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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

THE USER INTERFACE

38 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018

Proxy Settings: Lets you specify the proxy settings for connecting to the•

internet, if required. These settings are used by the App Studio Publishing

palette as well as the Export as iOS App or Export as Android App dialog.

Window menu

The Window menu enables you to control the on-screen display of open windows

and palettes. This menu includes the following commands:

ew Window: Displays the active project in a new window. You can then view•

different parts of the project in each window.

Split Window: Splits the project window into two parts. Allows you to split•

horizontally or vertically. You can then view different parts of the project in each

part of the window.

Cascade (Windows only): Layers multiple open projects so just a portion of each•

project’s menu bar displays.

Tile: Tiles all open windows to ﬁt on the screen. Contains the Tile Horizontally•

and Tile Vertically sub menus.

Arrange Icons (Windows only): Minimizes all active projects.•

Close All (Windows only): Closes all active projects.•

Palette Sets: Use the submenu to store and recall arrangements of palettes.•

Turn Hiding On (Mac OS X only): Allows you to display and hide groups of•

docked palettes.

Advanced Image Control: Displays and hides the Advanced Image Control•

palette.

App Studio Publishing: Displays and hides the App Studio Publishing palette.•

For more information, see Digital Publishing with QuarkXPress.

Articles: Displays and hides the Articles palette. For more information, see•

“Working with Reﬂow.”

Books: Displays and hides the Books palette. For more information, see•

“

Working with books.”

Callout Styles: Displays the Callout Styles palette. For more information, see•

“

Working with callout styles.”

Colors: Displays and hides the Colors palette.•

Conditional Styles: Displays the Conditional Styles palette. For more•

information, see “

Working with conditional styles.”

Content: Displays and hides the Content palette.•

Content Variables: Displays and hides the Content Variables palette.•

Footnote Styles: Displays and hides the Footnote Styles palette. For more•

information, see “

Working with footnotes and endnotes.”

Glyphs: Displays and hides the Glyphs palette.•