2018
Table Of Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Articles palette
- 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
- JavaScript palette
- JavaScript Debugger palette
- Layers palette
- Lists palette
- Measurements palette
- Page Layout palette
- Profile Information palette
- Redline 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 borders 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
- Word Filter
- Finding and changing text
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- 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 paragraph attributes
- Working with text shading
- 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 Styles
- Working with Color 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 rubi text
- Working with hanging characters
- Working with Mojigumi sets and classes
- Character mapping for legacy projects
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Contacting Quark
- Legal notices
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onverting a Composition Zones item to a picture
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o create an external picture file from a Composition Zones item, choose Item >
Composition Zones > Convert to Picture. This creates a picture appropriate for the
layout type within which the Compositions Zones was created.
Before you convert a Composition Zones item to a picture, the Composition Zones
item displays in the Composition Zones pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities
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enu). But when you choose Item > Composition Zones > Convert to Picture, an
alert indicates that the Composition Zones item will become unsynchronized. The
resulting picture displays in the Picture pane of the Usage dialog box. However, the
composition layout remains in the Content palette.
Unsynchronizing a Composition Zones item
When you unsynchronize a Composition Zones item, its composition layout
remains available in your project. To unsynchronize a Composition Zones item:
Select the Composition Zones item in the layout window.
1.
Choose Item > Unsynchronize. The composition layout remains in the2.
Content palette for future use. But subsequent changes to the unsynchronized
Composition Zones items in the layout window will not be synchronized.
Editing a composition layout: Content
When you edit a composition layout, you can change content and adjust layout-
level attributes.
To edit the contents of a composition layout:
Click the layout name in the layout tab at the bottom of the project window
1.
(available if Show Tab in Project Window is checked). If the composition
layout name does not display in the layout tab, select the Item tool and
double-click the Compositions Zones item.
When the composition layout displays, all the composition layout contents are
2.
available for editing. You can use menu and palette commands to alter text,
graphics, and items, and you can use tools to add content.
Closing the window updates the content in the Composition Zones item.
3.
Editing the contents of a composition layout
Your method for accessing a composition layout for editing is determined by your
Show Tab in Project Window setting in the Advanced Layout Properties dialog
box. When you check Show Tab in Project Window, you can access the
composition layout from the layout tab at the top of the project window. Simply
click the tab to activate the composition layout for editing content and layout
attributes.
If you don’t check Show Tab in Project Window, you have to select the Item tool
and double click the original Composition Zones item. The composition layout
displays.