2017
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
- Gradients palette
- Grid Styles palette
- Guides palette
- HTML5 Palette
- Hyperlinks palette
- Image Editing 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
- Text Shading Styles palette
- Tools palette
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
- Projects and layouts
- Native QuarkXPress objects
- Content variables
- Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadows
- Item Find/Change
- 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 gradients to boxes
- Specifying number of columns in text boxes
- Merging and splitting boxes
- Adding text and pictures to boxes
- Changing box type
- Creating a box from a clipping path
- Copying attributes from one box to another
- Super Step and Repeat
- ShapeMaker
- 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
- 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 paragraph attributes
- Working with text shading
- 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
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
- Working with hanging characters
- Type Tricks
- 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
- Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- The Colors palette
- The Colors dialog box
- Creating a color
- Creating gradients
- Editing a color
- Duplicating a color
- Deleting a color
- Adding colors using the color picker tool
- Importing colors from another article or project
- Changing all instances of one color to another color
- Applying color and shade
- Applying color and shade to text
- Applying color and shade to lines
- Applying transparency blend modes
- 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
- Item Styles
- DejaVu (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
- Guides Palette
- Scale functionality
- Cloner functionality
- ImageGrid functionality
- Linkster functionality
- Output
- Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Notes
- Redline
- 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 — Key Shortcuts
- 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
• If you click Keep Project Settings, the project will retain the preferences previously
specified for each layout. Text will not reflow. Automatic kerning, tracking, or
hyphenation exception changes made while the project is active will be stored
only with the project. The Keep Project Settings feature is useful if you want to
open and print a layout without running the risk of text reflow.
Changes to QuarkXPress preferences
Changes to QuarkXPress preferences are handled in the following ways:
• If you make changes to application preferences in the Preferences dialog box
(QuarkXPress/Edit menu) with or without projects open, the changes are saved
in the preferences files and immediately affect all open projects and all
subsequently opened projects.
• If you make changes to XTensions Manager settings (Utilities menu) with or
without projects open, the changes are saved in the preferences files and affect
all projects after you relaunch QuarkXPress.
• If you make changes to PPD Manager settings (Utilities menu) with or without
projects open, the changes are saved in the preferences files and immediately
affect all open projects and all subsequently opened projects.
• If you make changes to layout preferences in the Preferences dialog box
(QuarkXPress/Edit menu) with a project open, the changes are saved only with
the active project.
• If you choose a different auxiliary dictionary with a project open, the change is
saved only with the active project.
• If you make changes to the kerning table information, tracking table information,
and hyphenation exceptions in a new project, these changes are saved with the
active project and in the preferences files.
If the Nonmatching Preferences alert displays when you open a project and you click
Use XPress Preferences, changes you make to the kerning table information, tracking
table information, and hyphenation exceptions will be stored both in that project and
in the preferences files.
What's in the preferences files
The contents of the preferences files are as follows. The list is divided into three groups
according to how the various preferences are saved.
Group A
Group A contains the following information:
• Kerning tables (Edit > Kerning Pairs)
• Tracking tables (Edit > Font Tracking Tables)
• Hyphenation exceptions (Utilities > Hyphenation Exceptions)
Any changes you make to the settings in Group A while no projects are open are stored
in the preferences files and are used for all subsequently created projects.
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