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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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