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Contents
About this guide
- What we're assuming about you
- Where to go for help
- Conventions
- Technology note
The user interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
Projects and layouts
- Working with projects
- Working with layouts
  - Project-level and layout-level resources
- Working with guides
- Undoing and redoing actions
Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
  - Import/export filters
  - Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Finding and changing text
  - Special character codes
- Checking spelling
  - Auxiliary dictionaries
- Counting words and characters
- Applying character attributes
  - Applying a font
  - Choosing a font size
  - Applying type styles
  - Applying color, shade, and opacity
  - Applying horizontal or vertical scale
  - Applying baseline shift
  - Applying emphasis
  - Controlling half-width characters
  - Counting characters
  - Working with font sets
  - Working with grouped characters
  - Aligning characters on a line
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
  - Working with non-breaking character sets
- Controlling kerning
  - Kerning manually
  - Kerning automatically
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
  - Specifying hyphenation exceptions
  - Hyphenation exception files
  - Using discretionary hyphens
- Controlling tracking
  - Tracking manually
  - Editing tracking tables
  - Sending
- Working with style sheets
  - Creating and editing paragraph style sheets
  - Creating and editing character style sheets
  - Applying style sheets
  - Appending style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
  - Creating a conditional style
  - Applying a conditional style
  - Removing conditional styles
  - Using conditional style markers
  - Editing a conditional style
- Bullets and numbering
  - Working with bullet styles
  - Working with numbering styles
  - Working with outline styles
  - Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets
- Positioning text in text boxes
  - Using baseline grid
  - Aligning text vertically
  - Specifying text inset
  - Specifying story direction
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
  - Running text around all sides of an item
  - Running text around lines and text paths
  - Running text around text boxes
  - Running text around pictures
  - Fine-tuning a runaround path
  - Editing a runaround path
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
  - Anchoring boxes and lines in text
  - Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines
  - Unanchoring boxes and lines
- Working with OpenType fonts
  - Applying OpenType styles
  - Using ligatures
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
  - Inserting spaces
  - Inserting other special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
  - Understanding design grids
  - Design grid basics
  - Working with grid styles
    - Creating grid styles
    - Applying a grid style to a text box
  - Using design grids
- Working with rubi text
  - Rubi alignment options
  - Mono rubi
  - Rubi base alignment options
  - Rubi overhang options
- Working with hanging characters
  - Creating hanging character classes
  - Creating hanging character sets
  - Applying hanging character sets
- Working with mojigumi sets and classes
  - Creating and editing mojigumi character classes
  - Creating and editing mojigumi sets
  - Applying mojigumi sets
- Character mapping for legacy projects
  - Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters
  - Mapping for projects that use custom characters
Pictures
- Working with pictures
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Working with drop shadows
Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
  - Understanding Composition Zones
    - Composition Zones terminology
  - Creating a Composition Zones item
- Placing a Composition Zones item
- Editing a composition layout: Content
- Editing the contents of a composition layout
- Unsynchronizing a composition layout
- Deleting a composition layout
Notes
- Creating notes
- Working with notes
Redline
- Tracking changes
- Viewing tracked changes
- Accepting and rejecting changes
eBooks
- Working with Reflow view
- Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks
- Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle
- Working with eBook metadata
- Exporting for ePub
  - Specifying CSS for ePub export
- Exporting for Kindle
Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
  - Basic mode and Advanced mode
  - Creating Job Jackets files
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
  - Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode
  - Applying a Layout Specification to a layout
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
Working with multiple languages
- Applying a character language
- Changing the program language
XTensions software
- Working with XTensions modules
  - Installing XTensions modules
  - Enabling and disabling XTensions modules
  - Working with XTensions sets (Windows only)
- Custom Bleeds XTensions software
  - Using Custom Bleeds
  - Using Clip at Bleed Edge
- DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
  - Using the Guides palette
  - Guides palette menu
  - Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro
  - Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro
  - Creating rows and columns
  - Creating bleed and safety guides
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Item Styles XTensions software
  - Using the Item Styles palette
  - Creating Item Styles
  - Checking Item Style usage
- PDF Filter XTensions software
  - Importing a PDF file into a picture box
- Scale XTensions software
- Scissors XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
  - Box Tools submenu
  - Grid submenu
  - Images submenu
  - Picture Box submenu
  - Saving submenu
  - Special submenu
  - Stories submenu
  - Tables submenu
  - Typography submenu
- Shape of Things XTensions software
  - Using the Starburst tool
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
  - Using Super Step and Repeat
- Table Import XTensions software
- Type Tricks
  - Make Fraction
  - Make Price
  - Word Space Tracking
  - Line Check
  - Custom Underline
- Word 6–2000 Filter
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
- ShapeMaker XTensions software
  - ShapeMaker Waves tab
  - ShapeMaker Polygons tab
  - ShapeMaker Spirals tab
  - ShapeMaker Rectangles tab
  - ShapeMaker Presets tab
- Other XTensions modules
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Legal notices
Index

(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.

• 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

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