A Guide to QuarkXPress 9.
CONTENTS Contents About this guide.............................................................................19 What we're assuming about you..........................................................................19 Where to go for help............................................................................................19 Conventions..........................................................................................................20 Technology note.........................................
CONTENTS Callout Styles palette....................................................................................................46 Glyphs palette...............................................................................................................46 Grid Styles palette.........................................................................................................46 Blio Table of Contents palette......................................................................................
CONTENTS Creating text and picture boxes....................................................................................69 Resizing boxes...............................................................................................................70 Locking box and picture proportions............................................................................70 Reshaping boxes...........................................................................................................
CONTENTS Linking table cells..........................................................................................................92 Formatting tables..........................................................................................................92 Formatting gridlines......................................................................................................92 Inserting and deleting rows and columns.....................................................................
CONTENTS Kerning manually.........................................................................................................120 Kerning automatically..................................................................................................120 Controlling hyphenation and justification...........................................................120 Specifying hyphenation exceptions............................................................................122 Using discretionary hyphens..........
CONTENTS Anchoring boxes and lines in text...............................................................................150 Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines...........................151 Unanchoring boxes and lines......................................................................................151 Working with OpenType fonts...........................................................................151 Applying OpenType styles............................................
CONTENTS Moving pictures...........................................................................................................197 Resizing pictures..........................................................................................................198 Cropping pictures.......................................................................................................198 Rotating and skewing pictures....................................................................................
CONTENTS Importing colors from another article or project.........................................................215 Changing all instances of one color to another color.................................................215 Applying color, shade, and blends.............................................................................216 Applying color and shade to text................................................................................216 Applying color and shade to lines.........................
CONTENTS Layers and text runaround...........................................................................................238 Duplicating layers........................................................................................................238 Merging layers.............................................................................................................239 Locking items on layers...............................................................................................
CONTENTS Setting Print dialog box controls.................................................................................262 Print dialog box...........................................................................................................263 Printing color separations............................................................................................268 Printing color composites............................................................................................
CONTENTS Working with Button objects.......................................................................................322 Image Sequence layouts, Button layouts, and Shared Content..................................326 Working with menus....................................................................................................326 Configuring a Window object.....................................................................................330 Configuring a Text Box object.....................
CONTENTS Adding a slideshow to a Blio eBook...........................................................................375 Adding video to a Blio eBook.....................................................................................376 Adding HTML to a Blio eBook....................................................................................376 Adding a URL link to a picture box in a Blio eBook....................................................377 Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle..................
CONTENTS Working with Rules and Rule Sets......................................................................420 Creating Rules: Advanced mode................................................................................421 Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode.............................................................423 Applying a Rule Set to a layout...................................................................................424 Evaluating a layout........................................
CONTENTS Adding a group of radio button controls ...................................................................450 Adding a check box control .......................................................................................451 Adding a file submission control ................................................................................451 Menus.................................................................................................................452 Working with standard menus.......
CONTENTS Creating Item Styles....................................................................................................481 Checking Item Style usage..........................................................................................482 OPI XTensions software......................................................................................483 Targeting an imported picture for OPI exchange.......................................................483 Activating OPI for a layout...............
CONTENTS ShapeMaker Presets tab..............................................................................................504 Other XTensions modules...................................................................................505 Preferences...................................................................................507 Understanding preferences................................................................................507 Nonmatching Preferences alert...................................
CONTENTS Preferences — Layout — Presentation........................................................................526 Preferences — Layout — SWF....................................................................................526 Legal notices.................................................................................528 xviii | A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
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 Conventions Formatting conventions highlight information to help you quickly find what you need. • Bold type style: The names of all dialog boxes, fields, and other controls are set in bold type. For example: "Click OK." • 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.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE custom modules for QuarkXPress. QuarkXTensions® (Quark® XTensions software) also provide a modular approach for meeting your particular publishing needs. And if you can write AppleScript® scripts, you can use this scripting language from Apple® to automate many QuarkXPress activities. A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
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 • Use the Linking tool to link text boxes. • Use the Unlinking tool to unlink text boxes. • Use the Rectangle Box tool to create a rectangular box. To draw a square box, press and hold Shift while drawing. • Use the Oval Box tool to create an oval box. To create a circular box, press and hold Shift while drawing. • Use the Composition Zones tool • Use the Star Box tool • Use the Line tool to create a Composition Zones box. to create a star-shaped box.
THE USER INTERFACE To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and drag. To add text to a line or path, select the Text Content tool and double-click the line or path. For more information about Composition Zones, see "Creating a Composition Zones item." Windows users can display the Tools palette (Windows menu) horizontally, as well as vertically. To display the palette horizontally, Ctrl+double-click the title bar.
THE USER INTERFACE Web tools The Web Tools palette lets you work with Web layouts. The Web Tools palette The Web Tools palette (Window menu with Web layout displayed) includes the following controls: • Use the Rectangle Image Map tool to create rectangular image map "hot areas" (and to gain access to other image map tools). The image map tools are available when the ImageMap XTensions software is loaded. • Use the Form Box tool to create a form box (to contain form controls).
THE USER INTERFACE QuarkXPress menu (Mac OS only) The QuarkXPress menu is a part of QuarkXPress for Mac OS X. This menu contains the same commands as in the application menu for other Mac OS X applications — to hide or show QuarkXPress and other applications, to access preferences, and to quit QuarkXPress. This menu includes the following commands: • About QuarkXPress: Use this command to display information about QuarkXPress, such as the version number.
THE USER INTERFACE • Save Picture: Use this submenu to save the selected picture as a separate file or to save all pictures in a layout as separate files. • Append: Use this option to append style sheets, colors, layouts, and a variety of other types of resources from another file. • Export: Use this option to export a layout as another file type or version. You cannot open files saved in QuarkXPress 9.1 or later directly in QuarkXPress 9.0. However, you can export a project in QuarkXPress 9.
THE USER INTERFACE • Find/Change: Displays the Find/Change palette, which you can use to find and change text based on content, formatting, or both. • Item Find/Change: Displays and hides the Item Find/Change palette. • Preferences (Windows only): Lets you modify default values and settings. For more information, see "Preferences." • Style Sheets: Lets you add, edit, and delete style sheet definitions. For more information, see "Working with style sheets.
THE USER INTERFACE • Mojigumi: Lets you add, edit, and delete Mojigumi sets and classes. For more information, see "Working with mojigumi sets and classes." • Non-Breaking Character Sets: Lets you add, edit, and delete rules for two-byte character sets. • Underline Styles: Lets you access and modify underline styles. • Menus (Web layout only): Lets you create and manage lists, such as navigation menus, used in Web layouts.
THE USER INTERFACE you control the spacing between all selected Roman characters. Sending lets you specify a fixed distance between characters, irrespective of font or font size. • Baseline Shift: Lets you move selected text up or down in relation to the baseline without changing line spacing. • Character: Displays the Character Attributes dialog box, which lets you control every aspect of character formatting for selected text.
THE USER INTERFACE • Invert/Negative: Applies a negative or inverse effect to a selected picture. The command name is Negative when you select a CMYK picture. • Halftone: Lets you apply a halftone screen pattern to a selected grayscale picture. • Flip Horizontal: Flips the selected picture horizontally. • Flip Vertical: Flips the selected picture vertically. • Center Picture: Centers the selected picture in its picture box.
THE USER INTERFACE • Runaround: Lets you specify whether text runs inside, outside, or through a picture or its picture box. • Clipping: Lets you select the clipping type for a given item and control its outset. • Duplicate: Lets you create a copy of an item and its contents. • Step and Repeat: Lets you duplicate an active item multiple times, and in any position you specify.
THE USER INTERFACE • Point/Segment Type: Lets you change the point or segment type of an item so you can manipulate points, curve handles, and line segments. • Drop Shadow: Lets you apply or modify an item's drop shadow. • Callout Anchor: Lets you configure callout anchors and callouts. For more information, see "Working with callouts." • Composition Zones: Lets you create or modify Composition Zones.
THE USER INTERFACE • Preview HTML (Web layouts only): Generates an HTML preview and displays it in a Web browser. • Preview SWF (Interactive layouts only): Generates a preview and displays it in a Web browser. Layout menu The Layout menu includes commands for working with and navigating to layouts. • 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.
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 • Rulers: Displays rulers, which you can use to position items and guides, along the top and left edges or top and right edges of the layout window. • Ruler Direction: Lets you position page rulers on the top and left or top and right edges of the layout window. • Invisibles: Displays editable, nonprinting characters such as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns in text. • Visual Indicators: Displays indicators for non-printing elements, such as hyperlinks and rollovers.
THE USER INTERFACE • Suggested Hyphenation: Displays the suggested hyphenation for the word containing the text insertion point. • Hyphenation Exceptions: Lets you specify whether and how particular words should be hyphenated in the active article. • Job Jackets Manager: Displays the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.
THE USER INTERFACE • Convert Old Underlines: Converts all underlines in the active text chain from QuarkXPress 3.x (Stars & Stripes) format to Type Tricks format. • Text Overflow: Displays the Text Overflow window, which identifies text boxes that contain text overflow. • Item Styles Usage: Lets you view and update applied item styles. • Check Out License/Check In License: Displays only if you have installed the application for use with Quark License Administrator (QLA). Lets you check licenses in and out.
THE USER INTERFACE • App Studio: Displays and hides the App Studio palette. For more information, see A Guide to App Studio. • Profile Information: Displays and hides the Profile Information palette. • Callout Styles: Displays the Callout Styles palette. For more information, see "Working with callout styles." • Grid Styles: Displays and hides the Grid Styles palette. • Reflow Table of Contents: Displays the Reflow Table of Contents palette. For more information, see "Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle.
THE USER INTERFACE • Transfer QuarkXPress License (Windows only): Use this option to transfer your license to another computer. • About QuarkXPress (Windows only): Use this command to display information about QuarkXPress, such as the version number. • Edit License Code (Windows only): Use this command to change the validation code of an installed copy of QuarkXPress.
THE USER INTERFACE tab icons by pressing Command+Option+;/Ctrl+Alt+;. You can move in reverse (right-to-left) by pressing Command+Option+,/Ctrl+Alt+,. To continuously display the navigator tab, Control+click/right-click the Measurements palette title bar and choose Always Show Tab Bar. To permanently hide the navigator tab, Control+click/right-click the Measurements palette title bar and choose Always Hide Tab Bar. To make the navigator tab bar display interactively.
THE USER INTERFACE image resolution of 100 dpi and then increase the scale from 100% to 200%, the effective resolution is 50 dpi. The higher the effective resolution is, the higher the quality of the reproduced image will be. Note that if you select multiple picture boxes with varying effective resolutions, no number displays next to the Effective Image Resolution icon. Page Layout palette The Page Layout palette provides a variety of features having to do with pages and navigation.
THE USER INTERFACE The Style Sheets palette lets you view and apply paragraph and character style sheets. Conditional Styles palette The Conditional Styles palette lets you work with conditional styles. For more information, see "Working with conditional 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).
THE USER INTERFACE Shared Content palette The Shared Content palette lets you work with items and content that are stored in the shared content library. For more information, see "Working with shared content." The Shared Content palette lets you work with items and content in the shared content library. Trap Information palette Beginning with version 9.0, the application no longer supports spread and choke trapping.
THE USER INTERFACE The Lists palette lets you create things like tables of contents App Studio palette The App Studio palette lets you create and configuremovies, slideshows, buttons, and more for App Studio issues. For more information, see A Guide to App Studio. You can switch focus to the App Studio palette by choosing Item > Digital Publishing > App Studio Interactivity. Profile Information palette The Profile Information palette lets you view and update color management settings for pictures.
THE USER INTERFACE Callout Styles palette The Callout Styles palette lets you work with callout styles. For more information, see "Working with callout styles." 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. You can add characters to a story by double-clicking them.
THE USER INTERFACE The Grid Styles palette lets you create and apply grid styles. Blio Table of Contents palette The Blio Table of Contents palette lets you create TOCs for Blio eBooks. For more information, see "Creating a TOC for Blio." Reflow Tagging palette The Reflow Tagging palette lets you tag content in Reflow view. For more information, see "Working with Reflow view.
THE USER INTERFACE The Hyperlinks palette lets you apply hyperlinks to text and pictures. Index palette The Index palette lets you tag text for indexing. When you create an index (Utilities > Build Index), all of the tags you created with the Index palette are automatically turned into a customizable index. For more information, see "Working with lists." The Index palette lets you tag text for inclusion in an automatically generated index. 48 | A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
THE USER INTERFACE Interactive palette The Interactive palette lets you add interactivity to Interactive layouts. For more information, see "Interactive layouts." 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 Layers palette lets you work with layers and the objects on those layers.
THE USER INTERFACE Guides palette The Guides palette lets you work with guides. For more information, see "Using the Guides palette." Item Styles palette The Item Styles palette lets you work with item styles. For more information, see "Item Styles XTensions software." PSD Import palette The PSD Import palette lets you control the display of imported Photoshop (PSD) files. For more information, see "Working with PSD pictures." The PSD Import palette lets you manipulate imported PSD pictures.
THE USER INTERFACE This palette group shows the Style Sheets, Colors, and Lists palettes attached as one, which economizes space while providing easy access to functions. To attach a palette to a palette group, Control+click/right-click the title bar of a palette group and choose an unchecked palette name. When you attach a palette that is already displayed, the palette moves to become part of the palette group.
THE USER INTERFACE Layout controls 1 Zoom: Enter a zoom percentage or choose a zoom value from the drop-down menu. 2 Page Number: Enter a page number in the Page Number field or choose a page from the page list that displays when you click the upward facing arrow to the right of the field. 3 Previous Page: Navigate to the previous page. 4 Next Page: Navigate to the next page. 5 Master Page Toggle: Switch back and forth between the active layout page and its master page.
THE USER INTERFACE By splitting a window, you can view your work at different magnifications at the same time. There are three ways to split a window: • Choose Window > Split Window > Horizontal or Window > Split Window > Vertical. • 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.
THE USER INTERFACE the entire window, and only the most basic character formatting (such as bold and italic) are displayed. A red background indicates where text has overflowed beyond the last text box or path in the story. To display the contents of the active story in a new Story Editor window, select a box or line that contains the target story and choose View > Story Editor. (If a Story Editor window is already open, the selected item's story displays in that window.
THE USER INTERFACE • View > Full Res Previews QuarkXPress ships with several default view sets: • 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, and View > Full Res Previews are turned on.
THE USER INTERFACE View sets are saved at the application level. However, any view settings you apply to a layout using view sets are saved with that layout. 56 | A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS 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 48" x 48" in size (or 24" x 48" 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. You can use the default layout name or enter a new name for the layout in the Layout Name field. To indicate the type of the default layout, choose Print, Web, Interactive, App Studio, or ePub from the Layout Type drop-down menu. For more information about Web layouts, see "Web layouts.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS New Project dialog box for Web layout type 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. When you save a QuarkXPress project, you can choose an option from the Type/Save as type drop-down menu: • Choose Project to save a project that you can modify. • Choose Project Template to save a read-only version of the project.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS To add a layout to the active project, choose Layout > New or click a layout tab and choose New from its context menu. To duplicate a layout, display the layout you want to duplicate, then choose Layout > Duplicate or choose Duplicate from the Layout tab context menu. To change a layout's properties, display the layout, then choose Layout > Layout Properties or choose Layout Properties from the Layout tab context menu. The Layout Properties dialog box displays.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, dashes and stripes, cascading menus (Web layouts only), meta tags (Web layouts only), and menus (Web layouts only). Although every list definition you create can be used in any layout in the project, a list only draws from the active layout when you build it. Layout-level resources Layout-level resources can be unique for every layout in the project.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS For information about creating column and margin guides, see "Configuring a master page grid." For more information, see "Guide Manager Pro XTensions software." Ruler guides Ruler guides (or simply "guides") are nonprinting guidelines that you can position manually. You can create ruler guides by dragging them off the horizontal and vertical rulers (View > Rulers). You can create ruler guides on master pages and on individual layout pages.
PROJECTS AND LAYOUTS Undoing and redoing actions The Undo command (Edit menu) reverses the last action performed on an item. For example, if you accidentally cut a picture box, the Undo command will bring the picture box back into the layout from the Clipboard. The Redo command (Edit menu) lets you reimplement an action you had undone. Choose Edit > Undo (Command+Z/Ctrl+Z) to reverse the last action performed. The menu item identifies the specific action that can be undone.
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 • The Picture Content tool lets you create rectangular picture boxes and manipulate pictures in picture boxes. You can also use the Picture Content tool to cut, copy, and paste pictures. 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.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Picture box displaying picture content handles Picture content handles display even if the selected picture exceeds the size of its box (see illustration above). The picture displays beyond the box boundary. You can crop the image by resizing the picture box. You can use picture content handles to resize or rotate a picture without changing the size or angle of its picture box.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 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 dismissed 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 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 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. Creating text and picture boxes There are three ways to create boxes: • To create a no-content box (a box that can be changed into a picture box or a text box), click and drag with the Rectangle Box tool , the Oval Box tool , or the Starburst tool .
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 QuarkXPress maintains the item's aspect ratio during resizing operations. You can also lock box proportions in the Box tab of the Modify dialog box. 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 Classic tab of the Measurements palette and click the proportion lock control next to the X% and Y% fields.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES You can also create your own frame styles in the Dashes and Stripes dialog box (Edit menu) and specify frame settings in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see "Item Styles XTensions software." Applying colors to boxes To apply a background color to active boxes, do one of the following: • Choose Item > Modify (Command+M/Ctrl+M), click the Box tab, and then use the controls in the Box area.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Merging and splitting boxes Options in the Merge and Split submenus (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 Item > Merge 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. If you merge two text boxes, the text flows as one story through both boxes.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Changing box type To convert a selected box to a different type, choose Picture, Text, or None from the Content submenu (Item menu). However, you can also change a text box to a picture box by choosing File > Import and selecting a picture. You can change a picture box to a text box by choosing File > Import and selecting a text file. To convert a selected text box to a text path, choose a line shape from the Item > Shape submenu.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • To make a curved line segment, 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. • To make a corner point, press Option/Alt before you click. If you click and hold, you can control the radius of the corner point by dragging a curve handle. • To add a point to an existing segment of the shape, click the line segment where you want the point to be.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • Choose either Left Point, Midpoint, or Right Point from the Line Mode drop-down menu in the Classic or Space/Align tab of the Measurements palette to display the L (Length) field. To precisely change the length of a line, enter a value in the L field, then press Return/Enter. You can resize any Bézier line by modifying the size of its bounding box. To do so, make sure Item > Edit > Shape is unchecked, and then resize the line as if it were a box.
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 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. • Choose Item > Send to Back to move an item to the back of the page or layer. • Choose Item > Bring to Front to move an item to the front of the page or layer. • To move an item one level backward in the page or layer on Mac OS, press Option and choose Item > Send Backward.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES If an active group contains the same kind of items (for example, all picture boxes), the Modify dialog box will include a tab (or tabs) that refer specifically to those items. If an active group contains a variety of items, the Modify dialog box may display only a Group tab. 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 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. When the Rotation pointer displays, click to establish a rotation point; then drag in a circular motion to rotate the item. The Arrowhead pointer and the item's position will display as you drag.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES insertion point at the point in text where you want to anchor the item or group and choose Edit > Paste (Command+V/Ctrl+V). 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. For example: • You can create figures with pictures and text that follow their references from page to page.
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 Selected callout anchor 3 Select the item or group that you want to make into a callout. 4 Choose Item > Callout Anchor > Associate with Callout Anchor. The item or group becomes a callout, and a line displays between the callout and the callout anchor. Callout anchor associated with a callout 5 Configure the callout anchor.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Edit Callout Settings dialog box 2 To control how the callout aligns horizontally, use the controls in the Align callout horizontally relative to area. (The Offset field lets you adjust the horizontal positioning of the callout from where it would otherwise be.) If you choose Spread from the Align callout horizontally relative to drop-down menu and specify a horizontal offset, that offset is inverted on left-facing pages.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Working with callout styles Callout styles make it easy for you to apply often-used settings to callout anchors. To create, edit, duplicate, or delete callout styles, use the Callout Styles dialog box (Edit > Style Sheets). You can also use this dialog box to append callout styles from other projects. Callout Styles dialog box You can edit the Default callout style, but you cannot delete it.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES To turn runaround back on for such a callout, use the Runaround tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu) or the drop-down menu in the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette. Working with tables In QuarkXPress, a table is a distinct item, like a text box, picture box, text path, or line.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 6 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 drop-down 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 later update the table, any local formatting you have applied in QuarkXPress is removed and replaced with the formatting from the Excel file. • If you do not check Include Formats in the Table Link dialog box when you first import an Excel table, the table's Excel formatting is discarded. If you later update the table, QuarkXPress attempts to preserve any local formatting you have applied to the table in QuarkXPress.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 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. To do this, select any portion of data in an Excel worksheet and copy the selected data. Then simply switch to QuarkXPress and choose Edit > Paste. QuarkXPress creates a table appropriate to the data and inserts the text.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES • To select all the text over several rows or columns, drag along an edge of the table. • To select text in nonadjacent 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. Options include Cell, Row, Odd Rows, Even Rows, Column, Odd Columns, Even Columns, All Cells, Header Rows, Footer Rows, and Body Rows.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 1 To format gridlines, first select them as follows: • For an individual gridline, click the gridline with the Text Content tool . • For multiple gridlines, Shift+click each gridline. • For the entire table, all horizontal gridlines, or all vertical gridlines, select the table with the Item tool . Then you can specify a selection in the Modify dialog box. • Choose an option from the Select submenu of the Table menu: Horizontal Grids, Vertical Grids, Border, or All Grids.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES Inserting and deleting rows and columns You can insert rows and columns anywhere within a table. Simply click in a cell that is immediately above or below where you want to add a row. Or, click in a cell to the right or left of where you want to add a column. Then, choose Table > Insert > Row or Table > Insert > Column.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES boxes, picture boxes, or both. This method lets you separate elements of a table and use those elements elsewhere in a layout. To do this, select a table and choose Table > Convert Table > To Group. To work with the individual boxes, choose Item > Ungroup. Continuing tables in other locations Because tables do not always fit on one page or spread — or within the space allotted in a design — tables can be automatically continued to other locations anywhere in a layout.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES 1 Choose Table > Table Break to display the Table Break Properties dialog box. The Table Break Properties dialog box 2 Check Width to break the table when its width exceeds the value in the field. By default, the current width of the table displays in the Width field — decreasing this value will break the table. 3 Check Height to break the table when its height exceeds the value in the field.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES locations in the layout. The table may break later as you adjust it by resizing or adding rows and columns. A broken table with a continued header The Table Break feature works in both directions: it continues the table using additional subtables 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 • To create an automatic header, select the first one or more rows of the table and choose Table > Repeat As Header. To create an automatic footer, select the last one or more rows of the table and choose Table > Repeat As Footer. • Choose Table > Table Break. The Table Break Options dialog box displays. To set the number of header and footer rows, enter values in the Header Rows and Footer Rows fields, respectively.
BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES all the Header Rows, Footer Rows, and Body Rows in any instance of a continued table for formatting. A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
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 quotation marks. Check Include Style Sheets to import style sheets from a Microsoft Word or WordPerfect file or convert "XPress Tags" to formatted text. • Drag a text file from the file system onto a text box. • Drag text from another application onto a text box. • Press Command/Ctrl and drag a text file from the file system onto a picture box or a no-content box. • Press Command/Ctrl and drag text from another application onto a picture box or a no-content box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY WordPerfect filter The WordPerfect Filter allows documents to be imported from WordPerfect 3.0 and 3.1 (Mac OS) and WordPerfect 5.x and 6.x (Windows). The WordPerfect Filter also lets you save text in WordPerfect 6.0 format. WordPerfect 3.1 for Mac OS can read WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows documents, so there is no WordPerfect 3.1 for Mac OS export option. Importing and exporting text with Unicode options You can specify an encoding type when importing text and exporting text.
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Find/Change dialog box to search for and replace text. To search and replace based on formatting attributes, uncheck Ignore Attributes. 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 D
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Code Character En space \e 3-per-Em space \5 4-per-em space \$ 6-per-em space \^ Figure space \8 Hair space \{ Thin space \[ Zero width space \z Word joiner* \j Conditional style marker (Find/Change \r only) *Not applicable in conditional styles. Checking spelling To check spelling, choose an option from the Utilities > Check Spelling submenu. The Check Spelling palette displays.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 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. To start a spell check, click Start. To start the spell check from the beginning of the active story, Shift+click Start. To replace a misspelled word, type the correct spelling in the Replace With field or choose the correct word from the list, then click Replace.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Applying character attributes QuarkXPress lets you maintain precise, character-by-character control over text formatting. Applying a font To apply a font to selected text, do one of the following things: • Choose Style > Font and choose a font from the submenu. • Display the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character) and choose a font from the Font menu. • Choose a font from the Font drop-down menu in the Classic or Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Decrease in preset range: Ctrl+Shift+< Applying type styles To apply a type style to selected text, do one of the following things: • Choose Style > Type Style and choose a type style from the submenu. • Choose Style > Character and click check boxes in the Type Style area. • Choose a type style from the Text Styles drop-down menu in the Measurements palette. Apply bold and italic type styles using the icons to the left of the Text Styles drop-down menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Choose Style > Horizontal/Vertical Scale, choose Horizontal or Vertical from the Scale drop-down menu, enter a value in the field, and then click OK. • Use one of the keyboard commands below. If a range of text is selected that has both horizontal and vertical scaling applied, the keyboard commands will increase or decrease the text accordingly. You cannot apply horizontal and vertical scaling values simultaneously.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Applying emphasis To apply an emphasis mark to a character, select the character, click the Emphasis Mark button in the Measurements palette to display the emphasis mark options, and then click one of the options. These options are also available in the Emphasis Mark drop-down menu in the Character Attributes palette (Style > Character).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Baseline Shift: Specify a value to raise or lower the font from its baseline. • Scale Direction: Specify whether the font is scaled horizontally or vertically. • Scale Amount: Specify the amount of horizontal or vertical scaling. The Sample Text area of the dialog box displays sample text that uses each of the fonts in the font set. You can apply a font set to text in the same way that you apply a font to text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Red represents the em box. Yellow represents the ICF box. To align smaller characters with the largest characters that appear in the same line of text, choose an option from the Style > Character Alignment submenu. Alternatively, choose Style > Formats and choose an option from the Char Align drop-down menu. The alignment options are: • ICF Box Top: Aligns small characters with the top of the ICF box.
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TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Examples of vertical alignment Applying multiple character attributes You can view and edit all character attributes at one time using the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character). Blank fields and gray check boxes in the Character Attributes dialog box indicate that multiple styles are applied to selected text. For example, if the Font field is blank, then more than one font is applied to the selected text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Character Attributes dialog box to format text. Applying paragraph attributes Paragraph attributes are formatting options that apply to a paragraph as a whole. They include alignment, indents, leading, and tab settings. To apply attributes to selected paragraphs, use the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style > Formats) or the Measurements palette. You can copy any applied paragraph formats from one paragraph to other paragraphs in the same box or text chain.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Click an alignment icon in the Classic tab or the Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. • Use one of the keyboard commands below.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY character. (The Indent Here character is an invisible character; to view invisible characters, choose View > Show Invisibles (Command+I/Ctrl+I.) Alignment and indentations are both measured from the Text Inset specified in the Text tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu). The Text Inset value affects the four sides of a text box; it does not affect the inner columns of a text box.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Decrease .1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+: • Increase 1 pt: Ctrl+Shift+" • Increase .1 pt: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+" Controlling space before and after paragraphs Space Before and Space After controls let you specify the amount of space before and after selected paragraphs. To set the space before and after selected paragraphs, do one of the following things: • Choose Style > Formats, then enter values in the Space Before or Space After fields.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY will flow to the top of the next column or page. Alternatively, you can specify the number of lines that must be left at the bottom of a column or box, and at the top of the following column or box, when a paragraph is broken. Using the Keep with Next ¶ feature, you can keep a paragraph together with the paragraph that follows it. This lets you keep a subhead together with the paragraph that follows it, or keep other lines of text that logically go together from being separated.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Kerning manually To apply kerning between two characters, do one of the following things: • Choose Style > Kern and enter a value in the Kern Amount field. Click OK. • Use the Kern Amount controls in the Measurements palette. • Use one of the keyboard commands below.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Edit Hyphenation & Justification dialog box • Auto Hyphenation: Specify whether automatic hyphenation is allowed. • Smallest Word: Specify the minimum number of characters a word must contain to allow hyphenation. • Minimum Before: Specify the minimum number of characters before a hyphen. • Minimum After: Specify the minimum number of characters after a hyphen. • Break Capitalized Words: Specify whether hyphenation of capitalized words is allowed.
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 Controlling tracking Tracking lets you adjust the space between selected characters and words for copyfitting and typographic effects. Tracking values are expressed as 1/200 of an em 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.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Sending Sending lets you fix the distance between the left edges of successive character bounding boxes in horizontal text, or the top edges of successive character bounding boxes in vertical text. You can apply sending by selecting text and entering an explicit measurement (such as 2mm or 8q) in the Track Amount field in the Classic or Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Style Sheets dialog box to create, edit, and delete style sheets. To create a paragraph style sheet, choose Paragraph from the New drop-down button. The Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box displays. Use the controls in this dialog box to configure the attributes of the style sheet. Use the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box to configure a paragraph style sheet. A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 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 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. Creating and editing character style sheets A character style sheet is a named package of character attributes. You can apply all of a character style sheet's formatting attributes to text by simply applying the style sheet to the text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Next, choose character attributes from the lower section of the Edit Character Style Sheet dialog box. When you're done, click OK to return to the Style Sheets dialog box, then click Save to save the style sheet. After you save a character style sheet, it is listed in the Character Style Sheet submenu (Style menu) and also in the Style Sheets palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Apply Using Next Style: Applies style sheets using Next Style. • Apply Using Next Style & Retain Local Type Styles: Applies style sheets using Next Style, leaving local type styles (such as bold and italic) intact. • Apply Using Next Style & Retain Local Type Styles & OpenType Style: Applies style sheets using Next Style, leaving both local type styles (such as bold and italic) and OpenType type styles intact.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 1 Apply the Headline paragraph style sheet to the first paragraph. 2 Apply the Bold Body character style sheet to the first sentence of the second paragraph. 3 Apply the Body paragraph style sheet until you get to the end of the story. 4 When you get to the end, turn around and apply the Byline character style sheet backwards until you get to an em dash. Each step is executed only after the previous step executes, and at the point in the text where the previous step leaves off.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY It is important to understand that conditional styles are applied at the paragraph level. Each paragraph can have only one conditional style applied to it. If a paragraph does not have a conditional style applied to it, it cannot be reformatted by a conditional style that is applied to a different paragraph. It is also important to understand that when you apply a conditional style to a sequence of paragraphs, that conditional style affects only that series of paragraphs.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 6 Use the next three columns to indicate which text to style or jump over. Start with the third column: • Up To: Moves forward and stops immediately before the indicated point. • Through: Moves forward and stops immediately after the indicated point. • Backwards To: Moves backward and stops immediately before the indicated point. • Backwards Through: Moves backward and stops immediately after the indicated point.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • End of the Story: Choose this option to jump or format through the end of the story. • Beginning of the Story: Choose this option to jump or format backwards to the beginning of the story. When you use text as part of a conditional style, you can also use special characters (see "Special character codes") 9 To add a rule, click the + button at the end of the first row. (To delete a rule, click the button.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Conditional Styles palette 2 Select the Text Content tool and select the target paragraphs or place the text cursor where you want the conditional styling to begin. 3 Click the name of the conditional style in the Conditional Styles palette. Note that once you have applied a conditional style to text, that text will continue to be automatically formatted until you remove the conditional style.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Plain text with conditional style markers (highlighted in yellow) 2 Create a conditonal style that applies the Headline paragraph style sheet to the first paragraph and the Body style sheet until the next occurrence of a conditional style marker. At the bottom of the Edit Conditional Style dialog box, check Repeat Conditional Style At and select Conditional Style Marker. Conditional style that uses conditional style markers 3 Apply the conditional style to the text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 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 . To delete a conditional style, use the Delete button in the Conditional Styles dialog box or select the conditional style in the Conditional Styles palette and click Delete .
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY •/123 drop-down menu and indent buttons In addition to the settings in bullet, numbering, and outline styles, there is a paragraph attribute called Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text (Style > Formats > Formats tab). This value lets you handle situations where a left-aligned or center-aligned number is pushing into the paragraph. 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.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Relative (in Ems) option may be preferable when you will be using the bullet style with different-sized text. Bullet outset Alignment controls how the bullet aligns to the outset point. Left-aligned, center-aligned, and right-aligned bullets You can apply a bullet style in three ways: • By choosing the bullet style's name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Edit Numbering Style dialog box To control how the numbers are styled, choose an option from the Character Style drop-down menu. Choose Inherit from Paragraph to use the paragraph's character formatting for the numbers, or choose a character style sheet to use that character style sheet's formatting. Choose a number format from the Format drop-down menu. If you want prefix or suffix characters around the number, enter them in the Prefix and Suffix fields.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY To change the starting number of a paragraph, choose Style > Formats, check Restart Numbering, and enter a starting number in the Start At field. 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.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY This diagram illustrates the relationship between level indents and bullet outsets. Numbering outsets work the same way. The Include Lower Levels/Separator column lets you choose to append the numbers from lower levels to the beginning of a number, and to specify how the numbers from the various levels are separated. For example, if you check this box for level 3 and specify a period as the separator, the numbering for level-3 text might look like this: 1.3.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text field How the Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text value is applied There are two ways to apply an outline style to text: • Choose the outline style's name from the •/123 menu in the Paragraph Attributes tab of the Measurements palette. 142 | A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS 9.
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." Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets To associate a bullet, numbering, or outline style with a paragraph style sheet: 1 Display the Formats tab of the Edit Paragraph Style Sheet dialog box (Edit > Style Sheets > New or Edit). 2 Choose a bullet, numbering, or outline style from the •/123 drop-down menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 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 Specifying story direction You can position text so that it runs left-to-right and top-to-bottom or top-to-bottom and right-to-left. To specify a story direction, choose Style > Story Direction, and then choose Horizontal or Vertical. Controlling font usage To view and replace fonts, display the Fonts pane of the Usage dialog box (Utilities menu). This pane lists all fonts used in the active project.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Runaround is a great way to make a page visually distinctive. Running text around all sides of an item To run text around all sides of an item, select a text box with either the Text Content tool or the Item tool , display the Text tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu), and then check Run Text Around All Sides. Whether text runs around three sides or all sides of an item is determined by the text box, and not by the items that obstruct the text.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Choose Item to run text around an active text box. If the text box is rectangular, enter values in the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right fields to outset or inset the runaround area. If the text box is not rectangular, a single Outset field is provided. Running text around pictures Image editing applications can embed paths and alpha channels in an image. A path is a smooth Bézier shape, whereas an alpha channel is usually a grayscale image.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Runaround tab of Picture dialog box, showing runaround preview 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 (Style > Picture > Runaround), the following fields let you manipulate the runaround path: 1 Outset changes the size of the runaround path.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY You can also change the types of the runaround path's points and segments with the controls in the Measurements palette. To change a point from one type to another, use one of the following three buttons: • Symmetrical Point : A symmetrical point connects two curved lines to form a continuous curve. The result is similar to a smooth point, but the curve handles always rest on a straight line through the point and are always equidistant from the point.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY To apply drop caps to a selected paragraph, display the Formats tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box and check Drop Caps. To specify how many characters to use as drop caps, enter a value from 1 to 127 in the Character Count field. To specify the number of lines the characters are dropped, enter a value from 2 to 16 in the Line Count field. Drop caps are a great way to make text visually distinctive. Drop caps are measured by percentage rather than by points.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 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. To paste the anchored item elsewhere, place the Text Insertion bar in a different location and choose Edit > Paste. To delete an anchored item, select the item or insert the Text Insertion bar after it, and press Delete/Backspace.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY paragraph style sheets, click the arrow next to OpenType to display the styles, and then use the check boxes to apply styles. A check box that is unavailable or a drop-down menu option in brackets indicates an OpenType style that the current font does not support. OpenType styles available in the Character Attributes dialog box OpenType styles include the following: • Standard Ligatures: Apply ligatures that are designed to enhance readability and are in standard use.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Italics: Apply italic glyphs. • Fractions: Apply slashed fraction glyphs. • Swashes: Apply calligraphic glyphs. • Ordinals: Apply ordinal number glyphs. • Titling Alternates: Apply capital letter glyphs designed for titles at larger point sizes. • Contextual Alternates: Apply alternate glyph variations based on contextual juxtapositions of text. • Localized Forms: Replace default forms of glyphs with localized forms. • H\V Kana Alternates: Apply specially designed horizontal or vertic
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • To apply ligatures to selected text using the legacy method, check Enable Ligatures on the Character tab of the Measurements palette (Window menu) or check Ligatures in the Character Attributes dialog box (Style > Character). • To apply ligatures to selected text using the OpenType method, select text that uses an OpenType and then choose Standard Ligatures from the OpenType menu on the Classic or Character tab of the Measurements palette (Window menu).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY The Glyphs palette makes it easy to work with large character sets and professional-quality fonts. To view the glyphs in a font, display the Glyphs palette (Window menu) and choose a font from the Font menu in the upper-left corner.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Displaying invisible characters The Invisibles option (View menu) is always helpful when editing text or fine-tuning typography because it allows you to see common "invisible characters" such as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns. Inserting special characters There are all kinds of special characters for typographic and formatting purposes. You can enter such special characters using keyboard commands or choose them from the Utilities > Insert Character submenu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY the Hiragino font to that character. If the application cannot find an active font that contains the character, the character still displays as a box or symbol. Font Fallback is implemented as an application preference, meaning that the feature is either on or off for your copy of the program. The feature is on by default, but if you need to turn it off, uncheck Font Fallback in the Font Fallback pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences).
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY If you need to change, delete, or share font mapping rules, choose Utilities > Font Mapping. You can use the Fonts pane (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) to specify a default replacement font and to control whether the Missing Fonts alert displays when you open a project with missing fonts. For more information, see "Preferences — Application — Fonts.
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 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." 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.
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 Configuring a text box grid To configure a text box grid, Control+click/right-click the text box and choose Grid Settings. The Grid Settings dialog box displays. Grid Settings dialog box • 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.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Text Settings tab of the Grid Settings dialog box • Font Size: Enter a size to determine the height of each line in a design grid. This value also determines the full cell height and width. • Vertical Scaling: Enter a percentage value to adjust the height of each line in a design grid, based on the font size. • 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.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Baseline Position: Choose an option in this area to specify positioning for the baseline in the design grid. To specify the offset origin, click Place at, choose Topline, Center (Up), Center (Down), or Bottomline in the from the drop-down menu, and then enter a percentage value in the field to specify the baseline position relative to the topline, centerline, or bottomline. To read the offset origin from a font, click Read From Font and then select a font from the drop-down menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Use the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box to adjust grid settings for a master page. • Enter values in the Cells per line and Lines per page fields to change the number of cells and lines on a page. When you click Adjust Margins, changes to the Cells per line and Lines per page fields affect the Content Height and Content Width values. When you click Adjust Spacing, changes to the Cells per line and Lines per page fields affect the Leading and Sending values.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Click Adjust Spacing to adjust the Cells per line and Lines per page values based on your changes to the Line Space and Character Space fields. The Leading and Sending values update according to your changes. • Open Other Adjustments to access the Font Size, Offset, and Horizontal/Vertical scale controls. Changes to these values increase or decrease the Cells per line and Lines per page values.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY align perfectly, the increment bar displays 0. If the grid increments do not align perfectly with the box, an estimate of the fraction displays in the increment bar. • The Characters in Box field displays the number of characters that can fit in the active text box, based on the values in the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box. This field is not editable.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY • Check Show to display each type of grid line when the grid is displayed. • Click the Color box to specify a color for each grid line. • Choose a width from the Width drop-down menu. • Choose a style from the Syle drop-down menu. • Choose a cell shape from the Shape drop-down menu. • Master Guides & Grid dialog box only: To specify the master page grid boundaries, choose Within Margins, To Page, or Pasteboard from the Show Grid drop-down menu.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Select a grid style, style sheet, or master page in the Load Settings dialog box. 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.
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY Grid style with "Body Copy" style sheet loaded If you load a style sheet for a grid style, you can specify that future changes to the style sheet update the grid style automatically by checking Link to Paragraph Style Sheet
