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Table Of 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
- Word Filter
- 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
- Working with grouped characters
- Working with non-breaking character sets
- Format painter
- Aligning characters on a line
- 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 value
  - Applying text stroke
  - Controlling half-width characters
  - Working with font sets
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Controlling column flow
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
- Working with text shading
  - Creating and editing text shading styles
  - Applying text shading
- 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
  - External anchors
- Working with OpenType Styles
  - Applying OpenType styles
  - Using ligatures
  - Working with OpenType stylistic sets
- Working with Color Fonts
- 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
  - 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
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
Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
  - Understanding Composition Zones
  - 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
- Script XTensions software
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Contacting Quark
- In the Americas
- Outside the Americas
Legal notices

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Working with Layout Speciﬁcations..............................................................425

Creating a Layout Speciﬁcation: Advanced mode................................................425

Applying a Layout Speciﬁcation to a layout .........................................................426

Working with Rules and Rule Sets ................................................................427

Creating Rules: Advanced mode ..........................................................................428

dding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode.......................................................430

Applying a Rule Set to a layout ............................................................................431

Evaluating a layout .......................................................................................432

Job Jackets locking.......................................................................................434

Printing with JDF output ..............................................................................435

Working with multiple languages.............................................437

Applying a character language .....................................................................437

Changing the program language ..................................................................438

XTensions software ..................................................................439

Working with XTensions modules .................................................................439

Installing XTensions modules................................................................................439

Enabling and disabling XTensions modules..........................................................440

Working with XTensions sets ................................................................................440

(Windows only)......................................................................................................440

Script XTensions software.............................................................................440

Box Tools submenu...............................................................................................441

Grid submenu .......................................................................................................441

Images submenu...................................................................................................442

Picture Box submenu ............................................................................................442

Saving submenu....................................................................................................442

Special submenu...................................................................................................442

Stories submenu ...................................................................................................443

Tables submenu ....................................................................................................443

Typography submenu ...........................................................................................443

Preferences ..............................................................................444

Understanding preferences .........................................................................444

Nonmatching Preferences alert ............................................................................444

Changes to QuarkXPress preferences ..................................................................445

What’s in the preferences ﬁles ..............................................................................445

Application preferences................................................................................447

Preferences — Application — Display ..................................................................447

Preferences — Application — Color Theme.........................................................448

Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts........................................................448

Preferences — Application — Input Settings........................................................449

Preferences — Application — Font Fallback ........................................................450

Preferences — Application — Undo .....................................................................451

Preferences — Application — Open and Save .....................................................451