Setting Defaults
Setting Defaults
QuarkXPress uses a variety of default settings as the basis for all new documents. These default settings include style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, dashes and stripes, and the default auxiliary dictionary. You can modify the default settings by changing them when no documents are open. If you change any of these default settings when a document is open, the change is saved only with the document. To modify the application default settings:
1 Make sure no documents are open; then choose an option from the
Edit menu to modify the default settings: Style Sheets, Colors, H&Js,
Lists, or Dashes & Stripes. For specific information about the controls in any of the dialog boxes mentioned, see the “Edit Menu” and the
“Utilities Menu” sections in Chapter 3, “Menus and Dialog Boxes.”
• Style Sheets: Edit the
π Normal paragraph style sheet and the Ø Normal character style sheet (the default style sheets for all new text boxes). Create new style sheets to include with all new documents.
• Colors: Create colors to include with all new documents and delete colors that will not be used (for example, you may want to delete
Red, Green, and Blue). You cannot edit or delete Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow, or Black. You can edit, but not delete, Registration. You can edit the default trapping for colors as well.
• H&Js: Edit the Standard H&J specification to specify default automatic hyphenation rules and word and character spacing values.
The Normal style sheet uses the Standard H&J specification by default. Create new H&Js to include with all new documents.
• Lists: Lists are generated from text that uses the paragraph style sheets you specify. Create new lists to include with all new documents.
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Settings retained by QuarkXPress
Each time you create a new document, all the settings in the New
Document dialog box (File
&
New
& Document) become the new default settings. Any palettes that are open when you quit
QuarkXPress, including library palettes, will be open the next time you launch QuarkXPress.
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Saving defaults and preferences
To provide maximum flexibility,
QuarkXPress saves various defaults and preferences in different ways.
Default settings such as style sheets are saved in the XPress Preferences file. See “Saving XPress Preferences” in this chapter.
• Dashes & Stripes: Edit the default line and frame patterns and create new patterns to include with all new documents. You cannot edit or delete the Solid line.
2 To choose a default auxiliary dictionary for all new documents, choose Utilities
& Auxiliary Dictionary. Use the dialog box to locate an auxiliary dictionary and click Open. Or, click New to create a default auxiliary dictionary.
3 When you are finished modifying default settings, create a new document. All your modifications are reflected in the new document. You can still modify these settings in individual documents.
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