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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
- 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
  - Adaptive scaling
- Working with guides
- Undoing and redoing actions
Native QuarkXPress objects
- Convert an 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 Shadows
- Item Find/Change
- 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 text stroke
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Controlling column flow
    - Column flow examples
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
- Working with text shading
  - Creating and editing text shading styles
  - Applying text shading
- 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
- 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
- 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 hanging characters
  - Creating hanging character classes
  - Creating hanging character sets
  - Applying hanging character sets
- 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
Item Styles
- Using the Item Styles palette
- Creating Item Styles
- Checking Item Style usage
DejaVu (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
- Guides Palette
- Scale functionality
- Cloner functionality
- ImageGrid functionality
- Linkster functionality
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
  - App Studio output styles
  - HTML5 Publication output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
- PDF
  - Importing a PDF file into a picture box
- Word Filter
- Script XTensions software
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
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Legal notices
Index

Help menu

The Help menu provides access to the online help. This menu includes the following

commands:

• Search Use this command to search the local help file.

• Help Topics (Mac OS X only): Use this command to display the online help.

• Contents (Windows only): Use this option to view the Contents tab of the Help

window.

• Index (Windows only): Use this option to view the Index tab of the Help window.

• What's New: Use this option to explore What's New in this version of QuarkXPress.

• Convert Legacy Files: Use this option to be directed to the Quark website for

downloading the QuarkXPress Document Converter.

• Transfer QuarkXPress License (Windows only): Use this option to transfer your

license to another computer.

• About QuarkXPress (Windows only): Use this command to display information

about QuarkXPress, such as the version number and the build number.

• Edit License Code (Windows only): Use this command to change the validation

code of an installed copy of QuarkXPress. By changing this code, you can change

a Test Drive version (formerly called "evaluation copy") of QuarkXPress into a

fully functional version, or site license.

• Check for Updates (Windows only): Use this command to check for updates to

QuarkXPress.

• Quark Update Settings (Windows only): Use this command to configure automatic

update settings.

• Documents (Mac OS X only): Use this command to open additional documentation

for QuarkXPress:

• Getting Started with QuarkXPress

• EULA

• Third Party Technologies

• Apple Scripting

Context menus

QuarkXPress offers a wide variety of functionality through context menus. To display

a context menu, Control+click (Mac OS X) or right-click in text, on a picture, or on a

palette.

Palettes

To open or display a palette, check the palette name in the Window menu.

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