8.5
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- Changes in this version
- Getting started
- Using the Web interface
- Understanding rendering
- Understanding render types
- Understanding render modifiers
- Using content modifiers
- Using XML modify
- Using XML deconstruct and construct
- Deconstructing a project
- Constructing a project
- Working with pages and spreads
- Working with layers
- Working with boxes
- Working with groups
- Working with pictures
- Working with text
- Working with tables
- Working with sections
- Working with Composition Zones
- Using XSL transformation
- Working with lists
- Working with anchored boxes
- Working with placeholders
- Working with metadata
- Working with hidden text
- Using administrative request handlers
- Modifier DTD (annotated)
- Entities (Modifier DTD)
- PROJECT (Modifier DTD)
- SAVEAS (Modifier DTD)
- LAYOUT (Modifier DTD)
- ID (Modifier DTD)
- LAYOUTPROPERTY (Modifier DTD)
- COLUMNGUIDES (Modifier DTD)
- ARTICLE (Modifier DTD)
- COMPONENT (Modifier DTD)
- SPREAD (Modifier DTD)
- PAGE (Modifier DTD)
- SECTION (Modifier DTD)
- BOX (Modifier DTD)
- METADATA (Modifier DTD)
- VALUE (Modifier DTD)
- TEXT (Modifier DTD)
- INSET (Modifier DTD)
- STORY (Modifier DTD)
- COPYFIT (Modifier DTD)
- PARAGRAPH (Modifier DTD)
- TEXTNODEPH (Modifier DTD)
- TEXTPH (Modifier DTD)
- GROUPCHARACTERS (Modifier DTD)
- FORMAT (Modifier DTD)
- KEEPLINESTOGETHER (Modifier DTD)
- DROPCAP (Modifier DTD)
- LOCKTOGRID (Modifier DTD)
- TABSPEC (Modifier DTD)
- TAB (Modifier DTD)
- RULE (Modifier DTD)
- HIDDEN (Modifier DTD)
- RICHTEXT (Modifier DTD)
- RUBITEXT (Modifier DTD)
- ANCHOREDBOXREF (Modifier DTD)
- LINKEDBOX (Modifier DTD)
- OVERMATTER (Modifier DTD)
- PICTURE (Modifier DTD)
- CLIPPING (Modifier DTD)
- SPLINESHAPE (Modifier DTD)
- CONTOURS (Modifier DTD)
- CONTOUR (Modifier DTD)
- VERTICES (Modifier DTD)
- VERTEX (Modifier DTD)
- LEFTCONTROLPOINT (Modifier DTD)
- VERTEXPOINT (Modifier DTD)
- RIGHTCONTROLPOINT (Modifier DTD)
- GEOMETRY (Modifier DTD)
- FIT (Modifier DTD)
- MAX (Modifier DTD)
- MIN (Modifier DTD)
- LOCATION (Modifier DTD)
- SIZE (Modifier DTD)
- SCALETO (Modifier DTD)
- RELPOSITION (Modifier DTD)
- ORIGIN (Modifier DTD)
- WIDTH (Modifier DTD)
- HEIGHT(Modifier DTD)
- POSITION (Modifier DTD)
- MOVEUP (Modifier DTD)
- MOVEDOWN (Modifier DTD)
- MOVELEFT (Modifier DTD)
- MOVERIGHT (Modifier DTD)
- GROWACROSS (Modifier DTD)
- GROWDOWN (Modifier DTD)
- SHRINKACROSS (Modifier DTD)
- SHRINKDOWN (Modifier DTD)
- ALLOWBOXONTOPASTEBOARD (Modifier DTD)
- ALLOWBOXOFFPAGE (Modifier DTD)
- STACKINGORDER (Modifier DTD)
- SUPPRESSOUTPUT (Modifier DTD)
- TOP (Modifier DTD)
- LEFT (Modifier DTD)
- BOTTOM (Modifier DTD)
- RIGHT (Modifier DTD)
- RUNAROUND (Modifier DTD)
- LAYER (Modifier DTD)
- RGBCOLOR (Modifier DTD)
- LINESTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- CONTENTPH (Modifier DTD)
- CONTENT (Modifier DTD)
- SHADOW (Modifier DTD)
- FRAME (Modifier DTD)
- PLACEHOLDER (Modifier DTD)
- TABLE (Modifier DTD)
- PARENTTABLE (Modifier DTD)
- TABLEBREAK (Modifier DTD)
- CHILDID (Modifier DTD)
- ADDCELLS (Modifier DTD)
- DELETECELLS (Modifier DTD)
- COLSPEC (Modifier DTD)
- COLUMN (Modifier DTD)
- ROW (Modifier DTD)
- HEADER (Modifier DTD)
- FOOTER (Modifier DTD)
- CELL (Modifier DTD)
- GRID (Modifier DTD)
- GRIDLINE (Modifier DTD)
- GROUP (Modifier DTD)
- BOXREF (Modifier DTD)
- COMPOSITIONZONE (Modifier DTD)
- LIST (Modifier DTD)
- RUBI (Modifier DTD)
- Sample applications
- Contacting Quark
- Legal notices
- Index
For example, to create a master page based on the first user-defined master page in the
Job Jackets file, you could use XML like the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<PROJECT JOBJACKET=" file://brochures/BrochureJJ.xml"
JOBTICKET="Tall US Brochure Ticket"
PROJECTNAME="project1.qxp">
<LAYOUT>
<ID NAME="Layout 1"/>
<SPREAD>
<ID UID="1" />
<PAGE MASTER="3" POSITION="LEFTOFSPINE">
<ID UID="2" />
</PAGE>
...
Note that each page has a POSITION attribute that indicates where that page falls with
regard to the spine.
Working with layers
To create a layer in XML, use the LAYER element. For example:
<LAYER KEEPRUNAROUND="true" LOCKED="false"
SUPPRESS="false" VISIBLE="true">
<ID NAME="Layer 1" />
</LAYER>
The RGBCOLOR element defines the layer's color as displayed in the Layers palette.
You can assign items to a layer using the GEOMETRY element, which is a child of the BOX
and TABLE elements. For example:
BOX BOXTYPE="CT_TEXT" COLOR="White">
<ID NAME="Main Layer" />
<GEOMETRY LAYER="Default" PAGE="1" SHAPE="SH_RECT">
<POSITION>
<TOP>90</TOP>
<LEFT>95</LEFT>
<BOTTOM>190</BOTTOM>
<RIGHT>195</RIGHT>
</POSITION>
</GEOMETRY>
</BOX>
Working with boxes
To add text and pictures to a project, you must add text boxes and picture boxes to the
project’s <SPREAD> element. Both are represented by <BOX> elements, but text boxes have
a BOXTYPE attribute of CT_TEXT, and picture boxes have a BOXTYPE attribute of CT_PICT.
You can read about how <BOX> elements are put together in the Modifier DTD, but for
purposes of illustration, the sample XML below describes a spread that contains a text box
and a picture box.
<SPREAD>
<ID UID="1" />
<!-- TEXT BOX -->
<BOX BOXTYPE="CT_TEXT" COLOR="White">
<ID NAME="Headline Box" />
<GEOMETRY LAYER="Default" PAGE="1" SHAPE="SH_RECT">
<POSITION>
<TOP>200</TOP>
<LEFT>80</LEFT>
<BOTTOM>450</BOTTOM>
<RIGHT>475</RIGHT>
</POSITION>
</GEOMETRY>
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