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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.
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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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