A Guide to QuarkXPress 2021 2021/08/09
Contents About this guide ..........................................................................1 What we’re assuming about you.......................................................................1 Where to go for help ........................................................................................1 Conventions ......................................................................................................1 Technology note..................................................................
Flex Layout Blocks ..................................................................................................47 Flex Object Browser palette ...................................................................................48 Flex Page Builder palette........................................................................................49 Footnote Styles palette...........................................................................................50 Glyphs palette...............................
Project-level and layout-level resources..................................................................88 Adaptive scaling .....................................................................................................88 Large Pasteboard size.....................................................................................90 Working with Guides ......................................................................................91 Column and margin guides .......................................
Creating lines ........................................................................................................126 Line modes for orthogonal lines ...........................................................................127 Resizing lines.........................................................................................................127 Reshaping lines .....................................................................................................127 Controlling line appearance ......
Preference for Defining Paste Behavior from External Applications.....................162 Fit Box to Text feature...........................................................................................163 Importing and exporting text .......................................................................164 Word Filter ....................................................................................................165 Finding and changing text ...........................................................
Break options in Paragraph Style..................................................................213 Working with text shading............................................................................215 Creating and editing text shading styles ..............................................................216 Applying text shading...........................................................................................219 Controlling kerning ..............................................................
Running text around lines and text paths .............................................................259 Running text around text boxes............................................................................259 Running text around pictures................................................................................259 Runaround for Multiple Items (Boxes)...................................................................260 Fine-tuning a runaround path ................................................
Character mapping for legacy projects.........................................................311 Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters ............................................311 Mapping for projects that use custom characters.................................................313 Type Tricks.....................................................................................................313 Make Fraction .......................................................................................
Cropping pictures .................................................................................................335 Rotating and skewing pictures..............................................................................335 Coloring and shading pictures..............................................................................336 Flipping pictures ...................................................................................................
Specifying opacity.................................................................................................369 Specifying opacity for groups ...............................................................................369 Creating blends with transparency .......................................................................369 Color management........................................................................................370 Source setups and output setups ...............................
Creating layers ......................................................................................................399 Selecting layers .....................................................................................................399 Showing and hiding layers ....................................................................................399 Determining which layer an item is on..................................................................400 Deleting layers ...............................
Adding library entries ...........................................................................................428 Retrieving library entries .......................................................................................429 Manipulating library entries ..................................................................................429 Working with labels...............................................................................................429 Saving libraries...........................
Placing a synchronized item..................................................................................481 Placing synchronized content ...............................................................................481 Importing content into the shared content library................................................481 Working with Composition Zones.................................................................481 Understanding Composition Zones .......................................................
Applying a layout definition to a project ..............................................................515 Exporting and importing Job Tickets ...................................................................515 The default Job Jackets file ..........................................................................516 Editing the default Job Ticket template: File menu .............................................516 Editing the default Job Ticket template: Utilities menu ....................................
What’s in the preferences files ..............................................................................541 Application preferences ................................................................................543 Preferences — Application — Display ..................................................................543 Preferences — Application — Color Theme.........................................................544 Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts............................................
ABOUT THIS GUIDE About this guide You do not need to read the QuarkXPress® documentation from beginning to end. Instead, use this guide to quickly look up information, find out what you need to know, and get on with your work.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE • References: In descriptions of features, parenthetical references guide you in accessing those features. For example: “The Find/Change dialog box (Edit menu) lets you find and replace text.” • Arrows: You will often see arrows (>), which map out the menu path to a feature. For example: “Choose Edit > Style Sheets to display the Style Sheets dialog box.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE Infrastructure Updates for QuarkXPress 2021 The new infrastructure Updates for QuarkXPress this year has made significant improvements for PDF output performance on windows. The performance increment is directly proportional to the raster content in the document layout.
THE USER INTERFACE The user interface Skimming through the QuarkXPress user interface, you will find that many commands are familiar or self-explanatory. Once you become familiar with QuarkXPress menus and dialog boxes, you will discover that keyboard commands and palettes offer convenient access to features that you can also access through menus.
THE USER INTERFACE Tools The Tools palette includes the following controls: • Use the Item tool to select, move, resize, and reshape items (boxes, lines, text paths, and groups). When the Item tool is not selected, you can press Command/Ctrl to temporarily access the Item tool. • Use the Text Content tool to draw text boxes and work with text in boxes. • Use the Text Linking tool to link text boxes. To maintain the text in their respective boxes, hold down the Alt/Option key when using this tool.
THE USER INTERFACE • Use the Text Unlinking tool to unlink text boxes. To maintain the text in their respective boxes, hold down the Alt/Option key when using this tool. To move the box out of the text chain, with its text, hold down the Shift+Option keys when using this tool. • Use the Picture Content tool to draw picture boxes and work with pictures in boxes. • Use the Rectangle Box tool to create a rectangular box. To draw a square box, press and hold Shift while drawing.
THE USER INTERFACE • Use the Select Point tool to select curves or points so that you can move them or delete them. Press Shift and click to select multiple points. Optionclick/Alt-click a point to make it symmetrical. • Use the Freehand Drawing tool to draw any shape line or box you want. If you don’t close a freehand box, it remains a line. To automatically close a freehand box, press Option/Alt.
THE USER INTERFACE Tool Windows Mac OS X Rectangle Box tool B B Oval Box tool B B Starburst tool B B ShapeMaker tool M M Composition Zones tool L B Line tool P L Orthogonal Line tool P L Bézier Pen tool P P Add Point tool P P Remove Point tool P P Convert Point tool P P Scissors tool P P Select Point tool P P Freehand Drawing tool P P Item Format Painter tool I I Table tool G G Zoom tool Z Z Pan tool X X Scissors tool Use the Scissors tool to cut the
THE USER INTERFACE and click once. When the Starburst dialog box displays, enter values for the following fields, and then click OK: • Star Width • Star Height • Number of Spikes • Spike Depth: Enter the desired distance from the tip of the spike to the base of the spike as a percentage. • Random Spikes: Enter a value between 0 and 100, where 0 is no randomness applied and 100 is full randomness applied.
THE USER INTERFACE Enter values for the following fields: • Width • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Click Create. Default star settings To edit the default star settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Star tool.
THE USER INTERFACE • Check Secondary to add additional secondary sides/points. This allows you to add a different angle/shape in between the sides of a Star shape • Sides: Specify the number of sides (points) the star will have. • Inner Radius: Specify the inner radius of each point in the star. • Edges: Specify the shape the edges of the star will be (Flat, Concave, Convex, Outer Swirl, Inner Swirl, Opposite Swirl, or Tandem Swirl).
THE USER INTERFACE Enter values for the following fields: • Width • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Click Create. Default polygon settings To edit the default polygon settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Polygon tool.
THE USER INTERFACE Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: • Sides: Lets you specify how many sides the polygon has • Edges: Lets you control whether the edges of the box are flat or curved. If you choose an option other than Flat, you can indicate the curvature of the sides with the Curvature controls. If you choose one of the Swirl options, you can indicate the direction of the swirl with the Orientation controls.
THE USER INTERFACE To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. Using the Rounded Rectangle tool To create a rounded rectangle shape in two ways: 1 Select the Rounded Rectangle tool , position the crosshair pointer where you want the star and then click and drag. 2 Select the Rounded Rectangle tool , position the crosshair pointer where you want the rectangle and click once.
THE USER INTERFACE Click Create. Default rounded rectangle settings To edit the default rounded rectangle settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Rounded Rectangle tool. The Edit Rounded Rectangle Settings dialog displays: Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: • Check Same for all to configure all four corners of the shape with a single set of controls. To separately configure each corner of the box uncheck Same for all.
THE USER INTERFACE • Balance: For some options, lets you control whether the corners lean toward the sides of the box or toward the top. • Radial: For some options, lets you control whether the corners of the box are aligned with the center of the box or not. • Item: Specifies the type of box the shape should be placed into. The choices are Text Box, Picture Box, None Box, Text Path, and Rule Path. • Width, Height, Columns, and Gutters: Specifies the box attributes.
THE USER INTERFACE • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Default diamond settings To edit the default diamond settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Diamond tool.
THE USER INTERFACE with the Curvature controls. If you choose one of the Swirl options, you can indicate the direction of the swirl with the Orientation controls. • Randomize Points: Lets you control the degree of randomness in the shape, from 0 (none) to 100 (maximum). • New Random: Applies some randomness to the shape. • Item: Specifies the type of box the shape should be placed into. The choices are Text Box, Picture Box, None Box, Text Path, and Rule Path.
THE USER INTERFACE • Width • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Default triangle settings To edit the default triangle settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Triangle tool.
THE USER INTERFACE with the Curvature controls. If you choose one of the Swirl options, you can indicate the direction of the swirl with the Orientation controls. • Randomize Points: Lets you control the degree of randomness in the shape, from 0 (none) to 100 (maximum). • New Random: Applies some randomness to the shape. • Item: Specifies the type of box the shape should be placed into. The choices are Text Box, Picture Box, None Box, Text Path, and Rule Path.
THE USER INTERFACE • Width • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Default wave settings To edit the default wave settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Wave tool.
THE USER INTERFACE • Keep waves parallel: Keeps the waves on either side of the box parallel with one another. • The controls in the Wave 1 and Wave 2 areas let you choose which type of wave to use, the frequency of the wave, the phase (starting point) of the wave, and the amplitude (depth) of the wave. • Item: Specifies the type of box the shape should be placed into. The choices are Text Box, Picture Box, None Box, Text Path, and Rule Path.
THE USER INTERFACE • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Default spiral settings To edit the default spiral settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Spiral tool.
THE USER INTERFACE • Winds: Lets you control how many times the spiral goes around. • Rate: Lets you control how quickly the width of the spiral increases. • Segments: Lets you control how circular the spiral is allowing you to specify the number of segments per wind. • Smoothness: Lets you control how smooth the spiral is. You can get a harderedged shape by lowering the Segments value and decreasing the Smoothness value.
THE USER INTERFACE Enter values for the following fields: • Width • Height • Select Create From Center to specify that the center of the shape should be where you placed the crosshair point. You can apply the default attributes or click the arrow next to the shape preview to select a predefined shape. Default cloud settings To edit the default cloud settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Cloud tool.
THE USER INTERFACE Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: • Sides: Specify the number of sides the cloud shape will have. • Edges: Specify the shape the edges of the cloud will be (Flat, Concave, Convex, Outer Swirl, Inner Swirl, Opposite Swirl, or Tandem Swirl). If you choose an option other than Flat, you can indicate the curvature of the edges with the Curvature controls.
THE USER INTERFACE To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. Menus The topics below describe the menus and menu items available in QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress menu (macOS only) The QuarkXPress menu is a part of QuarkXPress for macOS. This menu contains the same commands as in the application menu for other macOS applications — to hide or show QuarkXPress and other applications, to access preferences, and to quit QuarkXPress.
THE USER INTERFACE File menu The File menu enables you to manipulate electronic files in a number of ways, including the ability to create, open, print, and save. This menu includes the following commands: • New: Choose an option from the New submenu to create a project. If you choose New Project from Ticket, you can select a Job Ticket from which you can create the project. You can also use this submenu to create new libraries and books.
THE USER INTERFACE Edit menu The Edit menu includes the following commands: • Undo: Undoes the last action. • Redo: Redoes an undone action. • Cut: Cuts the selected content. • Copy: Copies the selected content to the clipboard. • Paste: Pastes the clipboard contents on the active page. • Paste Without Formatting: Pastes the clipboard contents as plain text. • Paste In Place: Pastes a duplicated or copied item onto the active page at the same position from which it was originally copied.
THE USER INTERFACE • Underline Styles: Lets you access and modify underline styles. • Hanging Characters: Lets you add, edit, and delete custom hanging character definitions. For more information, see “Text and typography.” • Lists: Lets you add, edit, and delete list definitions. The Lists feature is a tool for automatically generating tables of contents and other types of listed content. For more information, see “Document construction.
THE USER INTERFACE Style menu The Style menu changes depending on whether a text box, a picture box, or a line is active. The Style menu changes depending on whether a text component or a picture component is active. Style menu for text The Style menu for text includes commands for specifying character attributes and paragraph formats. This menu includes the following commands: • Type Style: Lets you apply type styles such as bold, italic, and underline to selected text.
THE USER INTERFACE • Footnote Separator Style: Lets you apply a different footnote separator style. • Update Style Sheet: Lets you update a character or paragraph style sheet definition based on local changes to the applied style sheet. • Item Styles: Lets you view and update applied item styles. • Change Case: Lets you change case of selected text to uppercase, lower case, or title case. • Non-Breaking Attribute: Lets you apply the non-breaking attribute on the selected text (i.e.
THE USER INTERFACE • Item Styles: Lets you view and update applied item styles. • Scale: Lets you change the scale of a picture within a picture component. • Rotate: Lets you rotate a picture within a picture component. • Scale Picture To Fit Box: Reduces or enlarges the selected picture proportionately to fit its picture box such that the complete picture will be scaled with no crop area.
THE USER INTERFACE Item menu The Item menu includes commands for controlling item attributes, positions, grouping, sharing, and more. • Duplicate: Lets you create a copy of an item and its contents. • Super Step and Repeat: Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times and specify scale, rotation, and shading for the duplicates. • Delete: Lets you delete a selected item and its contents. • Lock: Lets you prevent accidental changes to items and their contents by locking its position or content.
THE USER INTERFACE • Unsynchronize Size: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes). • Unsynchronize Item/Content: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes). • Copy To Other Layouts: Lets you copy to selected items to another layout. • Callout Anchor: Lets you configure callout anchors and callouts.
THE USER INTERFACE • New: Lets you add a new layout. • Duplicate: Lets you duplicate one layout to copy its items and content to another. • Delete: Lets you remove a layout. • New/Edit Layout Specification: Lets you create or modify Job Jackets properties for a layout. • Layout Properties: Lets you modify layout properties such as name, type, and size. • Advanced Layout Properties: Lets you modify sharing properties of a layout.
THE USER INTERFACE • Repeat As Header: Lets you specify a header row to repeat automatically in continued instances of a table. • Repeat As Footer: Lets you specify a footer row to repeat automatically in continued instances of a table. • Convert Text to Table: Lets you convert text that has already been imported or typed into a text box to a table. This works best with text that is delimited in some way to indicate how to divide the information into columns and rows.
THE USER INTERFACE • Guides: Displays nonprinting lines used to position items on pages, including margin guides, column block guides, the outlines of boxes, the “X” pattern in empty picture boxes, and ruler guides. • Hide Selection: Allows you to put QuarkXPress into a mode where selections are not indicated visually in the document (no text highlighting, no handles), but the selection is still honored by QuarkXPress.
THE USER INTERFACE • Show/Hide Notes: Allows you to hide or show notes in your project. Utilities menu The Utilities menu includes the following commands: • Insert Character: Lets you easily insert special characters, including special breaking and nonbreaking spaces. • Content Variable: Lets you insert a content variable as well as create new, edit, remove (not delete) and convert to text.
THE USER INTERFACE • Usage: Lets you view and update the usage of fonts, pictures, profiles, Composition Zones, and Excel tables that are linked to external data sources. • Item Styles Usage: Lets you view and update applied item styles. • Job Jackets Manager: Displays the Job Jackets Manager dialog box. • Insert Placeholder Text: Generates random text in the active text box so that you can preview how text will flow and be styled, even though you might not have actual content yet.
THE USER INTERFACE • Redline: Use the submenu to turn automatic tracking and highlighting on and off. You can also use this submenu to display the Redline palette. Window menu The Window menu enables you to control the on-screen display of open windows and palettes. This menu includes the following commands: • New 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.
THE USER INTERFACE • Flex Page Builder: Displays and hides the Flex Page Builder palette. For more information, see Getting Started with Flex Layouts. • 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. • Gradients: Displays and hides the Gradients palette. For more information, see “Creating Gradients.” • Grid Styles: Displays and hides the Grid Styles palette.
THE USER INTERFACE • Documentation: Use this command to access the online product related documentation. • Support: Use this option to any issue. • Tutorials: Use this option to interactive software program created as a learning tool. • What’s New: Use this option to explore What’s New in QuarkXPress.
THE USER INTERFACE Palettes To open or display a palette, check the palette name in the Window menu. To close an open palette, click the close box in the upper-left corner of the palette, uncheck the palette name in the Window menu, or use the appropriate keyboard equivalent. Keyboard Increments allow you to use the keyboard arrow keys to increase/decrease the values in several fields in the Measurement palette as well as many fields in various dialogs.
THE USER INTERFACE Palettes can be dragged and merged into any palette groups. When dragging, a thumbnail is shown indicating whether the palette will be merged or placed above. A blue line indicator is shown in the palette group to indicate the location the palette will be dropped. Articles palette The Articles palette lets you tag content for Reflow ePub and specify the reading order of tagged items for tagged PDF export.
THE USER INTERFACE Callout Styles palette The Callout Styles palette lets you work with callout styles. For more information, see “Working with callout styles.” Colors palette The Colors palette lets you view and apply colors defined in the active project. The buttons at the top of this palette let you create, edit, and delete colors. Users create colors through the Colors dialog box (Edit > Colors). For more information, see “Color, opacity, and drop shadows.
THE USER INTERFACE Content Variables palette The Content Variables palette provides access to content variables. From this palette, you can add, edit, and duplicate content variables. You can also search for content variables and convert existing content variables to text. This palette lists the predefined content variables and allows you to create new ones of various content variable types. To highlight existing content variables, use the View > Highlight Content Variable menu item.
THE USER INTERFACE Flex Layout Blocks palette Flex Object Browser palette Flex Object Browser palette allows you to select and move around objects in nested containers with ease 48 | A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 2021
THE USER INTERFACE Flex Object Browser Flex Page Builder palette Flex Page Builder palette allows creation of Flex Layout quickly by its drag n drop pre-baked components. It has more than 100 different responsive components that you can use in your layouts.
THE USER INTERFACE Flex Page Builder Footnote Styles palette The Footnote Styles palette allows you to: • add, edit, delete and duplicate footnote styles. • insert new footnotes and endnotes or modify existing footnotes and endnotes using a custom Footnote/Endnote option/button. • change between different footnote/endnote styles by selecting the footnote/endnote reference in the parent text and clicking on the desired style in the palette.
THE USER INTERFACE Glyphs palette The Glyphs palette gives you easy access to every character in each font on your computer. You can display all characters in the selected font or narrow down the selection by choosing an option from the second drop-down menu. The selected characters Unicode value is visible at the bottom right. You can add characters to a story by double-clicking them. Using the Favorite Glyphs area at the bottom of the palette, you can store often-used characters for easy access.
THE USER INTERFACE The Gradients palette lets you define and apply gradients. Grid Styles palette A grid style is a named package of settings that describe a grid — like a style sheet for a design grid. You can apply grid styles to text boxes and can use them as the basis for master page grids. You can also base grid styles on other grid styles. Grid styles are displayed in the Grid Styles palette (Window menu). For more information, see “Working with grid styles.
THE USER INTERFACE Hyperlinks palette The Hyperlinks palette lets you add and edit hyperlinks in your document. For more information, see “Hyperlinks.” The Hyperlinks palette allows you to work with hypelinks in your document. Image Editing palette The Image Editing palette lets you edit the raster image of an imported image in QuarkXPress. For more information, see “Editing the raster image.” The Image Editing palette. Index palette The Index palette lets you tag text for indexing.
THE USER INTERFACE The Index palette lets you tag text for inclusion in an automatically generated index. Item Styles palette The Item Styles palette lets you work with item styles. For more information, see “Item Styles XTensions software.” The Item Styles palette JavaScript palette The JavaScript palette lets you run scripts. Some sample scripts are shipped with QuarkXPress, and you can create more.
THE USER INTERFACE The JavaScript palette JavaScript Debugger palette The JavaScript Debugger palette lets you debug scripts. Use the Console tab to write and test code. Many sample scripts also log messages in console to help you understand what changes were made. The JavaScript Debugger palette Layers palette The Layers palette lets you create layers, edit layer properties, control whether those layers display and print, and move objects between layers. For more information, See “Working with layers.
THE USER INTERFACE The Layers palette lets you work with layers and the objects on those layers. Lists palette The Lists palette helps you view and generate lists. This feature is useful for creating things like tables of contents. You can create lists in the Lists dialog box (Edit > Lists). The List Name drop-down menu lets you choose from among the lists defined in the active project and the Update button lets you refresh the list currently displayed in the palette.
THE USER INTERFACE Keyboard Increments allow you to use the keyboard arrow keys to increase/decrease the values in several fields in the Measurements palette. Using the Shift/Alt key in conjunction with the up/down arrow keys changes the amount the value is increased/decreased. See the chart in “Palettes.” (Mac OS X only) You have the option to make the Measurements palette 50% larger, perfect for smaller screens with high resolutions.
THE USER INTERFACE • Text Box tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the text attributes of the currently selected text box. Displays differently for text boxes and text paths. Text Box tab • Picture Box tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the picture attributes of the currently selected picture box. Picture Box tab • Clipping tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the clipping attributes of the currently selected picture box.
THE USER INTERFACE Text Shading tab • Column Flow tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the column flow attributes of the currently selected text: Column Flow tab • Drop Shadow tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the drop shadow attributes of the currently selected object. Drop Shadow tab • Composition Zone tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the attributes for the currently selected composition zone.
THE USER INTERFACE Vertical Measurement palette (macOS only) You can toggle between horizontal and vertical orientations of the Measurements palette. Use the context menu to select the desired orientation, or click on the button to toggle between orientations. All controls are grouped under titles that allow you to collapse and expand the groups.
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THE USER INTERFACE Full sized Measurement palette in vertical orientation Re-sized Measurement palette in vertical orientation Page Layout palette The Page Layout palette provides a variety of features having to do with pages and navigation.
THE USER INTERFACE The Page Layout palette lets you work with master pages and layout pages. The top portion of the palette lets you create, duplicate, and delete master pages. To view and edit a master page, double-click it; the master page displays in the active project window. A single-sided master page displays as a rectangle, while a facingpage master page displays with two folded corners. The bottom portion of the palette lets you navigate through the pages in the active layout.
THE USER INTERFACE The Redline palette lets you work with tracking. Scale palette The Scale palette lets you perform advanced scaling operations. For more information, see “Scale XTensions software.” Style Sheets palette The Style Sheets palette (Window > Style Sheets) enables you to apply character and paragraph style sheets by clicking style sheet names. The buttons at the top of each section of this palette let you create, edit, duplicate, update, and delete style sheets.
THE USER INTERFACE The Table Styles palette Text Shading Styles palette The Text Shading Styles palette allows you to add, edit, and delete text shading styles. The Text Shading Styles palette lets you create, view and apply text shading styles.
THE USER INTERFACE Tools palette The Tools palette lets you easily switch between a wide variety of tools for working with layouts. For more information, see “Tools.” Palette groups and palette sets QuarkXPress offers two features that help you to manage palettes: palette groups and palette sets. Using palette groups The Palette Groups feature lets you combine several palettes into one.
THE USER INTERFACE are already displayed can also be dragged and merged into a palette group. When dragging, a thumbnail is shown indicating whether the palette will be merged or placed above. A blue line indicator is shown in the palette group to indicate the location the palette will be dropped. (Mac OS X only) Docked palettes on screen edges form a palette group and can be moved as a group. Palette groups can be set to auto show/hide.
THE USER INTERFACE 7. Split Screen Vertical: View the layout in two or more separate panes side by side. 8. Export: Display the same export options that are available when you choose File > Export. 9. Page Preview: Click the up arrow next to the Page Number field to see a thumbnail view of all of the pages in the layout. Mac OS X users can continue to click the up arrow to enlarge the thumbnails. 10.
THE USER INTERFACE There are three ways to split a window: • Choose Window > Split Window > Horizontal or Window > Split Window > Vertical. • (Windows only) Click the split bar to the right of the scroll bar (for a vertical split) or at the top of the scroll bar (for a horizontal split). • Click the split-screen icons in the layout controls bar at the bottom of the project window. Once a window has been split, you can change the width and height of the split by dragging the bars between the splits.
THE USER INTERFACE Story Editor window is already open, the selected item’s story displays in that window.) If you want to monitor the overall appearance of a page as you edit its text at an easy-to-view size, you can position a Story Editor window next to a layout window that shows the same story. A story in layout view (left) and in a Story Editor window (right) View sets The View menu provides various options for how a layout displays.
THE USER INTERFACE • Default: This is the default set of view options that displays when you create your first layout after launching QuarkXPress for the first time. • Output Preview: This view set simulates a printed page as closely as possible. Guides, grids, invisibles, and visual indicators are hidden. View > Trim View, View > Hide Suppressed is turned on. The pasteboard displays using the color you specify in the Display pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences).
THE USER INTERFACE Projects and layouts QuarkXPress files are referred to as projects, and each project contains one or more layouts. Every layout is stored within a project, and every project contains at least one layout. Each layout can contain as many as 2,000 pages, and can be as large as 224” x 224” in size (or 112” x 224” for a two-page spread). A project can contain an unlimited number of layouts.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS New Project dialog box for Print layout type Every QuarkXPress project contains at least one layout. Therefore, when you create a project, you must specify a default layout for the file. To indicate the media type of the default layout, choose Print or Digital from the Layout Type drop-down menu. You can further choose the Digital layout type, Fixed or Flex from the drop down menu. For more information about Digital layouts, see Digital Publishing with QuarkXPress.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS The Facing Pages check box lets you create spreads. In a project with a horizontal default story direction, the Allow Odd Pages On Left check box lets you control whether you can have odd pages on the left. In a project with a vertical default story direction, the Allow Odd Pages On Right check box lets you control whether you can have odd pages on the right. The Automatic Text Box check box lets you add a text box to the default master page for the layout.
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PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Not only this, while authoring the document a bleed guide will be displayed and the user can snap the items to this guide. The color of the bleed guide is also customizable via the bleed tab under layout preferences.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Various output styles as well as output dialog have been extended to include a setting to specify whether the user wants to use layout level bleed settings while generating output or not.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Creating a project from an IDML file In QuarkXPress, the IDML Import feature offers the functionality to convert InDesign created IDML documents into QuarkXPress projects with all its assets like text, pictures, all items, style sheets, colors, blend modes, gradients, anchored items and many more. To create a project from an existing IDML file: 1.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 2.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 2. Convert InDesign files dialog will appear and user needs to select the option to convert files. User needs to click on Run Smart Scan or Manually Select files. 3. After the scan, all the INDD & IDML files will display and the user can select all files or select only a few for conversion before clicking on Convert Selected button.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 4. After clicking on Convert Selected button, an alert ‘Some files require Adobe InDesign to be launched. Please ensure that Adobe InDesign is not used while this process is running’ will be displayed.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 5. The results will be displayed at end of the conversion process. A user can navigate to the destination folder by clicking on the converted QuarkXPress files in this dialog.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Note: • To convert InDesign (INDD) files, a copy of InDesign should be installed on a customer machine. Table Styles Enhancement in IDML Import All the applied table styles and local formatting can be imported properly during IDML Import in the QuarkXPress project. • Properties applied through table style will be mapped in Table styles with the same name into QuarkXPress. • Cell style applied independently in InDesign mapped as locally.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS This will consist of setting the bleed values and asymmetric and symmetric bleed. If all four values are the same, it will be treated as symmetric; otherwise, it will be treated as asymmetric. Please note that there is no UI for this enhancement. Saving and naming a QuarkXPress project When you save a QuarkXPress project for the first time, the Save As dialog box displays. Use this dialog box to specify a project name, location, and type.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 3. Choose New from the Page Size: drop-down menu. The Custom Page Size dialog box displays. 4. Fill in a Name for the new custom page size, and define the Width and Height. The orientation will be assigned automatically, depending on the values input for Width and Height. To create multiple custom page sizes, click Add. The new custom page size will appear in the list and you will be able to create another. To delete a custom page size, select it from the list and click Delete.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Any custom page sizes you create will appear in the Page Size drop-down menu in the New Project and the New Layout dialog boxes and can be selected when creating new Print and Digital layouts, however, custom page sizes defined for Print layouts can only be used selected when creating new Print layouts, and custom page sizes defined for Digital layouts can only be used selected when creating new Digital layouts.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS • File > Export As > Kindle • File > Export As > Article Layers apply to the layout that is active when you create and edit them. When you perform a project-level action (Edit > Undo), the action is added to the Undo History in all layouts. When you check spelling (Utilities menu), QuarkXPress checks only the active layout. Project-level and layout-level resources Some resources are defined at the project level, and others are defined at the layout level.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS To apply adaptive scaling to the active Print layout choose Layout > Layout Properties. The Layout Properties dialog displays. 2. Check Apply Adaptive Scaling. 3. Click Options to configure the rules for scaling items on the layout. The Adaptive Scaling dialog displays.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 4. Use the dialog to configure the rules for scaling the items on the layout. The Adaptive Scaling dialog allows you to configure rules for the page properties, locked items, text, pictures, boxes, lines, tables, and any interactivity items that may exist on the layout. 5. Click OK.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Similarly, if the user decreases the pasteboard size in preferences, the same will be reflected in the layout. But while reducing pasteboard size, if there is an item beyond the current pasteboard size, then pasteboard will be decreased to the item’s bottom edge so that no item is lost. Large Pasteboard Preferences Layout Bleed is also incorporated with the large pasteboard size and the bleed values will be honoured along with the pasteboard length.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Column and margin guides Column and margin guides show where a page’s outside margins are and where columns (if any) should be placed. QuarkXPress automatically places column guides and margin guides in all new Print layouts. You can specify their position in the Column Guides and Margin Guides fields in the New Project dialog box (File > New > Project) or in the New Layout dialog box (Layout > New).
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS • To remove all ruler guides from a spread’s pasteboard, scroll until a portion of the pasteboard displays, then press Option/Alt and click a portion of the ruler. See also “Guide Manager Pro.” Snapping to guides QuarkXPress lets you create a “magnetic field” around guides so that when you drag an item close to a guide, it automatically aligns with it. This feature is called Snap to Guides (View menu) and the width of the magnetic field is called the Snap Distance.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS • Select Show Equal Spacing to display guide lines that are generated when the horizontal and/or vertical distance between items is equal to the distance between other items on the page. These are generated when you create and move items. • Select Show Measurements for Dimensions/Spacing) to display the value of the dimensions when Show Equal Dimensions is selected and the value of the spacing when Show Equal Spacing is selected.
NATIVE QUARKXPRESS OBJECTS Native QuarkXPress objects QuarkXPress allows you to convert items from other application such as Excel, Illustrator, PowerPoint and InDesign, as well as PDFs, Illustrator, WMF and EPS files to native QuarkXPress objects. This allows you to: • Convert and edit vector data (like logos, etc) from supported file formats that include AI, WMF, EPS and PDF. • Convert editable PDFs, update content and republish as PDF or other formats that are supported in QuarkXPress.
NATIVE QUARKXPRESS OBJECTS The image you are attempting to convert must have vector or text components in it. The Convert to Native Objects feature is not supported for Raster only images. 2. Check Retain Source Picture Box to compare the converted objects with the imported source image. 3. Check Ignore Soft Masks to exclude the conversion of soft masks from the source image. 4. Check Ignore Transparent Blend Modes to ignore transparent blends applied to the source image. 5.
NATIVE QUARKXPRESS OBJECTS To skip the dialog, hold down the Option key (Mac OS X) or the Alt key (Windows) when choosing Paste as Native Objects from the context menu. The options you select in this dialog persist and will be used if you choose to suppress the dialog. 3. Check Ignore Soft Masks to exclude the conversion of soft masks from the source image. 4. Check Ignore Transparent Blend Modes to ignore transparent blends applied to the source image. 5.
NATIVE QUARKXPRESS OBJECTS Content variables A content variable is an item you insert in your document that varies according to the context. For example, the Last Page Number variable displays the page number of the last page of the document. If you add or remove pages, the variable is updated accordingly. Content variables will line wrap and break just like text, including hyphenating when appropriate. The text within a content variable is searchable using the Find/Change palette.
CONTENT VARIABLES • Page Reference: This variable is used to create a reference to an existing layout object using the existing Anchors feature, and allows you to refer to that object elsewhere in the document, including the page number for the referred to object. • Static Text: With this you can create a simple static text variable that can be inserted throughout the document.
CONTENT VARIABLES • Modification Date: Modification Date inserts the date or time the document was last saved. You can insert text before and after the date, and you can modify the date format for all date variables using the drop-down menus. • Next Page Number: This variable inserts the next page number of the current project into the document. From the Scope drop-down menu, choose an option to determine whether the next page number in the section or layout is used.
CONTENT VARIABLES 5. You can choose to insert a Text String or a Text Variable when using this custom content variable. • If creating a custom variable that inserts a text string, type in the text you want to appear when inserting this content variable. Click the plus symbol to add more lines to the text. • If creating a custom variable that inserts a text variable, select the text variable you want from the drop-down menu.
CONTENT VARIABLES Insert a content variable To insert a content variable in your project: 1. Place the insertion point where you want the variable to appear. 2. Select Utilities > Content Variable and choose the variable you want to insert from the drop-down menu. The variable appears on the page as if you’d typed it in the document. Content variables can be inserted into lists and indexes.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Boxes, lines, and tables To create a successful page layout, you need an orderly way to arrange text and pictures — you need boxes. Boxes are items that can contain text or pictures; they can even be created to contain no content at all, perhaps to create colorful design elements on a page. Box boundaries give text and pictures a specific shape, size, and placement on a page.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Understanding handles The bounding boxes of selected text paths, lines, and boxes have small white squares called item handles. You can use these handles to resize and rotate a selected item. Item handles To resize an item, click and drag its item handles. To rotate an item, click and drag just outside one of the item’s corner handles.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Rotated picture in an unrotated box If you want to move a picture box or see what its crop looks like without the transparent overlay, press the Command/Ctrl key. This temporarily dismisses the overlay and allows you to interact with the box as if the Item tool were selected. If you click and drag with the Picture Content tool when the mouse pointer is positioned over a spot where a picture box handle and picture content handle overlap, only the picture is resized or rotated.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Smooth point: A smooth point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve. The curve handles always rest on a straight line through the point, but they can be distanced independently: A smooth point Symmetrical point: A symmetrical point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Curve handles (upper left) Line segments: Line segments are straight or curved line sections positioned between two points: Line segments When the Select Point tool is positioned over an active Bézier box or line, various pointers display indicating whether you can select a point, the curve handles, or a line segment. Click and drag using the pointers to reshape the Bézier box or line. • To change the shape entirely, choose a different option from the Item > Shape submenu.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • To select curves or points so that you can move them or delete them, use the Select Point tool . Press Shift and click to select multiple points. Option+click/Alt+click a point to make it symmetrical. To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and drag. Drop Shadows With Drop Shadows, you can apply automatic feathered drop shadows to items and text in a layout.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES measured from the edges of the drop shadow. For example, if text is wrapping around a rectangular pull-out quote with a drop shadow, text will not overlap the drop shadow when Runaround Drop Shadow is checked. To create text with a drop shadow, put the text in a box with a background of None, and apply the drop shadow to the box. When you apply drop shadows to several non-grouped items, the items can cast shadows on each other if they overlap.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES pane at a time by choosing to Acquire Panel Attributes. You can use Clear All Attributes and Clear Panel Attributes to clear panes. • The Summary pane summarizes the settings in all of the panes. • The check boxes at the bottom of the palette let you restrict your search to specific types of items. To find and replace all types of items, leave all of these boxes are unchecked. • When you click Find Next, Item Find/Change searches the entire layout from start to finish.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES available controls correspond to the box type you create. But you can import text into picture boxes that contain pictures, and you can import pictures into text boxes that contain text. In addition to changing content type, you can change the shape and other attributes of a box.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • Clicking a point without dragging creates a straight line and corner point. To create a curved line segment and smooth point, click and drag wherever you want the next point positioned. A point with two curve handles displays. You can control the curve’s size and shape by dragging a curve handle. Press Option/Alt while dragging a smooth point to create a curved segment and corner point. 4. If desired, edit the Bézier shape while you are still drawing it.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 9-Point Reference Grid in the measurement palette 9-Point Reference Grid during box rotation How it works • On the measurements palette, you can select any of 9-reference points as indicated • Once you set a Reference Point, all boxes in that particular layout will work with respect to the selected reference point. On creating a new project, the reference point will be reset to the ‘Top Left’.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 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.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES The proportion lock controls in the unlocked (top) and locked (bottom) states To lock the proportions of the picture in the selected box, display the Home tab of the Measurements palette and click the proportion lock control next to the X% and Y% fields. If this control is locked, QuarkXPress maintains the picture’s aspect ratio during resizing operations.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES bottom, right, or left box frame icons to apply a border to one or more sections of the box at a time. Use Line Drawing Order to choose the drawing order for the borders (Vertical/Horizontal on Top). You can only apply different border styles to different sides of a rectangular text box. This feature is not available for picture boxes or text boxes of any other shape.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES You can control how text will flow in relation to the columns. See “Controlling column flow.” Merging and splitting boxes Options in the Merge or Split Paths submenu (Item menu) let you create complex Bézier boxes from existing boxes. For example, if a rectangular box overlaps an oval box, you can select the submenu and choose an option that will create a single box with the same content. If you merge two picture boxes, one picture will display in the combined box.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • Outside Paths command works with a merged box that contains several, nonoverlapping shapes. Outside Paths keeps all the outside path information and divides non-overlapping outside paths into separate boxes. • Split All Paths: Separates the items from each other until every box within a complex box has been split. If you use this command on a shape that has a hole in it, the hole becomes solid. Merging text boxes To merge two or more text boxes, preserving the text: 1.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • Press R as you draw to create a picture box. Creating a box from a clipping path If a picture box has an associated clipping path (embedded or automatically created), you can create a new box that has the shape of that clipping path by selecting the picture box and choosing Item > New Box From Clipping. Copying attributes from one box to another To copy all of the attributes applied to a box and apply them to a different box: 1. Select the Item Format Painter tool 2.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • To specify the number of times you want the item to be duplicated, enter a number from 1 to 100 in the Repeat Count field. • To specify the horizontal placement of copies relative to the original item, enter a value in the Horizontal Offset field. A negative value places copies to the left of the original; a positive value places copies to the right of it. • To specify the vertical placement of copies relative to the original item, enter a value in the Vertical Offset field.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES The ShapeMaker dialog box provides tabs that let you create various types of shapes. All of the tabs have the following controls: • Item: Lets you choose whether you want to create a text box, picture box, nocontent box, text path, or rule path. • Width and Height: Lets you specify the width and height of the box or path. If you have an item or items selected when you choose Utilities > ShapeMaker, these values are filled in automatically to match the selected item or items.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Waves tab of ShapeMaker dialog box Specify the settings for the wave: • Top, Left, Bottom, and Right: These controls let you configure the four sides of the box. You can choose Wave 1, Wave 2, or Flat. • Keep waves parallel: Keeps the waves on either side of the box parallel with one another.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Polygons tab of ShapeMaker dialog box Specify the settings for the polygon: • Type: Choose what type of polygon go create from the drop-down menu. The controls immediately under this drop-down menu change depending on what type of polygon is selected. • Regular polygons: Lets you specify how many sides the polygon has.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Once you have defined the attributes, you can click the Add Preset button to save this shape. To revert to the default shape, click the Reset button, . To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. ShapeMaker Spirals tab The Spirals tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you create spiral shapes.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Once you have defined the attributes, you can click the Add Preset button to save this shape. To revert to the default shape, click the Reset button, . To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. ShapeMaker Rectangles tab The Rectangles tab of the ShapeMaker dialog box (Utilities > ShapeMaker) lets you create rectangular boxes with customized corners.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES To revert to the default shape, click the Reset button, . To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. Working with lines There are two types of lines: Straight and Bézier lines. You can apply colors and line styles to any type of line. Creating lines To create a line, first select the Line tool Crosshair pointer from the Tools palette and move the to any position on the page. Click and drag to draw the line.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES active, you can press Command+Option/Ctrl+Alt to temporarily switch to the Item tool. Line modes for orthogonal lines There are four line modes: Endpoints, Left Point, Midpoint, and Right Point. Depending on the mode you choose in the Measurements palette (Home or Space/Align tabs), line length and position will be described differently.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Controlling line appearance To control the appearance of active lines, use the controls in the following places: • Home tab of the Measurements palette • Colors palette (Window menu) — for line color only In addition to color, shade, and opacity, you can control the following characteristics for lines: • Line style: This option lets you control the general appearance of a line.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES To add other attributes to the tool, hold down the Shift key as you select the line. The following dialog displays: Make any changes you want to the line attributes and click OK. The new attributes are added to the Item Form Painter tool, but are not applied to the selected line. 3. Select any other line to apply the copied attributes. To uncheck Apply check box for all panes in the Item Font Painter tool, hold down the Shift+ Opt/Alt as you select the line.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Manipulating items Items can be cut and then pasted in new locations, locked so they cannot move, duplicated once or many times, stacked to create unusual visual effects, and manipulated in other ways. Selecting items To manipulate items, you must first select them. Once selected, most kinds of items display outlines and handles for reshaping.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Controlling the stacking order of items When two or more items overlap, each is either positioned in front of or behind the other item. The term “stacking order” refers to the front-to-back relationship of the various items on a page. Each item you create occupies its own level in the stacking order. Every new item you create becomes the front item. The Item menu includes commands that let you control item stacking order.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES To move an item within a group, press Command/Ctrl and select the item with the Item tool , the Text Content tool , or the Picture Content tool . The active fields in the Measurement palette tabs will affect the active group. Choose Item > Ungroup (Command+U/Ctrl+U) to ungroup a single group, or Item > Ungroup All to ungroup every group in a group that contains other groups.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES item on a left page and another item on the right page. If you then click the Spread relative mode icon in the Measurements palette and choose Space horizontal centers , the selected items position themselves on the far-left and far-right sides of the spread. Rotating items To rotate active items, do one of the following: • Select the Item tool and move the mouse over a corner handle.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES text insertion point at the point in text where you want to anchor the item or group and choose Edit > Paste (Command+V/Ctrl+V). QuarkXPress also provides support for nested anchors (i.e an anchored item can contain a further anchored item to the nth level). Working with callouts The Callouts feature lets you create floating boxes that always display on the same page or spread as the content they pertain to.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES For example, you can configure a callout so that its horizontal location is always against the outside margin, but its vertical location is always aligned with the paragraph that contains its callout anchor.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Callout Styles palette You can think of callout styles as similar to style sheets (for more information, see “Working with style sheets“). Like style sheets and other resources, callout styles can be managed with Job Jackets (for more information, see “Job Jackets“). A callout anchor can be selected or unselected. When a callout anchor is selected, it has a red outline and its callout style (if any) is selected in the Callout Styles palette.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 5. Configure the callout anchor. There are two ways to configure a callout anchor: • To apply a callout style to the callout anchor, display the Callout Styles palette (Window menu) and click the name of the callout style, or choose Item > Callout Anchor > Callout Styles > [Callout Style Name]. For more information, see “Working with callout styles.” • To edit the settings of the callout anchor directly, choose Item > Callout Anchor > Edit Callout Settings.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Offset fields will be automatically updated to reflect the new position of the callout. To prevent the callout from being manually repositioned, leave this box unchecked. 5. To prevent the callout from extending beyond the page margins, check Keep within margins. 6. Click OK. Working with callout styles Callout styles make it easy for you to apply often-used settings to callout anchors.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 3. If the application cannot find a valid location, it turns runaround off for the callout. When QuarkXPress turns off a callout’s runaround this way, it also places this visual indicator on the callout: To view visual indicators, check View > Visual Indicators. To turn runaround back on for such a callout, use the drop-down menu in the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 5. If you want to link text cells so imported text flows through the specified cells — similar to linked text boxes — check Link Cells. If you check Link Cells, you can choose the order in which to link the text cells from the Link Order dropdown menu. If you do not link cells in this manner, you can link them later using the Linking tool or the Link Text Cells command (Table menu).
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES The Convert Text to Table dialog box 3. If you want to create text cells that expand as you add text, use the controls in the Auto Fit area. 4. If you want the information in the table to flow differently — for example, if the values are currently in descending order but would have more impact in ascending order — you can change the flow. Choose an option from the Cell Fill Order drop-down menu (the default is Left to Right, Top Down). 5. Click OK.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Table Style palette In Table Styles, you can now capture newly introduced styling rules for table, row, column and cell level formatting along with text styling rules. (in previous versions, table styles support was limited to Inline tables linked to Excel tables only). With the new table model, you can now apply Table Styles to any table created in QuarkXPress directly or imported from Excel source.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Table Styles dialog The user interface for creating or editing a table style is divided into sections allowing you to specify table properties, row properties, column properties and cell properties.
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BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Edit Table Style_Cell Tab Selecting an option in the column on the left-hand side of this dialog will allow you to specify the properties that are specific to the selected context.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Easy access to table formatting features directly from the measurements palette • Measurements palette to offer local formatting on Home tab • Contextual to selection — cell, rows, columns or combination for formatting a selection • • Set border and fill for selected cells Dedicated control in the measurements palette to set Grid / Frame properties. Dedicated Table and Cell Tabs in the measurements palette, even when you are working on the cell’s content.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Importing Excel tables Table data often originates in a spreadsheet program such as Excel, and you can import table data just as you import pictures. Although the technique is slightly different, the results are the same: The table in QuarkXPress is linked to the Excel file for tracking and updating. You can import only .xlsx files in QuarkXPress.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES The Table Link dialog box 4. You can Browse to the location of the source document, select the worksheet containing the table you wish to import, and select the range of cells to import. 5. If the file includes multiple worksheets, choose the one you want to import from the Sheet drop-down menu. If you want to import only a portion of the data, you can specify a cell range in the Range field or choose a named range from the drop-down menu. 6.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Formulas and references are not imported. Instead, the final values that result from formulas and references are imported. Inserted pictures are not imported. Text with Auto Filter or Advance Filter (Data > Filter) applied is imported as static text. A quicker way to create a table from Excel data — without linking the source table to the QuarkXPress project for updates — is to copy and paste.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • To select all the text in a column, click outside the top or bottom edge of the table. • To select all the text over several rows or columns, drag along an edge of the table. • To select text in non-adjacent rows or columns, Shift+click the specific rows or columns. • To select text in various rows and columns, use the options in the Select submenu of the Table menu.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES If Maintain Geometry is checked in the Table menu and you delete a column or row, existing columns or rows increase in size to fill the space of the deleted columns or rows. If Maintain Geometry is unchecked, the table becomes smaller as necessary. Combining cells To combine cells, Shift+click a rectangular selection of cells with the Text Content tool . Choose Table > Combine Cells.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • Anchoring the table in a text box. This is the preferred way to break a table in most situations, because it is easiest to use. • Breaking the table manually. This method is necessary when you break a table horizontally (for example, if you want to put the first five columns of a table on one page and the remaining three columns on a different page). When tables are continued, you may still need a legend to explain what’s in the table.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES The Table Break Properties dialog box 2. Check Height to break the table when its height exceeds the value in the field. By default, the current height of the table displays in the Height field — decreasing this value will break the table. 3. You can specify the number of header rows by entering a value in the Header Rows field. (For more information, see “Adding header and footer rows to tables.”) 4.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES A broken table with a continued header The Table Break feature works in both directions: it continues the table using additional sub-tables as necessary if the table gets larger and recombines tables as necessary if the table gets smaller. To sever the links between continued tables, select any instance of the continued table and choose Table > Make Separate Tables.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Table Break Properties dialog box for anchored table To create a secondary header that displays in portions of a table after the first, check Continued Header. For example, if the header on the first portion of the table is “List of Contributors,” the continued header might be “List of Contributors (continued).” Click First Header Row to limit the continued header to the first header row, or All Header Rows to create continued headers from all header rows.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Use Tables as Anchors Now, users can apply anchors on table, and they can select them as a target while creating hyperlinks. This will also work for tables anchored in any text boxes.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES After applying anchor, the table gets highlighted and its entry will get added to the Hyperlinks Palette. Anchor Entry in Hyperlink Palette Apply this Anchor as Target for Hyperlink - Now go to Window Menu > click on Hyperlink palette. You can see the #TableAnchor available which can be selected to be used as a Hyperlink Target. Selecting Anchor while creating new Hyperlink These Hyperlinks are compatible with PDF, HTML output, Fixed e-Pub and Reflow ePub output formats.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Text and typography Text is an integral part of nearly every publication. QuarkXPress lets you create and edit text directly in your publications or import text from most popular word processing applications. In addition to the standard text formatting and editing features, QuarkXPress includes such features as finding and changing text and its attributes, spell checking, custom spelling dictionaries, and a font usage utility for making project-wide changes to text formatting.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The most-requested feature, QuarkXPress has come up with an application-level Preference setting to control the pasting behavior from external applications. You can find this option available under the Input Settings tab of Preference dialog. Now users can change the preference if they don’t wish to retain source formatting while pasting content from external application.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Fit Box to Text feature can be used for all kinds of text boxes, including linked boxes, multicolumn boxes, rotated boxes. It will work on text that has various attributes applied to as well as text containing footnotes and endnotes. Importing and exporting text To import text, do one of the following: • Select the Text Content tool , place the text insertion point where you want text to be inserted, and then choose File > Import.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY To export in .docx format, choose Word Document from the Format drop-down menu. Importing and exporting text with Unicode options You can specify an encoding type when importing text and exporting text. The encoding type specifies the byte sequence used to represent each glyph in text.The options work as follows: • The Import dialog box includes an Encoding drop-down menu when a plain text or “XPress Tags” text file is selected.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 3. Choose Word Document (*.DOCM;*.DOCX;*.DOTM;*.DOTX)) from the Files of type drop-down menu. Select the Word file you wish to import. 4. Specify the Word filter settings: • Check Convert Quotes to convert any quotes in the Word document to the format specified in Preferences (Edit > Preferences > Application > Input Settings). (Checked by default.) • Check Include Style Sheets to includes any style sheets that the imported Word document contains.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Check Include Inline Pictures to includes any inline pictures that the imported Word document contains. (Checked by default.) Finding and changing text The Find/Change palette (Edit menu) lets you perform standard search-and-replace operations.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Special character codes You can use special character codes to find/change special characters. You can also use these codes when creating conditional styles. Code Character Tab \t New paragraph \p New line \n New column \c New box \b Backslash \\ Punctuation space \. Flex space \f Discretionary hyphen* \h Indent here \I Discretionary new line \d Em space \m En space \e 3-per-Em space \5 4-per-em space \$ 6-per-em space \^ Figure space \8 Hair space \{
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Code Character Thin space \[ Zero width space \z Word joiner* \j Conditional style marker (Find/Change only) Footnote/Endnote reference marker* Content Variable reference* \r \o \v *Not applicable in conditional styles. *You can only search for Footnote/Endnote reference markers or Content Variable references. You are unable to replace them.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 3. Select Insert Footnote, Insert Endnote or Custom Footnote/Endnote from the drop down menu. If you choose Custom Footnote/Endnote, the Insert Footnote/Endnote dialog box appears: This allows you to select a Footnote style. User can change an applied Footnote style to a different style or to an Endnote style and vice versa. Footnote/Endnotes are supported for linked text chain and multi-column boxes. Footnote/Endnote text can flow across the text chain.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Footnote/Endnote styles To edit Footnote/Endnote styles, choose Window > Footnote Styles to display the Footnote Styles palette. Use the Footnote Styles palette to add, edit, duplicate and delete footnote styles. The buttons at the top of this palette let you add, edit, duplicate and delete Footnote styles. You can also apply a different Footnote/Endnote style on an already applied Footnote/Endnote reference number by clicking on the desired style in the palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Specify the attributes for your Footnote/Endnote style. The attributes in the top half of the dialog will be applied to the footnote/endnote reference text, the attributes under the Footnote/Endnote Formatting section of the dialog will be applied to the actual footnote text: • Name: Enter a name in this field, or the application will use a default “New Footnote Style” name. • Reference Type: Indicate if this will be a Footnote or an Endnote style.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Character Format: Choose Inherit From Marker Style to retain the styling applied on the footnote/endnote reference number. To associate a different character styling with the footnote/endnote marker, choose a character style sheet from a list of character style sheets available in the Character Format drop-down menu. To create a character style sheet, see “Creating and Editing Character Style Sheets“. • Prefix: Enter text that you want to appear before the footnote marker.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Select Footnote Separator Styles from the drop-down menu under Show:. The existing Footnote separator styles will be listed. Choose an existing Footnote separator style and click the Edit or Duplicate button, or click the New button.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Name: Enter a name in this field, or the application will use a default “New Footnote Separator Style” name. • Footnote Across Columns: Check to specify that the footnote should span columns in a multicolumn text box. Footnotes can be formatted to span across all columns. Footnotes for spanned column paragraphs will be listed below along with other footnotes as spanned footnotes.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Export Endnotes as Hyperlinks A QuarkXPress document can contain footnotes or endnotes or both. Footnote text is displayed in the footnote marked area, whereas the endnotes are displayed at the end of the document. Prior to QuarkXPress 2019 (v15.1), whenever a user exported a document as pdf having endnotes and viewed the output, he had to always manually navigate to the end of the document to view each of the Endnote texts. QuarkXPress 2019 (v15.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Under the Footnotes/ Endnotes sub-menu in Style menu and context menu, click the “Convert…” button. • Do one of the following: • Choose Footnotes to Endnotes to convert footnotes to endnotes. • Choose Endnotes to Footnotes to convert endnotes to footnotes. • Select one of the available Endnote/Footnote styles. • Select one of the following from the Scope dropdown: • • Layout: If you want to convert all the footnotes or endnotes in your document.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Check Spelling palette To change the scope of the spell check, choose an option from the Check dropdown menu. The options are Word, Selection, End Of Story, Story, or Layout. If you choose Layout, the spell check skips applied master page items and then checks the master page(s) after checking spelling on all layout pages. To check spelling in locked text boxes, cells, and paths, check Search Locked Content. Spell checking always starts from the text insertion point.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Spell check libraries have been updated for all languages. Spell checking is restricted to text boxes on visible layers only. You can click outside the Check Spelling palette and return to the palette to restart a spell check. To reverse changes from the Check Spelling palette, choose Edit > Undo Text Change. To display spell checking preferences, click Preferences. For more information, see “Preferences — Application — Spell Check.
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Word Count area displays the number of total and unique words in the story, layout or selection. The Character Count area displays the total number of characters and specific language characters in the story, layout or selection. Private Use Characters are unique characters specified within a range of the Unicode character set by individuals, organizations, and software vendors outside the ISO and Unicode Consortium.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Working with non-breaking character sets Non-breaking characters are characters that cannot begin or end a line, and also which cannot be separated from each other at line breaks. The Non-Breaking Character Set dialog box (Edit > Non-Breaking Character Sets) includes default non-breaking character sets for Japanese Strong, Japanese Weak, Korean Standard, Simplified Chinese Standard and Traditional Chinese Standard. To create custom non-breaking character sets: 1.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Aligning characters on a line The Character Alignment feature gives you several options for aligning small characters in a line of text to the largest character in a line of text. You can align characters based on their baselines, their em boxes, or their ICF boxes. Em boxes are the bounding boxes of characters. The ideographic character face (ICF) box is a boundary inside the em box beyond which a glyph cannot extend.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Roman Baseline: Aligns small characters with the baseline of the largest character. • ICF Box Bottom: Aligns small characters with the bottom of the ICF box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Examples of vertical alignment Applying character attributes QuarkXPress lets you maintain precise, character-by-character control over text formatting.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Applying a font To apply a font to selected text, do one of the following things: • Choose a font family and a font style from the Font drop-down menus in the Home or Character tab of the Measurements palette. • Press Command+Option+Shift+M/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M to jump directly to the font field in the Measurements palette, enter the first few characters of the font name until it is recognized, then press Return/Enter. Now select a font style from the font style menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY styles). Multiple clicks on a single button to select the desired font style was also not a feasible solution. In order to address these issues and to have a more predictable user interface, the Plain, Bold and Italic buttons have been removed from the user interface in QuarkXPress 2019- version 15.0.1. Now, the user has to change the font style from the font style menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Faux Styles • While opening a previous version document in QuarkXPress 2019, in case faux styling is applied on the text, then faux style string will be displayed in the font style field. • While importing a text file having faux styling applied, then faux style string will be displayed in the font style.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Change the value of ‘AllowFauxStyles‘ from ‘false’ to ‘true’, then save the file. Now, relaunch the application. Font styles in Usage dialog The display of font styling information the Usage dialog has also been changed in QuarkXPress 2019, version 15.0.1. The font face displayed in angular brackets has been removed if font is available on the system. Now, only the font name is displayed in Usage dialog > Fonts tab if the font is available on the system.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Font Management in QuarkXPress is classified into 3 subcategories: 1. Document Font Loading: • Temporarily activates fonts for a project from a Document Fonts folder and its sub-folders if it is placed in the same location as the project. • Activate fonts from the Document Fonts folder if the folder name is ‘Fonts’ or its corresponding localized names only. • Fonts available in the Document Fonts folder will not be treated as missing fonts if fonts can be read.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Document Fonts 2. Resolving Missing Fonts from user-specified location: • Under Preferences dialog, there is a new pane at the application level for Font Management. • You can add/remove one or more font folders to search and replace missing fonts. • You can choose to automatically activate missing fonts from the user-defined font folders while opening a project file/importing a Word file/ importing an Excel file/opening an IDML file, or converting to native objects.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Resolving Missing Fonts from User-specified Location • If you choose not to automatically activate the missing fonts, then there is a ‘Search in Folders’ option in Missing Fonts dialog to manually activate the missing fonts from the user-defined font folders.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Search in Folders option in Usage Dialog • The missing fonts will be only activated temporarily for the current project. • On closing a project, the replacement fonts for that project will get deactivated. 3.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • If the application fonts folder contains a font family having font styles but of different font formats, then the font styles of a single format will be enumerated and the priority defined for the font formats is in the order- OTF, TTC, TTF, Type1, CID, Bitmap. • Fonts installed in the application fonts folder will be available for QuarkXPress 2020 and future QuarkXPress releases only.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Use the color, shade, and opacity controls in the Home or Character tab of the Measurements palette. • Use the color, shade, and opacity controls in the Measurements palette. Applying horizontal or vertical scale To apply horizontal or vertical scaling to selected text, do one of the following things: • Choose Scale Text Horizontally or Scale Text Vertically from the Character tab of the Measurements palette, and enter a value in the field.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can define the color, width and type of join of your strokes. You can define a text stroke as part of a character or paragraph style sheet. To apply a text stroke to selected text, do one of the following things: • Use a character style sheet. • To apply a text stroke to entire paragraphs, use a paragraph style sheet, and choose (or define) a character style sheet that defines a text stroke from the Character Style drop down menu on the General tab.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY languages, the default stroke behavior is unusable, since it breaks within the syllables and the middle joint outlines are also visible. For solving this issue, new stroke drawing order options (Front, Behind) are introduced in QuarkXPress 2021. Now, the default stroke order will be “Front” which will act as current text stroking behavior. If it is changed to “Behind” then the first stroke will be drawn and then fill will be applied.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can also access Stroke drawing in vertical measurement palette- Drawing order option in Vertical Measurement Palette Drawing order option in Character Style sheet dialog Controlling half-width characters To keep half-width characters (such as Roman characters) horizontal in a vertical story, check the Keep Half-Width Characters Upright box on the Character tab of the Measurements palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Edit Font Set dialog box to configure a font set. For each type in a font set, you can control the following: • Font: Specify a font family for each type of the character group. • Style: Specify a font style for selected font family for each type of the character group • Relative Size: Specify the relative size of each font based on the font size used in the layout.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can copy any applied paragraph formats from one paragraph to other paragraphs in the same box or text chain. To copy applied paragraph formats, select the paragraph or range of paragraphs that you want to change, then press Option+/Alt+Shift while clicking anywhere in the paragraph with the formats you want to copy. Copying paragraph formats in this way will not change any character attributes.
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Paragraph Alignment options In the case of Facing Pages, there is a spine: • Towards Spine alignment: Irrespective of the number of pages in the spread, the text on all the Left side pages will align to the right side (i.e. towards the spine); the text on all the Right side pages will align to the left side (i.e. towards the spine). • Away from Spine alignment: Irrespective of the number of pages in the spread, the text on all the Left side pages will align to the left side (i.e.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Controlling indentation You can specify indents for selected paragraphs in the following ways: • Use the Style > Alignment submenu • Use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette Use the following fields to specify the indents: • To specify how far a paragraph is indented from the left edge of a box or column, enter a value in the Left Indent field. • To specify how far the first line of a paragraph is indented from the Left Indent value, enter a value in the First Line field.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY When importing Word documents, the text is automatically mapped using proportional leading. • Incremental leading combines a base amount of auto leading with an absolute value specified in the Leading field. Incremental leading values must be preceded by a plus (+) or minus (–) sign. • Auto leading means the application uses the value in the Auto Leading field (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Paragraph pane) to decide whether percentage-based or incremental auto leading occurs.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Space Between set to ‘Ignore’ Space Between set ‘0’ How it works • You can now ignore or apply different spacing between consecutive paragraphs having the same style applied. You may want to apply this when you have applied space before or space after or both on multiple paragraphs and want to ignore or customize the spacing between consecutive paragraphs.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • To ignore the spacing between consecutive paragraphs having the same style sheet: Set value to 0 in Space Between • To reduce the spacing between consecutive paragraphs having the same style sheet: Define any custom value in Space Between Space Between attribute can be imported from Microsoft Word files, RTF files, XPress Tags files and can also be exported from QuarkXPress to any of these formats.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY If Space Before and/or Space After attributes are specified in both the Paragraph tab and the Column Flow tab of the Measurements palette, the larger value will be applied, they will not be added. Between two column blocks (span/span; span/ split; split/ split; split/ span), the Space Before and/or Space After values applied in Paragraph tab will be applied . • • Gutter Width- set the gutter width for split columns.
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Keep Option for Column Flow • Keep paragraphs of different column spans together using Keep Lines Together and Keep with Next attributes. • This feature will work with new documents created in QuarkXPress 2020 and later i.e. having text version as 16.0 and higher (there will no change while opening or working with legacy documents). • You need to force the new text flow for legacy documents (Alt+Open) to use this feature.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Right aligns text flush right on the tab stop. • Decimal aligns text on a decimal point (period). • Comma aligns text on a first comma. • Align On aligns text on any character you specify. When you select this tab, the Align On field displays. Select the existing entry, and enter the character to align on. Tabs dialog To define a tab stop: • Select a Tab stop and drag the tab stop over the tab ruler or type tab stop position in the Position field.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY If you do not set custom tabs, the application sets default left-aligned tabs every half-inch. To apply tabs to selected paragraphs: Use the controls in the Tabs tab of the Measurements palette. Using the Measurements palette conserves screen space, and you continuously see the effects updated as you change tab settings. You can drag tab icons to the ruler or drag tab icons directly into text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Start Paragraph Options in Edit Paragraph Style sheet Dialog Default value of this option will always be “Anywhere” which means to continue the existing text flow without any change. Page break: There are 3 options in it, • On Next Page – This option will move the paragraph to the start of the next page. If it is already available at the beginning of a page then there will be no change.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Start paragraph break option will be ignored for Footnotes and Endnotes. • Keep attribute options will be overridden by paragraph break options For applying it locally, similar options are open in the measurement palette. Start Paragraph option in Horizontal Measurement Palette Start Paragraph option in Vertical Measurement Palette Working with text shading Use borders to clearly describe your shaded text through page breaks.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Creating and editing text shading styles A text shading style is a named collection of text shading attributes. You can apply the attributes of a text shading style’s to text by simply applying the style to the text. To create a new text shading style or edit an existing one: • Open the Text Shading Styles dialog, (Edit > Text Shading Styles). • Choose an existing text shading style from the list and click Edit to edit it, or click New to add a new text shading style.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Enter a name for this text shading style in the Name field, or the application will use a default “New Text Shading Style” name. • Define the attributes in the Shade tab: • Color: Choose a color for the text shading from the drop-down menu. Choose New from the menu to create a new color for the shading. • Shade: Enter or use the slider control to specify the shade of the color in terms of a percentage.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Width: Specify the width of the frame . • Style: Choose a frame style from the drop-down menu. • Color: Choose a color for the frame from the drop-down menu. Choose New from the menu to create a new color for the frame. • Shade: Enter or use the slider control to define the shade percentage. • Opacity: Enter or use the control to specify an opacity value from 0% (transparent) to 100% (opaque). • In the Offsets section, specify the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom offsets.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY If you edit an existing text shading style, the changes will be applied immediately wherever this text shading style has been used in the layout. Once you have created a text shading style, you can use this style in both paragraph and character style sheets. Select it from the Text Shading drop-down menu in the Edit Character Style Sheet dialog or in the Formats tab of the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog. Applying text shading To apply shading to existing text: 1.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Use the controls in the Text Shading tab of the Measurements palette. • Apply a defined text shading style to either a character or paragraph style sheet and apply that style sheet to the text. You can select an empty text box or an empty paragraph in a text box as Step1. After Step 2, the text shading style will be applied to the text as you are typing. There is a difference between applying text shading to an entire paragraph, or to just selected text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can choose to shade an entire paragraph and then shade selected text within that paragraph: Controlling kerning Kerning is the adjustment of space between character pairs. Because of their shapes, certain character pairs look better when kerned. You can use automatic kerning, and you can also use manual kerning controls to specify additional kerning between characters. Kerning values are expressed as 1/200 of an em space.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Controlling hyphenation and justification A hyphenation and justification (H&J) specification is a named package of settings for hyphenating words that go over the margin of a line of text and for justifying spaces between words and characters. You can apply H&Js to individual paragraphs, or you can associate an H&J with a paragraph style sheet. Use the Edit Hyphenation & Justification dialog box (Edit > H&Js > New) to control these settings.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can choose from the following strictness levels: • Compounds Only • Nominal • Aesthetic • Prevalent: This is the default level when opening creating a new project since QuarkXPress 2018 onwards. • Everywhere • As 2017 and Earlier: This is the default Strictness Level when opening a legacy document created in QuarkXPress 2017 and prior versions. The Strictness level feature is only supported by Dieckmann hyphenation libraries (Extended 2 hyphenation method).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Support for all non- Dieckmann hyphenation libraries (e.g. ‘Standard’, ‘Expanded’, ‘Enhanced’) have been dropped for new documents created in QuarkXPress 2018. XTension developer created hyphenation libraries will continue to be supported for QuarkXPress 2018. • Hyphens in a Row: Specify how many words can be hyphenated in consecutive line ends. • Hyphenation Zone: Specify the area before the right indentation in which hyphenation can occur.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • R Space: Specify the amount of space between words containing Roman characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between words containing Roman characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment. • EA Punct: Specify the minimum and maximum amount of space between East Asian punctuation characters in justified paragraphs. Specify the optimum amount of space between East Asian punctuation characters in all paragraphs, regardless of their alignment.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Hyphenation Exceptions dialog box The Suggested Hyphenation dialog box (Utilities menu) displays the recommended hyphenation of a word that is based on the hyphenation method specified for the paragraph and the hyphenation exceptions for the paragraph’s language. Hyphenation exception files Hyphenation exception lists can be stored in separate .xml files. These .xml files can than be imported into your project and also exported and shared with other users and projects.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Select Hyphenation Exceptions File dialog box 2. Search for and select the hyphenation exception .xml file you wish to import. 3. Check Append to Existing (default) to append the hyphenation exceptions to an existing list. If there are conflicts between words on the old list and the list you are attempting to append, a conflict resolution window will open.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Since Hyphenation Exceptions can be added at either at the application or layout level: • Importing hyphenation exceptions when no project is open would result in the hyphenation exceptions being imported at the application level for all the languages. • Importing hyphenation exceptions with a multi-layout project open would result in the hyphenation exceptions being imported into the current layout of the project.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 3. Select the desired target Job Jacket from the list on the left. 4. Select Hyphenation Exceptions from the list of Resources in the top-right list. Existing hyphenation exception resources are listed in the bottom-right list. 5. Click to add a hyphenation exception files as a resource. You can select this file to be the default hyphenation exception file.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Hyphenation exceptions from an external hyphenation exceptions files associated with layout items on the job ticket get imported into the corresponding layout of the newly created project. • a user can create any number of layout items. Each layout created in the project would contain hyphenation exceptions present in external hyphenation exception file associated to the layout items.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Existing hyphenation exception resources are listed in the bottom-right list. Synchronization between hyphenation exception files and layouts QuarkXPress supports synchronization between a layout and the hyphenation exception file when it is part of a Job Jacket resource.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Integrating with Quark Publishing Platform To integrate a Job Jacket with an external hyphenation exceptions file checked into the Quark Publishing Platform server: 1. Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities > Job Jackets Manager) and click the open Job Jacket button . Select Quark Publishing Platform from the dropdown. The dropdown menu under the open Job Jacket button is only displayed when QuarkXPress is launched with the Quark Publishing Platform XTension.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 3. Select the desired Job Jacket and click OK. 4. Select Hyphenation Exceptions from the list of Resource types in the top-right list and click 5. to add a hyphenation exception file as a resource. Click the Source attribute and select Quark Publishing Platform from the dropdown menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 6. Click the Browse button and select the desired hyphenation exceptions file and click OK. Synchronization of hyphenation exceptions files on Platform If you have created a project from a Job Jacket, containing a hyphenation exception reference, then any changes performed in the hyphenation exception file will get reflected in the layout the next time the project is opened or re-linked to the job ticket.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY space. A positive tracking value increases the space to the right of each character; a negative value decreases it. Tracking is commonly used for copyfitting. However, too much tracking can interfere with design and readability. When you are using tracking for copyfitting, consider these guidelines: • Track whole paragraphs rather than one line or one word. • Establish guidelines for tracking (for example from +3 to –3).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Working with style sheets A style sheet is a group of paragraph attributes, character attributes, or both that can be applied to selected paragraphs and characters in one step. Use style sheets to change unformatted text into styles such as headlines, subheadings, captions, or body copy. Using style sheets to apply a number of character and paragraph attributes at one time reduces layout time and helps maintain typographic consistency.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box to configure a paragraph style sheet. First, configure the controls in the General tab: • Name: Enter a name in this field, or the application will use a default “New Style Sheet” name. • Keyboard Equivalent: To define a keyboard command for the style sheet, enter one in the Keyboard Equivalent field. You can enter any combination of Command, Option, Shift, or Control/Ctrl or Ctrl+Alt, along with a function or keypad key.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Based on: To base the attributes of a new style sheet on an existing one, click the Based on drop-down menu and choose a style sheet from the list. Note that if you use the Based on drop-down menu in the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box to base a style sheet on an existing one, changes you make to the original style sheet are automatically applied to those based on it.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Edit Character Style Sheet First, configure the controls in the General tab: • Name: Enter a name in this field, or the application will use the default “New Style Sheet” name. • Keyboard Equivalent: To define a keyboard command for the style sheet, enter one in the Keyboard Equivalent field. You can enter any combination of Command, Option, Shift, or Control/Ctrl or Ctrl+Alt, along with a function or keypad key.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY To update both the paragraph style sheet and the character style sheet applied to text so that they reflect local formatting, choose Style > Update Style Sheet > Both. Applying style sheets To apply a style sheet to selected text, do one of the following things: • Choose the style sheet name from the Style > Paragraph Style Sheet submenu or the Style > Character Style Sheet submenu. • Display the Style Sheets palette (Window menu) and then click the style sheet name in the palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY When local paragraph or character attributes exist in selected text, a plus sign displays next to the style sheet name in the Style Sheets palette. To remove local attributes, click No Style and then reselect the style sheet, or Option+click/Alt+click the style sheet name.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Conditional Styles feature lets you capture such instructions and apply them automatically to text. For example, you could implement the above conventions with the following conditional style: A conditional style that produces the above formatting Once you’ve captured these rules in a conditional style, you can style a run of text by simply selecting it and then clicking the conditional style’s name in the Conditional Styles palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Creating a conditional style To create a conditional style: 1. Choose Edit > Conditional Styles. The Conditional Styles dialog box displays. 2. Click New. The Edit Conditional Style dialog box displays. Edit Conditional Style dialog box 3. Enter a name for the conditional style in the Name field. 4. To begin building a rule, choose an option in the first column: • Apply: Use this option to apply formatting to text. • Go: Use this option to move to a different point in the text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Cursor Position: Choose this option to apply a paragraph style sheet to the current location without moving. • Conditional Style Marker: Choose this option to jump or format to the next conditional style marker. For more information, see “Conditional style markers.” • Character: Choose this option to target a particular character, then enter the character in the next column.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Text: Choose this option to repeat when a particular chunk of text is found, then enter the target text in the field. • Character: Choose this option to repeat when a particular character is found, then enter the character in the next column. If you want to repeat at each instance of one of several characters, enter all of them with no characters between them. For example, if you enter “abc” here, the application will repeat when “a”, “b”, or “c” is encountered.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Removing conditional styles There are two ways to remove conditional styles from text to which they have been applied: • To remove the conditional styles from the selected paragraphs and revert the text to its underlying paragraph style sheets, choose Revert Selected Text to Base Styles from the Conditional Styles palette menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Conditional style that uses conditional style markers 3. Apply the conditional style to the text. Each article is automatically formatted. Text with conditional style applied Editing a conditional style There are two ways to edit a conditional style: • Choose Edit > Conditional Styles, select the conditional style, and then click Edit. • Select the conditional style in the Conditional Styles palette and click Edit .
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY A bullet style describes how a bullet should look, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned. A numbering style describes how a number should look, what format it should have, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned. An outline style defines indents for up to nine indent levels. You can associate a bullet or numbering style with each level.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Working with bullet styles A bullet style describes how a bullet should look, how far it should be from the text, and how it should be aligned. To create a bullet style, choose Edit > Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles, then choose Bullet Style from the New button in the Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles dialog box. The Edit Bullet Style dialog box displays.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • By choosing the bullet style’s name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the bullet is positioned to the left of the paragraph’s first line indent by its Outset value. • By choosing an outline style that uses the bullet style from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the bullet’s position is controlled by the outline style. For more information, see “Working with outline styles.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Numbering alignment and offset works the same way bullet alignment and offset works. For more information, see “Working with bullet styles.” You can apply a numbering style in three ways: • Choose the numbering style’s name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette. If you do it this way, the numbers are positioned to the left of the paragraph’s first line indent by its Outset value.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Working with outline styles An outline style defines indents for up to nine indent levels. You can associate a bullet or numbering style with each level. You can also choose whether to include the numbers from previous levels, as you would in some types of outline. To create an outline style, choose Edit > Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles, then choose Outline Style from the New button in the Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles dialog box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Edit Outline Style dialog box Each outline style has nine levels, although you do not have to use all nine. Each level has an indent, which you can specify in the Indent field for that level. Indents are applied cumulatively; if level 1 has a 6 pt indent and level 2 has a 6 pt indent, a paragraph at level 2 is indented by 12 pt. Outline style indents are applied on top of paragraph indents.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY for level 3 and specify a period as the separator, the numbering for level-3 text might look like this: 1.3.1 This paragraph is at level 3. 1.3.2 This paragraph is at level 3. 1.3.3 This paragraph is at level 3. To change the character inserted between levels for a given level, double-click to the right of the Include Lower Levels/Separator check box and enter a new character or characters.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Associate the outline style with a paragraph style sheet, then apply that style sheet to the text. For more information, see “Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Outline Indent Level in Paragraph Style Sheet Positioning text in text boxes The topics below cover several ways to control the vertical and horizontal positioning of text in text boxes. Using baseline grid QuarkXPress versions 7.0 and earlier included a feature called Baseline Grid. The baseline grid was an evenly spaced series of invisible horizontal lines running from the top to the bottom of each page.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Top: In top-aligned text boxes, lines of text are positioned in the box with the top of the first line positioned as specified in the First Baseline area. • Centered: In center-aligned text boxes, lines of text are centered between the First Baseline’s ascent and the bottom of the text box. • Bottom: In bottom-aligned text boxes, lines of text are positioned with the last line flush with the bottom of the box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Converting text to boxes To convert the selected character or characters into a Bézier box, choose an option from the Item > Text to Box submenu. To convert selected text to unanchored Bézier boxes, choose Item > Convert Text to Boxes > Unanchored. To convert selected text to anchored Bézier boxes, choose Item > Convert Text to Boxes > Anchored.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY control that acts on the text box itself. All other runaround controls act on the item(s) placed in front of the text box. Running text around lines and text paths To apply text runaround to a line or text path in front of a text box, select the line or text path, use the Runaround tab on the Measurements palette, and then choose an option from the Type drop-down menu: • Choose None to run text behind the line or text path. • Choose Item to run text around the line or text path.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY To apply text runaround to a picture component in front of a text box, select the picture component, choose Style > Picture, click the Runaround tab, and then choose an option from the Type drop-down menu: • Choose None to run text behind the active picture component. • Choose Item to run text around the picture component’s boundaries. If the picture component is rectangular, enter values in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields to outset or inset the runaround area.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Note: Currently only Item type Runaround is allowed for multiple selected items. Fine-tuning a runaround path When you choose Auto Image, Embedded Path, Alpha Channel, Non-White Areas, or Same As Clipping from the Type drop-down menu in the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette, the following fields let you manipulate the runaround path: 1. Outset changes the size of the runaround path.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Editing a runaround path To adjust a runaround path, check Runaround (Item > Edit). The runaround path displays as a magenta outline. You can then edit the path as you would any Bézier object. You can also change the types of the runaround path’s points and segments with the controls in the Measurements palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Creating drop caps Drop caps are initial caps that hang two or more lines below the first line of a paragraph. The automatic Drop Caps feature enlarges the drop cap characters and runs the paragraph around the drop caps automatically. The typeface and styles match the rest of the paragraph. To apply drop caps to a selected paragraph, use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette, and check Drop Caps.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 2. Choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy. 3. Select the Text Content tool and place the Text Insertion bar where you want to anchor the item. 4. Choose Edit > Paste to anchor the item at the text insertion point. Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines To cut or copy an anchored item, select the item as you would any text character and choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy.
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The OpenType Styles palette can also be displayed/closed by pressing the F4 shortcut key. A radio button indicates that the OpenType feature is mutually exclusive, you need to select between one of the features. A check box indicates that the OpenType feature is additive, you can add the feature to the already applied OpenType features. On macOS only the features available to the currently selected font are shown by default.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY OpenType styles available in the Edit Character Style Sheet dialog If a font has OpenType features available, then the UI label for the corresponding OpenType feature will appear enabled in the OpenType dialog, otherwise the UI label will appear grayed out. The check box for the OpenType features are independent of the availability of the OpenType feature in the applied font. This allows the user to set the OpenType attributes during style sheet creation or modification.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Contextual Alternates: Apply alternate glyph variations based on contextual juxtapositions of text. • Localized Forms: Replace default forms of glyphs with localized forms. This feature is dependent on the text language of the base text. • H\V Kana Alternates: Apply specially designed horizontal or vertical Kana forms that correspond with the story direction (vertical or horizontal).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Capital Spacing: This feature allows the user to adjusts inter-glyph spacing for all-capital text. • Stylistic Sets: This feature replaces the default forms with the stylistic set variants. • Alternative Fractions: Replaces figure separated by a slash with an alternative form. Displays a fraction by using a horizontal dividing line (nut fraction) instead of a slant or slash. It is very useful to write mathematical expressions.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Using ligatures There are two methods for using ligatures: The legacy method or the OpenType method. The legacy method supports standard ligatures such as fi and fl in PostScript fonts. The OpenType method allows access to both standard ligatures and discretionary ligatures in OpenType fonts. Both methods are applied as character attributes, meaning that you can apply them to any selected text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Glyphs palette displays the available OpenType features for each font. Working with Color Fonts A color font file is a regular font file that embeds additional data to display more graphic properties than the contour shapes of a character. QuarkXPress supports three color font formats: • SBIX: This is an Apple format, containing glyphs with bitmap raster data. • COLR: This is a Microsoft format, containing glyphs with vector data.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY so that the color fonts are easily differentiable from normal fonts and from each other. If an installed color font is available in more than one format on the system, then the one having the higher preference order will be enumerated in the font list. The preference order is: SVG, COLR, SBIX. Both Windows and macOS have a default color font (Segoe UI Emoji font on Windows and Apple Color Emoji on macOS).
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY OpenType features in Glyphs palette To view the glyphs in a font, display the Glyphs palette (Window menu) and choose a font and font style from the Font family and style menu in the upper-left corner. Options available in the Glyphs palette include the following: • To view a subset of the glyphs in the font, choose an option from the Show drop-down menu. • To see any alternates available for a glyph, click the box in the lower-right corner of an individual glyph’s cell.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Inserting other special characters To insert a special character other than a space — such as an em dash or a current page number placeholder character — at the text insertion point, choose Utilities > Insert Character > Special or Utilities > Insert Character > Special (nonbreaking). Special characters (breaking and non breaking) can be searched for using the Find/Change palette, see “Finding and changing text“.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Missing fonts dialog To create a font mapping rule, first open a project that uses a missing (inactive) font. Click List Fonts to display the Missing Fonts alert. Use the Replace button to choose replacement fonts for any missing fonts, then click Save As Rule. All the replacements listed in the Missing Fonts alert are saved as rules, even if only some replacements are selected. If you change your mind about a replacement, select its line and click Reset.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Working with design grids The design grid feature is an extension of the baseline grid feature in versions 7 and earlier of QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk. Design grids make it even easier for you to define grids, allowing you to align text and objects precisely on both the page and text box levels. For information on preferences related to design grids, see “Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grids.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY In the vertical story direction, a line in a design grid includes a leftline, a baseline, a centerline, a rightline, and a full cell box. Master page grids and text box grids There are two kinds of default design grids: Master page grids and text box grids. Every page and every text box has a design grid associated with it. You can hide or show design grids for an entire layout by choosing View > Page Grids or View > Text Box Grids.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY A page with its master page grid displayed, with all grid lines showing. A page with its master page grid displayed, with only full cell boxes showing. A text box with its text box grid displayed, with all grid lines showing. A text box with its text box grid displayed, with the baseline and full cell boxes showing. For more information, see “Using a master page grid.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY To use the baseline grid feature as it existed in QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk 7.x and earlier, show the baseline and hide the other grid lines. Grid styles A grid style is a named package of settings that describe a grid — like a style sheet for a design grid. You can apply grid styles to text boxes and can use them as the basis for master page grids. You can also base grid styles on other grid styles. Grid styles are displayed in the Grid Styles palette (Window menu).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Master Guides & Grid dialog box to control master page grids. • Under Margin Guides, use the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right fields to specify margin placement relative to the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the page. To synchronize the values in the Top and Bottom or Left and Right fields, click the chain icon next to the fields. • Under Column Guides, enter a value in the Columns field to specify the number of columns on the master page.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • To control the placement and spacing of the grid, use the controls in the Text Settings tab. For more information, see “Design grids: Text Settings tab.” • To control the alignment of cells, use the controls in the Cell Alignment tab. For more information, see “Design grids: Cell Alignment tab.” • To specify which grid lines display, use the controls in the Display Settings tab. For more information, see “Design grids: Display Settings tab.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Font Scaling: Choose Horizontal or Vertical and enter a percentage of the font size in the field. If you choose Horizontal, this value determines the full cell width. If you choose Vertical, this value determines the full cell height. • Line Spacing and Leading: The Line Spacing and Leading values determine grid spacing. Line spacing is based on the following formula: Font Size multiplied by Vertical Scaling plus Line Spacing equals Leading.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box Use the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box (Master Guides&Grid > Adjust) to change the number of cells per line and the number of grid lines that fit within the margins of a master page. Many of the controls in this dialog box are also in the Text Settings tab; changes are reflected in both locations. Use the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box to adjust grid settings for a master page.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • The Characters per page field displays the number of characters that can fit on a page, based on the current values. • Click Adjust Margins to adjust the Cells per line and Lines per page values based on changes to margin guide positions. Click one of the nine squares to anchor the base margin from which changes are calculated. The four outside squares anchor the top and left, top and right, bottom and left, and bottom and right margins.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box to adjust grid settings for an active text box. • Enter values in the Cells per line and Lines in Box field to change the number of cells and lines in the active box. • The increment bars display a percentage (from 0 to +1) to indicate the fraction by which a grid pattern does not fit in the box. If the Cells per line or Lines in Box increments align perfectly, the increment bar displays 0.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Design grids: Display Settings tab A design grid includes separate lines to indicate the topline, the centerline, the baseline, the bottomline, and the full cell box.Use the controls in the Display Settings tab to show or hide grid lines and to specify grid line color, width, and style. The Display Settings tab displays in the Master Guides & Grid, Edit Grid Style, and the Grid Settings dialog boxes. Display Settings tab in the Master Guides & Grid dialog box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Cell Alignment tab in the Grid Settings and Edit Grid Style dialog boxes Loading grid settings To use a grid style, style sheet, or master page grid as the basis for a master page grid or text box grid: 1. Click Load Settings in the Master Guides & Grid, Grid Settings, or Edit Grid Style dialog box. The Load Settings dialog box displays. Select a grid style, style sheet, or master page in the Load Settings dialog box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 2. Choose All, Grid Styles, Master Pages, or Paragraph Style Sheets from the Show drop-down menu. 3. Select an existing grid style, style sheet, or master page from the list, and then click OK. The specifications in the grid style, style sheet, or master page you load are displayed in the Master Guides & Grid, Grid Settings, or Edit Grid Style dialog box. You can modify these grid settings after loading them.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Grid style with “Body Copy” style sheet loaded and linked Working with grid styles A grid style includes grid attributes you can apply to a text box or use as the basis for a master page grid or another grid style. Creating grid styles To create, edit, duplicate, or delete grid styles, use the Grid Styles dialog box (Edit > Grid Styles).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Grid Styles dialog box to create, edit, duplicate, and delete grid styles. When you click New, Edit, or Duplicate in the Grid Styles dialog box, the Edit Grid Style dialog box displays.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • To specify a name for the grid style, enter a value in the Name field. • To control the placement and spacing of the grid, use the controls in the Text Settings tab. For more information, see “Design grids: Text Settings tab.” • To control the alignment of the full cell to the grid, use the controls in the Cell Alignment tab. For more information, see “Design grids: Cell Alignment tab.” • To specify which grid lines display, use the controls in the Display Settings tab.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY can choose View > Snap to Page Grids to force items you move to align with master page grids. Using a master page grid To specify a master page grid for a layout page, apply the master page to the project page. Locking text to a grid Using a style sheet or local paragraph formatting, you can lock text to the master page grid or a text box grid. To lock text to a grid: 1.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 3. Click a grid line in the text box and then drag the box. Note that even as you move the grid line, the original position of the box continues to display. You can align the selected grid line with another grid line in the box, a master page grid line, or a guide. (See notes on Live Drag below.) 4. Click a grid line or cell in the text box and then drag the box. Notice how the selected grid line or cell you’re moving displays and the original position of the box continues to display.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can apply automatic rubi to a series of words (separated by spaces or punctuation) by selecting a range of text and then pressing Command+Option+R/Ctrl+Alt+R. For more information about automatic rubi, see the Rubi Text bullet in the list under “Text tab,” below. Text tab The Text tab of the Rubi dialog box lets you control the following options: • Rubi Text: Use this field to specify the rubi text to be applied to the selected base text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Character Attributes tab to specify how rubi characters display • The Font, Style, Size, Color, Shade, Opacity, Scale, Track/Sending, Baseline Shift and Type Styles controls let you apply basic formatting to the text. • To enable or disable the use of specifically designed Kana glyphs for Rubi, check or uncheck Rubi Annotations. These glyphs are available only in some Japanese OpenType fonts.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Justified alignment of rubi text • Forced: Aligns rubi text flush with the left and right of base text in a horizontal story, or flush with the top and bottom of base text in a vertical story. Forced alignment of rubi text • 1–2–1 (JIS) Rule: Aligns rubi text with base text according to a 1:2:1 ratio, leaving a certain amount of space at the beginning and end of the line of rubi text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Equal Space alignment of rubi text • 1 Rubi Space: Aligns rubi text so that the space at the beginning of the line of rubi text and the space at the end of the line of rubi text are equal to the width of one rubi text character but not equal to the spaces between each rubi text character. The spaces between rubi text characters are distributed evenly.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Backslashes correspond with the space between base text characters Rubi base alignment options You can apply Base Alignment options only when rubi text overhangs the base text. The Base Alignment options are: • None: No base text alignment is applied. • Left: Aligns base text with the left side of rubi text in a horizontal story. • Centered: Aligns base text under or next to rubi text so that rubi text has equal overhang on each side of the base text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Forced alignment of base text • 1–2–1 (JIS) Rule: Aligns base text with rubi text according to a 1:2:1 ratio, leaving a certain amount of space at the beginning and end of the line of base text. 1–2–1 (JIS) Rule alignment of base text • Equal Space: Aligns base text so that the space at the beginning of the line of base text, the space at the end of the line of base text, and the spaces between base text characters are equal.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • None: No overhang is allowed. • Up to 1 Rubi Character: Allows the full width of a rubi text character to overhang an unrelated base text character. Up to 1 Rubi Character • Up to ½ Rubi Character: Allows ½ the width of a rubi text character to overhang an unrelated base text character. Up to ½ Rubi Character • Up to 1 Base Character: Allows the full width of a base text character to be placed under unrelated rubi text characters.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Unrestricted: Allows overhang without any restrictions. Working with hanging characters Hanging character sets handle both hanging punctuation and margin alignment. Margin alignment lets you hang characters partially outside the margin to create visually uniform text alignment along the margin.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The punctuation characters in this sample text are trailing hanging characters. You can create custom hanging character classes and hanging character sets, or you can use the default classes and sets that come with the software. A hanging character class is a group of characters that should always hang outside the margin or indent inside the margin by the same percentage. A hanging character set is a group of hanging character classes.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY class in the center pane of the dialog box, the lower pane displays the sets to which the selected class belongs and the attributes of the selected class. To compare hanging character sets or classes, select two classes or sets in the Hanging Characters dialog box and press Option/Alt. The Append button changes to Compare.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Creating hanging character sets Use the Edit Hanging Character Set dialog box (Edit > Hanging Characters > New > Set) to specify the hanging character classes to be included in a hanging character set. The Edit Hanging Character Set dialog box The center pane of the dialog box displays all of the available hanging character classes that can be added to a hanging character set. Check the boxes next to the classes you want to add, give the hanging character set a name, and then click OK.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • A Mojigumi character class is a named set of punctuation characters that should always be spaced in a particular way. • A Mojigumi set is a set of character spacing specifications based on the widths of character em boxes. For example, a mojigumi set might dictate that open punctuation should use fixed half-width spacing when it occurs at the beginning of a line, and that close punctuation should use full-width or half-width spacing when it occurs at the end of a line.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY enter a name in the Name field and then choose a Mojigumi character class from the Class drop-down menu. The settings in the Edit Mojigumi Sets dialog box let you control the width or spacing for characters in the specified Mojigumi character class. You can also control which adjustments take priority. The Edit Mojigumi Sets dialog box • Name: Displays the name of the Mojigumi set being edited. • Units: Specify the units that you prefer to see in this dialog.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Close Punctuation • Mid Line (Parens): Specify character width or spacing for closing punctuation that falls in the middle of a line. • Mid Line (Kutoh-ten): Specify character width or spacing for Kutoh-ten that falls in the middle of a line. Kutoh-ten is a Japanese word meaning “period and comma.” • End Line: Specify character width or spacing for closing punctuation that falls at the end of a line.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Character Width Setting, Character Space Setting Specify the character width or spacing for Open Punctuation, Close Punctuation, Middle Punctuation, and Contiguous Punctuation. • Fixed Full Width: Specify the character width to a fixed full-em width. • Fixed Half Width: Specify the character width to a fixed half-em width. • Full Width to Half Width: Specify the character width to a full-em width, but allow characters to be squeezed down to a half-em width.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Applying Mojigumi sets To apply a Mojigumi set to a paragraph, choose its name from the Mojigumi Sets drop-down menu in the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette. To apply a Mojigumi set to a paragraph style sheet, choose the Mojigumi set name from the Mojigumi Sets drop-down menu in the Format tab of the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box (Edit > Style Sheets > New > Paragraph or Edit > Style Sheets > Edit). You can apply only one Mojigumi set to a paragraph.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY If you know that a pre-8.0 project uses (for example) the Hong Kong Big5 encoding, you can use a Hong Kong Big5 mapping table to convert its characters to Unicode when you first open the project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later. QuarkXPress ships with several such mapping tables. To use one of these included mapping tables, first navigate to the “CustomMappingTables” folder: • macOS: [DRIVE]:Library:Application Support:Quark:QuarkXPress[version]:CustomMappingTables • Windows: [DRIVE]:\Progra
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Mapping for projects that use custom characters If characters in a legacy project use an extended code range, those characters may display incorrectly when you open that project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later. To fix this problem, you can change the way the problematic characters are mapped to Unicode characters by using a custom mapping table. A mapping table is a text file that tells QuarkXPress how to convert text that uses a particular flavor of encoding to Unicode.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY the fraction. Examples of fractions that could be formatted are: 11/42, 131/416, and 11/4x. To convert characters into a fraction, select the characters and choose Style > Type Style > Make Fraction. The characters in the fraction are converted using Baseline Shift and the formatting specified in the Fraction/Price tab of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Application > Fraction/Price).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • A Manual Hyphenated line ends with a hyphen entered by a user. • A Widow is the last line of a paragraph, less than a full measure wide, that falls at the top of the following column or page. • An Orphan is the first line of a paragraph that falls at the bottom of a column or page. • Text Box Overflow occurs when text cannot be displayed within its text box. This condition is represented by an overflow symbol in the lower right corner of a text box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Hyperlinks palette Destinations A destination is a “container” for a particular URL. Just as a QuarkXPress project can contain lists of colors and style sheets, it can contain a list of destinations. Each destination contains one of the following types of URL: • URL: Points to a particular resource on the Web. • Page: Points to a particular page in the same layout. • Anchor: Points to a particular part of a page in the layout.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • A word, character, or string in a raster or HTML text box or in text on a path • A picture box • A particular area in an image map • A particular cell in a table • An empty box • A line In QuarkXPress, anchor indicators look like this: or . Creating a destination A destination contains a URL that a hyperlink can point to. To create a destination: 1. Choose Window > Hyperlinks. The Hyperlinks palette displays.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Display the context menu for the selected text or item and choose Anchor > New. 2. Enter a name for the anchor in the Anchor Name field or choose an unused anchor name from the drop-down menu. 3. Click OK. Configure a new anchor using the New Anchor dialog box. To create an “empty” anchor, deselect everything and then click the New Anchor button in the Hyperlinks palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • To link to a particular anchor in the same layout, choose Anchor and then choose an anchor from the Anchor drop-down menu. 2. Click OK. Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette The Show buttons and drop-down menu in the Hyperlinks palette let you control what is displayed in the palette’s scroll list: • Click the Show Destinations button to show destinations. • Click the Show Anchors button to show anchors.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Editing and deleting hyperlinks To edit the destination of a hyperlink, select the hyperlink in the layout, click the Edit button in the Hyperlinks palette, and then enter a new value in the URL field or choose an option from the drop-down menu next to the URL field. To remove the destination of a hyperlink, select the hyperlink in the layout and then click No Hyperlink in the Hyperlinks palette or choose Style > Hyperlink > Delete.
INDIC SUPPORT Indic Support Overview To help customers publish in popular Indic languages, QuarkXPress 2019 now offers native support for Indic Unicode fonts as well as embraces native OS features for keyboard input methods for Indian languages.
INDIC SUPPORT Indic text input QuarkXPress supports the input of text in popular Indian languages. Indic text can be input through a keyboard, online keyboard viewer, text copy and paste, text import, text drag and drop. It also supports analyzing and reordering characters as per Indic orthographic syllable boundaries; conjunct creation, glyph shaping and glyph positioning.
INDIC SUPPORT Spell Check QuarkXPress offers support for Hunspell libraries to allow spell checking in popular Indian languages. Users can spell check their Indic language documents, replace/ replace all suspect words, skip words, add words to the auxiliary dictionary. The auxiliary dictionary is in XML based format, and the user can also externally add words to it.
INDIC SUPPORT • Users can customize the hyphenation rule by editing the Auto Hyphenation settings in the H&J set (Edit the values for Smallest Word, Minimum Before, Minimum After) Edit Auto Hyphenation settings • By default, the Auto hyphen character is displayed in the text while hyphenating words in Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Assamese languages. While in the case of Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Odia languages, the Auto hyphen character is not displayed in the story.
INDIC SUPPORT Mac App Store build: Invoke the contextual menu for the QuarkXPress application > Go to Show Package Contents > Contents > Shared Support > Settings.xml. Copy the Settings.xml to Mac HD/ Users/ Current User/ Library/ Containers/ com.quark.quarkxpress.infinity/ Data > Library/ Application Support/ QuarkXPress 2019 > Edit the Settings.xml In Settings.xml file, value for ‘true’ means Auto Hyphen will be displayed; value of ‘false’ Auto Hyphen will not be displayed.
INDIC SUPPORT Enhanced Glyph palette support QuarkXPress now offers enhanced Glyph palette support for Indic glyphs. Indic glyphs can be inserted from the Glyph palette. Indic glyphs are now classified as per Unicode blocks in the Show pop menu in Glyph palette. Users can select the desired Unicode block for the Indic script and insert glyphs. Glyph palette Font grouping, Font fallback, Font Locking, Language locking • QuarkXPress allows grouping of Indic fonts as per script in the font menus.
INDIC SUPPORT • QuarkXPress supports font fallback for Indic scripts. User can define the preferred fallback font of their choice for Indic scripts (Preferences > Font Fallback) Define preferred fallback fonts for Indic scripts • QuarkXPress supports font locking for Indic scripts. This helps in preventing users from mistakenly applying different script font on the Indic text. • QuarkXPress supports language locking for Indic scripts.
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INDIC SUPPORT Tracking in Indic Language Support for Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner QuarkXPress offers support for Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner in Indic text. Zero Width Joiner is used to prevent a ligature-conjunct from forming; it is used to prevent the display of reph. Zero Width Non-Joiner is used to prevent conjunct ligature or half forms from forming and to display an explicit halant form instead.
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PICTURES Pictures You can import and paste pictures from image-editing or other graphic applications into QuarkXPress. Once a picture is in a box, you can perform a number of operations on it, such as altering its position, changing its size, or skewing or flipping it. Working with pictures QuarkXPress provides a wide variety of tools for working with pictures. If an article contains pictures, you can view and manipulate pictures in QuarkCopyDesk. You can also create picture components.
PICTURES You may need to resize or reposition a picture after you import it to make it fit properly within its box. • Choose File > Import. • Drag a picture file from the file system onto a picture component. If the component contains a picture, press Command/Ctrl to replace it. • Drag a picture from another application onto a picture component. If the component contains a picture, press Command/Ctrl to replace it.
PICTURES Spring Loading Text files How it works • In the import dialog, you can select multiple images or text or combination of images and text files to import. • The cursor will change to show you a thumbnail of the next file to place, and a counter showing how many more files are waiting on the cursor to place; allowing you to click onto the document page and place them as desired.
PICTURES • When you drag and drop a text file to a QuarkXPress layout, a new text box will be created automatically and it will always fit within the page margins. • When the user drops into a box irrespective of whether it has any existing content or not, it will create a new box above existing box and image/text will be placed in it. It will not replace the existing content.
PICTURES Resizing pictures You can scale pictures to make them larger or smaller using: • the Picture Content tool • the Measurements palette • the Style menu After importing a picture into a box, you can choose Fit Box to Picture and Scale Picture to Box from the context menu (or Style menu). Press the Shift key while resizing a picture with the Picture Content tool to resize the picture proportionately.
PICTURES Coloring and shading pictures You can apply color and shade values to the shadows and middle tones of blackand-white and grayscale pictures using the Colors palette (Window > Colors), (Style > Picture), the Measurements palette, or the Style menu. You can also apply color to the picture background and the box background. • To apply color to a black-and-white or grayscale picture, select the Picture Color icon • and click a color name.
PICTURES To import a picture and retain the attributes specified for the box and/or the existing picture, check Maintain Picture Attributes in the Import dialog box (File menu). To import a picture and retain the attributes specified for the component and/or the existing picture, check Maintain Picture Attributes in the Import dialog box (File menu). Editing the raster image You can edit imported raster images right in QuarkXPress. The options that are enabled depend on the color mode of the image.
PICTURES Once you have specifed the effects for the selected picture, you can copy the set of attributes and apply them to other images. You can access the image editing abilities by choosing Style > Image Editing or by right-clicking the image and choosing Image Editing from the context menu. The picture effects are applied as non-destructive effects and will be applied upon output. You can save the picture with or without the picture effects applied. (File > Export Picture).
PICTURES Using the Picture Export Options palette, select the applied picture effects you want to save with the picture and specify the following attributes: • Maximum Resolution • Pictue Box Bleed • Color Mode • Format You can also choose to Overwrite Original Picture and Link Layout to New Picture. Filters Use the Filters drop-down menu to select a filter to apply to the image.
PICTURES • Despeckle - Detects the edges in a picture and blurs all of the picture except those edges. It removes noise while preserving detail, and can be useful for removing dust from a scanned image. • Gaussian Blur - Smoothes transitions by averaging pixels next to hard edges of defined lines and shaded areas in a picture. By checking Blur Picture and/or Blur Mask, you can apply this filter separately to pictures and their alpha masks..
PICTURES • Trace Contour - Thinly outlines the transitions of major brightness areas for each color channel, producing a black-and-white outline of the picture. You have the option to invert the results as well. • Add Noise - Applies random pixels to a picture to simulate pictures shot using high-speed film. The filter applies an even pattern to shadow tones and midtones while adding a smoother, more saturated pattern to the picture’s lighter areas.
PICTURES • Selective Color - To increase or decrease the amount of process color in each of the primary colors in a picture. For example, if an apple is too purple, you can take cyan out of the areas that affect red. • Gamma Correction - To adjust the white point. Adjusting the white point controls the brightness of the picture’s display on screen. To use the Gamma Correction dialog box, adjust the midtones by entering a new value in the Gamma field or by dragging the slider.
PICTURES Working with clipping paths A clipping path is a closed Bézier shape that indicates which parts of a picture should be displayed and which parts should be treated as transparent. Clipping paths are especially useful when you are attempting to isolate the picture’s subject from its surrounding background in the original picture file. You can create clipping paths from scratch in QuarkXPress or QuarkCopyDesk, or you can use embedded path or alpha channel information to create clipping paths.
PICTURES that using a clipping path around an alpha channel will create a hard edge rather than a blended effect. If you want a semi-opaque blend, use an alpha mask. (See “Working with alpha masks.”) • Choose Non-White Areas to create a clipping path based on the picture’s subject. Depending on the image and the value in the Threshold field, the clipping path will outline a non-white figure within a larger white or near-white image (or vice versa).
PICTURES corner point’s curve handles can be manipulated independently, usually to form a sharp transition between the two segments. To change the character of a line segment, use one of the following buttons: • Straight Segment : Makes the active segment straight. • Curved Segment : Makes the active segment curved. You can also change point and segment types with the Item > Point/Segment Type submenu.
PICTURES By default, this drop-down menu is set to Composite, which preserves the image’s overall transparency. Working with PSD pictures You can import native, unflattened picture files from Adobe Photoshop directly into QuarkXPress with PSD Import functionality. Once files are imported, you can manipulate any layers, channels, and paths saved with the Photoshop (PSD) files.
PICTURES • If there are no layers in the PSD file, the Advanced Image Control palette shows only the background layer. Blending PSD layers The Blend Mode drop-down menu in the Layers pane lets you control how pixels in a selected layer interact with pixels in all the layers below the selected layer. The blend modes are similar to those in image-editing applications: They include options such as Multiply, Color Dodge, Exclusion, and Saturation.
PICTURES Showing and hiding channels Visible channels in imported PSD files display on screen and can be printed; channels that are hidden do not display on screen and cannot be printed. The process to show and hide channels is the same as for layers. Clicking the composite channel displays all the default channels, such as CMYK or RGB.
PICTURES For text runaround to occur, the picture box needs to be in front of the text. If the text is not wrapping, select the picture box and choose Item > Bring Forward or Item > Bring to Front. You also can use the Paths pane to control the display of an image by selecting a clipping path you created in Photoshop. To select a clipping path, click in the empty box in the second column. The Clipping Path icon displays and the area of the picture within the selected clipping path displays.
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CROSS REFERENCES Cross references A cross reference in a document is text that refers to related material located elsewhere within the document. If the cross reference is inserted as a hyperlink, and the document is exported as PDF, then the reader will be able to click on a cross reference and follow the link to the specified location within the document. Cross references can only be linked to footnotes, endnotes, text anchors and numbered items.
CROSS REFERENCES 4. Check Insert as Hyperlink to insert the cross reference as a hyperlink in the exported PDF document. 5. Once you have chosen a cross reference type, the available references to link to will be listed. Choose a reference to link to. 6. Choose an option from the Insert Reference to drop-down menu. The options in this drop-down menu depend on what cross reference type you have choosen. What you choose here will determine the text of the cross reference link.
CROSS REFERENCES You can choose to display the text anchor name, paragraph number, the paragraph number (with no context or with full context), or the page number the text anchor resides on. 7. If you check Include Above/Below, the cross reference will specify whether the referenced item is above or below the cross reference in the layout. 8. The Separate Numbers With option is available only when you are inserting a cross reference to a numbered item.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS Color, opacity, and drop shadows QuarkXPress lets you create custom colors, choose colors from several standardized color matching systems, and edit colors. You can apply both color and shade to text and pictures. You can also control the opacity of text in the same way you control its color. You can apply drop shadows to both items and text. Working with colors Some colors are automatically included in the Colors palette.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS The Colors dialog box You can use the Colors dialog box (Edit > Colors) to create, edit, duplicate, delete, and append colors. The Colors dialog box lets you create, edit, and delete color definitions. Creating a color You can choose from several color models and from a number of color matching systems when you create colors. If you have colors you use frequently, you can create colors for the default color list in the application when no files are open.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • CMYK: CMYK is a subtractive color model used by professional printers to reproduce colors by combining cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks on a press. • To select a color from a color matching system and add it to your color list, choose one of the standardized color matching systems from the Model dropdown menu. Auto Color Name Prior to QuarkXPress 2019 (v15.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS The Gradients palette 2. Select the box(es) or line(s) on the layout you want to apply the gradient to, the gradient will be applied to all selected items. 3. For lines only, click the Line 4. For boxes only, click the Border icon to apply the gradient to just the line. icon to apply the gradient to just the border of the box . 5. Click the Background icon to apply the gradient to the backgound of the item . 6.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS You can change the type of gradient at any time. When you change the type of gradient, all colors and options that you have defined will be retained. 8. Define your gradient using the following options and controls: • Aspect Ratio: The aspect ratio is used to define and control the shape of the radial gradient. The default aspect ratio for each radial gradient you create is dependent on the item shape you have selected.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • Paste Gradient: Use this option to paste the copied gradient onto the selected item. • Paste Color Stops: Use this option to paste the copied color stops onto the existing gradient in the selected item. • Overprint Gradient: Use this option to set the overprint option, to prevent knockout. The mixed gradient color you have created will appear on the Colors palette, as a background color called Mixed Colors, when the item the color is applied to is selected.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS 1. Select the editable colors and double-click it. The edit color dialog would invoke. 2. Select the non-editable colors and double-click it. The duplicate dialog would invoke. 3. The user can use all the color libraries, colors with undo and redo. 4. Open the legacy projects which are having lots of colors and double-click the colors to view the color editing.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • For similar vector and raster combinations, if the user clicks on a vector object with a raster underneath, a warning will appear, telling the user that the selected image contains vector graphics and suggests using Shift+click to pick source values from the raster image underneath. You can pick multiple colors and then decide which colors you want to save or discard.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS 4. To add an individual color, double click on the color. To remove an individual color, press the Alt key and click on the color. The default color names are added with color models values. RGB is in 255 values, and CMYK is in percentages. 5. Hold down Alt/Option+Shift and click the icon to add all of the colors that were chosen with the color picker tool at one time.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS When you are globally changing all items and text from one color to another, remember to save your work before you do so. That way, if you accidentally change everything to the wrong color, you can simply choose File > Revert to Saved to undo the error without losing any of your other work. Applying color and shade to text There are five ways to apply color and shade to text: • Useing the Style > Color and Style > Shade commands.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • Choose Grayscale or Grayscale 100K to switch to a Grayscale blending color space. All the examples shown in this document are based on RGB blending color space rendering. The rendering of these objects may be different in other applications based on the simulation profile used. There are several ways to apply blend modes to boxes, borders, images, text and lines: • Use the Colors palette (Window > Colors). • Use the Image Editing palette (Window > Image Editing).
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • Overlay: Overlay is a combination of the Multiply and Screen blend modes. Lighter colors become even lighter and dark colors become even darker, depending on the color of the bottom object in overlapped areas. • Darken: Lighter pixels in overlapped areas will become darker • Lighten: The Lighten blend mode is the opposite of the Darken blend mode; Darker pixels in overlapped areas will become lighter.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • Color Dodge: The color of the bottom object will become lighter, depending upon the color of the top object. • Color Burn: The color of the bottom object will become darker, depending upon the color of the top object. • Hard Light: The Hard Light blend mode is a combination of the Multiply and Screen blending modes. • Soft Light: Darkens or lightens the colors, depending on the color of the bottom objects.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • Difference: Subtracts the brighter color value of the object with another object color irrespective of the stack order. • Exclusion: The Exclusion blend mode is similar to the Difference blend mode with lower contrast.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS Working with opacity Opacity is applied at the color level, so you can specify opacity for just about anything you can apply a color to, including the first or second color in a blend. This means you can have different opacities at work on different attributes of the same item — a text box border, a background, a picture, and each character of text, for example, can have differing opacities.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS Color management QuarkXPress addresses the issue of producing predictable color with ICC-based color management tools that require little input from users. For color experts, however, QuarkXPress provides control over every aspect of color management. In addition to streamlining the implementation of color management, QuarkXPress offers true soft proofing through previews that simulate output on various devices.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS Specifying a default proof output setup To specify a default output setup for viewing color in Print layouts, choose an option from the Proof Output drop-down list. Specifying a rendering intent The Rendering Intent drop-down menu shows the method used for converting colors from one color space to another. The default setting, Relative Colorimetric, retains colors that are in both the source gamut and the destination gamut.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS • Color sources: To use a custom source setup, choose it from the Source Setup drop-down menu in the Color Manager pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) for the layout. • Color display: To use a custom output setup for proofing, choose it from the Proof Output submenu of the View menu.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS The Proof Output submenu (View menu) provides display simulation options so you can see how colors will output. For example, if you plan to convert spot colors to process colors or output an entire RGB layout as grayscale, you can preview how your choice will look.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS To get started in creating a source setup, you will need to know some details about the hardware and software involved in a client’s workflow — what type of digital camera and scanner they use, for example — and you’ll need to make sure the relevant profiles are available. It’s also helpful to see sample projects so you know what types of pictures, colors, inks, and devices they’re working with, such as logos, charts and graphs, photographs, and duotones, and output to SWOP.
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS 3. Drag the source or output setups to the target Job Jackets structure or Job Ticket. You can also choose an output style that includes specific output setups. • To use a custom output setup for printing or other types of output, choose that output setup from the Setup drop-down menu in the Color pane of the Output Styles dialog box (Edit > Output Styles > New/Edit).
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS Loading profiles If you have more profiles than you need for a particular workflow, you can streamline the profiles available in QuarkXPress. To do this, use the Profile Manager dialog box (Utilities menu). Checking profile usage When you’re working with layouts from other users, you can quickly see how those users have implemented color management by looking at the Profiles pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu).
COLOR, OPACITY, AND DROP SHADOWS maintain a significant light source throughout a layout and making drop shadows seem more natural. Incorporating drop shadows with items Additional options control how drop shadows interact with items, including handling opacity and text runaround. As with the other controls, these options are located in the Measurements palette. • Use Inherit Item’s Opacity to have the drop shadow reflect different opacities in the item, such as differences in the box background and border.
CUSTOM BLEEDS Custom Bleeds Bleed is the term used to describe items that are printed to the edge of a finished page. Custom Bleeds functionality provides enhanced bleed functionality for QuarkXPress, giving you more control over how items will bleed. To create a bleed in QuarkXPress, simply create items that extend past the edge of the page onto the pasteboard, and then specify how much of the area beyond the edge of the page should be printed.
CUSTOM BLEEDS Large Pasteboard integration with Bleed Using Custom Bleeds You can use Custom Bleeds to create bleeds when printing, saving a page as an EPS file, exporting a layout as a PDF file. The procedure is similar for all of these output options, but some bleed options are only available for certain output methods. • Print: The Bleed Type drop-down menu is in the Bleeds pane of the Print dialog box. • EPS: The Bleed Type drop-down menu is in the Save Page as EPS dialog box.
ITEM STYLES Item Styles Item Styles lets you save collections of item attributes — including color, border style, line width, picture scale, and text inset — as named styles that you can apply from a palette. The Item Styles feature adds the Item Styles palette (Window > Item Styles), the Edit Item Styles dialog box (Edit > Item Styles), and the Item Styles Usage dialog box (Utilities > Item Styles Usage). Item Styles do not affect locked attributes of items (position, story, or picture).
ITEM STYLES Edit Item Style dialog box 3. In the General tab, enter a descriptive name in the Name field. 4. If you want a keyboard shortcut, enter it in the Keyboard Equivalent field. On Mac OS X, you can use any combination of Command, Option, Control, and Shift with the numbers on the numeric keypad or the function keys. On Windows, you can use any combination of Control and Alt with the numbers on the numeric keypad, or any combination of Control, Alt, and Shift with the function keys.
ITEM STYLES Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Styles Custom Border Styles in Item Styles: QuarkXPress 2019 (v15.1) allows you to set the custom border styles (dashes and stripes) in Item Styles. You can now save an item style with a custom border and use that item style across projects. Custom Border Styles in Item Styles Using the Item Styles palette To apply an Item Style to all selected items, click the Item Style’s name in the Item Styles palette.
ITEM STYLES To apply an Item Style, select the target items and then click the name of the Item Style in the Item Styles palette. You can also press the keyboard command shown to the right of the Item Style’s name. The Item Style applied to the selected item (if any) displays in bold in the Item Styles palette. If the name has a + next to it, the item uses local formatting that is different from what is defined in the Item Style.
ITEM STYLES Heterogeneous Borders in Item Style: QuarkXPress 2019 (v15.1) allows you to create an item style with heterogeneous border where a user can define a different border for each side of the box. Drawing order for heterogeneous border can also be set in Item Style. Heterogeneous Borders in Item Style Checking Item Style usage To see where Item Styles are used and where local overrides occur, choose Utilities > Item Styles Usage.
ITEM STYLES • To scroll to an item that uses an Item Style, click it in the Name column and then click Show. • If a selected item is listed as Modified, it has local overrides. Click Update to get rid of all local overrides. • If your Item Style usage contains errors, click Show Errors.
DEJAVU (WINDOWS ONLY) DejaVu (Windows only) The DejaVu feature adds a list of recently opened projects to the File menu, either at the bottom or as a hierarchical menu from the File > Open submenu. This list enables you to access projects with increased speed and ease. You can also use DejaVu to designate default folders for retrieving text and pictures, and for opening and saving projects.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Document construction The Layers feature lets you easily hide, show, and suppress the printing of groups of objects. The Lists feature lets you create tables of contents and other lists. The Index feature lets you automatically generate an index of a layout. The Libraries feature lets you keep often-used elements in an easy-to-reach place. Using automatic page numbering To insert an automatic page number on every page: 1.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Working with master pages Master pages are like templates for pages. If you want to use the same heading, footing, background, page number positioning, and so forth on some of your pages, you can create these things on a master page, and then just apply that master page to the layout pages that need it. If you want to use a different set of page content on either side of a spread, you can do that too.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Page Layout palette with new master page 4. To display the new master page for editing, double-click the B-Master B icon. The master page displays in the main window. Note that because this is a facing-page master page, it includes two pages: The left page and the right page. Also, note the broken-link icons in the upper left. Blank facing-page master page 5. To add page numbers, draw two boxes on the lower left and right, as shown below.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Page number characters on either side of a facing-page master page 6. To indicate where the text should go, draw some guides and then draw two text boxes like those shown below. Master page with guides and text boxes 7. Now you must link the text boxes to the automatic text chain. With the Text Linking tool selected, click the broken-link icon at the top of the left page, then the text box on the left page. Then click on a blank part of the page.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION 9. Choose Page > Display > Layout. The view switches back to the layout pages. 10. Click in the text box on page 1 with the Text Content tool 11. To add two new pages that use the new master page, choose Page > Insert. The . Insert Pages dialog box displays. Insert Pages dialog box You can also add pages by pressing Option/Alt and then dragging a master page to the desired location in the bottom part of the Page Layout dialog box. 12.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Master pages filled with Placeholder Text. 13. To add sections, choose Page > Section. The Section dialog box displays. Section dialog box If you specify a section name (optional), you may use that name to specify the pages that will be used for creating a table of contents in HTML5 Publications and iOS Apps. Refer to A Guide to Digital Publishing with QuarkXPress for more details. Applying master pages There are two ways to apply a master page to a layout page.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • Select the target page or pages in the bottom part of the Page Layout palette, then press Option/Alt and click the desired master page in the top part of the palette. Updating master pages When you make a change to a master page, that change is automatically made to any layout pages that use that master page. In other words, if you move the page number box on a master page, the page number box will be automatically repositioned on every page that uses that master page.
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DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION User can also edit existing master page dimensions. A contextual menu item “Edit Master” is added in page layout palette to edit the existing master page dimensions. On adding a Variable Master Page with dimensions different from the Original master page or on editing the dimensions of the Original master page, an overridden symbol is displayed on the Master page in Page Layout palette. This is an indication of the Variable Page size.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Variable page size Duplicate Pages QuarkXPress 2020 enables its users to duplicate single or multiple pages with ease. We have added the ability to duplicate the selected pages with the help of an easily accessible menu option to page layout palette. The duplicated pages will be inserted after the last page in the currently selected pages.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Duplicate pages Working with layers The Layers palette is the “control center” for layers. You can hide, show, lock, or unlock layers with a single click in this palette. You also can use this palette to specify the active layer (where newly drawn objects will go), to rearrange the stacking order of layers, to merge layers, and to move objects from one layer to another. Each layer you create has a unique color swatch in the Layers palette.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION You can work with layers in the Layers palette. Every layout has a Default layer. You can add and remove items from the Default layer, but you cannot delete the Default layer. A layout can contain up to 256 layers, including the Default layer. Understanding layers A QuarkXPress layer is like a clear overlay that covers every page in a layout.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Creating layers To create a layer, click the New Layer button in the Layers palette. The new layer is added to the Layers palette, in front of the active layer. The new layer is active by default, which means that any items you create will be placed on that layer. To create a new item on a particular layer, first click the layer’s name in the Layers palette to activate that layer. Then use any of the standard item creation tools to create items on the layer.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • To display all layers except the active layer, choose Show Other Layers from the Layers palette context menu. When you use the Find/Change feature, QuarkXPress searches hidden layers as well as visible layers. If a match is found on a hidden layer, QuarkXPress temporarily displays the hidden text box or text path. When you check the spelling in a layout or story, QuarkXPress searches all layers in the layout or story.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Changing layer options You can control the following options for the selected layer in the Attributes dialog box: • Name: The layer’s name, as displayed in the Layers palette. • Layer Color: The color used for the bounding boxes and handles of objects on that layer. • Visible: Controls whether the layer is visible in QuarkXPress. • Suppress Output: Controls whether the layer is set to print when the layout is printed. You can override this setting in the Print dialog box.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION You can move master page items on layout pages from the Default layer to other layers, but those items will no longer be master page items if you do so. Copying and pasting items between layers There is an option in the Layers palette that allows you to set Paste To Remember Layers. Placeholder for image of the Layers palette. This option is turned on by default.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Layers and text runaround Items on layers follow the standard runaround rule in QuarkXPress: Text can only wrap around items that are in front of that text. For example, if you draw a small picture box in the center of a column of text, the text will wrap around the picture box by default. When you hide a layer, you can either show or hide the text runaround caused by the obstructing items on that layer. By default, text runaround forced by hidden items is maintained.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION 4. Click OK. The visual indicators for the merged items display the color of the layer to which you merged, and the layers that you selected for merging are deleted. Layers cannot be merged when one of the selected layers is locked. Items may be merged from the Default layer, but the Default layer is never deleted by a merge operation. Locking items on layers To avoid inadvertently making changes to items on a layer, you can use the Layers palette to lock the entire layer.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION The Print dialog box provides settings for controlling which layers will print. To change the default print setting for new layers, check Suppress Output in the Layers panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). Object (Boxes) browser support with layers Most modern applications working with graphics, illustration and photo editing solutions work on a layer-based system.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Layers Palette • Now we can move box/object from one layer to another layer using drag and drop.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Multi Selection in Layers Palette • We can group objects lying on different layers in a group box. The objects in a group box will display with a group icon. Group Selection in Layers Palette All boxes in the active spread will show in the Layers palette under the respective layer, and all layers in the current document will be shown. All the boxes within the layer will be present as per their Z-order.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION location within the same layer or across the layers, and this will also update boxes’ Z-order. All boxes will be display with an identifiable name against their entry in the layer’s palette: Text Box: If blank, otherwise it will show a content snippet of the corresponding box. Picture Box: If blank, otherwise it will display the file name. Shapes: All the shapes will be shown with an identifiable name. None Boxes: Will have names based on their shape, i.e.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION If multi selected objects have mixed state e.g., some are hidden and some are visible, then show/hide will apply on all selected objects based on clicked row behavior. And the selection moves to the default layer. User can lock/unlock one or multiple selected object entries or group object entries from within the palette by simply clicking on the lock button as in the case of layers itself. Objects will get a position lock.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Working with lists The Lists feature lets you collect the text of paragraphs that have specific character or paragraph style sheets applied to them. Although the Lists feature is most often used for creating a table of contents, you can also use it to create a list of figures or pictures used in a publication. Preparing for lists Before you create a list, you must create and apply style sheets in your document.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • Numbering lets you control if and where the list includes the page number for each occurrence of a style sheet. • Format As lets you specify the style sheet to be applied to each level of the automatically generated TOC. You can use the Edit List dialog box to create lists for things like automatic tables of contents.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION To locate a particular line in the active list, enter a word from that line in the palette’s Find field. The list in the palette scrolls to the first appearance of that word in the list. To jump to a particular paragraph, double-click it in the Lists palette. The window scrolls to that paragraph’s location in the layout.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION In QuarkXPress 2019 (v15.1), you can define an indent spacing specifically for page numbers in the Table of Contents. There is no separate user interface control for the Last Line Indent. To define last line indent, you can specify a Right Indent value in the paragraph style sheet. While building the TOC, the right line indent value will be treated as the Last Line Indent. Only page numbers will be allowed in the Last Line Indent spacing.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION QuarkXPress lets you create four levels of index entries in a nested index and two levels of index entries in a run-in index. Creating a first-level index entry A first-level index entry is a primary topic sorted alphabetically in an index. Before you start adding words to the index, you need to decide whether you are creating a nested index or a run-in index. A nested index has up to four levels of information with entries separated by paragraph returns and different style sheets.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Pressing Option/Alt changes the Add All button to Add All Reversed . Clicking the Add All Reversed button will add all occurrences of the selected text to the Entries list in reverse order. Creating a second-, third-, or fourth-level index entry In a nested index, second-level, third-level, and fourth-level entries are positioned under first-level entries in the new paragraph. In a run-in index, second-level entries follow first-level entries in the same paragraph. 1.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION 2. Enter text for the entry in the Text field of the Index palette. 3. Use the Sort As and Level controls as you would to create any other index entry. 4. Choose Cross-Reference from the Scope drop-down menu. Choose the type of cross-reference you want from the drop-down menu: See, See also, or See herein. 5. Specify the index entry being cross-referenced by entering text in the field or clicking an existing entry in the list. 6. Click the Add button.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION information in the Style or Scope drop-down menus. You can also change an entry’s level. 1. Select an entry or reference in the Entries list. (To see the references, expand an entry.) 2. Click the Edit button on the Index palette, double-click the entry, or select the entry and choose Edit from the context menu. While you are in edit mode, the Edit button 3. displays reversed. Make any changes to the selected entry or reference.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • Cross-Ref style specifies the style sheet to be used for a cross-reference. This style sheet is applied only to “See,” “See also,” and “See herein.” • Between Entries specifies the words or punctuation used between entry levels in a run-in index (usually a semicolon or period). A run-in index lists the entries and sub-entries of an index entry in a paragraph rather than with nested tabs.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION 7. Click OK to close the Build Index dialog box and create the index. If you need to compare two versions of an index, uncheck Replace Existing Index in the Build Index dialog box (Utilities menu). Editing final indexes After you build an index, you need to look it over closely. Check that the index is thorough, the cross-references are appropriate, and the levels are logical. See if you like the punctuation and formatting.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Working with books Multiple-document publications can be challenging to manage. Page numbers need to be consecutive, colors and style sheets to be synchronized. Books help you meet this challenge. Books are QuarkXPress files that display as windows containing links to individual layouts from single or multiple projects, called chapters. Once chapters are added to a book, you can open, close, and track chapters through the Book palette.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION on a common network server rather than a user’s computer that is also accessing the book. Legacy books are not supported in 10 and books in QuarkXPress 10 are not compatible with books from QuarkXPress 3 to 9. To recreate legacy books you must add existing chapters to a new book after saving them in the QuarkXPress 10 format. Working with chapters Books contain individual print layouts from QuarkXPress projects (called chapters).
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Chapter status Once you have chapters in a book, you and other users can begin to open, close, and track chapters using the Book palette. The Status column in the Book palette shows the current state of each chapter: • Available indicates that you can open the chapter. • Open indicates that you already have the chapter open on your computer. • Modified indicates that the chapter has been opened and edited independently of the book.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Controlling page numbers If your chapters have sections (Page > Section) when you add them to a book, the sections and page numbers are maintained. For example, each chapter in a book might be a new section. If your chapters do not have sections, QuarkXPress assigns sequential page numbers to the chapters in a book. For example, if the first chapter in a book is 10 pages long, the second chapter starts on page 11. You can add and remove sections to change the page numbering of a book.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Synchronizing chapters To ensure that all the style sheets, colors, hyphenation and justification specifications, lists, and dashes and stripes used in book chapters are the same, you can synchronize these specifications to match those in a master chapter. By default, the first chapter in the book is the master chapter, but you can change the master chapter at any time.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • Specifications in other chapters that are not defined in the master chapter remain untouched. If you make changes that affect the specifications in a book, you will need to synchronize the chapters again. You can use synchronization to make global changes to any of the specifications in a book. For example, if you decide to change a spot color used throughout a book, change the color’s definition in the master chapter; then click the Synchronize Book button .
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION 2. To include the entire book, make sure no chapters are selected. To choose one chapter, click it. To select consecutive chapters, press Shift while you click them. To select nonconsecutive chapters, press Command/Ctrl while you click them. 3. Next to the Export as PDF button is the Single File check box • : Check the check box to generate a single PDF for all or selected chapters. You will be prompted to enter a file name for the PDF.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Lists for books In QuarkXPress, a list is a compilation of text that is styled with specific paragraph style sheets. For example, you can take all the text in your “Chapter Name” style sheet and all the text in your “Section Head” style sheet and compile a table of contents with two levels. Lists are not limited to tables of contents — for example, you can create a list of illustrations from the style sheets used on captions.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION A Library palette QuarkXPress libraries are not cross-platform, so libraries must be opened using the platform on which they were created. Creating libraries You can create a new library any time, as long as you have fewer than 25 files open. To create a new library: 1. Choose File > New > Library. When you create a new library, it stays open until you manually close it.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION 3. Drag the items or group into the library and release the mouse button when the Library pointer displays. The library entry is placed between the arrow icons. Retrieving library entries To place a library entry into a document, select any tool and click the library entry. Drag the entry into the document. A copy of the library entry is placed in the document.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Displaying library entries by label To display entries by label, click the drop-down menu (Mac OS X) or Labels menu (Windows) in the upper left corner of a Library palette. Choose labels to display associated entries. • The menu lists All, Unlabeled, and any labels you created and applied to entries. • You can choose more than one label to display multiple categories of entries; a checkmark displays next to each selected label.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION The Guides palette The Guides palette works as follows: • Controls across the top of the palette, from left to right, let you create new guides, mirror guides, show horizontal guides, show vertical guides, show only current guides, and delete guides. • To sort guides by an attribute, click the column heading for that attribute. • To add columns of information to the palette, choose an option from the Column Selector button at the right side of the list of columns.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Guides palette menu The Guides palette menu includes the following options. • New Guide: Lets you create a new guide. See “Creating guides with the Guides palette.” • Cut Guide: Cuts the selected guide. • Copy Guide: Copies the selected guide to the clipboard. • Paste Guide: Pastes the guide currently stored on the clipboard to the active page or spread. • Select All: Selects all guides on the active page or spread.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION menu. Use the Guide Attributes dialog box to specify the Location, Direction, and guide Type. You can also specify the View Scale at which the guide displays (at the default value, 0%, the guide will always display). Choose a Guide Color and specify whether it is Locked so it cannot be moved with the mouse. Click Preview to see your guide on-screen before creating it, and then click OK.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION The Guides palette makes it easy to create a grid like this one To create a grid on the active page or spread: 1. Choose Create Grid from the Guides palette menu.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Create Grid controls 2. In the Gridlines area, check Horizontal and/or Vertical. 3. If you want the guides to start at a specific location, for example within the margins, check the Start and/or End fields and then enter the distance from the page edges to start and end the guides. 4. To create evenly spaced guides, choose Number and enter the number of guides you want in the field. To create guides that are a specific distance apart, choose Step and enter the distance in the field.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION The Create Rows and Columns dialog box 2. Enter the number of horizontal rows in the Rows field. If you want space between the rows, enter a value in the Gutter field. 3. Enter the number of vertical columns in the Columns field. If you want space between the columns, enter a value in the Gutter field. 4. To create guides inside the master guides, click Margins. Otherwise, leave Page Boundary selected. 5.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Here, red bleed guides are placed 9 pts outside the page while green safety guides are placed 9 pts inside the page. To create bleed and/or safety guides on the active page: 1. Choose Create Bleed and Safety Guides from the Guides palette menu. 2. For bleed guides, check Bleed, enter a value in the Gutter field to specify how far outside the page to place the guides, and then choose an option from the Color menu. 3.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION You can add bleed and safety guides to master pages and layout pages. 6. Click Preview to see the guides on-screen, and then click OK. Scale functionality Scale functionality lets you quickly scale QuarkXPress layouts, items, groups, and contents similar to the way drawing programs scale objects. Through the Scale Settings dialog box, you can specify what gets scaled — text, frames, offsets, line weights, and more.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • To scale items proportionally, click the Constrain button . When you constrain scaling, the Height option is unavailable and items will be scaled equally vertically and horizontally according to the entry in the Width field. • The Original and Scaled dimensions of the bounding box of the item or group are displayed (in current units of measurement). These values are updated whenever you change a value in the Width or Height fields.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Cloner functionality With Cloner funtionality, you can copy selected items to the same location on different pages or in a different project. You can also copy pages into a separate project. To use Cloner, first select the items you want to clone, or deselect all items if you want to clone pages. Next, choose Utilities > Cloner to display the Cloner dialog box. Cloner dialog box The Clone Source area lets you choose what you want to clone.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION Copies is set to 5, copies will be created on pages 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are working in a facing-page layout, the copies are placed on both sides of the spread. If you are cloning pages, check Make section(s) to create sections in the page clones, then choose an option: • Keep contiguous: Keeps all of the page copies in a single layout in the destination layout, even if they originate from different sections.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION ImageGrid dialog box To manually specify the size of the boxes that make up the grid, enter values in the Box Size fields and then click Fixed size. (Box size values are ignored if you click Autosize to.) Indicate the gap you want between images in the Gap field. To specify how many rows and columns should be included in the grid and allow the application to size the boxes to fit automatically, click Autosize to and enter values in the rows and columns fields.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • Fit proportionally to box: Fits the picture to the box proportionally. • Stretch to box: Fits the picture to the box non-proportionally. Check Process subfolders to include pictures in subfolders of the target folder. To choose the target folder and start the process, click Process Folder. To start the process with the currently selected target folder, click OK. Linkster functionality With Linkster functionality, you can link and unlink text boxes without causing reflow.
DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION • Option 4 creates two stories: one for the boxes before the selected box and the selected box, and one for the boxes after the selected box. To link text boxes, click Link. If Pages is selected, this option links only those boxes that have been unlinked by Linkster. If Selection is selected, Linkster tries to link the selected boxes in the order you selected them. Click Keep text in same boxes to attempt to keep the text in the same boxes after linking.
OUTPUT Output Whether you want to print proof copies for review on a laser printer, or you need final film or plate output on a high-resolution imagesetter or platesetter, QuarkXPress will help you get satisfying results every time. QuarkXPress 9 ( and later versions), no longer support host-based separations, but you can continue to output using In-RIP separations or Composite output.
OUTPUT • Windows only: Clicking the Properties button opens a dialog box with controls specific to the selected printer driver. For more information about the options in this dialog box or how to install printers, consult the documentation provided with Microsoft Windows software. 3. Specify output options in one of the following ways: • To use an existing print output style, choose an option from the Print Style drop-down menu.
OUTPUT (Windows only) The area at the upper right of the Print dialog box is the page preview area. You can use this image to preview how the pages will appear on the output device. (Mac OS X only) The Print dialog has been enhanced to show the actual preview Print dialog box The panes in the Print dialog box are described in the topics below.
OUTPUT Pages pane Use the Pages pane to specify page orientation, tiling, page flipping, and related options: • To specify whether to print in portrait or landscape mode, click an Orientation radio button (Portrait or Landscape). • To include blank pages in the output, check Include Blank Pages. • To print the multiple pages of the layout in thumbnail view (reduced size), check Thumbnails. • To flip the output vertically or horizontally, choose an option from the Page Flip drop-down menu.
OUTPUT Fonts pane Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are included in output. Note that many of the options in this pane are available only when printing to a PostScript output device. • To read the list of downloaded fonts from the printer’s PPD file, check Use PPD Font Settings. Fonts listed in the PPD file are not downloaded. Checking this box disables many of the other controls in this tab.
OUTPUT length of the crop marks. Values in the Offset field specify the distance of the crop marks from the page edge. • To include marks indicating bleed location, select the Include Bleed Marks option. Layers pane Use the Layers pane to specify which layers to output and which layers to suppress. Print and PDF Outputdialog box only: To apply the settings in the Layers pane to the layout, check Apply to Layout.
OUTPUT minimizing image degradation. Check Upsample Rotations if you want to manually set the upsampled resolution for rotated or skewed items and images that are involved in a transparency relationship. If you’re using low-resolution values, and a rotated or skewed item appears blocky or degraded, check this box and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value should be at least equal to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images, Gradients, and Drop Shadows fields.
OUTPUT rather, it represents the shape and orientation of the pages in relation to the target media. On Mac OS X, the page preview area has been enhanced. The page preview area will display the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; it represents the actual page. • The blue rectangle represents the layout page. • The green rectangle represents the imageable area for the selected media.
OUTPUT setups listed in the Default Output Setups dialog box (Edit > Output Setups). 4. Choose an option from the Halftones drop-down menu: • To use the halftone settings you specify, choose Conventional. • To use the halftone settings built into the RIP, choose Printer. Choosing this option disables the halftone controls in this pane. 5.
OUTPUT • Composite CMYK • Composite CMYK and Spot (prints with composite PostScript, for a device that supports In-RIP separations) • As Is (describes color items using their source color space, for output to a PostScript composite color device) The Setup drop-down menu also contains all output styles listed in the Default Output Styles dialog box (Edit > Output Styles). 4. Choose Conventional or Printer from the Halftones drop-down menu.
OUTPUT 4. To modify output settings, click Options. Use the panes in the resulting dialog box to control the format of the exported file. • To use an EPS output style, choose an option from the EPS Style drop-down menu. To create an EPS output style using the current settings, choose New EPS Output Style.
OUTPUT • To use a PDF output style, choose an option from the PDF Style drop-down menu. To create a PDF output style using the current settings, choose New PDF Output Style. • To use PDF/X verification, choose an option from the Verification dropdown menu. Available options include PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4.
OUTPUT the Vector Images drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. This control applies only when flattening is turned on. To specify a resolution for vector objects (regardless of whether flattening is turned on), click the Vector Images drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. To specify a resolution for rasterizing drop shadows (regardless of whether flattening is turned on), click the Drop Shadows drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value.
OUTPUT tagged PDF already in previous releases, and now it enhances the capabilities to produce PDF/UA standard. QuarkXPress 2019 offers export to PDF with compliance for PDF/UA (ISO 14289) and WCAG 2.0 standard. PDF/UA How it works • You can now select the PDF output option to conform to the PDF/UA standard as shown above. PDF/A Export enhancement PDF archive standards were equally desired by many governments and corporate organizations.
OUTPUT PDF Verification How it works • You can now choose between any of the PDF/A validations that are supported by QuarkXPress. Creating a PostScript file To create a PostScript file from a layout, display the PDF pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > Application > PDF) and check Create PostScript File for Later Distilling under PDF Workflow.
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OUTPUT 1. Choose an existing Image Export Output Style or can create a new Image Export Output Style. 2. Choose File > Export as > JPEG/PNG/TIFF. You can define whether you want to export some specific or all the Pages or a Selection. 3. Modify output settings using the following options: • Choose the image format (JPEG/PNG/TIFF/PDF (Raster)) from the Format drop-down menu. • Enter a value in the Resolution field.
OUTPUT • Choose an image quality value for JPEG images from the Quality dropdown menu. • Select Progressive to create a progressive JPEG that is JPEG equivalent of the interlaced GIF Graphics Interchange Format. It’s an image created using the JPEG suite of compression algorithms that will “fade in” in successive waves of lines until the entire image has completely arrived. • Select Transparency to set the image background to be transparent. • Select Spreads to export spreads.
OUTPUT • The Linked Pictures option copies imported picture files that must remain linked to the document for high-resolution output. When QuarkXPress collects pictures with the document, the path to each collected picture is updated to reflect the new file locations in the “Pictures” folder within the target folder. If you have more than one layout selected, then all images of all selected layouts will be collected.
OUTPUT When you choose to collect fonts, QuarkXPress will also collect fonts within imported EPS files, if those fonts are active on your computer. The Collect for Output feature is not designed for use with layouts that have been customized for export in the App Studio issue formats. You can use this feature with such layouts, but it will not collect all of the assets used in App Studio interactivity, and it will not collect every layout in a layout family.
OUTPUT 4. Specify settings in the panes. For information about EPS options, see “Exporting a layout in EPS format.” For information about PDF options, see “Exporting a layout in PDF format.” 5. Click OK. 6. Click Save. App Studio output styles To specify the settings for App Studio output styles. These styles are shared by App Studio publishing, iOS App and Android App export: The Output Styles dialog. 1. To edit an App Studio output style, choose the output style and click Edit.
OUTPUT Edit App Studio Output Style dialog 2. Enter a name for your style in the App Studio Output Style field. • The Pictures pane lets you set default resolution for images exported for App. Choose resolution multiple (2x/3x) for Retina/HiDPI devices. Choose maximum resolution and/or dimensions for converted/down sampled images (only applies to images used in HTML5 interactivity). • The Fonts pane lets you enable/disable packaging referenced fonts in the App.
OUTPUT The Output Styles dialog. 1. To edit an HTML Publication output style, choose the output style and click Edit. To add a new output style, select HTML5 Publication from the New dropdown menu. The Edit HTML5 Publication Style dialog displays. Edit HTML5 Publication Style dialog 2. Enter a name for your style in the HTML5 Publication Style field.
OUTPUT • The Pictures pane lets you specify the resolution of pictures in the HTML5 Publication file • The Fonts pane lets you set the option to collect fonts. • The General pane lets lets you set the options for page stacks and to set the orientation lock. • The Table of Contents pane lets you set options for the table of contents in the HTML5 Publication file.. • The Loading Page pane lets you specify the appearance and behaviours of the loading page in a web reader.
OUTPUT When exporting a PDF, you can choose whether to flatten items that are in transparency relationships or to use native PDF transparency. If you export a PDF with native PDF transparency, vector graphics in transparency relationships remain in vector format. This can result in faster output and make color management easier. Most modern workflows benefit from exporting unflattened transparency. The ideal and recommended format is a PDF/X-4.
OUTPUT In Bounding Box to Use: Choose one of the following from the drop-down menu: • MediaBox: Uses the size of the page, not including space for bleeds or registration marks. • CropBox: Uses the size of the page plus space for any specified bleeds and space allotted for registration marks. CropBox equals the size of the layout space from the PDF Boxer XT software standpoint. • BleedBox: Uses the size of the page plus space for bleeds. • TrimBox: Uses the size of the page after trimming is done.
OUTPUT Selected PDF in Open Dialog Pages: This option allows to choose page ranges/selected pages/all pages that you want to open. Preview: This shows a preview of the selected pages. Facing Page: You can check/uncheck this option which changes the view so that two pages are displayed side-by-side. Once a designer opens the PDF file as a QuarkXPress Project, it is like any other Xpress document. Users can Insert new pages, Delete pages and add additional content to the pages.
OUTPUT Convert to Native Objects option in Context Menu • You can change text color, font, style and much more.
OUTPUT Converted PDF on Layout We can also duplicate the project as a Digital project and add interactivities and easily export as HTML, which saves lots of human effort to recreate workflows. • To do this, go to Layout Menu, click on Duplicate. Change layout type from Print to Digital.
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OUTPUT Insert a PDF/AI file We can insert any PDF/AI file in between the project if required. • Go to Pages Menu > Click on Insert PDF/AI Selected PDF in Insert PDF/AI Dialog We can choose the placement of the new page to be inserted in the project by using “before page”, “after page” or “to end of layout”. Scale To Layout Page Size: It adjusts the variable size PDFs according to the layout page size.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING 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.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING The shared content library contains text, pictures, lines, Composition Zones, and items that can be used in different layouts within a project. When you change any instance of a shared content library item in a layout, all instances in all layouts are automatically updated because they are all linked to the master version in the shared content library. Items in the shared content library are displayed in the Content palette.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING 3. Click Add Item in the Content palette. If one item is selected, the Shared Item Properties dialog box displays. If multiple objects are selected, the Share Multiple Items dialog box displays. Use the Shared Item Properties dialog box to share and synchronize individual items. If Automatically show selected items in the layout is checked, you can navigate to an item by clicking its name in the list. Only the attributes of shared lines can be synchronized. 4.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING The Content palette provides access to the items and content in the shared content library.When you share the content in a text box, the complete text will be shared, it is not possible to share a fraction of text. If you need to share only part of the text, then you should be using a content variable. Content Variables allow you to achieve that using a custom variable.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING Placing a synchronized item To place a synchronized item or group: 1. Select the target entry in the Content palette. 2. Drag the Content palette entry onto the page. Placing synchronized content To place synchronized content: 1. Select a text box, text path, or picture box. 2. Select the text or picture content entry in the Content palette and click Insert. Note how the item’s resizing handles change to synchronization symbols.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING file in the proper folder, and the layout is updated automatically to show the ad. And because the Composition Zones item works just like a QuarkXPress layout, the layout artist can open the file to make changes. Meanwhile, the layout artist can designate another Composition Zones item for an article on the same page as the ad. The layout artist draws three boxes: One for the headline, one for the body of the article, and one for a picture.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING The scenario above shows the primary uses for Composition Zones, but the feature can accommodate other collaborative workflow issues as well. For example, Composition Zones can be restricted to the project where they are defined, which you might want to do for a number of reasons. Perhaps the layout artist wants to use an ad in more than one place in the project, and the ad might include multiple text and picture boxes.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING When you add content to a composition layout, it automatically updates any corresponding Composition Zones items. The updates display in the Composition Zones items according to the preferences that are set for the layouts that contain the Composition Zones items (immediately, at print time, or when opening the project). • Original Composition Zones item: The initial layout or user-defined area from which a Composition Zones item was created.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING 3. To finish creating the Composition Zones item, choose Item > Share, or display the Content palette (Window menu) and click Add Item. Either way, the Shared Item Properties dialog box displays. Use the Shared Item Properties dialog box to name your composition layout and designate availability. 4. Enter a name for the composition layout in the Name field. 5. Choose This Project Only from the Availability drop-down menu. 6.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING 6. Click OK. The composition layout displays in the Content palette. A composition layout may contain multiple pages. You can use the Page menu or the Page Layout palette to add, delete, or move pages. Creating a Composition Zones item with the Composition Zones tool To manually define a Composition Zones item: 1. Select the Composition Zones tool in the Tools palette. 2. Drag to draw the Composition Zones item. 3.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING The Content palette lists composition layouts as well as other shared content. 2. Select the composition layout you want to place. 3. Drag the composition layout from the Content palette to the layout. Managing multiple pages in a placed Composition Zones item A composition layout may contain multiple pages. However, a Composition Zones item based on that composition layout can show only one page at a time. To indicate which page to show in a Composition Zones item: 1.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING Converting a Composition Zones item to a picture To 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 menu).
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING For a composition layout created from an entire layout, check Show Tab in Project Window in the Advanced Layout Properties dialog box so you can access the layout easily. Otherwise, you have to select the composition layout in the Content palette, click Edit, and then check Show Tab in Project Window.
COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING Notes The Notes feature lets you store comments in a project without affecting the actual content of the project. You can use notes to add reminders, comments on the content, or URLs to a project. An open note looks like adhesive or “sticky” notes you might stick to hard copy. When used with Quark Publishing Platform, the Notes feature uses settings defined in Quark Publishing Platform. For more information, see A Guide to Quark Publishing Platform.
NOTES Working with notes You can use the commands in the Item > Notes submenu to navigate through notes, to create and delete individual notes, and to open and close all notes in a project. Opening and closing notes To open and close notes as you review comments: • To open an existing note, click the Note icon and then choose Item > Notes > Open Note. • To open all notes in the project, choose Item > Notes > Open All Notes.
NOTES To view notes by name or color, choose Item > Note > Open All Notes in New Document, then choose an option from the By Name submenu or the By Color submenu. The notes display as text in a new project. Moving and resizing notes To move a note window, drag its title bar. You can move note windows anywhere within a project. In Windows, if a note has been moved, you can return it to its original location by clicking the note’s button.
NOTES Redline In a document review environment, reviewers such as managing editors and copy editors make changes to projects. The Redline feature provides a way to track these changes so writers, editors, project managers, and other users can see what is happening to a project and confirm that changes are appropriate. Using the Redline feature, you can view the insertions and deletions made in a project and decide whether to accept or reject the changes.
REDLINE Viewing tracked changes To display all tracked changes, do one of the following: • Make sure Utilities > Redline > Highlighting is checked. • Display the Redline toolbar (Utilities > Redline > Show ToolBar) and then click the Highlighting button . You can navigate through the changes made to the component using the navigation buttons (Previous and Next ) on the Redline toolbar. To control what kind of changes are displayed, click View Highlighting Options in the Redline toolbar.
REDLINE • Accept All Changes: Accepts all changes made by all reviewers. Rejecting an insertion removes the text from the component, while rejecting a deletion removes the highlighting and keeps the text in the component as normal text. To reject a change, select the target text and then choose an option from the Reject drop-down menu (Redline toolbar): • Reject Change: Rejects the selected change. • Reject All Displayed Changes: Rejects all the changes highlighted in the component.
REDLINE Job Jackets The Job Jackets feature takes a revolutionary step beyond preflighting: It helps to ensure that a print job adheres to its specifications from the moment it is created, and that it continues to adhere to those specifications all the way through until it rolls off the press.
JOB JACKETS Large and complex print jobs provide even more opportunities for error, and the cost of such errors becomes much greater. Job Jackets prevent unprintable or incorrectly constructed jobs from being constructed in the first place. What are Job Jackets? Technically speaking, Job Jackets are XML structures that include specifications and rules for creating and inspecting QuarkXPress layouts.
JOB JACKETS • Contacts: Contact information for job definers and others associated with the job. Adding contacts can make it easier to track down the appropriate person if something goes wrong with the job. Job Tickets The Resources in Job Jackets are organized into one or more Job Tickets. Each Job Ticket contains a set of particular Resources that can be applied to a QuarkXPress project. Within a Job Ticket, Resources are grouped as follows: 1.
JOB JACKETS Resources are defined and stored in a Job Jackets structure. A Job Ticket contains a set of project settings for a particular type of project and layout definitions for zero or more layouts. Note that Resource definitions do not “live” in Job Tickets; Job Tickets refer or “point” to Resource definitions, which live in the Job Jackets structure. Job Tickets and Job Ticket templates There are three kinds of Job Tickets: • A Job Ticket template is a definition for a “master” Job Ticket.
JOB JACKETS A Job Jackets file can contain Job Ticket templates (containing definitions for Job Tickets), active Job Tickets (which are associated with a particular project), and deferred Job Tickets (which have been associated with a project, but are no longer associated with that project). Each Job Ticket template can be used to generate Job Tickets for one or more projects. Each Job Ticket can apply to only one project.
JOB JACKETS A Job Jackets structure can exist as an XML file in the file system, or can be embedded in the project file. By default, non-embedded Job Jackets files are stored in the location specified in the Job Jackets pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). However, you can store Job Jackets files wherever you like.
JOB JACKETS 1. An output specialist and a job definer work together to define the output specifications and rules that are appropriate for a print job (or for a set of related print jobs), including things like page size, page count, list of colors, trapping settings, style sheets, line thicknesses, and valid color spaces for imported pictures. 2. The job definer uses these specifications and rules to create a Job Ticket template in a Job Jackets file.
JOB JACKETS associated with any open projects. The active project (if any) is shown in bold with an asterisk. The Job Jackets Manager dialog box has two modes: • (Windows only) Basic mode is for layout artists and job definers who don’t need to use the advanced JDF capabilities of Job Jackets. Basic mode offers all the controls necessary to create, manage, and share Job Jackets.
JOB JACKETS which has its own visual identity, you might create one Job Jackets file for each client. • If you are in charge of a design group and you’d like to make sure that every layout artist working on a particular project (such as a promotional campaign) uses the exact same Resources, you might want to create a Job Jackets file and Job Ticket template containing those Resources, and have all of the layout artists share that Job Jackets file.
JOB JACKETS The New Job Jackets dialog box lets you add Resources to a new Job Jackets file. 8. Use the Tickets tab to add Job Ticket templates to the Job Jackets file. For more information, see “Creating a Job Ticket template: Basic mode.” 9. Use the Style Settings tab to add Resources to the Job Jackets file. You can append project-level Resources from a variety of sources using the Append From option: • To append Resources from the application defaults, click Application.
JOB JACKETS 12. Click OK. Creating a Job Jackets file: Advanced mode To create a Job Jackets file using advanced mode: 1. Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu). 2. If only one list displays in the dialog box, click Advanced Settings to show the advanced pane. 3. Click the New Job Jackets button 4. Enter a name for the Job Jackets file, navigate to the target directory, and click . The New Job Jackets dialog box displays. Save.
JOB JACKETS Working with Job Tickets A Job Ticket is a set of Resources (specifications and rules) that can be applied to one or more QuarkXPress projects. Each Job Ticket has a name and is stored in a particular Job Jackets structure. A Job Ticket contains both project-level Resources (such as colors, style sheets, and color management settings) and layout-level Resources (such as Layout Specifications and layout definitions).
JOB JACKETS You can create Job Ticket templates in the basic pane of the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu). 2. Select the Job Jackets structure that will contain the Job Ticket template. 3. Click the New Ticket Template button . The New Job Ticket dialog box displays. You can assign Resources to a new Job Ticket template in the New Job Ticket dialog box. 4. Configure the new Job Ticket template as described in “Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Basic mode.
JOB JACKETS information on how to use the Edit Job Ticket dialog box, see “Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Basic mode.” Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Basic mode (Windows only) This topic describes how to add and remove Resources in a Job Ticket or Job Ticket template using the New Job Ticket or Edit Job Ticket dialog box. These two dialog boxes are basically the same, except that the Edit Job Ticket dialog box looks slightly different for Job Tickets than it does for Job Ticket templates.
JOB JACKETS To remove Resources from the Job Ticket, choose a type of Resource from the first list, then choose specific Resources in the third list, and click the left-facing arrow. 2. The presence of a layout definition means that QuarkXPress will automatically create a layout when this Job Ticket is applied to a project.
JOB JACKETS Working with Resources in a Job Ticket: Advanced mode You might need to work with a Job Ticket’s Resources in several situations: • You can use this procedure if you want to create a Job Ticket template using the Resources in an existing project.
JOB JACKETS 3. Select Layouts in the top-right list. Any layout definitions in the Job Ticket display in the bottom-right list. 4. Click the New Item button above the bottom-right list. A layout definition named “Layouts” is added. (The name you give to a layout definition is the name that will be applied to the actual layout when you create a project. To rename a layout definition, double-click its name and then enter the new name.) 5.
JOB JACKETS Use the New Project from Ticket dialog box to select a Job Ticket template for a new project. 2. If the Job Jackets structure you want is not displayed, click Browse, navigate to the Job Jackets file, and then click Open. 3. Select the target Job Ticket template in the list. (Note that you can also select a deferred Job Ticket.) 4.
JOB JACKETS layout artist has an active Job Ticket, and thus synchronize some or all of the Resources that the two of you are using. To apply a Job Ticket to an existing project: 1. Create or open the project. 2. Choose File > Job Jackets > Link Project. The Link Project dialog box displays. 3. If the Job Jackets file you want is not displayed, click Browse, navigate to the file, and then click Open. 4. Select the target Job Ticket template in the list. 5.
JOB JACKETS Applying a layout definition to a project A layout definition provides a group of settings that combine to describe a layout. These settings can include a medium type (Print, Digital), Rule Sets, Output Setups, and a color management Source Setup. A layout definition also can include a Layout Specification, which includes information such as page size and page count (note that Layout Specifications must be created at the Job Jackets level).
JOB JACKETS The default Job Jackets file When QuarkXPress is installed, a default Job Jackets file (containing a default Job Ticket template) named “DefaultJacket.xml” is installed as well in the location specified in the Job Jackets pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). When you create a project by choosing File > New > Project, the following things happen: • QuarkXPress makes a copy of this default Job Jackets file (named “Default Job Jackets”) and embeds it in the new project.
JOB JACKETS 5. Use the controls in the Edit Job Ticket dialog box to configure the default Job Ticket template. 6. Click OK. The next project you create using File > New > Project will use the modified default Job Ticket template. Editing the default Job Jackets file You can use the default Job Jackets file to control the Resources that are used in new QuarkXPress projects. To edit the default Job Jackets file: 1. Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu). 2.
JOB JACKETS 5. To work with Resources that are specific to a Job Ticket, expand the Job Jackets structure; create , duplicate , or import a Job Ticket; and then make sure the target Job Ticket is selected in the list on the left. Note that dimmed Resource categories represent Resources that must be specified at the Job Jackets level. 6. Select a Resource type in the top-right list. Existing Resources of the selected type are listed in the bottom-right list.
JOB JACKETS 2. If a Resource has an expander icon, click that icon to expand the Resource, and then configure the fields that are revealed. Some Resource fields include dropdown menus, while others allow you to enter values manually. 3. If a Resource has a button, click that button to create additional instances of the Resource. For example, when creating a Layout Specification, you can click this button on the Spot Color Resource to create additional spot colors.
JOB JACKETS Use the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) to specify where Resources are stored. Working with Layout Specifications A Layout Specification lets you define layout-specific information such as page size, page count, margins, spread information, bleed information, binding information, and so forth. The standard procedure for working with Layout Specifications is: 1. Create a Layout Specification (see “Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode“).
JOB JACKETS You can use the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu) to create Layout Specifications. Applying a Layout Specification to a layout You can associate a Layout Specification with a layout in two ways: by creating the layout from a Job Ticket template, or by applying the Layout Specification to an existing layout’s active Job Ticket. A job definer will typically add a Layout Specification to a layout definition in a Job Jackets file before the actual project and layout are created.
JOB JACKETS To configure a Job Ticket template to automatically create a layout that follows a particular Layout Specification, associate the Layout Specification with the layout definition using the Job Jackets Manager dialog box. A layout artist can apply a Layout Specification to a layout’s active Job Ticket after the project and layout are created using the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket).
JOB JACKETS You can use the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket) to assign a Layout Specification to a layout in the active project. Working with Rules and Rule Sets A Rule is a test that is executed against the active layout when you choose File > Job Jackets > Evaluate Layout. Each Rule can test one condition. For example, a Rule might state that all text characters should be set to overprint.
JOB JACKETS Creating Rules: Advanced mode To construct a Rule, first navigate to the Rule Resources in the Job Jackets Manager dialog box, as described in “Working with Resources: Advanced mode.” Then use the Rule wizard, as follows: 1. Click the New button . The Edit Rule dialog box (the first part of the Rule wizard) displays. 2. Enter a name for the Rule in the Name field. 3. To indicate what kind of object the Rule should apply to, choose an option from the Subject drop-down menu.
JOB JACKETS Use the second dialog box in the Rule wizard to configure a rule. If a condition has a button, you can click this button to add additional clauses to the condition. Clauses are combined with a logical OR operator. For example, to specify that the indicated item should have a color that is either a CMYK color or a spot color, configure the first line to check for CMYK, then add a second line, and configure it to check for Spot Ink. 6.
JOB JACKETS Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode Rules must be put into Rule Sets, which are named collections of Rules. A job definer can include one or more Rule Sets in a layout definition in a Job Ticket template. A layout artist working in a layout that is based on that layout definition can then evaluate the layout using the Rules in those Rule Sets (see “Evaluating a layout“). To add a Rule to a Rule Set: 1. Open the Job Jackets Manager dialog box (Utilities menu). 2.
JOB JACKETS Applying a Rule Set to a layout Once a Rule Set has been associated with a layout’s Job Ticket template instance, the layout artist can evaluate the layout against that Rule Set (see “Evaluating a layout“). You can associate a Rule Set with a layout in two ways. A job definer will typically add a Rule Set to a layout definition in a Job Jackets file before the actual project and layout are created.
JOB JACKETS A layout artist can use the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket) to assign a Rule Set to a layout in the active project. Evaluating a layout Rule Sets, Layout Specifications, and Output Specifications provide tests that can be evaluated to determine whether a layout adheres to the specifications created by the job definer. The Evaluate Layout command lets you execute those tests and determine whether (and where) any violations occur.
JOB JACKETS Use the Layout Evaluation dialog box to evaluate the active layout against Rule Sets, Layout Specifications, and Output Specifications. 2. To edit the selected Rule, click its name and then click the Edit Rule button. Any changes to the Rule are written back to the Job Jackets file and apply to any other projects that use this Job Ticket. 3. To indicate that a Rule should be checked, check the box next to that Rule.
JOB JACKETS The Layout Evaluation dialog box shows which Rules are passed and which Rules are violated. 6. To scroll the layout to the locations where Rules are violated, click the Show Case buttons. This makes it easy to fix Rule violations. You can configure QuarkXPress to automatically evaluate each layout when the project is opened, when the project is saved, when the project is closed, and when the layout is sent to output. For more information, see “Job Jackets preferences.
JOB JACKETS Resources in the “Product List” Job Jackets file so that only Tara can modify them. When a Job Jackets file is locked: • You cannot create a project from a Job Ticket template in that Job Jackets file. • You cannot link a project to the Job Jackets file. • You cannot display the Edit Job Ticket dialog box (File > Job Jackets > Modify Job Ticket) for a project that shares the Job Jackets file.
JOB JACKETS Use the JDF pane of the Print dialog box to specify that Job Jackets information be included at output in the form of a JDF-compliant XML file.
WORKING WITH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES Working with multiple languages QuarkXPress is available in several language configurations. If your language configuration supports it, you can: • Open and edit projects that use any supported character language. Character language is an attribute that you can apply to text to indicate which hyphenation and spell checking rules should be used with that text.
WORKING WITH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES Changing the program language To specify the program language: • (Windows only) Choose an option from the Edit > Program Language submenu. • (Mac OS X only) The program language is determined by your OS language at the time of install. You can change the UI language by changing the display language of OS X in System Preferences and restarting QuarkXPress. Your menus, dialog boxes, and palettes change to the chosen language.
WORKING WITH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES XTensions software You can use XTensions modules to add features such as palettes, commands, tools, and menus that augment just about every activity you undertake. Working with XTensions modules Many XTensions come in two parts: One file for the functionality of the XTensions module, and another file for its user interface. The name of the user interface module typically ends in “UI.” XTensions modules that do not have any user interface do not have to have a UI file.
XTENSIONS SOFTWARE Windows To install XTensions modules on Windows, place them in the XTensions folder within your application folder. Newly installed XTensions modules will load the next time you launch. Enabling and disabling XTensions modules You might want to disable XTensions modules if you are short on memory or for troubleshooting purposes. To enable or disable an XTensions module, first choose Utilities > XTensions Manager to display the XTensions Manager dialog box.
XTENSIONS SOFTWARE To use Script XTensions software, simply choose a script from the Scripts menu, and the script runs. The provided default scripts are organized into submenus. Please note that although these scripts are designed to operate in as many workflows as possible, specific settings in your workflow might prevent them from operating correctly. Therefore, we recommend that you save your layouts before running any scripts that affect them Script XTensions software is for macOS only.
XTENSIONS SOFTWARE Images submenu This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Images submenu of the Scripts • menu when Script XTensions software is installed. Use Contents to PICT File to save the PICT preview of the selected picture to a file. • Use Copy to Folder to save a copy of the picture in the selected picture box to a specified folder. • Use Fldr to Select PBoxes to import picture files from a specified folder into selected picture boxes.
XTENSIONS SOFTWARE • Use Open QuarkXPress Folders to open specified folders within the QuarkXPress folder. Stories submenu This topic describes the AppleScript scripts available through the Stories submenu of the Scripts • menu when Script XTensions software is installed. Use Link Selected Text Boxes to link selected text boxes. The text chain order is based on the stacking order of the text boxes.
XTENSIONS SOFTWARE Preferences Preferences let you control the default behavior of QuarkXPress. Understanding preferences The Preferences command (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) displays the Preferences dialog box. The Preferences dialog box contains several panes that enable you to specify default settings for the various functions of the application. To view a pane, click its name in the list on the left.
PREFERENCES • If you click Keep Project Settings, the project will retain the preferences previously specified for each layout. Text will not reflow. Automatic kerning, tracking, or hyphenation exception changes made while the project is active will be stored only with the project. The Keep Project Settings feature is useful if you want to open and print a layout without running the risk of text reflow.
PREFERENCES Any changes you make to the settings in Group A while no articles are open are stored in the preferences files and are used for all subsequently created articles. If the Nonmatching Preferences alert displays when you open a project and you click Use XPress Preferences, subsequent changes you make to the settings in Group A are saved to both the project and the preferences files. (The project’s original Group A settings are discarded when you click Use XPress Preferences.
PREFERENCES • Settings in the Application panes of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) Any changes you make to the settings in Group C are always stored in the preferences, whether or not a project is open. Any changes you make to the settings in Group C are always stored in the preferences, whether or not an article is open.
PREFERENCES Preferences — Application — Color Theme macOS only. Use the Color Theme pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify a color theme for QuarkXPress. Use the Color Theme drop-down menu to choose from the existing color themes or click on the icon to duplicate an existing color theme. Use the Color control to specify a color for each of the categories.
PREFERENCES Preferences — Application — Input Settings Use the Input Settings pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to customize scrolling and other “on-the-fly” actions. • Use the Scrolling area to specify how quickly you can scroll through layouts and how layouts update on screen. (Windows only) Check Live Scroll to update the layout view as you drag the scroll boxes in layout window scroll bars.
PREFERENCES ranges in the Pages field using hyphens. To edit the separators, enter new characters in the Sequential and Nonsequential fields. • Mac OS X only: Use the Key Press Activates area to control what the Control key does. Click Zoom to make the Control key temporarily invoke the Zoom tool . Click Contextual Menu to make the Control key invoke a context menu. (Control+Shift performs whichever function is not selected.
PREFERENCES Font Fallback dialog If you add characters to an existing project and the font cannot support those characters, the application searches the system for a font that can display the characters. Check Search to have the application search for a suitable font that is used in the active story. To restrict the search to a particular range, check Last and then enter a number in the Paragraphs field. To expand the search to the entire story where a missing font occurs, check Active Story.
PREFERENCES Preferences — Application — Undo Windows only. Use the Undo pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control Multiple Undo options. • Use the Redo Key drop-down menu to specify which keyboard command invokes the Redo command. • Use the Maximum History Actions field to specify the number of actions that you can store in your undo history. The undo history can hold as many as 100 actions.
PREFERENCES Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager Use the XTensions Manager pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control when the XTensions Manager dialog box displays. Preferences — Application — Sharing Use the Sharing pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set the default options for new shared content. For information on the meaning of these options, see “Sharing and synchronizing content.
PREFERENCES • Use the Opacity control to specify an opacity value from 0% (transparent) to 100% (opaque). Preferences — Application — East Asian Use the East Asian pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to enable East Asian functionality. Preferences — Application — Dynamic Guides Color On macOS set the Dynamic Guides color using the Color Theme pane of the Preferences dialog box.
PREFERENCES To change the color of the index markers, click the Index Marker Color button. Use the Separation Characters settings to control how your built index is punctuated: • Enter characters in the Following Entry field to specify the punctuation that immediately follows each entry in an index. • Enter characters in the Between Page #s field to specify the words or punctuation that separate a list of page numbers in an index.
PREFERENCES • Use the Font Style drop-down menu to choose a font style. • Use the Size drop-down menu to specify a font size. • Use the Color drop-down menu in the Background section to specify the background color. Preferences — Application — PDF Use the PDF pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set preferences for PDF export. Use the options in the PDF Workflow area to determine how PDF files are distilled: • Click Direct to PDF to have QuarkXPress distill the PDF file.
PREFERENCES Redline pane of Preferences dialog box In the WYSIWYG View area: • Use the Color control to specify a color. • Use the Style drop-down to specify a style. Preferences — Application — Spell-Check Use the SpellCheck pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to set spell checking options. In the Spell Check Exceptions area: • To exclude words that include numbers from spell checking, check Ignore words with numbers.
PREFERENCES Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price Use the Fraction/Price pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to format fractions and prices automatically.
PREFERENCES Check Use OpenType Kerning to activate the default kerning values for OpenType fonts. When OpenType kerning is active, it overrides any kerning specified through Kerning Pairs (Edit menu) for OpenType fonts. Check Allow OpenType Transformations on Mixed Color Text to allow the user to apply OpenType transformations on mixed color text. Check Synchronize All Cross References On Output to have QuarkXPress automatically synchronize all cross references in the project when you output.
PREFERENCES • Click Delete Changes if you want modified master items on your layout pages to be deleted when a new master page is applied. Use the Framing area to specify whether frames are placed inside or outside text and picture boxes. • When you click Inside, the distance between the text and the frame is determined by the box’s Text Inset values (Defined in the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette) When you place a frame inside a picture box, the frame overlaps the picture.
PREFERENCES Spread. This setting determines the coordinates of items displayed in fields. The default option is Page. • Use the Measurement Units drop-down menu to set the default measurement unit for new layouts. For East Asian configuration, there are 2 units: Q and Points. Conversion is based on 1 mm = 4 Q Preferences — Layout — Paragraph Use the Paragraph pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to control various paragraph-level settings.
PREFERENCES Exceptions dictionary. The setting you choose affects only paragraphs for which Auto Hyphenation (Edit > H&Js) is enabled: • The Standard, Enhanced, Expanded, Extended and 3.3 Compatible options are only available if any legacy project having any of these hyphenation methods applied for any language is opened in QuarkXPress 2018. These options are not available for new projects. • Extended 2 uses the Dieckmann exception resources and algorithm for hyphenation.
PREFERENCES • Use the Small Caps area to control the scale of characters with the Small Caps type style applied to them. The VScale value determines the vertical size of the character and is measured as a percentage of font size. The HScale value determines width and is measured as a percentage of the normal character width (as specified by the font designer). The default value for both scales is 75% (range = 0 to 100%, measurement system = percentage, smallest increment = .1).
PREFERENCES • 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 • Click In Front of Content or Behind Content to specify whether ruler guides and page guides are placed in front of or behind all items on a page. In the Page Grid area: • To control the minimum zoom value at which the master page grid and text box grids become visible, enter a value in the Zoom Visibility field. • Click In Front of Content or Behind Content to specify whether the master page grid is placed in front of or behind all items on a page.
PREFERENCES gamut. Saturation considers the saturation of source colors and changes them to colors with the same relative saturation in the destination gamut. Absolute Colorimetric retains colors that are in both the source gamut and the destination gamut. Colors that are outside the destination gamut are adjusted in relation to how they would look when printed on white paper. Defined by Sources uses the rendering intents defined in source setup for all colors and images.
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