2017

Changing the stacking order of layers
Stacking on a layer works the same way it does on a "plain" page. Within a layer, each
item has its own position in the stacking order (the front-to-back positioning of the
items on the layer). When you draw items on a layer, new items are stacked in front
of existing items on that layer. You can use the Send to Back, Send Backward, Bring
to Front, and Bring Forward commands (Item menu) to change the stacking order
of items within a layer, but these commands do not move items to different layers.
However, everything on a front layer displays in front of everything on a rear layer.
To change the stacking order of layers, you can drag a layer to a new position in the
Layers palette. (The layer at the top of the Layers palette is the frontmost layer of the
layout.)
Layers and text runaround
Items on layers follow the standard runaround rule in QuarkXPress: Text can only
wrap around items that are in front of that text. For example, if you draw a small
picture box in the center of a column of text, the text will wrap around the picture
box by default.
QuarkXPress also evaluates the Type setting in the Runaround tab of the Modify
dialog box (Item menu) when determining whether to wrap text around items.
When you hide a layer, you can either show or hide the text runaround caused by the
obstructing items on that layer. By default, text runaround forced by hidden items is
maintained.
• To hide the text runaround forced by items on a hidden layer, double-click the
hidden layer in the Layers palette to display the Attributes dialog box, and then
uncheck Keep Runaround and click OK.
• To change this default runaround setting for new layers, uncheck Keep Runaround
in the Layers pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu).
Duplicating layers
To duplicate a layer, select that layer in the Layers palette and choose Duplicate Layer
from the Layers palette menu. The new, duplicate layer is placed directly in front of
the original layer.
If you duplicate a story with linked text boxes that have been placed on different
layers, you will observe the following behaviors:
• If you duplicate the layer containing the first box in the story, all of the text in
that box, as well as the text in the linked boxes that complete the story, is
duplicated. The first box displays on the duplicated layer and displays an overflow
symbol.
• If you duplicate a layer that includes one of the boxes in the middle of the story,
all of the text in that box, as well as the text in the linked boxes that complete
the story, is duplicated. The middle box displays on the duplicated layer and
displays an overflow symbol. None of the text from any preceding boxes in the
story is copied onto the duplicate layer.
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