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• Click Delete Changes if you want modified master items on your layout pages to be
deleted when a new master page is applied.
Use the Framing area to specify whether frames are placed inside or outside text and
picture boxes.
• When you click Inside, the distance between the text and the frame is determined by
the box's Text Inset values (Item > Modify). When you place a frame inside a picture
box, the frame overlaps the picture.
• When you click Outside, the frame is placed outside the box, increasing the box's
width and height. The frame cannot extend beyond a constraining box or the
pasteboard.
Print layouts only: Use the Auto Page Insertion options to determine whether pages
are inserted automatically to contain text overflow from an automatic text box or a
chain of text boxes (on a page associated with a master page that contains an automatic
text box). The drop-down menu also enables you to determine where any pages will
be inserted.
Preferences — Layout — Measurements
Use the Measurements pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu)
to specify default measuring units for layout rulers and the Measurements palette:
• Use the Horizontal and Vertical drop-down menus to specify the measurement system
for the rulers displayed along the top and left of the layout window. Horizontal
corresponds to the top ruler; Vertical corresponds to the left ruler.
• Several other aspects of the user interface are affected by these two drop-down menus,
including the default X and Y coordinates in the Measurements palette. QuarkXPress
automatically converts font size, frame width, leading, and line width to points,
regardless of the measurement system you choose.
• Use the Points/Inch field to override the default value of 72 points per inch.
QuarkXPress uses the value here as the basis for all point and pica measurements, as
well as for all point- and pica-to-inch conversions. The desktop publishing standard
for points per inch is 72. However, the traditional typographic standard used on most
metal typographic rulers is usually approximately 72.27 or 72.307 points per inch
(range = 60 to 80 pt, measurement system = points, smallest increment = .001).
• Use the Ciceros/cm field to specify a ciceros-to-centimeter conversion value different
from the standard 2.1967 (range = 2 to 3 c, measurement system = ciceros, smallest
increment = .001).
• Print layouts only: Use the Item Coordinates buttons to specify whether the increments
of the horizontal ruler repeat from zero for each Page or are continuous across a Spread.
This setting determines the coordinates of items displayed in fields. The default option
is Page.
• Use the Measurement Units drop-down menu to set the default measurement unit
for new layouts.
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