2017

Table Of Contents
You can apply color to the dark areas of black-and-white bitmap and grayscale pictures
by choosing the Color command (Style > Color) when a picture box containing a
picture in one of these formats is active.
Applying color and shade to text
There are five ways to apply color and shade to text:
You can apply color and shade using the Style > Color and Style > Shade
commands.
You can use the Colors palette (Window > Colors).
You can use the Character Style Sheet command (Style > Character Style Sheet)
to apply color and shade to selected text using character style sheets you have
created.
(Windows only) You can use the Character Attributes dialog box (Style >
Character).
You can use the Measurements palette.
Applying color and shade to lines
Four methods are available to apply color and shade to lines:
(Windows only) You can use the Line tab of the Modify dialog box (Item >
Modify).
You can use the Colors palette (Window > Colors).
You can apply color, shade, and line gap settings using the Style > Color and
Style > Shade commands.
You can use the Measurements palette.
Applying transparency blend modes
Blending modes let you vary the ways that the colors of objects blend with the colors
of underlying objects. When you apply a blending mode to an object, the effect of the
blending mode is seen on objects that lie beneath the object's layer or group.
QuarkXPress 2017 only supports an RGB blending color space. All the examples shown
in this document are based on RGB blending color space rendering. The rendering of
these objects may be different in other applications based on the simulation profile
used. The objects in QuarkXPress projects will render similar in acrobat reader when
this project is exported in RGB color mode. The output preview dialog should be closed
in Acrobat professional version or needs to use a similar RGB profile to what is used
in QuarkXPress to simulate the rendering
There are several ways to apply blend modes to boxes, frames, images, text and lines:
(Windows only) Use the Box, Text and Frame tabs of the Modify dialog box
(Item > Modify).
Use the Colors palette (Window > Colors).
Use the Image Editing palette (Window > Image Editing).
A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 2017 | 291
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS