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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Advanced Image Control palette
- Books palette
- Callout Styles palette
- Colors palette
- Conditional Styles palette
- Content palette
- Content Variables palette
- Footnote Styles palette
- Glyphs palette
- Grid Styles palette
- Guides palette
- HTML5 Palette
- Index palette
- Item Styles palette
- Layers palette
- Lists palette
- Measurements palette
- Measurements palette - Mac OS X
- Measurements palette - Windows
- Page Layout palette
- Profile Information palette
- Redline palette
- Reflow Tagging palette
- Scale palette
- Style Sheets palette
- Table Styles palette
- Tools palette
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
- Projects and layouts
- Content variables
- Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Working with boxes
- Creating text and picture boxes
- Resizing boxes
- Locking box and picture proportions
- Reshaping boxes
- Adding frames to boxes
- Applying colors to boxes
- Applying blends to boxes
- Merging and splitting boxes
- Adding text and pictures to boxes
- Changing box type
- Creating a box from a clipping path
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
- ShapeMaker XTensions software
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
- Drawing a table
- Converting text to tables
- Importing Excel tables
- Importing Excel charts
- Inline tables
- Table styles
- Adding text and pictures to tables
- Editing table text
- Linking table cells
- Formatting tables
- Formatting gridlines
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Combining cells
- Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns
- Converting tables back to text
- Working with tables and groups
- Continuing tables in other locations
- Table Import XTensions software
- Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
- Finding and changing text
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- 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
- Format painter
- Controlling kerning
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
- Controlling tracking
- Working with style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
- Bullets and numbering
- Positioning text in text boxes
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
- Working with OpenType fonts
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
- Working with rubi text
- Working with hanging characters
- Working with mojigumi sets and classes
- Character mapping for legacy projects
- Type Tricks
- Pictures
- Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- The Colors palette
- The Colors dialog box
- Creating a color
- Editing a color
- Duplicating a color
- Deleting a color
- Importing colors from another article or project
- Changing all instances of one color to another color
- Applying color, shade, and blends
- Applying color and shade to text
- Applying color and shade to lines
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Source setups and output setups
- The color management experience for users
- Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert
- Working in a legacy color management environment
- Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)
- Color management for experts
- Creating a source setup
- Creating an output setup
- Managing profiles
- Working with drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Custom Bleeds
- DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)
- Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating layers
- Selecting layers
- Showing and hiding layers
- Determining which layer an item is on
- Deleting layers
- Changing layer options
- Moving items to a different layer
- Copying and pasting items between layers
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Layers and text runaround
- Duplicating layers
- Merging layers
- Locking items on layers
- Using master pages with layers
- Suppressing printout of layers
- Using PDF layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
- Scale XTensions software
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
- Output
- Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Notes
- Redline
- eBooks
- Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
- Working with multiple languages
- XTensions software
- Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Color Theme
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Undo
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Sharing
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — Text Highlighting
- Preferences — Application — East Asian
- Preferences — Application — Dynamic Guides Color
- Preferences — Application — File List
- Preferences — Application — Default Path
- Preferences — Application — Index
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Notes
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — Redline
- Preferences — Application — Spell-Check
- Preferences — Application — Tables
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Project preferences
- Layout preferences
- Legal notices
- Index
Checking profile usage
When you're working with layouts from other users, you can quickly see how those
users have implemented color management by looking at the Profiles pane of the
Usage dialog box (Utilities menu). Similar to Picture Usage and Font Usage, the Profile
Usage feature lets you see where profiles are available in the layout and whether they're
specified in source/output setups or applied to pictures. For profiles applied to pictures,
you can replace one profile with another.
Working with drop shadows
A drop shadow is an item attribute, much like color, that you apply using the
Measurements palette, or on Windows, the Drop Shadow tab of the Modify dialog
box (Item menu) . You can create drop shadows for items, frames, text, pictures, and
more, depending on how the items are formatted.
QuarkXPress lets you create automatic drop shadows.
To work with drop shadows, you must have DropShadow XTensions software loaded.
Applying drop shadows
To apply a drop shadow, select the item and check Apply Drop Shadow in the Drop
Shadow tab of the Measurements palette or on Windows, the Modify dialog box
(Item menu). You can apply drop shadows to the shape of an item — box, line, text
path, table — provided that the item has a background color applied to it. You can
apply a drop shadow to text when the box background has an opacity of less than
100%. You can apply a drop shadow to the contours of a picture when a clipping path
or alpha mask is selected and the box background is None. You can apply a drop
shadow to a group with the drop shadow reflecting the collective shape of all of the
items in the group.
Customizing drop shadows
Using the controls in the Measurements palette, or on Windows, the Drop Shadow
tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu), you can customize how a drop shadow
looks, including its distance from the item, size in relation to the original item, offset,
angle of light source, color, shade, opacity, blur, and more. You can also synchronize
the angle with other drop shadows in the layout, making it easy to maintain a
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