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Table Of Contents

Contents
About this guide
- What we're assuming about you
- Where to go for help
- Conventions
- Technology note
The user interface
- Tools
  - Scissors XTensions software
  - Shape of Things XTensions software
    - Using the Starburst tool
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- 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
Native QuarkXPress objects
- Convert existing item to a native QuarkXPress object
- Import an object as a native QuarkXPress object
Content variables
- Edit content variables
- Create a custom content variable
- Insert a content variable
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
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
Text and typography
- Editing text
  - Fit Box to Text feature
- Importing and exporting text
  - Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Finding and changing text
  - Special character codes
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
  - Inserting footnotes and endnotes
  - Footnote/Endnote styles
  - Footnote separators
- 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
- Format painter
- 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 OpenType stylistic sets
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
  - Inserting spaces
  - Inserting other special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- 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
- Type Tricks
  - Make Fraction
  - Make Price
  - Word Space Tracking
  - Line Check
  - Custom Underline
- Hyperlinks
  - Creating a destination
  - Creating an anchor
  - Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination
  - Creating a hyperlink from scratch
  - Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette
  - Formatting hyperlinks
  - Editing and deleting destinations
  - Editing and deleting anchors
  - Editing and deleting hyperlinks
  - Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette
Pictures
- Working with pictures
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
Cross references
- Inserting a cross reference
- Synchronizing cross references
Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Working with drop shadows
Custom Bleeds
- Using Custom Bleeds
- Using Clip at Bleed Edge
DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)
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
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
- Scale XTensions software
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
  - App Studio output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
- PDF Filter XTensions software
  - Importing a PDF file into a picture box
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
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
- Item Styles XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
- Word Filter
- Other XTensions modules
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Legal notices
Index

Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts

Mac OS X only.

Use the Key Shortcuts pane of the Preferences dialog box ( QuarkXPress/Edit menu)

to customize key shortcuts for QuarkXPress.

Use the Key Shortcut Sets drop-down menu to choose from the existing key shortcuts

sets or click on the icon to duplicate an existing set.

Choose All to display all key shortcuts, Menu to display only shortcuts related to

QuarkXPress menu items and Non-Menu to display all shortcuts not related to menu

items.

Key Shortcuts pane of the Preferences dialog box

Preferences — Application — Input Settings

Use the Input Settings pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu)

to customize scrolling and other "on-the-fly" actions.

• Use the Scrolling area to specify how quickly you can scroll through layouts and

how layouts update on screen. (Windows only)Check Live Scroll to update the

layout view as you drag the scroll boxes in layout window scroll bars. To turn

Live Scroll on and off while you are scrolling, press Alt as you drag a scroll box.

• Use the Format drop-down menu and the Smart Quotes check box to choose a

style for converting and entering quotation marks. To specify the default characters

to be used with the Smart Quotes feature and with the Convert Quotes option

in the Import dialog box (File > Import), choose an option from the Quotes

drop-down menu. Check Smart Quotes to force the application to automatically

replace foot and inch marks (' and ") with the chosen quotation marks as you

type.

• Hyphens and commas are the default separators for indicating sequential and

non-sequential ranges in the Pages field of the Print dialog box for a Print layout.

If you specified commas or hyphens as part of page numbers in the Section dialog

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