8.5
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- Projects and layouts
- Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with tables
- Drawing a table
- Converting text to tables
- Importing Excel tables
- Importing Excel charts
- Adding text and pictures to tables
- Editing table text
- Linking table cells
- Formatting tables
- Formatting gridlines
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Combining cells
- Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns
- Converting tables back to text
- Working with tables and groups
- Breaking a table manually
- Adding header and footer rows to tables
- Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
- Finding and changing text
- Checking spelling
- Applying character attributes
- Applying a font
- Choosing a font size
- Applying type styles
- Applying color, shade, and opacity
- Applying horizontal or vertical scale
- Applying baseline shift
- Applying emphasis
- Controlling half-width characters
- Counting characters
- Working with font sets
- Working with grouped characters
- Aligning characters on a line
- Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
- Controlling kerning
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
- Controlling tracking
- Working with style sheets
- Positioning text in text boxes
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
- Working with OpenType fonts
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
- Working with rubi text
- Working with hanging characters
- Working with mojigumi sets and classes
- Character mapping for legacy projects
- Pictures
- Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Understanding color
- Working with colors
- The Colors palette
- The Colors dialog box
- Creating a color
- Editing a color
- Duplicating a color
- Deleting a color
- Importing colors from another article or project
- Changing all instances of one color to another color
- Applying color, shade, and blends
- Applying color and shade to text
- Applying color and shade to lines
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Source setups and output setups
- The color management experience for users
- Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert
- Working in a legacy color management environment
- Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)
- Color management for experts
- Creating a source setup
- Creating an output setup
- Managing profiles
- Working with drop shadows
- Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating layers
- Selecting layers
- Showing and hiding layers
- Determining which layer an item is on
- Deleting layers
- Changing layer options
- Moving items to a different layer
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Layers and text runaround
- Duplicating layers
- Merging layers
- Locking items on layers
- Using master pages with layers
- Suppressing printout of layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
- Output
- Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
- Understanding Composition Zones
- Creating a Composition Zones item
- Placing a Composition Zones item
- Sharing a composition layout
- Sharing a composition layout for editing
- Sharing a composition layout from the Shared Content palette
- Sharing a composition layout from the layout
- Tracking a Composition Zones item for updates
- Linking to a composition layout in another project
- Editing a composition layout: Content
- Editing a composition layout: Attributes
- Recovering contents of an external composition layout
- Editing the contents of a single-project composition layout
- Unsynchronizing a composition layout
- Breaking the link to a composition layout
- Removing a linked composition layout
- Deleting a composition layout
- Using Collaboration Setup
- Interactive layouts
- Understanding Interactive layouts
- Creating interactive building blocks
- Creating a Presentation layout
- Creating an object
- Configuring an SWF object
- Configuring a Video object
- Working with Animation objects
- Working with Button objects
- Image Sequence layouts, Button layouts, and Shared Content
- Working with menus
- Configuring a Window object
- Configuring a Text Box object
- Working with transitions
- Working with pages in Interactive layouts
- Working with keyboard commands
- Configuring Interactive preferences
- Working with actions
- Working with events
- Working with scripts
- Previewing and exporting Interactive layouts
- Working with expressions
- Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
- Working with Output Specifications
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
- Web layouts
- Working with Web layouts
- Hyperlinks
- Creating a destination
- Creating an anchor
- Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination
- Creating a hyperlink from scratch
- Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette
- Formatting hyperlinks
- Editing and deleting destinations
- Editing and deleting anchors
- Editing and deleting hyperlinks
- Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette
- Rollovers
- Image maps
- Forms
- Menus
- Tables in Web layouts
- Meta tags
- Previewing Web pages
- Exporting Web pages
- Working with multiple languages
- XTensions software
- Working with XTensions modules
- Custom Bleeds XTensions software
- DejaVu XTensions software
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Full Resolution Preview XTensions software
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
- HTML Text Import XTensions software
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Item Styles XTensions software
- OPI XTensions software
- PDF Filter XTensions software
- Scale XTensions software
- Scissors XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
- Shape of Things XTensions software
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
- Table Import XTensions software
- Type Tricks
- Word 6–2000 Filter
- WordPerfect Filter
- XSLT Export XTensions software
- Other XTensions modules
- Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Undo
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Sharing
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — File List
- Preferences — Application — Default Path
- Preferences — Application — EPS
- Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview
- Preferences — Application — Browsers
- Preferences — Application — Index
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — PSD Import
- Preferences — Application — Placeholders
- Preferences — Application — SpellCheck
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Preferences — Application — Picture Effects
- Project preferences
- Layout preferences
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Tools
- Preferences — Layout — Trapping
- Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Preferences — Layout — Presentation
- Preferences — Layout — SWF
- Legal notices
- Index
With these three grouped items, compare individual item opacity to group opacity. At left,
each item is 50% opaque — the items in front compose against the items behind them. At
right, each item's opacity is 100% while the group's opacity is 50% — the entire group composes
against the background. The items in the group, however, could have individual opacities in
addition to the group opacity.
Creating blends with transparency
You can blend a color with None rather than just with white. Simply choose None for the
first or second color in a blend in the Colors palette or the Box tab of the Modify dialog
box (Item menu).
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.
Source setups and output setups
The color management implementation in QuarkXPress allows color experts to create and
fine-tune "packages" of color management settings called source setups and output setups.
The source setups individually specify profiles and rendering intents for solid colors and
images in RGB, CMYK, LAB, and grayscale color spaces; specify source color spaces for
named colors; and indicate underlying color spaces for inks. The output setups specify
output profiles and color models, and configure proofing options for simulating different
types of output on screen.
The color management experience for users
You have many options for how you work: You can work with proven default settings,
implement source setups and output setups from a color expert, or work within a legacy
color management environment.
Working in the default color management environment
The default settings are designed to provide accurate previews and excellent output in the
majority of situations. You do not need to set anything, but if you want to look at the
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