows:

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• View > Page Grids

• View > Text Box Grids

• View > Rulers

• View > Ruler Direction

• View > Visual Indicators

• View > Invisibles

• View > Trim View

• View > Hide Suppressed

QuarkXPress ships with several default view sets:

• Default: This is the default set of view options that displays when you create your first layout after launching QuarkXPress for the first time.

• Output Preview: This view set simulates a printed page as closely as possible. Guides, grids, invisibles, and visual indicators are hidden. View > Trim View, View > Hide

Suppressed, and View > Full Res Previews are turned on. The pasteboard displays using the color you specify in the Display pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit

> Preferences).

• Authoring View: This view set displays guides, invisibles, visual indicators, the ruler, and full resolution previews.

To create a view set, first turn on only the view options you want to store in that view set.

Then choose View > View Sets > Save View Set As to display the Save View Set As dialog box, enter a name, and optionally assign a key command.

To switch to a view set, do one of the following things:

• Choose View > View Sets > [name of view set].

• Press the keyboard combination for the view set.

• Display the View Sets palette (View > View Sets > Manage View Sets), click the name of the view set in the palette, and then click Apply (or simply double-click the view set name).

To manage the view sets you have created, choose View > View Sets > Manage View Sets.

The View Sets palette displays. You can use the buttons at the top of this palette to Edit

, Apply , and Delete the selected view set.

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View Sets palette

View sets are saved at the application level. However, any view settings you apply to a layout using view sets are saved with that layout.

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Projects and layouts

QuarkXPress files are referred to as projects, and each project contains one or more layouts.

Every layout is stored within a project, and every project contains at least one layout. Each layout can contain as many as 2,000 pages, and can be as large as 48" x 48" in size (or 24" x 48" for a two-page spread). A project can contain an unlimited number of layouts.

Because multiple layouts can be stored in a single file, you can easily share content between different versions of a document — for example, a letter with identical text in US letter and A4 layout sizes.

A QuarkXPress project can contain three types of layouts: Print, Web, and Interactive. You can use one project to create content for various media — such as print, PDF, SWF, and

HTML.

Working with projects

To create a project, choose File > New > Project. The New Project dialog box displays.

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New Project dialog box for Print layout type

Every QuarkXPress project contains at least one layout. Therefore, when you create a project, you must specify a default layout for the file. You can use the default layout name or enter a new name for the layout in the Layout Name field. To indicate the type of the default layout, choose Print, App Studio, or ePub from the Layout Type drop-down menu.

For more information about App Studio layouts, see A Guide to App Studio.

For more information about creating layouts for ePub export, see "

eBooks

By default, tabs display at the top of the project window for each of the layouts in a project.

To prevent these tabs from displaying, check Single Layout Mode. (You can still add layouts to a project, but this will turn off the Single Layout mode.) On Mac OS X only, you can change the order of layouts displayed in the layout tab by dragging and dropping the layout name tabs. This setting is saved with the document and the order is maintained.

A project created in any language edition of QuarkXPress can be edited, printed, and saved in any other language edition of QuarkXPress. All available spell checking dictionaries and hyphenation rules are supported by every language edition.

Options for Print layouts

The controls in the Page area let you set the page size and orientation for the default layout.

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Use the Default Story Direction controls to specify horizontal or vertical direction for the layout.

The Facing Pages check box lets you create spreads. In a project with a horizontal default story direction, the Allow Odd Pages On Left check box lets you control whether you can have odd pages on the left. In a project with a vertical default story direction, the

Allow Odd Pages On Right check box lets you control whether you can have odd pages on the right.

The Automatic Text Box check box lets you add a text box to the default master page for the layout.

The Margin Guides controls let you set default margins for the layout, and the controls in the Column Guides area lets you create a multi-column page by default.

Saving and naming a QuarkXPress project

When you save a QuarkXPress project for the first time, the Save As dialog box displays.

Use this dialog box to specify a project name, location, and type.

When you save a QuarkXPress project, you can choose an option from the Type/Save as

type drop-down menu:

• Choose Project to save a project that you can modify.

• Choose Project Template to save a read-only version of the project.

Exporting layouts and projects

To export one or more layouts in the active project, choose File > Export > Layout as

Project. Enter a name in the Save As field, and specify a location.

To export all the layouts in a project, check Select All in the Layouts area. To export individual layouts, check them in this area.

To export selected layouts that you can open in an earlier version of QuarkXPress, choose the earlier version number from the Version drop-down menu.

Working with layouts

It's easy to navigate between layouts, add layouts, duplicate layouts, and delete layouts.

To navigate between layouts, use the tabs at the top of the project window.

To add a layout to the active project, choose Layout > New or click a layout tab and choose

New from its context menu.

To duplicate a layout, display the layout you want to duplicate, then choose Layout >

Duplicate or choose Duplicate from the Layout tab context menu.

To change a layout's properties, display the layout, then choose Layout > Layout Properties or choose Layout Properties from the Layout tab context menu. The Layout Properties

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dialog box displays. You can use this dialog box to change a project's layout type, but you cannot change a layout to or from an App Studio layout type. (For more information, see

A Guide to App Studio.)

To delete a layout, display the layout, then choose Layout > Delete or choose Delete from the Layout tab context menu.

When you use the following commands, only the active layout is included in the resulting output:

• File > Export > Layout as PDF

• File > Export > Layout as Project

• File > Export > Page as EPS

• File > Export > Reflow as ePub

• File > Export > Reflow as Kindle

Layers apply to the layout that is active when you create and edit them.

When you perform a project-level action ( Edit > Undo), the action is added to the Undo

History in all layouts.

When you check spelling ( Utilities menu), QuarkXPress checks only the active layout.

The Find/Change feature (Edit menu) can search only the active layout.

Project-level and layout-level resources

Some resources are defined at the project level, and others are defined at the layout level.

Project-level resources

Project-level resources can be used by every layout in the project, and they are the same in every layout where they are used. Project-level resources include application preferences, style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, dashes and stripes, cascading menus (Web layouts only), meta tags (Web layouts only), and menus (Web layouts only).

Although every list definition you create can be used in any layout in the project, a list only draws from the active layout when you build it.

Layout-level resources

Layout-level resources can be unique for every layout in the project. Layout-level resources include the following:

• Layout preferences ( QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Layout )

• (Windows only) Kerning settings (Utilities > Tracking Edit) (Print layouts only)

• (Mac OS X only)Kerning settings (Edit > Kerning Pairs) (Print layouts only)

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• (Windows only)Tracking settings (Utilities > Kerning Table Edit) (Print layouts only)

• (Mac OS X only)Tracking settings (Edit > Font Tracking Tables) (Print layouts only)

• Hyphenation exceptions ( Utilities > Hyphenation Exceptions)

• Zoom values

Working with guides

Guides are nonprinting guidelines that help you to line up items and text in a layout.

There are two types of guides: Ruler guides and column and margin guides.

Design grids are nonprinting guidelines that you can use to align items and text according to text size and position.

For more information, see " Guide Manager Pro XTensions software " and "

Understanding design grids

Column and margin guides

Column and margin guides show where a page's outside margins are and where columns

(if any) should be placed.

QuarkXPress automatically places column guides and margin guides in all new Print layouts. You can specify their position in the Column Guides and Margin Guides fields in the New Project dialog box (File > New > Project) or in the New Layout dialog box

( Layout > New).

When a master page is displayed in the project window, you can use the Master Guides

& Grid dialog box (Page > Master Guides & Grid) to change the placement of column guides and margin guides. If you check Automatic Text Box in the New Project dialog box ( File > New > Project) or the New Layout dialog box (Layout > New), the values you specify in the Margin Guides area define the size and placement of the automatic text box.

For information about creating column and margin guides, see " Configuring a master page grid ."

For more information, see " Guide Manager Pro XTensions software

Ruler guides

Ruler guides (or simply "guides") are nonprinting guidelines that you can position manually.

You can create ruler guides by dragging them off the horizontal and vertical rulers ( View >

Rulers). You can create ruler guides on master pages and on individual layout pages.

• To create a horizontal ruler guide, click the top ruler; when the pointer displays, drag the ruler guide into position on the page. To create a vertical ruler guide, click the vertical ruler, and then drag the ruler guide onto the page when the pointer displays. If the

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Measurements palette is open when you drag a ruler guide, the guide's position is indicated in the X field (for vertical ruler guides) or the Y field (for horizontal ruler guides).

• If, as you create a horizontal ruler guide, you release the mouse button when the ruler guide is positioned over the pasteboard, the ruler guide will extend across the pasteboard and all the pages in the spread. If you release the mouse button when the horizontal ruler guide is positioned over a document page, the ruler guide will display only on that page.

• To reposition a ruler guide, click it, and then drag it to a different location when the guide pointer displays. You can also double-click the ruler guide with the Item tool selected and enter a new location into the Guide Manager Pro dialog box.

• To remove a ruler guide, drag the guide off the page.

• To remove all ruler guides from a page, scroll until a portion of the page displays, then press Option/Alt and drag the guide back on to the ruler.

• To remove all ruler guides from a spread's pasteboard, scroll until a portion of the pasteboard displays, then press Option/Alt and click a portion of the ruler.

Undoing and redoing actions

The Undo command (Edit menu) reverses the last action performed on an item. For example, if you accidentally cut a picture box, the Undo command will bring the picture box back into the layout from the Clipboard. The Redo command (Edit menu) lets you reimplement an action you had undone.

Choose Edit > Undo (Command+Z/Ctrl+Z) to reverse the last action performed. The menu item identifies the specific action that can be undone. For example, the Undo Deletion command is available in the Edit menu after you have used the Item > Delete command.

Cannot Undo displays as gray text when the Undo feature is unavailable.

To reimplement the action, choose Edit > Redo (Command+Shift+Z/Ctrl+Y) after you undo an action.

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Boxes, lines, and tables

To create a successful page layout, you need an orderly way to arrange text and pictures

— you need boxes. Boxes are items that can contain text or pictures; they can even be created to contain no content at all, perhaps to create colorful design elements on a page.

Box boundaries give text and pictures a specific shape, size, and placement on a page.

Understanding items and content

QuarkXPress works on the concept of items (containers) and content (things that go inside of items).

Items are the building blocks of a page layout. The Item tool lets you do things like move, resize, rotate, reshape, cut, copy, and paste items.

The basic types of items are as follows:

• Boxes, including text boxes, picture boxes, and no-content boxes. Boxes can come in a variety of shapes, such as rectangular, round, and Bézier.

• Lines, including "plain" lines and text paths (which can include text). Lines, too, can be straight or Bézier.

• Groups, which are sets of items that have been "glued" together so that they act like a single item.

• Tables, which can contain both text and pictures.

Content is, basically, text and pictures. To create a layout, you will typically draw some text boxes and picture boxes, and then insert text and pictures into those boxes.

Because items and content are different, you use separate tools for manipulating each:

• The Text Content tool lets you create rectangular text boxes and format text in text boxes or on text paths. You can also use the Text Content tool to cut, copy, and paste text.

• The Picture Content tool lets you create rectangular picture boxes and manipulate pictures in picture boxes. You can also use the Picture Content tool to cut, copy, and paste pictures.

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Understanding handles

The bounding boxes of selected text paths, lines, and boxes have small white squares called

item handles. You can use these handles to resize and rotate a selected item.

Item handles

To resize an item, click and drag its item handles. To rotate an item, click and drag just outside one of the item's corner handles. The mouse pointer changes when you move it over or near a handle to indicate which action you can perform:

You can use item handles to resize or rotate an item.

Picture handles

When you select the Picture Content tool and click a picture box that contains a picture, the picture displays with large circles for handles. These handles are called picture content

handles. When you click any part of the picture overlay, you can use the Move pointer to move the picture within its box.

Picture box displaying picture content handles

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Picture content handles display even if the selected picture exceeds the size of its box (see illustration above). The picture displays beyond the box boundary. You can crop the image by resizing the picture box.

You can use picture content handles to resize or rotate a picture without changing the size or angle of its picture box.

• Resize pointers:

• Rotation pointers:

Rotated picture in an unrotated box

If you want to move a picture box or see what its crop looks like without the transparent overlay, press the Command/Ctrl key. This temporarily dismisses the overlay and allows you to interact with the box as if the Item tool were selected.

If you click and drag with the Picture Content tool when the mouse pointer is positioned over a spot where a picture box handle and picture content handle overlap, only the picture is resized or rotated. If you want to move the item handle, select the Item tool.

Understanding Bézier shapes

Before reshaping Bézier boxes and lines, make sure you understand the following definitions.

Point: A point connects line segments and defines where line segments start and end.

Points connecting curved line segments have curve handles that control the shape of the curves. QuarkXPress offers three types of points: Corner, smooth, and symmetrical.

Corner point: A corner point connects two straight lines, a straight line and a curved line, or two noncontinuous curved lines. With curved lines, the corner point's curve handles

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can be manipulated independently, usually to form a sharp transition between the two segments:

Examples of corner points

Smooth point: A smooth point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve. The curve handles always rest on a straight line through the point, but they can be distanced independently:

A smooth point

Symmetrical point: A symmetrical point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve. The result is similar to a smooth point, but the curve handles are always equidistant from the point:

A symmetrical point

Curve handles: Curve handles extend from either side of a point and control a curve's shape:

Curve handles (upper left)

Line segments: Line segments are straight or curved line sections positioned between two points:

Line segments

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When the Select Point tool is positioned over an active Bézier box or line, various pointers display indicating whether you can select a point, the curve handles, or a line segment.

Click and drag using the pointers to reshape the Bézier box or line.

• To change the shape entirely, choose a different option from the Item > Shape submenu.

• To add a point to a Bézier box while working with the Bézier Pen tool , click a line segment. Alternatively, you can use the Add Point tool .

• To remove a point from a Bézier box while working with the Bézier Pen tool , click the point. Alternatively, you can use the Remove Point tool .

• To convert a point to another type of point while working with the Bézier Pen tool ,

Option+click/Alt+click the point. Alternatively, you can use the Convert Point tool .

• To move a point or change the shape of a line segment while working with the Bézier

Pen tool , Command+drag/Ctrl+drag the point or line segment.

• To select curves or points so that you can move them or delete them, use the Select Point tool . Press Shift and click to select multiple points. Option+click/Alt+click a point to make it symmetrical.

To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and drag.

Working with boxes

There are three types of boxes: Text boxes, picture boxes, and no-content boxes (boxes with a content of None). All three box types can contain color, shades, blends, and frames.

When you draw a text box, picture box, or no-content box, the available controls correspond to the box type you create. But you can import text into picture boxes that contain pictures, and you can import pictures into text boxes that contain text. In addition to changing content type, you can change the shape and other attributes of a box.

Creating text and picture boxes

There are three ways to create boxes:

• To create a no-content box (a box that can be changed into a picture box or a text box), click and drag with the Rectangle Box tool , the Oval Box tool , or the Starburst tool

. You can declare text content by pressing T as you draw a no-content box. You can declare picture content by pressing R as you draw a no-content box.

• To create a rectangular text or picture box, click and drag with the Text Content tool or Picture Content tool .

• To create a Bézier box, use the Bézier pen tool . For more information, see "

Creating

Bézier boxes ."

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To constrain rectangular boxes to squares and oval boxes to circles, press Shift while you drag.

You can create boxes with the following tools:

To change a no-content box into a text box, press Command+E/Alt+E and import a text file.

To change a no-content box into a picture box, press Command+E/Alt+E and import a picture file.

You can change the corner type of rectangular boxes to rounded, concave, and beveled corners using the Item > Shape submenu or the Box Corner Style drop-down menu in the Measurements palette. You can add and alter rounded corners by entering values in the Box Corner Radius field in the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette. On

Windows, you can also enter values in the Corner Radius field (Item > Modify > Box tab).

Creating Bézier boxes

The Bézier Pen tool lets you draw multi-sided Bézier boxes and lines that can have straight and curved line segments (see "

Understanding Bézier shapes

").

For another way to make uniquely shaped boxes, see " ShapeMaker XTensions software

To draw a Bézier box:

1 Select the Bézier Pen tool from the Tools palette. Move the Crosshair pointer to any position on the page and click to establish the first point.

2 Move the pointer to where you want the next point positioned. To constrain pointer movement to a 45-degree angle relative to the page, press Shift.

3 Click to create points and line segments.

• Clicking a point without dragging creates a straight line and corner point. To create a curved line segment and smooth point, click and drag wherever you want the next point positioned. A point with two curve handles displays. You can control the curve's size and shape by dragging a curve handle. Press Option/Alt while dragging a smooth point to create a curved segment and corner point.

4 If desired, edit the Bézier shape while you are still drawing it.

• To add a point to an existing segment of the shape, click the line segment where you want the point to be.

• To delete a point from the active shape while you are drawing it, click the point.

5 To close the box, close the path by positioning the mouse pointer over the beginning of the line and then click when the Close Box pointer displays.

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When any of the drawing tools are active, you can press Command/Ctrl to temporarily switch to the Select Point tool. When the Select Point tool is active, you can press

Command+Option/Ctrl+Alt to temporarily switch to the Item tool.

You can join, extend or close existing open paths. For more information see "

Joining, extending and closing open paths ".

Resizing boxes

You can resize any box by modifying the size of its bounding box. A bounding box is a nonprinting, rectangular shape that encloses every box. The box's item handles demarcate the bounding box. The best way to view the bounding box clearly is to use the Item tool to select item handles on a Bézier box.

You can resize active boxes using any of the following methods:

• Select the Item tool or a Content tool and move the mouse pointer over a selected box's item handle to display the Resizing pointer. Click and drag the handle to a new location to reduce or enlarge the box. Press Shift to maintain the box's aspect ratio. Press

Option/Alt to resize the box from the center. Press Command/Ctrl to resize the box contents along with the box.

• Enter values in the W and H fields of the Home/Classic or Space/Align tabs of the

Measurements palette to change the width and height, and then press Return/Enter.

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M), and then click the Box tab. Enter values in the Width and Height fields to precisely change the size of a box, and then click OK.

You can lock a box's proportions, so that you don't have to press Shift to maintain the

aspect ratio. For more information, see " Locking box and picture proportions

Locking box and picture proportions

To lock the selected box's proportions, display the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette and click the proportion lock control next to the W and H fields. If this control is locked, QuarkXPress maintains the item's aspect ratio during resizing operations. On

Windows, you can also lock box proportions in the Box tab of the Modify dialog box.

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The proportion lock controls in the unlocked (top) and locked (bottom) states

To lock the proportions of the picture in the selected box, display the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette and click the proportion lock control next to the X% and

Y% fields. If this control is locked, QuarkXPress maintains the picture's aspect ratio during resizing operations. On Windows, you can also lock box proportions in the Picture tab of the Modify dialog box.

To use the proportion-locking feature with the Item Find/Change feature, display the Box or Picture tab of the Item Find/Change palette (Edit menu), then check or uncheck

Proportions in the Find What or Change To area.

To use the proportion-locking feature with item styles, display the Box or Picture tab of the Edit Item Style dialog box (Edit > Item Styles) and check Proportions.

Reshaping boxes

You can change the shape of a box in three ways:

• You can change the shape entirely by choosing a different option from the Item > Shape submenu.

• (Windows only) You can add and alter rounded corners to rectangular boxes by entering values in the Corner Radius field (Item > Modify > Box tab).

• You can use the Box Corner Radius field in the Home/Classic or Space/Align tab of the

Measurements palette.

• You can reshape Bézier boxes by repositioning points, curve handles, and line segments.

For more information, see "

Understanding Bézier shapes

Adding frames to boxes

Frames are decorative borders that can be placed around any type of box. To access frame controls for active boxes:

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Frame to display the Frame tab of the Modify dialog box.

• Display the Frame tab of the Measurements palette.

Use the controls in these tabs to specify a frame style, width, color, and opacity. If the frame style contains gaps, you can also specify gap color and opacity.

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You can also create your own frame styles in the Dashes and Stripes dialog box (Edit menu) and specify frame settings in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see "

Item

Styles XTensions software ."

Applying colors to boxes

To apply a background color to active boxes, do one of the following:

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M), click the Box tab, and then use the controls in the Box area.

• Display the Colors palette (Window > Colors), click the Background Color button , and then use the controls in the palette.

• Use the controls in the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette.

The controls available in these tabs and palette are as follows:

• Box or Background Color: Lets you specify the background color for the box.

• Shade: Lets you specify the tint of the background color (0% = white, 100% = full color).

• Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of the box background (0% = fully transparent,

100% = fully opaque).

You can also specify box color in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see " Item Styles

XTensions software

Applying blends to boxes

A blend is a gradual transition from one color to another. To apply a blend to the background of active boxes, do one of the following:

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M), click the Box tab, and then use the controls in the Blend area.

• (MAC OS X only) Use the controls in the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette.

• Display the Colors palette (Window > Colors), click the Background Color button , and then use the controls in the palette.

The blend-related controls available in this tab and palette are as follows:

• Style: Lets you control the type of blend.

• Angle: Lets you control the angle of the transition from one color to the other.

Blends have two colors, each of which can have its own shade and opacity. The color in the Box area is the first color and the color in the Blend area is the second color. In the

Colors palette, click #1 to set up the first color and #2 to set up the second color.

You can also specify blends in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see " Item Styles

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Merging and splitting boxes

Options in the Merge or Split Paths submenu (Item menu) let you create complex Bézier boxes from existing boxes. For example, if a rectangular box overlaps an oval box, you can select the submenu and choose an option that will create a single box with the same content. If you merge two picture boxes, one picture will display in the combined box. If you merge two text boxes, the text flows as one story through both boxes.

To use the Merge feature, select two items and then choose one of the following options from the Merge or Split Paths submenu:

• The Intersection command retains any areas where items overlap the back item, and removes the rest.

• The Union command combines all the items into one box, retaining all overlapped areas as well as non-overlapped areas.

• The Difference command deletes the front items. Any overlapping areas will be cut out.

• The Reverse Difference command deletes the back item. Any overlapping areas will be cut out.

• The Exclusive Or command leaves all of the shapes intact but cuts out any areas where there is overlap. If you want to edit the points surrounding the cut-out area, you will notice that there are now two points at every location where two lines originally crossed.

• The Combine command is similar to the Exclusive Or command, but if you look at the points surrounding the cut-out area, you will notice that no points were added where two lines intersect.

• The Split command either splits a merged box into separate boxes, splits a complex box that contains paths within paths into separate boxes, or splits a box that contains a border that crosses over itself (such as a figure eight). To use this feature, select two items and then choose one of the following options from the Merge or Split Paths submenu.

• The Outside Paths command works with a merged box that contains several, non-overlapping shapes. Outside Paths keeps all the outside path information and divides non-overlapping outside paths into separate boxes.

• The All Paths command creates separate boxes out of every shape within a complex box.

Adding text and pictures to boxes

To add text to a box, choose the Text Content tool , double-click the box, and then either start typing, paste text copied from elsewhere, or choose File > Import.

To place a picture in a box, select the box with the Picture Content tool and then either paste a picture copied from elsewhere or choose File > Import.

Changing box type

To convert a selected box to a different type, choose Picture, Text, or None from the

Content submenu (Item menu). However, you can also change a text box to a picture box

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by choosing File > Import and selecting a picture. You can change a picture box to a text box by choosing File > Import and selecting a text file.

To convert a selected text box to a text path, choose a line shape from the Item > Shape submenu.

When you select a Box tool, you can use the following modifier keys to create text or picture boxes:

• Press T as you draw to create a text box.

• Press R as you draw to create a picture box.

Creating a box from a clipping path

If a picture box has an associated clipping path (embedded or automatically created), you can create a new box that has the shape of that clipping path by selecting the picture box and choosing Item > New Box From Clipping.

Working with lines

There are two types of lines: Straight and Bézier lines. You can apply colors and line styles to any type of line.

Creating lines

To create a line, first select the Line tool from the Tools palette and move the Crosshair pointer to any position on the page. Click and drag to draw the line.

You can constrain a line to 0, 45, or 90 degrees by pressing Shift while you draw it.

Creating Bézier lines

The Bézier Pen tool lets you draw multi sided Bézier boxes and lines that can have straight and curved line segments (see "

Understanding Bézier shapes

").

To draw a Bézier line:

1 Select the Bézier Pen tool from the Tools palette. Move the Crosshair pointer to any position on the page and click to establish the first point.

2 Move the pointer to where you want the next point positioned. To constrain pointer movement to a 45-degree angle relative to the page, press Shift.

3 Click to create a point and line segments.

• To make a curved line segment, click and drag wherever you want the next point positioned.

A point with two curve handles displays. You can control the curve's size and shape by dragging a curve handle.

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• To make a corner point, press Option/Alt before you click. If you click and hold, you can control the radius of the corner point by dragging a curve handle.

• To add a point to an existing segment of the shape, click the line segment where you want the point to be.

• To delete a point from the active shape while you are drawing it, click the point.

4 To finish the line, double-click.

When any of the drawing tools are active, you can press Command/Ctrl to temporarily switch to the Select Point tool. When the Select Point tool is active, you can press

Command+Option/Ctrl+Alt to temporarily switch to the Item tool.

Line modes for straight lines

There are four line modes: Endpoints, Left Point, Midpoint, and Right Point. Depending on the mode you choose in either the Line tab (Item > Modify) on Windows, or the

Measurements palette (Home/Classic or Space/Align tabs), line length and position will be described differently.

• Endpoints mode: The X1 field indicates the horizontal position of the first end-point; the

Y1 field indicates the vertical position of the first end-point. The X2 field indicates the horizontal position of the last end-point; the Y2 field indicates the vertical position of the last end-point.

• Left Point mode: The X1 field indicates the horizontal position of the leftmost end-point; the Y1 field indicates the vertical position of the leftmost end-point.

• Midpoint mode: The XC field indicates the horizontal position of the midpoint of the line; the YC field indicates the vertical position of the midpoint of the line.

• Right Point mode: The X2 field indicates the horizontal position of the rightmost end-point; the Y2 field indicates the vertical position of the rightmost end-point.

Resizing lines

You can resize active straight lines using any of the following methods:

• Select the Item tool and move the Arrow pointer over an Understanding handles to display

the Resizing pointer. Click and drag the handle to a new location to reduce or extend the length of the line.

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M), then click the Line tab.

Click the

Mode drop-down menu to display the four mode options (see " Line modes for straight lines

"). Choose Left Point, Midpoint, or Right Point to display a Length field.

Enter values in the Length field to precisely change the length of a line, then click OK.

• Choose either Left Point, Midpoint, or Right Point from the Line Mode drop-down menu in the Home/Classic or Space/Align tab of the Measurements palette to display

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the L (Length) field. To precisely change the length of a line, enter a value in the L field, then press Return/Enter.

You can resize any Bézier line by modifying the size of its bounding box. To do so, make sure Item > Edit > Shape is unchecked, and then resize the line as if it were a box.

Reshaping lines

You can change the shape of a line in the following ways:

• You can change the shape entirely by choosing a different option from the Item > Shape submenu.

• You can reshape Bézier lines by repositioning points, curve handles, and line segments.

For more information, see "

Understanding Bézier shapes

To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and drag.

Controlling line appearance

To control the appearance of active lines, use the controls in the following places:

• Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette

• (Windows only) Line tab of Modify dialog box (Item menu)

• Colors palette (Window menu) — for line color only

In addition to color, shade, and opacity, you can control the following characteristics for lines:

• Line style: This option lets you control the general appearance of a line. Several line styles are included by default, and you can add new ones with the Dashes & Stripes dialog box

( Edit menu).

• Width: You can specify the width of lines in any measurement system. You can also specify a Hairline width; the printed width of a hairline rule is .125 pt on a PostScript imagesetter, with a wider value on some laser printers.

• Arrowheads: You can apply arrowheads to lines using the Arrowheads drop-down menu.

You can also specify line appearance in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see " Item

Styles XTensions software ."

Joining lines

You can merge two lines into one by selecting the Item tool , selecting the lines, and choosing Item > Merge > Join Endpoints. The Join Endpoints command is available when the endpoints of lines or text paths are within six points of each other.

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Joining, extending and closing open paths

You can click an endpoint of an existing shape and it selects that point and goes into regular draw mode, so the next click adds a new point and a segment to the selected line.

You can add as many segments as you need.

Double-click and endpoint to finish the line as an open path.

Click an opposite endpoint to close the path (just like during the original draw operation).

While drawing, if you click the endpoint of another open path then the path being drawn and the path just clicked become joined. Using these techniques together, you can begin to extend one path, and end up joining it with another.

Manipulating items

Items can be cut and then pasted in new locations, locked so they cannot move, duplicated once or many times, stacked to create unusual visual effects, and manipulated in other ways.

Selecting items

To manipulate items, you must first select them. Once selected, most kinds of items display outlines and handles for reshaping.

To select an item, first select the Item tool , the Text Content tool , or the Picture

Content tool and move the Arrow pointer over an item. Click once to select a single item or Shift+click individual items to select more than one item at a time. You can also select multiple items by selecting the Item tool and drawing around an area that contains the items.

(Windows only) With the Item tool selected, if you double-click a text box, the Modify dialog box displays. If you double-click an empty picture box with the Picture Content tool selected, the Import dialog box displays. If the picture box contains a picture, the

Picture Content tool is selected and the Edit Original dialog box displays .

To deselect an active item, click outside it. When the Item tool is selected, you can press

Tab to deselect any active items.

Moving items

You can move items by:

• (Windows only) Entering values in the Origin Across and Origin Down fields in the Modify dialog box ( Item menu).

• Entering values in the X and Y fields on the Home/Classic tab in the Measurements palette.

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• Manually moving items using the Item tool . If you hold down the mouse before moving a box or text path, you can see the contents as you move the item. You can also "nudge" items by selecting the Item tool and pressing an arrow key on your keyboard.

The box's item handles demarcate the bounding box. The best way to view the bounding box clearly is to use the Item tool to select item handles on a Bézier box.

Cutting, copying, and pasting items

When the Item tool is selected, the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands (Edit menu) are available for active boxes, lines, and text paths. Choose Edit > Paste (Command+V/Ctrl+V) to place a copy of the items contained on the Clipboard in the center of the project window.

When the Item tool is selected, you can remove items with the Delete command.

Deleted items are not copied to the Clipboard.

Controlling the stacking order of items

When two or more items overlap, each is either positioned in front of or behind the other item. The term "stacking order" refers to the front-to-back relationship of the various items on a page. Each item you create occupies its own level in the stacking order. Every new item you create becomes the front item.

The Item menu includes commands that let you control item stacking order.

• Choose Item > Send to Back to move an item to the back of the page or layer.

• Choose Item > Bring to Front to move an item to the front of the page or layer.

• To move an item one level backward in the page or layer on Mac OS X, press Option and choose Item > Send Backward. On Windows, choose Item > Send Backward.

• To move an item one level forward in the page or layer on Mac OS X, press Option and choose Item > Bring Forward. On Windows, choose Item > Bring Forward.

In a document with layers, the layers themselves are in a particular stacking order; within each layer, each item has its own relationship to the stacking order. When you use the

Send to Back, Send Backward, Bring to Front, and Bring Forward commands (Item menu), the stacking order of the items is altered within the layer.

To activate an item that is hidden behind other items, select the Item tool and press

Command+Option+Shift/Ctrl+Alt+Shift while you click repeatedly at the point where multiple items overlap. Pressing Command+Option+Shift/Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking will successively activate items from the front of the stacking order to the back.

Grouping items

You can combine multiple items on a page or spread into a single group. Grouping items is useful when you want to select or move several items simultaneously. You can move,

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cut, copy, duplicate, and perform a number of other functions on a group. For example, you can group all the items that compose a publication masthead; once grouped, you can modify or move the entire group as you would a single box, line, or text path.

After you create a group, you can still edit, resize, and reposition individual items while maintaining the group relationship. You can also place a copy of a group into an open

QuarkXPress library for use in other documents.

Items can be grouped when two or more items (lines, boxes, text paths, or other groups) are active. To select multiple items with the Item tool , either Shift+click each item or draw a marquee around the items you want to group. Choose Item > Group

(Command+G/Ctrl+G) to place multiple selected items into a single group.

You can group groups, and multiple-select a group (or groups) along with individual boxes, lines, and text paths to create a larger group.

With the Item tool selected, you can move, cut, copy, paste, duplicate, rotate, and color a group. With the Text Content tool or Picture Content tool selected, you can manipulate individual items as you would any ungrouped item.

To move an item within a group, press Command/Ctrl and select the item with the Item tool , the Text Content tool , or the Picture Content tool .

(Windows only) If an active group contains the same kind of items (for example, all picture boxes), the Modify dialog box will include a tab (or tabs) that refer specifically to those items. If an active group contains a variety of items, the Modify dialog box may display only a Group tab.

(MAC OS X only) The active fields in the Measurement palette tabs will affect the active group.

Choose Item > Ungroup (Command+U/Ctrl+U) to ungroup a single group, or Item >

Ungroup All to ungroup every group in a group that contains other groups.

Resizing grouped items

To resize every item in a group simultaneously, click and drag the group's item handles.

If you press Command+Shift/Ctrl+Shift while resizing a group, all frame widths, line weights, pictures, and text are resized proportionally. If you press Command/Ctrl while resizing a group, frame widths, pictures, and text are still resized, but not proportionally.

Duplicating items

QuarkXPress lets you make single or multiple copies of boxes, lines, and text paths.

Create a single copy of a selected item using the Duplicate command (Item menu). You can also press Option/Alt while dragging an item or group to create a duplicate.

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The Super Step and Repeat feature is useful for laying out design elements that contain a number of evenly spaced copies of an item. Create multiple copies of an item and specify the distance between them using the Super Step and Repeat command (Item menu).

For another way to make uniquely shaped boxes, see " ShapeMaker XTensions software

Spacing and aligning items

You can control the position of multiple selected items relative to one another using the

Item > Space/Align submenu or the Space/Align tab of the Measurements palette.

You can choose from among eight spacing and six alignment options in the Measurements palette, and you can specify alignment relative to selected items, the page, or (for Print layouts with facing pages) the spread. The Item > Space/Align submenu includes the "Item relative" and "Page relative" modes described below. The Measurements palette also includes a third mode called "Spread relative."

The space/align modes are as follows:

• Item relative mode positions items relative to the uppermost active item, which does not move. The uppermost item is determined by the location of the item's top edges. If two or more items have the same top edges, then items are spaced from the leftmost item.

• Page relative mode positions items relative to the page edges (left, right, top, or bottom).

• Spread relative mode is available for active Print layouts that include facing pages. Assume that you have opened a layout with a spread and then selected an item on a left page and another item on the right page. If you then click the Spread relative mode icon in the

Measurements palette and choose Space horizontal centers , the selected items position themselves on the far-left and far-right sides of the spread.

Rotating items

To rotate active items, do one of the following:

• Select the Item tool and move the mouse over a corner handle. When the Rotation pointer displays, click to establish a rotation point; then drag in a circular motion to rotate the item. The Arrowhead pointer and the item's position will display as you drag. If you press the Shift key when rotating, movements are constrained to 45-degree angles.

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M), enter a value in the Angle field, and click OK.

• Enter a value in the field on the Measurements palette (Home/Classic and Space/Align tabs) and press Return/Enter.

To rotate a straight line, choose either Left Point, Midpoint, or Right Point from the

Mode drop-down menu (Modify dialog box or Measurements palette) to display the

Angle field.

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Skewing items

To skew active items within bounding boxes:

• (Windows only) Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M); then click the Box tab.

Enter a value in the Skew field.

• Enter a value in the Box Skew field on the Home/Classic tab of the Measurement palette.

Positive values slant items to the right; negative values slant them to the left.

Locking and unlocking items

Locking lets you protect items and content from accidental changes. You can do the following:

• To prevent an item's size and position from being changed (and to prevent the item from being deleted), check Item > Lock > Position.

• To prevent an item's contents from being edited, check Item > Lock > Story or Item >

Lock > Picture.

To unlock selected items, uncheck the appropriate option in the Item > Lock submenu.

Alternatively, on Windows, choose Item > Modify and click the lock icon next to a field.

Anchoring items and groups in text

You can anchor an item or group so that it flows as a character within text. To anchor an item or group within text, use the Item tool to select the item or group you want to anchor and choose Edit > Copy (Command+C/Ctrl+C) or Edit > Cut

(Command+X/Ctrl+X). Then, with the Text Content tool selected, place the text insertion point at the point in text where you want to anchor the item or group and choose

Edit > Paste (Command+V/Ctrl+V).

Working with callouts

The Callouts feature lets you create floating boxes that always display on the same page or spread as the content they pertain to. For example:

• You can create figures with pictures and text that follow their references from page to page.

• You can create pull quotes that can automatically move to a different page with their source text.

• You can create "floating" icons that sit in the space to the left of a paragraph to indicate that the paragraph is a tip, a note, a warning, and so forth.

For more information, see the topics below.

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Understanding callouts

A callout is a floating box that always displays on the same page or spread as the content it pertains to. Each callout is anchored to a particular spot in a text story called a callout

anchor. A callout anchor flows along with text like a character. When a callout anchor moves to a new page or spread, the callout moves with it. When guides are displayed, a line links each callout anchor with its associated callout (if any).

A callout anchor with its associated callout

A callout's position in a layout is based on two things:

• The location of its callout anchor. A callout is always on the same page or spread as its callout anchor.

• The callout anchor's settings. You can position a callout relative to the spread, the page, the box or cell that contains the callout anchor, the paragraph that contains the callout anchor, or the callout anchor itself.

For example, you can configure a callout so that its horizontal location is always against the outside margin, but its vertical location is always aligned with the paragraph that contains its callout anchor. The settings for such a configuration look like this:

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Settings for a callout with a fixed horizontal location and a variable vertical location

It is important to note that the settings for a callout are stored with its callout anchor, not with the callout itself

You can control the positioning of a callout by configuring its callout anchor directly, or by applying a callout style to the callout anchor. A callout style is a named package of callout settings that displays in a palette. Callout styles are useful in documents where you use different callout settings over and over; rather than recreating those settings each time, you can simply select the callout anchor and click the appropriate callout style in the

Callout Styles palette.

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Callout Styles palette

You can think of callout styles as similar to style sheets (for more information, see " Working with style sheets

"). Like style sheets and other resources, callout styles can be managed with

Job Jackets (for more information, see "

Job Jackets

").

A callout anchor can be selected or unselected. When a callout anchor is selected, it has a red outline and its callout style (if any) is selected in the Callout Styles palette.

A selected callout anchor (left) and an unselected callout anchor (right)

When guides are turned off, you can see only the selected callout anchor.

When you cut or copy and paste text that contains a callout anchor that has an associated callout, the callout is cut or copied and pasted along with the text.

Creating a callout

To create a callout:

1 Select the Text Content tool and place the text cursor at the point in the text where you want the callout anchor to be.

2 Choose Item > Callout Anchor > Insert Callout Anchor. A callout anchor is inserted and automatically selected.

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Selected callout anchor

3 Select the item or group that you want to make into a callout.

4 Choose Item > Callout Anchor > Associate with Callout Anchor. The item or group becomes a callout, and a line displays between the callout and the callout anchor.

Callout anchor associated with a callout

5 Configure the callout anchor. There are two ways to configure a callout anchor:

• To apply a callout style to the callout anchor, display the Callout Styles palette (Window menu) and click the name of the callout style, or choose Item > Callout Anchor > Callout

Styles > [Callout Style Name]. For more information, see "

Working with callout styles ."

• To edit the settings of the callout anchor directly, choose Item > Callout Anchor > Edit

Callout Settings. If a callout style has been applied to the callout anchor, any changes you make will override the callout style's settings.

For information on how to configure a callout anchor or callout style, see

Configuring a callout anchor

The process of configuring a callout anchor is essentially the same whether you are configuring a callout style or directly configuring a callout anchor.

To configure a callout anchor:

1 Select the callout anchor and choose Item > Callout Anchor > Edit Callout Settings. The

Edit Callout Settings dialog box displays.

2 To control how the callout aligns horizontally, use the controls in the Align callout

horizontally relative to area. (The Offset field lets you adjust the horizontal positioning of the callout from where it would otherwise be.)

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If you choose Spread from the Align callout horizontally relative to drop-down menu and specify a horizontal offset, that offset is inverted on left-facing pages. This allows you, for example, to configure a callout to always be .25" inside of the inside margin; on a right-facing page, such an offset moves the callout to the right, but on a left-facing page the offset must move the callout to the left.

3 To control how the callout aligns vertically, use the controls in the Align callout vertically

relative to area. (The Offset field lets you adjust the vertical positioning of the callout from where it would otherwise be.)

4 To allow the callout to be manually repositioned, check Allow manual positioning of

callout. If you subsequently move the callout, the values in the Offset fields will be automatically updated to reflect the new position of the callout.

To prevent the callout from being manually repositioned, leave this box unchecked.

5 To prevent the callout from extending beyond the page margins, check Keep within

margins.

6 Click OK.

Working with callout styles

Callout styles make it easy for you to apply often-used settings to callout anchors. To create, edit, duplicate, or delete callout styles, use the Callout Styles dialog box (Edit >

Callout Styles). You can also use this dialog box to append callout styles from other projects.

Callout Styles dialog box

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You can edit the Default callout style, but you cannot delete it.

Callouts and runaround

If a callout with runaround causes its callout anchor to move, this can lead to an error state. For example, if a callout's runaround pushes its callout anchor to the next page, the callout moves to the next page — which allows the callout anchor to return to the previous page, which causes the callout to return to the previous page, and so on.

When QuarkXPress detects this kind of a situation, the following things happen:

The callout switches to the settings defined in the Default callout style. An icon displays next to the callout style's name in the Callout Styles palette when the callout anchor is selected.

2 If the error condition still occurs, QuarkXPress applies the No Style settings to the callout and it is positioned at its last valid location.

3 If the application cannot find a valid location, it turns runaround off for the callout. When

QuarkXPress turns off a callout's runaround this way, it also places this visual indicator on the callout:

To view visual indicators, check View > Visual Indicators.

To turn runaround back on for such a callout, on Windows use the Runaround tab of the

Modify dialog box (Item menu) or the drop-down menu in the Runaround tab of the

Measurements palette.

Working with tables

In QuarkXPress, a table is a distinct item, like a text box, picture box, text path, or line.

When working with tables, you can pretty much think of a cell as an individual picture box, text box, or no-content box, and you can handle cells in much the same way you handle these other items. To work with elements of the table itself — such as rows and columns — use the Table menu.

Drawing a table

To draw a table and specify its properties, do the following:

1 Select the Tables tool from the Tool palette, drag to draw a rectangle that is roughly the size of the final table, and then release the mouse button. The Table Properties dialog box displays.

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The Table Properties dialog box

2 Specify the number of horizontal rows in the Rows field, and specify the number of vertical columns in the Columns field.

3 To specify the default cell type, click Text Cells or Picture Cells in the Cell Type area.

Later, you can select specific cells and convert the content type if needed.

4 If you want to create text cells that expand as you add text, use the controls in the Auto

Fit area.

5 If you have a preference for how to navigate through cells in a table when you press

Control+Tab, you can choose a different option from the Tab Order drop-down menu.

6 If you want to link text cells so imported text flows through the specified cells — similar to linked text boxes — check Link Cells. If you check Link Cells, you can choose the order in which to link the text cells from the Link Order drop-down menu.

If you do not link cells in this manner, you can link them later using the Linking tool or the Link Text Cells command (Table menu). In addition, even if you don't link the text cells, you can still use Control+Tab to jump from cell to cell while entering or editing data.

7 If you intend to import data from Excel, check Link to External Data. For more information, see "

Importing Excel tables

8 If you want the table to remain the same size if you add or delete rows, check Maintain

Geometry.

9 To specify the story direction for table cells, click Horizontal or Vertical in the Story

Direction area.

10 To specify the table orientation, click Horizontal or Vertical in the Table Direction area.

11 Click OK.

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Converting text to tables

The success of converting text to a table depends on the text preparation itself. It's important that paragraphs, tabs, spaces, or commas (the characters QuarkXPress can convert) are used consistently in a text block, because these characters are used in the table conversion to define rows and columns. It's common for users to use multiple tab characters in a word processor to align columns of data — rather than setting appropriate tab stops. If the text block you are converting has such multiple tab characters, the text block probably has an inconsistent number of tabs between columns of data. You will need to make the tab characters consistent before you convert the text to a table.

To convert text to a table:

1 Using the Text Content tool , select all the text you want to convert to a table.

2 Choose Table > Convert Text to Table to display the Convert Text to Table dialog box.

Based on the selected text, QuarkXPress guesses what to Separate Rows With, what to

Separate Columns With, and how many Rows and Columns are necessary for the worst-case scenarios in the selected text.

The Convert Text to Table dialog box

3 If you want to create text cells that expand as you add text, use the controls in the Auto

Fit area.

4 If you want the information in the table to flow differently — for example, if the values are currently in descending order but would have more impact in ascending order — you can change the flow. Choose an option from the Cell Fill Order drop-down menu (the default is Left to Right, Top Down).

5 Click OK. A new table is created, offset from the original text box.

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Importing Excel tables

Table data often originates in a spreadsheet program such as Excel, and you can import table data just as you import pictures. Although the technique is slightly different, the results are the same: The table in QuarkXPress is linked to the Excel file for tracking and updating.

You can import both .xls and .xlsx files.

If you import a table from Excel using the Link to External Table feature in the Table

Properties dialog box, table usage will be tracked just as picture usage is tracked. This ensures that you're notified if the source table changes, and that you have the latest table data when you output the layout, whether you print, collect for output, save as a PDF, or export to HTML. To check the status of a table, choose Utilities > Usage, and then click the Tables tab.

Although you can update tables just as you can update pictures, you'll need to keep the following points in mind:

• If you check Include Formats in the Table Link dialog box when you first import an Excel table, the table's Excel formatting is preserved (as much as possible) in QuarkXPress. If you later update the table, any local formatting you have applied in QuarkXPress is removed and replaced with the formatting from the Excel file.

• If you do not check Include Formats in the Table Link dialog box when you first import an Excel table, the table's Excel formatting is discarded. If you later update the table,

QuarkXPress attempts to preserve any local formatting you have applied to the table in

QuarkXPress.

To import an Excel table and maintain the link in QuarkXPress:

1 Using the Tables tool, drag to draw a table of approximately the dimensions you need.

The Table Properties dialog box displays when you release the mouse button.

2 Check Link to External Data.

3 Click OK to display the Table Link dialog box.

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The Table Link dialog box

4 Click Browse to locate and select an Excel file to import.

5 If the file includes multiple worksheets, choose the one you want to import from the Sheet drop-down menu. If you want to import only a portion of the data, you can specify a cell range in the Range field or choose a named range from the drop-down menu.

6 In the Options area, check the attributes you want to import.

7 Click OK.

Formulas and references are not imported. Instead, the final values that result from formulas and references are imported. Inserted pictures are not imported. Text with Auto Filter or

Advance Filter (Data > Filter) applied is imported as static text.

A quicker way to create a table from Excel data — without linking the source table to the

QuarkXPress project for updates — is to copy and paste. To do this, select any portion of data in an Excel worksheet and copy the selected data. Then simply switch to QuarkXPress and choose Edit > Paste. QuarkXPress creates a table appropriate to the data and inserts the text.

Importing Excel charts

If you have charts or pictures created using Insert > Chart or Insert > Picture in Excel that you want to use in a QuarkXPress layout, you can import those charts or pictures the same way you import other pictures. To do this, use the Insert Chart tab of the Import

Picture dialog box (File menu). Charts and pictures imported from Excel are tracked by the Pictures tab of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu) just like other pictures.

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Adding text and pictures to tables

When working with tables, think of a table cell as a text box or a picture box. Each box contains content — text that may or may not be linked to the next cell, an individual picture, or nothing (maybe just a blend). Therefore, you can add content to tables much as you add content to boxes — by typing text, importing text, or importing pictures.

Converting text cells to picture cells is the same as converting a text box to a picture box.

Select all the cells you want to convert and choose Item > Content > Picture.

Editing table text

Two important things to know about editing text within tables are how to navigate between cells and how to select text for formatting. As always when working with text, you must first select the Text Content tool .

Navigating through a table works as follows:

• Click in a cell in which you want to enter or import text.

• Press Control+Tab to move to the next cell.

• Press Control+Shift+Tab to go back to the previous cell.

• Press the arrow keys to move through the text in a cell, and to move from cell to cell.

To enter a tab character in a text cell, press Tab. To enter a right-indent tab, press

Option+Tab/Shift+Tab. If you need to align numbers within a table on the decimal point or other character, you can insert tabs in each table cell and then specify the appropriate

Align On tab stops (Style > Tabs).

Selecting text in rows and columns works as follows:

• To select all the text in a row, click outside the right or left edge of the table.

• To select all the text in a column, click outside the top or bottom edge of the table.

• To select all the text over several rows or columns, drag along an edge of the table.

• To select text in non-adjacent rows or columns, Shift+click the specific rows or columns.

• To select text in various rows and columns, use the options in the Select submenu of the

Table menu. Options include Cell, Row, Odd Rows, Even Rows, Column, Odd Columns,

Even Columns, All Cells, Header Rows, Footer Rows, and Body Rows. The Select commands in the Table menu are helpful for applying different formatting to alternating rows or columns.

Linking table cells

When cells are linked, text that is typed, imported, or pasted into a cell fills the first text cell in the linked story, and then flows into each subsequent linked cell. As with text in linked boxes, the Next Column character (enter on the numeric keypad) is helpful for

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controlling text flow in linked cells. In addition to linking table cells to each other, you can link cells to and from text boxes and text paths.

• To link all the cells in a table, check Link Cells in the Table Properties dialog box when you create the table.

• To link selected cells in a table, choose Table > Link Text Cells. All but the first cell in the selection must be empty.

• To manually link table cells, use the Linking tool . As with linking text boxes, click to select the starting cell and then click the next cell you want to add. To redirect existing links, Shift+click with the Linking tool.

•

To unlink table cells, use the Unlinking tool to click the blunt end of the arrow between linked cells.

• To link table cells to text boxes or text paths, use the Linking tool .

If you combine linked text cells ( Table > Combine Cells), the combined cells are removed from the text chain; the remaining links are unaffected. If a combined cell is split ( Table

> Split Cell), the links are maintained and text flows according to the specified Link Order.

Formatting tables

On Windows, as with other items in QuarkXPress, tables have their own version of the

Modify dialog box (Item menu) for formatting table attributes. The panes available in the

Modify dialog box depend on what is selected — for example, you can select the entire table with the Item tool ; select individual cells or groups of cells with the Text Content tool ; or select specific gridlines, picture cells, or text cells. Options in the Measurements palette and Colors palette reflect table selections as well, allowing you to make some adjustments.

On Mac OS X, the Table tab in the Measurements palette is available when a content tool is selected, otherwise the options are available in the Home tab.

Formatting gridlines

Gridlines are the horizontal lines between rows and the vertical lines between columns.

When gridlines are selected, you can use the Grids tab of the Modify dialog box (Windows) or the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette to specify line style, width, color, gap color, shades, and opacities.

1 To format gridlines, first select them as follows:

• For an individual gridline, click the gridline with the Text Content tool .

• For multiple gridlines, Shift+click each gridline.

• For the entire table, all horizontal gridlines, or all vertical gridlines, select the table with the Item tool . Then you can specify a selection in the Modify dialog box.

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• Choose an option from the Select submenu of the Table menu: Horizontal Grids, Vertical

Grids, Border, or All Grids.

2 Once the appropriate gridlines are selected, on Windows, choose Item > Modify, and then click the Grid tab.

The Grid tab of the Modify dialog box

3 To select all gridlines, vertical gridlines, or horizontal gridlines, click one of the buttons to the right of the Preview area. From top to bottom, the buttons select All Gridlines,

Horizontal Gridlines, or Vertical Gridlines.

4 Change any values in the Grid tab, using the Preview area and the Apply button to help you make decisions.

On the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette, there is a section for formatting the selected gridlines.

Inserting and deleting rows and columns

You can insert rows and columns anywhere within a table. Simply click in a cell that is immediately above or below where you want to add a row. Or, click in a cell to the right or left of where you want to add a column. Then, choose Table > Insert > Row or Table >

Insert > Column.

To select rows or columns to delete, drag the arrow pointer over a table edge and then

Shift+click the arrow pointer, or use the commands in the Select submenu of the Table

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menu (such as Odd Rows). Then, choose Table > Delete > Row or Table > Delete >

Column.

If Maintain Geometry is checked in the Table menu and you delete a column or row, existing columns or rows increase in size to fill the space of the deleted columns or rows.

If Maintain Geometry is unchecked, the table becomes smaller as necessary.

Combining cells

To combine cells, Shift+click a rectangular selection of cells with the Text Content tool

. Choose Table > Combine Cells. To revert combined cells to match the surrounding table, select the combined cells and then choose Table > Split Cells.

If you combine unlinked cells containing text or pictures, the content of the upper-left cell in the selection is maintained for the combined cell.

Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns

As with other items in QuarkXPress, you can drag to resize rows, columns, and tables. To resize a row or column, click a gridline to display the resize pointer. Drag the pointer up or down to resize a row and left or right to resize a column. To resize an entire table, press one of the following keyboard commands while you drag a resize handle.

Effect on table

Table and contents resized

Mac OS X command

Command

Table (but not contents) resized proportionally

Shift

Table and contents resized proportionally

Command+Shift

Windows command

Ctrl

Shift

Ctrl+Shift

Converting tables back to text

If you need to export the current data from a table — for example, to save the data as a

Word file — you can convert the information to text. To do so, select the table and then choose Table > Convert Table > To Text.

Working with tables and groups

For flexibility, you can group tables to other items using the Group command (Item menu).

In addition, you can disassemble a table by converting its cells to a series of grouped text boxes, picture boxes, or both. This method lets you separate elements of a table and use those elements elsewhere in a layout. To do this, select a table and choose Table > Convert

Table > To Group. To work with the individual boxes, choose Item > Ungroup.

Continuing tables in other locations

Because tables do not always fit on one page or spread — or within the space allotted in a design — tables can be automatically continued to other locations anywhere in a layout.

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There are two ways to continue tables:

• Anchoring the table in a text box. This is the preferred way to break a table in most situations, because it is easiest to use

• Breaking the table manually. This method is necessary when you break a table horizontally

(for example, if you want to put the first five columns of a table on one page and the remaining three columns on a different page).

When tables are continued, you may still need a legend to explain what's in the table. You can add a legend in the form of automatically created and synchronized header and footer rows, and you can create special "continued" table headers for portions of a table after the first.

Anchoring tables in text

One way to continue a table in another location is to anchor the table in a text box. An anchored table flows with the text like any other anchored object, but it also breaks automatically if it is too long to fit in the box and it is the only thing in the paragraph that contains it.

To anchor a table in text:

1 Create the table.

2 Select the table with the Item tool .

3 Choose Edit > Cut.

4 Select the Text Content tool and place the text insertion point where you want the table to be.

5 Choose Edit > Paste.

At this point, the table will break automatically as it flows through the text. However, it will not have a header unless you add it. For more information, see "

Adding header and footer rows to tables ."

Breaking a table manually

One way to continue a table in another location is to specify a table break. The table break is the maximum size the table can reach before it splits into two linked tables. In continued tables, any changes to a table, such as inserted columns, are reflected throughout the table.

To manually create a continued instance of a table:

1 Choose Table > Table Break to display the Table Break Properties dialog box.

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The Table Break Properties dialog box

2 Check Width to break the table when its width exceeds the value in the field. By default, the current width of the table displays in the Width field — decreasing this value will break the table.

3 Check Height to break the table when its height exceeds the value in the field. By default, the current height of the table displays in the Height field — decreasing this value will break the table.

4 You can specify the number of header rows by entering a value in the Header Rows field.

(For more information, see " Adding header and footer rows to tables

.")

5 If the table has a header, you can check Continued Header to create a different version of the header that displays in continued instances of a table. For example, if the header on the first portion of the table is "List of Contributors," the continued header might be "List of Contributors (continued)." Click First Header Row to limit the continued header to the first header row, or All Header Rows to create continued headers from all header rows.

To set the continued header's contents, close this dialog box, then go to a portion of the table after the first and change the header contents there.

6 You can specify the number of footer rows by entering a value in the Footer Rows field.

7 Click OK. If the height or width of the table meets the Table Break criteria, the table separates into two or more linked tables. You can move the continued tables to other locations in the layout. The table may break later as you adjust it by resizing or adding rows and columns.

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A broken table with a continued header

The Table Break feature works in both directions: it continues the table using additional sub-tables as necessary if the table gets larger and recombines tables as necessary if the table gets smaller.

To sever the links between continued tables, select any instance of the continued table and choose Table > Make Separate Tables.

Adding header and footer rows to tables

You can specify that header and footer rows repeat automatically in continued instances of tables. Even better, header and footer rows are automatically synchronized, so any changes in the text are reflected throughout all instances of a continued table.

In this continued table, the first two rows — the table heading and the column heads — repeat as header rows in the continued instances of the table. The first row is a continued header.

To add header and footer rows to a table:

1 Set up the table to break. For more information, see "

Breaking a table manually

" and

Anchoring tables in text

2 There are two ways to create header and footer rows:

• To create an automatic header, select the first one or more rows of the table and choose

Table > Repeat As Header. To create an automatic footer, select the last one or more rows of the table and choose Table > Repeat As Footer.

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• Choose Table > Table Break. The Table Break Options dialog box displays. To set the number of header and footer rows, enter values in the Header Rows and Footer Rows fields, respectively.

Table Break Properties dialog box for anchored table

To create a secondary header that displays in portions of a table after the first, check

Continued Header. For example, if the header on the first portion of the table is "List of

Contributors," the continued header might be "List of Contributors (continued)." Click

First Header Row to limit the continued header to the first header row, or All Header

Rows to create continued headers from all header rows.

When you're finished, click OK.

3 To set a continued header or footer's contents, go to a portion of the table after the first and change the header contents there.

You can uncheck Repeat as Header or Repeat as Footer in the Table menu any time to remove the header or footer rows from continued tables.

Once you add automatic header rows and footer rows, the remaining table rows are considered "body rows." Options in the Select submenu of the Table menu let you select all the Header Rows, Footer Rows, and Body Rows in any instance of a continued table for formatting.

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Text and typography

Text is an integral part of nearly every publication. QuarkXPress lets you create and edit text directly in your publications or import text from most popular word processing applications. In addition to the standard text formatting and editing features, QuarkXPress includes such features as finding and changing text and its attributes, spell checking, custom spelling dictionaries, and a font usage utility for making project-wide changes to text formatting.

Typography is the art of making the appearance of your text convey the tone or meaning of the content. QuarkXPress lets you control the tone of your text by letting you adjust every facet of typography, including typefaces, type styles, leading, and spacing.

The icon indicates text features that are considered East Asian features and are only available when you have the East Asian preference enabled ( QuarkXPress/Edit >

Preferences > East Asian).

Editing text

To enter and import text into active text boxes, use the Text Content tool . Characters are entered at the text insertion point, indicated by the blinking line. A story is all of the text in a text box. If a series of boxes is linked, all of the text in all of the boxes is a single story.

You can select text using multiple mouse clicks. A double-click selects the word containing the text insertion point; a triple-click selects the line containing the text insertion point; four clicks selects the entire paragraph containing the text insertion point; five clicks selects the entire story.

When you double-click to select a word and cut or copy it, the application looks at the context of the word and adds or deletes a space automatically as needed when you paste the word in its new location. This feature is referred to as Smart Space. If you want an accompanying punctuation mark included with the word you're selecting, double-click between the word and its adjacent punctuation.

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Importing and exporting text

To import text, do one of the following:

• Select the Text Content tool , place the text insertion point where you want text to be inserted, and then choose File > Import. Check Convert Quotes option to convert double hyphens to em dashes and convert foot or inch marks to typesetter's apostrophes and quotation marks. Check Include Style Sheets to import style sheets from a Microsoft Word or WordPerfect file or convert "XPress Tags" to formatted text.

• Drag a text file from the file system onto a text box.

• Drag text from another application onto a text box.

• Press Command/Ctrl and drag a text file from the file system onto a picture box or a no-content box.

• Press Command/Ctrl and drag text from another application onto a picture box or a no-content box.

If you drag content onto a box that already contains text or a picture, QuarkXPress creates a new box for the dragged content. To replace the contents of the box instead, press

Command/Ctrl while dragging the content to the box. To always create a new box for dragged-in content, press Option/Alt while dragging.

If all the imported text does not fit in the text box, the overflow symbol displays. If Auto

Page Insertion (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Print Layout > General pane) is enabled, pages are inserted (when you import text into an automatic text box) as necessary to contain the text.

To export text, first either place the text insertion point in a text box (if you want to save all of the text in that box) or select the text you want to export. Then choose File > Save

Text, choose an option from the Format pop-up menu, enter a name, choose a location, and then click Save.

To export in .docx format, choose Word Document from the Format drop-down menu.

To export in .doc format, choose Microsoft Word 97/98/2000.

Import/export filters

XTensions software lets you import and export text in a variety of formats, including those described in this section.

Ichitaro Filter

The Ichitaro Filter allows Ichitaro documents to be imported from Ichitaro versions 7 and later.

Word 6–2000 filter

The Word 6–2000 Filter allows documents to be imported from, or exported to, the

Microsoft Word 97/98/2000 (Word 8) and .docx formats.

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To avoid import problems, uncheck Allow fast saves (in the Save tab of the Options dialog box) in Microsoft Word or use the Save As command to create a copy of the Word file to be imported.

Importing and exporting text with Unicode options

You can specify an encoding type when importing text and exporting text. The encoding type specifies the byte sequence used to represent each glyph in text. When working with international text or HTML text, you can choose the appropriate encoding to convert all the characters in the file to Unicode. The options work as follows:

• The Import dialog box includes an Encoding drop-down menu when a plain text or

"XPress Tags" text file is selected. The software attempts to determine the encoding of selected text files and apply an appropriate encoding type. You can, however, choose a different option for text.

• The Save Text dialog box provides an Encoding drop-down menu when you're exporting text in plain text or "XPress Tags" format.

• The Convert Quotes option continues to convert straight quotes to typesetter's quotation marks and double hyphens to em dashes.

Finding and changing text

The Find/Change palette (Edit menu) lets you perform standard search-and-replace operations. In addition, you can use this palette to:

• Find and change using wild card characters: Command+Shift+?/Ctrl+Shift+?

• Find and change text formatting, including style sheet, font, size, color, and type style

(including OpenType styles)

• Constrain find/change operations to a single story, or to an entire layout

• Find and change based on character language (see "

Applying a character language ")

• Find and change ligatures

• Find and change special characters (see " Special character codes ")

Press Option/Alt to change the Find Next button to Find First. To search and replace based on formatting attributes, uncheck Ignore Attributes.

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Use the Find/Change dialog box to search for and replace text. To search and replace based on formatting attributes, uncheck Ignore Attributes.

Special character codes

You can use special character codes to find/change special characters. You can also use these codes when creating conditional styles.

Code

Tab

New paragraph

New line

New column

New box

Backslash

Punctuation space

Flex space

Discretionary hyphen*

Indent here

Discretionary new line

Em space

En space

3-per-Em space

4-per-em space

6-per-em space

Figure space

Hair space

Thin space

Character

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Code

Zero width space

Word joiner*

Character

Conditional style marker (Find/Change only)

*Not applicable in conditional styles.

Checking spelling

To check spelling, choose an option from the Utilities > Check Spelling submenu. The

Check Spelling palette displays.

Check Spelling palette

To change the scope of the spell check, choose an option from the Check drop-down menu. The options are Word, Selection, End Of Story, Story, or Layout. If you choose

Layout, the spell check skips applied master page items and then checks the master page(s) after checking spelling on all layout pages. To check spelling in locked text boxes, cells, and paths, check Search Locked Content. Spell checking always starts from the text insertion point.

To start a spell check, click Start. To start the spell check from the beginning of the active story, Shift+click Start.

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To replace a misspelled word, type the correct spelling in the Replace With field or choose the correct word from the list, then click Replace. To replace all occurrences of the misspelled word, click Replace All.

To look up suggestions for the word in the Replace With field, click Look up.

To skip the selected word, click Skip.

To add the word in the Replace With field to an auxiliary dictionary, click Add. If no auxiliary dictionary is open, you can select or create one after you click Add. To add all suspect words to an open auxiliary dictionary, press Option+Shift/Alt+Shift and click Add

All.

To close the Check Spelling palette, click Done.

You can click outside the Check Spelling palette and return to the palette to restart a spell check.

To reverse changes from the Check Spelling palette, choose Edit > Undo Text Change.

To display spell checking preferences, click Preferences. For more information, see

Preferences — Application — Spell-Check ."

Auxiliary dictionaries

To prevent a word from being flagged by the spell checker, create an auxiliary dictionary and add the word to that auxiliary dictionary. To create an auxiliary dictionary:

• (Windows) Choose Utilities > Auxiliary Dictionary, enter a name, and then click New

• (Mac OS X) Choose Utilities > Check Spelling > Auxiliary Dictionary, enter a name, and then click New

To add words to an auxiliary dictionary:

• (Windows) Choose Utilities > Edit Auxiliary

• (Mac OS X) Choose Utilities > Check Spelling > Edit Auxiliary

Only one auxiliary dictionary at a time can be open for use with an article. An auxiliary dictionary remains associated with an article until you click Close in the Auxiliary

Dictionary dialog box or until you open a different auxiliary dictionary.

Auxiliary dictionaries are saved as separate files on your hard drive. The path to an article's auxiliary dictionary is saved with the project, so if you move an open auxiliary dictionary to another folder or volume, the application will be unable to find it.

To create or open an auxiliary dictionary without closing the Check Spelling palette, click

Add while a word you want to keep is highlighted.

To add all suspect words to an open auxiliary dictionary, press Option+Shift/Alt+Shift and click Add All.

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Counting words and characters

To display a count of the words and characters in a story, choose Utilities > Word and

Character Count.

Word and Character Count dialog box

The Word Count area displays the number of total and unique words in the story.

The Character Count area displays the total number of characters and specific language characters.

Private Use Characters are unique characters specified within a range of the Unicode character set by individuals, organizations, and software vendors outside the ISO and

Unicode Consortium.

Applying character attributes

QuarkXPress lets you maintain precise, character-by-character control over text formatting.

Applying a font

To apply a font to selected text, do one of the following things:

• Choose Style > Font and choose a font from the submenu.

• (Windows only): Display the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character) and choose a font from the Font menu.

• Choose a font from the Font drop-down menu in the Home/Classic or

Character/Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

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• Press Command+Option+Shift+M/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M to jump directly to the font field in the Measurements palette, enter the first few characters of the font name until it is recognized, then press Return/Enter.

Your most recently used fonts display at the top of the font list.

(Windows only):To display font previews in font menus, check the Show in Font Menu box in the Fonts pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). Press Shift to temporarily override this preference.

(Mac OS X only): QuarkXPress automatically shows a preview of all typefaces in the font pop-ups. Press Shift to temporarily override this preference.

Choosing a font size

You can apply font sizes from 2 to 3456 points. To apply a size to selected text, do one of the following things:

• Choose Style > Size and choose a point size from the submenu.

• Click the arrow next to the current font size to display a list of point sizes, then either choose a size from the list or enter a new point size.

• Use one of the keyboard commands below.

Mac OS X

• Increase 1 pt: Command+Option+Shift+>

• Decrease 1 pt: Command+Option+Shift+<

• Increase in preset range: Command+Shift+>

• Decrease in preset range: Command+Shift+<

Windows

• Increase 1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+>

• Decrease 1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+<

• Increase in preset range: Ctrl+Shift+>

• Decrease in preset range: Ctrl+Shift+<

Applying type styles

To apply a type style to selected text, do one of the following things:

• Choose Style > Type Style and choose a type style from the submenu.

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Character and click check boxes in the Type Style area.

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• Choose a type style from the Text Styles drop-down menu in the Measurements palette.

Apply bold and italic type styles using the icons to the left of the Text Styles drop-down menu. To remove all styles from selected text, choose Remove All Styles from the Text

Styles drop-down menu.

Intrinsic fonts are distinct font styles built into font families, such as “Times New Roman

MT Std Bd” in the “Times New Roman MT Std” font family.

Simulated fonts are plain intrinsic fonts that have been modified to simulate bold, italic, or bold italic. When a font family does not include a bold or italic variation as a separate intrinsic font, you can apply the bold and italic type styles to allow your operating system to perform a transform to create a bold or italic rendition of the font. The result is a simulated font.

When you apply bold to a plain font, the application first tries to find an intrinsic bold version of the font, and then if it can't find such a font, it creates a simulated bold version of the font.

Warning icons identify simulated fonts in a layout because simulated fonts can cause output problems. Simulated fonts display with a warning icon in the Measurements palette, the Glyphs palette, the Character Attributes dialog box, the Style > Type Style submenu, the Edit Character Style Sheet dialog box, the Change To area of the

Find/Change palette, the Fonts pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu), the Replace

Font dialog box accessible from the Usage dialog box, and the Character Attributes tab of the Rubi dialog box.

Applying color, shade, and opacity

To apply color, shade, and opacity to selected text, do one of the following things:

• Choose options from the Style > Color, Style > Shade, and Style > Opacity submenus.

• Display the Colors palette (Window > Show Colors), click a color, and then choose or enter Shade and Opacity values.

• Use the color, shade, and opacity controls in the Home/Classic or Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

Applying horizontal or vertical scale

To apply horizontal or vertical scaling to selected text, do one of the following things:

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Horizontal/Vertical Scale, choose Horizontal or Vertical from the Scale drop-down menu, enter a value in the field, and then click OK.

• Choose Scale Text Horizontally or Scale Text Vertically from the Character/Character

Attributes tab of the Measurements palette, and enter a value in the field.

• Use one of the keyboard commands below. If a range of text is selected that has both horizontal and vertical scaling applied, the keyboard commands will increase or decrease the text accordingly.

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You cannot apply horizontal and vertical scaling values simultaneously.

Mac OS X

• Condense 5%: Command+[

• Expand 5%: Command+]

• Condense 1%: Command+Option+[

• Expand 1%: Command+Option+]

Windows

• Condense 5%: Ctrl+[

• Expand 5%: Ctrl+]

• Condense 1%: Ctrl+Alt+[

• Expand 1%: Ctrl+Alt+]

Applying baseline shift

You can place characters above or below their baseline without affecting paragraph spacing.

A positive value raises the text; a negative value lowers the text. To apply baseline shift to selected text, do one of the following things:

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Baseline Shift, enter a value in the Baseline Shift field, and then click OK.

• Enter a value in the Baseline field of the Character/Character Attributes tab of the

Measurements palette.

• Use one of the keyboard commands below.

Mac OS X

• Down 1 pt: Command+Option+Shift+-

• Up 1 pt: Command+Option++

Windows

• Down 1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+9

• Up 1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+0

Applying emphasis

To apply an emphasis mark to a character, select the character, click the Emphasis Mark drop down in the Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette to display the emphasis mark options, and then click one of the options. These options are also available in the Emphasis Mark drop-down menu under Style > Type Style. On

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Windows, these options are also available in the Emphasis Mark drop-down menu in the

Character Attributes palette (Style > Character).

Controlling half-width characters

To keep half-width characters (such as Roman characters) horizontal in a vertical story:

• (Windows only) Check the Keep Half-Width Characters Upright box in the Character

Attributes dialog box (Style > Character) .

• (Mac OS X only) Check the Keep Half-Width Characters Upright box on the Character tab of the Measurements palette.

Counting characters

The Character Count dialog box (Utilities menu) displays the number of full-width, half-width, Bopomofo, Hangul, Kana, and Han characters used in the active story. It also displays the number of symbols and private use characters in the selected story.

Working with font sets

Font sets let you control how different types of characters — such as Alphabetic (Roman) and Han characters — display when they occur together in text.

You can create a new font set in the Edit Font Set dialog box (Edit > Font Sets). Each font set is composed of a set of font types, each of which has its own settings.

Use the Edit Font Set dialog box to configure a font set.

For each type in a font set, you can control the following:

• Font: Specify a font for each type of character group.

• Relative Size: Specify the relative size of each font based on the font size used in the layout.

For example, if the font size in your layout is 12 points, and you specify a relative setting of 200%, the font displays at 24 points.

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• Baseline Shift: Specify a value to raise or lower the font from its baseline.

• Scale Direction: Specify whether the font is scaled horizontally or vertically.

• Scale Amount: Specify the amount of horizontal or vertical scaling.

The Sample Text area of the dialog box displays sample text that uses each of the fonts in the font set.

You can apply a font set to text in the same way that you apply a font to text. Simply select the text and choose a font set from the font drop-down menu in the Measurements palette. Font sets display at the top of the list.

To append a font set to a project, use the Append button in the Font Sets dialog box

( Edit > Font Sets).

Working with grouped characters

Use the Group Characters dialog box (Style menu) to include a group of horizontal characters, such as Roman characters, within a vertical line of text. Grouped characters always display horizontally and do not break at the end of a line. To group selected characters:

1 Choose Style > Group Characters.

2 Choose Vertical or Horizontal from the Scale drop-down menu and enter a percentage in the field to the right of the Scale drop-down menu.

3 If you want to change the character spacing, enter a value in the Track/Sending Amount field.

4 Click OK.

Aligning characters on a line

The Character Alignment feature gives you several options for aligning small characters in a line of text to the largest character in a line of text. You can align characters based on their baselines, their em boxes, or their ICF boxes.

Em boxes are the bounding boxes of characters. The ideographic character face (ICF) box is a boundary inside the em box beyond which a glyph cannot extend. ICF boxes are necessary to ensure that glyphs in an East Asian text flow do not touch each other. The red area in the diagram below represents the boundaries of the em box. The yellow area represents the ICF box.

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Red represents the em box. Yellow represents the ICF box.

You can align smaller characters with the largest characters that appear in the same line of text in one of following ways:

• Choose an option from the Style > Character Alignment submenu.

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Formats and choose an option from the Char Align drop-down menu under the Formats tab.

• (Mac OS X only): Choose an option from the Char Align drop-down menu on the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette..

The alignment options are:

• ICF Box Top: Aligns small characters with the top of the ICF box.

• Embox Top: Aligns small characters with the top edge of the em box of the largest character in a line of horizontal text.

• Embox Bottom: Aligns small characters with the bottom edge of the em box of the largest character in a line of horizontal text.

• Embox Centered: Aligns small characters with the center of the em box of the largest character.

• Embox Right: Aligns small characters with the right edge of the em box of the largest character in a line of vertical text.

• Embox Left: Aligns small characters with the left edge of the em box of the largest character in a line of vertical text.

• Roman Baseline: Aligns small characters with the baseline of the largest character.

• ICF Box Bottom: Aligns small characters with the bottom of the ICF box.

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Examples of horizontal character alignment

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Examples of vertical alignment

Applying multiple character attributes

You can view and edit all character attributes at one time using the Character Attributes dialog box ( Style > Character) on Windows, or by using the Paragraph tab of the

Measurements palette on Mac OS X.

Blank fields and gray check boxes indicate that multiple styles are applied to selected text.

For example, if the Font field is blank, then more than one font is applied to the selected text.

If you enter a value in a blank field, that value will be applied to all the selected text. If you check or uncheck a gray check box, that style setting will be applied to or removed from all selected text.

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Use the Character Attributes dialog box to format text.

Applying paragraph attributes

Paragraph attributes are formatting options that apply to a paragraph as a whole. They include alignment, indents, leading, and tab settings. To apply attributes to selected paragraphs, use the Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette and on Windows you can also use the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Windows only)

( Style > Formats).

You can copy any applied paragraph formats from one paragraph to other paragraphs in the same box or text chain. To copy applied paragraph formats, select the paragraph or range of paragraphs that you want to change, then press Option+/Alt+Shift while clicking anywhere in the paragraph with the formats you want to copy. Copying paragraph formats in this way will not change any character attributes.

Controlling alignment

You can choose from five paragraph alignments: Left, Centered, Right, Justified, and Forced.

The Forced option aligns all lines between the left and right indentations, like the Justified option, but also justifies the last line (if there is a return at the end of the paragraph).

To set the alignment of selected text, do one of the following things:

• Choose an alignment from the Style > Alignment submenu.

• Click an alignment icon in the Home/Classic tab or the Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

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• Use one of the keyboard commands below.

Mac OS X

• Left : Command+Shift+L

• Centered : Command+Shift+C

• Right : Command+Shift+R

• Justified :Command+Shift+J

• Forced : Command+Option+J

Windows

• Left : Ctrl+Shift+L

• Centered : Ctrl+Shift+C

• Right : Ctrl+Shift+R

• Justified : Ctrl+Shift+J

• Forced : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J

Controlling indentation

You can specify indents for selected paragraphs in the following ways:

• Use the Style > Alignment submenu

• (Windows only): Use the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style > Formats)

• Use the Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette

Use the following fields to specify the indents:

• To specify how far a paragraph is indented from the left edge of a box or column, enter a value in the Left Indent field.

• To specify how far the first line of a paragraph is indented from the Left Indent value, enter a value in the First Line field. Note that First Line indentation is relative to the Left

Indent applied to a paragraph. For example, if you specify a Left Indent of .5", and a First

Line indentation of .5", the first line will begin 1" from the left edge of the text box.

• To specify how far a paragraph is indented from the right edge of a box or column, enter a value in the Right Indent field. Click OK.

• To create a hanging indentation, specify a positive Left Indent and a negative First Line indentation or drag the indentation icons on the column ruler. In Windows, you can use the Apply button in the Formats tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style >

Formats) to experiment with the hanging indentation.

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In addition to setting hanging indents as a paragraph attribute, you can enter a special character that forces the indenting of all lines of text from that point to the next paragraph return. Press Command+\ (Mac OS X) or Ctrl+\ (Windows) to enter a special Indent Here character. (The Indent Here character is an invisible character; to view invisible characters, choose View > Invisibles (Command+I/Ctrl+I.)

Alignment and indentations are both measured from the Text Inset field specified in the

Text tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu) on Windows, or in the Text Inset field on the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette. The Text Inset value affects the four sides of a text box; it does not affect the inner columns of a text box.

Controlling leading

Leading is a measure of line spacing — the distance between text baselines in paragraphs.

When you specify a leading value, it is applied to all lines in selected paragraphs. You can specify leading by three methods:

• Absolute leading sets the distance between baselines of text to a specific value, regardless of the size of characters on the lines. For example, if you specify an absolute leading value of 16 points for a paragraph, all baselines will be spaced 16 points apart. When specifying absolute leading, use a value that is the total vertical distance you want between text baselines.

• Incremental auto leading combines a base amount of auto leading with an absolute value specified in the Leading field. Incremental leading values must be preceded by a plus (+) or minus (–) sign.

• Auto leading means the application uses the value in the Auto Leading field (QuarkXPress

/Edit > Preferences > Paragraph pane) to decide whether percentage-based or incremental auto leading occurs. The default — percentage-based — takes the base amount of auto leading and adds to it a fixed percentage of the largest font size on the upper line to determine the total amount of leading between an auto-leaded line and the line above it.

The default value for percentage-based auto leading is 20%. To specify auto leading, enter

auto in the Leading field.

To set the alignment of selected paragraphs, do one of the following things:

• (Windows only) : Choose Style > Leading, then enter an absolute leading value, an incremental leading value (preceded by a plus or minus sign), or auto in the Leading field.

• Use the Leading controls in the Measurements palette.

• Use one of the keyboard commands below.

Mac OS X

• Decrease 1 pt: Command+Shift+:

• Decrease .1 pt: Command+Option+Shift+:

• Increase 1 pt: Command+Shift+"

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• Increase .1 pt: Command+Option+Shift+"

Windows

• Decrease 1 pt: Ctrl+Shift+:

• Decrease .1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+:

• Increase 1 pt: Ctrl+Shift+"

• Increase .1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+"

Controlling space before and after paragraphs

Space Before and Space After controls let you specify the amount of space before and after selected paragraphs.

To set the space before and after selected paragraphs, do one of the following things:

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Formats, then enter values in the Space Before or Space

After fields.

• Use the Space Before Paragraph and Space After Paragraph controls in the

Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

Setting tabs

You can choose from six kinds of tab stops:

• Left aligns text flush left on the tab stop.

• Center aligns text centrally on that tab stop.

• Right aligns text flush right on the tab stop.

• Decimal aligns text on a decimal point (period).

• Comma aligns text on a first comma.

• Align On aligns text on any character you specify. When you select this tab, the Align

On field displays. Select the existing entry, and enter the character to align on.

If you do not set custom tabs, the application sets default left-aligned tabs every half-inch.

You can apply tabs to selected paragraphs in the following ways:

• (Windows only): Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box

( Style > Tabs).

• Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the Measurements palette. Using the Measurements palette conserves screen space, and you continuously see the effects updated as you change tab settings. You can drag tab icons to the ruler or drag tab icons directly into text. When you are dragging tabs to the ruler or to text, a vertical line displays on screen to help you decide where to position the tab.

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Controlling widow and orphan lines

Widows and orphans are two kinds of typographically undesirable lines. Traditionally, a widow is defined as the last line of a paragraph that falls at the top of a column. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a column.

Using the Keep Lines Together feature, you can choose not to break paragraphs, so that if all the lines in a paragraph do not fit in a column or on a page, the whole paragraph will flow to the top of the next column or page. Alternatively, you can specify the number of lines that must be left at the bottom of a column or box, and at the top of the following column or box, when a paragraph is broken. Using the Keep with Next ¶ feature, you can keep a paragraph together with the paragraph that follows it. This lets you keep a subhead together with the paragraph that follows it, or keep other lines of text that logically go together from being separated.

It is common to specify Keep with Next ¶ for headline and subhead style sheets and specify Keep Lines Together (usually with Start and End parameters) for body text style sheets.

To turn the Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next ¶ features on or off for selected paragraphs:

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Formats to display the Formats tab of the Paragraph

Attributes dialog box, then check or uncheck Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next

• (Mac OS X only):Use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.

Working with non-breaking character sets

Non-breaking characters are characters that cannot begin or end a line, and also which cannot be separated from each other at line breaks. The Non-Breaking Character Set dialog box ( Edit > NonBreaking Character Sets) includes default non-breaking character sets for Japanese Strong, Japanese Weak, Korean Standard, Simplified Chinese Standard and Traditional Chinese Standard.

To create custom non-breaking character sets:

1 Choose Edit > Non-Breaking Character Sets. The Non-Breaking Character Sets dialog box displays.

2 Click New.

3 Enter a name in the Name field.

4 Enter characters in the Enter characters that cannot begin a line field, the Enter

characters that cannot end a line field, and the Enter non-separable characters field.

5 Click OK.

6 Click Save.

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To apply a non-breaking character set to a paragraph, choose one from the Non-Breaking

Char Set drop-down menu in the Edit Hyphenation & Justification dialog box (Edit >

H&Js > Edit).

Controlling kerning

Kerning is the adjustment of space between character pairs. Because of their shapes, certain character pairs look better when kerned. You can use automatic kerning, and you can also use manual kerning controls to specify additional kerning between characters.

Kerning values are expressed as ½00 of an em space. A positive kerning value increases the amount of space between characters; a negative value decreases it.

Kerning manually

To apply kerning between two characters, do one of the following things:

• (Windows only) : Choose Style > Kern and enter a value in the Kern Amount field. Click

OK.

• Use the Kern Amount controls in the Measurements palette.

• Use one of the keyboard commands below.

Mac OS X

• Decrease 1/20-em: Command+Shift+{

• Increase 1/20-em: Command+Shift+}

• Decrease 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+{

• Increase 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+}

Windows

• Decrease 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+{

• Increase 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+}

• Decrease 1/200-em: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+{

• Increase 1/200-em: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+}

Kerning automatically

To automatically kern text above a specific point size, display the Character pane of the

Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu), check Auto Kern Above, and enter a value in the field.

QuarkXPress uses kerning information that is built into the font (the font's kerning table).

A kerning table contains a number of character pairs — "Ta," for example — and an

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associated kerning value for each pair in the table. You can't change a font's kerning table, but you can create a custom kerning table for any font using the Kerning Table Edit dialog box ( Utilities menu). You can use this dialog box to customize both horizontal

( With-Stream) and vertical (Cross-Stream) space in kerning pairs.

You can create your own kerning tables in QuarkXPress.

Controlling hyphenation and justification

A hyphenation and justification (H&J) specification is a named package of settings for hyphenating words that go over the margin of a line of text and for justifying spaces between words and characters. You can apply H&Js to individual paragraphs, or you can associate an H&J with a paragraph style sheet. Use the Edit Hyphenation & Justification dialog box (Edit > H&Js > New) to control these settings.

The Edit Hyphenation & Justification dialog box

• Auto Hyphenation: Specify whether automatic hyphenation is allowed.

• Smallest Word: Specify the minimum number of characters a word must contain to allow hyphenation.

• Minimum Before: Specify the minimum number of characters before a hyphen.

• Minimum After: Specify the minimum number of characters after a hyphen.

• Break Capitalized Words: Specify whether hyphenation of capitalized words is allowed.

• Hyphens in a Row: Specify how many words can be hyphenated in consecutive line ends.

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• Hyphenation Zone: Specify the area before the right indentation in which hyphenation can occur. For example, if you set the hyphenation zone to .05", the word is hyphenated when an acceptable hyphenation point falls within .05" of the right indentation. The word preceding the hyphenated word must not fall within the hyphenation zone.

• Hyphenation Zone: For words containing Roman characters, specify the area before the right indentation in which hyphenation can occur. For example, if you set the hyphenation zone to .05", the word is hyphenated when an acceptable hyphenation point falls within .05" of the right indentation. The word preceding the hyphenated word must not fall within the hyphenation zone.

• Justification Method: Specify how words and characters are spaced.

• Space: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between words in paragraphs that have justified or forced alignment. Specify the optimum amount of space between words in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

• Char: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between characters in paragraphs that have justified or forced alignment. Specify the optimum amount of space between characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

•

Non-Breaking Char Set: Choose a non-breaking character set from the drop-down menu. For more information about non-breaking character sets, see "

Working with non-breaking character sets ."

•

Non Breaking Method: Choose a non-breaking method from the drop-down menu.

When the last character in a line of justified text is a non-breaking character that cannot end a line, Run Back pulls the first character of the next line up to the current line, based on the value in the Min. field. Run Down pushes the character to the next line, based on the value in the Max. field. For more information about non-breaking characters, see

Working with non-breaking character sets

•

R Space: Specify the amount of space between words containing Roman characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between words containing

Roman characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

•

EA Punct: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between East Asian punctuation characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between East Asian punctuation characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

•

Kana/Hangul/ZhuYin: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between

Kana, Hangul, or Zhu Yin characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between Kana, Hangul, or Zhu Yin characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

•

Han: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between Han characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between Han characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

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R Char: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between Roman characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between Roman characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.

• Flush Zone: Specify the area before the right indentation within which the last word in the last line of a justified paragraph must fall in order to justify that line. For example, if you enter 1", the last line of a paragraph to which the hyphenation and justification specification is applied will not be justified until the last word in the line falls within 1" of the right indentation.

• Single Word Justify: Specify whether a single word on a line in a justified paragraph extends from the left indentation to the right indentation. When the box is unchecked, a single word on a line is left-aligned.

• Break on Spaces: Specify whether Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text breaks on spaces.

Specifying hyphenation exceptions

In QuarkXPress, you can create language-specific lists of hyphenation exceptions. The

Hyphenation Exceptions dialog box (Utilities menu) has a Language drop-down menu that lets you specify which language a hyphenation exception applies to. When a paragraph is automatically hyphenated, the application checks the list of hyphenation exceptions for the appropriate paragraph language.

The Suggested Hyphenation dialog box (Utilities menu) displays the recommended hyphenation of a word that is based on the hyphenation method specified for the paragraph and the hyphenation exceptions for the paragraph's language.

Using discretionary hyphens

In addition to hyphenating text automatically, you can control line breaks and text flow by inserting manual, or discretionary, hyphens (Command+- [hyphen]/Ctrl+- [hyphen]).

A discretionary hyphen is inserted only when a word is broken at the end of a line.

Controlling tracking

Tracking lets you adjust the space between selected characters and words for copyfitting and typographic effects. Tracking values are expressed as ½00 of an em space. A positive tracking value increases the space to the right of each character; a negative value decreases it.

Tracking is commonly used for copyfitting. However, too much tracking can interfere with design and readability. When you are using tracking for copyfitting, consider these guidelines:

• Track whole paragraphs rather than one line or one word.

• Establish guidelines for tracking (for example from +3 to –3).

• Make sure vertically adjacent paragraphs have similar tracking applied.

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These are general rules; appropriate tracking values depend on the design, font, column width, and other factors.

Tracking manually

To apply tracking to selected text, do one of the following things:

• (Windows only) : Choose Style > Track, enter a value in the Track Amount field, and then click OK.

• Use the Track Amount controls in the Measurements palette.

• Use one of the keyboard commands below.

Mac OS X

• Decrease 1/20-em: Command+Shift+{

• Increase 1/20-em: Command+Shift+}

• Decrease 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+{

• Increase 1/200-em: Command+Option+Shift+}

Windows

• Decrease 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+{

• Increase 1/20-em: Ctrl+Shift+}

• Decrease 1/200-em: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+{

• Increase 1/200-em: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+}

Editing tracking tables

The application uses tracking information that is built into the font (the font's tracking

table). You can't change a font's tracking table, but you can create a custom tracking table for any font by using the Tracking Edit dialog box (Utilities menu).

Sending

Sending lets you fix the distance between the left edges of successive character bounding boxes in horizontal text, or the top edges of successive character bounding boxes in vertical text. You can apply sending by selecting text and entering an explicit measurement (such as 2mm or 8q) in the Track Amount field in the Home/Classic or Character/Character

Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. Alternatively on Windows, you can choose

Style > Track/Sending and enter an explicit measurement (such as 2mm or 8q) in the

Track Amount field of the Character Attributes dialog box.

If you enter a number in a Track Amount field but do not specify a measurement system, tracking is applied instead of sending. To apply sending, specify a measurement unit.

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You can apply sending to characters that do not have Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language applied to them. Simply check the Apply Sending to Non-CJK Characters box in the Character Attributes dialog box (Edit > Character) (Windows only), or in the

Character tab of the Measurements palette (Mac OS X only).

Working with style sheets

A style sheet is a group of paragraph attributes, character attributes, or both that can be applied to selected paragraphs and characters in one step. Use style sheets to change unformatted text into styles such as headlines, subheadings, captions, or body copy. Using style sheets to apply a number of character and paragraph attributes at one time reduces layout time and helps maintain typographic consistency.

Creating and editing paragraph style sheets

A paragraph style sheet is a named package of paragraph and character attributes. You can apply all of a paragraph style sheet's formatting attributes to text by simply applying the style sheet to the text. To create, edit, duplicate, or delete paragraph style sheets, use the

Style Sheets dialog box (Edit > Style Sheets).

Use the Style Sheets dialog box to create, edit, and delete style sheets.

To create a paragraph style sheet, choose Paragraph from the New drop-down button.

The Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box displays. Use the controls in this dialog box to configure the attributes of the style sheet.

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Use the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box to configure a paragraph style sheet.

First, configure the controls in the General tab:

• Name: Enter a name in this field, or the application will use a default "New Style Sheet" name.

• Keyboard Equivalent: To define a keyboard command for the style sheet, enter one in the Keyboard Equivalent field. You can enter any combination of Command, Option,

Shift, or Control/Ctrl or Ctrl+Alt, along with a function or keypad key.

• If you define a keyboard equivalent for a style sheet with a key sequence that also defines an existing command, the style sheet command will override the existing command when the Text Content tool is selected and a text box is active.

• Based on: To base the attributes of a new style sheet on an existing one, click the Based

on drop-down menu and choose a style sheet from the list. Note that if you use the Based

on drop-down menu in the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box to base a style sheet on an existing one, changes you make to the original style sheet are automatically applied to those based on it.

• Next Style: To select a transition from one paragraph style sheet to another after entering a carriage return, choose a paragraph style sheet from the Next Style drop-down menu.

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• Style: To associate a character style sheet with the paragraph style sheet, choose an option from the Style drop-down menu in the Character Attributes area. To create a character style sheet, see "

Creating and editing character style sheets ."

Next, use the Formats, Tabs, and Rules tabs to specify additional attributes for your paragraph style sheet. When you're done, click OK to return to the Style Sheets dialog box, then click Save to save the style sheet. After you save a paragraph style sheet, it is listed in the Paragraph Style Sheet submenu (Style menu) and also in the Style Sheets palette.

When you create a style sheet with no projects open, that style sheet becomes part of the default style sheet list and is included in all subsequently created projects. When you create a style sheet with an project open, that style sheet is included only in the active project's style sheet list.

To create a paragraph style sheet based on formatted text, first place the text insertion point within a paragraph that uses the format attributes that you want in your paragraph style sheet. Choose Edit > Style Sheets to display the Style Sheets dialog box. Choose

New > Paragraph and enter a name in the Name field. Click Save. Then apply the new style sheet to the paragraph. When you check the preference "Apply Style Sheet after creation" the style sheet gets automatically applied to the paragraph you have currently selected.

Updating paragraph style sheets

When you place the cursor in a paragraph that has uniform local formatting applied, you can update the style sheet applied to that text to include the local formatting by clicking the Update button . Alternatively, you can choose Style > Update Style Sheet >

Paragraph.

To update both the paragraph style sheet and the character style sheet applied to text so that they reflect local formatting, choose Style > Update Style Sheet > Both.

Creating and editing character style sheets

A character style sheet is a named package of character attributes. You can apply all of a character style sheet's formatting attributes to text by simply applying the style sheet to the text. To create, edit, or delete character style sheets, use the Style Sheets dialog box

( Edit > Style Sheets).

To create a character style sheet, choose Character from the New drop-down button. The

Edit Character Style Sheet dialog box displays. Use the controls in this dialog box to configure the attributes of the style sheet.

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Use the Edit Character Style Sheet dialog box to configure a character style sheet.

First, configure the controls in the General tab:

• Name: Enter a name in this field, or the application will use the default "New Style Sheet" name.

• Keyboard Equivalent: To define a keyboard command for the style sheet, enter one in the Keyboard Equivalent field. You can enter any combination of Command, Option,

Shift, or Control/Ctrl or Ctrl+Alt, along with a function or keypad key.

• Based On: To base the attributes of a new style sheet on an existing one, choose a style sheet from the Based On drop-down menu.

Next, choose character attributes from the lower section of the Edit Character Style Sheet dialog box. When you're done, click OK to return to the Style Sheets dialog box, then click Save to save the style sheet. After you save a character style sheet, it is listed in the

Character Style Sheet submenu (Style menu) and also in the Style Sheets palette.

Updating character style sheets

When you select text that has uniform local formatting applied, you can update the style sheet applied to that text to include the local formatting by clicking the Update button

. Alternatively, you can choose Style > Update Style Sheet > Character.

To update both the paragraph style sheet and the character style sheet applied to text so that they reflect local formatting, choose Style > Update Style Sheet > Both.

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Applying style sheets

To apply a style sheet to selected text, do one of the following things:

• Choose the style sheet name from the Style > Paragraph Style Sheet submenu or the

Style > Character Style Sheet submenu.

• Display the Style Sheets palette (Window menu) and then click the style sheet name in the palette.

• Use the keyboard command (if any) displayed next to the style sheet name in the Style

Sheets palette.

In addition, the Style Sheets palette menu and the context menu for style sheets provide the following options:

• Apply Style Sheet & Retain Local Type Styles: Applies the selected style sheet, leaving only local type styles (such as bold and italic) intact.

• Apply Style Sheet & Retain Local Type Styles & OpenType Styles: Applies the selected style sheet, leaving both local type styles (such as bold and italic) and OpenType type styles intact.

• Apply Style Sheet & Remove Local Formatting: Applies the selected style sheet and removes all local formatting. Equivalent to Option/Alt-clicking the style sheet name.

• Apply Style Sheet & Remove Local Paragraph Formatting: Applies the selected style sheet and removes only local paragraph formatting. All local character formatting is left intact.

• Apply Style Sheet & Maintain Appearance: Applies the selected style sheet, plus any local formatting necessary to maintain the paragraph's current appearance.

If you use one of the following commands, QuarkXPress applies the indicated paragraph style sheet to the selected text, then if that style sheet has a specified Next Style, applies that style to the following paragraph. This process continues until QuarkXPress encounters a paragraph that does not have a specified Next Style. The options for this feature are as follows:

• Apply Using Next Style: Applies style sheets using Next Style.

• Apply Using Next Style & Retain Local Type Styles: Applies style sheets using Next Style, leaving local type styles (such as bold and italic) intact.

• Apply Using Next Style & Retain Local Type Styles & OpenType Style: Applies style sheets using Next Style, leaving both local type styles (such as bold and italic) and OpenType type styles intact.

• Apply Using Next Style & Remove Local Formatting: Applies style sheets using Next

Style, plus any local formatting necessary to maintain each paragraph's current appearance.

When local paragraph or character attributes exist in selected text, a plus sign displays next to the style sheet name in the Style Sheets palette. To remove local attributes, click

No Style and then reselect the style sheet, or Option+click/Alt+click the style sheet name.

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Appending style sheets

To import paragraph and character style sheets from a different article or project, choose

File > Append, navigate to the target article or project file, then display the Style Sheets pane and import the style sheets you want.

If a style sheet from the source file has the same name as a style sheet in the target project, but is defined differently, the Append Conflict dialog box displays. You can use this dialog box to determine how such conflicts are handled.

Working with conditional styles

Conditional styles let you automatically apply formatting to text based on the content of that text. For example, consider the text-formatting conventions shown in the following image:

Text that can be formatted with conditional styles

The conventions used here could be described like so:

1 Apply the Headline paragraph style sheet to the first paragraph.

2 Apply the Bold Body character style sheet to the first sentence of the second paragraph.

3 Apply the Body paragraph style sheet until you get to the end of the story.

4 When you get to the end, turn around and apply the Byline character style sheet backwards until you get to an em dash.

Each step is executed only after the previous step executes, and at the point in the text where the previous step leaves off. If any step fails, the rest of the steps are not executed.

The Conditional Styles feature lets you capture such instructions and apply them automatically to text. For example, you could implement the above conventions with the following conditional style:

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A conditional style that produces the above formatting

Once you've captured these rules in a conditional style, you can style a run of text by simply selecting it and then clicking the conditional style's name in the Conditional

Styles palette.

Conditional Styles palette

It is important to understand that conditional styles are applied at the paragraph level.

Each paragraph can have only one conditional style applied to it. If a paragraph does not have a conditional style applied to it, it cannot be reformatted by a conditional style that is applied to a different paragraph.

It is also important to understand that when you apply a conditional style to a sequence of paragraphs, that conditional style affects only that series of paragraphs. If a conditional style is applied to a series of paragraphs at the beginning of a story and to a series of paragraphs at the end of the same story, they cannot affect one another, even if (for

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example) the series at the beginning of the story includes a rule with an End of the Story reference.

Creating a conditional style

To create a conditional style:

1 Choose Edit > Conditional Styles. The Conditional Styles dialog box displays.

2 Click New. The Edit Conditional Style dialog box displays.

Edit Conditional Style dialog box

3 Enter a name for the conditional style in the Name field.

4 To begin building a rule, choose an option in the first column:

• Apply: Use this option to apply formatting to text.

• Go: Use this option to move to a different point in the text. The rule after a Go rule is applied beginning at the point where the Go rule stops.

The option you choose in the first column determines which options are available in the other columns.

5 If you chose Apply in the first column, choose the paragraph or character style sheet you want to apply in the second column.

6 Use the next three columns to indicate which text to style or jump over. Start with the third column:

• Up To: Moves forward and stops immediately before the indicated point.

• Through: Moves forward and stops immediately after the indicated point.

• Backwards To: Moves backward and stops immediately before the indicated point.

• Backwards Through: Moves backward and stops immediately after the indicated point.

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The option selected in the fifth column controls whether all of these options are available in this column.

7 In the fourth column, indicate how many occurrences of the option in the fifth column to apply to or through.

8 In the fifth column, choose which entity to jump or format to or through:

• Cursor Position: Choose this option to apply a paragraph style sheet to the current location without moving.

• Conditional Style Marker: Choose this option to jump or format to the next conditional style marker. For more information, see "Conditional style markers."

• Character: Choose this option to target a particular character, then enter the character in the next column. If you want to move to or through one of several characters, enter all of them with no characters between them. For example, if you enter "abc" here, the application will stop for "a", "b", or "c".

• Number: Choose this option to jump or format to or through the next occurrence of a number.

• Text: Choose this option to target a particular chunk of text, then enter the target text in the next column.

• Number of Characters: Choose this option to format a particular number of characters.

• Number of Words: Choose this option to format a particular number of words.

• Beginning of the Sentence: Choose this option to format backwards to the beginning of the current sentence.

• End of the Sentence: Choose this option to format through the end of the current sentence.

• Beginning of the Paragraph: Choose this option to jump or format backwards to the beginning of the current paragraph.

• End of the Paragraph: Choose this option to jump or format through the end of the current paragraph.

• Next Paragraph: Choose this option to jump to or through the next paragraph.

• Last Paragraph: Choose this option to jump to or through the final paragraph.

• Number of Sentences: Choose this option to format a particular number of sentences.

• End of the Story: Choose this option to jump or format through the end of the story.

• Beginning of the Story: Choose this option to jump or format backwards to the beginning of the story.

When you use text as part of a conditional style, you can also use special characters (see

Special character codes

9 To add a rule, click the + button at the end of the first row. (To delete a rule, click the button.)

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10 To make the rules repeat, check Repeat Conditional Style At and choose an option:

• Text: Choose this option to repeat when a particular chunk of text is found, then enter the target text in the field.

• Character: Choose this option to repeat when a particular character is found, then enter the character in the next column. If you want to repeat at each instance of one of several characters, enter all of them with no characters between them. For example, if you enter

"abc" here, the application will repeat when "a", "b", or "c" is encountered.

• Conditional Style Marker: Choose this option to repeat when a conditional style marker is found.

• Every Paragraph: Choose this option to repeat at the beginning of every paragraph.

11 Click OK.

You can also create a conditional style by clicking New in the Conditional Styles palette.

You can duplicate a conditional style by clicking Duplicate in the Conditional Styles palette.

Applying a conditional style

To apply a conditional style:

1 Display the Conditional Styles palette (Window menu).

Conditional Styles palette

2 Select the Text Content tool and select the target paragraphs or place the text cursor where you want the conditional styling to begin.

3 Click the name of the conditional style in the Conditional Styles palette.

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Note that once you have applied a conditional style to text, that text will continue to be automatically formatted until you remove the conditional style. To remove a conditional style from a paragraph, select the paragraph or place the text insertion point in the paragraph, then click No Conditional Style in the Conditional Styles palette.

Removing conditional styles

There are two ways to remove conditional styles from text to which they have been applied:

• To remove the conditional styles from the selected paragraphs and revert the text to its underlying paragraph style sheets, choose Revert to Base Style from the Conditional

Styles palette menu.

• To remove the conditional styles from the selected paragraphs and leave the styling applied by the conditional styles in place, click No Conditional Style in the Conditional Styles palette or choose Resolve Conditional Style from the Conditional Styles palette menu.

Using conditional style markers

If there is no natural aspect of a text flow (such as a particular character or the end of a sentence) where you can stop or start the application of a conditional style, you can insert a zero-width character called a conditional style marker. For example, assume you have a plain text file that contains a series of multi-paragraph articles, each with a one-paragraph headline. You can still use conditional styles to format them, like so:

1 Insert a conditional style marker at the beginning of each headline. To insert a conditional style marker, choose Utilities > Insert Character > Special > Conditional Style Marker.

Plain text with conditional style markers (highlighted in yellow)

2 Create a conditional style that applies the Headline paragraph style sheet to the first paragraph and the Body style sheet until the next occurrence of a conditional style marker.

At the bottom of the Edit Conditional Style dialog box, check Repeat Conditional Style

At and select Conditional Style Marker.

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Conditional style that uses conditional style markers

3 Apply the conditional style to the text. Each article is automatically formatted.

Text with conditional style applied

Editing a conditional style

There are two ways to edit a conditional style:

• Choose Edit > Conditional Styles, select the conditional style, and then click Edit.

• Select the conditional style in the Conditional Styles palette and click Edit .

To delete a conditional style, use the Delete button in the Conditional Styles dialog box or select the conditional style in the Conditional Styles palette and click Delete .

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Bullets and numbering

Rather than using manually created and formatted bullets and numbers, you can create bulleted and numbered lists with bullet styles, numbering styles, and outline styles.

A bullet style describes how a bullet should look, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned.

A numbering style describes how a number should look, what format it should have, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned.

An outline style defines indents for up to nine indent levels. You can associate a bullet or numbering style with each level. You can also choose whether to include the numbers from previous levels, as you would in some types of outline.

To apply a bullet, numbering, or outline style, use the •/123 drop-down menu on the right side of the Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. If you've applied an outline style, the Decrease Indent and Increase Indent buttons let you increase and decrease a paragraph's indent level.

•/123 drop-down menu and indent buttons

In addition to the settings in bullet, numbering, and outline styles, there is a paragraph attribute called Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text:

• (Windows) Style > Formats > Formats tab

• (Mac OS X) On the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette

This value lets you handle situations where a left-aligned or center-aligned number is pushing into the paragraph.

Working with bullet styles

A bullet style describes how a bullet should look, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned.

To create a bullet style, choose Edit > Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles, then choose

Bullet Style from the New button in the Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles dialog box. The Edit Bullet Style dialog box displays.

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Edit Bullet Style dialog box

To control how the bullet is styled, choose an option from the Character Style drop-down menu. Choose Inherit from Paragraph to use the paragraph's character formatting for the bullet, or choose a character style sheet to use that character style sheet's formatting.

Enter the actual bullet character or characters in the Bullet Characters field.

If you are inheriting the bullet's formatting from the paragraph, you can change the size of the bullet character or characters using the Size field.

The Outset value controls how far the bullet is from the paragraph. You can specify this distance in Absolute units, or click Relative (in Ems) and specify the value in em spaces.

The Relative (in Ems) option may be preferable when you will be using the bullet style with different-sized text.

Bullet outset

Alignment controls how the bullet aligns to the outset point.

Left-aligned, center-aligned, and right-aligned bullets

You can apply a bullet style in three ways:

• By choosing the bullet style's name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph/Paragraph

Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the bullet is positioned to the left of the paragraph's first line indent by its Outset value.

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• By choosing an outline style that uses the bullet style from the •/123 menu in the

Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the bullet's position is controlled by the outline style. For more information, see "

Working with outline styles ."

• Associate the bullet style with a paragraph style sheet, then apply that style sheet to the text. For more information, see "

Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets ."

Working with numbering styles

A numbering style describes how a number should look, what format it should have, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned.

To create a numbering style, choose Edit > Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles, then choose Numbering Style from the New button in the Bullet, Numbering, and Outline

Styles dialog box. The Edit Numbering Style dialog box displays.

Edit Numbering Style dialog box

To control how the numbers are styled, choose an option from the Character Style drop-down menu. Choose Inherit from Paragraph to use the paragraph's character formatting for the numbers, or choose a character style sheet to use that character style sheet's formatting.

Choose a number format from the Format drop-down menu.

If you want prefix or suffix characters around the number, enter them in the Prefix and

Suffix fields.

If you are inheriting the numbers' formatting from the paragraph, you can change the size of the numbers using the Size field.

The Outset value controls how far each number is from the paragraph. You can specify this distance in Absolute units, or click Relative (in Ems) and specify the value in em spaces. The Relative (in Ems) option may be preferable when you will be using the numbering style with different-sized text.

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Numbering alignment and offset works the same way bullet alignment and offset works.

For more information, see " Working with bullet styles ."

You can apply a numbering style in three ways:

• Choose the numbering style's name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph/Paragraph

Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the numbers are positioned to the left of the paragraph's first line indent by its Outset value.

• Choose an outline style that uses the numbering style from the •/123 menu in the

Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the numbers' positions are controlled by the outline style. For more information, see

Working with outline styles

• Associate the numbering style with a paragraph style sheet, then apply that style sheet to

the text. For more information, see " Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets

To change the starting number of a paragraph:

• (Windows only): Choose Style > Formats, check Restart Numbering, and enter a starting number in the Start At field.

• (Mac OS X only): Use the Bullets and Numbers tab of the Measurements palette.

Working with outline styles

An outline style defines indents for up to nine indent levels. You can associate a bullet or numbering style with each level. You can also choose whether to include the numbers from previous levels, as you would in some types of outline.

To create an outline style, choose Edit > Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles, then choose Outline Style from the New button in the Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles dialog box. The Edit Outline Style dialog box displays.

Edit Outline Style dialog box

Each outline style has nine levels, although you do not have to use all nine. Each level has an indent, which you can specify in the Indent field for that level. Indents are applied

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cumulatively; if level 1 has a 6 pt indent and level 2 has a 6 pt indent, a paragraph at level

2 is indented by 12 pt.

Outline style indents are applied on top of paragraph indents. If a paragraph has a left indent of 12 pt, and the indent for an outline style's first level is 6 pt, a paragraph at level

1 would visually be indented by 18 pt.

Each level can have a bullet or numbering style, or neither. To assign a bullet or numbering style to a level, choose an option in the Bullet or Numbering Style column for that level.

This diagram illustrates the relationship between level indents and bullet outsets. Numbering outsets work the same way.

The Include Lower Levels/Separator column lets you choose to append the numbers from lower levels to the beginning of a number, and to specify how the numbers from the various levels are separated. For example, if you check this box for level 3 and specify a period as the separator, the numbering for level-3 text might look like this:

1.3.1 This paragraph is at level 3.

1.3.2 This paragraph is at level 3.

1.3.3 This paragraph is at level 3.

To change the character inserted between levels for a given level, double-click to the right of the Include Lower Levels/Separator check box and enter a new character or characters.

When you include numbers from lower levels and use left or center number alignment, there is a chance the numbers can extend to be longer than the number outset and potentially overlap the text. To address this possibility:

• (Windows only): There is a paragraph attribute called Minimum Bullet/Number Distance

from Text (Style > Formats > Formats tab). If a number's length becomes longer than

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the number outset, the application moves the paragraph text to the right so that there is always this much distance between the number and the text.

• (Mac OS X only):The Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Textparagraph attribute can be found on the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.

How the Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text value is applied

There are two ways to apply an outline style to text:

• Choose the outline style's name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph/Paragraph

Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

• Associate the outline style with a paragraph style sheet, then apply that style sheet to the text. For more information, see "

Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets ."

Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets

To associate a bullet, numbering, or outline style with a paragraph style sheet:

1 Display the Formats tab of the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box (Edit > Style Sheets >

New or Edit).

2 Choose a bullet, numbering, or outline style from the •/123 drop-down menu.

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Associating a bullet, numbering, or outline style with a paragraph style sheet

When you apply this style sheet to a paragraph, the bullet, numbering, or outline style will also be applied.

Positioning text in text boxes

The topics below cover several ways to control the vertical and horizontal positioning of text in text boxes.

Using baseline grid

QuarkXPress versions 7.0 and earlier included a feature called Baseline Grid. The baseline grid was an evenly spaced series of invisible horizontal lines running from the top to the bottom of each page. Locking paragraphs to the baseline grid let you align baselines from column to column and from box to box, across a page and across spreads.

In QuarkXPress 8.0, the Baseline Grid feature has been replaced by the Design Grid feature.

For more information, see " Working with design grids

Aligning text vertically

There are four options for positioning lines of text vertically within text boxes:

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• Top: In top-aligned text boxes, lines of text are positioned in the box with the top of the first line positioned as specified in the First Baseline area.

• Centered: In center-aligned text boxes, lines of text are centered between the First

Baseline's ascent and the bottom of the text box.

• Bottom: In bottom-aligned text boxes, lines of text are positioned with the last line flush with the bottom of the box.

• Justified: In justified text boxes, lines of text are positioned in the box with the first line positioned as specified in the First Baseline area, the last line flush with text inset at the bottom of the box, and the remaining lines justified between. When vertically justifying text, you can specify the maximum vertical distance between paragraphs.

To use these options:

• (Windows only) Choose an option from the Type drop-down menu (Item > Modify > Text tab > Vertical Alignment area.

• (Mac OS X only)Choose an option from the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette.

The Inter ¶ Max field (available only when Justified is selected in the Type drop-down menu) lets you specify the amount of space that can be inserted between vertically justified paragraphs.

The Centered, Bottom, and Justified alignment options are intended only for rectangular text areas, and can be disrupted by obstructing items.

Specifying text inset

Text inset lets you specify the distance that characters are inset from the inside edge of a text box. To specify the text inset for an active text box, use the text inset controls:

• (Windows only) (Item > Modify > Text tab > Text Inset area)

• (Mac OS X only) Use the Text Box tab of the Measurement palette.

To specify the same inset for all four sides, leave Multiple Insets unchecked and then enter a number in the All Edges field. To specify different insets for the four sides, check

Multiple Insets and then enter numbers in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields.

Specifying story direction

You can position text so that it runs left-to-right and top-to-bottom or top-to-bottom and right-to-left. To specify a story direction, choose Style > Story Direction, and then choose Horizontal or Vertical.

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Controlling font usage

To view and replace fonts, display the Fonts pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu).

This pane lists all fonts used in the active project. To replace every occurrence of a font, select the font name, click Replace, and choose a replacement font.

If a font is listed in the Fonts tab (Utilities > Usage) as [Name of Font] preceded by a negative number, the system you are using does not have that font installed. When this occurs, you can install the necessary font and reopen the document, or you can use the

Usage command to locate occurrences of the font and apply a different font.

Converting text to boxes

To convert the selected character or characters into a Bézier box, choose an option from the Item > Text to Box submenu.

To convert selected text to unanchored Bézier boxes, choose Item > Convert Text to

Boxes > Unanchored.

To convert selected text to anchored Bézier boxes, choose Item > Convert Text to Boxes >

Anchored.

To convert the entire contents of a text box or multiple text boxes to unanchored Bézier boxes, choose Item > Convert Text to Boxes > Convert Entire Box.

For more information, see " Understanding Bézier shapes " and "

Using anchored boxes

In versions 8 and later of QuarkXPress, you can convert more than one line of text at a time to boxes.

Using text runaround

The text runaround feature lets you control the way text runs behind, around, or within items and pictures. You can specify text to run around the actual item, or you can create custom runaround paths and then manually modify them.

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Runaround is a great way to make a page visually distinctive.

Running text around all sides of an item

To run text around all sides of an item, select a text box with either the Text Content tool

or the Item tool , and then:

• (Windows only): Display the Text tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu), and then check Run Text Around All Sides

• (Mac OS X only): Use the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette.

The Run Text Around All Sides preference is set by default.

Whether text runs around three sides or all sides of an item is determined by the text box, and not by the items that obstruct the text. This is the only runaround control that acts on the text box itself. All other runaround controls act on the item(s) placed in front of the text box.

Running text around lines and text paths

To apply text runaround to a line or text path in front of a text box, select the line or text path, on Windows, choose Item > Runaround, or on Mac OS X use the Runaround tab on the Measurements palette, and then choose an option from the Type drop-down menu:

• Choose None to run text behind the line or text path.

• Choose Item to run text around the line or text path. You can specify the distance text maintains from the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the selected item. If the selected item is a text path, other text will only run around the path, not the text on the path.

• Choose Manual to create an editable runaround path. You can specify a new path's distance from text, and then you can modify that path on Windows by choosing Item > Edit >

Runaround and on Mac OS X by choosing the appropriate field from the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette. For information about modifying a runaround path, see

Fine-tuning a runaround path

" and " Editing a runaround path

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Running text around text boxes

To apply text runaround to a text box in front of another text box, select the front text box, and then:

• (Windows only): Choose Item > Runaround, and then choose an option from the Type drop-down menu:

• Choose None to run text behind an active text box.

• Choose Item to run text around an active text box. If the text box is rectangular, enter values in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields to outset or inset the runaround area.

If the text box is not rectangular, a single Outset field is provided.

• (Mac OS X only): User the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette.

Running text around pictures

Image editing applications can embed paths and alpha channels in an image. A path is a smooth Bézier shape, whereas an alpha channel is usually a grayscale image. Both paths and alpha channels are typically used to determine which parts of an image should be shown and which parts should be hidden or transparent.

If you import a picture that has an embedded path or alpha channel, you can use that path or alpha channel to control the way text runs around that picture. More specifically:

The application can scan a path or channels and create a text runaround path based on the information.

To apply text runaround to a picture box in front of a text box, select the picture box, on

Windows choose Item > Runaround, and then choose an option from the Type drop-down menu. On Mac OS X use the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette:

• Choose None to run text behind the active picture component.

• Choose Item to run text around the picture component's boundaries. If the picture component is rectangular, enter values in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields to outset or inset the runaround area. If the picture component is not rectangular, a single Outset field is provided.

• Choose Auto Image to create a Bézier clipping and runaround path based on the picture's non-white areas.

• Choose Embedded Path to run text around a path embedded in an image by an image-editing application.

• Choose Alpha Channel to run text around an alpha channel embedded in an image by an image-editing application.

• Choose Non-White Areas to create a runaround path based on the picture's subject.

Depending on the value in the Threshold field, the runaround path will outline a dark figure within a larger white or near-white background (or vice versa).

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• Choose Same As Clipping to set the text runaround path to the clipping path selected in the Clipping tab.

• Choose Picture Bounds to run text around the rectangular "canvas area" of the imported picture file. This includes any white background areas saved with your original picture file. Enter values in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields to determine the outset or inset of the text from the picture's boundaries.

The inner path in the Preview area represents the runaround path, and the outer outline represents the picture box.

Runaround tab of Picture dialog box, showing runaround preview

(Mac OS X only): To apply text runaround to a picture box in front of a text box, select the picture box, use the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette.

Fine-tuning a runaround path

When you choose Auto Image, Embedded Path, Alpha Channel, Non-White Areas, or

Same As Clipping from the Type drop-down menu (Item > Runaround) (Windows), or the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette (Mac OS X), the following fields let you manipulate the runaround path:

1 Outset changes the size of the runaround path. Positive values result in a runaround path that is further from the original setting, negative values decrease the amount of image included in the runaround path.

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2 Noise lets you specify the smallest allowable closed path. Any closed path smaller than the noise value is ignored. Noise values are useful for cleaning up runaround paths and making them easier to output.

3 Smoothness lets you control path accuracy. A lower value creates a more complex path with a greater number of points. A higher value creates a less accurate path.

4 Threshold determines how "white" is defined. All pixels defined as "white" are excluded.

For example, if the Threshold value is 20%, and a pixel's gray value is below or at 20%, the pixel will be considered "white" and excluded from the runaround path.

Editing a runaround path

To adjust a runaround path, check Runaround (Item > Edit). The runaround path displays as a magenta outline. You can then edit the path as you would any Bézier object.

You can also change the types of the runaround path's points and segments with the controls in the Measurements palette. To change a point from one type to another, use one of the following three buttons:

• Symmetrical Point : A symmetrical point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve. The result is similar to a smooth point, but the curve handles always rest on a straight line through the point and are always equidistant from the point.

• Smooth Point : A smooth point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve.

The curve handles always rest on a straight line through the point, but they can be distanced independently.

• Corner Point : A corner point connects two straight lines, a straight line and a curved line, or two noncontinuous curved lines. With curved lines, the corner point's curve handles can be manipulated independently, usually to form a sharp transition between the two segments.

To change the character of a line segment, use one of the following buttons:

• Straight Segment : Makes the active segment straight.

• Curved Segment : Makes the active segment curved.

You can also change point and segment types with the Style > Point/Segment Type submenu.

Working with text paths

A text path is a line that you can add text to. You can manipulate the way text rides the path, the attributes of the text (such as font, color, and size), and the shape and style attributes of the path.

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To add text to a line or path, select the Text Content tool and double-click the line or path.

To control the way text rides the selected text path:

• (Windows only) Display the Text Path tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu), and then click a button in the Text Orientation area to choose how the text should ride the path. You can also choose an option from the Align Text drop-down menu to determine which part of a font is used to position characters on the path

• (Mac OS X only) Use the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette .

Creating drop caps

Drop caps are initial caps that hang two or more lines below the first line of a paragraph.

The automatic Drop Caps feature enlarges the drop cap characters and runs the paragraph around the drop caps automatically. The typeface and styles match the rest of the paragraph.

To apply drop caps to a selected paragraph, display the Formats tab of the Paragraph

Attributes dialog box (Windows) or the Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the

Measurements palette, and check Drop Caps. To specify how many characters to use as drop caps, enter a value from 1 to 127 in the Character Count field. To specify the number of lines the characters are dropped, enter a value from 2 to 16 in the Line Count field.

Drop caps are a great way to make text visually distinctive.

Drop caps are measured by percentage rather than by points. When you select a drop cap, the default size is 100%.

Creating rules above and below paragraphs

Rules are frequently used above or below text to set off paragraphs, to indicate related information, or just to add a graphic flair to page design. To create rules, use the Rules tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style menu) (Windows), or the Rules tab of the

Measurements palette (Mac OS X).

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Using anchored boxes

You can paste boxes and lines of any shape in text, which makes them act like characters and flow with text. This is especially helpful when text reflows, because anchored items reflow like other characters in the text. If items are not anchored and text reflows, they become displaced, and can end up overlapping text.

Anchoring boxes and lines in text

When you anchor an item, it behaves like a character flowing in text. To anchor an item:

1 Select the Item tool , then select the item you want to anchor.

2 Choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy.

3 Select the Text Content tool and place the Text Insertion bar where you want to anchor the item.

4 Choose Edit > Paste to anchor the item at the text insertion point.

Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines

To cut or copy an anchored item, select the item as you would any text character and choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy. To paste the anchored item elsewhere, place the Text

Insertion bar in a different location and choose Edit > Paste. To delete an anchored item, select the item or insert the Text Insertion bar after it, and press Delete/Backspace.

Unanchoring boxes and lines

To unanchor an item, select it with the Item tool and choose Item > Duplicate to create an unanchored copy of the item — the duplicated item will be placed on the page according to the settings in the Super Step & Repeat dialog box (Item menu). Then delete the anchored item from the text by selecting it with the Text Content tool and pressing

Delete/Backspace.

If you want to anchor objects that should remain outside the boundaries of a text box or are wider than the text box you are trying to anchor it in, then use the Callout functionality.

Working with OpenType fonts

OpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft that accommodates large character sets and glyphs, often including fractions, discretionary ligatures, old-style numerals, and more. When text has an OpenType font applied, you can access any style options built into that font through the Character Attributes dialog box ( Style > Character) (Windows only), or the Character/Character Attributes tab of the

Measurements palette.

Learning about the distinction between characters and glyphs can help you understand how OpenType styles work. A character is an element of a written language — uppercase

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letters, lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation are all characters. A glyph is actually an image that represents a character, possibly in different forms. For example, a standard numeral 1 is a character, whereas an old-style numeral 1 is a glyph. As another example, an "f" and an "I" next to each other are characters, whereas an "fi" ligature is a glyph.

A one-to-one relationship does not always exist between characters and glyphs. In some cases, three characters (such as a 1, a virgule, and a 4) make up a single fraction glyph. Or, one character may be represented by three possible glyphs (three different ampersand symbols, for example). You can select individual characters for formatting and editing, regardless of the glyphs used.

Applying OpenType styles

You can apply an OpenType "style" to characters to display different, specially designed, or repositioned glyphs within the current font. For example, you can apply Fractions to access specific fraction glyphs instead of manually formatting fractions by resizing and repositioning existing characters. Likewise, applying Standard Ligatures represents characters according to ligatures available in the font. (See "

Using ligatures " for more

information.) You can apply many styles in combination, although some, such as

Superscript and Subscript, are mutually exclusive.

To apply OpenType styles in the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character)

(Windows only), or the Character/Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette, and the Edit Character Attributes panes (Edit > Style Sheets) for setting up character and paragraph style sheets, click the arrow next to OpenType to display the styles, and then use the check boxes to apply styles. A check box that is unavailable or a drop-down menu option in brackets indicates an OpenType style that the current font does not support.

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OpenType styles available in the Character Attributes dialog box

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OpenType styles include the following:

• Standard Ligatures: Apply ligatures that are designed to enhance readability and are in standard use.

• Discretionary Ligatures: Apply ligatures that are not in standard use. This feature covers the ligatures that may be used for special effect at the user's preference.

• Tabular Figures: Apply equal widths to numbers.

• Proportional Figures: Apply unequal widths to numbers.

• Small Caps: Apply small capital letters to lowercase non-CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and

Korean) characters.

• All Small Caps: Apply small capital letters to all non-CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters.

• Lining Figures: Apply modern numeric styles that align better with text that is in all capital letters.

• Oldstyle Figures: Apply numeric styles that are best suited for numbers that are integrated into text.

• Italics: Apply italic glyphs.

• Fractions: Apply slashed fraction glyphs.

• Swashes: Apply calligraphic glyphs.

• Ordinals: Apply ordinal number glyphs.

• Titling Alternates: Apply capital letter glyphs designed for titles at larger point sizes.

• Contextual Alternates: Apply alternate glyph variations based on contextual juxtapositions of text.

• Localized Forms: Replace default forms of glyphs with localized forms.

•

H\V Kana Alternates: Apply specially designed horizontal or vertical Kana forms that correspond with the story direction (vertical or horizontal).

• Position: Apply superscript, subscript, scientific inferior, numerator, and denominator glyphs to selected text.

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Alternate Metrics: Apply alternate widths or heights based on story direction (vertical or horizontal).

Alternate Vertical Half Metrics: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional heights.

Alternate Vertical Metrics: Center glyphs inside a full-em height.

Proportional Alternate Metrics: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional widths.

Full Widths: Replace glyphs set on other em widths with glyphs set on full-em widths.

Half Widths: Replace full-em width glyphs with half-em width glyphs.

Third Widths: Replace glyphs set on other em widths with glyphs set on third-em widths.

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Quarter Widths: Replace glyphs set on other em widths with glyphs set on quarter-em widths.

Proportional Alternate Widths: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional widths.

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Alternate Forms: Apply alternate glyph forms, such as JIS2004, JIS78, JIS90, Simplified, and Traditional. These glyph forms are specially designed for some Japanese OpenType fonts.

Using ligatures

There are two methods for using ligatures: The legacy method or the OpenType method.

The legacy method supports standard ligatures such as fi and fl in PostScript fonts. The

OpenType method allows access to both standard ligatures and discretionary ligatures in

OpenType fonts. Both methods are applied as character attributes, meaning that you can apply them to any selected text.

• To apply ligatures to selected text using the legacy method, check Enable Ligatures on the Character/Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette (Window menu) or check Ligatures in the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character) (Windows

only).

• To apply ligatures to selected text using the OpenType method, select text that uses an

OpenType and then choose Standard Ligatures from the OpenType menu on the

Home/Classic or Character/Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette

( Window menu). This will apply ligatures such as fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, fj, ffj, and th — if they are built into the font. In addition, you can choose Discretionary Ligatures to apply rare ligatures such as ct, sp, st, and fh. If either ligature option displays in brackets, the OpenType font in use does not support those ligature features. On Windows, you can also check

Standard Ligatures and Discretionary Ligatures in the OpenType area of the Character

Attributes dialog box.

Ligature preferences

You can set preferences for ligatures in the Character pane of the Preferences dialog box

( QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Print Layout > Character):

• Break Above: The value in the field specifies a tracking or kerning value above which ligatures will break apart. At the default value of 1, if you track text +1 (1/200th of an em space), the ligatures revert to standard letters.

• Not "ffi" or "ffl": Check this box to prevent fi and fl ligatures in words such as "office" or

"waffle" when ffi and ffl ligatures do not exist in the current font.

Working with the Glyphs palette

A glyph is the smallest unit of a font — each uppercase letter, for example, consists of its own glyph. To access all the glyphs in a font — especially an OpenType font that may include tens of thousands of glyphs — you need to view a complete character map. You

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can access such a character map in the Glyphs palette (Window menu), which enables you to view all the glyphs in the selected font, view bold or italic glyphs, double-click a glyph to insert that glyph in text, and save favorite glyphs for easy access.

The Glyphs palette makes it easy to work with large character sets and professional-quality fonts.

To view the glyphs in a font, display the Glyphs palette (Window menu) and choose a font from the Font menu in the upper-left corner. Options available in the Glyphs palette include the following:

• You can use the Bold and Italic buttons to display the bold and italic versions of glyphs; if the bold, italic, or bold italic instance of the font is not active on your system, the application will simulate bold, italic, or bold italic on the glyphs as it does when you apply the Bold and Italic type styles using the Measurements palette.

• To view a subset of the glyphs in the font, choose an option from the Show drop-down menu.

• To see any alternates available for a glyph, click the box in the lower-right corner of an individual glyph's cell.

• If necessary, click the Zoom tool on the palette to increase the size of the glyphs.

• If you need a glyph's Unicode code point — for HTML authoring, for example — you can see the Unicode code in the lower part of the palette.

• To insert a glyph at the text insertion point, double-click the glyph in the Glyphs palette.

• If you frequently use specific glyphs from a font, you can save those glyphs as favorites for quick access. To create a favorites list, first click the expander next to Favorite Glyphs in the Glyphs palette (Window menu). Then, simply drag a glyph to an empty cell in the

Favorite Glyphs area. To delete a favorite, Control+click/right+click the glyph and use the context menu.

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Displaying invisible characters

The Invisibles option (View menu) is always helpful when editing text or fine-tuning typography because it allows you to see common "invisible characters" such as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns.

Inserting special characters

There are all kinds of special characters for typographic and formatting purposes. You can enter such special characters using keyboard commands or choose them from the Utilities >

Insert Character submenu. Each character displays differently when invisibles are showing

( View > Invisibles).

Inserting spaces

To insert a specific type of space — such as an em space — at the text insertion point, choose Utilities > Insert Character > Special > Em Space or Utilities > Insert Character >

Special (nonbreaking) > Em Space. The options in the Nonbreaking Space submenu act as "glue" between two words or numbers, for example, preventing breaks from occurring between the two "glued" elements at the end of a line.

Inserting other special characters

To insert a special character other than a space — such as an em dash or a current page number placeholder character — at the text insertion point, choose Utilities > Insert

Character > Special or Utilities > Insert Character > Nonbreaking Special.

Specifying character language

You can specify the language to be used for hyphenation and spell checking by applying a character language to text. This lets you mix words from different languages in the same paragraph without triggering poor hyphenation or more Suspect Words in Spell Check

( Utilities menu). In addition to applying a specific language to characters, you can apply

None so that a word is not considered for hyphenation or spell checking.

To apply a language to selected characters, use the Language drop-down menu in the

Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character) (Windows only), or the

Character/Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

Using font fallback

When Font Fallback is on, if the application encounters a character that is not available in the current font, it searches through the active fonts on your system to find a font that does include that character. For example, if Helvetica is applied at the text insertion point and you import or paste text containing a Kanji character, the application might apply

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the Hiragino font to that character. If the application cannot find an active font that contains the character, the character still displays as a box or symbol.

Font Fallback is implemented as an application preference, meaning that the feature is either on or off for your copy of the program. The feature is on by default, but if you need to turn it off, uncheck Font Fallback in the Font Fallback pane of the Preferences dialog box ( QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences).

For more information about the Font Fallback feature, see "

Preferences — Application —

Font Fallback

Importing and exporting text with Unicode options

• The Import dialog box includes an Encoding drop-down menu when a plain text or

• The Save Text dialog box provides an Encoding drop-down menu when you're exporting text in plain text or "XPress Tags" format.

• The Convert Quotes option continues to convert straight quotes to typesetter's quotation marks and double hyphens to em dashes.

Working with font mapping rules

When you open a project, the application checks to make sure all the fonts applied to text are active on your system. If not, the Missing Fonts alert displays, which gives you the opportunity to replace missing fonts with active fonts. You can save those replacements as global "font mapping rules," which can be applied automatically each time you open a project.

To create a font mapping rule, first open a project that uses a missing (inactive) font. Click

List Fonts to display the Missing Fonts alert. Use the Replace button to choose replacement fonts for any missing fonts, then click Save As Rule. All the replacements listed in the

Missing Fonts alert are saved as rules, even if only some replacements are selected. If you change your mind about a replacement, select its line and click Reset. You can also choose

File > Revert to Saved after you open the article. This will display the Missing Fonts alert again and allow you to make changes. (Note that the changes apply only to that article

— not to any rules you just saved.)

Once you create a font mapping rule by clicking Save As Rule in the Missing Fonts alert, the rule is saved in preferences for your copy of the application and applied to all articles.

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If you need to change, delete, or share font mapping rules, choose Utilities > Font

Mapping.

You can use the Fonts pane (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) to specify a default replacement font and to control whether the Missing Fonts alert displays when you open

a project with missing fonts. For more information, see " Preferences — Application — Fonts ."

Working with design grids

The design grid feature is an extension of the baseline grid feature in versions 7 and earlier of QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk. Design grids make it even easier for you to define grids, allowing you to align text and objects precisely on both the page and text box levels.

For information on preferences related to design grids, see "

Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid ."

For information on preferences related to design grids, see "

Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid " and " Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill ."

Understanding design grids

A design grid is a sequence of nonprinting guidelines for aligning text and items.

Grid lines

Each design grid includes the following grid lines: bottomline, baseline, centerline, and topline. In addition, design grids include a full cell box, which makes it easy for you to align characters vertically or horizontally. You can align text and items to any of these grid lines.

A line in a design grid includes a bottomline, a baseline, a centerline, and a topline.

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In the horizontal story direction, a line in a design grid includes a bottomline, a baseline, a centerline, a topline, and a full cell box.

In the vertical story direction, a line in a design grid includes a leftline, a baseline, a centerline, a rightline, and a full cell box.

Master page grids and text box grids

There are two kinds of default design grids: Master page grids and text box grids. Every page and every text box has a design grid associated with it. You can hide or show design grids for an entire layout by choosing View > Page Grids or View > Text Box Grids.

You can configure a page's design grid by displaying the page's master page and then choosing Page > Master Guides & Grid. You can control a text box's design grid by choosing Grid Settings from the text box's context menu.

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A page with its master page grid displayed, with all grid lines showing.

A page with its master page grid displayed, with only full cell boxes showing.

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A text box with its text box grid displayed, with all grid lines showing.

A text box with its text box grid displayed, with the baseline and full cell boxes showing.

For more information, see " Using a master page grid ."

To use the baseline grid feature as it existed in QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk 7.x and earlier, show the baseline and hide the other grid lines.

Grid styles

Working with grid styles

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Design grid basics

The following topics explain how to work with design grids. For information about grid

styles, see " Working with grid styles ."

Configuring a master page grid

To configure a master page grid, display a master page and then choose Page > Master

Guides & Grid. The Master Guides & Grid dialog box displays.

Use the Master Guides & Grid dialog box to control master page grids.

• Under Margin Guides, use the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right fields to specify margin placement relative to the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the page. To synchronize the values in the Top and Bottom or Left and Right fields, click the chain icon next to the fields.

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• Under Column Guides, enter a value in the Columns field to specify the number of columns on the master page. Enter a value in the Gutter Width field to define the space between columns.

• The Content Dimensions field displays the area inside the margin guides.

• To control the placement and spacing of the grid, use the controls in the Text Settings

tab. For more information, see " Design Grids: Text Settings tab

• To control the display of the grid, use the controls in the Display Settings tab. For more information, see "

Design Grids: Text Settings tab

• To preview changes as you make them, check Preview.

• To use the specifications of an existing master page grid, grid style, or style sheet, click

Load Settings. For more information, see "

Loading grid settings

Configuring a text box grid

To configure a text box grid, Control+click/right-click the text box and choose Grid

Settings. The Grid Settings dialog box displays.

Grid Settings dialog box

• To control the placement and spacing of the grid, use the controls in the Text Settings

tab. For more information, see " Design Grids: Text Settings tab

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• To control the alignment of cells, use the controls in the Cell Alignment tab. For more information, see "

Design grids: Cell Alignment tab ."

• To specify which grid lines display, use the controls in the Display Settings tab. For more information, see "

Design grids: Display Settings tab

• To preview changes as you make them, check Preview.

• To use the specifications of an existing master page grid, grid style, or style sheet, click

Load Settings. For more information, see "

Loading grid settings

Design Grids: Text Settings tab

To determine the size, scale, and position of a design grid, use the controls in the Text

Settings tab. The Text Settings tab displays in the Master Guides & Grid, Edit Grid Style, and the Grid Settings dialog boxes.

If you check Preview, you can view the results of changes as you make them.

Text Settings tab of Master Guides & Grid

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• Font Size: Enter a size to determine the height of each line in a design grid. This value also determines the full cell height and width.

• Vertical Scaling: Enter a percentage value to adjust the height of each line in a design grid, based on the font size.

• Font Scaling: Choose Horizontal or Vertical and enter a percentage of the font size in the field. If you choose Horizontal, this value determines the full cell width. If you choose

Vertical, this value determines the full cell height.

• Line Spacing and Leading: The Line Spacing and Leading values determine grid spacing.

Line spacing is based on the following formula: Font Size multiplied by Vertical Scaling plus Line Spacing equals Leading. For example, if Font Size is 12 pt, Vertical Scaling is

100%, and Line Spacing is 2 pt, then Leading is 14 pt.

• Line Spacing and Leading: The Line Spacing and Leading values determine grid spacing and cell spacing. Line spacing is based on the following formula: Font Size multiplied by

Vertical font scaling or Horizontal font scaling plus Line Spacing equals Leading. For example, if Font Size is 12 pt, Vertical Scaling is 100%, and Line Spacing is 2 pt, then

Leading is 14 pt.

• When a design grid is based on a paragraph style sheet, the Leading value is defined in the style sheet. The Leading value can be a specific number or, if the value is auto, it is derived from the Auto Leading value in the Paragraph tab of the Preferences dialog box

(

QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences). See " Loading grid settings " for information about linking

style sheets to grid styles.

•

Character Spacing and Sending: The Character Spacing and Sending values determine the horizontal Full Cell spacing in horizontal story direction and the vertical Full Cell spacing in vertical story direction.

• Baseline Position: Choose an option in this area to specify positioning for the baseline in the design grid.

To specify the offset origin, click Place at, choose Topline, Center (Up), Center (Down), or Bottomline in the from the drop-down menu, and then enter a percentage value in the field to specify the baseline position relative to the topline, centerline, or bottomline.

To read the offset origin from a font, click Read From Font and then select a font from the drop-down menu. The baseline defined for the selected font determines the baseline position for each line in the grid. The percentage value displayed below the font list indicates the relationship between the baseline and the bottomline in the font's design.

• Offset: To control where the first line of the design grid is placed on the page or in the box, choose Topline, Centerline, Baseline, or Bottomline and enter a measurement value in the field.

• Adjust: Click to display the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box for master page grids. For more information, see "

Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box ."

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• Adjust: Click to display the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box for master page grids, or the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box for text box grids. For more information, see "

Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box ."

• Lines within margin or Lines within box: This field displays the number of lines that can fit on a page or in a box, based on the settings above.

•

Cells per line: This field displays the number of cells that can fit on a line, based on the settings above.

Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box

Use the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box (Master Guides & Grid > Adjust) to change the number of grid lines that fit within the margins of a master page. Use the

Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box (Master Guides & Grid > Adjust) to change the number of cells per line and the number of grid lines that fit within the margins of a master page. Many of the controls in this dialog box are also in the Text Settings tab; changes are reflected in both locations.

Use the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box to adjust grid settings for a master page.

• The Lines per page field displays the number of lines on a page. This value updates as you make changes.

• Click + or – next to a field to increase or decrease the number of lines on the page in one-line increments. For example, if the Lines per page value is 50, the Font Size value

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is 12 pt, and vertical font scaling is 100%, when you click + next to Font Size, the Lines

per page value increases to 51 and the Font Size value decreases to 11.765 pt.

• Enter values in the Cells per line and Lines per page fields to change the number of cells and lines on a page.

When you click Adjust Margins, changes to the Cells per line and Lines per page fields affect the Content Height and Content Width values. When you click Adjust Spacing, changes to the Cells per line and Lines per page fields affect the Leading and Sending values.

• The increment bar displays a percentage (from 0 to +1) to indicate the fraction by which a grid pattern does not fit on the page. If the grid increments align perfectly, the increment bar displays 0. If the grid increments do not align perfectly with the page, an estimate of the fraction displays in the increment bar.

• The Characters per page field displays the number of characters that can fit on a page, based on the current values.

• Click Adjust Margins to adjust the Cells per line and Lines per page values based on changes to margin guide positions. Click one of the nine squares to anchor the base margin from which changes are calculated. The four outside squares anchor the top and left, top and right, bottom and left, and bottom and right margins. The middle squares anchor margins and link corresponding margins.

The Content Height and Content Width fields update according to your margin changes.

• Click Adjust Spacing to adjust the Cells per line and Lines per page values based on your changes to the Line Space and Character Space fields. The Leading and Sending values update according to your changes.

• Open Other Adjustments to access the Font Size, Offset, and Horizontal/Vertical scale controls. Changes to these values increase or decrease the Cells per line and Lines per

page values.

• Click Reset to restore the values in all fields to the state they were in before you displayed the dialog box.

If you check Preview before displaying this dialog box, you can view the results of changes as you make them.

Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box

Use the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box (Grid Settings > Adjust) to change the number of cells per line and the number of grid lines that fit within the text box. Many of the controls in this dialog box are also in the Text Settings tab; changes are updated in both locations.

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Use the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box to adjust grid settings for an active text box.

• Enter values in the Cells per line and Lines in Box field to change the number of cells and lines in the active box.

• The increment bars display a percentage (from 0 to +1) to indicate the fraction by which a grid pattern does not fit in the box. If the Cells per line or Lines in Box increments align perfectly, the increment bar displays 0. If the grid increments do not align perfectly with the box, an estimate of the fraction displays in the increment bar.

• The Characters in Box field displays the number of characters that can fit in the active text box, based on the values in the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box. This field is not editable.

• Click Adjust Text Box Size to automatically adjust the size of the text box to accommodate the Cells per line and Lines in Box value changes. The Box Width and Box Height fields update according to your changes.

• Click Adjust Spacing to adjust the Cells per line and Lines per Box values based on your changes to the Line Space and Character Space fields. The Leading and Sending values update according to your changes.

Box values.

• Click Reset to restore the values in all fields to the state they were in before you displayed the dialog box.

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If you check Preview before displaying the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box, you can view the results of changes when you close the dialog box.

Design grids: Display Settings tab

A design grid includes separate lines to indicate the topline, the centerline, the baseline, and the bottomline. A design grid includes separate lines to indicate the topline, the centerline, the baseline, the bottomline, and the full cell box. Use the controls in the

Display Settings tab to show or hide grid lines and to specify grid line color, width, and style. The Display Settings tab displays in the Master Guides & Grid, Edit Grid Style, and the Grid Settings dialog boxes.

Display Settings tab in the Master Guides & Grid dialog box.

• Check Show <grid line type> to display each type of grid line when the grid is displayed.

• Click the Color box to specify a color for each grid line.

• Choose a width from the Width drop-down menu.

• Choose a style from the Style drop-down menu.

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Choose a cell shape from the Shape drop-down menu.

• Master Guides & Grid dialog box only: To specify the master page grid boundaries, choose

Within Margins, To Page, or Pasteboard from the Show Grid drop-down menu.

Design grids: Cell Alignment tab

Use the Cell Alignment tab to specify how cells are aligned within the grid.

The Cell Alignment tab in the Grid Settings and Edit Grid Style dialog boxes

Loading grid settings

To use a grid style, style sheet, or master page grid as the basis for a master page grid or text box grid:

1 Click Load Settings in the Master Guides & Grid, Grid Settings, or Edit Grid Style dialog box. The Load Settings dialog box displays.

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Select a grid style, style sheet, or master page in the Load Settings dialog box.

2 Choose All, Grid Styles, Master Pages, or Paragraph Style Sheets from the Show drop-down menu.

3 Select an existing grid style, style sheet, or master page from the list, and then click OK.

The specifications in the grid style, style sheet, or master page you load are displayed in the Master Guides & Grid, Grid Settings, or Edit Grid Style dialog box. You can modify these grid settings after loading them.

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Grid style with "Body Copy" style sheet loaded

If you load a style sheet for a grid style, you can specify that future changes to the style sheet update the grid style automatically by checking Link to Paragraph Style Sheet

<style sheet name>. Notice that the font and spacing controls become unavailable.

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Grid style with "Body Copy" style sheet loaded and linked

Working with grid styles

A grid style includes grid attributes you can apply to a text box or use as the basis for a master page grid or another grid style.

Creating grid styles

To create, edit, duplicate, or delete grid styles, use the Grid Styles dialog box (Edit > Grid

Styles).

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Use the Grid Styles dialog box to create, edit, duplicate, and delete grid styles.

When you click New, Edit, or Duplicate in the Grid Styles dialog box, the Edit Grid Style dialog box displays.

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The Edit Grid Style dialog box

• To specify a name for the grid style, enter a value in the Name field.

• To control the placement and spacing of the grid, use the controls in the Text Settings

tab. For more information, see " Design Grids: Text Settings tab

• To control the alignment of the full cell to the grid, use the controls in the Cell Alignment

tab. For more information, see " Design grids: Cell Alignment tab ."

• To specify which grid lines display, use the controls in the Display Settings tab. For more information, see "

Design grids: Display Settings tab

• To use the specifications of an existing master page grid, grid style, or style sheet, click

Load Settings. For more information, see "

Loading grid settings

When you create a grid style with no projects open, that grid style becomes part of the default grid style list and is included in all subsequently created projects.

Applying a grid style to a text box

To apply a grid style to the selected text box:

1 To display text box grids, make sure View > Text Box Grids is checked.

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2 To display the Grid Styles palette, make sure Window > Grid Styles is checked.

Use the Grid Styles palette to apply grid styles to text boxes.

3 Click a grid style name in the Grid Styles palette.

A plus sign next to a grid style name in the Grid Styles palette indicates that the text box grid has been modified since the grid style was applied to the text box. To apply the grid style again and override local text box grid formatting, click No Style and then click the grid style name (or press Option/Alt and click the modified grid style name).

Using design grids

After you apply design grids to text boxes or configure master page grids, you can use the grids for alignment. You can visually align items with design grids, and you can choose

View > Snap to Page Grids to force items you move to align with master page grids.

Using a master page grid

To specify a master page grid for a layout page, apply the master page to the project page.

Locking text to a grid

Using a style sheet or local paragraph formatting, you can lock text to the master page grid or a text box grid. To lock text to a grid:

1 To set up text locking for a style sheet, choose Edit > Style Sheets, select a paragraph style sheet, click Edit, and then click the Formats tab. To set up text locking for a paragraph, select the paragraph and then choose Style > Formats (Windows only), or use the

Paragraph/Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

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Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.

2 In the Formats tab, check Lock to Grid.

3 To specify the grid to which the text will lock, choose Page Grid or Text box Grid from the first drop-down menu below Lock to Grid.

4 To specify the grid line to which text will lock, choose Topline, Centerline, Baseline, or

Bottomline from the second drop-down menu below Lock to Grid.

Snapping items to design grids

You can make items snap to master page grid lines, and when you resize a text box, you can snap to the text box grid.

To snap to a master page grid line, display the master page grid ( View > Page Grid) and then choose View > Snap to Page Grid.

The Snap Distance field in the Guides & Grids pane of the Preferences dialog box enables you to change the 6-pixel default distance at which items snap to page grids when Snap

to Page Grids is chosen (View menu).

To snap to a text box grid line when you resize a text box, display the text box grid and resize the box.

Aligning grids

To align a text box grid line to a master page grid line or to a guide: To align a text box grid line or cell to a master page grid line or a guide:

1 Make sure View > Guides, View > Page Grids, and View > Text Box Grids are checked.

2 Select the Item tool .

3 Click a grid line in the text box and then drag the box. Note that even as you move the grid line, the original position of the box continues to display. You can align the selected grid line with another grid line in the box, a master page grid line, or a guide. (See notes on Live Drag below.)

4 Click a grid line or cell in the text box and then drag the box. Notice how the selected grid line or cell you're moving displays and the original position of the box continues to display. You can align the selected grid line with another grid line or cell in the box, a master page grid line, or a guide.

Live drag is a feature that lets you see the contents of an item while you are moving the item. However, selected grid lines do not display when live drag is active.

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Live drag is a feature that lets you see the contents of an item while you are moving the item. However, selected grid lines or cells do not display when live drag is active.

Working with rubi text

Rubi text clarifies the meaning or pronunciation of base text. Base text can run vertically or horizontally, and rubi text usually follows the direction of the base text. Rubi text can be placed to the right of or to the left of base text in a vertical story, and above or below base text in a horizontal story.

There are two types of rubi text: mono rubi and group rubi. Mono rubi is rubi text that is associated with a single character of the base text. Group rubi is rubi text that is associated with more than one character of the base text.

You can manipulate the alignment, placement, scale, font, color, opacity, shade, type style, and relative size of rubi text. In addition, you can choose from several options that allow you to control rubi text that overhangs unrelated base text.

Use the Rubi dialog box (Style menu) to add rubi text to selected base text.

The Rubi dialog box

You can apply automatic rubi to a series of words (separated by spaces or punctuation) by selecting a range of text and then pressing Command+Option+R/Ctrl+Alt+R. For more information about automatic rubi, see the Rubi Text bullet in the list under "Text tab," below.

Text tab

The Text tab of the Rubi dialog box lets you control the following options:

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• Rubi Text: Use this field to specify the rubi text to be applied to the selected base text.

When you display the Rubi dialog box for a new rubi, the application automatically fills this field with a phonetic reading of the base text from the input method editor (IME).

This feature works for languages for which IME dictionaries are available (as of this writing,

Chinese and Japanese only).

• Get Rubi: Use this button to refresh the content of the Rubi Text field from the IME.

• Base Text: This field displays the selected base text.

• Rubi Alignment: Use this drop-down menu to control how non-overhanging rubi text

aligns with the base text. For more information, see " Rubi alignment options

• Rubi Placement: Use this drop-down menu to specify whether rubi text displays above or below the base text (in a horizontal story) or to the left of or right of the base text (in a vertical story).

• Relative Size: Use this field to specify the size of the rubi text compared to the base text.

• Offset: Use this field to control how far the rubi text is offset from the base text.

• Overhang Rubi: Use this field to control how far the rubi text can overhang base text that is unrelated to the rubi text. For more information, see "

Rubi overhang options

." Note that this feature is disabled when Base Alignment is set to None.

• Base Alignment: Use this field to control how base text aligns with overhanging rubi text.

For more information, see "

Rubi base alignment options ."

• Auto Align At Line Edges: Check this box to automatically align rubi text with the border of a text box when the rubi text overhangs the base text and touches the edge of the text box.

Character Attributes tab

The Character Attributes tab of the Rubi dialog box lets you control rubi text formatting.

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Use the Character Attributes tab to specify how rubi characters display

• The Font, Size, Color, Shade, Opacity, Scale, Track/Sending, Baseline Shift, and Type

Styles controls let you apply basic formatting to the text.

• To enable or disable the use of specifically designed Kana glyphs for Rubi, check or uncheck

Rubi Annotations. These glyphs are available only in some Japanese OpenType fonts.

Rubi alignment options

The Rubi Alignment options in the Text tab of the Rubi dialog box (Style menu) are:

• Left: Aligns rubi text with the left side of base text in a horizontal story.

• Centered: Aligns rubi text with the center of base text in a horizontal or vertical story.

• Right: Aligns rubi text with the right side of base text in a horizontal story.

• Top: Aligns rubi text with the top of base text in a vertical story.

• Bottom: Aligns rubi text with the bottom of base text in a vertical story.

• Justified: Centers rubi text above or next to base text as shown in the diagram below.

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Justified alignment of rubi text

• Forced: Aligns rubi text flush with the left and right of base text in a horizontal story, or flush with the top and bottom of base text in a vertical story.

Forced alignment of rubi text

• 1–2–1 (JIS) Rule: Aligns rubi text with base text according to a 1:2:1 ratio, leaving a certain amount of space at the beginning and end of the line of rubi text.

1–2–1 (JIS) Rule alignment of rubi text

• Equal Space: Aligns rubi text so that the space at the beginning of the line of rubi text, the space at the end of the line of rubi text, and the spaces between each rubi text character are equal.

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Equal Space alignment of rubi text

• 1 Rubi Space: Aligns rubi text so that the space at the beginning of the line of rubi text and the space at the end of the line of rubi text are equal to the width of one rubi text character but not equal to the spaces between each rubi text character. The spaces between rubi text characters are distributed evenly.

1 Rubi Space alignment of rubi text

Mono rubi

To control the placement of individual rubi text characters, insert a backslash or Japanese

Yen sign between rubi text characters in the Rubi Text field of the Rubi dialog box (Style menu).

Backslashes between rubi text characters indicate mono rubi.

For example, if you select two base text characters that are associated with three rubi text characters, and you want only the first rubi text character to be placed over the first base text character and the other two to be placed over the second base character, insert a backslash between the first and second rubi text characters. Backslashes correspond with

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the spaces between base text characters, so you can place as many rubi text characters between backslashes as you want.

Backslashes correspond with the space between base text characters

Rubi base alignment options

You can apply Base Alignment options only when rubi text overhangs the base text. The

Base Alignment options are:

• None: No base text alignment is applied.

• Left: Aligns base text with the left side of rubi text in a horizontal story.

• Centered: Aligns base text under or next to rubi text so that rubi text has equal overhang on each side of the base text.

• Right: Aligns base text with the right side of rubi text in a horizontal story.

• Top: Aligns base text with the top of rubi text in a vertical story.

• Bottom: Aligns base text with the bottom of rubi text in a vertical story.

• Justified: Centers base text under or next to rubi text as shown in the diagram below.

(Note that this diagram assumes that Rubi Overhang is set to None. If rubi text is set to overhang by a particular amount, the rubi characters extend beyond the left and right edges of the base character sequence by that amount, and the base characters are justified in the remaining space.)

Justified alignment of base text

• Forced: Aligns base text flush with the left and right of rubi text in a horizontal story, or flush with the top and bottom of rubi text in a vertical story. (Note that this diagram

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assumes that Rubi Overhang is set to None. If rubi text is set to overhang by a particular amount, the rubi characters extend beyond the left and right edges of the base character sequence by that amount, and the base characters are force-justified in the remaining space.)

Forced alignment of base text

• 1–2–1 (JIS) Rule: Aligns base text with rubi text according to a 1:2:1 ratio, leaving a certain amount of space at the beginning and end of the line of base text.

1–2–1 (JIS) Rule alignment of base text

• Equal Space: Aligns base text so that the space at the beginning of the line of base text, the space at the end of the line of base text, and the spaces between base text characters are equal. (Note that this diagram assumes that Rubi Overhang is set to None. If rubi text is set to overhang by a particular amount, the rubi characters extend beyond the left and right edges of the base character sequence by that amount, and the base characters are distributed in the remaining space.)

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Equal Space alignment of base text

Rubi overhang options

The Overhang Rubi options in the Text tab of the Rubi dialog box (Style menu)let you control how far rubi text characters overhang on either side of a base text character that is unrelated to overhanging rubi text characters. The colored diagrams below demonstrate the different Overhang Rubi options. Yellow signifies base text and rubi text that are related to each other. Blue signifies base text that is unrelated to the overhanging rubi text.

• None: No overhang is allowed.

• Up to 1 Rubi Character: Allows the full width of a rubi text character to overhang an unrelated base text character.

Up to 1 Rubi Character

• Up to ½ Rubi Character: Allows ½ the width of a rubi text character to overhang an unrelated base text character.

Up to ½ Rubi Character

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• Up to 1 Base Character: Allows the full width of a base text character to be placed under unrelated rubi text characters.

Up to 1 Base Character

• Up to ½ Base Character: Allows ½ the width of a base character to be placed under unrelated rubi text characters.

Up to ½ Base Character

• Unrestricted: Allows overhang without any restrictions.

Working with hanging characters

Hanging character sets handle both hanging punctuation and margin alignment. Margin alignment lets you hang characters partially outside the margin to create visually uniform text alignment along the margin. Hanging punctuation lets you hang punctuation characters fully outside the margin so that the text is flush against either a uniform margin at the beginning of a line of text (leading) or against a uniform margin at the end of a line of text (trailing). For example, the quotation mark in the first sample text below is hanging outside the leading margin, which allows the first character in the first line of text to align evenly with the rows of text below it. The quotation mark in the second sample text below is hanging outside the trailing margin. For example, the period in the second sample text below is hanging outside the trailing margin.

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The opening quotation mark in this sample text is a leading hanging character

The closing quotation mark in this sample text is a trailing hanging character

The second line in this sample text shows no hang on the left, but shows a leading hang on the right.

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The punctuation characters in this sample text are trailing hanging characters.

You can create custom hanging character classes and hanging character sets, or you can use the default classes and sets that come with the software. A hanging character class is a group of characters that should always hang outside the margin or indent inside the margin by the same percentage. A hanging character set is a group of hanging character classes.

You can use a hanging character set to apply one or several hanging character classes to paragraphs.

To view, create, edit, duplicate, and delete hanging character sets and classes, use the

Hanging Characters dialog box (Edit > Hanging Characters).

The Hanging Characters dialog box

Hanging character sets are preceded by a icon. Hanging character classes are preceded by a icon.

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If you select a hanging character set in the center pane of the dialog box, the lower pane displays the hanging character classes that belong to that set. If you select a class in the center pane of the dialog box, the lower pane displays the sets to which the selected class belongs and the attributes of the selected class.

To compare hanging character sets or classes, select two classes or sets in the Hanging

Characters dialog box and press Option/Alt. The Append button changes to Compare.

Creating hanging character classes

Use the Edit Hanging Character Class dialog box (Edit > Hanging Characters > New >

Class) to specify the characters to be included in a hanging character class, the hang percentage of the class, and whether the class is leading or trailing.

The Edit Hanging Character Class dialog box

Enter characters in the Characters pane. Then choose a percentage from the Hang drop-down menu. The hang percentage specifies what percentage of the glyph width should always hang over the margin or what percentage of the glyph width should always indent.

For example, if you choose –50%, the characters in the character class indent inside of the margin by half of their glyph width. If you choose 100%, the characters in the character class hang outside of the margin by their full glyph width.

Next, choose whether the character class is Leading or Trailing. Characters in a Leading class hang over the beginning margin. Characters in a Trailing class hang over the end margin.

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After you have saved a hanging character class in a hanging character set, you can check

Preview to view changes to the hanging character class as you edit.

Creating hanging character sets

Use the Edit Hanging Character Set dialog box (Edit > Hanging Characters > New >

Set) to specify the hanging character classes to be included in a hanging character set.

The Edit Hanging Character Set dialog box

The center pane of the dialog box displays all of the available hanging character classes that can be added to a hanging character set. Check the boxes next to the classes you want to add, give the hanging character set a name, and then click OK.

To edit a hanging character class before saving the new hanging character set, select the class and click Edit Class.

You cannot specify different leading or trailing values for a single character within a hanging character set.

Applying hanging character sets

To apply a hanging character set to text, choose an option from the Hanging Character

Set drop-down menu in the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Edit > Formats).

To apply a hanging character set to a paragraph style sheet, choose an option from the

Hanging Character Sets drop-down menu in the Formats tab of the Edit Paragraph Style

Sheet dialog box (Edit > Style Sheets > New > Paragraph or Edit > Style Sheets > Edit).

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Working with mojigumi sets and classes

The Mojigumi feature lets you control spacing for specific punctuation characters when they occur in particular locations. To use this feature, you must choose or create a mojigumi

character class and a mojigumi set.

• A mojigumi character class is a named set of punctuation characters that should always be spaced in a particular way.

• A mojigumi set is a set of character spacing specifications based on the widths of character em boxes. For example, a mojigumi set might dictate that open punctuation should use fixed half-width spacing when it occurs at the beginning of a line, and that close punctuation should use full-width or half-width spacing when it occurs at the end of a line. Each mojigumi set is associated with one mojigumi character class.

To use the Mojigumi feature, apply a mojigumi set to a paragraph. The mojigumi set's settings are applied to the characters in the associated mojigumi character class.

For example, if you do not want a parenthesis to occupy a full em-box width when it occurs between two full-width characters, you can create a mojigumi character class that contains parentheses and then specify in the mojigumi set settings that these characters should always use a half-em width when they fall between two full em-width characters.

Only one mojigumi set can be applied to each paragraph.

For more information about the difference between characters and glyphs, see "

Working with the Glyphs palette ."

Creating and editing mojigumi character classes

A mojigumi character class is a named set of punctuation characters that is designed to be

used with a mojigumi set (for more information, see " Working with mojigumi sets and classes "). You can create custom mojigumi character classes, or you can use the default

mojigumi character classes that come with the software.

To create a custom mojigumi character class:

1 Choose Edit > Mojigumi > Character Classes. The Mojigumi Character Classes dialog box displays.

2 Click New. The Edit Mojigumi Character Class dialog box displays.

3 Enter a name in the Name field.

4 Enter characters in the OpenPunctuation field, the Close Punctuation (Paren) field, the

Close Punctuation (Kutoh-ten) field, and the Middle Punctuation field.

5 Click OK.

6 Click Save.

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Kutoh-ten is a Japanese word meaning "period and comma."

Creating and editing mojigumi sets

A mojigumi set is a set of specifications that can be associated with a mojigumi character class and then applied to paragraphs. For more information, see "

Working with mojigumi sets and classes ."

To create a mojigumi set, choose Edit > Mojigumi > Sets to display the Mojigumi Sets dialog box. Next, click New. When the Edit Mojigumi Set dialog box displays, enter a name in the Name field and then choose a mojigumi character class from the Class drop-down menu.

The settings in the Edit Mojigumi Sets dialog box let you control the width or spacing for characters in the specified mojigumi character class. You can also control which adjustments take priority.

The Edit Mojigumi Setsdialog box

• Name: Displays the name of the mojigumi set being edited.

• Units: Specify the units that you prefer to see in this dialog.

• Class: Displays the name of the mojigumi character class being edited.

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Open Punctuation

• Begin Line: Specify character width or spacing for opening punctuation that falls at the beginning of a line.

• Mid Line: Specify character width or spacing for opening punctuation that falls in the middle of a line.

• Begin Paragraph: Specify character width or spacing for opening punctuation that falls at the beginning of a paragraph. This setting takes priority over the Begin Line setting.

Close Punctuation

• Mid Line (Parens): Specify character width or spacing for closing punctuation that falls in the middle of a line.

• Mid Line (Kutoh-ten): Specify character width or spacing for Kutoh-ten that falls in the middle of a line. Kutoh-ten is a Japanese word meaning "period and comma."

• End Line: Specify character width or spacing for closing punctuation that falls at the end of a line.

Middle Punctuation

• Begin Line: Specify character width or spacing for middle punctuation that falls at the beginning of a line.

• Mid Line: Specify character width or spacing for middle punctuation that falls in the middle of a line.

• End Line: Specify character width or spacing for middle punctuation that falls at the end of aline.

• Begin Paragraph: Specify character width or spacing for middle punctuation that falls at the beginning of a paragraph. This setting takes priority over the Begin Line setting.

Contiguous Punctuation

• Open — Open: Specify character width or spacing for adjacent opening punctuation. For example: ((

• Close (Parens) — Open: Specify character width or spacing for adjacent closing and opening punctuation. For example: )(

• Kutoh-ten — Open: Specify character width or spacing for Kutoh-ten that is adjacent to opening punctuation. Kutoh-ten is a Japanese word meaning "period and comma." For example:. (

• Close — Close: Specify character width or spacing for adjacent closing punctuation. For example: ))

• Close — Middle: Specify character width or spacing for adjacent closing and middle punctuation. For example: ;)

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• Middle — Open: Specify character width or spacing for adjacent middle and opening punctuation. For example: (:

CJK & R Space

Specify the character spacing for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters that are adjacent to Roman characters. This feature overrides the percentage in the

Space

between CJK & R field in the Character panes of the Preferences dialog box

(

QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences). However, this affects only the characters in

the mojigumi character set.

Character Width Setting, Character Space Setting

Specify the character width or spacing for Open Punctuation, Close Punctuation, Middle

Punctuation, and Contiguous Punctuation.

• Fixed Full Width: Specify the character width to a fixed full-em width.

• Fixed Half Width: Specify the character width to a fixed half-em width.

• Full Width to Half Width: Specify the character width to a full-em width, but allow characters to be squeezed down to a half-em width.

• Half Width to Full Width: Specify the character glyph width to a half-em width, but allow characters to be stretched up to a full-em width.

• Full Width or Half Width: Allow characters to fit either a full-em width or a half-em width. Full width has priority.

• Half Width or Full Width: Allow characters to fit either a half-em width or a full-em width. Half width has priority.

• Full Width Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to a full-em width.

• Half Width Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to a half-em width.

• Full Width to No Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to a full-em width, but allow spaces to be squeezed to no-em width.

• Half Width to No Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to a half-em width, but allow spaces to squeeze to no-em width.

• None to Half Width Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to no-em width, but allow spaces to be stretched to a half-em width.

• Quarter Width Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to a quarter-em width.

• Quarter Width to No Space: Specify the space between character glyphs to a quarter-em width, but allow spaces to be squeezed to no-em width.

Priority

Specify the order in which mojigumi spacing adjusts.

• High: Adjust first.

• Mid: Adjust second.

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• Low: Adjust last.

Preview

Enable or disable an editable preview of the width and spacing settings.

Applying mojigumi sets

To apply a mojigumi set to a paragraph, choose its name from the Mojigumi Sets drop-down menu in the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style > Formats) ( Windows), or the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette ( Mac OS X).

To apply a mojigumi set to a paragraph style sheet, choose the mojigumi set name from the Mojigumi Sets drop-down menu in the Format tab of the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box ( Edit > Style Sheets > New > Paragraph or Edit > Style Sheets > Edit).

You can apply only one mojigumi set to a paragraph.

Character mapping for legacy projects

Projects saved in East Asian versions of QuarkXPress earlier than 8.0 do not contain Unicode text. Rather, they contain text that is stored with a particular encoding (such as GB2312,

Big5, ShiftJIS, or x-mac-korean). When you open such files in QuarkXPress 8 or later, the application attempts to automatically convert encoding-specific characters to Unicode characters. However, the default Unicode conversion may not work for the following types of characters:

• Characters that are in a Traditional Chinese encoding's UDA/VDA (User Defined

Area/Vendor Defined Area) range.

• Characters that are in an encoding's custom character range.

Those characters may not map to specific Unicode glyphs, so the glyphs that correspond to these code points may differ from font to font. For example, a character that is in an encoding's UDA/VDA range may map to one glyph in a font that uses the Taiwanese Big5 character mapping standard, but map to a different glyph in a font that uses Hong Kong's

Big5 character mapping standard. A character in an encoding's custom character range may be mapped to glyphs that are specific to a particular language or industry.

QuarkXPress includes mapping tables that make it easy to solve the first problem. You can also create your own mapping tables to accommodate projects that use custom characters.

Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters

When you open a project created in a Chinese version of QuarkXPress earlier than 8.0,

QuarkXPress automatically highlights all UDA/VDA characters to indicate that they should be checked to make sure they display the proper glyph. You can turn off this highlighting by unchecking the Highlight characters defined by Traditional Chinese font vendors box in the Fonts pane of the Preferences dialog box(QuarkXPress/Edit >Preferences).

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If a project's highlighted glyphs display incorrectly, you may need to map the characters in that project to Unicode using amapping table. A mapping table is a text file that tells

QuarkXPress how to convert text that uses a particular flavor of encoding to Unicode.

Each mapping table contains a list of encoding-specific code points and their corresponding

Unicode codepoints.

If you know that a pre-8.0 project uses (for example) the Hong Kong Big5 encoding, you can use a Hong Kong Big5 mapping table to convert its characters to Unicode when you first open the project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later. QuarkXPress ships with several such mapping tables. To use one of these included mapping tables, first navigate to the

"CustomMappingTables" folder:

• Mac OS X: [DRIVE]:Library:Application

Support:Quark:QuarkXPress[version]:CustomMappingTables

• Windows:

[DRIVE]:\ProgramData\Quark\QuarkXPress[version]\CustomMappingTables

Within this folder are the following mapping table files:

• chinsimpmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Simplified Chinese encodings.

• chintradbig5.txt: Used for legacy files that use Traditional Chinese encodings.

• japanesemac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Japanese encodings

• japanesewin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Japanese encodings.

• koreanmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Korean encodings.

• koreanwin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Korean encodings.

As installed, these mapping tables contain instructions for creating custom mappings, but they do not include any actual mappings. To utilize a special mapping, you must replace one of these files with a file that does contain mappings for a particular type of encoding.

You can find such files in the folders in the "LegacyMappingTables" folder (inside the

"CustomMappingTables" folder):

• Hong Kong: Contains a "chintradbig5.txt" file that maps Hong Kong Big5 characters to

Unicode.

• Korean: Contains a "koreanmac.txt" file that maps Mac OS X Korean characters to Unicode.

• Taiwanese: Contains a "chintradbig5.txt" file that maps Taiwan Big5 characters to Unicode.

For example, if you have a pre-8.0 project that uses the Hong Kong Big5 encoding, copy the "chintradbig5.txt" folder from the LegacyMappingTables/Hong Kong folder to the

"CustomMappingTables" folder, replacing the existing "chintradbig5.txt" file (you may want to save a copy of the original "chintradbig5.txt" file elsewhere). Then quit QuarkXPress, relaunch, and open the project. When you open the project, QuarkXPress uses the Hong

Kong-specific mapping table to convert the project's Big5 text to Unicode.

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Mapping tables are used only when opening pre-8.0 projects. Once you have saved a project in the current QuarkXPress version format, the text is in Unicode and the mapping table is no longer required.

Mapping for projects that use custom characters

If characters in a legacy project use an extended code range, those characters may display incorrectly when you open that project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later. To fix this problem, you can change the way the problematic characters are mapped to Unicode characters by using a custom mapping table. A mapping table is a text file that tells QuarkXPress how to convert text that uses a particular flavor of encoding to Unicode. Each mapping table contains a list of encoding-specific code points and their corresponding Unicode code points.

To create a mapping table, first navigate to the "CustomMappingTables" folder:

• Mac OS X: [DRIVE]:Library:Application

Support:Quark:QuarkXPress[version]:CustomMappingTables

• Windows: [DRIVE]:\Documents and

Settings\ProgramData\Quark\QuarkXPress[version]\CustomMappingTables

Within this folder are the following mapping table files:

• chinsimpmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Simplified Chinese encodings.

• chintradbig5.txt: Used for legacy files that use Traditional Chinese encodings.

• japanesemac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Japanese encodings.

• japanesewin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Japanese encodings.

• koreanmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Korean encodings.

• koreanwin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Korean encodings.

As installed, these mapping tables contain instructions for creating custom mappings, but they do not include any actual mappings. To create custom mappings, open the file that corresponds to the encoding used by the target project, and then follow the instructions in the file to create the mappings you need. Then quit QuarkXPress, relaunch, and open the project. When you open the project, QuarkXPress uses your custom mapping table to convert the project's characters to Unicode.

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Pictures

You can import and paste pictures from image-editing or other graphic applications into

QuarkXPress. Once a picture is in a box, you can perform a number of operations on it, such as altering its position, changing its size, or skewing or flipping it.

Working with pictures

QuarkXPress provides a wide variety of tools for working with pictures.

Importing a picture

To import a picture, do one of the following:

• Choose File > Import.

• Select the Picture Content tool , select a picture box, and then choose File > Import.

• Select the Picture Content tool , select a picture box, and then paste a picture from the clipboard.

• Drag a picture file from the file system onto a picture box.

• Drag a picture file from the file system onto a page.

• Drag a picture from another application onto a picture box.

• Press Command/Ctrl and drag a picture file from the file system onto a text box, a no-content box, an empty picture box, or a box that contains a picture.

• Press Command/Ctrl and drag a picture from another application onto a text box, a no-content box, an empty picture box, or a box that contains a picture.

If you drag content onto a box that already contains text or a picture, QuarkXPress creates a new box for the dragged content. To replace the contents of the box instead, press

Command/Ctrl while dragging the content to the box. To always create a new box for dragged-in content, press Option/Alt while dragging.

When you import a picture, the image is imported at full size, with the origin (upper-left corner) in the upper-left corner of the box's bounding box. With the Picture Content tool

selected, the picture's full image displays beyond the box boundary.

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You may need to resize or reposition a picture after you import it to make it fit properly within its box.

Moving pictures

You can move pictures inside their boxes with:

• the Picture Content tool

• the Measurements palette

• (Windows only) the Modify dialog box (Item > Modify)

With the Picture Content tool selected, you can click any part of an image, regardless of its position in its box. You can also nudge a picture in its box by using the arrow keys.

If the Item tool is selected when you are using the arrow keys on the keyboard, the box

will move instead of the picture within the box. See " Moving items " for more information

about moving pictures.

Resizing pictures

You can scale pictures to make them larger or smaller using:

• the Picture Content tool

• the Measurements palette

• the Style menu

• (Windows only) the Item menu (Item > Modify)

After importing a picture into a box, you can choose Fit Box to Picture and Scale Picture

to Box from the context menu (or Style menu). Press the Shift key while resizing a picture with the Picture Content tool to resize the picture proportionately.

Cropping pictures

If you only want a portion of your image to display, you can manually crop it by adjusting the size of the box.

Rotating and skewing pictures

Rotating a picture sets it at a different angle within the box, while skewing a picture applies a slanted look to it.

To rotate a picture, select the Picture Content tool and move the mouse over one of the picture's corner handles. A Rotation pointer displays according to the selected corner.

Drag the pointer to rotate the picture. You can also enter rotate values for a picture in the

Picture Angle field of the Modify dialog box (Item > Modify > Picture) on Windows, or the Measurements palette (Home/Classic tab).

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To skew a picture, enter a value in the Picture Skew field of the Modify dialog box (Item >

Modify) on Windows or the Measurements palette (Home/Classic tab).

Coloring and shading pictures

You can apply color and shade values to the shadows and middle tones of black-and-white and grayscale pictures using the Colors palette (Window > Colors), the Modify dialog box (Windows only)(Item menu) (Style > Picture), the Measurements palette, or the Style menu. You can also apply color to the picture background and the box background.

• To apply color to a black-and-white or grayscale picture, select the Picture Color icon and click a color name.

• To apply color to the background of a black-and-white or grayscale picture, select the

Picture Background Color icon and click a color name.

Flipping pictures

You can flip the contents of a picture box from left to right and from top to bottom using the Style menu (Style > Flip Horizontal or Style > Flip Vertical) or the Home/Classic tab of the Measurements palette (click the flip horizontal icon or the flip vertical icon

Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures

The Usage feature (Utilities menu) lets you keep track of all your imported pictures. To use this feature, choose Utilities > Usage, then click Pictures to display the Pictures pane.

The Show button displays the selected picture in the layout.

The Update button lets you update missing and modified pictures. To update modified pictures without a confirmation alert, Option+click/Alt+click the Update button.

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Specifying background colors for pictures

To increase your design options with pictures, you can modify box color, picture color,

and picture background color. See " Coloring and shading pictures

" for more information.

• For gray pixels, the picture color and picture background color are mixed.

• If you specify different opacities for the picture color or picture background color, the colors will interact with each other and the box color.

Grayscale and 1-bit images only: When you open a project from a previous version of

QuarkXPress, the box color is mapped to the picture background color so the picture looks the same.

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Maintaining picture attributes

When you import a picture into a picture box — whether or not the picture box already contains a picture — you can retain all picture attributes. For example, if an empty picture box in a template specifies that the picture should be scaled 50% and rotated 90 degrees, you can import a new picture and those attributes are automatically applied.

To import a picture and retain the attributes specified for the box and/or the existing picture, check Maintain Picture Attributes in the Import dialog box (File menu).

Working with clipping paths

A clipping path is a closed Bézier shape that indicates which parts of a picture should be displayed and which parts should be treated as transparent. Clipping paths are especially useful when you are attempting to isolate the picture's subject from its surrounding background in the original picture file.

You can create clipping paths from scratch in QuarkXPress or QuarkCopyDesk, or you can use embedded path or alpha channel information to create clipping paths. Clipping paths created by QuarkXPress or QuarkCopyDesk are based on the picture file, and are stored with the layout.

A clipping path lets you control which parts of a picture show and which parts are hidden.

Creating clipping paths

To create or assign a clipping path, choose Item > Clipping on Windows, and then choose an option from the Type drop-down menu, or use the Clipping tab on the Measurements palette on MAC OS X:

• Choose Item to crop an image to the box boundaries. Choosing Item does not create a clipping path; it simply crops the picture to its box.

• Choose Embedded Path to clip a picture around a path already embedded in the picture file. Choose a path from the Path drop-down menu if the picture file contains more than one embedded path.

• Choose Alpha Channel to clip a picture around an alpha channel already embedded in a picture file. Choose an alpha channel from the Alpha drop-down menu if the picture

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Working with alpha masks

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• Choose Non-White Areas to create a clipping path based on the picture's subject.

Depending on the image and the value in the Threshold field, the clipping path will outline a non-white figure within a larger white or near-white image (or vice versa). The

Non-White Areas option works best when the unwanted parts of the image are much lighter than the subject itself (or vice versa).

• Choose Picture Bounds to clip a picture around the rectangular "canvas area" of the imported picture file. This includes any white background areas saved with the original picture file. Enter values in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields to determine the outset of the clipping path from the picture's boundaries. Positive values increase the outset, and negative values decrease the outset.

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Clipping tab of the Modify dialog box

The green path in the Preview area corresponds to the clipping path, and the blue outline corresponds to the picture box.

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Using embedded clipping paths

You can use image-editing applications to embed paths and alpha channels in an image.

If a picture storing this information is imported into QuarkXPress, you can access the path and channel information using the Clipping tab in the Modify dialog boxon Windows , or the Clipping tab of the Measurements paletteon MAC OS X.

TIFFs and PSDs can have embedded paths and alpha channels. EPS, BMP, JPEG, PCX, and

PICT files can only have embedded paths.

Manipulating clipping paths

After you apply a clipping path, choose Item > Edit > Clipping Path to enable clipping path editing. Then choose one of the following tools: The Select Point tool , the Add

Point tool , the Remove Point tool , and the Convert Point tool . For more information, see "

Tools

You can also manipulate clipping paths with the controls in the Measurements palette.

To change a point from one type to another, use one of the following three buttons:

• Smooth Point : A smooth point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve.

The curve handles always rest on a straight line through the point, but they can be distanced independently.

To change the character of a line segment, use one of the following buttons:

• Straight Segment : Makes the active segment straight.

• Curved Segment : Makes the active segment curved.

You can also change point and segment types with the Item > Point/Segment Type submenu.

Creating special effects with clipping paths

Various options in the Clipping tab let you invert a clipping path or specify whether a picture is clipped using outside edges only, or whether the picture is contained within its box. You can create special effects such as making visible regions transparent and transparent regions visible, allowing holes within a path, cropping the picture to the edges of the picture box, or removing portions of the clipping path that fall outside the box borders.

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Working with alpha masks

Unlike clipping paths, which produce a smooth edge primarily used for separating a foreground image from a background image, alpha masks can include transparency information to subtly blend a foreground image into a new background. To work with alpha masks in QuarkXPress, you must first create an alpha mask in an image-editing application such as Adobe Photoshop. You can then use the alpha mask in QuarkXPress.

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The alpha mask on the flames allows the text in the background to show through.

To work with alpha masks in QuarkXPress, you'll need to save them with the picture in a format that supports alpha channels.

To apply an alpha mask to the selected picture, choose an alpha channel from the

Measurements palette's Mask drop-down menu. On Windows, you can also apply an alpha mask with the Channel drop-down menu in the Picture tab of the Modify dialog box ( Item menu).

By default, this drop-down menu is set to Composite, which preserves the image's overall transparency.

Working with PSD pictures

You can import native, unflattened picture files from Adobe Photoshop directly into

QuarkXPress with PSD Import XTensions software. Once files are imported, you can manipulate any layers, channels, and paths saved with the Photoshop (PSD) files. This integration between Photoshop and QuarkXPress streamlines your workflow by allowing

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you to skip flattening; saves hard disk space by enabling you to work with native files; and enhances your creative possibilities by providing access to layers, channels, and paths.

When the PSD Import XTensions software is running, you can use File > Import to import a PSD file into a selected QuarkXPress picture box.

To work with layers, channels, and paths in the image, choose Window > Advanced

Image Control. You can use the Advanced Image Control palette to blend layers, work with color channels, and select paths.

To work with PSD files in QuarkXPress, you must have the PSD Import XTension loaded.

Preparing PSD files

When you're preparing pictures in Photoshop for use with Advanced Image Control, you need to keep a few things in mind:

• You do not need to save the image in another file format, which means that you don't have to flatten the layers.

• Create alpha channels or clipping paths for any contours that you might want to wrap text around.

• Create channels for areas where you might want to apply a different spot color or varnish.

• Advanced Image Control cannot read layer information for certain images — including those that use layer effects. The composite image is used instead.

Picture effects are not available for Photoshop pictures.

Advanced Image Control supports PSD files in grayscale, RGB, CMYK, index, and multichannel modes.

Working with PSD layers

Experimenting with layers allows you to see different images within the context of the entire layout. In addition, you can modify the opacity of a layer and try different blend modes — such as dissolve, lighten, and difference — to see how these effects work with the rest of a design.

You can use the Layers pane of the Advanced Image Control palette to show, hide, blend, and change the opacity of layers within PSD pictures. The Advanced Image Control palette displays information about how the picture file was created, but does not allow you to make fundamental changes to the picture file:

• You cannot create, name, copy, duplicate, align, reposition, delete, or merge layers using the Layers pane.

• If there are no layers in the PSD file, the Advanced Image Control palette shows only the background layer.

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Blending PSD layers

The Blend Mode drop-down menu in the Layers pane lets you control how pixels in a selected layer interact with pixels in all the layers below the selected layer. The blend modes are similar to those in image-editing applications: They include options such as

Multiply, Color Dodge, Exclusion, and Saturation.

Showing and hiding Photoshop layers

You can view and print layers that are showing; hidden layers do not display on-screen or in print. Advanced Image Control allows you to hide any layer, including the background layer.

• To show a layer, click the empty box icon to the left of the layer.

• To show all layers, Option+Shift+click/Alt+Shift+click the empty box icon.

• To hide a layer, click the eye icon .

• To hide all but one layer, Option+click/Alt+click the eye icon .

If changing the blending and opacity of layers produces undesirable results, you can revert the layers to their original state in the imported PSD file with the Revert Layer or Revert

All Layers options in the Advanced Image Control palette menu.

Modifying PSD layer opacity

A field on the Layers pane let you control the transparency of pixels on a selected layer.

You can specify a transparency from 0% (transparent) to 100% (opaque).

Working with layer masks

If layer masks are saved with PSD files, you can enable and disable the masks in the Layers pane of the Advanced Image Control palette by Shift-clicking the thumbnail preview of the layer mask.

Working with PSD channels

Photoshop channels store color information about images. By default, grayscale and indexed color images have one channel, RGB images have three channels, and CMYK images have four channels. These are referred to collectively as the default channels. You can use the Channels pane of the Advanced Image Control palette to show and hide all channels, to change the color and ink solidity of a selected spot-color channel or alpha channel, and to assign spot colors to selected indexed colors. For example, you might assign special effects such as varnishes, embossing, and die cuts to channels.

Showing and hiding channels

Visible channels in imported PSD files display on screen and can be printed; channels that are hidden do not display on screen and cannot be printed. The process to show and hide channels is the same as for layers.

Clicking the composite channel displays all the default channels, such as CMYK or RGB.

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Modifying channel color and solidity

You can use the Advanced Image Control palette to change the color, shade, and ink solidity of any spot color, mask, or alpha channel you created in Photoshop. You can assign spot colors to channels that overprint composite images, and you can specify solidity for displaying channels on-screen and printing color composites.

Channels specified as mask channels in Photoshop are imported differently than channels specified as spot colors. In Photoshop, mask channels are assigned an opacity setting, while spot channels are assigned a solidity setting. Since PSD Import supports ink solidity, mask channels are imported with a 0% ink solidity. To see mask channels in imported PSDs, you need to manually turn on the mask channels in the Channels tab of the Advanced

Image Control palette. Spot-color channels, on the other hand, retain the solidity setting saved in the PSD file and are mapped to QuarkXPress colors by default.

Use the Channel Options dialog box to modify the color, shade, or ink solidity of pixels in a spot-color or alpha channel. To display the Channel Options dialog box, simply double-click a channel in the Channels pane of the Advanced Image Control palette

( Window menu).

Working with indexed color channels

By default, when you print color separations from QuarkXPress using PSD Import, the colors in indexed color images separate to CMYK. You can override this by creating a spot color or multi-ink color ( Edit > Colors) and assigning that color to the selected indexed colors in the image. Advanced Image Control also allows you to create spot colors from colors in the indexed color image. Indexed colors that you do not modify will still separate to CMYK.

Working with PSD paths

You can also use PSD Import to choose among embedded paths for specifying clipping and runaround. The Paths pane in the Advanced Image Control palette provides convenient access to the clipping-path and text-runaround functions in QuarkXPress

Using the Paths pane, you can select different clipping paths to use for text runaround contours. To select a text runaround contour, click the empty box in the first column. The

Text Runaround icon displays and the text wraps around the contours of the clipping path.

For text runaround to occur, the picture box needs to be in front of the text. If the text is not wrapping, select the picture box and choose Item > Bring Forward or Item > Bring

to Front.

You also can use the Paths pane to control the display of an image by selecting a clipping path you created in Photoshop. To select a clipping path, click in the empty box in the second column. The Clipping Path icon displays and the area of the picture within the selected clipping path displays.

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You can reverse any changes you make to paths in PSD Import. The paths will revert to their original state as they were created in the imported PSD file. To do this, choose Revert

Path or Revert All Paths from the Advanced Image Control palette or context menu.

Printing with PSD Import

When you print a layout using Advanced Image Control, you can specify the layers, channels, and paths within each PSD picture to print. Since the eye icon in the

Advanced Image Control palette controls both display and printing, pictures print as they display.

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Color, opacity, and drop shadows

QuarkXPress lets you create custom colors, choose colors from several standardized color matching systems, and edit colors. You can apply both color and shade to text and pictures.

You can also control the opacity of text in the same way you control its color. You can apply drop shadows to both items and text.

Working with colors

Some colors are automatically included in the Colors palette. To use other colors, you'll need to create colors or edit existing colors using the Colors dialog box, which allows you to create colors using color wheels, numeric fields, or color matching systems.

The Colors palette

You can use the Colors palette (Window > Colors) to create, edit, duplicate, and mange project colors. The palette also allows you to control overprint and knockout settings.

The Colors palette lets you create, edit, and delete colors.

The Colors dialog box

You can use the Colors dialog box (Edit > Colors) to create, edit, duplicate, delete, and append colors.

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The Colors dialog box lets you create, edit, and delete color definitions.

Creating a color

You can choose from several color models and from a number of color matching systems when you create colors. If you have colors you use frequently, you can create colors for the default color list in the application when no files are open. You can create up to 1,000 default or article-specific colors. To create a color, choose Edit > Colors to display the

Colors dialog box, and click New to display the Edit Color dialog box. Then, enter a name in the Name field and specify the color model for your new color. You can also click the

New button on the Colors palette to create colors.

• RGB: This additive color system is most often used with slide recorders or color video monitors, and also works well for Web pages. Red, green, and blue light is mixed to represent colors on a video screen.

• HSB: This color model is often used by artists because it resembles the manner in which they mix colors. Hue describes color pigment; saturation measures the amount of color pigment; and brightness measures the amount of black in a color.

• LAB: This color space is designed to be independent of differing interpretations imposed by monitor or printer manufacturers. The LAB color model, also referred to as LAB color space, is a standard three-dimensional model for representing colors. Colors are specified by a luminance coordinate ( L) and two chrominance coordinates (A for green-red), and

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• Multi-Ink: This color model is color based on tint percentages of existing process or spot inks.

• CMYK: CMYK is a subtractive color model used by professional printers to reproduce colors by combining cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks on a press.

• Web Safe or Web Named Colors: Web-safe colors are used for color consistency across

Web applications.

• To select a color from a color matching system and add it to your color list, choose one of the standardized color matching systems from the Model drop-down menu.

Editing a color

To edit an existing color, choose Edit > Colors, select the color you want to edit in the

Colors list, then click Edit to display the Edit Color dialog box. You can also double-click the color you want to edit in the Colors list to display the Edit Color dialog box.

Edit Color dialog box

Duplicating a color

To duplicate an existing color, choose Edit > Colors, select the color you want to duplicate from the Colors list, then click Duplicate to display the Edit Color dialog box for the duplicate color.

Deleting a color

While you cannot delete some of the default colors, you can delete any new or duplicate colors you have created. To remove a color from the color list, choose Edit > Colors, select the color you want to remove from the Colors list, and then click Delete.

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Importing colors from another article or project

You can append colors from another article or project using the Colors dialog box (Edit >

Colors) or the Append command (File > Append).

Changing all instances of one color to another color

To globally change all items of one color to another color, either edit the color you want to change to the desired color or choose Edit > Colors to display the Colors dialog box, and select the name of a color to edit; then click Edit, and make your changes.

When you are globally changing all items and text from one color to another, remember to save your work before you do so. That way, if you accidentally change everything to the wrong color, you can simply choose File > Revert to Saved to undo the error without losing any of your other work.

Applying color, shade, and blends

There are three ways to apply colors and shades to boxes, frames, and pictures:

• (Windows only) Use the Box and Frame tabs of the Modify dialog box (Item > Modify).

• Use the Colors palette (Window > Colors).

• Use the Measurement palette.

You can apply color to the dark areas of black-and-white bitmap and grayscale pictures by choosing the Color command (Style > Color) when a picture box containing a picture in one of these formats is active.

Using the Colors palette to create blends

A blend is a transition from one color to another. You can use the Colors palette to specify the two blend colors, their shades, the pattern in which they blend, and the angle at which they blend relative to the box. A blend can contain any two colors available in a project.

Applying color and shade to text

There are five ways to apply color and shade to text:

• You can apply color and shade using the Style > Color and Style > Shade commands.

• You can use the Colors palette (Window > Colors).

• You can use the Character Style Sheet command (Style > Character Style Sheet) to apply color and shade to selected text using character style sheets you have created.

• (Windows only) You can use the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character).

• You can use the Measurements palette.

Applying color and shade to lines

Four methods are available to apply color and shade to lines:

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• (Windows only) You can use the Line tab of the Modify dialog box (Item > Modify).

• You can use the Colors palette (Window > Colors).

• You can apply color, shade, and line gap settings using the Style > Color and Style >

Shade commands.

• You can use the Measurements palette.

Working with opacity

Opacity is applied at the color level, so you can specify opacity for just about anything you can apply a color to, including the first or second color in a blend. This means you can have different opacities at work on different attributes of the same item — a text box frame, a background, a picture, and each character of text, for example, can have differing opacities.

Specifying opacity

Specifying opacity is as easy as specifying the shade of a color. In fact, wherever you can pick a color — in the Colors palette, the Measurements palette, the Style menu, various tabs of the Modify dialog box, and more — you can enter an opacity value from 0%

(transparent) to 100% (opaque) in 0.1% increments.

To specify opacity for a picture:

• (Windows only) Enter a value in the Opacity field of the Picture tab (Item > Modify).

• (Mac OS X only) Enter a value in the Opacity field of the Picture Box tab of the

Measurements palette.

Specifying opacity for groups

Keep in mind that when you stack items of varying opacities, the colors are combined and may produce a buildup of ink. For example, if you place a yellow box with a 30% opacity in front of a cyan box with 100% opacity, the box in front will become slightly greenish.

You can control this by grouping items and specifying a group opacity rather than individual item opacities. To do this, on Windows, use the Group Opacity field in the

Group tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu) and on Mac OS X use the Home tab of the Measurements palette. Depending on the effect you want, you may need to revert the Opacity field for the individual items to 100% (otherwise, each item's opacity is added to the group's opacity).

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With these three grouped items, compare individual item opacity to group opacity. At left, each item is 50% opaque — the items in front compose against the items behind them. At right, each item's opacity is 100% while the group's opacity is 50% — the entire group composes against the background. The items in the group, however, could have individual opacities in addition to the group opacity.

Creating blends with transparency

You can blend a color with None rather than just with white. Simply choose None for the first or second color in a blend in the Colors palette, or on Windows, you can use the Box tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu).

Color management

QuarkXPress addresses the issue of producing predictable color with ICC-based color management tools that require little input from users. For color experts, however,

QuarkXPress provides control over every aspect of color management. In addition to streamlining the implementation of color management, QuarkXPress offers true soft proofing through previews that simulate output on various devices.

Source setups and output setups

The color management implementation in QuarkXPress allows color experts to create and fine-tune "packages" of color management settings called source setups and output setups.

The source setups individually specify profiles and rendering intents for solid colors and images in RGB, CMYK, LAB, and grayscale color spaces; specify source color spaces for named colors; and indicate underlying color spaces for inks. The output setups specify output profiles and color models, and configure proofing options for simulating different types of output on screen.

The color management experience for users

You have many options for how you work: You can work with proven default settings, implement source setups and output setups from a color expert, or work within a legacy color management environment.

Working in the default color management environment

The default settings are designed to provide accurate previews and excellent output in the majority of situations. You do not need to set anything, but if you want to look at the

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default settings, you can check the Display and Color Manager selections in the

Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

Specifying a monitor profile

The Display pane shows the monitor profile in use. The default setting, Automatic, refers to the current monitor recognized by Mac OS X or Windows. You can choose a different profile from the Monitor Profile drop-down menu. You might change the default monitor profile, for example, if you have a custom profile for your monitor or if you're switching between a laptop and a desktop computer and want to simulate the same viewing environment.

Specifying a source setup

The Color Manager pane's Source Options area shows the default source setup,

QuarkXPress 7.0 Default, which provides the most recent, proven color management environment. If you prefer the color management environment from a version of

QuarkXPress prior to 7.0, you can choose QuarkXPress Emulate Legacy from the Source

Setup drop-down menu.

Specifying a default proof output setup

To specify a default output setup for viewing color in Print layouts, choose an option from the Proof Output drop-down list.

Specifying a rendering intent

The Rendering Intent drop-down menu shows the method used for converting colors from one color space to another. The default setting, Relative Colorimetric, retains colors that are in both the source gamut and the destination gamut. The only source colors that are changed are those that are not within the destination gamut. Depending on the type of jobs you work on — for example, if the emphasis is on line art and Pantone colors rather than on photographs — you may want to choose a different option from the Rendering

Intent drop-down menu.

Color managing multi-color-space EPS and PDF pictures

Some EPS and PDF files can contain elements that use different color spaces. For example, a PDF or EPS file might contain a picture that uses the RGB color space and a color that uses the CMYK color space. To allow QuarkXPress to manage these various elements appropriately, using the specified output setup, in subsequently imported EPS and PDF pictures, check Color Manage Vector EPS/PDF.

To color manage vector content in EPS and PDF files that have already been imported in the active project, check Include Existing Vector EPS/PDF in Layout.

Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert

If a color expert creates custom source setups and output setups specific to your workflow

— or even specific to individual jobs or clients — you can easily employ those setups through preferences, view options, output settings, and Job Jackets. For example, a service

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bureau or printer may provide setups for you that help ensure appropriate output for their equipment.

Appending source setups

If source setups are created for a project you work on, you can append those source setups to other projects. Use the Append button in the Source Setups dialog box (Edit > Color

Setups > Source) to navigate to and select a source setup.

Importing output setups

If output setups are created for you, import them through the Output Setups dialog box

( Edit > Color Setups > Output). Use the Import button to navigate to and select the output setup files.

Selecting source setups and output setups

To use custom source setups and output setups, you choose them from various color management menus as follows:

• Color sources: To use a custom source setup, choose it from the Source Setup drop-down menu in the Color Manager pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) for the layout.

• Color display: To use a custom output setup for proofing, choose it from the Proof Output submenu of the View menu.

• Color output: To use a custom output setup for printing or other types of output, choose it from the Setup drop-down menu in the Colors pane of the Print dialog box (File >

Print).

Working with source and output setups in Job Jackets

When you create a project from a Job Jackets file, the appropriate source setups and output setups are included and selected for you. You can still import, append, and create additional setups, and select those setups for display and output.

Working in a legacy color management environment

You can open projects from QuarkXPress 7.x, 8.x, or 9.x, and be confident that color will display and output as it always has.

You can continue to work in a legacy color management environment from QuarkXPress versions 7.x, 8.x, or 9.x. If you choose to work in a legacy color management environment, you can still take advantage of the soft proofing features in QuarkXPress.

You can easily upgrade to the QuarkXPress 7 methods by changing the Source Setup to

QuarkXPress 7.0 Default (or to a custom option) in Color Manager preferences

( QuarkXPress/Edit menu > Preferences). The Source Setup is layout specific, so if you open a project with multiple layouts, you can change the source setup for each layout.

Then, make sure any output setups you use ( Edit > Color Setups > Output) specify

QuarkXPress 7.0 Default profiles rather than profiles from previous versions.

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Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)

QuarkXPress provides display simulation that is accurate enough for soft proofing a range of output. Using the information in the source setup, output setup, and any other custom settings (such as different profiles applied to pictures), the flexible simulation options show how the same layout will look when output to different media and for different printing methods.

To perform soft proofing, choose an option from the Proof Output submenu of the View menu. The menu lists all the output setups available in the layout, so if you have imported custom output setups from a color expert, they are listed here. When you choose an option, the entire layout displays in that color space — including the Colors palette (Window menu) and any color swatches shown throughout QuarkXPress.

The Proof Output submenu (View menu) provides display simulation options so you can see how colors will output. For example, if you plan to convert spot colors to process colors or output an entire RGB layout as grayscale, you can preview how your choice will look.

Color management for experts

While QuarkXPress is designed to provide great color throughout a workflow right out of the box, a color expert can always customize and fine-tune color management settings to specific jobs, equipment, and output processes. If you understand color theory and all the terminology involved in color management — such as profiles and rendering intents — you can create custom source setups and output setups that reflect specific workflows. The setups are portable, so you can then share them with users to prevent color surprises, on screen and on press.

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Creating a source setup

A source setup describes colors in a layout as they exist prior to output — in other words, where the colors came from. A source setup contains profiles and rendering intents for both solid colors and pictures in RGB, CMYK, LAB, and grayscale. In addition, it includes information about the underlying color space for named colors (such as Pantone Process

Coated colors) and inks (such as cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and multi-inks). You might create source setups for clients based on their standard workflows, or you might create source setups for a specific project.

To get started in creating a source setup, you will need to know some details about the hardware and software involved in a client's workflow — what type of digital camera and scanner they use, for example — and you'll need to make sure the relevant profiles are available. It's also helpful to see sample projects so you know what types of pictures, colors, inks, and devices they're working with, such as logos, charts and graphs, photographs, and duotones, output to SWOP or displayed on the Web.

To create a source setup choose Edit > Color Setups > Source.

Creating an output setup

An output setup describes the capabilities of various types of output devices and determines how colors are handled in various output scenarios. You can think of an output setup as

"where colors are going." An output setup specifies composite or separation output, the output mode, and an output profile. You create output setups both for display simulation using View > Proof Output and for actual output in print, PDF, and other formats.

As with source setups, to get started in creating an output setup, you need to know details about typical jobs, output methods, and equipment. For example, it's helpful to know the name and have the profiles for any composite printing devices. QuarkXPress provides default output setups for various workflows:

• Grayscale

• Grayscale 100K

• Composite RGB

• Composite CMYK

• Composite CMYK and Spot

• As Is

• In-RIP Separations

To create an output setup, choose Edit > Color Setups > Output.

Sharing source and output setups

Source setups and output setups are portable, so color experts can easily distribute them to users and workgroups. Source setups can be appended from other projects and output setups can be exported as individual files and saved in output styles. Both types of setups,

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source and output, can be shared through inclusion in Job Jackets. Before distributing setups to a workgroup or to clients, be sure to test the setups with typical jobs.

• To share setups, append setups, export setups, or import setups, choose Edit > Color Setups and modify the corresponding setting.

• To incorporate setups into Job Jackets and specify the source and output setups used in a

Job Jackets structure or Job Ticket, in the Job Jacket Manager dialog box (Utilities menu):

1 (Windows only) Click the Advanced Settings button.

2 Select a project that contains source or output setups in the list on the left.

3 Drag the source or output setups to the target Job Jackets structure or Job Ticket.

You can also choose an output style that includes specific output setups.

• To use a custom output setup for printing or other types of output, choose that output setup from the Setup drop-down menu in the Color pane of the Output Styles dialog box

( Edit > Output Styles > New/Edit).

Fine-tuning color management for individual pictures

If you need to specify profiles and rendering intents for individual pictures, you can still do that in much the same way that you did in previous versions of QuarkXPress. This overrides the QuarkXPress default settings or the selected source setup. For example, you might change the rendering intent of an EPS logo to saturation while leaving the remaining pictures in a layout, mostly photographs, at perceptual.

To access color management controls for individual pictures, first make the features available by checking Enable Access to Picture Profiles in the Color Manager pane of the

Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). To apply and change profiles for pictures:

• Changing profiles: The Profile Information palette (Window menu) displays information about the selected picture's type and color space. You can use this palette to quickly change the picture's Profile, Rendering Intent, and Color Manage to [type of device] setting.

Managing profiles

Color management, at its roots, is profile driven. As you adopt new workflows, acquire new devices, and troubleshoot output, you may need to install new profiles, control which profiles are available, and determine how individual profiles are used throughout a layout.

You can perform these tasks using the Profile Manager and Profile Usage features.

The Profile Manager and Profile Usage features are considered advanced color management features.

Installing profiles

If you acquire new profiles from manufacturers, and those profiles are not automatically installed at the system level, you can drag them to the "Profiles" folder inside the "Required

Components" folder in your QuarkXPress application folder.

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A system restart is required to begin using the new profile.

The next time you launch QuarkXPress, the profiles will be available in the relevant color management drop-down menus. Using the Profile Manager dialog box (Utilities menu), you can specify a new profiles folder as well.

Loading profiles

If you have more profiles than you need for a particular workflow, you can streamline the profiles available in QuarkXPress. To do this, use the Profile Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

Checking profile usage

When you're working with layouts from other users, you can quickly see how those users have implemented color management by looking at the Profiles pane of the Usage dialog box ( Utilities menu). Similar to Picture Usage and Font Usage, the Profile Usage feature lets you see where profiles are available in the layout and whether they're specified in source/output setups or applied to pictures. For profiles applied to pictures, you can replace one profile with another.

Working with drop shadows

A drop shadow is an item attribute, much like color, that you apply using the

Measurements palette, or on Windows, the Drop Shadow tab of the Modify dialog box

( Item menu) . You can create drop shadows for items, frames, text, pictures, and more, depending on how the items are formatted.

QuarkXPress lets you create automatic drop shadows.

To work with drop shadows, you must have DropShadow XTensions software loaded.

Applying drop shadows

To apply a drop shadow, select the item and check Apply Drop Shadow in the Drop

Shadow tab of the Measurements palette or on Windows, the Modify dialog box (Item

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menu). You can apply drop shadows to the shape of an item — box, line, text path, table

— provided that the item has a background color applied to it. You can apply a drop shadow to text when the box background has an opacity of less than 100%. You can apply a drop shadow to the contours of a picture when a clipping path or alpha mask is selected and the box background is None. You can apply a drop shadow to a group with the drop shadow reflecting the collective shape of all of the items in the group.

Customizing drop shadows

Using the controls in the Measurements palette, or on Windows, the Drop Shadow tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu), you can customize how a drop shadow looks, including its distance from the item, size in relation to the original item, offset, angle of light source, color, shade, opacity, blur, and more. You can also synchronize the angle with other drop shadows in the layout, making it easy to maintain a significant light source throughout a layout and making drop shadows seem more natural.

Incorporating drop shadows with items

Additional options control how drop shadows interact with items, including handling opacity and text runaround. As with the other controls, these options are located in the

Measurements palette, or on Windows, the Drop Shadow tab of the Modify dialog box

( Item menu) .

• Use Inherit Item's Opacity to have the drop shadow reflect different opacities in the item, such as differences in the box background and frame.

• Use Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow to prevent a shadow from displaying through semi-opaque areas of an item — to keep a shadow from peeping through its box, for example.

• Use Runaround Drop Shadow to include a drop shadow with the text wrap contour.

• Use Inherit Item's Opacity and Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow combined to achieve different results based on the combination of these settings, as shown here.

At far left, both Inherit Item's Opacity and Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow are unchecked.

Second from left, only Inherit Item's Opacity is checked. At far right, both options are checked.

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Document construction

The Layers feature lets you easily hide, show, and suppress the printing of groups of objects.

The Lists feature lets you create tables of contents and other lists. The Index feature lets you automatically generate an index of a layout. The Libraries feature lets you keep often-used elements in an easy-to-reach place.

Using automatic page numbering

To insert an automatic page number on every page:

1 Display a master page by choosing its name from the Display submenu (Page > Display), or by clicking on the icon at the lower left hand corner of the document window.

2 Create a text box where you want a page number to appear.

3 Press Command+3/Ctrl+3. This enters the Current Page Number character <#>. Layout pages based on that master page will display the current page number in the location where you place the Current Page Number character.

4 Select the Current Page Number character <#> and specify the desired character attributes.

Creating an automatic text box

An automatic text box lets you automatically flow text from page to page. To create an automatic text box:

1 Display a master page by choosing its name from the Display submenu (Page > Display).

2 Create a text box where you want the automatic text box to appear.

3 Select the Linking tool .

4 Click the Auto Text Box Linking icon in the upper left hand corner of the page.

5 Click the box you created in step 2.

All pages based on this master page will contain an automatic text box. Text inserted into this box will automatically flow from page to page.

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Working with master pages

Master pages are like templates for pages. If you want to use the same heading, footing, background, page number positioning, and so forth on some of your pages, you can create these things on a master page, and then just apply that master page to the layout pages that need it. If you want to use a different set of page content on either side of a spread, you can do that too. A single layout can have multiple master pages, so that you can automatically format different parts of the same layout.

The topics below describe master pages in more detail.

Creating a master page

The best way to explain master pages is by example. In this example, we will create a facing-page master page with an automatic text box, automatic page numbers in the footer, and wide inside margins. To create such a master page:

1 Create a new facing-page layout with an automatic text box.

2 Choose Window > Page Layout. The Page Layout palette displays.

Page Layout palette

Note that there is already a default master page named A-Master A. You can tell that this master page has been applied to the first page because of the A that displays on the page icon in the bottom part of the palette.

3 You can create single-page master pages by dragging the Blank Single Page icon into the master page area at the top of the palette. In facing-page documents, you can also create facing-page master pages by dragging the Blank Facing Page icon into the master page area. Drag Blank Facing Page . A new facing-page master page named B-Master B displays in the palette.

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Page Layout palette with new master page

4 To display the new master page for editing, double-click the B-Master B icon. The master page displays in the main window. Note that because this is a facing-page master page, it includes two pages: The left page and the right page. Also, note the broken-link icons in the upper left.

Blank facing-page master page

5 To add page numbers, draw two boxes on the lower left and right, as shown below. In each of these boxes, click with the Text Content tool and then choose Utilities > Insert

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Character > Special > Current Box Page #. This inserts a character that will display as the current page number in layout pages. Format and justify the character any way you like. (Of course, you can put your page numbers anywhere you want to.)

Page number characters on either side of a facing-page master page

6 To indicate where the text should go, draw some guides and then draw two text boxes like those shown below.

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Master page with guides and text boxes

7 Now you must link the text boxes to the automatic text chain. With the Text Linking tool selected, click the broken-link icon at the top of the left page, then the text box on the left page. Then click on a blank part of the page. Finally, click the broken-link icon

at the top of the right page, and then the text box on the right page. The text boxes on these two master pages are now linked to the automatic text chain.

8 Double-click the master page's name in the Page Layout palette and change it from "B-Master

B" to "B-Body Spread."

9 Choose Page > Display > Layout. The view switches back to the layout pages.

10 Click in the text box on page 1 with the Text Content tool .

11 To add two new pages that use the new master page, choose Page > Insert. The Insert

Pages dialog box displays.

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Insert Pages dialog box

You can also add pages by pressing Option/Alt and then dragging a master page to the desired location in the bottom part of the Page Layout dialog box.

12 Enter 4 in the page(s) field, click after page, and choose B-Body Spread from the Master

Page drop-down menu. After you choose the master page, check Link to Current Text

Chain, then click OK. Four new pages are added to the layout, and both of them have the text boxes and page numbers you created on the master page.

To verify that the new master pages have been linked to the master text chain, click in any of the main text boxes with the Text Content tool and then choose Utilities >

Insert Placeholder Text. The entire text chain fills with text.

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Master pages filled with Placeholder Text.

Applying master pages

There are two ways to apply a master page to a layout page.

• Drag the master page from the top part of the Page Layout palette (Windows menu) to the target page in the bottom part of the palette.

• Select the target page or pages in the bottom part of the Page Layout palette, then press

Option/Alt and click the desired master page in the top part of the palette.

Updating master pages

When you make a change to a master page, that change is automatically made to any layout pages that use that master page. In other words, if you move the page number box on a master page, the page number box will be automatically repositioned on every page that uses that master page.

If you make a change to a master page item on a layout page, then reapply the master page, one of two things can happen:

• If Master Page Items is set to Keep Changes (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Print

Layout > General pane), the changed item is left where it is but is no longer linked with the master page, and a copy of the item from the master page is added.

• If Master Page Items is set to Delete Changes (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Print

Layout > General pane), the changed item is deleted and replaced with a copy of the item from the master page.

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Master pages and layout families

Master pages work a little bit differently with layout families than they do with layouts that are not part of a layout family. (For more information about layout families, see

"Understanding layout families" in A Guide to App Studio.)

• If you add, delete, or rename a master page in a layout family, the master page is added, deleted, or renamed in all of the layouts in that layout family.

• If you add pages to one of a layout family's layouts with a particular master page, pages with that same master page are added to the other layouts in the layout family.

• If you apply a master page to a layout page in one of a layout family's layouts, that master page is not applied to the corresponding pages in the layout family's other layouts. This allows you to use different master pages for the vertical and horizontal versions of a page in a layout family.

• If you make a change to a given master page in one of a layout family's layouts, that change is not reflected in the same-named master pages in the other layouts. This allows you to customize master pages for each of a layout family's page designs.

Working with layers

The Layers palette is the "control center" for layers. You can hide, show, lock, or unlock layers with a single click in this palette. You also can use this palette to specify the active layer (where newly drawn objects will go), to rearrange the stacking order of layers, to merge layers, and to move objects from one layer to another.

Each layer you create has a unique color swatch in the Layers palette. When you create an item on a layer, the item's bounding box and handles use that layer's color.

To display the Layers palette, choose View > Layers.

You can work with layers in the Layers palette.

Every layout has a Default layer. You can add and remove items from the Default layer, but you cannot delete the Default layer. When you open a layout that was created with a version of QuarkXPress prior to 5.0, all items display on the Default layer.

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A layout can contain up to 256 layers, including the Default layer.

Understanding layers

A QuarkXPress layer is like a clear overlay that covers every page in a layout. You can put almost anything on a layer, including picture boxes, text boxes, lines, tables, interactive objects, and any other kind of QuarkXPress item.

Layers can be useful in many different ways:

• You can put all pictures on a one layer and all text on another layer, allowing you to work more easily with boxes should they overlap.

• You can put different translations of a document on different layers, and thus store all language versions of the document in the same layout. When you print the layout, you can hide all of the layers except the one that contains the language you want.

• You can put different versions of a design on different layers, so that you can easily switch back and forth among variations on the design theme when showing a design to a client.

• You can use layer locking to prevent accidental changes to layers containing page elements that should not be altered. For example, if you're going to be printing on stock that is preprinted with a letterhead and background graphic, you can include that letterhead and background graphic in a layer so that you can see what the finished printed piece will look like, and then you can lock that layer and omit it from printing.

If you have used image-editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop, you may already be familiar with the concept of layers. However, layers have some implications in

QuarkXPress layouts that they do not have in image editing:

• Even if a front layer is showing, you can "click through" any empty portions of that layer and select items on underlying layers, without having to manually change the active layer.

• Each layer exists on every page in a QuarkXPress layout, rather than being specific to a page or spread. This makes it easy to control the appearance of every page in a long layout.

• Text in a rear layer can run around objects in a front layer.

Creating layers

To create a layer, click the New Layer button in the Layers palette. The new layer is added to the Layers palette, in front of the active layer. The new layer is active by default, which means that any items you create will be placed on that layer.

To create a new item on a particular layer, first click the layer's name in the Layers palette to activate that layer. Then use any of the standard item creation tools to create items on the layer.

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Selecting layers

The active layer is identified in the Layers palette by the Edit icon . The active layer is the layer where any new items you create will be put. You can set the active layer in two ways:

• Click the layer name in the Layers palette.

• Select a single item on the page. That item's layer automatically becomes the active layer.

Only one layer can be active at a time (even if you select items on more than one layer at a time). However, you can select more than one layer at a time (for example, if you want to merge the layers). To select more than one layer, do one of the following things:

• Select items from more than one layer (for example, by selecting everything on the page).

• To select consecutive layers in the palette, press Shift while you click the first and last layer in the range you want to select.

• To select non-consecutive layers in the palette, press Command/Ctrl while clicking the layers you want to select.

To deselect a layer when multiple layers are selected, press Command/Ctrl and click the layer you want to deselect.

Showing and hiding layers

The Visible column in the Layers palette controls which layers display at any given time. When the Visible icon appears in the Visible column, a layer is visible.

• To show or hide a layer, click in the Visible column to the left of that layer's name. You can also double-click a layer to display its Attributes dialog box, check or uncheck Visible in the dialog box, and then click OK.

• To show or hide all the layers in a layout at once, select a layer name and choose Show

All Layers or Hide All Layers from the Layers palette context menu.

• To hide all layers except the active layer, select the name of the layer that you want to be active and then choose Hide Other Layers from the Layers palette context menu.

Alternatively, you can press Control/Ctrl while clicking the Visible icon of the layer you want to display; all other layers will be hidden.

• To display all layers except the active layer, choose Show Other Layers from the Layers palette context menu.

When you use the Find/Change feature, QuarkXPress searches hidden layers as well as visible layers. If a match is found on a hidden layer, QuarkXPress temporarily displays the hidden text box or text path.

When you check the spelling in a layout or story, QuarkXPress searches all layers in the layout or story. If questionable spelling is encountered on a hidden layer, QuarkXPress temporarily displays the hidden text box or text path.

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When a layer is hidden, that layer displays unchecked by default in the Layers pane of the Print dialog box, and consequently that layer will not print (unless you click to check the layer manually in the Print dialog box).

When you create an item on a hidden layer, that item remains visible until you deselect the item.

Determining which layer an item is on

There are two ways to determine which layer an item is on:

• Look at the object's bounding box and handles (you may need to choose View > Guides to see them). Each layer (except the Default layer) is assigned a unique color swatch in the Layers palette, and the bounding boxes and handles for objects on that layer are drawn in the layer's color.

• Look at the Layers palette. When you select a page item, the Item icon displays in the

Layers palette next to the name of the layer that contains the selected item. If you select multiple items on different layers, the Item icon displays next to each layer that contains a selected item.

Deleting layers

You cannot delete the Default layer, but you can delete any other layer. When you delete layers, you can choose whether to delete the items on the layers or move the items to another layer. To delete a layer:

1 In the Layers palette, select the layer or layers to delete.

2 Click the Delete Layer button .

3 If there are items on the layers you are deleting, the Delete Layer dialog box displays.

Choose an option:

• If the layers include items that you want to delete, check Delete items on selected Layer(s).

• If the layers include items that you want to move to another layer, uncheck Delete items

on selected Layer(s), and choose a destination layer from the Move items to Layer drop-down menu.

4 Click OK.

To delete all unused layers in a layout, choose Delete Unused Layers from the palette menu.

Changing layer options

You can control the following options for the selected layer in the Attributes dialog box:

• Name: The layer's name, as displayed in the Layers palette.

• Layer Color: The color used for the bounding boxes and handles of objects on that layer.

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• Visible: Controls whether the layer is visible in QuarkXPress.

• Suppress Output: Controls whether the layer is set to print when the layout is printed.

You can override this setting in the Print dialog box.

• Locked: Controls whether you can manipulate objects on this layer.

• Keep Runaround: Controls whether runaround from objects on this layer applies to underlying layers when this layer is hidden.

To display the Attributes dialog box for a layer, double-click the layer's name in the Layers palette, or select a layer name in the palette and then choose Edit Layer from the palette menu.

You can control layer options in the Attributes dialog box.

You can set the default values of the Visible, Locked, Suppress Output, and Keep

Runaround check boxes for new layers in the Layers panes of the Preferences dialog box

( QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

Moving items to a different layer

The Layers palette provides three methods for moving existing items to a different layer.

Using the Item tool , select the items you want to move, and then do one of the following things:

• Click the Move Item to Layer button , and then choose the target layer in the Move

Items dialog box.

• Drag the Item icon to the target layer.

• Cut the items from their current layer and paste them on the target layer.

To place a copy of an item on a different layer, press Control/Ctrl while dragging the Item icon to the target layer in the Layers palette.

You can move master page items on layout pages from the Default layer to other layers, but those items will no longer be master page items if you do so.

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Copying and pasting items between layers

There is an option in the Layers palette that allows you to set Paste To Remember Layers.

Placeholder for image of the Layers palette.

This option is turned on by default. When it is on and one or more items are copied and pasted, then the elements will be pasted on the same layer from which they were copied.

Layer matching is done by name, so if the item comes from a different document with different layer names, a new layer with that name will be created.

If the preference is turned off, all items will be pasted on the layer that is currently active.

Changing the stacking order of layers

Stacking on a layer works the same way it does on a "plain" page. Within a layer, each item has its own position in the stacking order (the front-to-back positioning of the items on the layer). When you draw items on a layer, new items are stacked in front of existing items on that layer. You can use the Send to Back, Send Backward, Bring to Front, and

Bring Forward commands (Item menu) to change the stacking order of items within a layer, but these commands do not move items to different layers. However, everything on a front layer displays in front of everything on a rear layer.

To change the stacking order of layers, you can drag a layer to a new position in the Layers palette. (The layer at the top of the Layers palette is the frontmost layer of the layout.)

Layers and text runaround

Items on layers follow the standard runaround rule in QuarkXPress: Text can only wrap around items that are in front of that text. For example, if you draw a small picture box in the center of a column of text, the text will wrap around the picture box by default.

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QuarkXPress also evaluates the Type setting in the Runaround tab of the Modify dialog box ( Item menu) when determining whether to wrap text around items.

When you hide a layer, you can either show or hide the text runaround caused by the obstructing items on that layer. By default, text runaround forced by hidden items is maintained.

• To hide the text runaround forced by items on a hidden layer, double-click the hidden layer in the Layers palette to display the Attributes dialog box, and then uncheck Keep

Runaround and click OK.

• To change this default runaround setting for new layers, uncheck Keep Runaround in the

Layers pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

Duplicating layers

To duplicate a layer, select that layer in the Layers palette and choose Duplicate Layer from the Layers palette menu. The new, duplicate layer is placed directly in front of the original layer.

If you duplicate a story with linked text boxes that have been placed on different layers, you will observe the following behaviors:

• If you duplicate the layer containing the first box in the story, all of the text in that box, as well as the text in the linked boxes that complete the story, is duplicated. The first box displays on the duplicated layer and displays an overflow symbol.

• If you duplicate a layer that includes one of the boxes in the middle of the story, all of the text in that box, as well as the text in the linked boxes that complete the story, is duplicated.

The middle box displays on the duplicated layer and displays an overflow symbol. None of the text from any preceding boxes in the story is copied onto the duplicate layer.

• If you duplicate the layer that contains only the last box in a story, only the text in that last box, and none of the text from any preceding boxes in the story, is copied to the duplicate layer.

Merging layers

When you merge two or more layers, all the items on all of the layers move to the same layer. Stacking order is maintained both within and among all of the merged layers (in other words, everything on a front layer remains in front of everything on a rear layer).

To merge layers:

1 In the Layers palette, select the layers to be merged.

2 Click the Merge Layers button in the Layers palette. The Merge Layers dialog box displays.

3 Choose a target layer from the Choose Destination Layer drop-down menu.

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4 Click OK. The visual indicators for the merged items display the color of the layer to which you merged, and the layers that you selected for merging are deleted.

Layers cannot be merged when one of the selected layers is locked.

Items may be merged from the Default layer, but the Default layer is never deleted by a merge operation.

Locking items on layers

To avoid inadvertently making changes to items on a layer, you can use the Layers palette to lock the entire layer.

Layer locking is independent from item locking. Items locked using Item > Lock can still be selected and edited; items on a locked layer cannot be selected at all. If you lock an item on a layer using Item > Lock, and then lock and unlock the layer, the item retains the item lock even after the layer is unlocked.

The Lock column in the Layers palette controls the locking of layers. To lock layers, use one of the following methods:

• To lock or unlock a layer, click in the Lock column to the left of the layer's name. You can also double-click the layer to display its Attributes dialog box, check or uncheck

Locked, and then click OK.

• To lock all but one layer, press Command/Ctrl and click in the Lock column next to the layer you want to edit.

• To lock all layers, choose Lock All Layers from the palette menu.

Using master pages with layers

You can also use layers on master pages. Remember that items that come from a master page that reside on the same layer will always be positioned behind items on the document page.

If you downsave to QuarkXPress 9 (which did not support layers on master pages), all items on the master page will be put on the default layer and this might create a different stacking order than existed in QuarkXPress 10.

Suppressing printout of layers

Just as you can suppress the printout of items such as picture boxes using the Modify dialog box, you can suppress the printout of layers. To suppress the printout of a layer, double-click that layer in the Layers palette. In the Attributes dialog box, check Suppress

Output, and then click OK.

When Suppress Output is checked for a layer, that layer displays unchecked by default in the Layers pane of the Print dialog box, and consequently that layer will not print

(unless you check the layer manually in the Print dialog box).

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The Print dialog box provides settings for controlling which layers will print.

To change the default print setting for new layers, check Suppress Output in the Layers panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

The Suppress Output setting for a layer is independent of the Suppress Output and

Suppress Picture Printout controls in the Modify dialog box (Item menu).

Using PDF layers

If you export a layout that includes layers as a PDF file, you can separately control the following:

• Which layers are included in the exported PDF files

• Whether or not QuarkXPress layers exported as native PDF layers

For more information, see " Exporting a layout in PDF format

Working with lists

The Lists feature lets you collect the text of paragraphs that have specific character or paragraph style sheets applied to them. Although the Lists feature is most often used for creating a table of contents, you can also use it to create a list of figures or pictures used in a publication.

Preparing for lists

Before you create a list, you must create and apply style sheets in your document. Begin by creating style sheets to be used in a table of contents, such as "Chapter Name," "Section

Name," and "Body Text." Then create another paragraph style sheet for the formatted table of contents.

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Including style sheets in a list

The first step in creating a list is to decide what style sheets you want to include in the list. To create a table of contents, you might include chapter and section style sheets in your list, since a table of contents generally lists chapter titles and their respective page numbers. You can include paragraph and character style sheets in lists.

Specifying levels in a list

You will also need to decide how the different levels in the paragraph style sheets will be defined before generating a list. You might want chapter headings to be at the first level and subjects within a chapter to be at the second level. For example, if you are writing a manual about an application, and a chapter in the manual is titled "File Menu," you might want the chapter heading "File Menu" to be the first level on your list. The "New," "Open,"

"Close," and "Save" items (subheadings in the "File Menu" chapter) could be at the second level. Making decisions such as these beforehand will simplify the process of generating a list.

Creating a list

Once you have created and applied the style sheets in your document and have decided which ones will be included in your list, you are ready to start creating your list. Choose

Edit > Lists and click New to display the Edit List dialog box and enter a name in the

Name field.

The Available Styles list displays all of the style sheets in the active project. Select each style sheet you want to use in the list and click Add to add it to the Styles in List list. For example, if you want to include all headings that use the "Heading 1" and "Heading 2" style sheets in a TOC, add these two style sheets to the Styles in List list.

Once you've indicated which style sheets should determine what goes into the TOC, you can specify how the TOC should be formatted. For each style in the Styles in List list, choose a Level, a Numbering option, and a Format As style sheet:

• Level determines how the contents of the list are indented on the Lists palette (higher levels are indented further).

• Numbering lets you control if and where the list includes the page number for each occurrence of a style sheet.

• Format As lets you specify the style sheet to be applied to each level of the automatically generated TOC.

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You can use the Edit List dialog box to create lists for things like automatic tables of contents.

Importing lists from another document

QuarkXPress lets you append lists from another document or from the Lists dialog box

( Edit > Lists), or by using the Append command (File > Append).

Navigating with lists

To view a list, display the Lists palette (Window menu), select the list in the List Name drop-down menu, and then click Update. The selected list displays in the Lists palette.

You can use the Lists palette to navigate in a layout.

If your article contains multiple layouts, you can choose a different layout from the Show

List For drop-down list.

To locate a particular line in the active list, enter a word from that line in the palette's

Find field. The list in the palette scrolls to the first appearance of that word in the list.

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To jump to a particular paragraph, double-click it in the Lists palette. The window scrolls to that paragraph's location in the layout.

Building lists

To create a TOC (or other type of list) in the layout, place the text insertion point where you want the list to go, then click Build in the Lists palette. The list is built automatically.

The style sheets you selected for the list in the Format As drop-down menu (New List dialog box) are applied automatically.

If the text in the document is on the pasteboard, then a dagger character (Mac OS X) or the characters "PB " (Windows) displays next to the text in the built list instead of a page number.

Updating lists

The Lists palette is not automatically updated as you work. When you make changes to text, you must update the list to be sure it is current. Clicking the Update button in the

Lists palette scans the document for list items, and rebuilds a list in the Lists palette.

To update a list that you have already flowed into a text box, select the box, click Update to make sure the list is up-to-date, and then click Build. The application detects that there is already a copy of the list in the layout and displays an alert asking if you want to Insert a new copy of the list or Replace the existing version. To update the existing list, click

Replace.

Working with indexes

In QuarkXPress, indexing is accomplished by marking words in documents as first level, second level, third level, or fourth level index entries. You can create cross-references and choose whether index entries cover a word, a number of paragraphs, a text selection, or all the text until the next occurrence of a specific style sheet. When it is time to build the index, you specify a format (nested or run-in), punctuation, a master page, and style sheets for the various levels. QuarkXPress then creates and styles the index for you.

Software can automate the process of typing, formatting, and updating page numbers in an index, but a person has to decide what goes into a meaningful, useful index. Since the process cannot be fully automated, it may take extra time to create an index, but when your readers are able to find the information they need, it will be time well spent.

Specifying the index marker color

When you add a word to an index, QuarkXPress tags it with brackets or a box; these are called index markers. Index markers are displayed in a document when the Index palette is open ( Windows > Index). You can customize the color of index markers using the Index

Preferences dialog box.

1 Choose QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Index.

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2 Click the Index Marker Color button to display a color picker.

3 Use the sliders, arrows, fields, or color wheel to specify a color for the index markers.

4 Click OK to close the color picker; then click OK to close the Index Preferences dialog box.

When you index a range of text, it is marked with brackets. When you place the Text

Insertion bar in text and enter an index entry, the location is marked with a box.

Creating index entries

Each item in an index, whether it is one word or several, is called an entry. Each entry is assigned a level. Levels indicate the hierarchy of the entry, from first to fourth. First level entries are the most general, and fourth level entries are the most specific.

QuarkXPress lets you create four levels of index entries in a nested index and two levels of index entries in a run-in index.

Creating a first-level index entry

A first-level index entry is a primary topic sorted alphabetically in an index.

Before you start adding words to the index, you need to decide whether you are creating a nested index or a run-in index. A nested index has up to four levels of information with entries separated by paragraph returns and different style sheets. A run-in index has two levels of information with second level entries immediately following first-level entries in the same paragraph.

1 Place the Text Insertion bar in the text or select a range of text to establish the beginning of the text you want to index.

2 To enter text for the first-level entry in the Text field of the Index palette (View menu), select text in the document or type in the field.

3 To override the alphabetical indexing of the entry, enter text in the Sort As field. For example, if the entry is "20th Century," you might want it sorted as "Twentieth Century."

This does not affect the spelling of the index entry.

4 Choose First Level from the Level drop-down menu.

5 To override the default character formatting applied to a page number or cross-reference, choose another character style sheet from the Style drop-down menu. The default formatting is the character style of the entry text.

6 Choose an option from the Scope drop-down menu to specify the range of text the index entry covers.

7 Click the Add button on the Index palette; the first-level index entry is listed alphabetically in the Entries list. The indexed text is marked with brackets or a box in the

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document. You can also click the Add All button to add all occurrences of the selected text to the Entries list.

You can add an index entry by selecting the text in the document, displaying the context menu, and selecting Add to Index. The entry will be added using the selected levels, style, and scope. The displayed context menu is the same as the context menu for a text box, with the exception of Add to Index.

If you select a word, add it to an index, and then try to add the selected word to the index again (for example, under a different level), you will receive an alert: "An index reference already exists at this location." To index the same word more than once, place the Text

Insertion bar in the word, then enter the desired word in the Text field. The second index entry displays a box plus brackets for the index marker.

Pressing Option/Alt changes the Add button to Add Reversed . The Add Reversed button adds an entry to the Entries list in reverse order and adds a comma to the entry.

For example, "Elaine DeKooning" is added as "DeKooning, Elaine" when you click the Add

Reversed button. "Lila Cabot Perry" would be added as "Perry, Lila Cabot."

Pressing Option/Alt changes the Add All button to Add All Reversed . Clicking the Add

All Reversed button will add all occurrences of the selected text to the Entries list in reverse order.

Creating a second-, third-, or fourth-level index entry

In a nested index, second-level, third-level, and fourth-level entries are positioned under first-level entries in the new paragraph. In a run-in index, second-level entries follow first-level entries in the same paragraph.

1 Place the Text Insertion bar at the beginning of the range of text you want to index.

2 Use the Text, Sort As, Style, and Scope controls as you would to create a first-level index entry.

3 Click next to an entry in the left column of the Entries list to specify that entry as the higher-level entry that the second-, third-, or fourth-level entry will go under.

Second-, third-, and fourth-level entries are indented if the paragraph style sheet used in the built index has a left indent value.

4 Choose Second Level, Third Level, or Fourth Level from the Level drop-down menu.

The arrow location determines which Level options are available. The Second Level option is available when the arrow is next to a first- or second-level entry, the Third Level option is available when the arrow is next to a first-, second-, or third-level entry, and the

Fourth Level option is available when the arrow is next to a first-, second-, third-, or fourth-level entry.

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5 Click the Add button . The new index entry is alphabetized and indented under the appropriate entry.

Choose Suppress Page # in the Scope drop-down menu when an index entry will be used as a heading for more levels of information. For example, if you were creating a cookbook, you might create an entry for "Cake," suppress its page number, and then list different types of cakes, such as "chocolate" or "lemon," as second- or third-level entries.

Creating cross-references

In addition to listing page numbers for index entries, you can also refer readers to other topics. For example, in a reference to "Typography," you might list "See also Fonts." To do this, you create cross-references. You can create a cross-reference to an existing entry in the index, or you can add a new entry specifically for the cross-reference. Use the Index palette ( View > Show Index) to create cross-references.

Creating a cross-reference for a new index entry

To create a cross-reference for a new index entry:

1 Place the Text Insertion bar anywhere in text (it doesn't matter where you place it because page numbers will not be listed for this entry).

2 Enter text for the entry in the Text field of the Index palette.

3 Use the Sort As and Level controls as you would to create any other index entry.

4 Choose Cross-Reference from the Scope drop-down menu. Choose the type of cross-reference you want from the drop-down menu: See, See also, or See herein.

5 Specify the index entry being cross-referenced by entering text in the field or clicking an existing entry in the list.

6 Click the Add button. Expand the entry to see the cross-reference text.

Creating a cross-reference for an existing index entry

To create a cross-reference for an existing index entry:

1 Place the Text Insertion bar anywhere in text (it doesn't matter where you place it because page numbers will not be listed for this entry).

2 Select an entry in the Entries list. The entry is automatically placed in the Text field.

3 Click the Edit button on the Index palette, double-click the entry, or select the entry and display the context menu.

4 Choose Cross-Reference from the Scope drop-down menu. Choose the type of cross-reference you want from the drop-down menu: See, See also, or See herein.

5 Specify the index entry being cross-referenced by entering text in the field or clicking an existing entry in the list.

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To see the cross-reference text in the Entries list along with the page number references, expand the entry.

When you build an index, cross-references immediately follow page number references.

They are formatted with the character style sheet specified in the Index Preferences dialog box ( Edit > Preferences > Index). If you specify Entry's Style, the cross-reference will use the same style sheet as the entry it follows. Using the Style drop-down menu (Index palette) to specify a character style sheet for a cross-reference will override the style sheet you specified in the Index Preferences dialog box. The text you enter in the

Cross-Reference field will have that style sheet applied; however, the style sheet will not be applied to the "See," "See also," or "See herein" part of the cross-reference.

The punctuation preceding cross-references is specified in the Before Cross-References field of the Index Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Index). If you want punctuation following a cross-reference, enter it after the cross-reference text you entered in the Index palette.

Editing an index entry

You can select an index entry and edit the information in the Text or Sort As fields. You can also select a cross-reference or page number reference and edit the information in the

Style or Scope drop-down menus. You can also change an entry's level.

1 Select an entry or reference in the Entries list. (To see the references, expand an entry.)

2 Click the Edit button on the Index palette, double-click the entry, or select the entry and choose Edit from the context menu.

While you are in edit mode, the Edit button displays reversed.

3 Make any changes to the selected entry or reference. You can also select and edit other entries and references.

4 Click the Edit button again to exit the edit mode.

Deleting an index entry

To delete an index entry and remove its index markers from the text:

1 Select an entry or reference in the Entries list. (To see the references, expand an entry.)

2 Display the context menu and choose Delete or click the Delete button on the Index palette.

Specifying the punctuation used in an index

The Index Preferences dialog box lets you specify the punctuation that is automatically inserted when you build an index.

1 Choose QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Index.

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2 Enter index punctuation, including any surrounding spaces, and cross-reference style sheet in the Separation Characters fields.

• Following Entry specifies the punctuation immediately following each entry in an index

(usually a colon). For example, "QuarkXPress: xii, 16–17, 19" uses a colon and a space after the index entry "QuarkXPress."

When a cross-reference immediately follows an index entry, the Before Cross-Reference characters are used rather than the Following Entry characters.

• Between Page #s specifies the words or punctuation used to separate a list of page numbers

(usually a comma or semicolon). For example, "QuarkXPress: xii, 16–17, 19" uses a comma and a space between page numbers.

• Between Page Range specifies the words or punctuation used to indicate a range of pages

(usually an en dash or the word "to" with a space on either side, like this: " to "). For example, "QuarkXPress: xii, 16–17, 19" uses an en dash between a range of pages.

• Before Cross-Reference specifies the words or punctuation used before a cross-reference

(usually a period, semicolon, or space). For example, "QuarkXPress: xii, 16–17, 19. See also

Page Layout" uses a period and a space before the cross-reference.

• Cross-Ref style specifies the style sheet to be used for a cross-reference. This style sheet is applied only to "See," "See also," and "See herein."

• Between Entries specifies the words or punctuation used between entry levels in a run-in index (usually a semicolon or period). A run-in index lists the entries and sub-entries of an index entry in a paragraph rather than with nested tabs. For example, "QuarkXPress: xii, 16–17, 19; Printing from: 62–64; Typesetting in: 32, 34" uses a semicolon between entries.

In a nested index, the Between Entries characters are used as the ending punctuation for each paragraph.

3 Click OK.

The completed index consists of formatted text, not of dynamic links to indexed text. If you continue to edit text or the Entries list, you need to rebuild the index.

You can enter up to 72 characters in any of the Separation Characters fields. You can also use certain "XPress Tags" in the Separation Characters fields. For example, if you enter \t in the Following Entry field, when you build your index, a default tab will automatically be inserted after your entry.

Building an index

Use the Build Index dialog box to create an index from the contents of the Index palette.

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When you build an index, QuarkXPress compiles the list, formats it according to your specifications, and flows it into pages based on the master page you choose. Index preferences are document-specific when set with a document open.

Before building the index, create a master page with an automatic text box for your index.

Next, create paragraph style sheets for the section heads and all the levels used in your index. Normally, the levels are distinguished by varying indentations.

To build an index:

1 Choose Utilities > Build Index or display the context menu for the Index palette and choose Build Index.

2 Click Nested or Run-in for the Format. If your index is organized with more than two levels of information, you should create a nested index. If you decide to create a run-in index, all levels of information for any entry will be listed in the same paragraph with no hierarchy.

3 Check Replace Existing Index to overwrite the existing index.

4 To add headings to each alphabetical section in the index, check Add Letter Headings and choose a style sheet from the drop-down menu.

5 Choose a Master Page for the index (only master pages with automatic text boxes are listed). QuarkXPress automatically adds the necessary pages to the end of the document to contain the index. If you specify a facing-page master page, a right-facing page is added first.

6 Choose style sheets for each level of the index from the Level Styles drop-down menus.

If you clicked Run-in for the Format, only the First Level drop-down menu is available

(because all the levels are flowed into the same paragraph).

7 Click OK to close the Build Index dialog box and create the index.

If you need to compare two versions of an index, uncheck Replace Existing Index in the

Build Index dialog box (Utilities menu).

Editing final indexes

After you build an index, you need to look it over closely. Check that the index is thorough, the cross-references are appropriate, and the levels are logical. See if you like the punctuation and formatting. It is unlikely that you will be absolutely happy with the first index you build. You can solve some issues by editing and rebuilding the index, while other issues will require local formatting of the index text.

Nonprinting text in an index

If the text marked in brackets will not print because it is on the pasteboard, obscured by another item, or overflowing its box, then a dagger character † (Mac OS X) or the characters

"PB" with a space after the B (Windows) displays next to the entry in the index instead of a page number.

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Mac OS X only: To search for the dagger character, enter Option+T in the Find what field of the Find/Change dialog box (Edit menu), and then see if you can solve the problem in the document or simply remove the daggers from the built index.

Windows only: To search for the "PB "characters, enter them (including the space) in the

Find what field of the Find/Change dialog box (Edit menu), and then see if you can solve the problem in the document or simply remove the characters from the built index.

Editing and rebuilding the index

To solve issues with the punctuation, the index entries, or the organization of the index, go back to the Index palette, the Index Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit >

Preferences > Index), or the Build Index dialog box (Utilities menu). Make the necessary changes, and rebuild the index.

Updating the index

If you edit an indexed document after you build the index, you should build the index again. Because QuarkXPress will not update the index text automatically, you should build your final index only when you are fairly certain the document is final.

Applying local formatting to the index

When you have an index you are happy with — and are almost certain the publication will not change — you can often still improve your index with local formatting. For example, if you only have one entry each under the headings "W," "X," "Y," and "Z," you might combine them into a single heading for "W–Z." Or you might want to use the

Find/Change dialog box (Edit menu) to apply type styles to certain words. Remember that the changes will not be reflected in future versions of the index if you decide to delete or change entries at this stage.

Working with libraries

Libraries are convenient for storing frequently used page items such as logos, publication mastheads, legal text, and photographs. You can store up to 2,000 entries in an individual library. A library entry can be a text box, text path, picture box, line, multiple-selected items, or a group. To move entries in and out of libraries, you simply drag them or cut/copy and paste them.

Libraries are good for storing items that may be needed at any time in a layout. For example, corporate logos, legal information, commonly used pictures and text, chart formats, and clip art are all good candidates for library entries. Items with hard-to-remember formatting can also be saved in a library.

Use the Library palette's scroll bar to scroll vertically through library entries. Drag the resize box in the lower-right corner of a Library palette to resize it. You can expand a

Library palette by clicking its zoom box. Click the zoom box again to return to the previous display.

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A Library palette

QuarkXPress libraries are not cross-platform, so libraries must be opened using the platform on which they were created.

Creating libraries

You can create a new library any time, as long as you have fewer than 25 files open. To create a new library:

1 Choose File > New > Library.

When you create a new library, it stays open until you manually close it. When you launch

QuarkXPress, any library palettes that were previously open are reopened automatically and placed in the default library positions.

2 Use the controls in the dialog box to specify a location for the new library file.

3 Enter a name for the library in the Library Name/File name field.

4 Click Create.

Adding library entries

When you add entries to a library, copies of the items are placed in the library and displayed as thumbnails. The original items are not removed from the document. To add entries to an open library:

1 Select the Item tool .

2 Select the items or group of items to place in the library. To select multiple items, press the Shift key while clicking them. However, if you select multiple items, they will be saved in the library as one entry and not as individual items.

3 Drag the items or group into the library and release the mouse button when the Library pointer displays. The library entry is placed between the arrow icons.

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Retrieving library entries

To place a library entry into a document, select any tool and click the library entry. Drag the entry into the document. A copy of the library entry is placed in the document.

Manipulating library entries

You can rearrange the order of entries within a library, move entries from one library to another, replace and delete library entries.

• To rearrange an entry within a library, click it and drag it to a new position.

• To copy an entry from one library into another, click it and drag it to the other open library.

• To replace an entry in a library, select the replacement items in a document; then choose

Edit > Copy. Click the entry in the library to select it and choose Edit > Paste.

• To remove an entry from a library on Mac OS X, click it and choose Edit > Clear, Edit >

Cut, or press Delete. To remove an entry from a library on Windows, choose Edit (Library palette menu) > Delete or Edit > Cut.

Windows only: When copying, pasting, or deleting library items on Windows, use the Edit menu at the top of the Library palette.

If you move a high-resolution picture after importing it into your document, you will need to update the path to the picture with the Usage command (Utilities menu) when you move the library entry onto a document.

Working with labels

QuarkXPress lets you manage your library entries by applying labels to them. You can apply the same label to multiple entries and you can selectively display library entries according to their labels. For example, if you have a library full of different corporate logos, you can label each entry with the appropriate company name.

Labeling library entries

Once you label one library entry, you can use that label for other entries. Alternatively, you can give each of your library entries a unique name. To label library entries:

1 Double-click a library entry to display the Library Entry dialog box.

2 Enter a descriptive name in the Label field or choose one from the Label list. To rename a library entry, enter in a new label or choose a different label from the list.

3 Click OK.

Displaying library entries by label

To display entries by label, click the drop-down menu (Mac OS X) or Labels menu (Windows) in the upper left corner of a Library palette. Choose labels to display associated entries.

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• The menu lists All, Unlabeled, and any labels you created and applied to entries.

• You can choose more than one label to display multiple categories of entries; a checkmark displays next to each selected label.

• If you choose more than one label on Mac OS X, Mixed Labels is displayed in the drop-down menu. When you select the Labels menu on Windows, a checkmark displays next to labels displayed in the palette.

• To view all library entries, regardless of label, choose All.

• To view entries to which no label has been applied, choose Unlabeled. You can choose

Unlabeled in addition to other labels.

• To hide entries to which a label is applied, choose the label again.

Saving libraries

When you click the close box on a Library palette, QuarkXPress automatically saves changes made to the library. If you prefer, you can use the Auto Library Save feature to save each change on the fly. To enable Auto Library Save:

1 Choose QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences ; then click Save in the list on the left to display the Save pane.

2 Check Auto Library Save.

3 Click OK.

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Output

Whether you want to print proof copies for review on a laser printer, or you need final film or plate output on a high-resolution imagesetter or platesetter, QuarkXPress will help you get satisfying results every time.

Printing layouts

In many publishing environments, you can print using a wide variety of output devices, from desktop inkjet printers to office laser printers or even high-end platesetters. The topics below explain printing how to print from QuarkXPress.

Updating picture paths

QuarkXPress uses two types of information for imported pictures: low-resolution and high-resolution. Low-resolution information is used to display picture previews. When you print, high-resolution information contained in the original picture files is accessed using paths to the pictures.

A path to a picture is established when you import a picture. The application keeps information about each picture's path as well as when the picture was last modified.

If a picture is moved or changed after it is imported, the application warns you when you execute the Output command (Print, PDF, EPS or Digital Outputs) or the Collect for

Output command (File menu).

If you keep your pictures in the same folder as the project, you will not have to maintain picture paths. If you keep your pictures in the same folder as the article, you will not have to maintain picture paths. The application can always "find" pictures that are in the same folder as the document, whether or not the picture was in that folder at the time it was imported.

Setting Print dialog box controls

To print a Print layout:

1 Choose File > Print (Command+P/Ctrl+P). The Print dialog box displays.

2 To select a printer driver, choose an option from the Printer drop-down menu.

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• Windows only: Clicking the Properties button opens a dialog box with controls specific to the selected printer driver. For more information about the options in this dialog box or how to install printers, consult the documentation provided with Microsoft Windows software.

3 Specify output options in one of the following ways:

• To use an existing print output style, choose an option from the Print Style drop-down menu.

• To manually configure print options, use the controls in the bottom half of the dialog box. This part of the Print dialog box is divided into panes. To display a pane, click its name in the list on the bottom left. For information, see "

Print dialog box

• To capture the selected print options as a new output style, choose New Print Output

Style from the Print Style drop-down menu.

4 To specify the number of copies you want to print, enter a value in the Copies field.

5 To specify which pages you want to print, enter a value in the Pages field. You can enter ranges of pages, non-sequential pages, or a combination of ranges and non-sequential pages for printing. Use commas and hyphens to define a sequential or non-sequential range of pages. For example, if you have a 20-page layout and you want to print pages 3 through 9, pages 12 through 15, and page 19, then enter 3–9, 12–15, 19 in the Pages field.

6 To specify whether only odd, only even, or all pages should be printed, choose an option from the Page Sequence drop-down menu. All (the default setting) prints all of the related pages. When you choose Odd, only odd-numbered pages print. When you choose Even, only even-numbered pages print.

7 To make your document print smaller or larger, enter a percentage in the Scale field. The default is 100%.

8 If you are printing two or more copies of the layout, and you want each copy to emerge from the printer in sequential order, check Collate. If Collate is unchecked, the application prints multiple copies of each page at a time.

9 To print spreads (horizontally adjoining pages) side by side on the film or paper, check

Spreads.

10 To print a multilane layout in reverse order, check Back to Front. The last page in the layout will print first.

11 Check Fit in Print Area to reduce or enlarge the size of a page in your document to fit the imageable area of the selected media.

12 Mac OS X only: Click the Printer button to open the Printer Driver dialog box. Consult the documentation supplied with your computer for more information.

13 Click Print to print the layout.

14 Click Cancel to close the Print dialog box without saving settings or printing the layout.

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(Windows only) The area at the upper right of the Print dialog box is the page preview area.

You can use this image to preview how the pages will appear on the output device.

(Mac OS X only) The Print dialog has been enhanced to show the actual output.

Print dialog box

The panes in the Print dialog box are described in the topics below.

Device pane

Use the Device pane to control device-specific settings, including PPD selection and page positioning:

• When you specify a PPD, the Paper Size, Width, and Height fields are automatically filled with default information supplied by the PPD. If you choose a PPD for an imagesetter, the

Page Gap and Paper Offset fields also will be available. On Windows you can customize the list of PPDs available in the PPD drop-down menu using the PPD Manager dialog box

( Utilities menu). On Mac OS X you will have to install the PPDs in the MAC HD > Library

> Printers > PPDs folder, and relaunch QuarkXPress. All of the PPDs will now be listed in the PPDs list in the Print dialog. If you do not have the right PPD, choose a similar built-in, generic PPD.

• To specify the media size used by your printer, choose a size from the Paper Size drop-down menu.

• To specify the width and height of custom media supported by your printer, choose Custom from the Paper Size drop-down menu and enter values in the Width and Height fields.

When sending output to a continuous-feed or nondrum imagesetter, use the Automatic setting in the Height field.

• To position your document on the selected output media, choose an option from the

Position drop-down menu.

• The default resolution for the selected PPD is entered automatically in the Resolution field.

• For imagesetters only: Enter a value in the Paper Offset field to specify the distance that the left edge of the page will be offset (or inset) from the left edge of the roll media.

• For imagesetters only: Enter a value in the Page Gap field to specify the amount of space between pages of the layout as the pages print on the roll.

• To print negative page images, check Negative Print.

• To receive printed PostScript error reporting during output, check PostScript Error Handler.

Pages pane

Use the Pages pane to specify page orientation, tiling, page flipping, and related options:

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• To specify whether to print in portrait or landscape mode, click an Orientation radio button ( Portrait or Landscape).

• To include blank pages in the output, check Include Blank Pages.

• To print the multiple pages of the layout in thumbnail view (reduced size), check

Thumbnails.

• To flip the output vertically or horizontally, choose an option from the Page Flip drop-down menu.

To print a large layout in sections (tiles), choose an option from the Page Tiling drop-down menu. The application prints tickmarks and location information on each tile to aid you in reassembling them.

• To control the way in which a page is tiled by positioning the ruler origin, choose Manual.

• To have the application determine the number of tiles needed to print each document page based on the layout size, the media size, whether or not Absolute Overlap is checked, and the value in the Overlap field, choose Automatic. The value entered in the Overlap field is the amount the application will use to extend the page as needed to create the tile.

When Absolute Overlap is checked, the application will use only the value in the Overlap field when extending the page to create the tile. If Absolute Overlap is unchecked, the application will use at least the amount in the Overlap field when creating the tile, but may use a larger amount if necessary. Do not check Absolute Overlap if you want your layout centered on the final assembled tiles.

Pictures pane

Use the Pictures pane to control the way pictures are printed:

• To specify how pictures are printed, choose an option from the Output drop-down menu.

Normal provides high-resolution output of pictures using the data from the pictures' source files. Low Resolution prints pictures at screen preview resolution. Rough suppresses printout of pictures and blends and prints a box with the frame and an "x" in it, much like an empty picture box on screen.

• To select a format for print data, choose an option from the Data drop-down menu.

Although documents print more quickly in Binary format, the ASCII option is more portable because it is a standard format readable by a wider range of printers and print spoolers. The Clean 8-bit option combines ASCII and binary in a versatile and portable file format.

• Check Overprint EPS Black to force all black elements in imported EPS pictures to overprint

(regardless of their overprint settings in the EPS file).

• To print 1-bit TIFFs at full resolution (not to exceed the resolution specified in the Device list item), check Full Resolution TIFF Output. If Full Resolution TIFF Output is unchecked, images greater than 1-bit will be subsampled to twice the lines per inch (lpi) setting.

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Fonts pane

Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are included in output. Note that many of the options in this pane are available only when printing to a PostScript output device.

• To read the list of downloaded fonts from the printer's PPD file, check Use PPD Font

Settings. Fonts listed in the PPD file are not downloaded. Checking this box disables many of the other controls in this tab.

• If you are printing to a PostScript level 3 or later output device, or to a device that uses

PostScript 2 version 2015 or later, check Optimize Font Formats.

• To download all fonts used in the layout , check Download Layout Fonts. To control which fonts are downloaded, uncheck Download Layout Fonts and then check Download for each font you want to download. You can control which fonts are listed by choosing an option from the Show drop-down menu.

• To download all fonts that are required by imported PDF and EPS files, check Download

Imported PDF/EPS Fonts.

• To retrieve a list of the fonts included on the active printer, click Scan Printer. Note that this process can take a long time; you may want to check Use PPD Font Settings, and use your printer manufacturer's PPD file.

Color pane

Use the Color pane to control color output.

• To print all colors on one page, choose Composite from the Mode drop-down menu. To print to a device that handles in-RIP separations, choose Separations from the Mode drop-down menu. For more information about composite output, see "

Printing color composites ." For more information about separations, see "

Printing color separations

• To specify an output setup for the output device, choose an option from the Setup drop-down menu. For more information about color management, see "

Source setups and output setups

• To specify default halftone shape and frequency, use the Halftones and Frequency drop-down menus. The Printer option on the Halftones drop-down menu lets the output device determine all halftone settings.

Registration Marks pane

Use the Registration Marks pane to include crop marks, registration marks, and bleed marks in the output. Crop marks are short vertical and horizontal lines printed outside the page's final trim size, indicating where to cut the page. Registration marks are symbols that are used to align overlaying plates. Bleed marks indicate where page bleeds end.

• To include crop marks and registration marks on every page, choose Centered or Off

Center from the Mode drop-down menu.

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• When you choose Centered or Off Center, the Width, Length, and Offset fields are available. Values in the Width and Length fields specify the width and length of the crop marks. Values in the Offset field specify the distance of the crop marks from the page edge.

• To include marks indicating bleed location, select the Include Bleed Marks option.

Layers pane

Use the Layers pane to specify which layers to output and which layers to suppress.

Print and PDF Outputdialog box only: To apply the settings in the Layers pane to the layout, check Apply to Layout.

Bleed pane

Use the Bleed pane to allow items to bleed (extend beyond the page edges) at printout.

Bleed settings apply to every page in the layout.

To create a bleed by defining how far the bleed extends from the layout page edges, choose

Symmetric or Asymmetric from the Bleed Type drop-down menu.

• To create a bleed that extends the same distance from each page edge, choose Symmetric and enter a value in the Amount field to specify the bleed's distances.

• To create a bleed with different distances from each page edge, choose Asymmetric and enter values in the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right fields to specify the bleed distances.

• Print and PDF output only: To extend the bleed to encompass all page items that extend beyond the page boundary, choose Page Items.

• Print and PDF output only: To define whether items that bleed are cut off at the bleed edge or allowed to print in their entirety, check Clip at Bleed Edge.

The Bleed pane is available only if Custom Bleeds XTensions software is installed.

Transparency pane

Use the Transparency pane to specify how transparency is handled at export.

• The Vector Images control lets you specify a resolution for rasterizing pictures that include vector data when they occur in a transparency relationship. It's generally a good idea to keep this value high because vector images typically include sharp lines that will look jagged at lower resolutions.

• The Blends control lets you specify a resolution for blends when they occur in a transparency relationship. Blends can typically be rasterized at a relatively low resolution because they do not contain sharp edges.

• The Drop Shadows control lets you specify a resolution for rasterizing drop shadows. This value can be relatively low, unless you create drop shadows with a Blur of zero.

Choosing a lower resolution value for one or more of these fields can reduce the time required for flattening and can save processing time when you send the layout to output.

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Rotated or skewed items that participate in a transparency relationship must be rasterized before they are sent to the RIP. Because rotate and skew operations tend to degrade the quality of an image if they are performed at low resolutions, QuarkXPress can upsample such items prior to rotating or skewing them, thus minimizing image degradation. Check

Upsample Rotations if you want to manually set the upsampled resolution for rotated or skewed items and images that are involved in a transparency relationship. If you're using low-resolution values, and a rotated or skewed item appears blocky or degraded, check this box and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value should be at least equal to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images, Blends, and Drop Shadows fields.

The dpi for images less than field lets you specify a value above which rotated or skewed items are not upsampled. The purpose of this field is to prevent rotated or skewed items that are near the Upsample Rotations To value from being needlessly upsampled. In general, set this value to about 100dpi less than the Upsample Rotations To value.

To print items without taking their opacity values into account, check Ignore Transparency

Flattening. All items are treated as 100% opaque, regardless of the opacity value applied, and drop shadows and picture masks are ignored. This option can be useful for troubleshooting transparency-related output issues.

To control the resolution of the flattened transparency in imported PDF and Adobe

Illustrator files, enter a value in the Flattening Resolution field.

The flattener rasterizes an area only if that area includes a raster element such as a drop shadow, a blend, a semiopaque picture, or a picture masked with an alpha channel. The flattener does not rasterize areas of solid color (regardless of whether they are the result of semiopaque layering) unless such areas are overlapped by a raster element.

JDF pane

Use the JDF pane to specify whether to save a JDF file from the project's Job Jackets structure. When you check Output JDF, the Include Job Jacket Contact drop-down list becomes available; choose a contact from among the Contact Resources in the project's

Job Jacket structure.

Advanced pane

In the Advanced pane, you can specify the PostScript level of the output device.

Summary pane

The Summary pane displays a summary of the settings in the other panes.

Page preview area

On Windows, the Print dialog box (File menu) for Print layouts provides a graphical depiction of the output page called the page preview area. The page preview area does not display the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; rather, it represents the shape and orientation of the pages in relation to the target media.

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On Mac OS X, the page preview area has been enhanced. The page preview area will display the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; it represents the actual page.

• The blue rectangle represents the layout page.

• The green rectangle represents the imageable area for the selected media.

• A black rectangle represents the media area when a sheet-fed device is chosen in the PPD drop-down menu ( Device pane).

• A gray area surrounding the layout represents bleeds when a bleed setting is chosen using the Custom Bleeds XTensions software ( Bleed pane).

• If the page size, including crop marks and/or bleed, is greater than the imageable area of the print media, a red area indicates portions of the layout that are outside the imageable area and will therefore be clipped. If Automatic tiling is enabled in the Pages pane, the red area does not display.

• An R will display for the Negative Print. Pages will rotate as per the orientation and the paper size.

• The arrow to the left of the graphic preview indicates the film or page feed direction.

• To the left of the graphic preview are two smaller icons. The cut-sheet icon indicates that you have selected a cut-sheet output device from the PPD drop-down menu (Device pane), whereas a roll-fed icon indicates that you have selected a roll-fed output device from the

PPD drop-down menu. The question mark is a drop-down button that displays a legend of the colors used in the page preview area.

• If registration marks are turned on ( Registration Marks pane), they are also displayed in the page preview area.

• If Thumbnails is checked (Pages pane), a preview with thumbnails displays.

Printing color separations

To print color separations:

1 Display the Color pane of the Print dialog box (File menu).

2 Choose Separation from the Mode drop-down menu.

3 Choose an option from the Setup drop-down list:

• The In-RIP Separations option prints all process and spot color plates and the output is in the composite format. However, the PostScript file to be printed contains separations information. The In-RIP Separations option must be selected only if you are using a

PostScript level 3 device. Note also that the Setup drop-down menu also contains all separations-based output setups listed in the Default Output Setups dialog box (Edit >

Output Setups).

4 Choose an option from the Halftones drop-down menu:

• To use the halftone settings you specify, choose Conventional.

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• To use the halftone settings built into the RIP, choose Printer. Choosing this option disables the halftone controls in this pane.

5 To specify a line frequency other than the default value, enter a lines per inch (lpi) value in the Frequency field, or choose an option from the Frequency drop-down menu.

6 The list at the bottom of the Color pane displays the plates used in the layout, as well as the default Halftone, Frequency, Angle, and Function settings. Generally, the default settings in the plate list give you correct printing results. However, you may need to adjust these settings for your particular circumstances. A dash in a column indicates that the column entry is not editable.

• The Plate column lists spot colors and process inks in the document when you choose

Separations from the Mode drop-down menu. The Setup drop-down menu at the top of the Color pane specifies which layout plates are listed.

• The Halftone drop-down menu lets you assign a different screen angle to a spot color.

The default screen values for spot colors are specified in the Halftone drop-down menu in the Edit Colors dialog box (Edit > Colors > New).

• The Frequency column lists the line screen frequency value. This is the lines per inch (lpi) value that will be applied to each of the color plates. If you do not want to use the default value for a plate, choose Other from the Frequency drop-down menu to display the

Frequency/Other dialog box.

• The Angle column lists the screen angle for each color plate. If you do not want to use the default value, choose Other from the Angle drop-down menu to display the

Angle/Other dialog box.

• To specify alternate dot shapes in printed screens, choose an option from the Function column drop-down menu.

Printing color composites

To print composite color output (as opposed to color separations):

1 Display the Color pane of the Print dialog box (File menu).

2 Choose Composite from the Mode drop-down menu.

3 Choose an option from the Setup drop-down list:

• Grayscale

• Grayscale 100K

• Composite RGB

• Composite CMYK

• Composite CMYK and Spot (prints with composite PostScript, for a device that supports

In-RIP separations)

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• As Is (describes color items using their source color space, for output to a PostScript composite color device)

The Setup drop-down menu also contains all output styles listed in the Default Output

Styles dialog box (Edit > Output Styles).

4 Choose Conventional or Printer from the Halftones drop-down menu. The Conventional option uses QuarkXPress calculated halftone screen values. The Printer option uses halftone screen values provided by the selected printer; in this case, QuarkXPress does not send halftoning information.

5 To specify a line frequency other than the default value, enter a lines per inch (lpi) value in the Frequency field, or choose an option from the Frequency drop-down menu.

OUTPUT

Exporting layouts

Through Export, Print, and other commands, you can output files in the following formats:

• PostScript (PS)

• Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

• Portable Document Format (PDF), with or without PDF/X verification

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

• Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)

• Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

• Extensible Stylesheet Language Translator (XSLT)

• ePub (for more information, see "

Exporting for ePub

• Kindle (for more information, see "

Exporting for Kindle

• Blio eBook (for more information, see " Exporting for Blio eReader ")

To access export options, choose File > Export or click the Export button .

Your active layout type determines your QuarkXPress export options. For example, when a Print layout is displayed, the command for exporting a Web layout in HTML format

( File > Export > HTML) is unavailable.

Exporting a layout in EPS format

When you export a layout page as an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file, you can specify a file name and location and set multiple EPS export parameters (through custom controls or an EPS output style). To use the basic EPS export controls:

1 Choose File > Export > Page as EPS. The Page as EPS dialog box displays.

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2 Enter a page range in the Page field.

3 To use an existing output style, choose an option from the EPS Style drop-down menu.

4 To modify output settings, click Options. Use the panes in the resulting dialog box to control the format of the exported file.

• To use an EPS output style, choose an option from the EPS Style drop-down menu. To create an EPS output style using the current settings, choose New EPS Output Style.

• Use the General pane to specify the scale of the EPS file, the format of the EPS file's preview, the format of the data (ASCII, Binary or Clean 8 Bit), whether to treat the page's white areas as transparent or opaque in the EPS file, and whether to output the EPS file as a spread.

• Use the Color pane to choose an output setup for the EPS file and to select which plates should be included in the output.

• Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are embedded within the exported EPS file.

• Use the Registration Marks pane to specify the positioning, width, and length of registration marks in the EPS file.

• Use the Bleed pane to designate a symmetric or asymmetric bleed type and specify bleed distance around the EPS file.

• Use the Transparency pane to turn transparency on or off, and to control the resolution of flattened items in the EPS file.

• Use the JDF pane to indicate whether a Job Definition Format (JDF) file should be created at the same time as the EPS file. You might choose to do this if you're using Job Jackets in a JDF workflow.

• Use the Advanced pane to choose whether the EPS adheres to PostScript Level 2 or

PostScript Level 3.

• The Summary pane will display a summary of all the choices you have made in the previous panes.

5 Click OK. (To capture the current settings without creating an EPS file, click Capture

Settings.)

6 Click Save.

Exporting a layout in PDF format

To export the active layout in PDF format:

1 Choose File > Export > Layout as PDF. The Export as PDF dialog box displays.

2 Enter a page range in the Pages field.

3 To use an existing output style, choose an option from the PDF Style drop-down menu.

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4 To modify output settings, click Options. Use the panes in the resulting dialog box to control the format of the exported file.

• To use a PDF output style, choose an option from the PDF Style drop-down menu. To create a PDF output style using the current settings, choose New PDF Output Style.

• To use PDF/X verification, choose an option from the Verification drop-down menu.

Available options include PDF/X 1a and PDF/X 3. Note that PDF/X 1a verification permits only CMYK and spot colors, while PDF/X 3 verification allows you to include colors and pictures that use other color spaces, along with ICC color profiles (which are defined in the source and output setups for color management).

• Use the Color pane to specify whether to create composite output or separations, to choose an output setup for the PDF file, and to select which plates should be included in the output.

• Use the Compression pane to specify compression options for different image types in the PDF file.

• Use the Pages pane to specify whether to export spreads, whether to export each page as a separate PDF file, whether to include blank pages, and whether to embed a thumbnail of the PDF file.

• Use the Registration Marks pane to specify the positioning, width, and length of registration marks in the PDF file.

• Use the Hyperlink pane to specify how links and lists from the layout export and how hyperlinks should appear in the PDF. You can also use this pane to specify the default zoom of the PDF file.

• Use the Meta Data pane to provide the details that display in the Description tab of the

Document Properties dialog box in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are embedded within the exported PDF file.

• Use the Bleed pane to specify how bleeds are handled in the PDF file.

• Use the Layers pane to specify which layers to include in the PDF file, and to create PDF layers from the layers in the QuarkXPress layout.

• Use the Transparency pane to control how transparent items are flattened. To disable flattening and maintain transparency relationships in the exported PDF, click Export

Transparency Natively. To output items without taking their opacity values into account, click Ignore Transparency. To turn on flattening, click Flatten Transparency.

When flattening is turned on, you can specify a resolution for rasterizing pictures that include vector data in a transparency relationship. To do so, click the Vector Images drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. This control applies only when flattening is turned on.

To specify a resolution for blends (regardless of whether flattening is turned on), click the

Blends drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. To specify a resolution for rasterizing drop shadows (regardless of whether flattening is turned on), click the Drop

Shadows drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value.

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To specify resolution for rotated and skewed objects when flattening is turned on, check

Upsample Rotations and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value should be at least equal to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images, Blends, and Drop

Shadows fields.

To control the resolution of flattened transparency in imported PDF and Adobe Illustrator files, enter a value in the Flattening Resolution field.

Export Transparency Natively is unavailable if you choose PDF/X–1a: 2001 or PDF/X–3:

2002 from the Verification drop-down menu. This feature is also unavailable if you choose

Separations from the Mode drop-down menu in the Color pane.

• Use the JDF pane to indicate whether a Job Definition Format (JDF) file should be created at the same time as the PDF file. You might choose to do this if you're using Job Jackets in a JDF workflow.

• Use the Summary pane to view a summary of the selected PDF export options.

5 Click OK. (To capture the current settings without creating a PDF file, click Capture

Settings.)

6 Click Save.

If you are using a third-party distiller program and you want to create a PostScript file, change your settings in the PDF pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit

menu). For more information, see " Preferences — Application — PDF ."

Creating a PostScript file

To create a PostScript file from a layout, display the PDF pane of the Preferences dialog box ( QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) and check Create PostScript File for Later

Distilling. When you choose File > Export > Layouts as PDF, QuarkXPress generates a

PostScript file with the name and location you specify rather than creating a PDF file.

Using Collect for Output

To use the Collect for Output feature:

1 Display the Fonts pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu) to confirm that all fonts are available. Then check the Pictures pane of the Usage dialog box to confirm that all imported pictures are linked to the document and display a status of OK.

2 Choose File > Collect for Output. The Collect for Output dialog box displays.

3 Display the Collect for Output tab. When you use this feature, a report is generated automatically. To generate only this report, check Report Only in the Collect for Output tab. If you uncheck this box, you can check one or more of the following boxes:

• The Layout option copies the project file to the specified target folder.

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• The Linked Pictures option copies imported picture files that must remain linked to the document for high-resolution output. When QuarkXPress collects pictures with the document, the path to each collected picture is updated to reflect the new file locations in the "Pictures" folder within the target folder.

• The Color Profiles option copies any International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles associated with the document or imported pictures.

• Mac OS X only: The Screen Fonts option copies any screen fonts required for displaying the document.

• Mac OS X only: The Printer Fonts option copies any printer fonts required for printing the document.

• Windows only: The Fonts option copies any fonts required for printing the document.

On Mac OS X, TrueType fonts function as both screen fonts and printer fonts. If your document uses only TrueType fonts, QuarkXPress will collect them either when you check

Screen Fonts or when you check Printer Fonts. If your document uses a combination of

TrueType and Type 1 fonts, or uses only Type 1 fonts, check both Screen Fonts and Printer

Fonts to be sure the Type 1 fonts are collected completely.

4 Click Save.

When you choose to collect fonts, QuarkXPress will also collect fonts within imported EPS files, if those fonts are active on your computer.

The Collect for Output feature is not designed for use with layouts that have been customized for export in the App Studio issue formats. You can use this feature with such layouts, but it will not collect all of the assets used in App Studio interactivity, and it will not collect every layout in a layout family.

OUTPUT

Working with output styles

Output styles let you capture settings for output in print, PDF, ePub, Kindle, and EPS formats. You can use output styles when using the File > Print, File > Export > Layout

as PDF, File > Export > Layouts as Project, File > Export > Page as EPS, File > Export >

Reflow as ePub, and File > Export > Reflow as Kindle commands. QuarkXPress includes default settings for all output options, which can serve as a basis for you to customize according to need. Or, you can create output styles from scratch.

To create an output style:

1 Choose Edit > Output Styles. The Output Styles dialog box displays.

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Use the Output Styles dialog box to create, import, export, edit, and remove output styles.

2 Choose an option from the New drop-down menu.

3 Enter a name for your style in the Name field.

4 Specify settings in the panes. For information about EPS options, see "

Exporting a layout in

EPS format

." For information about PDF options, see "

Exporting a layout in PDF format ." For

more information about ePub options, see " Exporting for ePub

." For more information about

Kindle options, see " Exporting for Kindle

5 Click OK.

6 Click Save.

Working with trapping

Overprints and knockout controls are available in the Colors palette.

Understanding flattening and production issues

Flattening is the process of simulating transparency by altering page elements to produce the intended design. Flattening occurs only in the print stream — as items are fed to the print engine — so your QuarkXPress layouts are never actually modified. In QuarkXPress, flattening works as follows.

First, boxes are decomposed, transparent elements are identified, and relationships between discrete shapes (including text outlines) are deconstructed. Regions that do not have to

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be rasterized are filled with a new color that is created by merging existing colors. (None and 0% opacity areas do not need to be flattened except when used for blends and pictures.)

Regions that need to be rasterized result in clipping paths. (Semi-opaque pictures, drop shadows, semi-opaque blends, and semi-opaque items that overlap page elements must be rasterized.)

The settings in the Transparency pane of the Print dialog box (File menu) control the output resolution of page elements that are rasterized due to transparency effects or drop shadows. For more information, see "

Transparency pane ."

In general, when working with transparency relationships, trapping is not necessary.

When exporting a PDF, you can choose whether to flatten items that are in transparency relationships or to use native PDF transparency. If you export a PDF with native PDF transparency, vector graphics in transparency relationships remain in vector format. This can result in faster output and make color management easier.

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Collaboration and single-sourcing

You can use the synchronization feature to easily package the same information for distribution in multiple formats and through multiple channels. In addition to customizing designs according to medium — print and digital — you can also create projects that contain multiple layout sizes. Best of all, you can streamline your work by automatically synchronizing your content between layouts of any type.

Working with shared content

If you've ever worked on a project where the same content needs to be maintained identically in multiple places, you know there is a certain degree of risk involved. What if the print version of a document is updated, but the Web version is not? To address this problem, QuarkXPress includes the shared content feature. This feature lets you link content that is used in different places within a project file. If one copy of the content changes, the other copies are immediately and automatically updated to reflect those changes.

For most synchronized items, QuarkXPress maintains a master version in an invisible part of the project file called the shared content library. When you make a change to any synchronized item in a layout, that change is written to the master version in the shared content library, and then QuarkXPress automatically updates all synchronized copies of that item in the project to reflect the change. So if you update item A, item B gets updated automatically via the master item in the shared content library — and if you update item

B, item A is updated the same way.

The shared content library can hold pictures, boxes, lines, formatted and unformatted text, chains of text boxes, groups, and Composition Zones. When you add something to the shared content library, you can control which aspects of that content or item should be synchronized (kept the same in every instance) and which aspects should not be synchronized.

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The shared content library contains text, pictures, lines, Composition Zones, and items that can be used in different layouts within a project. When you change any instance of a shared content library item in a layout, all instances in all layouts are automatically updated because they are all linked to the master version in the shared content library.

Items in the shared content library are displayed in the Content palette. From this palette, you can duplicate and synchronize that content across different layouts, as illustrated below.

The Content palette provides access to items in the shared content library. Here, "Print Layout

1" uses "Top Story Picture Box" and the picture within it, but "Web Layout" uses only the picture itself (in a larger picture box). If the picture changes in either layout, both layouts are updated automatically.

For information about including different types of layouts in a single project, see " Projects and layouts ."

Sharing and synchronizing content

To share and synchronize boxes, lines, groups, and content:

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1 Display the Content palette (Window menu).

2 Select the items you want to synchronize.

3 Click Add Item in the Content palette. If one item is selected, the Shared Item

Properties dialog box displays. If multiple objects are selected, the Share Multiple Items dialog box displays.

Use the Shared Item Properties dialog box to share and synchronize individual items.

Use the Share Multiple Items dialog box to share and synchronize multiple items.

If Automatically show selected items in the layout is checked, you can navigate to an item by clicking its name in the list.

Only the attributes of shared lines can be synchronized.

4 To share the characteristics of a selected item, check Synchronize Box Attributes for that item.

5 To share the text or picture in a selected item, check Synchronize Content for that box.

To share both the text or picture and its formatting, click or choose Content and Attributes.

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To share only the text or picture, click or choose

Content Only. See " Understanding synchronization options " for box and content options.

6 Click OK to add the selected items to the Content palette.

The Content palette provides access to the items and content in the shared content library.

Understanding synchronization options

When you add items and content to the Content palette, you can choose various synchronization options in the Shared Item Properties dialog box.

• To synchronize the content of the selected text box, text path, or picture box without synchronizing the box or path itself, uncheck Synchronize Box Attributes and check

Synchronize Content. Text synchronized in this way must be dragged into a text box or path, and pictures synchronized in this way must be dragged into a picture box.

• You can synchronize the text or picture and its content attributes (such as, formatting for text and scaling, rotation, and effects for pictures) by clicking or choosing Content and

Attributes.

• You can synchronize the text or picture while allowing unique content attribute edits by clicking or choosing Content Only. If you do this, the text or picture can be formatted differently in different parts of the project. But if you edit the text or update the picture in one place, that change is made everywhere.

• To synchronize a text box, text path, or picture box and its attributes without synchronizing its contents, check Synchronize Box Attributes and uncheck Synchronize Content. For example, assume you do this with a text or picture box, and then drag out two copies of the box. If you then resize and add a frame to one of the boxes, the other box is automatically resized and acquires the same frame. You may, however, import different content into each box.

To synchronize item attributes, content, and content attributes, check Synchronize Box

Attributes and Synchronize Content, and click or choose Content and Attributes. If you

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synchronize two boxes this way, any change made to one is automatically made to the other, including changes to box size, contents, and formatting.

Placing a synchronized item

To place a synchronized item or group:

1 Select the target entry in the Content palette.

2 Drag the Content palette entry onto the page.

Placing synchronized content

To place synchronized content:

1 Select a text box, text path, or picture box.

2 Select the text or picture content entry in the Content palette and click Insert. Note how the item's resizing handles change to synchronization symbols. You can also drag the text or picture entry from the Content palette to an active text box, text path, or picture box.

You can also drag the text or picture entry from the Content palette to an active text box, text path, or picture box.

Importing content into the shared content library

In addition to importing text or pictures into text or picture boxes, you can use two methods to import content directly into the Content palette.

To import content using the Collaboration Setup dialog box:

1 With a project active, choose File > Collaboration Setup. Shared content displays in the

Content tab of the Collaboration Setup dialog box and in the Content palette.

Content tab of the Collaboration Setup dialog box

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2 Click Import Text to display the Import Text dialog box. Select a text file and click Open.

Use the controls in the Shared Item Properties dialog box to specify how content and attributes are shared.

3 Click Import Picture to display the Import Picture dialog box. Select a picture file and click Open. Use the controls in the Shared Item Properties dialog box to specify how content and attributes are shared.

You can also import content using the Content palette's Import button . However, this button is available only when you select a text content icon or picture content icon

in the Content palette. Note that text imported this way becomes embedded in the project file; no link to the source text file is maintained. Pictures imported this way, however, can be viewed and updated in the Pictures pane of the Usage dialog box.

Working with Composition Zones

The following topics show how Composition Zones can streamline existing workflows by allowing team members to work on the same QuarkXPress project at the same time.

Understanding Composition Zones

A Composition Zones item is a layout or user-defined area within a layout that can be shared with other QuarkXPress users.

To work with Composition Zones in QuarkXPress, you must have Composition Zones

XTensions software loaded.

Imagine a layout artist in charge of the QuarkXPress project files for a magazine. The layout artist can use Composition Zones to share content with writers, editors, graphic artists, and remote contributors who also use QuarkXPress.

Using QuarkXPress, the layout artist can "draw out" the area of the project for an ad using the Composition Zones tool and then export that Composition Zones item as a separate file. The resulting file includes the correct specs, and this approach saves steps when the remote ad creator receives the file. The ad creator works in QuarkXPress to add the content and then returns the file — along with necessary graphics and fonts — to the layout artist.

The layout artist then places the updated file in the proper folder, and the layout is updated automatically to show the ad. And because the Composition Zones item works just like a

QuarkXPress layout, the layout artist can open the file to make changes.

Meanwhile, the layout artist can designate another Composition Zones item for an article on the same page as the ad. The layout artist draws three boxes: One for the headline, one for the body of the article, and one for a picture. Using the Shift key to select all three boxes, the layout artist creates a new Composition Zones file from those three boxes, exports that file, and then notifies the writer that the file is available in the staff's shared network folder. As the writer works with the file and saves each updated version, the

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updates display in the layout artist's project. And like the advertisement, the article can be edited later in the project.

Top: The main layout artist exports parts of a project as Composition Zones, and then sends one file through e-mail to a remote ad designer and puts another file on a local networked server. Middle: The main layout artist, the reporter, and the ad designer all work on their parts of the page simultaneously. Bottom: The ad designer sends the completed ad to the main layout artist in an e-mail message, the page updates automatically, and the layout is done.

The scenario above shows the primary uses for Composition Zones, but the feature can accommodate other collaborative workflow issues as well. For example, Composition Zones can be restricted to the project where they are defined, which you might want to do for a number of reasons. Perhaps the layout artist wants to use an ad in more than one place in the project, and the ad might include multiple text and picture boxes. You cannot use the Content palette to synchronize a group of items, but if the layout artist creates a

Composition Zones item based on a selection of multiple items, that Composition Zones item becomes synchronized and available for use throughout the project. Maybe the layout artist designates one layout for the printed magazine and another layout in the same project for a Web page that includes the ad. The layout artist can restrict the use of this

Composition Zones item to this single project, but the ad can match exactly in print and on the Web.

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Composition Zones terminology

Composition Zones are unique because they have the characteristics of items when you place them in a layout, but they behave like layouts when you edit their contents.

• Composition Zones item: An item that shows the contents of a layout that exists elsewhere.

You can think of a Composition Zones item as a "window" through which you can see the contents of a different layout. The layout shown in a Composition Zones item is called its

composition layout (see next definition). Each Composition Zones item gets its content from one (and only one) composition layout.

• Composition layout: A special kind of layout that is used only to provide contents for a

Composition Zones item. You can think of a composition layout as the layout that is visible through the "window" of a Composition Zones item. Multiple synchronized

Composition Zones items can display the contents of a single composition layout. However, a composition layout can be edited by only one person at a time.

When you create a Composition Zones item, QuarkXPress automatically creates a composition layout to provide content for that Composition Zones item.

When you add content to a composition layout, it automatically updates any corresponding

Composition Zones items. The updates display in the Composition Zones items according to the preferences that are set for the layouts that contain the Composition Zones items

(immediately, at print time, or when opening the project).

• Original Composition Zones item: The initial layout or user-defined area from which a

Composition Zones item was created.

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• Placed Composition Zones item: A Composition Zones item that you have positioned in a layout using the Content palette.

• Original host layout: The layout where a Composition Zones item was created.

• Host layout: Any layout into which a Composition Zones item has been placed.

Creating a Composition Zones item

You can use three methods to create a Composition Zones item (and its corresponding composition layout):

• You can select multiple objects and then choose Item > Composition Zones > Create.

• You can designate an entire layout as a Composition Zones item.

• You can select the Composition Zones tool and manually outline the space for your

Composition Zones item.

The following topics show all three methods for creating a Composition Zones item, in this case for exclusive use within one project (that is, a single-project composition layout).

Creating a Composition Zones item from a selection of multiple items

To create a Composition Zones item based on a selection of multiple items:

1 Select the Item tool or a Content tool one item.

, press the Shift key, and select more than

2 Choose Item > Composition Zones > Create. A box that equals the size of the bounds of the group replaces the group.

3 To finish creating the Composition Zones item, choose Item > Share, or display the

Content palette (Window menu) and click Add Item. Either way, the Shared Item

Properties dialog box displays.

Use the Shared Item Properties dialog box to name your composition layout and designate availability.

4 Enter a name for the composition layout in the Name field.

5 Choose This Project Only from the Availability drop-down menu.

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6 Check Show Tab in Project Window to provide access to the composition layout from the layout tab at the bottom of the project window.

7 Click OK to save the composition layout.

If the position of one or more selected items is locked ( Item > Lock > Position), then you cannot create a Composition Zones item.

Creating a Composition Zones item from a layout

To create a Composition Zones item based on an entire layout:

1 Display the layout you'd like to designate as a Composition Zones item (for example,

"Layout 1").

2 Choose Layout > Advanced Layout Properties.

3 Check Share Layout.

Use the Advanced Layout Properties dialog box to specify sharing for a composition layout that is based on an entire layout.

4 Choose This Project Only from the Availability drop-down menu.

5 Check Show Tab in Project Window to display the composition layout for easy access from the layout tab at the bottom of the project window. If you uncheck Show Tab in

Project Window, you can access the composition layout by selecting the

Composition Zones item and choosing Item > Composition Zones > Edit.

6 Click OK. The composition layout displays in the Content palette.

A composition layout may contain multiple pages. You can use the Page menu or the Page

Layout palette to add, delete, or move pages.

Creating a Composition Zones item with the Composition Zones tool

To manually define a Composition Zones item:

1 Select the Composition Zones tool in the Tools palette.

2 Drag to draw the Composition Zones item.

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3 To finish creating the Composition Zones item, choose Item > Share, or display the

Content palette (Window menu) and click Add Item . Either way, the Shared Item

Properties dialog box displays.

Use the Shared Item Properties dialog box to name your composition layout, designate availability, and specify whether a tab displays at the bottom of the project window.

4 Enter a name for the composition layout in the Name field.

5 Choose This Project Only from the Availability drop-down menu.

6 Click OK. The composition layout displays in the Content palette.

Placing a Composition Zones item

After you add a composition layout to the Content palette, you can place a

Composition Zones item based on that composition layout onto a page. To place a

Composition Zones item:

1 Display the Content palette (Window menu).

The Content palette lists composition layouts as well as other shared content.

2 Select the composition layout you want to place.

3 Drag the composition layout from the Content palette to the layout.

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Managing multiple pages in a placed Composition Zones item

A composition layout may contain multiple pages. However, a Composition Zones item based on that composition layout can show only one page at a time. To indicate which page to show in a Composition Zones item:

1 Select the Composition Zones item.

2 Choose Item > Modify, and click the Layout tab.

3 Choose a page from the Page drop-down menu.

Use the Page drop-down menu in the Layout tab of the Modify dialog box to display a specific page of a composition layout in your placed Composition Zones item.

4 Click OK.

Editing the attributes of a Composition Zones item

To edit the attributes of a Composition Zones item:

1 Select a Composition Zones item.

2 Choose Item > Modify.

3 Use the Box tab of the Modify dialog box to specify positioning, size, alignment, color, opacity, and printing ability.

4 Use the Frame, Runaround, and Drop Shadow tabs to make other structural adjustments.

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5 Use the Layout tab to navigate between pages, suppress or enable printing, and adjust layout opacity.

Converting a Composition Zones item to a picture

To create an external picture file from a Composition Zones item, choose Item >

Composition Zones > Convert to Picture. This creates a picture appropriate for the layout type within which the Compositions Zones was created.

Before you convert a Composition Zones item to a picture, the Composition Zones item displays in the Composition Zones pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu). But when you choose Item > Composition Zones > Convert to Picture, an alert indicates that the Composition Zones item will become unsynchronized. The resulting picture displays in the Picture pane of the Usage dialog box. However, the composition layout remains in the Content palette.

Unsynchronizing a Composition Zones item

When you unsynchronize a Composition Zones item, its composition layout remains available in your project. To unsynchronize a Composition Zones item:

1 Select the Composition Zones item in the layout window.

2 Choose Item > Unsynchronize. The composition layout remains in the Content palette and in the Shared Layouts tab of the Collaboration Setup dialog box for future use. But subsequent changes to the unsynchronized Composition Zones items in the layout window will not be synchronized.

Editing a composition layout: Content

When you edit a composition layout, you can change content and adjust layout-level attributes.

To edit the contents of a composition layout:

1 Click the layout name in the layout tab at the bottom of the project window (available if

Show Tab in Project Window is checked). If the composition layout name does not display in the layout tab, select the Item tool and double-click the Compositions Zones item.

2 When the composition layout displays, all the composition layout contents are available for editing. You can use menu and palette commands to alter text, graphics, and items, and you can use tools to add content.

3 Closing the window updates the content in the Composition Zones item.

Editing the contents of a composition layout

Your method for accessing a composition layout for editing is determined by your Show

Tab in Project Window setting in the Advanced Layout Properties dialog box. When you check Show Tab in Project Window, you can access the composition layout from

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the layout tab at the top of the project window. Simply click the tab to activate the composition layout for editing content and layout attributes.

If you don't check Show Tab in Project Window, you have to select the Item tool and double click the original Composition Zones item. The composition layout displays.

For a composition layout created from an entire layout, check Show Tab in Project

Window in the Advanced Layout Properties dialog box so you can access the layout easily. Otherwise, you have to select the composition layout in the Content palette, click

Edit, and then check Show Tab in Project Window.

Unsynchronizing a composition layout

When you unsynchronize a composition layout, QuarkXPress breaks the link between that composition layout and all existing Composition Zones items based on that composition layout. To unsynchronize all instances of a Composition Zones items in a project, select the composition layout in the Content palette, and click the Unsynchronize

All button . However, if you subsequently change the composition layout and place a new Composition Zones item based on it, the new Composition Zones item will reflect the change.

Deleting a composition layout

To delete a composition layout:

1 Display the Content palette.

2 Select the composition layout in the palette and click Delete .

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eBooks

You can create eBooks in two formats:

• ePub eBooks, for eReaders such as the iPad®, Sony® Reader, and NOOK®

• Kindle eBooks, for Amazon® Kindle® eReaders

The process of creating ePub eBooks and Kindle eBooks is very similar. The main difference is that there are some features available in each format that may not be available in the others. These differences are described in the topics below.

For information on how to publish an eBook, see A Guide to Digital Publishing with

QuarkXPress.

Working with Reflow view

The ePub and Kindle ebook formats offer a text reflow view, which lets end users view content in a full-screen format with resizable text. This view is designed to let end users view content without being constrained or distracted by the layout.

If you want to take advantage of this feature, you must create at least one reflow article in

QuarkXPress. If you find it useful for organization, you can create one article for each chapter or section, but this is not necessary.

A reflow article is simply a copy of the content that makes up a particular chapter or section. Reflow articles are necessary for two reasons:

• Because the content in a typical QuarkXPress layout is not suitable for presentation in text reflow view without a bit of modification. For example, a layout may contain Indent Here characters, manual line breaks, or All Caps styling — all of which can result in odd display in text reflow view. As a layout artist, you must adjust the content in each reflow article to ensure the best reading experience for your end users.

• Because you need a way to apply semantic tags (such as Title, Headline, and Body) to the text. The e-reader uses these tags to determine how to display the text.

Reflow view presents content somewhat like a word processor does. There is only one font, and only a few formatting options. Each reflow article is broken down into components,

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each of which corresponds to a story or picture in the layout. You can change the order of components within a reflow article to make it match the desired reading order.

There are two ways to create a reflow article:

• By choosing eBook (ePub, Kindle) from the Layout Type drop-down menu when you create a new project.

• By tagging and adding content from a Print layout.

If, when you create a new project, you choose eBook (ePub, Kindle) from the Layout

Type drop-down menu, QuarkXPress creates a project with a single Print layout with a full-page picture box and a single reflow article with a default text component. You should use the first page of the Print layout to create the cover for the ePub or Kindle eBook, and use the reflow article to create its content. (Any pages you add after page 1 of the Print layout are not used when you export the layout as an ePub eBook.) When you convert a

Print layout as ePub or Kindle eBook, QuarkXPress will always export the first page of the

Print layout as an image and use it as a cover of your eBook.

If you choose to create a reflow article from a Print layout, the process is shown in the following diagrams:

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Step 1: Create the layout.

Step 2: Identify chapters or sections, and identify what parts of the layout you don't want to include in text reflow view at all.

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Step 3: Create reflow articles from each chapter and section, customize them for text reflow view, and add semantic tags.

Step 4: Export the layout as an eBook and view it in the eReader.

Creating reflow articles

Content in a reflow article is not synchronized with the content in the layout. If you need to make any changes to text after you have created a reflow article from that content, you

will have to update the content (see " Updating content in Reflow view "). Consequently,

creating a reflow article should be the last step in the process of preparing a layout for ePub or Kindle export.

There are three ways to create reflow articles:

• From a selection. This approach lets you select the specific boxes you want included in the reflow article. This approach is best if the layout has a lot of content that's should not be visible in Reflow view (such as headers and footers).

• From pages. This approach copies everything on the pages you indicate into the reflow article. This approach is best if all or almost all of the content in the layout should be visible in Reflow view. (You can manually remove any content that doesn't belong in

Reflow view.)

• By choosing eBook (ePub, Kindle) from the Layout Type drop-down menu in the New

Project dialog box (File menu).

Projects that were created with Quark Publishing Platform® or edited with QuarkCopyDesk® may already have one or more articles. If you open a QuarkCopyDesk article or a project file that includes articles with components, you must switch to Reflow view ( View > Reflow

View) to add that content to a reflow article.

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To show and hide the dotted lines and labels above components, click the Show/Hide

Component Headers button at the bottom of the window.

In an exported eBook, there are page breaks between every reflow article.

Creating a reflow article from a selection

To create a reflow article from one or more selected items:

1 Finalize all text you want to put in the reflow view. (You can update the contents of a reflow view, but if you do, you will lose any additional formatting you've done in the reflow view.)

2 Display the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu).

3 There are several ways to add selected content to reflow view:

• To create a new article from a selection, select the boxes that contain the target content and choose Item > Digital Publishing > Add to Reflow View > New Article or click New

Article in the Reflow Tagging palette. QuarkXPress creates a new reflow article and inserts all of the text and pictures in the selected boxes.

• To add content to an existing article, select the boxes that contain the target content and choose Item > Digital Publishing > Add to Reflow View > [Article Name] or click Add

Item in the Reflow Tagging palette. QuarkXPress adds the content to the end of the selected reflow article.

• To create a new article from multiple pages of content, choose Layout > Add Pages To

Reflow View. In the Add Pages to Reflow dialog box, you can choose the pages you want to add, and indicate whether you want to turn them into a single article or into an article for each spread.

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Add Pages to Reflow dialog box

4 To verify the creation of the reflow article, display the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu).

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The Reflow Tagging palette with a newly created article. This article contains a single-box story, a picture, and a story that spans multiple boxes.

5 To change the name of the new article, select it and click Edit Properties . Enter a new name for the article and then click OK.

6 Display the reflow article in Reflow view and make any necessary changes. (For more information, see "

Editing content in Reflow view .")

Creating a reflow article from pages

If you want to convert one or more pages' worth of content into an article or articles at the same time, use the following procedure.

1 Finalize all text you want to put in the reflow view. (You can update the contents of a reflow view, but if you do, you will lose any additional formatting you've done in the reflow view.)

2 Choose Layout > Add Pages to Reflow View. The Add Pages to Reflow dialog box displays.

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Add Pages to Reflow dialog box

3 Use the Pages area to specify whether you want to add all of the pages in the layout or only a specific range. Use the Articles area to specify whether you want all of the pages to go into the same article, or to create a separate article for each spread.

4 Click OK. QuarkXPress creates the necessary reflow articles and inserts all of the content from the selected pages into them.

5 To verify the creation of the reflow article, display the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu).

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The Reflow Tagging palette with a newly created article. This article contains a single-box story, a picture, and a story that spans multiple boxes.

6 To change the name of the new article, select it and click Edit Properties . Enter a new name for the article and then click OK.

7 Display the reflow article in Reflow view and make any necessary changes. (For more information, see "

Editing content in Reflow view .")

Mapping style sheets to Reflow tags

By default, when you copy content from a layout view to Reflow view, all of the content is copied as Body paragraphs inside of Body components, and only type styling (such as bold and italic) is captured. However, you can use mapping rules to tag content in Reflow view based on the style sheets applied to that content in layout view.

To map style sheets to Reflow tags:

1 Choose Item > Digital Publishing > Reflow Tag Mapping or click Edit Reflow Tag

Mapping in the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu). The Edit Reflow Tag Mapping dialog box displays.

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Edit Reflow Tag Mapping dialog box

In this dialog box, the Style Sheet column lists each of the paragraph style sheets in the active project. The Reflow Tag column provides a drop-down menu that lists all paragraph tags that are available in Reflow view.

2 Select a style sheet in the Style Sheet column, then choose the Reflow tag you want to map that style sheet to in the Reflow Tag column. If you don't want text that uses the style sheet to be copied to a Reflow article at all, choose Don't Extract.

3 Repeat the previous step for each style sheet you want to map to a Reflow tag other than

Body.

4 Click OK.

5 Add your content to Reflow view. (For more information, see "

Creating reflow articles " and

Adding content to a reflow article .") QuarkXPress uses the mapping rules you created to

determine how Reflow tags are applied.

Adding content to a reflow article

There are several ways to add content to an existing reflow article:

• Select one or more picture or text boxes and then choose Item > Digital Publishing >

Add To Reflow View > [reflow article name].

• Display the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu), select the target reflow article, and then select one or more picture or text boxes and click Add Component in the Reflow

Tagging palette.

• Control+click/right-click one or more selected picture or text boxes and choose Digital

Publishing > Add To Reflow View > [reflow article name] from the context menu.

• While in Reflow view, click New Article in the Reflow Tagging palette.

• While in Reflow view, click New Component in the Reflow Tagging palette and choose

Text Component, Picture Component, Audio Component, or Video Component. Note

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that the new component is added to the reflow article, but not to the corresponding Print layout.

If you choose Picture Component, an Import dialog box displays, and you can choose the picture file you want to put into the component.

If you choose Audio Component or Video Components, the Interactive Attributes dialog box displays. For more information, see " Adding audio to an ePub eBook " and " Adding video to an ePub eBook ."

If you want to add a full-page image to an ePub layout that is to be viewed in iBooks, its dimensions should be 1024 x 768 (or 2048 x 1536 for retina). Such images will look very large in Reflow view, but will display correctly in iBooks.

Splitting a reflow component

To divide an existing component into two components, Control+click/right-click where you want to split the article and choose Split Component. To divide an existing component into three components. select the text that you want to make into the middle component and choose Split Component.

Reordering components in a reflow article

Each text box, story, or picture that you add to a reflow article is added as a component. By default, the components in a reflow article may not occur in the right order. To change the order of components in a reflow article:

1 Display the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu).

2 Expand the target reflow article and select the component you want to move.

In the Reflow Tagging palette, drag and drop or use the Move Up or Move Down button to reposition the component.

Editing content in Reflow view

You can edit the contents of a reflow article. To edit a reflow article:

1 To display the reflow view, choose View > Reflow View. A new Reflow view window displays.

You can resize and move the Reflow view window so that it is alongside the layout view.

This makes it easier to compare the two visually.

2 Display the Reflow Tagging palette (Window menu).

3 In the Reflow view window, expand the target reflow article and then click the component you want to edit.

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To display a component in layout view, select that component in the Reflow Tagging palette and then click Show Item in Layout . To display a component in Reflow view, select that component in the Reflow Tagging palette and click Show Item in Reflow

View .

4 Make any necessary changes to the text.

5 The bottom half of the Reflow Tagging palette shows you paragraph based tagging and character styles. The paragraph tags are not style sheets, these are ePub paragraph tags.

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Reflow Tagging palette when Reflow view is active

6 The Body tag is applied to all text automatically when you create a reflow article from content in a layout. To tag a paragraph with a different paragraph tag, select or place the text cursor in that paragraph and then click a paragraph tag in the Reflow Tagging palette.

Although paragraph tags are similar to paragraph style sheets, they are different in two ways. First, they have fewer characteristics and they cannot be added, edited, or deleted.

Second, they let you indicate the type of information text represents, rather than simply the way it looks.

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Paragraph styles in Reflow view

7 To apply character tags to text, select the text and then click a character tag in the Reflow

Tagging palette.

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Character styles in Reflow view

8 To change the way a picture displays in Reflow view, select the picture, then use the Picture

Scale controls at the bottom of the Reflow Tagging palette. If you click Crop, you can dynamically crop and rotate the picture.

Picture Scale controls in Reflow Tagging palette

You can change the scaling or cropping of a picture in layout view without erasing any changes you've made in Reflow view.

9 To change the export settings for an individual picture component, select the component in the Reflow Tagging palette and then click Edit Properties . The Edit Picture

Component Properties dialog box displays.

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Edit Picture Component Properties dialog box

To use the image properties specified when you export the file, click Use Global Settings.

To use specific resolution, format, and image quality settings, click Use Custom Settings

For This Image. You can override these settings when you export; for more information, see "

Exporting for ePub

" and "

Exporting for Kindle "

10 To delete a component from a reflow article, select the component in the Reflow Tagging palette and then click Delete Item .

Updating content in Reflow view

Ideally, content should be final in the layout before you start creating a reflow article from that content. However, of course, things don't always work out that way. If you make substantial changes to text or pictures in the layout after you create a reflow view from that text, you can update the reflow view content to match the layout content.

To update a component:

1 In layout view, select the box that contains the content.

2 Choose Item > Digital Publishing > Replace Content in Reflow View. QuarkXPress overwrites the component's content with the content from the box.

When you update content, you will lose all tagging that you've applied in Reflow view.

This feature does not apply to interactive components.

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Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks

The topics below explain how to add various types of interactivity to a reflow article. Once you have added an interactive object to a reflow layout, you can export that layout as an ePub file.

You cannot add ePub interactivity to objects in an App Studio layout. For more information, see A Guide to App Studio.

Adding audio to an ePub eBook

You can associate an audio file with a picture box in an ePub eBook. When the user clicks the box, the sound plays. To add audio to an ePub eBook:

1 Do one of the following things:

• If you are adapting content from a Print layout, draw a picture box with the size and location you want to use for the audio content, then select the picture box and choose

Item > Digital Publishing > Edit ePub Interactivity.

• If you are creating a reflow article without a corresponding Print layout, select the component after which you want to add the new audio in the Reflow Tagging palette, then click the Add Component button and choose Audio Component from the drop-down menu that displays. If you select an article, the new component is added to the end of the article.

The Interactive Attributes dialog box displays.

2 Choose Audio from the Type drop-down menu.

3 Click Attach and select the audio file.

You can use audio files in MP3 format.

4 Click Open.

5 Click OK.

To display the selected audio file in the file system, click Show .

6 If you are adapting content from a Print layout, add the picture box to a reflow article.

For more information, see "

Working with Reflow view ."

Adding video to an ePub eBook

To add a movie to a ePub eBook:

1 Do one of the following things:

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• If you are adapting content from a Print layout, draw a picture box with the size and location you want to use for the video, then select the picture box and choose Item >

Digital Publishing > Edit ePub Interactivity. If you want a picture to display in the box when the video is not playing, import the picture into the box. You can also import a picture into the box in Reflow view. To do so, click the component and then choose File

> Import.

• If you are creating a reflow article without a corresponding Print layout, select the component after which you want to add the new video in the Reflow Tagging palette, then click the Add Component button and choose Video Component from the drop-down menu that displays. If you select an article, the new component is added to the end of the article.

The Interactive Attributes dialog box displays.

2 Select the picture box and choose Item > Digital Publishing > Edit ePub Interactivity.

The Interactive Attributes dialog box displays.

3 Choose Video from the Type drop-down menu.

4 Click Attach and select the movie file.

ePub supports only .mp4 files saved with the H.264 codec.

5 Click OK.

6 If you are adapting content from a Print layout, add the picture box to a reflow article.

For more information, see "

Working with Reflow view ."

Adding hyperlinks and anchors to an ePub eBook

Use the Hyperlinks palette of QuarkXPress to add hyperlinks and anchors to your exported ePub.

The hyperlinks you specify can be external links (URLs of websites) or internal links (to anchors in the Reflow View of QuarkXPress).

Hyperlinks and Anchors you add in your Print layout will automatically be added to the

Reflow view also.

Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle

When you export a reflow article as an ePub or Kindle eBook, you can create the table of contents for that eBook in two ways:

• Use the order of the reflow articles, with one TOC entry for each reflow article. You can change the order of the reflow articles in Reflow view using the Reflow Tagging palette

( Window menu). To move an article up or down in the sequence, select the article in the

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Reflow Tagging palette and click the Move Up or Move Down button. To update the table of contents, click Update .

• Manually create the table of contents. To manually create a table of contents, display the

Reflow Table of Contents palette (Windows menu), then click Edit to display the Edit

Reflow Table of Contents dialog box. Use the arrow buttons to add the tags you want to use in the table of contents to the list on the right. To specify the level of each tag, select it and then choose an option from the drop-down menu at the top of the Level column.

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Working with eBook metadata

It's a good idea to associate some metadata with the eBooks you create, so that users can easily find and get information about them. To add or edit metadata for a layout that you will export as an eBook:

1 Display the layout in layout view.

2 Choose Layout > eBook Metadata. The eBook Metadata dialog box displays.

eBook Metadata dialog box

3 Use the fields in this dialog box to enter information about your eBook. In the Keywords field, use a comma to separate keywords.

4 Use the language popup to specify the language of your eBook. This can be used by readers to search for the correct book.

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If you don't specify any title meta data here, QuarkXPress will add the following default text to the exported eBook: "Created with QuarkXPress". This will automatically be removed as soon as you add your own title.

Exporting for ePub

To export a layout in ePub format:

1 Choose File > Export > Reflow as ePub. The Export as ePub dialog box displays.

2 Enter a name for the exported eBook. QuarkXPress will append the correct file extension.

3 Choose an output style from the ePub Style drop-down menu or click Options. If you click Options, the ePub Export Options dialog box displays.

ePub Export Options dialog box

• The Pictures pane lets you specify the resolution, format, and quality of pictures in the ePub file. To override any custom attributes applied to individual picture components, check Override Box Settings.

• The Table of Contents pane lets you set options for the table of contents in the ePub file.

You can choose whether to use the table of contents defined in the Reflow Table Of

Contents palette or the article structure. (For more information, see " Creating a TOC for ePub .") You can also specify the name of the TOC entry for the cover and the title displayed above the TOC in the HTML version of the table of contents.

• The East Asian pane lets you specify a default story direction and choose whether to export

Rubi natively or in parentheses.

When you're finished configuring options, click OK.

4 Click Save.

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Specifying CSS for ePub export

The formatting of content in an ePub eBook is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

With CSS, you can control the indents, alignment, and formatting associated with the tags you apply in Reflow view.

Some CSS options are not supported by all ePub readers. Be sure to test all of the CSS customizations you make with each of the target ePub readers you want to support.

The CSS specifications that are embedded in an exported ePub eBook are determined by the "style.css" and "vertical_style.css" files in the following location:

[QXP application folder]/XTensions/DigitalPublishing/Templates/css

For example, if you wanted to change the size of the Headline 1 tag and make it bold, you could first locate this section in the "style.css" file:

.headline1 {

font-size: 1.5em;

}

And then change it to something like this:

.headline1 {

font-size: 2em;

font-weight: bold;

}

For information on CSS, see a CSS tutorial such as the one available at http://www.w3schools.com/css/ .

The "css" folder also includes an "Examples" folder, which contains a variety of customized

CSS files that produce different appearances. To try out one of these samples, first back up your "styles.css" file. Then make a copy of the CSS file you want to try, rename it to

"styles.css", and move it to the "css" folder. When you next export an ePub book, it will use the new settings.

It is possible to change the CSS configuration for an ePub file that has already been exported, but the process can be complex. Consequently, Quark recommends modifying the "style.css" file prior to export instead.

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Exporting for Kindle

To export a layout in Kindle format:

1 Download KindleGen from the Amazon Web site and install it into its default location.

As of this writing, you can download KindleGen from http://amzn.to/HHMgj8 , but this could change.

2 Choose File > Export > Reflow as Kindle. The Export for Kindle dialog box displays.

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3 Enter a name for the exported eBook. QuarkXPress will append the correct file extension.

4 Choose an output style from the Kindle Style drop-down menu or click Options. If you click Options, the Kindle Export Options dialog box displays.

Kindle Export Options dialog box

• The Pictures pane lets you specify the resolution, format, and quality of pictures in the

Kindle eBook. To override any custom attributes applied to individual picture components, check Override Box Settings.

• The Table of Contents pane lets you set options for the table of contents in the Kindle eBook. You can choose whether to use the table of contents defined in the Reflow Table

Of Contents palette or the article structure. (For more information, see " Creating a TOC for ePub .") You can also specify the name of the TOC entry for the cover and the title displayed above the TOC in the HTML version of the table of contents.

When you're finished configuring options, click OK.

5 Click Save.

If you do not have KindleGen installed, or if it is installed in a non-default location, a dialog box will display asking you to download or locate it.

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Job Jackets

The Job Jackets feature takes a revolutionary step beyond preflighting: It helps to ensure that a print job adheres to its specifications from the moment it is created, and that it continues to adhere to those specifications all the way through until it rolls off the press.

Furthermore, Job Jackets expand the concept of job specification enforcement beyond the realm of the individual user by linking projects to synchronized, dynamically updateable design specifications that include everything from style sheets and colors to page size and count.

Understanding Job Jackets

Job Jackets serve two main purposes:

• To allow a job definer to create detailed specifications for Print and Web layouts.

• To allow a layout artist to create projects and layouts from those specifications, share the specifications with other layout artists, and verify that a layout follows its specifications.

Job Jackets were created because producing a layout and successfully sending it to output can be a complex task.

For example, consider some of the difficulties that have plagued creators of print layouts.

Different presses have different capabilities, and modern page layout applications must be versatile enough to support all of those capabilities. Consequently, any number of things can go wrong, especially when you include the inevitable possibility of simple human error. Just to provide a few examples:

• A layout artist may use colors or imported graphics that cannot be reproduced accurately on the target press.

• A document that has been budgeted at 100 pages may be sent to output with a length of

112 pages.

• A project may be sent to the output device without its required graphic files or fonts.

• A layout with small text in a spot color may be sent to a four-color press, resulting in text that is unreadable.

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• Color management settings may be configured incorrectly for the output device, leading to unexpected results.

Large and complex print jobs provide even more opportunities for error, and the cost of such errors becomes much greater. Job Jackets prevent unprintable or incorrectly constructed jobs from being constructed in the first place.

What are Job Jackets?

Technically speaking, Job Jackets are XML structures that include specifications and rules for creating and inspecting QuarkXPress layouts. Conceptually, a Job Jackets structure can be compared to a folder containing job tickets that describe various types of projects and layouts, as well as other types of information.

Job Jackets are based on the latest version of the JDF (Job Definition Format) schema. In addition to letting you control QuarkXPress related specifications, Job Jackets also let you set values for various other specifications covered by JDF, such as binding and crossover settings. When you send a layout to output, you have the option of including the layout's

JDF information, so that downstream systems can use that information for automation and for informational purposes. And the Job Jackets specification is extendable, so developers of JDF-compatible systems can embed their own implementation-specific settings into Job Jackets before passing the Job Jackets upstream to the layout artist. These settings can then be preserved in the Job Jackets file and used by XTensions software, by

JDF-enabled applications, or by other systems, to automate and streamline a wide variety of processes.

Job Jackets can also help you to collaborate within a workgroup. Several layout artists working on layouts that share the same set of specifications can link their projects to a shared Job Jackets file, so that if one layout artist makes a change to something like a style sheet, the same change can be automatically propagated to the other artists' layouts.

The structure of Job Jackets

Job Jackets are XML structures containing specifications and rules. The topics below describe the way these specifications and rules are organized in Job Jackets.

Resources

Job Jackets contain Resources, which include the following:

1 Project-level Resources: Things that can be applied to a particular project, such as style sheets, colors, output styles, and color management settings.

2 Layout-level Resources: Things that can be applied to a particular layout, such as:

• Layout Specifications: Settings that can be used to assign a particular size, orientation, and so forth to a layout.

• Rules and Rule Sets: Tests that can be run to inspect a layout and verify its adherence to specifications.

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In addition to the Resources described above, Job Jackets can contain certain informational

Resources, including the following:

• Job Descriptions: This category includes a job number, revision, instructions, notes, and keywords.

• Contacts: Contact information for job definers and others associated with the job. Adding contacts can make it easier to track down the appropriate person if something goes wrong with the job.

Job Tickets

The Resources in Job Jackets are organized into one or more Job Tickets. Each Job Ticket contains a set of particular Resources that can be applied to a QuarkXPress project.

Within a Job Ticket, Resources are grouped as follows:

1 Project settings: A set of project-level Resources that can be applied to a single project. Project settings include things like style sheets, colors, output styles, and color management settings. Each Job Ticket contains one set of project settings.

2 Layout definitions: Sets of layout-level Resources, each of which can be applied to a single layout. Each Job Ticket can contain zero or more layout definitions. Each layout definition can include the following:

• A Layout Specification (page size, orientation, and so forth)

• Zero or more Output Specifications (configurations for a particular output device)

• Zero or more Rule Sets (for inspecting the layout)

• A medium type (Print or Web)

• Color management settings (Source Setup and Output Setup)

• Proofing specifications (Proof Output and Proof Intent)

• Informational Resources (Description, Job Description, and Instructions)

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Resources are defined and stored in a Job Jackets structure. A Job Ticket contains a set of project settings for a particular type of project and layout definitions for zero or more layouts.

Note that Resource definitions do not "live" in Job Tickets; Job Tickets refer or "point" to

Resource definitions, which live in the Job Jackets structure.

Job Tickets and Job Ticket templates

There are three kinds of Job Tickets:

• A Job Ticket template is a definition for a "master" Job Ticket. In some ways, a Job Ticket template is similar to a master page or a QuarkXPress template file.

• An active Job Ticket is a copy of a Job Ticket template that is associated with a particular project.

• A deferred Job Ticket is a copy of a Job Ticket template that has been associated with a project, but is no longer associated with that project (for example, if the project was closed without being saved).

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A Job Jackets file can contain Job Ticket templates (containing definitions for Job Tickets), active Job Tickets (which are associated with a particular project), and deferred Job Tickets

(which have been associated with a project, but are no longer associated with that project).

Each Job Ticket template can be used to generate Job Tickets for one or more projects. Each

Job Ticket can apply to only one project. When a Job Ticket is applied to a project, the

Resources in that Job Ticket become available in the project (for example, the project inherits all of the color, style sheet, and layout definitions listed in the Job Ticket).

There are two ways to apply a Job Ticket to a project:

• When creating the project, choose File > New > Project from Ticket, and then select a

Job Ticket template. QuarkXPress copies the Job Ticket template's information into a new

Job Ticket for the new project. The new project automatically contains a pre-configured layout for each of the layout definitions in the Job Ticket template, plus all of the project settings defined in the Job Ticket template.

• Create or open an existing project, and then choose File > Job Jackets > Link Project and select a Job Ticket template. Again, QuarkXPress copies the Job Ticket template's information into a new Job Ticket for this particular project. The project acquires all of the project settings defined in the Job Ticket template, and a new pre-configured layout is created for each of the layout definitions in the Job Ticket template.

A Job Ticket maintains no link to the Job Ticket template from which it was created.

Changes made to a Job Ticket template are not propagated to existing Job Tickets.

Linked and embedded Job Jackets

Every QuarkXPress project is associated with a Job Jackets structure. A project's Job Jackets structure may be embedded in the project, or it may be stored in an XML Job Jackets file in the local file system. The location of a project's Job Jackets structure depends on how you create the project; for more information, see "Applying a Job Ticket template to a project."

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A Job Jackets structure can exist as an XML file in the file system, or can be embedded in the project file.

By default, non-embedded Job Jackets files are stored in the location specified in the

Job Jackets pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). However, you can store Job Jackets files wherever you like. For example, if you're sharing a Job Jackets file among layout artists in a workgroup (see " Shared Job Jackets "), you might choose to put that Job Jackets file on a file server that everyone can reach through the network.

To change the default location where Job Jackets are stored, go to the Job Jackets pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu), click Select the path, click the

Select button, and navigate to the target directory.

Sample Job Jackets workflow

This topic describes a suggested workflow for Job Jackets. Note that this is not the only possible workflow; it is just an example to show how Job Jackets can be used. The following definitions are used:

• Job definer: The person who knows what the print job is supposed to consist of — for example, number of pages, size, colors, and so forth.

• Output specialist: The person who knows how a print job must be created and configured to print correctly on the target press.

• Layout artist: The person who actually creates the layout in QuarkXPress.

The intended workflow for Job Jackets is as follows:

1 An output specialist and a job definer work together to define the output specifications and rules that are appropriate for a print job (or for a set of related print jobs), including

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things like page size, page count, list of colors, trapping settings, style sheets, line thicknesses, and valid color spaces for imported pictures.

2 The job definer uses these specifications and rules to create a Job Ticket template in a

Job Jackets file. The Job Ticket template describes a particular project, and may include different specifications and rules for each layout in that project (here, we'll assume only one layout is defined in the Job Ticket template). When the Job Jackets file is complete, the job definer gives the file to the layout artist.

3 The layout artist creates a project from the Job Ticket template using the command File >

New > Project from Ticket. QuarkXPress automatically creates a Job Ticket from the Job

Ticket template, and associates the Job Ticket with the project. QuarkXPress reads the Job

Ticket and automatically inserts all of the Job Ticket's Resources into the project (such as colors, style sheets, and color management settings). QuarkXPress also automatically creates any layouts defined in the Job Ticket.

4 Using the Job Ticket as a set of guidelines, the layout artist builds the layout. Periodically, the layout artist chooses File > Job Jackets > Evaluate Layout to verify that she is staying within the guidelines defined in the Job Ticket. When she does so, a dialog box lets her identify and navigate to any design elements that violate the rules defined in the Job

Ticket. This lets the layout artist fix problems as they arise, rather than leaving them to be found at prepress.

5 When a layout is complete, the layout artist sends it to output through any of several methods, including direct printing, Collect for Output, or export to PDF or PDF/X. If the

Job Jackets file includes Output Specifications, those Output Specifications can be used to send the job to output to specific formats and with specific settings. Because the layout has been developed within the specifications provided by the Job Ticket template, the layout is correct when it arrives at the press.

Working with Job Jackets

Job Jackets information is stored in XML format. However, QuarkXPress provides a comprehensive interface that makes it easy to create and modify Job Jackets. The following topics describe the basics of the Job Jackets user interface.

Basic mode and Advanced mode

Basic Mode is only available on Windows.

The Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager) provides a unified interface where a job definer can create and configure Job Jackets and the components that they are made of.

By default, the Job Jackets Manager dialog box shows the Job Jackets in the default

Job Jackets folder (see "

The default Job Jackets file "), as well as the Job Jackets associated with

any open projects. The active project (if any) is shown in bold with an asterisk.

The Job Jackets Manager dialog box has two modes:

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• (Windows only) Basic mode is for layout artists and job definers who don't need to use the advanced JDF capabilities of Job Jackets. Basic mode offers all the controls necessary to create, manage, and share Job Jackets.

• Advanced mode is for production administrators seeking to use the features of JDF to automate and integrate portions of their workflow. Advanced mode uses a different user interface that provides access to everything in basic mode plus additional Resources, such as Rules, and JDF-only Resources, such as binding and crossover specifications.

(Windows only) To use advanced mode, open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) and click the Advanced Settings button. To switch back to basic mode, click the

Basic Settings button.

The Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager) lets a job definer work with Job Jackets files and their components. This dialog box has a basic mode (top) and an advanced mode (bottom).

Creating Job Jackets files

First of all, when and why should a job definer create a Job Jackets file? There are no hard-and-fast rules for answering this question: If you want to, you can put Job Tickets for all of your print jobs in one great big Job Jackets file. However, here are some guidelines to indicate when you might want to have separate Job Jackets files.

• If you plan to create a number of print jobs that share the same Resources (such as colors, style sheets, trapping settings, color management settings, and page sizes), you might want

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to create one Job Jackets file for all of those print jobs. For example, if you're a design firm that serves several different clients, each of which has its own visual identity, you might create one Job Jackets file for each client.

• If you are in charge of a design group and you'd like to make sure that every layout artist working on a particular project (such as a promotional campaign) uses the exact same

Resources, you might want to create a Job Jackets file and Job Ticket template containing those Resources, and have all of the layout artists share that Job Jackets file.

• If you are an output provider and you have a particular press with particular requirements, you might create a Job Jackets file that captures that press's requirements for your customers

(and thus helps them to avoid exceeding those requirements). You might even be able to download a Job Jackets file containing a press's requirements from the press manufacturer.

Creating a Job Jackets file: Basic mode (Windows only)

To create a Job Jackets file using basic mode:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager).

2 If more than one list displays in the dialog box, click Basic Settings to show the basic pane.

3 Click the New Job Jackets button . The New Job Jackets dialog box displays.

4 Enter a name for the Job Jackets file in the Name field.

5 If you plan to allow multiple users to share this Job Jackets file, check Share this Jacket.

If you do not check this box, the Job Jackets file will be embedded in the active project (if any). Note that if you do not share the Job Jackets file now, you can do it later through the Collaboration Setup dialog box (File menu). For more information, see " Collaborating with shared Job Jackets ."

6 If you checked Share this Jacket in the previous step, specify where the Job Jackets file should be stored by choosing an option from the Save in drop-down menu:

• To use the default location (see "

Linked and embedded Job Jackets "), choose

Default Jacket

Folder.

• To store the shared Job Jackets file in the same folder as the active project, choose Project

Folder.

• To store the shared Job Jackets file somewhere else, choose Other and browse to a target directory (such as a networked volume available to all of the layout artists).

7 Click the Settings control to show the Tickets, Style Settings, Contacts, and Layout

Specification tabs.

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The New Job Jackets dialog box lets you add Resources to a new Job Jackets file.

8 Use the Tickets tab to add Job Ticket templates to the Job Jackets file. For more information, see "

Creating a Job Ticket template: Basic mode (Windows only)

9 Use the Style Settings tab to add Resources to the Job Jackets file. You can append project-level Resources from a variety of sources using the Append From option:

• To append Resources from the application defaults, click Application.

• To append Resources from a project file or from another Job Jackets file, click Other, and then click Select and navigate to the target file.

To copy Resources to the Job Ticket template, use the three lists at the bottom of the dialog box. Choose a type of Resource from the first list, and then choose specific Resources in the second list and click the button to copy those Resources into the third list (which shows the Resources of this type in the Job Ticket template).

To remove Resources from the Job Jackets file, choose a type of Resource from the first list, and then choose specific Resources in the third list, and click the Remove button.

10 Contacts can make it easy for anyone who works with a QuarkXPress file to get in touch with the job definer if problems arise. To add JDF contact information to the Job Jackets file, click the Contacts tab, and then click the New Item button to add a contact. Click the expander next to the new contact to expose its fields, and then fill in the details for each field.

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11 A Layout Specification lets you set attributes like page size and page count for automatically generated layouts. To add a Layout Specification to the Job Jackets file, click the Layout

Specification tab, and then click the New Item button to add a Layout Specification.

Click the expander next to the new Layout Specification to expose its fields, and then fill in the details for each field.

12 Click OK.

Creating a Job Jackets file: Advanced mode

To create a Job Jackets file using advanced mode:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the advanced pane.

3 Click the New Job Jackets button . The New Job Jackets dialog box displays.

4 Enter a name for the Job Jackets file, navigate to the target directory, and click Save. If you plan to allow multiple layout artists to access the same Job Jackets file, you may want to choose a directory where all of the layout artists can access the Job Jackets file over the network.

5 Add Resources to the Job Jackets file, as described in "

Adding Resources to a Job Jackets file:

Advanced mode ."

Adding Resources to a Job Jackets file: Advanced mode

The following procedure is useful if you want to create a Job Jackets file using the Resources in an existing project. For example, if you have last year's copy of a brochure project, and you'd like to put all of the brochure project's style sheets, colors, and so forth into a new

Job Jackets file, you can do so with this procedure. You can also use this procedure to copy

Resources from one Job Jackets file to another.

To add Resources to a Job Jackets file using advanced mode:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the advanced pane.

3 Specify where you want to copy Resources from:

• To copy Resources from a Job Jackets structure, Job Ticket template, or Job Ticket, select the source item in the list on the left.

• To copy Resources from an open project, select the project in the list on the left.

• To copy Resources from the application defaults, click the Load Application Resources button .

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4 Select a Resource category in the list on the top right.

5 Drag and drop individual Resources from the list on the bottom right to the target

Job Jackets icon in the list on the left.

You can also drag Resources to a Job Ticket or project.

For information about changing the locations of Resources in a Job Ticket, see " Specifying the location of Resources: Advanced mode ."

Working with Job Tickets

A Job Ticket is a set of Resources (specifications and rules) that can be applied to one or more QuarkXPress projects. Each Job Ticket has a name and is stored in a particular

Job Jackets structure. A Job Ticket contains both project-level Resources (such as colors, style sheets, and color management settings) and layout-level Resources (such as Layout

Specifications and layout definitions).

There are three kinds of Job Tickets:

• A Job Ticket template is a definition for a "master" Job Ticket. In some ways, a Job Ticket template is similar to a master page or a QuarkXPress template file.

• An active Job Ticket is a copy of a Job Ticket template that is associated with a particular project.

Creating a Job Ticket template

Here are some guidelines to indicate when you might want to have separate Job Ticket templates:

• If you have a recurring print job, such as a newsletter or magazine, you might want to create a Job Ticket template for that job.

• If you plan to create several types of layouts (such as a poster, postcard, Web site, and

Flash presentation) that are all based on a single campaign or theme, you might want to create a Job Ticket template for each layout and store all of the Job Ticket templates in a single Job Jackets file. That way, all of the layouts can share the same style sheets, colors, and so forth.

• If you have a standard format that is used by a number of people, such as an ad format, you might want to use a Job Ticket template to help your customers construct their ads according to the guidelines.

• If a group of layout artists needs to ensure that they are all using the same style sheets, colors, or other Resources, and to keep those Resources synchronized among the layout

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artists if the Resources should change, you might want to store those Resources in a Job

Ticket template so the layout artists can access the Resources via a shared Job Jackets file.

This approach can help you to maintain corporate brand standards in a large organization.

Creating a Job Ticket template: Basic mode (Windows only)

To add a Job Ticket template to a Job Jackets structure using basic mode:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager). If more than one list displays in the dialog box, click Basic Settings to show the basic pane.

You can create Job Ticket templates in the basic pane of the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 Select the Job Jackets structure that will contain the Job Ticket template.

3 Click the New Ticket Template button . The New Job Ticket dialog box displays.

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You can assign Resources to a new Job Ticket template in the New Job Ticket dialog box.

Configure the new Job Ticket template as described in " Working with Resources in a Job

Ticket: Basic mode (Windows only)

Editing a Job Ticket: basic mode (Windows only)

To edit a project's active Job Ticket, open the project and then choose File > Job Jackets >

Modify Job Ticket. The Edit Job Ticket dialog box displays. For information on how to use the

Edit Job Ticket dialog box, see " Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Basic mode

(Windows only)

Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Basic mode (Windows only)

This topic describes how to add and remove Resources in a Job Ticket or Job Ticket template using the New Job Ticket or Edit Job Ticket dialog box. These two dialog boxes are basically the same, except that the Edit Job Ticket dialog box looks slightly different for

Job Tickets than it does for Job Ticket templates.

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You can add Resources to a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket in the New Job Ticket and

Edit Job Ticket dialog boxes.

To assign Resources using the New Job Ticket or Edit Job Ticket dialog box:

1 To add or remove project-level Resources, use the controls on the Style Settings tab (for

Job Ticket templates) or the Project Settings tab (for active and deferred Job Tickets).

You can append project-level Resources from a variety of sources using the Append From drop-down menu:

• To append Resources from the Job Ticket's parent Job Jackets structure, choose Current

Jacket.

• To append Resources from the active project, choose Current Linked Project.

• To append Resources from the application defaults, choose Application.

• To append Resources from a project file or from a Job Jackets file, choose Other, and then click Select and navigate to the target file.

To copy Resources to the Job Ticket, use the three lists at the bottom of the dialog box.

Choose a type of Resource from the first list, then choose specific Resources in the second list, and click the right-facing arrow to copy those Resources into the third list (which shows the Resources of this type in the Job Ticket).

To remove Resources from the Job Ticket, choose a type of Resource from the first list, then choose specific Resources in the third list, and click the left-facing arrow.

2 The presence of a layout definition means that QuarkXPress will automatically create a layout when this Job Ticket is applied to a project. When creating a layout definition, you can specify a Layout Specification (with information such as page size and page count), a

Medium Type (Print, Web, or Interactive), Rule Sets, and Output Specifications.

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To add a layout definition to the Job Ticket, click the Layout Settings tab, then click the

button; a layout definition is added to the list.

To configure the selected layout definition, first click the Layout Properties control to display the layout property controls, then:

• To name the layout definition, enter a name in the Layout Name field. This name will be applied to the automatically generated layout.

• To specify information such as page size and page count for the layout definition, choose an option from the Layout Specification drop-down menu. (Note that a Layout

Specification must be present in the Job Jackets structure before you can choose the Layout

Specification here; see "

Creating Job Jackets files " for more information.)

• To indicate what type of layout should be created automatically for this layout definition, choose an option from the Medium Type drop-down menu.

• To copy Rule Sets and Output Specifications from the parent Job Jackets structure to the layout definition, use the three lists at the bottom of the dialog box. Choose a type of

Resource from the first list, then choose specific Resources in the second list, and click the button to copy those Resources into the third list (which shows the Resources of this type in the layout definition).

To delete a layout definition, select it and click the button.

3 When you are finished configuring the Job Ticket, click OK.

Creating a Job Ticket template: Advanced mode

To add a Job Ticket template to a Job Jackets structure using advanced mode:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager). If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the advanced pane.

2 To indicate where the new Job Ticket template should be stored, create or select a Job Jackets icon in the left list.

3 Click the New Ticket template button . A Job Ticket template is added to the selected

Job Jackets structure.

Configure the new Job Ticket template as described in " Working with Resources in a Job

Ticket: Advanced mode ."

Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Advanced mode

You might need to work with a Job Ticket's Resources in several situations:

• You can use this procedure if you want to create a Job Ticket template using the Resources in an existing project. For example, if you have last year's copy of a brochure project, and you'd like to put all of the brochure project's style sheets, colors, and so forth into a new

Job Ticket template, or into an existing project's active Job Ticket, you can do so with this procedure.

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• You can use this procedure to copy Resources from one Job Ticket to another.

• You can use this procedure to copy Resources from a Job Jackets structure or a project to a Job Ticket.

To add Resources to a Job Jackets structure using advanced mode:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the advanced pane.

3 Specify where you want to copy Resources from:

• To copy Resources from a Job Jackets structure, Job Ticket template, or Job Ticket, select the source item in the list on the top left.

• To copy Resources from an open project, select the project in the list on the left.

• To copy Resources from the application defaults, click the Load Application Resources button .

4 Select a Resource category in the list on the top right.

5 Drag and drop individual Resources from the list on the bottom right to the target Job

Ticket template or Job Ticket in the list on the left.

Adding a layout definition to a Job Ticket: Advanced mode

A layout definition is a group of specifications that combine to describe a single layout. A layout definition includes Resources such as medium (output) type (Print, Web, or

Interactive), Output Specifications, and Rule Sets.

When you create a project from a Job Ticket template, QuarkXPress automatically creates a layout for each layout definition in the Job Ticket template. If a layout definition does not contain a Layout Specification, QuarkXPress displays the New Project dialog box so you can specify the page size, margins, and so forth.

When you add a layout definition to an active Job Ticket, a layout is created from that layout definition and automatically added to the corresponding project.

To add a layout definition to a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager) and select the target Job Ticket in the left list.

2 To display Resource controls, click the Advanced Settings button.

3 Select Layouts in the top-right list. Any layout definitions in the Job Ticket display in the bottom-right list.

4 Click the New Item button above the bottom-right list. A layout definition named

"Layouts" is added. (The name you give to a layout definition is the name that will be

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applied to the actual layout when you create a project. To rename a layout definition, double-click its name and then enter the new name.)

5 Click the expander button next to the layout definition name to display the fields of the layout definition.

6 Specify or enter a value for any fields you want to use.

7 Click Save.

For information on using layout definitions, see " Applying a layout definition to a project ."

Applying a Job Ticket template to a project

You can apply a Job Ticket template to a project in two ways:

• Create a project from the Job Ticket template.

• Link an existing project to a Job Ticket template.

In either case, a Job Ticket is created from the Job Ticket template, and the new Job Ticket instance is applied to the new project. The topics below describe both approaches.

Creating a project from a Job Ticket template

When you create a project from a Job Ticket template, QuarkXPress always creates a Job

Ticket from that Job Ticket template. You can choose where that Job Ticket is stored: In a shared Job Jackets file, or in an embedded Job Jackets structure in the project file.

To create a project from a Job Ticket template:

1 Choose File > New > Project from Ticket. The New Project from Ticket dialog box displays.

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Use the New Project from Ticket dialog box to select a Job Ticket template for a new project.

2 If the Job Jackets structure you want is not displayed, click Browse, navigate to the

Job Jackets file, and then click Open.

3 Select the target Job Ticket template in the list. (Note that you can also select a deferred

Job Ticket.)

4 Check or uncheck the Share Jacket check box, as follows:

• To store this project's active Job Ticket in an external Job Jackets file, so the Job Ticket can share Resources with other users of that Job Jackets file, check Share Jacket. (For more information, see " Collaborating with shared Job Jackets .")

• To store this project's Job Ticket in an embedded Job Jackets structure in the project file, uncheck Share Jacket.

5 Click Select. The new project inherits the Job Ticket template's project settings, and

QuarkXPress automatically creates layouts for any layout definitions in the Job Ticket template.

You cannot store a Job Ticket in the default Job Jackets structure. Consequently, if you create a project from a Job Ticket template that is in the default Job Jackets structure, and you check Share Jacket, you will be prompted to save a new Job Jackets file in the file system.

Linking an existing project to a Job Jackets file

When you link an existing project to a Job Jackets file, you remove the project's current active Job Ticket and link the project to a new Job Ticket created from a Job Ticket template in another Job Jackets file. You might choose to do this if, for example, you want to link an existing project to a Job Jackets file where another layout artist has an active Job Ticket,

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and thus synchronize some or all of the Resources that the two of you are using. (For details, see " Collaborating with shared Job Jackets .")

To apply a Job Ticket to an existing project:

1 Create or open the project.

2 Choose File > Job Jackets > Link Project. The Link Project dialog box displays.

3 If the Job Jackets file you want is not displayed, click Browse, navigate to the file, and then click Open.

4 Select the target Job Ticket template in the list.

5 Check or uncheck the Share Jacket check box, as follows:

• To store this project's Job Ticket in the Job Jackets file containing the target Job Ticket template, check Share Jacket.

• To store this project's Job Ticket in an embedded Job Jackets structure in the project file, uncheck Share Jacket.

6 Click Attach. The project inherits the Job Ticket template's project settings, and layouts are automatically created for any layout definitions in the Job Ticket template.

If you use a Job Ticket template in the default Job Jackets structure, and you check Share

Jacket, you will be prompted to save a new Job Jackets file in the file system. This is because you cannot store a Job Ticket in the default Job Jackets structure.

Viewing Job Ticket relationships

You can see the relationships between Job Jackets, Job Ticket templates, Job Tickets, and projects in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu). The icons shown in this dialog box are as follows:

• Job Jackets structure (linked)

• Job Jackets structure (embedded)

• Job Ticket template

• Active or deferred Job Ticket

• Project (a bold project name indicates the active project)

A project that is linked to an active Job Ticket is displayed like this:

A project that is linked to an active Job Ticket

A deferred Job Ticket has a icon, but is not linked to a project. This may mean that the project was moved, deleted, or never saved.

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Applying a layout definition to a project

A layout definition provides a group of settings that combine to describe a layout. These settings can include a medium type (Print, Web, or Interactive), Rule Sets, Output Setups, and a color management Source Setup. A layout definition also can include a Layout

Specification, which includes information such as page size and page count (note that

Layout Specifications must be created at the Job Jackets level).

When you associate a project with a Job Ticket template, QuarkXPress automatically creates a layout for each layout definition in that Job Ticket template. Such layouts have the same names as the layout definitions they were based on.

You can apply a layout definition to a project in two ways:

• Create a project from the Job Ticket containing the layout definition, as described in

Creating a project from a Job Ticket template ."

• Link the Job Ticket to the active project after the project has been created, as described in

Linking an existing project to a Job Jackets file ."

Whichever approach you use, the defined layouts are created automatically.

Exporting and importing Job Tickets

There may be situations in which a job definer needs to copy a Job Ticket template or Job

Ticket from one Job Jackets file to another, or to import all of a Job Jackets structure's Job

Ticket templates and Job Tickets into another Job Jackets structure. You can do both of these things with the Job Ticket export and import features.

Exporting a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket

To export a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket from a Job Jackets structure:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) and select the target Job Ticket

(or Job Tickets) in the left list.

2 Click the Export Ticket button above the left list. The New Job Jackets dialog box displays.

3 Specify a name and location and click Save. All selected Job Tickets are saved into a

Job Jackets file with the indicated file name, along with any Resources they require.

Importing a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket

To import a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket into a Job Jackets structure:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) and select the target Job Jackets icon in the left list.

2 Click the Import button above the left list. The Select Job Jackets File dialog box displays.

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3 Select a Job Jackets file and click Open. All Job Ticket templates and Job Tickets in the selected file are imported into the selected Job Jackets structure, along with any Resources they require.

The default Job Jackets file

When QuarkXPress is installed, a default Job Jackets file (containing a default Job Ticket template) named "DefaultJacket.xml" is installed as well in the location specified in the

Job Jackets pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

When you create a project by choosing File > New > Project, the following things happen:

• QuarkXPress makes a copy of this default Job Jackets file (named "Default Job Jackets") and embeds it in the new project. The embedded Job Jackets structure is named "[filename]

Job Jackets."

• In the embedded Job Jackets structure, QuarkXPress creates a Job Ticket from the default

Job Ticket template (named "Default Job Ticket"). The new Job Ticket is named "[filename]

Ticket."

• QuarkXPress associates the Job Ticket in the embedded Job Jackets structure with the new project.

You can use the default Job Jackets file to control the Resources that are used in new

QuarkXPress projects. You can also edit the default Job Ticket template that is used by projects created via File > New > Project. This topic explains both procedures.

You cannot store a new Job Ticket in the default Job Jackets file. For more information,

see " Creating a project from a Job Ticket template ."

Editing the default Job Ticket template: File menu

The default Job Ticket template is used by projects created using File > New > Project.

There are two ways to edit the default Job Ticket template.

To edit the default Job Ticket template from the File menu:

1 Close any open projects.

2 To open the default Job Ticket template in the Modify Job Ticket dialog box, choose File >

Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket.

3 Use the controls in the Modify Job Ticket dialog box to configure the default Job Ticket template, and then click OK.

Editing the default Job Ticket template: Utilities menu

To edit the default Job Ticket template from the Job Jackets Manager dialog box:

1 Display the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

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2 Click the Open Jacket button, navigate to the default Job Jackets file, and click Open.

3 Expand the default Job Jackets structure and select the Job Ticket template named "Default

Job Ticket" in the list.

4 Click the Edit button . The Edit Job Ticket dialog box displays.

5 Use the controls in the Edit Job Ticket dialog box to configure the default Job Ticket template.

6 Click OK.

The next project you create using File > New > Project will use the modified default Job

Ticket template.

Editing the default Job Jackets file

You can use the default Job Jackets file to control the Resources that are used in new

QuarkXPress projects. To edit the default Job Jackets file:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 Click the Open Jacket button , navigate to the default Job Jackets file, and click Open.

3 Select the Job Jackets structure named "Default Job Jackets" in the list.

4 Use the controls in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box to configure the default Job Jackets structure, and then click OK.

For information on working with Resources, see " Working with Resources in a Job Ticket:

Advanced mode

Working with Resources: Advanced mode

"Resources" is a generic category that describes most of the components that make up

Job Jackets and Job Tickets. Resources include everything from style sheets to page size specifications. The topics below describe how to access, create, and update Resources in the advanced pane of the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

Job definers will use this procedure often, for various purposes. Layout artists, however, may never need to use this procedure at all.

Accessing Resources: Advanced mode

Before you can work with a Resource, you have to be able to get to it. To access a Resource:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the Advanced pane.

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3 In the list on the left, open or create a Job Jackets file. The Resource categories in the Job Jackets file are listed in alphabetical order in the list on the upper right.

4 To work with Resources that are specific to a Job Jackets structure, select the target

Job Jackets structure in the list on the left. Note that Resource categories that are unavailable represent Resources that must be specified at the Job Ticket level.

5 To work with Resources that are specific to a Job Ticket, expand the Job Jackets structure; create , duplicate , or import a Job Ticket; and then make sure the target Job Ticket is selected in the list on the left. Note that dimmed Resource categories represent Resources that must be specified at the Job Jackets level.

6 Select a Resource type in the top-right list. Existing Resources of the selected type are listed in the bottom-right list.

Use the Job Jackets Manager dialog box to view, create, duplicate, delete, import, and export

Resources.

Configuring Resources: Advanced mode

Once you've navigated to a Resource in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box, you can configure that Resource. Different options are available for different types of Resources in this dialog box:

• You can specify a location for most Resources.

• You can delete most Resources.

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• You can create and modify some types of Resources, but others must be created and modified using other parts of the QuarkXPress user interface.

• You can create, duplicate, delete, and configure layout definitions, Output Specifications,

Layout Specifications, Job Descriptions, Contacts, Rules, and Rule Sets in a Job Jackets structure.

In Job Jackets, App Studio layouts are represented by Digital layout resources.

If a Resource permits it, you can create and configure that Resource in the Job Jackets

Manager dialog box as follows:

1 To create a Resource of the type selected in the top-right list, click the New Item button in the bottom-right list. To rename the Resource, click its name.

2 If a Resource has an expander icon, click that icon to expand the Resource, and then configure the fields that are revealed. Some Resource fields include drop-down menus, while others allow you to enter values manually.

3 If a Resource has a button, click that button to create additional instances of the Resource.

For example, when creating a Layout Specification, you can click this button on the Spot

Color Resource to create additional spot colors.

Specifying the location of Resources: Advanced mode

Resources can exist in several locations:

• In Jacket: Stored in a Job Jackets structure, but not used in any of that Job Jackets structure's

Job Ticket templates or Job Tickets.

• In Ticket: Stored in a Job Jackets structure and associated with a Job Ticket template or

Job Ticket. If an "In Ticket" Resource is in a Job Ticket template that is associated with a project, that Resource is also available in the project.

• In Project: Stored in a project, but NOT associated with a Job Jackets structure or Job

Ticket.

You can specify the location of Resources as follows:

1 Access a Resource using the

Job Jackets Manager dialog box, as described in " Accessing

Resources: Advanced mode ."

2 Select the Resource in the bottom-right list.

3 Choose a location from the drop-down menu in the Status column:

• If the item selected in the left list is a Job Jackets structure, you can choose only In Jacket.

• If the item selected in the left list is a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket, you can specify whether or not the Resource is associated with that Job Ticket template or Job Ticket by choosing In Jacket or In Ticket.

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• If the item selected in the left list is a project, you can specify whether the Resource is defined only in the project ( Status = In Project) or uses the definition in the project's active Job Ticket ( Status = In Ticket).

Use the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) to specify where Resources are stored.

Working with Layout Specifications

A Layout Specification lets you define layout-specific information such as page size, page count, margins, spread information, bleed information, binding information, and so forth.

The standard procedure for working with Layout Specifications is:

Create a Layout Specification (see " Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode "). This

part of the job is typically done by a job definer.

2 Associate the Layout Specification with a layout using a Job Ticket template or Job Ticket.

This is typically done by the layout artist.

The topics below describe each of the above procedures in detail.

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Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode

Layout Specifications are Resources, and thus must be created in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box, as described in "Working with Resources: Advanced mode."

You can use the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) to create Layout

Specifications.

Applying a Layout Specification to a layout

You can associate a Layout Specification with a layout in two ways: by creating the layout from a Job Ticket template, or by applying the Layout Specification to an existing layout's active Job Ticket.

A job definer will typically add a Layout Specification to a layout definition in a Job Jackets file before the actual project and layout are created. Because a Layout Specification is a

Resource, you add it to a layout definition just as you would any other Resource (see

Working with Resources: Advanced mode

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To configure a Job Ticket template to automatically create a layout that follows a particular

Layout Specification, associate the Layout Specification with the layout definition using the

Job Jackets Manager dialog box.

A layout artist can apply a Layout Specification to a layout's active Job Ticket after the project and layout are created using the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets >

Modify Job Ticket). To add a Layout Specification to an active Job Ticket, click the Layout

Settings tab, select the layout in the layout list, and choose an option from the Layout

Specs drop-down menu.

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You can use the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket) to assign a Layout Specification to a layout in the active project.

Working with Rules and Rule Sets

A Rule is a test that is executed against the active layout when you choose File >

Job Jackets > Evaluate Layout.

Each Rule can test one condition. For example, a Rule might state that all text characters should be set to overprint. Rules also can include descriptions, policies (to indicate to the layout artist whether a given condition is mandatory, recommended, or forbidden), and instructions for fixing problem situations.

The standard procedure for working with Rules and Rule Sets is:

Create Rules (see " Creating Rules: Advanced mode

") and add them to a Rule Set (see "

Adding

Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode

"). This is typically done by a job definer, possibly working with an output specialist.

Associate the Rule Set with a layout using a Job Ticket template (see " Applying a Rule Set to a layout "). This is typically done by the job definer.

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3 Use the Rule Set to evaluate the layout (see "

Evaluating a layout

"). This is typically done by a layout artist.

The following topics describe each of the above procedures in detail.

Creating Rules: Advanced mode

To construct a Rule, first navigate to the Rule Resources in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box, as described in "Working with Resources: Advanced mode." Then use the Rule wizard, as follows:

1 Click the New button . The Edit Rule dialog box (the first part of the Rule wizard) displays.

2 Enter a name for the Rule in the Name field.

3 To indicate what kind of object the Rule should apply to, choose an option from the

Subject drop-down menu. Available subjects include all boxes, text boxes, picture boxes, text characters, lines, text paths, pictures, and fonts.

Use the Edit Rule dialog box to create rules.

4 To indicate what you want the Rule to check, check an option in the Conditions area.

The available conditions depend on the selected subject.

Repeat this step for each condition you want to include in the Rule. The conditions are combined with a logical AND operator. For example, to create a Rule specifying that text boxes should have a background of 50% Blue, choose Text Boxes and then check both

Background and Shade.

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5 Click Next to display the next dialog box in the Rule wizard. In this dialog box, you must specify the conditions that trigger the Rule (for example, "is not Overprint" or "is less than

10pt"). To configure each condition, click the expander to expand the item in the list, then choose options and enter values in the provided fields.

Use the second dialog box in the Rule wizard to configure a rule.

If a condition has a button, you can click this button to add additional clauses to the condition. Clauses are combined with a logical OR operator. For example, to specify that the indicated item should have a color that is either a CMYK color or a spot color, configure the first line to check for CMYK, then add a second line, and configure it to check for Spot

Ink.

6 Click Next to display the third and final dialog box in the Rule wizard. Use this dialog box to specify a Description of the Rule, a Policy (which determines what kind of icon displays if the Rule is broken), and Instructions for fixing the problem. The information you enter in Instructions is displayed when a layout artist chooses Evaluate Layout if the Rule is broken.

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Use the third dialog box in the Rule wizard to control what happens when a rule is broken.

Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode

Rules must be put into Rule Sets, which are named collections of Rules. A job definer can include one or more Rule Sets in a layout definition in a Job Ticket template. A layout artist working in a layout that is based on that layout definition can then evaluate the

layout using the Rules in those Rule Sets (see " Evaluating a layout "). To add a Rule to a Rule

Set:

1 Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu).

2 If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the Advanced pane.

3 Create or select a Job Jackets structure.

4 Select Rule Sets in the upper-right list.

5 Click the New button to create a Rule Set. The Edit Rule Set dialog box displays.

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Use the Edit Rule Set dialog box to work with Rule Sets.

6 Enter a name for the Rule Set in the Name field.

7 Select the Rules you want in the Available list and click the button, or click Include All to add all of the Rules in the Available list to the active Rule Set.

8 Click OK.

Applying a Rule Set to a layout

Once a Rule Set has been associated with a layout's Job Ticket template instance, the layout artist can evaluate the layout against that Rule Set (see "

Evaluating a layout "). You can

associate a Rule Set with a layout in two ways.

A job definer will typically add a Rule Set to a layout definition in a Job Jackets file before the actual project and layout are created. Because a Rule Set is a Resource, you add it to a

layout definition just as you would any other Resource (see " Working with Resources: Advanced mode ").

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To make a Rule Set available in a layout as soon as that layout is created, associate the Rule

Set with the layout definition using the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.

A layout artist can add a Rule Set to a layout after the project and layout are created. For

information on how to do this, see " Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Basic mode

(Windows only)

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A layout artist can use the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job

Ticket) to assign a Rule Set to a layout in the active project.

Evaluating a layout

Rule Sets, Layout Specifications, and Output Specifications provide tests that can be evaluated to determine whether a layout adheres to the specifications created by the job definer. The Evaluate Layout command lets you execute those tests and determine whether

(and where) any violations occur. This command also checks the layout against its layout definition, to verify medium type (Print, Web, or Interactive) and color management settings. Once violations are identified, a layout artist can decide what (if anything) to do about them.

Before you attempt to evaluate a layout, make sure the project is associated with a Job

Ticket that defines Rule Sets or Output Specifications for the active layout.

The Evaluate Layout feature is designed to highlight layout problems and indicate where they can be fixed. However, it cannot prevent a layout artist from making changes that violate the specifications and Rules defined in a Job Ticket.

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To evaluate a layout:

1 Choose File > Job Jackets > Evaluate Layout. The Layout Evaluation dialog box displays, with applicable Rule Sets, Layout Specifications, and Output Specifications listed. To expand a Rule Set, Layout Specification, or Output Specification and see its component Rules, click the expander icon next to it.

Use the Layout Evaluation dialog box to evaluate the active layout against Rule Sets, Layout

Specifications, and Output Specifications.

2 To edit the selected Rule, click its name and then click the Edit Rule button. Any changes to the Rule are written back to the Job Jackets file and apply to any other projects that use this Job Ticket.

3 To indicate that a Rule should be checked, check the box next to that Rule. To indicate that all Rules in a Rule Set, Layout Specification, or Output Specification should be checked, check the box next to the name of the Rule Set, Layout Specification, or Output

Specification.

4 To evaluate the active layout against the checked Rules, click Evaluate. The Cases column is updated to show whether the document passes each Rule check.

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5 To view more detailed information about a violated Rule, click its name and then check the Instructions and Details boxes. The Instructions box shows any instructions written by the Rule creator, and the Details box provides information about the project (such as whether it has been modified since the last evaluation).

The Layout Evaluation dialog box shows which Rules are passed and which Rules are violated.

6 To scroll the layout to the locations where Rules are violated, click the Show Case buttons.

This makes it easy to fix Rule violations.

You can configure QuarkXPress to automatically evaluate each layout when the project is opened, when the project is saved, when the project is closed, and when the layout is sent to output. For more information, see "

Preferences — Application — Job Jackets ."

Job Jackets locking

To avoid having two people attempt to edit a Resource at the same time, QuarkXPress locks shared Job Jackets files under the following circumstances:

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• When the user of a project that shares a Job Jackets file displays the Edit Job Ticket dialog box ( File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket), QuarkXPress locks that Job Jackets file.

• When a user displays the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu), QuarkXPress locks all Job Jackets files displayed in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.

• When the user of a project that shares a Job Jackets file creates, duplicates, edits, or deletes a Resource that is in the shared Job Jackets file, QuarkXPress locks the Job Jackets file. For example, if Tara is working in a project that shares the "Product List" Job Jackets file, and she chooses Edit > Colors and starts to modify a color that is in the project's Job Ticket,

QuarkXPress locks all shared Resources in the "Product List" Job Jackets file so that only

Tara can modify them.

When a Job Jackets file is locked:

• You cannot create a project from a Job Ticket template in that Job Jackets file.

• You cannot link a project to the Job Jackets file.

• You cannot display the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket) for a project that shares the Job Jackets file.

• You can display the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu), but you cannot edit the locked Job Jackets file or any of its Job Tickets.

• You cannot edit a shared Resource in the Job Jackets file. For example, if Tara has locked the "Product List" Job Jackets file, and Samuel chooses Edit > Colors and tries to modify a color that is in the project's Job Ticket, the color is dimmed and unavailable until Tara unlocks the Job Jackets file.

• You cannot add a layout or change the name of an existing layout in a project that shares the Job Jackets file.

• You cannot edit a rule from the Layout Evaluation dialog box (File > Job Jackets >

Evaluate Layout).

A locked Job Jackets file becomes unlocked at the following points:

• When the user with the lock closes the Edit Job Ticket dialog box.

• When the user with the lock closes the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.

• When the user with the lock finishes editing a Resource that is in the shared Job Jackets file. Using the example above, this would be when Tara clicks Save or Cancel in the Colors dialog box after changing the shared color.

Because of Job Jackets locking, it is important to display Edit Job Ticket and the Job Jackets

Manager dialog boxes only when necessary, and to close them as soon as you've completed any work you need to do with them.

If you display the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) and find that you cannot edit the Job Jackets file associated with your project, that Job Jackets file is probably locked by another user.

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Printing with JDF output

When you send a project to output, you can now indicate that a JDF file should be generated and stored wherever the output file is saved. (Note that if you are printing directly to the output device, no JDF file is generated.)

Use the JDF pane of the Print dialog box to specify that Job Jackets information be included at output in the form of a JDF-compliant XML file.

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Working with multiple languages

QuarkXPress is available in several language configurations. If your language configuration supports it, you can:

• Open and edit projects that use any supported character language. Character language is an attribute that you can apply to text to indicate which hyphenation and spell checking rules should be used with that text. You can apply character language at the character level — so even if a sentence uses words in two different languages, every word can be hyphenated and spell checked correctly. For more information, see "

Applying a character language ."

• (Windows only) Change the user interface and keyboard commands to any supported

program language. Program language refers to the language used in application menus and dialog boxes. Program language affects only the user interface; it does not affect spell

checking and hyphenation. For more information, see " Changing the program language ."

• (Mac OS X only) The program language is determined by your OS language at the time of install.

Any language edition of QuarkXPress can open, display, and output a project that uses

East Asian features. However, you can only edit text that uses East Asian features if your

East Asian Preference is enabled ( QuarkXPress/Edit > East Asian).

Applying a character language

The character language attribute determines which dictionary is used for spell checking and which rules and exceptions are used for hyphenation. When you check the spelling of text that uses different languages, each word is checked using the assigned language dictionary. When automatic hyphenation is enabled for a project that uses different character languages, each word is hyphenated using the appropriate hyphenation rules and hyphenation exceptions for that language.

To apply a character language to text:

• (Windows only) Use the Language drop-down menu in the Character Attributes dialog box ( Style > Character)

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• Use style sheets and the Character/Character Attributes pane of the Measurements palette.

Changing the program language

To specify the program language:

• (Windows only) Choose an option from the Edit > Program Language submenu.

• (Mac OS X only) The program language is determined by your OS language at the time of install.

Your menus, dialog boxes, and palettes change to the chosen language. Keyboard commands are based on the program language.

The program language has no effect on hyphenation and spell checking.

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XTensions software

You can use XTensions modules to add features such as palettes, commands, tools, and menus that augment just about every activity you undertake.

Working with XTensions modules

QuarkXPress ships with a default set of XTensions modules, documented in this chapter.

You can also install additional XTensions software developed by Quark or by third-party companies.

Most XTensions come in two parts: One file for the functionality of the XTensions module, and another file for its user interface. The name of the user interface module typically ends in "UI." XTensions modules that do not have any user interface do not have to have a UI file.

Installing XTensions modules

To install XTensions modules, place them in the "XTensions" folder within your application folder. Newly installed XTensions modules load the next time you launch.

Enabling and disabling XTensions modules

You might want to disable XTensions modules if you are short on memory or for troubleshooting purposes. To enable or disable an XTensions module, first choose Utilities >

XTensions Manager to display the XTensions Manager dialog box.

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You can use the XTensions Manager dialog box to enable and disable XTensions modules.

To enable a module, check the box next to its name in the Enable column. To disable a module, uncheck its box. The change takes effect the next time you launch the application.

Working with XTensions sets (Windows only)

If you find that you frequently enable and disable particular groups of XTensions modules, you can create an XTensions set that makes it easy to switch between these groups.

To create an XTensions group, first display the XTensions Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) and enable the XTensions modules you want in the group. Then click Save As and enter a name for the group. When you want to switch to this group, simply display the

XTensions Manager dialog box and choose the group's name from the Set drop-down menu.

You can also import and export XTensions sets with the Import and Export buttons, for situations where you want to share them with other users.

Custom Bleeds XTensions software

Bleed is the term used to describe items that are printed to the edge of a finished page.

Custom Bleeds XTensions software provides enhanced bleed functionality for QuarkXPress, giving you more control over how items will bleed.

To create a bleed in QuarkXPress, simply create items that extend past the edge of the page onto the pasteboard, and then specify how much of the area beyond the edge of the page should be printed. There are three types of bleeds:

• A symmetric bleed extends the same distance from each edge of the layout page.

• An asymmetric bleed specifies different bleed amounts for each edge of the page.

• A page item bleed prints all items that extend beyond the page edge in their entirety.

The bleed rectangle is the distance the bleed extends beyond the page boundaries, and is defined by the bleed values you enter. For example, if you create a symmetric bleed with a value of 2 picas, the bleed rectangle encompasses everything that is within 2 picas of each edge of the page. It is important to note that the Custom Bleeds feature automatically

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creates the bleed rectangle, but it does not automatically extend items into that area. You must position items so that they extend beyond the layout page edge to create the bleed.

Before you output a layout to film, take a moment to preview the layout to make sure the bleed will output as you expect. Choose File > Print > Summary. The graphic page icon on the top-right side displays the bleed area for the first page of the layout, and indicates whether any of the layout or bleed is outside the imageable area. Remember to add the bleed area to the layout dimensions when comparing the layout size to the imageable area.

Using Custom Bleeds

You can use Custom Bleeds XTensions software to create bleeds when printing, saving a page as an EPS file, exporting a layout as a PDF file, and exporting a layout in PPML format.

The procedure is similar for all of these output options, but some bleed options are only available for certain output methods.

• Print: The Bleed Type drop-down menu is in the Bleeds pane of the Print dialog box.

• EPS: The Bleed Type drop-down menu is in the Save Page as EPS dialog box. When you save a page as an EPS file, the Page Items and Clip at Bleed Edge options are not available.

This is because these options create a bounding box that includes any item extending off the page. This could result in a different bounding box for every page in a layout, which could lead to inaccurate output.

• PDF: The Bleed Type drop-down menu is in the Export as PDF dialog box.

Using Clip at Bleed Edge

When creating a symmetric or asymmetric bleed, you can use the Clip at Bleed Edge check box to define whether QuarkXPress uses the bleed value to clip items:

• If Clip at Bleed Edge is checked, QuarkXPress prints all layout page items and pasteboard items that are at least partially within the bleed rectangle, and QuarkXPress uses the bleed values to clip items.

• If Clip at Bleed Edge is unchecked, QuarkXPress prints all layout page items and pasteboard items that are at least partially within the bleed rectangle, and does not clip such items unless they extend beyond the limits of the printing device's imageable area. Pasteboard items that are not within the bleed rectangle do not print.

If you store items on the pasteboard, make sure they are placed outside the bleed rectangle when using a symmetric or asymmetric bleed. If they are within the bleed rectangle, pasteboard items may print on final output.

DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)

DejaVu XTensions software adds a list of recently opened projects to the File menu, either at the bottom or as a hierarchical menu from the File > Open submenu. This list enables

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you to access projects with increased speed and ease. You can also use DejaVu to designate default folders for retrieving text and pictures, and for opening and saving projects.

The File List feature adds a list of recently opened projects to the File menu, either at the bottom or as a hierarchical menu from the File > Open submenu. You can choose to display from three to nine recently edited and saved projects. To change File List settings, use the controls in the File List pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

Use the Default Path feature to designate default folders for the following File menu commands: Open, Import, Save, and Save as.

The Default Path feature does not work until you specify default paths. To do so, display the Default Path pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). Once you have specified a default path for a File menu command, the application uses that path whenever you execute that command.

Drop Shadow XTensions software

With Drop Shadow XTensions software, you can apply automatic feathered drop shadows to items and text in a layout.

There are two ways to apply drop shadow effects to active items: Using the Drop Shadow tab of the Measurements palette and using the Drop Shadow pane of the Modify dialog box ( Item menu). In either case, however, the options are as follows:

• Angle field: Enter a value between 180° and –180° in .001 increments to specify the angle of the "light source" causing the drop shadow.

• Synchronize Angle check box: Check this to synchronize the angle with other drop shadows in the layout for which this feature is checked. Changing the Angle value of any drop shadows for which Synchronize Angle is checked will affect all of the drop shadows for which the box is checked.

• Distance field: Enter an offset value for the item; the drop shadow offset is measured from the upper left corner of the item's bounding box.

• Scale field: Enter a value from 0 to 1,000% to specify the size of the drop shadow in relation to the original item.

• Blur field: Enter a value to specify how blurry the edges of the drop shadow are, with higher values creating fuzzier edges.

• Skew field: Enter a value between –75° and 75° to slant the drop shadow at a certain angle.

• Color, Shade, and Opacity: Choose a color from the drop-down menu and enter values in the fields to specify color, shade, and opacity of the drop shadow.

• Multiply Drop Shadow: This setting controls how the shadow is combined with its background. When this box is checked, the shadow color is combined with the background color or colors using a "multiply" blending mode, producing a darker result (similar to an

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overprint). When this box is unchecked, the color of the background is combined with the color of the shadow to create the intermediate shades you see on screen. In general, this box should be checked when the shadow is black (regardless of shade or opacity) but unchecked when the shadow is a lighter color.

• Inherit Item's Opacity: Check this to have the drop shadow reflect different opacities in the item, such as differences in the box background and frame.

• Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow: Check this to prevent a shadow from displaying through semi-opaque areas of an item — to keep a shadow from peeping through its box, for example.

• Runaround Drop Shadow: Check this to include a drop shadow with the text wrap contour specified in the Runaround pane (Item > Modify). The runaround Outset value is measured from the edges of the drop shadow. For example, if text is wrapping around a rectangular pull-out quote with a drop shadow, text will not overlap the drop shadow when Runaround

Drop Shadow is checked.

To create text with a drop shadow, put the text in a box with a background of None, and apply the drop shadow to the box.

When you apply drop shadows to several non-grouped items, the items can cast shadows on each other if they overlap. When you apply a drop shadow to a group, however, the group as a whole casts a single shadow.

Guide Manager Pro XTensions software

Guide Manager Pro provides precision controls for creating and editing on-screen guides.

You can specify a location for a guide, whether it's horizontal or vertical, whether it applies to a page or entire spread, a display color, and a view scale at which the guide displays.

You can edit, copy, and paste guides; mirror guides; create grids, rows, and columns of guides; create guides from a box; and add bleed and safety guides.

This XTensions software adds the Guides palette to QuarkXPress (Window menu).

See "

Working with guides ."

Using the Guides palette

The Guides palette provides powerful controls for manipulating guides.

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The Guides palette

The Guides palette works as follows:

• Controls across the top of the palette, from left to right, let you create new guides, mirror guides, show horizontal guides, show vertical guides, show only current guides, and delete guides.

• To sort guides by an attribute, click the column heading for that attribute.

• To add columns of information to the palette, choose an option from the Column Selector button at the right side of the list of columns.

• The Spread column displays a number for each page or spread in the layout. To display a page or spread, click that spread in the Spread column. To display a spread's guides in the palette, click the arrow next to the spread. To edit a guide, double-click it.

• To display a context menu of editing options, Control+click/Right-click in each column.

For example, the context menu for the Guide column includes the following options: Cut

Guide, Copy Guide, Paste Guide, Delete Guide and Select All Guides.

For information about the options in the palette menu, see " Guides palette menu

Regardless of whether guides are showing on-screen, you can work with them in the Guides palette ( Window menu) as follows:

• To view a page or spread's guides, click the arrow next to that page or spread in the Guide column.

• To view guides on all the pages or spreads, Option/Alt+click an arrow next to a spread.

• To display only vertical or horizontal guides, choose Show Vertical Guides or Show

Horizontal Guides from the palette menu. To display all guides, choose both.

• To display only page guides (horizontal guides limited to a single page) or only spread guides (horizontal guides that encompass all the pages in a spread), choose Show Page

Guides or Show Spread Guides from the palette menu. To display all guides choose both.

• To display only guides on the page or spread displayed in the project window, choose

Show Current Only from the palette menu.

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Guides palette menu

The Guides palette menu includes the following options.

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New Guide: Lets you create a new guide. See " Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro

• Cut Guide: Cuts the selected guide.

• Copy Guide: Copies the selected guide to the clipboard.

• Paste Guide: Pastes the guide currently stored on the clipboard to the active page or spread.

• Select All: Selects all guides on the active page or spread.

• Mirror Guide: Copies the selected guide to the opposite side of the page or spread.

• Delete Guide: Deletes the selected guide.

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Create Grid: Lets you create a grid. See " Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro

• Create Rows & Columns: Lets you create rows and columns of guides. See "Creating rows and columns of guides."

• Create Guides from Box: Lets you create guides from a box. See "

Creating guides with Guide

Manager Pro ."

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Create Bleed & Safety Guides: Lets you create bleed and safety guides. See " Creating bleed and safety guides

• Show/Hide Vertical Guides: Shows or hides vertical guides.

• Show/Hide Horizontal Guides: Shows or hides horizontal guides.

• Show/Hide Page Guides: Shows or hides guides on the active page.

• Show/Hide Spread Guides: Shows or hides guides on the active spread.

• Guides in Front: Toggles guides and page grids between being in front of page content and being behind page content.

• Snap to Guides: Turns the snap-to-guides feature on or off.

• Snap Distance: Lets you control the snap distance for the Snap to Guides feature.

• Edit Colors: Lets you edit the colors available for guides created in Guide Manager Pro.

• Import: Lets you import guides from an exported guide file.

• Export: Lets you export guides into a separate file.

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will always display). Choose a Guide Color and specify whether it is Locked so it cannot be moved with the mouse. Click Preview to see your guide on-screen before creating it, and then click OK.

The Guide Attributes dialog box

You can also display the Guide Attributes dialog box by double-clicking an existing guide in the layout.

• To create guides automatically from the boundaries of a box, select the box and then choose Create Guides From Box from the palette menu. Use the Create Guides From

Box controls to adjust the positions of the guides that will be placed at the Top, Bottom,

Left, and Right sides of the box. The remaining controls work the same as those in the

Guide Attributes dialog box.

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The Create Guides From Box options for creating guides around the rectangular boundaries of a box of any shape.

Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro

Guide Manager Pro provides a quick method for creating a grid of evenly spaced guides on pages and spreads.

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Guide Manager Pro makes it easy to create a grid like this one

To create a grid on the active page or spread:

1 Choose Create Grid from the Guides palette menu.

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Create Grid controls

2 In the Gridlines area, check Horizontal and/or Vertical.

3 If you want the guides to start at a specific location, for example within the margins, check the Start and/or End fields and then enter the distance from the page edges to start and end the guides.

4 To create evenly spaced guides, choose Number and enter the number of guides you want in the field. To create guides that are a specific distance apart, choose Step and enter the distance in the field.

5 Use the Type, Range, Color, View Scale, and Locked controls as you do in the Guide

Attributes dialog box (see " Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro

").

6 Click Preview to see the grid on-screen, and then click OK.

Creating rows and columns

Guide Manager Pro lets you create evenly spaced rows and columns of guides with gutters.

To create rows and columns of guides on the active page or spread:

1 Choose Create Rows and Columns from the Guides palette menu.

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The Create Rows and Columns dialog box

2 Enter the number of horizontal rows in the Rows field. If you want space between the rows, enter a value in the Gutter field.

3 Enter the number of vertical columns in the Columns field. If you want space between the columns, enter a value in the Gutter field.

4 To create guides inside the master guides, click Margins. Otherwise, leave Page Boundary selected.

5 Use the Type, Range, Color, View Scale, and Locked controls as you do in the Guide

Attributes dialog box (see " Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro

").

6 Click Preview to see the guides on-screen, then click OK.

Creating bleed and safety guides

If you need bleed and/or safety guides, you can add them with Guide Manager Pro rather than altering the page size or drawing your own guides.

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Here, red bleed guides are placed 9 pts outside the page while green safety guides are placed

9 pts inside the page.

To create bleed and/or safety guides on the active page:

1 Choose Create Bleed and Safety Guides from the Guides palette menu.

2 For bleed guides, check Bleed, enter a value in the Gutter field to specify how far outside the page to place the guides, and then choose an option from the Color menu.

3 For safety guides, check Safety, enter a value in the Gutter field to specify how far inside the page to place the guides, and then choose an option from the Color menu.

4 Use the View Scale and Locked controls as you do in the Guide Attributes dialog box

(see " Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro

").

5 To apply the bleed and safety guides to multiple pages, use the Spread Range controls.

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You can add bleed and safety guides to master pages and layout pages.

6 Click Preview to see the guides on-screen, and then click OK.

Item Find/Change XTensions software

This XTensions software adds the Item Find/Change palette to QuarkXPress (Edit > Item

Find/Change). You can use this palette to perform find-change operations on text boxes, picture boxes, no-content boxes, lines, and text paths. You can find and change attributes including location, shape, color, opacity, frame style, picture scale, number of columns, and more.

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The Item Find/Change palette

Item Find/Change does not support tables.

The Item Find/Change palette works as follows:

• Tabs across the top display the type of attributes you can search for: Box, Box Color,

Frame, Line, Picture, Text, and Drop Shadow. The attributes in each pane correspond to attributes in the Modify dialog box (Item menu) for each type of item.

• Each pane contains two sides: Find What and Change To. You check the attributes you're searching for on the Find What side, and then check those attributes you want to change on the Change To side of the palette. You can search on attributes in multiple panes at the same time.

• The palette menu lets you put the selected item's attributes into the Find What side of the palette. You can specify options in all the panes in the Item Find/Change palette by choosing Acquire All Attributes or complete one pane at a time by choosing Acquire

Panel Attributes. You can use Clear All Attributes and Clear Panel Attributes to clear panes.

• The Summary pane summarizes the settings in all of the panes.

• The check boxes at the bottom of the palette let you restrict your search to specific types of items. To find and replace all types of items, leave all of these boxes are unchecked.

• When you click Find Next, Item Find/Change searches the entire layout from start to finish. To limit a search to the active spread, Option/Alt+click the Find Next button.

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Item Styles XTensions software

Item Styles lets you save collections of item attributes — including color, frame style, line width, picture scale, and text inset — as named styles that you can apply from a palette.

Item Styles XTensions software adds the Item Styles palette (Window > Item Styles), the

Edit Item Styles dialog box (Edit > Item Styles), and the Item Styles Usage dialog box

( Utilities > Item Styles Usage).

Item Styles do not affect locked attributes of items (position, story, or picture). For example, if you apply an Item Style to an item whose position is locked ( Item > Lock > Position), the item will not move according to any X, Y values specified in the Item Style. When the item is selected, the name of its Item Style will display with a + next to the name.

Do not use Item Styles with the Shared Content and Composition Zones features.

Item Styles does not support tables.

Using the Item Styles palette

To apply an Item Style to all selected items, click the Item Style's name in the Item Styles palette. The New and Delete buttons let you add and delete Item Styles. The Update

button lets you update an item style definition based on local changes to the applied item style.

You can also apply an Item Style to selected items by choosing the Item Style name from the Style > Item Styles submenu.

The Item Styles palette

To apply an Item Style, select the target items and then click the name of the Item Style in the Item Styles palette. You can also press the keyboard command shown to the right of the Item Style's name.

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The Item Style applied to the selected item (if any) displays in bold in the Item Styles palette. If the name has a + next to it, the item uses local formatting that is different from what is defined in the Item Style. To remove local formatting from an item, select the item, click No Style at the top of the Item Styles palette, and then click the Item Style name again. You can also remove local formatting by Option+clicking/Alt+clicking the name of the Item Style.

To create, edit, duplicate, delete, import, or export Item Styles, use the Item Styles dialog box ( Edit > Item Styles). You can also edit Item Styles by Option+clicking/Alt+clicking the Item Style name in the Item Styles palette or selecting the Item Style and choosing

Edit from the Item Styles palette menu.

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of Control and Alt with the numbers on the numeric keypad, or any combination of

Control, Alt, and Shift with the function keys.

If you choose to use the function keys, you will override any QuarkXPress commands and system-level commands.

5 If you want to base this Item Style on another Item Style, choose an option from the Based

On drop-down menu.

6 If you're starting with a selected item, review the attributes listed in the Description area or click the tabs to review their settings.

7 To make changes to the Item Style, first click a tab, and then:

• Check Apply to include attributes from a tab with the Item Style. Then, check each attribute you want to include and modify it as necessary.

• Uncheck Apply if you don't want to include any attributes from an entire tab.

• Uncheck an individual attribute to remove it from the Item Style.

Checking Item Style usage

To see where Item Styles are used and where local overrides occur, choose Usage from the Item Styles palette menu. The Item Styles Usage dialog box lists each use of an Item

Style, its page number, and its status.

The Item Styles Usage dialog box

The options in the Item Styles Usage dialog box work as follows:

• To scroll to an item that uses an Item Style, click it in the Name column and then click

Show.

• If a selected item is listed as Modified, it has local overrides. Click Update to get rid of all local overrides.

• If your Item Style usage contains errors, click Show Errors.

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PDF Filter XTensions software

You can use PDF Filter XTensions software to do two things:

• Save a page or range of pages from a QuarkXPress layout as a Portable Document Format

(PDF) file. For more information, see "

Exporting a layout in PDF format

• Import a page of a PDF file into a picture box. For more information, see "

Importing a PDF file into a picture box ."

Importing a PDF file into a picture box

To import a PDF file into the active picture box:

1 Choose File > Import Picture.

• TrimBox: Uses the size of the page after trimming is done. This option does not include registration marks and is unaffected by any bleeds applied to the layout space when the

PDF is created.

• CropBox: Uses the size of the page plus space for any specified bleeds and space allotted for registration marks. CropBox equals the size of the layout space from the PDF Boxer

XT software standpoint.

• BleedBox: Uses the size of the page plus space for bleeds.

• MediaBox: Uses the size of the page, not including space for bleeds or registration marks.

2 Click Open.

The preview for a PDF page displays at the color depth specified in the Color TIFFs drop-down menu in the Display pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).

To preview a different page of a PDF file in the Import Picture dialog box, check the

Preview check box, and then enter the page number in the PDF Page field.

To find out which page of a PDF file was imported into a layout, display the Pictures pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu), and then check More Information.

Scale XTensions software

Scale XTensions software lets you quickly scale QuarkXPress layouts, items, groups, and contents similar to the way drawing programs scale objects. Through the Scale Settings dialog box, you can specify what gets scaled — text, frames, offsets, line weights, and more.

Scale XTensions software adds the following to QuarkXPress:

• Item > Scale lets you specify a new width, a new height, or both for the selected item, items, or group.

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• Window > Scale displays the Scale palette, which provides the same controls as the Scale command. In addition, the Scale palette lets you scale the entire layout. You can also scale the selected item, items, group, or layout up or down by 5% by choosing Increase Size or

Decrease Size from the palette menu.

Scale dialog box and Scale palette

Both the Scale dialog box and the Scale palette offer the following features:

• You can scale in terms of percentages of the item’s current size (percent), or by entering new dimensions (in current units of measurement). First, choose Percent or Units from the menus to the right of the Width and Height fields, and then enter appropriate values in the fields.

• To scale items proportionally, click the Constrain button . When you constrain scaling, the Height option is unavailable and items will be scaled equally vertically and horizontally according to the entry in the Width field.

• The Original and Scaled dimensions of the bounding box of the item or group are displayed

(in current units of measurement). These values are updated whenever you change a value in the Width or Height fields.

• To change scaling settings, click the Settings button in the Scale dialog box or choose

Scale Settings from the Scale palette menu. The Scale Settings dialog box displays. Each check box controls whether a particular item or attribute is scaled or not.

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Scale Settings dialog box

In the Scale palette, you can check Layout to scale the entire layout and everything in it.

Scale XT allows you to scale an item so that it is smaller or larger than QuarkXPress allows.

Such an item will print correctly, but if you attempt to modify it with QuarkXPress tools or commands, an error message will display.

Scale XT is not designed to work with all items synchronized through the Content palette

Window > Content). Instances of the shared item will inherit only width and height changes from Scale XT. In addition, do not scale entire layouts that include

Composition Zones.

Rotated items are scaled according to their original geometry. For example, if you scale just the width of a square box that has been rotated 45 degrees, a rotated rectangle is produced (rather than, as you might have wanted, a wider diamond).

Scissors XTensions software

Scissors XTensions software adds the Scissors tool to the Tools palette. You can use the

Scissors tool to cut the outline of a box and turn it into a line, or to cut a line or text path into two.

When the Scissors XTensions software is loaded, the Scissors tool displays in the

QuarkXPress Tools palette. To use the Scissors tool:

1 Select the Scissors tool .

• When a picture box is cut, it is converted to a Bézier line. As a result, the contents of the box are not retained after the cut is made.

• When a text box is cut, it is converted to a text path.

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2 Select the Select Point tool and click and drag the point to adjust it.

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Script XTensions software

When Script XTensions software is loaded, the Scripts menu is available in the

QuarkXPress menu bar. From this menu, you can run any AppleScript script in the "Scripts" folder in the QuarkXPress application folder. Script XTensions software makes a collection of AppleScript scripts available from this menu by default, and you can add your own

AppleScript scripts to the menu by adding them to the "Scripts" folder.

To use Script XTensions software, simply choose a script from the Scripts menu, and the script runs. The provided default scripts are organized into submenus.

Please note that although these scripts are designed to operate in as many workflows as possible, specific settings in your workflow might prevent them from operating correctly.

Therefore, we recommend that you save your layouts before running any scripts that affect them

Script XTensions software is for Mac OS X only.

Script XTensions software must be loaded before you can run any AppleScript scripts that affect QuarkXPress, whether the scripts are launched from QuarkXPress or from another location (such as the desktop).

Other required components include the following:

• Standard Additions Scripting Addition

• AppleScript Extension

Box Tools submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Box Tools submenu of the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Add Crop Marks to place crop marks around the selected box.

• Use Easy Banner to create a "banner" (text box) in the top-left corner of a selected box; you specify the text in the banner.

• Use Make Caption Box to create a caption box (text box) below the selected box.

• Use Shrink or Grow at Center to resize a box from the box's center, rather than from its origin (the 0,0 coordinates).

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Grid submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Grid submenu of the

Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

Use By Dividing a Box to create a grid of boxes based on the dimensions of the selected box.

Images submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Images submenu of the

Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Contents to PICT File to save the PICT preview of the selected picture to a file.

• Use Copy to Folder to save a copy of the picture in the selected picture box to a specified folder.

• Use Fldr to Select PBoxes to import picture files from a specified folder into selected picture boxes. Pictures are imported in alphabetical order.

Picture Box submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Picture Box submenu of the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Crop Marks & Name to place crop marks around the active picture box and enter the name of the picture file into a text box below the picture box.

• Use Place Name to enter the name of a picture into a text box below the picture box that contains the picture.

• Use Set All Bkgnd None to change the background color of every picture box in the layout to None.

• Use Set All Bkgnd to change the background of every picture box in the layout to a specified color and shade.

Saving submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Saving submenu of the

Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

Use Each Page as EPS to save each page of the layout as an individual EPS file with a color

TIFF preview.

• To save the pages of the active layout as EPS files, click Active.

• To save the pages of a layout in a different project, click Choose to display the Choose a

File dialog box, navigate to the target project, and then click Choose. The script saves the pages of whichever layout was active when the project was last saved.

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Special submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Special submenu of the

Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Move to Scripts Folder to copy or move a selected AppleScript script to a selected folder within the "Scripts" folder.

• Use Open Apple Events Scripting PDF to open "A Guide to Apple Events Scripting.pdf."

This PDF file contains detailed information about writing AppleScript scripts for

QuarkXPress.

• Use Open QuarkXPress Folders to open specified folders within the QuarkXPress folder.

Stories submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Stories submenu of the

Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Link Selected Text Boxes to link selected text boxes. The text chain order is based on the stacking order of the text boxes.

• To or From XPress Tags converts the text in the selected box to "XPress Tags" codes, or from "XPress Tags" codes to formatted text (the text is formatted using "XPress Tags" codes).

This script requires that the "XPress Tags" Filter be loaded.

• Unlink Selected Boxes breaks the links between selected text boxes while retaining the position of the text in the text chain.

Tables submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Tables submenu of the

Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Row or Column Color to apply a specified color and shade to every other row or column in a table.

Typography submenu

This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Typography submenu of the Scripts menu when Script XTensions software is installed.

• Use Baseline Grid +1pt to increase the size of the baseline grid (the space between gridlines) by 1 point.

• Use Baseline Grid –1pt to decrease the size of the baseline grid (the space between gridlines) by 1 point.

• Use Columns & Gutter Width to set the columns and gutter width (space between columns) for a selected text box.

• Use Make Fractions to convert all instances of numbers on either side of a slash (for example, ½) into formatted fractions.

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• Use Set Textbox Insets to specify the text box inset values for each side of the selected text box.

Shape of Things XTensions software

Shape of Things XTensions software adds the Starburst tool to QuarkXPress. You can use this tool to quickly and easily create star-shaped boxes.

Using the Starburst tool

You can create a star-shaped picture box in two ways.

1 Select the Starburst tool , and then click and drag.

2 Select the Starburst tool, and then position the crosshair pointer where you want the star-shaped box and click once. When the Starburst dialog box displays, enter values for the following fields, and then click OK:

• Star Width

• Star Height

• Number of Spikes

• Spike Depth: Enter the desired distance from the tip of the spike to the base of the spike as a percentage.

• Random Spikes: Enter a value between 0 and 100, where 0 is no randomness applied and

100 is full randomness applied.

Super Step and Repeat XTensions software

You can use Super Step and Repeat to transform items as you duplicate them by scaling, rotating, and skewing the items.

Using Super Step and Repeat

Use Super Step and Repeat to quickly and easily duplicate items while rotating, scaling, or skewing them. To use Super Step and Repeat:

1 Select a picture box, text box, text path, or line.

• To specify the number of times you want the item to be duplicated, enter a number from

1 to 100 in the Repeat Count field.

• To specify the horizontal placement of copies relative to the original item, enter a value in the Horizontal Offset field. A negative value places copies to the left of the original; a positive value places copies to the right of it.

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• To specify the vertical placement of copies relative to the original item, enter a value in the Vertical Offset field. A negative value places copies above the original; a positive value places copies below it.

• To rotate each duplicated item, specify the rotation value for each item in degrees in the

Angle field. For example, if you enter 10, the first duplicated item will be rotated 10 degrees from the original item; the second duplicated item will be rotated 20 degrees from the original item; and so on. The rotation is counterclockwise from the original item.

• To specify the thickness of either the final duplicated frame (for a picture box or text box), or the final duplicated line (for a text path or line), enter a point value in the End

Frame/Line Width or End Line Width field.

• When duplicating a box or a line, enter a value from 0% to 100% in the End Box Shade or End Line Shade field to specify the background color shade in the final duplicated box or the line color shade of the final duplicated text path or line.

• When duplicating a box that has a blended background, the End Box Shade 2 field is enabled. Enter a value from 0% to 100% in the End Box Shade 2 field to specify the second background shade for the blend in the final duplicated box.

• To specify the scale of the final duplicated picture box, text box, text path, or line, enter a value from 1% to 1000% in the End Item Scale or End Line Scale field.

• To skew a duplicated box, enter a value from 75° to –75° in the End Item Skew field to specify the skew or slant of the final duplicated box.

• To scale the contents of a picture box, text box, or text path scaled to fit the duplicate boxes, check Scale Contents.

• To specify the point around which rotation or scaling will take place for the item, choose an option from the Rotate & Scale Relative To drop-down menu. Note that Selected

Point is available as a choice in the Rotate & Scale Relative To drop-down menu only when a point on a Bezier item is selected.

2 Click OK.

Table Import XTensions software

You can use Table Import XTensions software to create a table in QuarkXPress using a

Microsoft Excel file as the data source, and you can update that same QuarkXPress table when the data changes in the Excel file. You can also use this XTensions module to import and update charts and pictures from Microsoft Excel.

When the Table Import XTensions software is active or loaded, the following additions display in the QuarkXPress interface:

• The Link to external data check box is added to the Table Properties dialog box.

• The Tables tab is added to the Usage dialog box.

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• The Insert Chart tab is added to the Import Picture dialog box and displays all the charts present in the workbook.

Type Tricks

Type Tricks is XTensions software that adds the following typographic utilities: Make

Fraction, Make Price, Word Space Tracking, Line Check, and Custom Underline.

Make Fraction

The Make Fraction command (Style > Type Style) enables you to format fractions automatically. This command becomes active when a fraction is selected or the cursor is placed adjacent to (and on the same line as) the characters that make up the fraction.

Examples of fractions that could be formatted are: 11/42, 131/416, and 11/4x.

To convert characters into a fraction, select the characters and choose Style > Type Style >

Make Fraction.

The characters in the fraction are converted using Baseline Shift and the formatting specified in the Fraction/Price tab of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences >

Application > Fraction/Price).

Make Price

The Make Price command (Style > Type Style) enables you to format prices automatically.

This command is available when text that can be formatted as a price (such as $1.49,

£20.00, and a.bc) is selected or the cursor is adjacent to (and on the same line as) any of the characters. A price must contain a radix (decimal symbol), which is indicated by a period or comma. Characters before and after the radix can be only letters or numbers.

To convert characters to a price, select the characters you want to format and choose

Style > Type Style > Make Price.

When you apply Make Price, QuarkXPress automatically applies the superior type style to the characters that follow the radix.

The appearance of converted fractions and prices is determined by the values and selections entered in the Fraction/Price tab of the Preferences dialog box ( QuarkXPress /Edit >

Preferences > Application > Fraction/Price).

Word Space Tracking

The Word Space Tracking feature enables you to apply tracking to word spaces only.

(Tracking values are normally applied between both characters and words.) This feature can only be accessed through keyboard commands.

Mac OS X

Tracking value

Increase space by 05 em

Command

Command+Control+Shift+]

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Tracking value

Increase space by .005 em

Decrease space by .05 em

Decrease space by .005 em

Command

Command+Control+Option+Shift+]

Command+Control+Shift+[

Command+Control+Option+Shift+[

Windows

Tracking value

Increase space by .05 em

Increase space by .005 em

Decrease space by .05 em

Decrease space by .005 em

Command

Control+Shift+@

Control+Alt+Shift+@

Control+Shift+!

Control+Alt+Shift+!

Word Space Tracking is applied by applying manual kerning after each selected space. To remove Word Space Tracking, select the text and then choose Utilities > Remove Manual

Kerning.

Line Check

Use the Line Check feature to find widows, orphans, loosely justified lines, lines that end with a hyphen, and text box overflow. Line Check (Utilities > Line Check) moves through a document, highlighting questionable lines.

To specify what Line Check should look for, display the Search Criteria dialog box

(Utilities > Line Check > Search Criteria) and check the categories of undesirable typography you want to search for.

To search the entire document, place the cursor somewhere in the text and choose

Utilities > Line Check > First Line. To search from the location of the cursor to the end of the document, place the cursor where you want to start the search and choose Utilities >

Line Check > Next Line or press Command+;/Ctrl+;. To continue the search, press

Command+;/Ctrl+;.

Custom Underline

The Custom Underline feature lets you customize the color, shade, width, and offset of underlines. Custom underlines behave much like type style underlines, but can be customized with more control over the underline attributes.

Custom underline styles work much like style sheets. To create, edit, or delete an underline style, choose Edit > Underline Styles. To apply a custom underline style, choose its name from the Style > Underline Styles submenu on Windows and from the Style > Type Style

> Underline Styles submenu on Mac OS X .

To apply a custom underline, select the text you want to underline and choose Style >

Underline Styles > Custom on Windows and choose Style > Type Style > Underline

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Styles > Custom on Mac OS X. In the Underline Attributes dialog box, you can specify the color, shade, width, and offset of the underline.

To remove a custom underline, select the text and then choose Style > Type Style >

Remove Custom Underline.

Word 6–2000 Filter

The Word 6–2000 Filter allows documents to be imported from or exported to Word 2007 and Word 2010 (.docx) formats. You can also import documents from Microsoft Word

6.0/95 (Word 6 and Word 7).

To export in .docx format, choose Word Document from the Format drop-down menu.

To export in .doc format, choose Microsoft Word 97/98/2000.

Cloner XTensions software

With Cloner XTensions software, you can copy selected items to the same location on different pages or in a different project. You can also copy pages into a separate project.

To use Cloner, first select the items you want to clone, or deselect all items if you want to clone pages. Next, choose Utilities > Cloner to display the Cloner dialog box.

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The Clone Source area lets you choose what you want to clone. Click Selection to clone the selected items, or Pages to clone a range of pages (specified in terms of absolute position).

The Clone Destination area lets you choose where the cloned content goes. Choose an option from the Destination drop-down menu:

• Current Layout: Copies the selected items to a different location in this layout.

• Quark File: Copies the selected items or pages into an existing QuarkXPress project.

• New Project: Copies the selected items or pages to a new QuarkXPress project.

• New Layout: Copies the selected items or pages to a new layout in this QuarkXPress project.

• Split to Single Pages: Creates a one-page project file from each page indicated.

• Split Layouts to Projects: Creates a single-layout project from each layout in this project.

• All Open Layouts: Copies the selected items to all layouts in this project.

• [Layout name]: Copies the selected items or pages into that layout.

Enter the target page in the To Page field.

If you are cloning a selection, use the Copies field to enter the number of copies you want to make of the selected items. For example, if To Page is set to 2 and Copies is set to 5, copies will be created on pages 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are working in a facing-page layout, the copies are placed on both sides of the spread.

If you are cloning pages, check Make section(s) to create sections in the page clones, then choose an option:

• Keep contiguous: Keeps all of the page copies in a single layout in the destination layout, even if they originate from different sections.

• Multiple sections: If the indicated page range includes section breaks, the section breaks are preserved in the copies.

If you are cloning into a new project or splitting into projects, check Copy style sheets to include all of the style sheets from the source layout in the new project or projects. If you do not check this box, only style sheets that are used are copied.

You cannot clone into layouts that are members of an App Studio layout. For more information, see A Guide to App Studio.

ImageGrid XTensions software

With ImageGrid XTensions software, you can automatically create a grid of images from a folder of image files.

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A page created by ImageGrid

To use ImageGrid with the active layout, Choose Utilities > ImageGrid. The ImageGrid dialog box displays.

ImageGrid dialog box

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To manually specify the size of the boxes that make up the grid, enter values in the Box

Size fields and then click Fixed size. (Box size values are ignored if you click Autosize to.)

Indicate the gap you want between images in the Gap field.

To specify how many rows and columns should be included in the grid and allow the application to size the boxes to fit automatically, click Autosize to and enter values in the

rows and columns fields.

To automatically size boxes depending on their proportions, with the values in the Box

size area as the maximum size, click Autofill pages using fixed size for limit.

Check Add picture info to add a caption text box under each picture box, indicating the picture file's name, resolution, dimensions in pixels, file format, and color space. To limit this caption to the name of the picture file, check Name only. To control the size of the caption text, check Info text size (if you don't check this box, the application uses font size specified in the Normal character style sheet).

To apply an automatic drop shadow to the picture boxes, check Apply Drop Shadow and enter a drop shadow offset in the Offset field.

The Box Shape controls let you specify the shape of the picture boxes. To use the default picture box attributes specified in the tool preferences ( QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences >

Tools tab), check Use Tool Preferences. If you do not check this box, the picture boxes will have a white background.

In the Picture Sizing area, choose one of the following options:

• Import at: Lets you specify the scale at which pictures are imported. To also change the size of the box to fit the picture, check Fit box to picture. Note that this may override some of the settings in the New Box Sizing and Distribution area.

• Fit proportionally to box: Fits the picture to the box proportionally.

• Stretch to box: Fits the picture to the box non-proportionally.

Check Process subfolders to include pictures in subfolders of the target folder.

To choose the target folder and start the process, click Process Folder. To start the process with the currently selected target folder, click OK.

Linkster XTensions software

With Linkster XTensions software, you can link and unlink text boxes without causing reflow.

To use Linkster, first select the items you want to link or unlink. Next, choose Utilities >

Linkster to display the Linkster dialog box.

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Linkster dialog box

Click Selection to unlink the selected items, or Pages to unlink a range of pages (specified in terms of absolute position).

To unlink stories, click Unlink, then choose one of the following options:

• Option 1 creates three stories: one for the boxes before the selected box, one for the selected box, and one for the boxes after the selected box.

• Option 2 creates two stories: one for the boxes before and after the selected box, and one for the selected box.

• Option 3 creates two stories: one for the boxes before the selected box, and one for the selected box and the boxes after the selected box.

• Option 4 creates two stories: one for the boxes before the selected box and the selected box, and one for the boxes after the selected box.

To link text boxes, click Link. If Pages is selected, this option links only those boxes that have been unlinked by Linkster. If Selection is selected, Linkster tries to link the selected boxes in the order you selected them.

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Click Keep text in same boxes to attempt to keep the text in the same boxes after linking.

ShapeMaker XTensions software

With ShapeMaker XTensions software, you can create a wide variety of intricate shapes.

You can create new shapes from scratch, or apply new shapes to existing boxes.

To display the ShapeMaker dialog box, choose Utilities > ShapeMaker.

The ShapeMaker dialog box provides tabs that let you create various types of shapes. All of the tabs have the following controls:

• Item: Lets you choose whether you want to create a text box, picture box, no-content box, text path, or rule path.

• Width and Height: Lets you specify the width and height of the box or path. If you have an item or items selected when you choose Utilities > ShapeMaker, these values are filled in automatically to match the selected item or items.

• Columns and Gutters: When Text Box is selected from the Item menu, you can use these fields to specify how many columns the text box should have and how wide their gutters should be.

• Lines and Spacing: When Text Path is selected from the Item menu, you can use these fields to specify how many lines to create and how far apart they are. (If a box is selected and Lines is set to zero, the application will create as many paths as are necessary to fill the area described by that box.)

• Alter Current Box: If a box is selected when you choose Utilities > ShapeMaker, the application updates the shape of that box instead of creating a new item.

The controls in the tabs are described in the topics below.

ShapeMaker Waves tab

The Waves tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you create boxes with wavy sides. To use this tab, describe the waves you want to use in the Wave 1 and Wave 2 areas, then assign them to the four sides of the box using the controls in the top part of the tab.

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Waves tab of ShapeMaker dialog box

The controls in this tab are as follows:

Top, Left, Bottom, and Right: These controls let you configure the four sides of the box.

You can choose Wave 1, Wave 2, or Flat.

Reset: Makes all four sides of the box flat.

L-R: Applies the Wave 1 setting to the left and right sides of the box.

T-B: Applies the Wave 1 setting to the top and bottom of the box.

All: Applies the Wave 1 setting to all sides of the box.

Keep waves parallel: Keeps waves on either side of the box parallel with one another.

The controls in the Wave 1 and Wave 2 areas let you choose which type of wave to use, the frequency of the wave, the phase (starting point) of the wave, and the amplitude

(depth) of the wave.

ShapeMaker Polygons tab

The Polygons tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you create polygonal boxes.

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Polygons tab of ShapeMaker dialog box

The controls in this tab are as follows:

The Type drop-down menu lets you choose what type of polygon to create. The controls immediately under this drop-down menu change depending on what type of polygon is selected.

• Regular polygons: Lets you specify how many sides the polygon has.

• Stars: In addition to specifying how many sides the polygon has, you can specify the radius of the space inside the spikes and superimpose a secondary star at a different size.

• Polygrams: Similar to Stars, but instead of specifying a radius, you can control the way the sides line up with each other with the Point Skip field.

• Spirograms: Similar to Polygrams, but creates only an outline.

• Random polygons: Lets you create polygons with randomized sides

• Golden rectangle: Lets you create a polygon with the golden ratio (approximately 1:1.618).

• Double square: Lets you create a polygon in the shape of two adjacent squares.

Edges: Lets you control whether the edges of the box are flat or curved. If you choose an option other than Flat, you can indicate the curvature of the sides with the Curvature controls. If you choose one of the Swirl options, you can indicate the direction of the swirl with the Orientation controls.

Randomize Points: Lets you control the degree of randomness in the shape, from 0 (none) to 100 (maximum).

New Random: Applies some randomness to the shape.

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ShapeMaker Spirals tab

The Spirals tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you create spiral shapes.

Spirals tab of ShapeMaker dialog box

The controls in this tab are as follows:

Type: Lets you choose Archimedes (an evenly spaced circular spiral), Golden Spiral (a spiral built with the golden ratio), or Custom (this makes the Winds field available, so you can control how many times the spiral goes around).

Rate: Lets you control how quickly the width of the spiral increases.

Clockwise and Counterclockwise: Lets you control the direction of the spiral.

Segments per wind: Lets you control how circular the spiral is.

Smoothness: Lets you control how smooth the spiral is. You can get a harder-edged shape by lowering the Segments per wind value and decreasing the Smoothness value.

ShapeMaker Rectangles tab

The Rectangles tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you create rectangular boxes with customized corners.

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Rectangles tab of ShapeMaker dialog box

In this tab, you can separately configure each corner of the box by unchecking Same for

all, or check Same for all and configure all four corners with a single set of controls.

Whichever way you do it, you can use the drop-down menu to specify a corner type

( Normal, Rounded, Beveled, Concave, Pointed, or Inset) and a diameter (for options that involve a diameter).

Curvature: Controls how curved the corners are if you select an option that includes curvature.

Balance: For some options, lets you control whether the corners lean toward the sides of the box or toward the top.

Radial: For some options, lets you control whether the corners of the box are aligned with the center of the box or not.

ShapeMaker Presets tab

The Presets tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you store settings that you like so that you can reuse them later.

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Presets tab of ShapeMaker dialog box

To store all of the settings in all tabs of the ShapeMaker dialog box, enter a name in the

Name field and click Save. An entry is added to the list on the left, with an image of the shape from the last tab you were looking at.

To load a set of saved settings, select it in the list on the left, click Use Settings, then go to the desired tab and create the shape you want.

To replace the settings stored with an entry, select the entry and click Replace.

To delete an entry, select it and click Delete.

To rename an entry, select it and click Rename.

To restore all tabs of the ShapeMaker dialog box to the settings they had when you opened the dialog box, click Revert All.

Other XTensions modules

This topic lists additional XTensions modules that are installed with QuarkXPress.

• Composition Zones: Enables the Composition Zones feature (see "

Working with

Composition Zones

").

• Design Grid: Enables the Design Grid feature (see "Design grids").

• EA Text: Allows QuarkXPress to open projects that use East Asian typography features, such as rubi text, grouped characters, East Asian character alignment, emphasis marks, and East Asian character count.

• Edit Original: Lets you open pictures with a default application and update modified pictures using Edit Original and Update commands for picture boxes and picture cells.

When Edit Original XTensions software is loaded, you can display the Edit Original dialog box by using the Picture Content tool to double-click a picture box containing an imported picture.

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• Error Reporting: Allows QuarkXPress to send reports to Quark when the application unexpectedly quits.

• GlyphPalette: Enables the

Glyphs palette (see " Working with the Glyphs palette

").

• HyphDieckmann (Mac OS X only): Enables and references the Dieckmann hyphenation resources in the "Resources" folder.

• Hyph_CNS_1, Hyph_CNS_2, Hyph_CNS_3 (Mac OS X only): Enables the Circle Noetics resources.

• Ichitaro Import: Lets you import Ichitaro documents.

• Index: Enables the Index feature (see "

Working with indexes

").

• Insert Placeholder Text: Generates random text. To create random text, select a text box with the Text Content tool and then choose Utilities > Insert Placeholder Text.

• Kern-Track: Enables custom kerning tables and tracking sets (see " Kerning automatically

" and "

Editing tracking tables ").

• Mojigumi: Enables the Mojigumi feature in East Asian projects (see "Mojigumi").

• PNG Filter: Lets you import pictures in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.

• PSD Import: Enables the Advanced Image Control feature (see "

Working with PSD pictures ").

• RTF Filter: Lets you import and export text in Rich Text Format (RTF).

• Special Line Break: Enables the Space between CJK & R feature in East Asian projects (see

Preferences — Layout — Character

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Preferences

Preferences let you control the default behavior of QuarkXPress.

Understanding preferences

The Preferences command (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) displays the Preferences dialog box. The Preferences dialog box contains several panes that enable you to specify default settings for the various functions of the application. To view a pane, click its name in the list on the left. There are three types of preferences:

• Application preferences apply to the application and affect the way all projects are handled.

• Project preferences affect all layouts in the active project. However, if you change project preferences with no projects open, the new preferences become the default settings for all new projects.

• Layout preferences affect only the active layout. However, if you change layout preferences with no projects open, the new preferences become the default settings for all new layouts.

Additional panes and options display in the Preferences submenu when certain XTensions software is loaded.

Nonmatching Preferences alert

The Nonmatching Preferences alert displays when you open a project that was last saved with kerning table information, tracking table information, or hyphenation exceptions that are different from the settings contained in the current preferences files. You have the option of using the settings in the project or those in the preferences files.

• If you click Use XPress Preferences, the preference information that had been saved with the project is ignored and all layouts are changed to the preference settings in your preferences files. Text might reflow because of different automatic kerning or tracking information or different hyphenation exceptions. Changes you make to these settings while the project is active are stored both in the project and in the preferences files. The advantage of the Use XPress Preferences feature is that the project will be based on the same kerning table information, tracking table information, and hyphenation exceptions as your other projects.

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• If you click Keep Document Settings, the project will retain the preferences previously specified for each layout. Text will not reflow. Automatic kerning, tracking, or hyphenation exception changes made while the project is active will be stored only with the project.

The Keep Document Settings feature is useful if you want to open and print a layout without running the risk of text reflow.

Changes to QuarkXPress preferences

Changes to QuarkXPress preferences are handled in the following ways:

• If you make changes to application preferences in the Preferences dialog box

( QuarkXPress/Edit menu) with or without projects open, the changes are saved in the preferences files and immediately affect all open projects and all subsequently opened projects.

• If you make changes to XTensions Manager settings (Utilities menu) with or without projects open, the changes are saved in the preferences files and affect all projects after you relaunch QuarkXPress.

• (Windows only) If you make changes to PPD Manager settings (Utilities menu) with or without projects open, the changes are saved in the preferences files and immediately affect all open projects and all subsequently opened projects.

• If you make changes to layout preferences in the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) with a project open, the changes are saved only with the active project.

• If you choose a different auxiliary dictionary with a project open, the change is saved only with the active project.

• If you make changes to the kerning table information, tracking table information, and hyphenation exceptions in a new project, these changes are saved with the active project and in the preferences files.

If the Nonmatching Preferences alert displays when you open a project and you click

Use XPress Preferences, changes you make to the kerning table information, tracking table information, and hyphenation exceptions will be stored both in that project and in the preferences files.

What's in the preferences files

The contents of the preferences files are as follows. The list is divided into three groups according to how the various preferences are saved.

Group A

Group A contains the following information:

• Kerning tables ( Utilities > Kerning Table Edit)

• Tracking tables ( Utilities > Tracking Edit)

• Hyphenation exceptions ( Utilities > Hyphenation Exceptions)

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Any changes you make to the settings in Group A while no projects are open are stored in the preferences files and are used for all subsequently created projects.

If the Nonmatching Preferences alert displays when you open a project and you click

Use XPress Preferences, subsequent changes you make to the settings in Group A are saved to both the project and the preferences files. (The project's original Group A settings are discarded when you click Use XPress Preferences.)

If the Nonmatching Preferences alert displays when you open a project, and you click

Keep Document Settings, subsequent changes you make to the settings in Group A are saved only with the project.

Group B

Group B contains the following information:

• Default style sheets, colors, dashes and frames, lists, and hyphenation and justification specifications ( Edit menu)

• Settings in the Project panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit >

Preferences)

• Path information for the default auxiliary dictionary: Windows (Utilities > Auxiliary

Dictionary), and Mac OS X (Utilities > Check Spelling > Auxiliary Dictionary)

Any changes you make to the settings in Group B while no projects are open are stored in the preferences files and are used for all subsequently created projects. Any changes you make to the settings in Group B while a project is open are saved with that project only.

Group C

Group C contains the following information:

• Output styles ( Edit > Output Styles)

• Settings in the XTensions Manager dialog box.

• (Windows only) Settings in the PPD Manager dialog box (Utilities menu)

• Settings in the Application panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit >

Preferences)

Any changes you make to the settings in Group C are always stored in the preferences, whether or not a project is open.

Application preferences

The controls in the Application panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit >

Preferences) affect the way QuarkXPress works with all projects, including how projects are displayed and saved. These settings are saved with the application and are never saved with projects.

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Preferences — Application — Display

Use the Display pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify how the pasteboard and other elements in the application appear on screen for all projects.

Settings in the Pasteboard area include the following:

• Use the Pasteboard Width field to specify the width of the pasteboard on either side of the page or spread in a Print layout. Pasteboard width is measured as a percentage of the layout width.

• Use the Color control to specify a color for the pasteboard.

• To display the pasteboard of the active spread in a different color, check Change Pasteboard

Color to Indicate Active Spread and then choose a color with the corresponding Color control.

• To display the pasteboard in a different color when you are in Trim View mode ( View >

Trim View), check Trim View Pasteboard Color and then choose a color with the corresponding Color control.

Settings in the Display area include the following:

• Check Opaque Text Box Editing to turn text boxes temporarily opaque while you are editing them.

• (Windows only) Use the Color TIFFs drop-down list to specify the color depth of screen previews created for color TIFFs when they are imported.

• (Windows only)Use the Gray TIFFs drop-down list to specify the resolution of screen previews created for grayscale TIFFs when they are imported.

• (Windows only) Use the Display DPI Value field to adjust your monitor so that it displays the best representation of your document on screen.

• Choose a profile that corresponds to your monitor from the Monitor Profile drop-down menu, or choose Automatic. Profiles can be placed in the "Profiles" folder in the

QuarkXPress application folder. (For more information about color management

preferences, see " Preferences — Layout — Color Manager .")

Preferences — Application — Input Settings

Use the Input Settings pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to customize scrolling and other "on-the-fly" actions.

• Use the Scrolling area to specify how quickly you can scroll through layouts and how layouts update on screen. (Windows only)Check Live Scroll to update the layout view as you drag the scroll boxes in layout window scroll bars. To turn Live Scroll on and off while you are scrolling, press Option/Alt as you drag a scroll box.

• Use the Format drop-down menu and the Smart Quotes check box to choose a style for converting and entering quotation marks. To specify the default characters to be used with the Smart Quotes feature and with the Convert Quotes option in the Import dialog box

( File > Import), choose an option from the Quotes drop-down menu. Check Smart Quotes

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to force the application to automatically replace foot and inch marks (' and ") with the chosen quotation marks as you type.

• Hyphens and commas are the default separators for indicating sequential and non-sequential ranges in the Pages field of the Print dialog box for a Print layout. If you specified commas or hyphens as part of page numbers in the Section dialog box (Page menu), you need to change the default separators here. For example, if your page numbers are "A–1, A–2," then you cannot specify ranges in the Pages field using hyphens. To edit the separators, enter new characters in the Sequential and Nonsequential fields.

• Mac OS X only: Use the Key Press Activates area to control what the Control key does.

Click Zoom to make the Control key temporarily invoke the Zoom tool . Click

Contextual Menu to make the Control key invoke a context menu. (Control+Shift performs whichever function is not selected.)

• Windows only: Use the Delay Before Live Refresh Drag field to set the time delay between clicking and dragging for live refresh. Live refresh shows any runaround changes caused by the moving item in real time. If this option is checked, you can activate live refresh by pressing the mouse button until the resize handles disappear and then dragging the item.

• Check Drag and Drop Text to cut, copy, and paste text in a story with the mouse rather than with menu or keyboard commands. On Mac OS X, you can temporarily turn on this feature by holding Control+Command before starting a drag. To cut and paste, select the text, and then drag it to a new location. To copy and paste, select the text; then press Shift while you drag it to a new location.

• Check Show Tool Tips to display the names of tools or palette icons when you place your pointer over them.

• Check Maintain Picture Box Attributes to make a picture box "remember" its scaling and other attributes by default when you import a new picture into the box.

• (Windows only) By default, you can input text directly into text boxes the same way you would in a system-supplied input window for East Asian characters. To disable this feature, uncheck Inline Input.

• (Windows only) To also allow OpenType fonts to be scanned when you click Scan Printer in the Fonts pane of the Print dialog box (File menu), check Enable OTF Printer Font

Scan.

Preferences — Application — Font Fallback

Use the Font Fallback pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control what happens when the application opens a project that uses missing fonts.

Check Font Fallback to activate the Font Fallback feature. When this feature is active, if the application encounters a character it cannot display in the current font, it attempts to find a font that can display the character.

If the application encounters a missing font when opening a project, it uses the preferences in this pane to determine which substitute fonts to use.

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If you add characters to an existing project and the font cannot support those characters, the application searches the system for a font that can display the characters.

Check Search to have the application search for a suitable font that is used in the active story. To restrict the search to a particular range, check Last and then enter a number in the Paragraphs field. To expand the search to the entire story where a missing font occurs, check Active Story.

To indicate which fallback fonts should be used when no other font can be found (taking the Search settings into account), choose an option in the Font column for each script/language listed in the Script/Lang column.

To indicate which font should be used for the slug line when a layout is printed with registration marks turned on, choose an option from the Slug Line Font drop-down menu.

Preferences — Application — Undo

Use the Undo pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control

Multiple Undo options.

• Use the Redo Key drop-down menu to specify which keyboard command invokes the

Redo command.

• Use the Maximum History Actions field to specify the number of actions that you can store in your undo history. The undo history can hold as many as 30 actions; the default setting is 20.

Preferences — Application — Open and Save

Use the Open and Save pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to customize how the application saves and performs backups.

• Check Auto Save to protect your work from system or power failure. When this option is checked, the application automatically records changes to a temporary file in your project folder after a specified time interval. Enter the interval (in minutes) in the Every minutes field. You can specify a minimum time interval of .25 minutes. When Auto Save is checked, the default setting is Every 5 minutes. The application does not overwrite the original file until you manually save ( File > Save). When you open the project after a system interruption, the application displays an alert indicating that the project will be restored to the last auto-saved version.

• Check Auto Backup and enter a value in the Keep revisions field to retain as many as

100 revisions of a project. Each time you manually save ( File > Save), the application copies the previous manually saved version to the Destination folder you specify. The default setting for Auto Backup is unchecked. Click Project Folder to store revisions in the same folder with the project. Click Other Folder and then click Browse to choose a different folder for storing revisions. Consecutive numbers are added to the file name for each backup. When the last revision is created (for example, 5 of 5), the oldest revision in the folder is deleted. To retrieve a backup from the destination folder, simply open the revision file.

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• Check Save Layout Position if you want the application to automatically remember the size, position, and proportions of your project window.

• Under Non-Unicode Support, choose an option from the Encoding drop-down menu to indicate how the application should display characters in non-Unicode text.

Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager

Use the XTensions Manager pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control when the XTensions Manager dialog box displays.

Preferences — Application — Sharing

Use the Sharing pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set the default options for new shared content. For information on the meaning of these options, see " Sharing and synchronizing content.

To always use the options specified in this pane when adding multiple items to the shared content space, check Do not display dialog when sharing multiple items.

Preferences — Application — Fonts

Use the Fonts pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify the following preferences.

(Windows only): In the Font Previews area, check Show in Font Menu to show each font name in the corresponding font.

In the Font Mapping area:

• To suppress the display of the Missing Fonts dialog box, check Do Not Display Missing

Fonts Dialog. The radio buttons below this check box determine what happens when you open a project that contains a missing font for which you have not defined a replacement.

• To specify a default replacement font, check Specify Default Replacement Font and choose a replacement font from the Default Replacement Font drop-down menu.

• To specify default replacement fonts, check Specify Default Replacement Font and choose options from the Roman and East Asian drop-down menu.

• To highlight characters that are in a Traditional Chinese encoding's UDA/VDA (User

Defined Area/Vendor Defined Area) range so that these characters can be visually verified, check Highlight character ranges defined by Traditional Chinese font vendors.

Preferences — Application — Text Highlighting

Use the Text Highlighting pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify the following preferences.

In the Missing Font Background area:

• Use the Color control to specify a color.

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• Use the Opacity control to specify an opacity value from 0% (transparent) to 100%

(opaque).

Preferences — Application — East Asian

Use the East Asian pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to enable

East Asian functionality.

Preferences — Application — File List

Windows only. On MAC OS X you inherit the OS level preferences.

Use the File List pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to customize the display of recently opened and saved files in the File menu:

• Use the Number of Recent Files to Display field to specify the number of recently opened and saved files to display.

• Use the File List Location area to choose which menu displays the list of recently opened files.

• Check Alphabetize Names to display the file list in alphabetical order.

• Check Show Full Path to display the location of the files.

Preferences — Application — Default Path

(Windows only) Use the Default Path pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to define a default location in the file system or on the network for Open, Save/Save

As, and Import commands.

Preferences — Application — Index

The Index pane enables you to customize the index marker color and punctuation for built indexes.

To change the color of the index markers, click the Index Marker Color button.

Use the Separation Characters settings to control how your built index is punctuated:

• Enter characters in the Following Entry field to specify the punctuation that immediately follows each entry in an index.

• Enter characters in the Between Page #s field to specify the words or punctuation that separate a list of page numbers in an index.

• Enter characters in the Between Page Range field to specify the words or punctuation that separate a range of pages in an index.

• Enter characters in the Before Cross-Reference field to specify the words or punctuation that precede a cross-reference (usually a period, semicolon, or space).

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• Use the Cross-Ref style drop-down list to select a character style sheet to apply to your cross-references. This style sheet is applied only to "See," "See also," or "See herein," not to the entry or the reference.

• Enter characters in the Between Entries field to specify the words or punctuation inserted between entries in a run-in index or at the end of a paragraph in a nested index.

Preferences — Application — Job Jackets

Use the Job Jacket pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify preferences for automatic layout evaluation and to indicate a default location for Job Jackets files.

Use the options in the Layout Evaluation area to control when QuarkXPress automatically executes the File > Evaluate Layout command. For example, by checking On Output, you can make sure that you always evaluate a layout before you send it to output. The options are:

• At Open

• At Save

• At Output

• At Close

Use the options in the Location area to specify where Job Jackets files are stored by default.

To save Job Jackets files in the default location, click Use Default Path for Shared Jackets.

The default location is the "Documents" folder on Mac OS X and the "My Documents" folder on Windows.

Preferences — Application — PDF

Use the PDF pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set preferences for PDF export.

Use the options in the PDF Workflow area to determine how PDF files are distilled:

• Click Direct to PDF to have QuarkXPress distill the PDF file.

• Click Create PostScript File for Later Distilling to export a PostScript file with PDF marks.

Using this option, you can later generate the PDF file using a third-party PDF distilling application. If you check this option, you can also check Use "Watched Folder" and specify the directory where PostScript files should be placed (presumably for automatic processing by a PDF distilling tool). If you do not check Use "Watched Folder," you will be prompted for a location for the PostScript file.

Mac OS X only: To increase the amount of virtual memory available for rendering large

PDF files during a PDF export operation, increase the value in the Virtual Memory field.

Use the Default Name drop-down menu to choose a default name for exported PDF files.

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Check Log Errors to create a log of errors (if any) during the creation of PDF files. When this option is checked, you can check Use Log Folder to specify where to save the log file.

If Use Log Folder is unchecked, the log file is created in the same directory as the exported

PDF file.

Preferences — Application — Spell-Check

Use the SpellCheck pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set spell checking options.

In the Spell Check Exceptions area:

• To exclude words that include numbers from spell checking, check Ignore words with

numbers.

• To exclude e-mail addresses and URLs from spell checking, check Ignore Internet and

file addresses.

• To exclude capitalization and spacing checks for words set to German languages — German,

German (Swiss), German (Reformed), and German (Swiss Reformed) — when spell checking, check Ignore capitalization for German languages.

• To exclude capitalization and spacing checks for words set to non-German languages when spell checking, check Ignore capitalization for non-German languages.

In the Reformed Languages area, check Use Reformed German 2006 to use reformed

German rules when spell checking text tagged with the German character language.

Preferences — Application — Tables

Use the Tables pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to turn on and off the Allow Anchored Tables to Break Automatically functionality.

Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price

Use the Fraction/Price pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to format fractions and prices automatically.

• In the Numerator area, the Offset option positions the numerator in relation to the baseline; the VScale option determines the height of the numerator as a percentage of font size; the HScale option determines the width of the numerator as a percentage of normal character width; and the Kern option adjusts the spacing between the characters and the forward slash.

• In the Denominator area, the Offset option positions the denominator in relation to the baseline; the VScale option determines the height of the denominator as a percentage of font size; the HScale option determines the width of the denominator as a percentage of normal character width; and the Kern option adjusts the spacing between the characters and the forward slash.

• In the Slash area, the Offset option positions the forward slash in relation to the baseline; the VScale option determines the height of the forward slash as a percentage of font size;

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the HScale option determines the width of the forward slash as a percentage of normal character width; and the Kern option adjusts the spacing between the characters and the forward slash. Check Fraction Slash to retain type size when you choose Style > Type

Style > Make Fraction.

• In the Price area, the Underline cents option places an underline beneath the cents characters and the Delete Radix option removes the decimal or comma character from the price.

Project preferences

The Project panes in the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) affect all layouts in the active project. However, if you change project preferences with no projects open, the new preferences become the default settings for all new projects.

Preferences — Project — General

Use the Project version of the General pane of the Preferences dialog box

( QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify default settings for auto picture import, single layout mode, and OpenType kerning (for OpenType fonts).

Use the Auto Picture Import drop-down menu to control whether the application automatically updates pictures that have been modified since you last opened a layout.

• To enable the Auto Picture Import feature, choose On. When you open a project, the application automatically re-imports modified pictures.

• To disable the Auto Picture Import feature, choose Off.

• To display an alert before the application imports modified pictures, choose Verify.

Checking Single Layout Mode with no projects open will automatically check the Single

Layout Mode check box in the New Project dialog box.

Check Use OpenType Kerning to activate the default kerning values for OpenType fonts.

When OpenType kerning is active, it overrides any kerning specified through Kerning

Table Edit (Utilities menu) for OpenType fonts.

To disable OpenType kerning for full-width characters, check Do Not Kern Full Width

Characters.

Layout preferences

The Layout panes in the Preferences dialog (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) box affect the way certain QuarkXPress features work with documents, including whether pages are inserted automatically when text overflows and how colors trap.

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Preferences — Layout — General

Use the Layout versions of the General pane of the Preferences dialog box

( QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify various default settings for page layout, such as the snap distance for guides and the colors of hyperlinks and anchors.

In the Display area:

• When you check Greek Text Below and enter a value in the field, QuarkXPress speeds screen redraw by "greeking" — displaying gray bars in place of text smaller than a specified size. Greeking does not affect printing or export. Text greeking is affected by the viewing percentage.

• Check Greek Pictures to enable QuarkXPress to display imported pictures as gray boxes.

Selecting a box that contains a greeked picture displays the picture normally. This option is unchecked by default.

Use the Hyperlinks area to choose the color for anchor icons and hyperlinks. Anchor icon colors are available for all layouts, whereas hyperlink colors are available for Print and

Interactive layouts only. You might want to choose anchor and hyperlink colors for a Print layout if you are planning to export that layout as a PDF file.

Use the Master Page Items area to control what happens to master items when master pages are applied. New master pages are applied to layout pages whenever you (1) drag and drop a master page icon from the master page area in the Layout palette onto a layout page icon in the Layout palette (Window > Show Layout); (2) delete a master page that is applied to layout pages using the Layout palette; or (3) add, delete, or move an odd number of pages in a facing-page layout.

• Click Keep Changes if you intend modified master items on your layout pages to remain when a new master page is applied. The items that are kept are no longer master items.

• Click Delete Changes if you want modified master items on your layout pages to be deleted when a new master page is applied.

Use the Framing area to specify whether frames are placed inside or outside text and picture boxes.

• When you click Inside, the distance between the text and the frame is determined by the box's Text Inset values (Item > Modify). When you place a frame inside a picture box, the frame overlaps the picture.

• When you click Outside, the frame is placed outside the box, increasing the box's width and height. The frame cannot extend beyond a constraining box or the pasteboard.

Print layouts only: Use the Auto Page Insertion options to determine whether pages are inserted automatically to contain text overflow from an automatic text box or a chain of text boxes (on a page associated with a master page that contains an automatic text box).

The drop-down menu also enables you to determine where any pages will be inserted.

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Preferences — Layout — Measurements

Use the Measurements pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify default measuring units for layout rulers and the Measurements palette:

• Use the Horizontal and Vertical drop-down menus to specify the measurement system for the rulers displayed along the top and left of the layout window. Horizontal corresponds to the top ruler; Vertical corresponds to the left ruler.

• Several other aspects of the user interface are affected by these two drop-down menus, including the default X and Y coordinates in the Measurements palette. QuarkXPress automatically converts font size, frame width, leading, and line width to points, regardless of the measurement system you choose.

• Use the Points/Inch field to override the default value of 72 points per inch. QuarkXPress uses the value here as the basis for all point and pica measurements, as well as for all pointand pica-to-inch conversions. The desktop publishing standard for points per inch is 72.

However, the traditional typographic standard used on most metal typographic rulers is usually approximately 72.27 or 72.307 points per inch (range = 60 to 80 pt, measurement system = points, smallest increment = .001).

• Use the Ciceros/cm field to specify a ciceros-to-centimeter conversion value different from the standard 2.1967 (range = 2 to 3 c, measurement system = ciceros, smallest increment = .001).

• Print layouts only: Use the Item Coordinates buttons to specify whether the increments of the horizontal ruler repeat from zero for each Page or are continuous across a Spread.

This setting determines the coordinates of items displayed in fields. The default option is

Page.

• Use the Measurement Units drop-down menu to set the default measurement unit for new layouts.

Preferences — Layout — Paragraph

Use the Paragraph pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control various paragraph-level settings.

Use the Auto Leading feature to automatically set line spacing. You can apply this setting to a paragraph by entering "auto" or "0" in the Leading field of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box ( Style > Leading). Unlike paragraphs with absolute leading (identical line spacing above every line), paragraphs with auto leading may include lines with different leading when fonts and font sizes are mixed in the same paragraph.

Auto leading starts with a base amount of leading, which QuarkXPress calculates by examining the ascent and descent values built into the fonts used in an auto-leaded line and the line above it; however, the user-specified text size ( Style > Size) plays the largest part in determining this base amount. Finally, a value specified by the user in the Auto

Leading field is added to the base amount to arrive at the total amount of leading.

To specify percentage-based auto leading, enter a value from 0% to 100% in 1% increments.

This value determines the amount of leading between two lines of text as follows: The

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largest font size in the line above is multiplied by the percentage value. This outcome is added to the base amount of auto leading between the two lines. Although the design of certain fonts complicates the process, here is a simplified example: 10-point text styled consistently in a "standard" font with Auto Leading set to 20% has 12 points of leading

(10 pts + [20% of 10] = 12 pts). To specify incremental auto leading, enter a value preceded by a plus sign (+) or a minus sign (–) from –63 points to +63 points using any measurement system. Entering "+5" will add 5 points of leading to the base amount of auto leading; entering "+5 mm" will add 5 millimeters.

Use the Maintain Leading check box to control the placement of a line of text that falls immediately below an obstruction in a column or box. If Maintain Leading is checked, the line's baseline is placed according to its applied leading value. If Maintain Leading is unchecked, the ascent of the line will abut the bottom of the obstruction or any applied runaround value ( Item > Runaround).

In the Lock to Grid Based On area:

• Click Ascent and Descent to lock text to grid based on the ascenders and descenders of characters.

• Click Font Size (Em Box) to lock text to grid based on the size of the em boxes of the characters.

For each language in the Hyphenation list, use the Method drop-down menu in the

Hyphenation area to specify the method QuarkXPress uses to automatically hyphenate paragraphs when no corresponding entry is found in your Hyphenation Exceptions dictionary. The setting you choose affects only paragraphs for which Auto Hyphenation

( Edit > H&Js) is enabled:

• Choose Standard to hyphenate using the algorithm built into versions of QuarkXPress prior to 3.1. Documents created in versions of QuarkXPress prior to 3.1 default to

Standard when they are opened in version 3.1 or later.

• Choose Enhanced to hyphenate using the algorithm built into QuarkXPress version 3.1 and later.

• Extended 2 uses the same algorithm as Enhanced but checks any built-in hyphenation dictionaries before resorting to the algorithm. Extended 2 uses the Dieckmann exception resources and algorithm for hyphenation. This option was first introduced in

QuarkXPress 4.11 for German (Reformed) and has been expanded to other languages in more recent versions. If available for a language, it is the default method for projects created in QuarkXPress.

Preferences — Layout — Character

Use the Sharing pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set the default options for new shared content. Use the Character pane of the Preferences dialog box ( QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify how QuarkXPress constructs typographic styles such as Superscript and Subscript:

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• Use the Superscript area to control the placement and scale (size) of superscript characters.

The Offset value determines how far below the baseline QuarkXPress places a superscript character. The Offset value is measured as a percentage of font size. The default value is

33%. The VScale value determines the vertical size of the character and is a percentage of font size. The HScale value determines width and is a percentage of the normal character width (as specified by the font designer). The default value for both scales is 60% (range = 0 to 100%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).

• Use the Subscript area to control the placement and scale (size) of subscript characters.

The Offset value determines how far above the baseline QuarkXPress places a subscript character. The Offset value is measured as a percentage of font size. The default value is

33%. The VScale value determines the vertical size of the character and is a percentage of font size. The HScale value determines width and is a percentage of the normal character width (as specified by the font designer). The default value for both scales is 100% (range = 0 to 100%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).

• Use the Small Caps area to control the scale of characters with the Small Caps type style applied to them. The VScale value determines the vertical size of the character and is measured as a percentage of font size. The HScale value determines width and is measured as a percentage of the normal character width (as specified by the font designer). The default value for both scales is 75% (range = 0 to 100%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).

• Use the Superior area to control the scale of superior characters. The VScale value determines the vertical size of the character and is measured as a percentage of font size.

The HScale value determines width and is measured as a percentage of the normal character width (as specified by the font designer). The default value for both scales is 60% (range = 0 to 100%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).

• Use the Ligatures area to use ligatures built into a font. A ligature is a typographic convention in which certain characters are combined into a single glyph. Most fonts contain ligatures for the characters "f" followed by "I" and "f" followed by "l". The Break

Above field enables you to specify the kerning or tracking value (measured in ½00 em space increments) above which characters will not be combined into ligatures. For example, a headline with a large tracking value would probably not contain ligatures. The default value is 1 (range = 0 to 10, measurement system = .005 [½00] em space, smallest increment = .001). To prevent the second two letters in "ffi" and "ffl" (as in office and waffle) from being combined into ligatures, check Not "ffi" or "ffl". Three-character ligatures for these combinations, common in traditional typesetting systems, are not standardized in fonts designed for Mac OS X, so some typographers prefer to keep all three letters separate rather than combine only two of them. Note that many PostScript fonts do not have "ffi" and "ffl" ligatures, but most OpenType fonts do. This option is unchecked by default.

• Check Auto Kern Above to specify that QuarkXPress uses kerning tables, which are built into most fonts, to control intercharacter spacing. The Auto Kern Above field enables you to specify the point size above which automatic kerning must be used. The Auto Kern

Above feature also implements custom tracking information specified in the Tracking

Values dialog box for a selected font (Utilities > Edit Tracking). This option is checked

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by default, with a 4-point threshold (range = 0 to 72 pt, measurement system = various [", pt, cm, etc.], smallest increment = .001).

• Check Standard Em Space to specify an em-space equivalent to the point size of the text

(for example, 24pt text has a 24pt em space). If Standard Em Space is unchecked,

QuarkXPress uses the width of the two zeros in the current font as the em-space width.

This option is checked by default. You can insert an em space in text by pressing

Option+space/Ctrl+Shift+6.

• Use the Flex Space Width field to change the 50% default width of a flexible space. To create a breaking flexible space, press Option+Shift+space/Ctrl+Shift+5; to create a nonbreaking flexible space, press Command+Option+Shift+space/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5. The

Flex Space Width value is expressed as a percentage of the normal en space for a given font and font size (range = 0 to 400%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).

• Use the Accents for All Caps check box to specify whether to include accent marks on accented characters with the All Caps type style applied. This option is checked by default.

• Use the Space between CJK & R field to indicate how much space should be included by default between a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character and an adjacent Roman character.

Preferences — Layout — Tools

Use the Tools panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify default characteristics for the Zoom tool and the Item tool , and to set defaults for items created by item creation tools.

Windows

• To configure Item tool options, select the Item tool and then click Modify. Use the

Shift + nudge Increment area to control by how many pixels the Item tool nudges an item. Use the radio buttons under Double-Clicking a Box to determine what happens when you double-click a box: You can choose to switch from the Item tool to the appropriate content tool or to open the Modify dialog box.

• To control the range and the increment of the view change for the Zoom tool , select the Zoom tool and then click Modify.

• To configure dragging options for the Text Content and Picture Content tools, select the combined content tool and then click Modify. Click Create Boxes to create a new box when you drag with a content tool selected. Click Select Boxes to select boxes when you drag with a content tool selected.

• To change the default attributes for items created by one or more related item-creation tools, select the tools and then click Modify.

• If you have modified the preferences for a tool and intend to change the preferences back to the default settings, select the tool(s) from the list and click Restore. If you have modified the preferences for several tools and intend to change all of the tool preferences back to the default settings, click Restore All.

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You set the default tool preferences for the layout directly from the boxes. To set the tool preferences, set up a box the way you want and then use Edit > Set Tool Preferences From

Selected to push the box's attributes to the tool preferences. Use the Edit > Restore Tool

Preferences to Default to restore the tool preferences to the default settings.

Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid

Use the Guides and Grid pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify various default settings for guides and design grids.

The Snap Distance field enables you to change the 6-pixel default distance at which objects snap to page guides when Snap to Guides is chosen (View menu) (range = 1 to 216, measurement system = pixels, smallest increment = 1).

In the Guides area:

• To specify default margin and guide colors, use the Margin Color and Guide Color buttons.

• Click In Front of Content or Behind Content to specify whether ruler guides and page guides are placed in front of or behind all items on a page.

In the Page Grid area:

• To control the minimum zoom value at which the master page grid and text box grids become visible, enter a value in the Zoom Visibility field.

• Click In Front of Content or Behind Content to specify whether the master page grid is placed in front of or behind all items on a page. If you click In Front of Content, you can also specify whether the master page grid is in front of or behind guides.

Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill

Use the Grid Cell Fill pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control how design grid cells are filled.

When you check

Show Full Cell in the Display Settings tab (see " Design grids: Display

Settings tab

") for a grid style or master page grid, you can designate one of the cells in the sequence to be filled with the color that outlines other cells in the grid. To designate the cell number and positioning in the sequence, use the controls in the Grid Cell Fill pane in the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences):

• To specify which cells will be filled, check Increment Fill and enter a value in the field.

For example, to fill cells four, eight, and twelve, enter 4 .

• To restart cell counting at the beginning of each line in a text box, click Start of Line. To start cell counting from the beginning of the story and continue counting regardless of line breaks, click Start of Story.

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Preferences — Layout — Color Manager

Use the Color Manager panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to define colors so they display or output consistently across all devices.

In the Source Options area:

• Use the Source Setup drop-down menu to specify the source color space of pictures and colors used in QuarkXPress.

• To enable the Profile Information command in the Window menu and the Color

Management tab in the Import Picture dialog box, check Enable access to image profiles.

This option allows you to view information about profiles.

Print layouts only: To specify how layouts display when you use the View > Proof Output submenu, use the options in the Soft Proofing area:

• To specify a default proof output setup, choose an option from the Proof Output drop-down menu.

• To specify a rendering intent for soft proofing, choose an option from the Rendering

Intent drop-down list. Perceptual scales all the colors in the source gamut so that they all fit within the destination gamut. Relative Colorimetric retains colors that are in both the source gamut and the destination gamut. The only source colors that are changed are those that are not within the destination gamut. Saturation considers the saturation of source colors and changes them to colors with the same relative saturation in the destination gamut.

Absolute Colorimetric retains colors that are in both the source gamut and the destination gamut. Colors that are outside the destination gamut are adjusted in relation to how they would look when printed on white paper. Defined by Sources uses the rendering intents defined in source setup for all colors and images.

Print layouts only: In the Vector EPS/PDF Files area:

• To color manage vector content in imported EPS and PDF files, check Color Manage

Vector EPS/PDF. Note that this preference applies only to EPS and PDF files imported after this box is checked.

• To color manage vector content in EPS and PDF files that have already been imported in the active project, check Include Existing Vector EPS/PDF in Layout.

Preferences — Layout — Layers

Use the Layers pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify the settings used when a new layer is created.

• To make new layers visible by default, check Visible.

• To suppress the printout of new layers by default, check Suppress Output.

• To make new layers locked by default, check Locked.

• To maintain runaround on new layers so that text on visible layers flows around items on hidden layers, click Keep Runaround.

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