2019

COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING
A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 2019 | 419
Collaboration and single-sourcing
You can use the synchronization feature to easily package the same information for
distribution in multiple formats and through multiple channels. In addition to
customizing designs according to medium — print and digital — you can also create
projects that contain multiple layout sizes. Best of all, you can streamline your work
by automatically synchronizing your content between layouts of any type.
Working with shared content
If you’ve ever worked on a project where the same content needs to be maintained
identically in multiple places, you know there is a certain degree of risk involved.
What if the print version of a document is updated, but the digital version is not?
To address this problem, QuarkXPress includes the shared content feature. This
feature lets you link content that is used in different places within a project file. If
one copy of the content changes, the other copies are immediately and
automatically updated to reflect those changes.
For most synchronized items, QuarkXPress maintains a master version in an
invisible part of the project file called the shared content library. When you make a
change to any synchronized item in a layout, that change is written to the master
version in the shared content library, and then QuarkXPress automatically updates
all synchronized copies of that item in the project to reflect the change. So if you
update item A, item B gets updated automatically via the master item in the shared
content library — and if you update item B, item A is updated the same way.
The shared content library can hold pictures, boxes, lines, formatted and
unformatted text, chains of text boxes, groups, and Composition Zones. When you
add something to the shared content library, you can control which aspects of that
content or item should be synchronized (kept the same in every instance) and which
aspects should not be synchronized.