2022

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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.
Working with shared content
If you’ve ever worked on a project where the same content needs to be
maintained identically in multiple places, you know there is a certain degree of
risk involved. What if the print version of a document is updated, but the digital
version is not? To address this problem, QuarkXPress includes the shared
content feature. This feature lets you link content that is used in different places
within a project file. If one copy of the content changes, the other copies are
immediately and automatically updated to reflect those changes.
For most synchronized items, QuarkXPress maintains a master version in an
invisible part of the project file called the shared content library. When you make
a change to any synchronized item in a layout, that change is written to the
master version in the shared content library, and then QuarkXPress
automatically updates all synchronized copies of that item in the project to
reflect the change. So if you update item A, item B gets updated automatically
via the master item in the shared content library — and if you update item B,
item A is updated the same way.
The shared content library can hold pictures, boxes, lines, formatted and
unformatted text, chains of text boxes, groups, and Composition Zones. When
you add something to the shared content library, you can control which aspects
of that content or item should be synchronized (kept the same in every instance)
and which aspects should not be synchronized.