2019

PREFERENCES
502 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2019
Use the Accents for All Caps check box to specify whether to include accent •
marks on accented characters with the All Caps type style applied. This option is
checked by default.
Use the Space between CJK & R field to indicate how much space should be •
included by default between a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character and an
adjacent Roman character.
Preferences — Layout — Tools
Use the Tools panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to
specify default characteristics for the Zoom tool and the Item tool , and to set
defaults for items created by item creation tools.
Windows only
To configure Item tool options, select the Item tool and then click Modify. •
Use the Shift + nudge Increment area to control by how many pixels the Item
tool nudges an item.
To control the range and the increment of the view change for the Zoom tool •
, select the Zoom tool and then click Modify.
To configure dragging options for the Text Content and Picture Content tools, •
select the combined content tool and then click Modify. Click Create Boxes
to create a new box when you drag with a content tool selected. Click Select
Boxes to select boxes when you drag with a content tool selected. To change the
default attributes for items created by one or more related item-creation tools,
select the tools and then click Modify.
Set and Restore Tool Preferences
On both Windows and macOS, you can set the default tool preferences for the
layout directly from the boxes. To set the tool preferences, set up a box the way you
want and then use Edit > Set Tool Preferences From Selected to push the box’s
attributes to the tool preferences. Use the Edit > Restore Tool Preferences to
Default to restore the tool preferences to the default settings. You can Set Tool
Preferences for Current layout or all New Layouts. Similarly, you can Reset Tool
Preferences for Current layout or all New Layouts.
Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid
Use the Guides and Grid pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit
menu) to specify various default settings for guides and design grids.
The Snap Distance field enables you to change the 6-pixel default distance at which
objects snap to page guides when Snap to Guides is chosen (View menu) (range = 1
to 216, measurement system = pixels, smallest increment = 1).
In the Guides area:
To specify default margin and guide colors, use the Margin Color and Guide •
Color buttons.