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Installing profiles
If you acquire new profiles from manufacturers, and those profiles are not automatically
installed at the system level, you can drag them to the "Profiles" folder inside your
QuarkXPress application folder. The next time you launch QuarkXPress, the profiles will
be available in the relevant color management drop-down menus. Using the Profile
Manager dialog box (Utilities menu), you can specify a new profiles folder as well.
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). Similar to Picture Usage and Font Usage, the Profile Usage feature
lets you see where profiles are available in the layout and whether they're specified in
source/output setups or applied to pictures. For profiles applied to pictures, you can replace
one profile with another.
Working with drop shadows
A drop shadow is an item attribute, much like color, that you apply using the Drop Shadow
tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu) or the Measurements palette. You can create
drop shadows for items, frames, text, pictures, and more, depending on how the items are
formatted.
QuarkXPress lets you create automatic drop shadows.
To work with drop shadows, you must have DropShadow XTensions software loaded.
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