2019

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BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES
A Guide to QuarkXPress 2019 | 99
Resizing boxes
You can resize any box by modifying the size of its bounding box. A bounding box
is a non-printing, rectangular shape that encloses every box. The box’s item handles
demarcate the bounding box. The best way to view the bounding box clearly is to
use the Item tool to select item handles on a Bézier box.
You can resize active boxes using any of the following methods:
Select the Item tool or a Content tool and move the mouse pointer over
a selected box’s item handle to display the Resizing pointer. Click and drag the
handle to a new location to reduce or enlarge the box. Press Shift to maintain
the box’s aspect ratio. Press Option/Alt to resize the box from the center. Press
Command/Ctrl to resize the box contents along with the box.
Enter values in the W and H fields of the Home or Space/Align tabs of the
Measurements palette to change the width and height, and then press
Return/Enter.
Use keyboard increments to automatically increase/decrease the value in this
field. See “Palettes“ for more information.
You can lock a box’s proportions, so that you don’t have to press Shift to maintain
the aspect ratio. For more information, see “Locking box proportions.”
Auto Grow/Shrink Text Boxes
QuarkXPress 2019 introduces a new text box property to let the box grow or shrink
automatically during text input, text import/ text copy paste/ drag and drop text.
This feature adds huge benefit for the designer since they now do not have to keep
dealing with the text over matter or keep readjusting box to fit to the text length.
User can set text box width, height or both to auto. A text box can auto-grow up to
the page margin (width wise and height wise). Auto (grow/shrink) property is only
applicable for rectangular text boxes and will be turned off in case of non-
rectangular boxes, boxes having text angle or text skew.
Auto grow values defined in measurement palette
How it works
You can now set Width/Height of box to Auto or Fixed through measurements
palette.