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Contents About this Guide 1 What we’re assuming about you 1 Where to go for help 1 Conventions 1 Technology note 2 The User Interface 4 Tools 5 Tool key commands 8 Scissors tool 8 Starburst tool 9 ShapeMaker tools 9 Using the Star tool 10 Default star settings 11 Using the Polygon tool 12 Default polygon settings 13 Using the Rounded Rectangle tool 14 Default rounded rectangle settings 15 Using the Diamond tool 17 Default diamond settings 18 Using the Triangle tool 19
Menus 29 QuarkXPress menu (macOS only) 29 File menu 30 Edit menu 31 Style menu 33 Style menu for text 33 Style menu for pictures 35 Style menu for lines 36 Item menu 37 Page menu 38 Layout menu 39 Table menu 40 View menu 41 Utilities menu 42 Window menu 45 Help menu 47 Context menus 48 Palettes 48 Articles palette 50 Advanced Image Control palette 50 Books palette 50 Callout Styles palette 51 Colors palette 51 Conditional Styles palette 52 Content palette 52
Glyphs palette 57 Gradients palette 58 Grid Styles palette 58 Guides palette 59 HTML5 Palette 59 Hyperlinks palette 59 Image Editing palette 59 Index palette 60 Item Styles palette 60 JavaScript palette 61 JavaScript Debugger palette 61 Layers palette 62 Lists palette 62 Measurements palette 63 Vertical Measurement palette (macOS only) 67 Page Layout palette 71 Profile Information palette 71 Redline palette 72 Scale palette 72 Style Sheets palette 72 Table Styles palet
Using Story Editor view 79 View sets 80 Projects and Layouts 83 Long Document Support 83 Working with projects 83 Options for Print layouts 84 Layout Level Bleed 85 Creating a project from an IDML file 91 Convert InDesign files to QuarkXPress Projects 91 IDML integration with Bleed 97 Saving and naming a QuarkXPress project 97 Exporting layouts and projects 97 Custom page size 97 Working with layouts 99 Project-level and layout-level resources 100 Project-level resources 101 La
Content Variables 113 Edit content variables 114 Create a custom content variable 116 Picture Content Variable 117 Insert a content variable 118 Boxes, Lines, and Tables 119 Understanding items and content 119 Understanding handles 120 Item handles 120 Picture handles 120 Understanding Bézier shapes 121 Drop Shadows 124 Item Find/Change 125 Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Find/Change 127 Working with boxes 127 Creating text and picture boxes Creating Bézier boxes
Changing box type 136 Creating a box from a clipping path 137 Copying attributes from one box to another 137 Super Step and Repeat 137 Using Super Step and Repeat ShapeMaker 138 139 ShapeMaker Waves tab 139 ShapeMaker Polygons tab 140 ShapeMaker Spirals tab 142 ShapeMaker Rectangles tab 143 Working with lines 144 Creating lines 144 Creating Bézier lines 144 Line modes for orthogonal lines 145 Resizing lines 146 Reshaping lines 146 Controlling line appearance 146 Joining lines
Skewing items 152 Locking and unlocking items 153 Anchoring items and groups in text 153 Working with callouts 153 Understanding callouts 154 Creating a callout 156 Configuring a callout anchor 157 Working with callout styles 158 Callouts and runaround 158 Working with tables 159 Drawing a table 159 Converting text to tables 160 New Table Model with Table Styles 162 Easy access to table formatting features directly from the measurements palette 170 Added Features 170 Importing Exc
Improved Integration with Master Pages 181 Use Tables as Anchors 181 Text and Typography 185 Editing text 185 Preference for Defining Paste Behavior from External Applications 185 Fit Box to Text feature 186 Importing and exporting text 187 Word Filter 189 Finding and changing text 190 Special character codes 191 Working with footnotes and endnotes 193 Inserting footnotes and endnotes 193 Footnote/Endnote styles 195 Footnote separators 197 Export Endnotes as Hyperlinks 200 Conve
Font Management in QuarkXPress Why Do You Need to Manage Your Fonts? 218 218 Font Management in QuarkXPress is classified into 3 sub-categories: 218 Choosing a font size 223 Applying type styles 224 Applying color, shade, and opacity 224 Applying horizontal or vertical scale 224 Applying baseline shift 224 Applying emphasis value 225 Applying text stroke 225 Stroke support for Indic 226 Controlling half-width characters 228 Working with font sets 229 Applying multiple character attribut
Controlling kerning 255 Kerning manually 256 Kerning automatically 256 Controlling hyphenation and justification 256 Specifying hyphenation exceptions 261 Hyphenation exception files 261 Importing hyphenation exception files 262 Exporting hyphenation exception files 264 Job Jackets with hyphenation exceptions 264 Job Tickets and hyphenation exceptions 266 Synchronization between hyphenation exception files and layouts 267 Integrating with Quark Publishing Platform Synchronization of hyphena
Editing a conditional style Bullets and numbering 286 286 Quick access to Bullets & Numbering 287 Working with bullet styles 287 Working with numbering styles 289 Greek and Russian Numbering Formats 290 Working with outline styles 291 Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets 294 Positioning text in text boxes 296 Using baseline grid 296 Aligning text vertically 297 Specifying text inset 297 Specifying story direction 297 Controlling font usage 298 Converting text to boxes 29
Working with OpenType Styles 306 Applying OpenType styles 308 Using ligatures 312 Ligature preferences Working with OpenType Stylistic Sets 312 312 Working with Color Fonts 313 Working with the Glyphs palette 314 Displaying invisible characters 317 Inserting special characters 317 Inserting spaces 318 Inserting other special characters 318 Specifying character language 318 Using font fallback 318 Working with font mapping rules 319 Working with design grids 320 Understanding desi
Applying a grid style to a text box Using design grids 337 338 Using a master page grid 338 Locking text to a grid 338 Snapping items to design grids 338 Aligning grids 339 Working with rubi text 339 Text tab 340 Character Attributes tab 341 Rubi alignment options 342 Mono rubi 344 Rubi base alignment options 345 Rubi overhang options 347 Working with hanging characters 348 Creating hanging character classes 350 Creating hanging character sets 351 Applying hanging character set
Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters 358 Mapping for projects that use custom characters 359 Type Tricks 360 Make Fraction 360 Make Price 360 Word Space Tracking 361 Line Check 361 Custom Underline 362 Hyperlinks 362 Destinations 363 Anchors 364 Creating a destination 364 Creating an anchor 365 Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination 365 Creating a hyperlink from scratch 365 Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette 366 Formatting hyperlinks 366 Editing
Indic text input 374 Indic text deletion 375 OpenType features 375 Spell Check 376 Hyphenation 376 Drop Caps 378 Find/ Change 379 Enhanced Glyph palette support 379 Font grouping, Font fallback, Font Locking, Language locking 380 Kerning/ Tracking 382 Support for Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner 383 Pictures 385 Working with pictures 385 Importing a picture 385 On-Canvas Picture Status 386 Stock Images 386 Using Stock Images 386 Add Images 387 Favorite Images
Cropping pictures 404 Rotating and skewing pictures 404 Coloring and shading pictures 404 Flipping pictures 405 Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures 405 Specifying background colors for pictures 405 Maintaining picture attributes 406 Editing the raster image 406 Filters 408 Adjustments 410 Blend Mode 412 Opacity 412 Working with clipping paths 412 Creating clipping paths 413 Using embedded clipping paths 414 Manipulating clipping paths 414 Creating special effe
Printing PSD pictures 419 Improvements in EPS Images 419 Support of SVG format Images* 419 Cross references 422 Inserting a cross reference 422 Synchronizing cross references 424 Color, Opacity, and Drop Shadows 426 Working with colors 426 The Colors palette 426 The Colors dialog box 427 Creating a color 427 Auto Color Name 428 Creating gradients 428 Editing a color 431 Editing of the Colors 432 Duplicating a color 432 Deleting a color 432 Adding colors using the color pick
Source setups and output setups 442 The color management experience for users 442 Working in the default color management environment 443 Specifying a monitor profile 443 Specifying a source setup 443 Specifying a default proof output setup 443 Specifying a rendering intent 443 Color managing multi-color-space EPS and PDF pictures 443 Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert 444 Appending source setups 444 Importing output setups 444 Selecting source setups and o
Custom Bleeds 452 Large Pasteboard Integration with Bleed 452 Using Custom Bleeds 453 Using Clip at Bleed Edge 453 Item Styles 455 Creating Item Styles 455 Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Styles 457 Using the Item Styles palette 457 Integration of Auto Grow Text Boxes in Item Styles 458 Integration of Heterogeneous Borders in Item Styles 459 Checking Item Style usage 460 DejaVu (Windows only) 462 Default Path 463 Redline 464 Tracking changes 464 Viewing tracked ch
Working with layers 478 Understanding layers 479 Creating layers 480 Selecting layers 480 Showing and hiding layers 480 Determining which layer an item is on 481 Deleting layers 481 Changing layer options 482 Moving items to a different layer 483 Copying and pasting items between layers 483 Changing the stacking order of layers 484 Layers and text runaround 484 Duplicating layers 485 Merging layers 485 Locking items on layers 486 Using master pages with layers 486 Suppressing
Specifying the index marker color 496 Creating index entries 497 Creating a first-level index entry 497 Creating a second-, third-, or fourth-level index entry 498 Creating cross-references 499 Creating a cross-reference for a new index entry 499 Creating a cross-reference for an existing index entry 499 Editing an index entry 500 Deleting an index entry 500 Specifying the punctuation used in an index 501 Building an index 502 Editing final indexes 503 Nonprinting text in an index 503
Synchronizing specifications 509 Printing chapters 510 Generate a PDF from a Book 511 Convert a Book to an ePub 513 Convert a Book to a Project 513 Creating indexes and tables of contents for books 514 Indexes for books 514 Lists for books 515 Book Enhancements 515 Enhanced Index support in Book 515 Bookmarks support in Book 515 Working with libraries 516 Creating libraries 516 Adding library entries 517 Retrieving library entries 517 Manipulating library entries 517 Working w
Linkster functionality 532 Legacy Document Converter 535 QuarkXPress Document Converter 544 Output 545 Printing layouts 545 Updating picture paths 545 Setting Print dialog box controls 545 Print dialog box 547 Device pane 547 Pages pane 548 Pictures pane 548 Fonts pane 549 Color pane 550 Registration Marks pane 550 Layers pane 550 Bleed pane 550 Transparency pane 551 JDF pane 552 Advanced pane 552 Summary pane 552 Page preview area 552 Printing color separations 55
PDF/A Export enhancement 560 Creating a PostScript file 561 Exporting a layout as an image 561 Using Collect for Output 565 Working with output styles 566 App Studio output styles 567 HTML5 Publication output styles 569 Working with trapping 571 Understanding flattening and production issues 571 PDF 571 Importing a PDF File into a Picture Box 572 Reducing PDF Size 573 Faster PDF Export 574 Default PDF Style 574 Compress Stream Objects 575 Create QuarkXPress Project from PDF(Open
Creating a Composition Zones item from a layout 592 Creating a Composition Zones item with the Composition Zones tool 593 Placing a Composition Zones item 593 Managing multiple pages in a placed Composition Zones item 594 Editing the attributes of a Composition Zones item 594 Converting a Composition Zones item to a picture 595 Unsynchronizing a Composition Zones item 595 Editing a composition layout: Content 595 Editing the contents of a composition layout 596 Unsynchronizing a compositio
Job Tickets and Job Ticket templates 603 Linked and embedded Job Jackets 604 Sample Job Jackets workflow Working with Job Jackets 605 606 Basic mode and Advanced mode 607 Creating Job Jackets files 608 Creating a Job Jackets file: Basic mode (Windows only) 609 Creating a Job Jackets file: Advanced mode 611 Adding Resources to a Job Jackets file: Advanced mode 611 Working with Job Tickets Creating a Job Ticket template 612 612 Creating a Job Ticket template: Basic mode (Windows only) 613 Edit
Accessing Resources: Advanced mode 624 Configuring Resources: Advanced mode 625 Specifying the location of Resources: Advanced mode 626 Working with Layout Specifications 627 Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode 627 Applying a Layout Specification to a layout 628 Working with Rules and Rule Sets 630 Creating Rules: Advanced mode 631 Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode 633 Applying a Rule Set to a layout 634 Evaluating a layout 636 Job Jackets locking 638 Printing with JDF
Saving submenu 646 Special submenu 647 Stories submenu 647 Tables submenu 647 Typography submenu 648 Preferences 649 Understanding preferences 649 Nonmatching Preferences alert 649 Changes to QuarkXPress preferences 650 What’s in the preferences files 650 Group A 650 Group B 651 Group C 651 Application preferences 652 Preferences — Application — Display 652 Preferences — Application — Color Theme 653 Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts 653 Preferences — Application — I
Preferences — Application — Default Path 661 Preferences — Application — Index 661 Preferences — Application — Job Jackets 662 Preferences — Application — Notes 663 Preferences — Application — PDF 663 Preferences — Application — Redline 663 Preferences — Application — Spell-Check 664 Preferences — Application — Tables 665 Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price 665 Project preferences Preferences — Project — General Layout preferences 665 665 666 Preferences — Layout — General 666 P
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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.
● 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.” ● Icons: Although many tools and buttons are referenced by name, which you can see by displaying ToolTips, in some cases icons are shown for easy identification. For example, “Click the button on the Measurements palette to center text.” ● Cross-platform issues: This application is quite consistent across operating systems.
QuarkXTensions® (Quark® XTensions software) also provides a modular approach for meeting your particular publishing needs. And if you can write AppleScript® or JavaScript® scripts, you can use this scripting language from Apple® and JavaScript® to automate many QuarkXPress activities.
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.
Tools The Tools palette includes the following controls: User Guide | 5
● 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. ● Use the Text Unlinking tool to unlink text boxes.
● Use the Remove Point tool ● Use the Convert Point tool to automatically convert corner points to curve points, and curve points to corner points. Click and drag to change the position of a point, the curve of a curved line segment, or the position of a straight line segment. Select this tool and click a rectangular box or straight line to convert the item to a Bézier box or line. ● Use the Scissors tool ● Use the Select Point tool to select curves or points so that you can move them or delete them.
Tool key commands When no text box or text path is active, you can switch tools quickly using the following key commands: Tool Windows Mac OS X Item tool V V Text Content tool T T Text Linking tool T N Text Unlinking tool T N Picture Content tool R R 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 Conver
1 Select the Scissors tool . ● When a picture box is cut, it is converted to a Bézier line. As a result, the contents of the box are not retained after the cut is made. ● When a text box is cut, it is converted to a text path. ● When a text path is cut, it is converted into two linked text paths. 2 Select the Select Point tool and click and drag the point to adjust it. Starburst tool Use the Starburst tool to quickly and easily create star-shaped boxes.
Press the m key to toggle through the different shape tools. You can also access the ShapeMaker tools by selecting Utilities > ShapeMaker. See “ShapeMaker”. Using the Star tool To create a star shape in two ways: 1 Select the Star tool , position the crosshair pointer star and then click and drag. where you want the 2 Select the Star tool , position the crosshair pointer and click once.
Default star settings To edit the default star settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Star tool. The Edit Star Settings dialog displays: Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: ● 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.
Once you have defined the default attributes, you can click the Add Preset button to save this customized shape to use later. To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. Using the Polygon tool To create a polygon shape in two ways.: 1 Select the Polygon tool , position the crosshair pointer the polygon and then click and drag. where you want 2 Select the Polygon tool , position the crosshair pointer where you want the polygon and click once.
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 Edit Polygon Settings dialog displays: 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.
● 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. ● Width, Height, Columns, and Gutters: Specifies the box attributes. To revert to the default shape, click the Reset button .
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 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.
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. ● Use the drop-down menus to specify a corner type (Normal, Rounded, Beveled, Concave, Pointed, or Inset) and a diameter (for options that involve a diameter). ● Curvature: Controls how curved the corners are if you select an option that includes curvature.
To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. Using the Diamond tool To create a diamond shape in two ways: 1 Select the Diamond tool , position the crosshair pointer the diamond and then click and drag. where you want 2 Select the Diamond tool , position the crosshair pointer where you want the diamond and click once.
Default diamond settings To edit the default diamond settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Diamond tool. The Edit Diamond Settings dialog displays: Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: ● Edges: Specify the shape the edges of the diamond will be (Flat, Concave, Convex, Outer Swirl, Inner Swirl, Opposite Swirl, or Tandem Swirl).
● 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. ● Width, Height, Columns, and Gutters: Specifies the box attributes. To revert to the default shape, click the Reset button . Once you have defined the default attributes, you can click the Add Preset button to save this customized shape to use later.
● 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.
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. ● 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.
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 wave settings To edit the default wave settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Wave tool.
Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: ● 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. ● 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.
To delete a predefined shape, hold down the Alt/Option key while selecting it from the list. Using the Spiral tool To create a spiral shape in two ways: 1 Select the Spiral tool , position the crosshair pointer spiral and then click and drag. where you want the 2 Select the Spiral tool , position the crosshair pointer where you want the spiral and click once.
Default spiral settings To edit the default spiral settings that will automatically be applied when using this tool, double-click the Spiral tool. The Edit Spiral Settings dialog displays: Specify the default settings that will be applied when using this tool: ● Type: Choose what type of spiral to create from the drop-down menu. ● Archimedes: an evenly spaced circular spiral. ● Golden Spiral: a spiral built with the golden ratio. ● Custom: this makes the Winds field available.
● 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 harder-edged shape by lowering the Segments value and decreasing the Smoothness value. ● Clockwise and Counterclockwise: Lets you control the direction of the spiral. ● 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.
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.
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. If you choose one of the Swirl options, you can indicate the direction of the swirl with the Orientation controls.
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.
● Quark Update Settings: Use this command to configure automatic update settings. ● Preferences: Lets you modify default values and settings. For more information, see “Preferences.” ● Quit QuarkXPress: Use this command to exit the application. 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.
● Export As: Use this option to export a layout as PDF, EPS, JPEG/PNG/TIFF, HTML5 Publication, iOS App, Android App, or ePub. ● Collect for Output: Use this option to collect the layout/s, fonts, images, profiles, output report, etc. into a folder. Collect for output can be performed on all layouts in the project. ● Job Jackets: Use this submenu to access the specifications and rules for creating and inspecting a layout, link a project to a Job Jackets file, modify a Job Ticket, and evaluate a layout.
● Item Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete item definitions that you can apply to QuarkXPress items with the Item Styles palette (Window menu). ● Callout Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete callout styles. For more information, see “Boxes, Lines, and Tables.” ● Conditional Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete conditional styles. For more information, see “Text and Typography.” ● Bullet, Numbering, and Outline Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete bullet, numbering, and outline styles.
● This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East Asian). Non-Breaking Character Sets: Lets you add, edit, and delete rules for twobyte character sets. This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East Asian). ● Kerning Pairs: Lets you control kerning for installed fonts.
● ● ● Story Direction: Lets you specify horizontal or vertical story direction for the selected text box. This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East Asian). Rubi: Lets you control rubi characters applied to text. This feature is considered an East Asian feature and is only available when you have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences > East Asian).
● Flip Text Vertical: Lets you flip selected text vertically. ● Cross Reference: Lets you insert and synchronize cross references. ● Hyperlink: Lets you modify and apply a hyperlink, page link, or anchor to selected text. ● Anchor: Lets you create or modify an anchor for selected text. ● Remove Manual Kerning : Lets you remove all manual kerning applied between characters. Style menu for pictures The Style menu for pictures includes commands for formatting and editing pictures.
● 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. ● Scale Picture To Fill Box: Reduces or enlarges the selected picture horizontally or vertically to fill its picture box. In case, the aspect ratio of the picture and its box is not same, the picture may be cropped. ● Reset Picture: Resets the picture in the active picture component to its default scale, skew, and rotation.
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.
● Edit: Lets you modify item shape, runaround, or clipping path. ● Flip Shape: Lets you flip a Bézier shape in its frame either vertically or horizontally. ● Share: Lets you access sharing properties of an item and synchronize or reuse content such as text, pictures, boxes, lines, and Composition Zones. ● Unsynchronize Size: Removes synchronization of a single instance of the item without affecting other occurrences of that item (or the synchronization attributes).
● Next: Navigates to the following page. ● First: Navigates to the first page. ● Last: Navigates to the last page. ● Go to: Lets you navigate to a particular page. ● Display: Lets you display a page or a master page. 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.
Table menu The Table menu includes commands for adding rows and columns to tables, modifying table attributes, converting tables, and more. ● Create Table From External Source: Lets you import text content from an Excel file along with its formatting. ● Insert: Lets you add a row or column to a table. ● Select: Lets you select a pattern of rows and columns or other table elements. This makes it easy to apply alternating formatting — such as shading every other row.
View menu The View menu provides options for viewing your document and specifying what you see on screen when the menu item is checked. This menu includes the following commands: ● Fit in Window: Automatically scales the view to fit (and center) an entire page in the layout window. ● 50%: Scales the layout view to 50%. ● 75%: Scales the layout view to 75%. ● Actual Size: Scales the layout view to 100%. ● 200%: Scales the layout view to 200%.
● Ruler Direction: Lets you position page rulers on the top and left or top and right edges of the layout window. ● Hide Tab Ruler: Lets you control the appearance of Tab ruler. By default, the Tab ruler will be displayed. It is a layout level setting. The setting will be saved with the document. ● Invisibles: Displays editable, nonprinting characters such as spaces, tabs, and paragraph returns in text.
● Check Spelling: Use the submenu to display the Check Spelling palette to check the spelling of a word, a selection of text, a story, a layout, or all master pages in a layout. Auxiliary Dictionary and Edit Auxiliary are also part of Check Spelling submenu. ● Check Spelling: Use the submenu to display the Check Spelling palette to check the spelling of a word, a selection of text, a component, or an article.
● 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. ● Build Index: Lets you create an index from the contents of the Index palette. ● Cloner: Displays the Cloner dialog box. For more information, see “Cloner functionality.” ● ImageGrid: Displays the ImageGrid dialog box.
folder. When you call the QR Code dialog again, the data behind the QR code will be shown. ● 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.
● Content: Displays and hides the Content palette. ● Content Managemennt: Displays ad hides the Contet Management. ● Content Variables: Displays and hides the Content Variables palette. ● Flex Layout Blocks: Displays and hides the Flex Layout Blocks palette. For more information, see Getting Started with Flex Layouts. ● Flex Object Browser: Displays and hides the Flex Object Browser palette. For more information, see Getting Started with Flex Layouts.
● Style Sheets: Displays and hides the Style Sheets palette. ● Table Styles: Displays and hides the Table Styles palette. ● Text Shading Styles: Displays and hides the Text Shading Styles palette. ● Tools: Displays and hides the Tools palette. ● Welcome Screen: Displays the Welcome screen. In addition, this menu includes an item for every open window. You can use these menu items to easily switch between windows. Help menu The Help menu provides access to the online help.
● Deactivate QuarkXPress (Windows only): Use this command to deactivate QuarkXPress on your computer. Available only when QuarkXPress is running in an activated state. ● Check for Updates (Windows only): Use this command to check for updates to QuarkXPress. ● Quark Update Settings (Windows only): Use this command to configure automatic update settings. ● End User License Agreement (Mac only): Use this command to access the End User License Agreement.
Measuring Unit Type Arrow Keys (up/down) Arrow keys (up/down) with Alt key Arrow keys (up/down) with Shift key Centimeters 1 cm 1 mm 5 cms Ciceros 1 cicero First decimal unit by 1 5 cicero Degrees 10 degrees 1 degree 25 degrees Inches .25 inch .1 inch 1 inch Inches Decimal 1 inch decimal No change No change Picas 1 pica 1 pica point 5 picas Millimeters 1 mm No change 10 mm Points 1 pt .
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.
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.
Conditional Styles palette The Conditional Styles palette lets you work with conditional styles. For more information, see “Working with conditional styles.” Content palette The Content palette provides access to items in the shared content library. From this palette, you can duplicate and synchronize that content across different layouts. The buttons at the top of this palette let you add, import, insert, edit, and control the synchronization of content.
Flex Layout Blocks The Flex Layout Blocks palette consists of ready made out of the box responsive components or mini layouts to quickly build your web publications.
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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.
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.
Users can also insert footnotes and switch between footnotes and the reference text using the Style > Footnotes/Endnotes menu item. For more information, see “Text and Typography.” 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.
Gradients palette The Gradients palette lets you define and apply multi-color gradients. For more information, see “Creating gradients.” 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.
Guides palette The Guides palette lets you work with guides. For more information, see “Using the Guides palette.” HTML5 Palette The HTML5 palette lets you create and configure movies, slideshows, buttons, and more for Digital layouts. For more information on creating a Digital layout, see Digital Publishing with QuarkXPress. Hyperlinks palette The Hyperlinks palette lets you add and edit hyperlinks in your document. For more information, see “Hyperlinks.
The Image Editing palette. Index palette The Index palette lets you tag text for indexing. When you create an index, all of the tags you created with the Index palette are automatically turned into a customizable index. For more information, see “Working with indexes.” 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 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 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.
The Build button lets you insert the active list into the active text chain. If the list already exists in the story, you can update it rather than inserting another copy. The Format As style sheets for the list are applied automatically. The Lists palette lets you create things like tables of contents Measurements palette With the Measurements palette (Window menu), you can quickly edit many commonly used controls. Options in the Measurements palette change to reflect the selected tool or item.
Home tab ● Character tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the character attributes of the currently selected text. Character tab ● Paragraph tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the paragraph attributes of the currently selected text box. Paragraph tab ● Rules tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the rules attributes of the currently selected text box. Rules tab ● Tabs tab: Contains controls allowing you to set up the tabs in the currently selected text box.
● Clipping tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the clipping attributes of the currently selected picture box. Clipping tab ● Border tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the border attributes of the currently selected box. Border tab ● Runaround tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the runaround attributes of the currently selected object. Displays differently for text boxes, picture boxes, and lines.
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. Composition Zone tab ● Table tab: Contains controls allowing you to set the table attributes of the currently selected table.
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. With this option, you can keep the most frequently used groups open and keep the remaining collapsed, to avoid having to scroll the palette when working on smaller/standard screens.
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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 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.
The Profile Information palette lets you precisely control color management settings for pictures. Redline palette The Redline palette allows you to setup the tracking of changes in your projects. For more information, see “Redline.” 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.
The Style Sheets palette lets you view and apply paragraph and character style sheets. Table Styles palette The Table Styles palette allows you to add, edit, and delete new table styles and consists of a preset area for predefined table styles.
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. 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.
This palette group shows the Colors, Style Sheets and Text Shading Styles palettes attached as one, which economizes space while providing easy access to functions. (Windows only) 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.
Using palette sets The Palette Sets feature lets you store and recall the position and status of all open palettes and libraries, so that you can easily switch between different palette configurations. To create a palette set, first display all the palettes you will need for a particular task and hide all other palettes. Then choose Window > Palette Sets > Save Palette Set As to display the Save Palette Set As dialog box, enter a name, and optionally assign a key command.
6 View Master Page: Switch back and forth between the active layout page and its master page. 7 Split Screen Horizontal: View the layout in two or more separate panes one above the other. 8 Split Screen Vertical: View the layout in two or more separate panes side by side. 9 Export: Display the same export options that are available when you choose File > Export. 10 Preview HTML5 Publication: Click this icon to generate a preview of your content as an HTML5 Publication.
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.
same font, the text fills 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.
● View > Visual Indicators ● View > Invisibles ● View > Trim View ● View > Hide Suppressed 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 is turned on.
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.
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 10,000 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.
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.
By default, tabs display at the top of the project window for each of the layouts in a project. To prevent these tabs from displaying, check Single Layout Mode. (You can still add layouts to a project, but this will turn off the Single Layout mode.) The controls in the Page area let you set the page size and orientation for the default layout. To use custom page sizes see the information in “Custom page size.” The Facing Pages check box lets you create spreads.
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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.
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.
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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. Choose New > Project from IDML 2.
You can open IDML files through File menu > Open Dialog in QuarkXPress and also open INDD files through File menu > Open Dialog in QuarkXPress. Bulk Conversion of InDesign Files to QuarkXPress Projects You can convert your InDesign files (both IDML and INDD) seamlessly to QuarkXPress projects. There are multiple options to automatically search InDesign files by running a Smart Scan for Bulk conversion or you can Browse individual files for conversion. You can also select/deselect individual files for conversion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
● Some continued or long table’s content might be displayed overflown. ● Some features in InDesign for Row, Stroke, Fill (Skip First, Skip Last, Alternate Row & Column) are not mapped. Import Object Name for InDesign Files Object Names are retained on importing InDesign Files in QuarkXPress. IDML integration with Bleed Layout level bleed values can be imported from InDesign Files in QuarkXPress. This will consist of setting the bleed values and asymmetric and symmetric bleed.
2 Choose either Print or Digital from the Layout Type drop-down menu. 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. To edit a custom page size, select it from the list and redefine the Width and Height fields. 5 Click OK.
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. User can duplicate a Print layout into a Digital layout or a Digital layout into a Print layout, by choosing Digital or Print as the layout type. (For more information, see Digital Publishing with QuarkXPress.
Project-level resources Project-level resources can be used by every layout in the project, and they are the same in every layout where they are used. Project-level resources include application preferences, style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, and dashes and stripes. 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.
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.
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.
Large Pasteboard Preferences Layout Bleed is also incorporated with the large pasteboard size and the bleed values will be honored along with the pasteboard length. The default value for min and max is set to 0.5” and 106.5” as per the Letter size layout. Whenever the specified pasteboard length exceeds the max spread height, max possible height will be used (i.e., Page Height + Bleed + Pasteboard length should not exceed 225”).
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).
● To remove all ruler guides from a page, scroll until a portion of the page displays, then press Option/Alt and drag the guide back on to the ruler. ● 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.
● Select Align to Edges of Item to display guide lines that are generated when the edges of items are aligned with the edges of other items. These are generated when you create and move items. ● Select Align to Center of Page to display guide lines that are generated when the edges or center of items are aligned with the center of the page. These are generated when you create and move items.
In Windows, use the Dynamic Guides Color pane of the Preferences dialog box to specify a color for each type of dynamic guide. See “Preferences - Application Dynamic Guides Color.” In Mac OS X you set the color for the dynamic guides using the Color Theme pane of the Preferences dialog box. See “Preferences Application - Color Theme.” Undoing and redoing actions The Undo command (Edit menu) reverses the last action performed on an item.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. For example, if you want to refer to a company name across a document consistently and want to make any changes to it in one go, this variable can be useful.
● Last Page Number: This variable inserts the last page number of the current project into the document. The Last Page Number type is useful for adding the total number of pages in a document to headers and footers using the common Page 3 of 12 format. In this case, the number 12 is generated by the Last Page Number, and is updated whenever pages are added or removed. From the Scope drop-down menu, choose an option to determine whether the last page number in the section or layout is used.
Create a custom content variable In addition to the existing preset content variables offered by QuarkXPress, you can also create custom content variables to use in your projects. Custom variables are great if you want to use text content somewhere within a text story and the same content in a different story or at a different place. When you change the content of the custom variable, it is changed everywhere where used.
6 Click OK. After you have added a custom content variable, it will be listed in the Utilities > Content Variable drop-down menu and also in the Content Variables palette (Window > Content Variables). The new variable will be available when you attempt to insert a content variable into the text. Picture Content Variable Users can now create a Picture Variable from Content Variables Palette or Content Variable Menu by selecting any Image.
Picture Variable inserted in a Picture Box The picture variable can be edited by replacing existing Image with any new image through content variable palette. Any changes to the content variable will also update the picture in all the picture boxes associated with this picture content variable. Users can Duplicate or Delete this Picture Variable from Content Variable Palette or Content Variable Menu.
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. Understanding items and content QuarkXPress works on the concept of items (containers) and content (things that go inside of items).
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. The mouse pointer changes when you move it over or near a handle to indicate which action you can perform: You can use item handles to resize or rotate an item.
You can use picture content handles to resize or rotate a picture without changing the size or angle of its picture box. ● Resize pointers: ● Rotation pointers: 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.
Examples of corner points 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.
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.
● To move a point or change the shape of a line segment while working with the Bézier Pen tool , Command+drag/Ctrl+drag the point or line segment. ● 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.
● Inherit Item’s Opacity: Check this to have the drop shadow reflect different opacities in the item, such as differences in the box background and border. ● Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow: Check this to prevent a shadow from displaying through semi-opaque areas of an item — to keep a shadow from peeping through its box, for example. ● Runaround Drop Shadow: Check this to include a drop shadow with the text wrap contour specified in the Runaround tab.
Item Find/Change does not support tables. The Item Find/Change palette works as follows: ● Tabs across the top display the type of attributes you can search for: Box, Box Color, Border, Line, Picture, Text, and Drop Shadow. ● Each pane contains two sides: Find What and Change To. You check the attributes you’re searching for on the Find What side, and then check those attributes you want to change on the Change To side of the palette. You can search on attributes in multiple panes at the same time.
● When you click Find Next, Item Find/Change searches the entire layout from start to finish. To limit a search to the active spread, Option/Alt+click the Find Next button. Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Find/Change Custom Border Styles in Item Find/Change: Now a user can find and replace the custom border style through Item Find/Change palette.
the 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.
1 Select the Bézier Pen tool from the Tools palette. Move the Crosshair pointer to any position on the page and click to establish the first point. 2 Move the pointer to where you want the next point positioned. To constrain pointer movement to a 45-degree angle relative to the page, press Shift. 3 Click to create points and line segments. ● Clicking a point without dragging creates a straight line and corner point.
9-Point Reference Grid in the measurement palette 9-Point Reference Grid during box rotation ● 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’.
Resizing boxes You can resize any box by modifying the size of its bounding box. A bounding box is a non-printing, rectangular shape that encloses every box. The box’s item handles demarcate the bounding box. The best way to view the bounding box clearly is to use the Item tool to select item handles on a Bézier box.
Auto grow values defined in measurement palette ● You can now set Width/Height of box to Auto or Fixed through measurements palette. Locking box and picture proportions To lock the selected box’s proportions, display the Home tab of the Measurements palette and click the proportion lock control next to the W and H fields. If this control is locked, QuarkXPress maintains the item’s aspect ratio during resizing operations.
Reshaping boxes You can change the shape of a box in three ways: ● You can change the shape entirely by choosing a different option from the Item > Shape submenu. ● You can use the Box Corner Radius field in the Home or Space/Align tab of the Measurements palette. Enter the value manually or place the cursor in the fields and use the up/down arrow keys to automatically increase/decrease the value.
● Display the Colors palette (Window > Colors), click the Background Color button , and then use the controls in the palette. ● Use the controls in the Home tab of the Measurements palette. The controls available are as follows: ● Box or Background Color: Lets you specify the background color for the box. ● Shade: Lets you specify the tint of the background color (0% = white, 100% = full color).
To merge two or more text boxes and preserve the text, see “Merging text boxes. QuarkXPress has new tools on measurements palette, whose icons graphically depict the merge or split behavior, making them more intuitive for designers to easily access and create complex shapes with the combination of two or more shapes. Merge and Split icons in the measurement palette ● Intersection: Keeps only the overlapping areas of the selected items.
Merging text boxes To merge two or more text boxes, preserving the text: 1 Select the text boxes you want to merge. 2 Choose Item > Merge Text Boxes and choose one of the following from the sub menu: ● Top Down - to merge the text in the boxes in the order they appear on the layout (Left-to-Right and then Top-to-Bottom). ● Selection Order - to merge the text in the boxes in the order that you selected the boxes. 3 The text in the boxes is merged and contained in a single 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 on the Tool palette.
Using Super Step and Repeat Use Super Step and Repeat to quickly and easily duplicate items while rotating, scaling, or skewing them. To use Super Step and Repeat: 1 Select a picture box, text box, text path, or line. ● 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.
Rotate & Scale Relative To drop-down menu only when a point on a Bezier item is selected. 2 Click OK. ShapeMaker With ShapeMaker, you can create a wide variety of intricate shapes. You can create new shapes from scratch, or apply new shapes to existing boxes. To display the ShapeMaker dialog box, choose Utilities > ShapeMaker. The ShapeMaker dialog box provides tabs that let you create various types of shapes.
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. ● 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.
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. ● Stars: In addition to specifying how many sides the polygon has, you can specify the radius of the space inside the spikes and superimpose a secondary star at a different size.
● 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. Once you have defined the attributes, you can click the Add Preset button save this shape. to 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.
● 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 harder-edged shape by lowering the Segments value and decreasing the Smoothness value. ● Clockwise and Counterclockwise: Lets you control the direction of the spiral. Once you have defined the attributes, you can click the Add Preset button save this shape. to To revert to the default shape, click the Reset button, .
● Use the drop-down menus to specify a corner type (Normal, Rounded, Beveled, Concave, Pointed, or Inset) and a diameter (for options that involve a diameter). ● Curvature: Controls how curved the corners are if you select an option that includes curvature. ● 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.
2 Move the pointer to where you want the next point positioned. To constrain pointer movement to a 45-degree angle relative to the page, press Shift. 3 Click to create a point and line segments. ● 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.
Resizing lines You can resize active straight lines using any of the following methods: ● Select the Item tool and move the Arrow pointer over an item handle to display the Resizing pointer. Click and drag the handle to a new location to reduce or extend the length of the line. ● Choose either Left Point, Midpoint, or Right Point from the Line Mode dropdown menu in the Home or Space/Align tab of the Measurements palette to display the L (Length) field.
You can also specify line appearance in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see “Item Styles XTensions software.” Joining lines You can merge two lines into one by selecting the Item tool , selecting the lines, and choosing Item > Merge > Join Endpoints. The Join Endpoints command is available when the endpoints of lines or text paths are within six points of each other.
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. To uncheck all options in any pane in the Item Font Painter tool, Opt/Alt click on the Apply check box.
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. To select an item, first select the Item tool , the Text Content tool , or the Picture Content tool and move the Arrow pointer over an item.
When the Item tool is selected, you can remove items with the Delete command. Deleted items are not copied to the Clipboard. 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.
Shift+click each item or draw a marquee around the items you want to group. Choose Item > Group (Command+G/Ctrl+G) to place multiple selected items into a single group. You can group groups, and multiple-select a group (or groups) along with individual boxes, lines, and text paths to create a larger group. With the Item tool selected, you can move, cut, copy, paste, duplicate, rotate, and color a group.
You can choose from among eight spacing and six alignment options in the Measurements palette, and you can specify alignment relative to selected items, the page, or (for Print layouts with facing pages) the spread. The Item > Space/Align submenu includes the “Item relative” and “Page relative” modes described below. The Measurements palette also includes a third mode called “Spread relative.
Use keyboard increments to automatically increase/decrease the value in this field. See “Palettes” for more information. Locking and unlocking items Locking lets you protect items and content from accidental changes. You can do the following: ● To prevent an item’s size and position from being changed (and to prevent the item from being deleted), check Item > Lock > Position. ● To prevent an item’s contents from being edited, check Item > Lock > Story or Item > Lock > Picture.
Understanding callouts A callout is a floating box that always displays on the same page or spread as the content it pertains to. Each callout is anchored to a particular spot in a text story called a callout anchor. A callout anchor flows along with text like a character. When a callout anchor moves to a new page or spread, the callout moves with it. When guides are displayed, a line links each callout anchor with its associated callout (if any).
Settings for a callout with a fixed horizontal location and a variable vertical location It is important to note that the settings for a callout are stored with its callout anchor, not with the callout itself You can control the positioning of a callout by configuring its callout anchor directly, or by applying a callout style to the callout anchor. A callout style is a named package of callout settings that displays in a 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.
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.
3 To control how the callout aligns vertically, use the controls in the Align callout vertically relative to area. (The Offset field lets you adjust the vertical positioning of the callout from where it would otherwise be.) 4 To allow the callout to be manually repositioned, check Allow manual positioning of callout. If you subsequently move the callout, the values in the Offset fields will be automatically updated to reflect the new position of the callout.
to return to the previous page, which causes the callout to return to the previous page, and so on. When QuarkXPress detects this kind of situation, the following things happen: 1 The callout switches to the settings defined in the Default callout style. An icon displays next to the callout style’s name in the Callout Styles palette when the callout anchor is selected.
The Table Properties dialog box 2 Specify the number of horizontal rows in the Body Rows field, and specify the number of vertical columns in the Columns field. 3 Specify the number of header rows in the Header Rows field, and specify the number of footer rows in the Footer Rows field. 4 If you want to create text cells that expand as you add text, use the controls in the Auto Fit area.
common for users to use multiple tab characters in a word processor to align columns of data — rather than setting appropriate tab stops. If the text block you are converting has such multiple tab characters, the text block probably has an inconsistent number of tabs between columns of data. You will need to make the tab characters consistent before you convert the text to a table. To convert text to a table: 1 Using the Text Content tool , select all the text you want to convert to a table.
New Table Model with Table Styles Formatting tables in QuarkXPress has been time-taking and required repetitive efforts for each table you inserted in a document. The table grid formatting options were limited to rows and columns with no option for cell level border and shading. The latest version of QuarkXPress provides a new table model, offering brand-new table features with an intuitive new user interface for formatting tables and creating table styles.
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.
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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. For contexts where there are multiple possible options: such as columns and rows where you can select, for example, header row, all odd rows, all even rows, or footer row, and specify different properties for each - a list is displayed at the top of the dialog, allowing you to choose a more specific context.
Table Tab_ Measurement palette Cell Tab_ Measurement palette Easy access to table formatting features directly from the measurements palette ● ● Measurements palette 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.
● ● Rules specific to Column, Row and Cell level formatting Table Style Presets ● Presets for table border and shading styles ● Duplicate presets to create your own table styles ● Support for Text and Picture formatting in cells ● Support for Multiple Insets for text in addition to Paragraph Styles ● Picture formatting to support new fitting rules in addition to other picture content transforms, scaling, etc.
● If you check Include Formats in the Table Link dialog box when you first import an Excel table, the table’s Excel formatting is preserved (as much as possible) in QuarkXPress. If you 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.
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 You can select to include the text and table formatting already included in the source document (“Options > Include Formats“), and the column widths / row heights (“Options > Include Geometry“).
content to tables much as you add content to boxes — by typing text, importing text, or importing pictures. Converting text cells to picture cells is the same as converting a text box to a picture box. Select all the cells you want to convert and choose Item > Content > Picture. Editing table text Two important things to know about editing text within tables are how to navigate between cells and how to select text for formatting.
Linking table cells When cells are linked, text that is typed, imported, or pasted into a cell fills the first text cell in the linked story, and then flows into each subsequent linked cell. As with text in linked boxes, the Next Column character (enter on the numeric keypad) is helpful for controlling text flow in linked cells. In addition to linking table cells to each other, you can link cells to and from text boxes and text paths.
match the surrounding table, select the combined cells and then choose Table > Split Cells. If you combine unlinked cells containing text or pictures, the content of the upper-left cell in the selection is maintained for the combined cell. Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns As with other items in QuarkXPress, you can drag to resize rows, columns, and tables. To resize a row or column, click a gridline to display the resize pointer.
● 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.
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.
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. Adding header and footer rows to tables You can specify that header and footer rows repeat automatically in continued instances of tables.
● 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. 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).
Improved Integration with Master Pages The Table Styles are now fully supported for Tables on Master Page as well. You can anchor Tables inside text boxes on Master Pages, and they will work on layout pages as well. 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.
New Anchor Dialog 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 e-Pub output formats.
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.
Applications The most-requested feature, QuarkXPress has come up with an applicationlevel 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.
any shape or size of text box. This feature is not available on locked boxes or when the proportion of the box is locked. The Fit Box to Text feature can be used for boxes which have overflow or underflow. 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 it.
● Place the text insertion point where you want text to be inserted, and then choose File > Import. Check Convert Quotes option to convert double hyphens to em dashes and convert foot or inch marks to typesetter’s apostrophes and quotation marks. Check Include Style Sheets to import style sheets from a Microsoft Word Check Interpret XPress Tags to import XPress Tags file. ● Drag a text file from the file system onto a text component. ● Drag text from another application onto a text component.
The Spring Loading of text works in the same way as it does for Spring Loading pictures and cursor. To learn how this works, refer section Picture>Working with pictures>Spring Loading on Cursor. Word Filter The Word Filter allows Word documents to be imported from, or exported to, .docx formats. The deprecated format .doc is not supported. To import a Word document: 1 Choose File > Import 2 The Import dialog displays. 3 Choose Word Document (*.DOCM;*.DOCX;*.DOTM;*.
● 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. ● Check Include Footnotes to include any footnotes that the imported Word document contains. (Checked by default.
● Search in Locked Content ● Find and change text and attributes in Footnotes/ Endnotes. To enable Search in Footnote, you must first select Layout. Press Option/Alt to change the Find Next button to Find First. The search text for the last 10 searches are saved in the drop-down menus under Find What and Change To. To modify the Find/Change history count go to Edit > Preferences > Application > Open and Save > Find/Change History. The maximum number of instances which can be saved is 20.
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Working with footnotes and endnotes Footnotes and Endnotes consists of two linked parts: the reference number that appears in the text, and the Footnote/Endnote text that appears at the bottom of the text. Footnote text is created at the end of a page and Endnote text is created at the end of a story. As you insert/delete Footnotes and Endnotes, they are automatically numbered as they are added to/deleted from the text. This numbering will restart with each new story.
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. Use the Restart Numbering option to restart the numbering of a Footnote/Endnote. Use the Custom Footnote/Endnote option to specify a custom mark as the Footnote/Endnote reference number. 4 Type the Footnote/Endnote text.
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.
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.
● Paragraph Style: To associate a paragraph style sheet with the Footnote/Endnote style, choose an option from the Paragraph Style dropdown menu. To create a paragraph style sheet, see “Creating and Editing Paragraph Style Sheets”. ● Character Format: Choose Inherit From Marker Style to retain the styling applied on the footnote/endnote reference number.
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.
Specify the attributes for the Footnote separator style: ● 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.
● Rule for Continued Separator Style: Check to specify the attributes of the separator style if the footnote will be continued onto a subsequent page or column. If this box is not checked and the footnote text flows onto the next page or column, there will be no separator between the text and the footnote on the second page or column. ● Style: Select a line style for the separator from the Style drop-down menu.
Export Endnotes as Hyperlinks To export endnotes as hyperlinks, invoke Export as PDF dialog > Click Options > Go to Hyperlinks pane > Check ‘Export Endnotes as Hyperlinks’. You can define different hyperlink appearance options for the endnotes. Similarly, you can define the export endnotes as hyperlink settings in the PDF Output Styles dialog.
● 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. ● Selection: If you want to convert only the footnotes or endnotes from your selection. Click Convert.
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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 the Word option, spell check with check the spelling of the current word. If you choose the Selection option, spell check will check the spelling of the text of that selection. If you choose the Story option, spell check will check the spelling of the entire active story from the current cursor onwards.
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. To replace all occurrences of the misspelled word, click Replace All. To look up suggestions for the word in the Replace With field, click Look up. To skip the selected word, click Skip. After you have skipped a word, the Last Skipped button will be enabled. Clicking this button will take you back to the last word you skipped.
To add words to an auxiliary dictionary, choose Utilities > Check Spelling > Edit Auxiliary. Auxiliary Dictionaries are saved in .xml format. You will still be able to open legacy version documents and auxiliary dictionaries created in version 10 or earlier QuarkXPress 2015 and later versions, but those dictionaries will get converted to .xml format. Only one auxiliary dictionary at a time can be open for use with an document.
When user performs Spell check, QuarkXPress automatically pick the selected dictionary for spell checking. User can also see selected dictionary in spell check palette. Check Spelling Counting words and characters To display a count of the words and characters in a layout, story or selection choose an option from the Utilities > Word and Character Count submenu: Layout or Story or Selection. The Story option will only be available if there is a story selected.
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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.
3 If you want to change the character spacing, enter a value in the Track/Sending Amount field. 4 Click OK. 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.
3 Select the text that you wish to apply the desired formatting to. IMPORTANT: Whether format painter applies only character formatting in addition to paragraph formatting is determined by the original selection; if you select a few characters, then only character formatting is applied, if you select several lines, paragraph formatting is also applied. Style sheets are never applied using the Format Painter.
● ICF Box Top: Aligns small characters with the top of the ICF box. ● Embox Top: Aligns small characters with the top edge of the em box of the largest character in a line of horizontal text. ● Embox Bottom: Aligns small characters with the bottom edge of the em box of the largest character in a line of horizontal text. ● Embox Center: Aligns small characters with the center of the em box of the largest character.
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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 a font family and a font style from the Font drop-down menus in the Home or Character tab of the Measurements palette.
plain face font styles should be selected. This behavior created a lot of confusion for the users. It was not possible to add buttons for each of the font styles as the font families could have numerous font 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.
It is recommended that the user should use the font style pop-menu to select the desired font styles. Handling faux styles in QuarkXPress ● In case faux styling is applied on the text, it will be displayed as [Faux Bold], [Faux Italic], [Faux Bold Italic] in the user interface. Faux Styles ● Now, while opening a previous version document (created in verion 2017 or earlier), in case faux styling is applied on the text, then faux style string will be displayed in the font style field.
● Similar to the behavior in previous versions, an alert will be displayed on flattened output if transparency is applied to the text with faux styling. ● Faux styling is preserved on enabling any other font family or font style other than the current applicable font style. The faux style will be removed if the actual font style is enabled thereafter.
Font Management in QuarkXPress QuarkXPress provides its native Font management capability to activate or deactivate fonts from any location — from any file system or network — temporarily or permanently. It allows the users to manage their fonts effectively and at the same time removes the dependencies to any other third party XTensions or utilities. Why Do You Need to Manage Your Fonts? Your fonts are your tools; you need to know where they are, and how and when to use them.
defined for the font formats is in the order - OTF, TTC, TTF, Type1, CID, Bitmap. ● If the Document 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. ● In Usage dialog, the fonts used in the project will display the correct font path.
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 userdefined font folders while opening a project file/importing a Word file/importing an Excel file/opening an IDML file, or converting to native objects.
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.
● You can select one or more missing fonts to resolve from Missing font folders specified in Preferences. 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.
● Among the Application font folders, Application fonts at the Root level have the highest priority, followed by Application Fonts at the User level and then the Application Fonts packaged with the Digital Publishing- Flex Templates which have the last priority during font enumeration.
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 a type style from the Text Styles drop-down menu in the Measurements palette. You can remove applied type styles using ‘Remove All Styles’ option in the Text styles pop up menu in the measurement palette or using the ‘Reset Type styles’ button in the Character Style Sheet dialog.
● Enter a value in the Baseline field of the Character tab of the Measurements palette. ● Use the ticker controls with or without Shift or Alt/ Opt modifier to modify the baseline shift value. ● Use the keyboard commands. Applying emphasis value To apply an emphasis mark to a character, select the character, click the Emphasis Mark drop down in the Text Styles menu on the Home or Character tab of the Measurements palette to display the emphasis mark options, and then click one of the options.
● Width - Define the desired width of the stroke as an absolute value (up to 500 pt). You can also define the width as a percentage of the text. The width of the stroke will then be dependent on the font size and increase/decrease proportionally if you change the font size. A percentage value must be between 0 and 50%. ● Join - Select the type of join to specify the appearance of the stroke at corner points that extend beyond the end points of the text.
Settings.xml will be available by default with QuarkXPress, and it should be placed atMac-~/Library/Application Support/Quark/QuarkXPress /Settings.xml Windows- :\Program Files\Quark\QuarkXPress \Settings.
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.
Working with font sets Font sets let you control how different types of characters — such as Alphabetic (Roman) and Han characters — display when they occur together in text. You can create a new font set in the Edit Font Set dialog box (Edit > Font Sets). Each font set is composed of a set of font types, each of which has its own settings. Use the Edit Font Set dialog box to configure a font set.
If you enter a value in a blank field, that value will be applied to all the selected text. If you check or uncheck a gray check box, that style setting will be applied to or removed from all selected text. Use the Character tab of the Measurements palette 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.
These alignment settings are available both in paragraph style sheet and measurement palette. Text alignment changes in case of Towards Spine and Away from Spine settings are only visible in case of a facing page layout.
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.
from the spine); the text on all the Right side pages will align to the right side (i.e. away from the spine). In case of Non-Facing Pages, there is no spine: ● Towards Spine alignment: Irrespective of the number of pages in the spread, the text will align to the left side. ● Away from Spine alignment: Irrespective of the number of pages in the spread, the text will align to the right side.
Last Line Indent While building Table for Contents (TOC), it was not possible to define an indent spacing specifically for page numbers. As a result, if the Table of Contents contained multi-line chapter/section headings, the page number would wrap below the heading. Last Line Indent in Table of Contents Now, using the ‘Last Line’ indent feature, a user can specify indent spacing for page numbers in the Table of Contents. The Last Line indent value is always less than or equal to the Right Indent value.
and inline tables. The boundary value limit for proportional leading is -100% to 5000% 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.
QuarkXPress provides a Space Between option to help define the Space between consecutive paragraphs having the same paragraph style sheet applied; using this option you can ignore the spacing or define a custom spacing value for such paragraphs. This feature is very useful while creating Table of Contents and bulleted/numbered lists.
Space Between set ‘0’ ● 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.
Controlling column flow The Column Flow controls let you specify how text flows in relation to columns. To set the column flow in selected paragraphs: 1 Use the Column Flow tab of the Measurements palette. 2 Define the following fields to specify the column flow: (A column block is any span/split column paragraphs that have similar column flow attributes applied.
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. Select Line Between to apply a separator line between columns, and use the drop-down menus for Style, Width, Color, Shade and Opacity to specify the appearance of the separator. This option is only available for Split Columns.
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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 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.
● Center aligns text centrally on that tab stop. ● 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. ● Define Tab leaders using the Fill Character field if required. ● Click Set to set up the tab stop. ● Use Clear All to clear all the tab stops. 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.
Break options in Paragraph Style If you’re working on automation workflows or Books (Digital Publishing with long documents), you may need to specify the beginning of paragraphs on any article (odd-even page or new page). Now, in the paragraph style sheet, there is an option to define the Break option which is called the Start Paragraph. Go to Window Menu > Style Sheet.
Column Break: ● In Next Column – This works similar to the current “COLUMN BREAK” where the paragraph moves to the next column else overflow if the next column is not available. Box Break: ● In Next Box — This works similar to the current “BOX BREAK” where the paragraph moves to the next available box else overflow if the next box is not available. A few more points to note: ● The “Start Paragraph” attributes are saved with the document like other style attributes.
Start Paragraph option in Vertical Measurement Palette Working with text shading Use borders to clearly describe your shaded text through page breaks. If the paragraph breaks, you can now ensure that your shaded text displays the bottom borderline for the first page and the top borderline for the next page. With the ‘Text Shading Style,’ you can define your borders. Using page-break boundaries clearly identify your shaded text.
● 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. Alternatively, you can use the Text Shading Styles (Window > Text Shading Styles) palette to create and edit text shading styles. The Edit Text Shading Style dialog displays.
● 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.
Clearly define your shaded text with borders across page-breaks. Now you can make sure your shaded text shows the bottom borderline for the first page and top borderline for the next page if the paragraph breaks. Define the attributes in the Border tab: ● 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.
● In the Offsets section, specify the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom offsets. ● Display Border on Continued Paragraph: It is applicable for both continued paragraphs breaking across pages/ columns and for continuous paragraphs having same border-shading attributes where first ends in first column/page and the other starts with next column/page, then border shade text shows the bottom borderline for the first column/page and top borderline for the next column/page if the paragraph breaks.
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 dropdown 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 Select the text to be shaded. To apply shading to an entire paragraph, place the cursor anywhere in the paragraph. 2 Do one of the following things: ● Display the Text Shading Styles palette (Window > Text Shading Styles) and select a defined text shading style to apply to the text. ● Use the controls in the Text Shading tab of the Measurements palette.
● If you select the Apply to Character button and then apply text shading, the text shading is applied to the selected text. If text was not selected then the text shading will begin at the cursor and the shading will be visible as you start typing. This is what applying text shading to selected text looks like.
Kerning manually To apply kerning between two characters, do one of the following things: ● Use the Kern Amount controls in the Measurements palette. ● Use the ticker controls with or without Shift or Alt/ Opt modifier to modify the size ● Use the keyboard commands. Kerning automatically To automatically kern text above a specific point size, display the Character pane of the Preferences dialog box , check Auto Kern Above, and enter a value in the field.
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.
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 creating a new project/ opening a project created in QuarkXPress and later versions. The Strictness level feature is only supported by Dieckmann hyphenation libraries (Extended 2 hyphenation method).
method in Preferences (Preferences > Paragraph > Hyphenation Method) to enable applying hyphenation strictness levels to a legacy document. XTension developer created hyphenation libraries will continue to be supported in QuarkXPress. ● 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. For example, if you set the hyphenation zone to .
● Non-Breaking Char Set: Choose a non-breaking character set from the drop-down menu. For more information about non-breaking character sets, see “Working with non-breaking character sets.” ● Non Breaking Method: Choose a non-breaking method from the dropdown menu. When the last character in a line of justified text is a non-breaking character that cannot end a line, Run Back pulls the first character of the next line up to the current line, based on the value in the Min. field.
To enable/ disable justification settings for East Asian text categories of EA Punct, Han, Kana/ Hangul/ ZhuYin specified in H&J, go to Preferences > Layout > General Specifying hyphenation exceptions In QuarkXPress, you can create language-specific lists of hyphenation exceptions. The Hyphenation Exceptions dialog box (Utilities > Hyphenation Exceptions > Edit) has a Language drop-down menu that lets you specify which language a hyphenation exception applies to.
Hyphenation exception files can be imported and applied at the layout level so different layouts in the same project can have separate .xml files applied. You apply the desired external hyphenation exception file to a layout through a Job Jacket, as a job jacket resource. (see “Job Jackets with hyphenation exceptions“) After you have applied a hyphenation exception file to a project, if you change anything in the .xml file, these changes will be reflected in the project the next time you open the project.
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. This allows you to choose to keep the old hyphenation exception (Use Existing), or replace it with the new hyphenation exception from the .xml file you are importing (Replace). The Conflict Resolution window.
Exporting hyphenation exception files Users can export hyphenation exceptions from QuarkXPress to an external .xml file. To export hyphenation exception files: 1 Choose Utilities > Hyphenation Exceptions > Export. The New Hyphenation Exceptions File dialog box displays. The New Hyphenation Exceptions File dialog box 2 Specify the location and the name for the .xml file. 3 Click Save. ● Exporting hyphenation exceptions when no project is open creates an external .
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. When there is no layout item at Job Ticket level, this will be the default hyphenation exception file applied to layouts defined in the Job Ticket. 6 Browse to and select the desired .xml file.
Job Tickets and hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation exceptions reside at the layout level and not the project level. To use this feature you must add layout items in the Job Ticket and associate one of the available hyphenation exception resource items. Key points: ● 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.
4 Select an existing layout from the list of layouts in the bottom-right list or click to create a new layout definition. 5 Click the expander button next to the layout definition name to display the fields of the layout definition. 6 Scroll down to Hyphenation Exception and select the hyphenation exception file to link to for the chosen layout. Existing hyphenation exception resources are listed in the bottom-right list.
● If the user has defined a hyphenation exception resource item as the Default, the synchronization feature works even when there is no layout item defined in the Job Ticket. ● Synchronization does not work if any change related to hyphenation exceptions resource item is made in the Job Jacket that is already linked with a project. In order to get the changes reflected, user must relink the project with the same Job Jacket. ● The synchronization feature works for all the languages.
3 Select the desired Job Jacket and click OK. 4 Select Hyphenation Exceptions from the list of Resource types in the topright list and click to add a hyphenation exception file as a resource. 5 Click the Source attribute and select Quark Publishing Platform from the dropdown menu.
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.
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.
If you enter a number in a Track Amount field but do not specify a measurement unit, tracking is applied instead of sending. To apply sending, specify a measurement unit. You can apply sending to characters that do not have Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language applied to them. Simply check the Apply Sending to Non-CJK Characters box in the Character tab of the Measurements palette.
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. 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.
● If you define a keyboard equivalent for a style sheet with a key sequence that also defines an existing command, the style sheet command will override the existing command when the Text Content tool is selected and a text box is active. ● If you define a keyboard equivalent for a style sheet with a key sequence that also defines an existing command, the style sheet command will override the existing command when a text component is active.
formatting by clicking the Update button . Alternatively, you can choose Style > Update Style Sheet > Paragraph. 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.
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.
● Apply Style Sheet & Retain Local Type Styles & OpenType Styles: Applies the selected style sheet, leaving both local type styles (such as bold and italic) and OpenType styles intact. ● Apply Style Sheet & Remove Local Formatting: Applies the selected style sheet and removes all local formatting. Equivalent to Option/Alt-clicking the style sheet name. ● Apply Style Sheet & Remove Local Paragraph Formatting: Applies the selected style sheet and removes only local paragraph formatting.
displayed. You can use this dialog box to determine how such conflicts are handled. Working with conditional styles Conditional styles let you automatically apply formatting to text based on the content of that text. For example, consider the text-formatting conventions shown in the following image: Text that can be formatted with conditional styles The conventions used here could be described like so: 1 Apply the Headline paragraph style sheet to the first paragraph.
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. Conditional Styles palette 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.
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.
7 In the fourth column, indicate how many occurrences of the option in the fifth column to apply to or through. 8 In the fifth column, choose which entity to jump or format to or through: ● 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.
● 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.
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.
paragraph articles, each with a one-paragraph headline. You can still use conditional styles to format them, like so: 1 Insert a conditional style marker at the beginning of each headline. To insert a conditional style marker, choose Utilities > Insert Character > Special > Conditional Style Marker.
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 .
•/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, on the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette. This value lets you handle situations where a left-aligned or center-aligned number is pushing into the paragraph. To increase and decrease the indent level of a paragraph, use the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.
Edit Bullet Style dialog box To control how the bullet is styled, choose an option from the Character Style drop-down menu. Choose Inherit from Paragraph to use the paragraph’s character formatting for the bullet, or choose a character style sheet to use that character style sheet’s formatting. Enter the actual bullet character or characters in the Bullet Characters field.
● 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.” ● Associate the bullet style with a paragraph style sheet, then apply that style sheet to the text. For more information, see “Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets.
value in em spaces. The Relative (in Ems) option may be preferable when you will be using the numbering style with different-sized text. 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 Home tab or the Paragraph tab of the Measurements palette.
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. The Edit Outline Style dialog box displays. 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.
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: 1.3.1 This paragraph is at level 3. 1.3.
How the Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text value is applied Check the Include Trailing Zero option to include trailing zeros at the end of the number. For example, if you check this box and your outline has three levels, the numbering would look like this: 1.0.0 This paragraph is at level 1 of a 3 level outline. 1.1.0 This paragraph is at level 2 of a 3 level outline. 1.1.1 This paragraph is at level 3 of a 3 level outline.
● Style: User can define the bullet, numbering, or outline style to apply in the style sheet. ● Minimum Bullet/Number Distance from Text: User can define the minimum distance of the bullet/ number from the text. ● Level: User can define a particular Level for the outline style to applied in the style sheet. ● Start At: User can specify Start At value for a numbering style or outline style in the style sheet.
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.
Since QuarkXPress 8.0, the Baseline Grid feature has been replaced by the Design Grid feature. For more information, see “Working with design grids.” Aligning text vertically There are four options for positioning lines of text vertically within text boxes: ● 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.
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. To replace every occurrence of a font, select the font name, click Replace, and choose a replacement font. If a font is listed in the Fonts tab (Utilities > Usage) as [Name of Font] preceded by a negative number, the system you are using does not have that font installed.
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 , and then in the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette check Run Text Around All Sides option. The Run Text Around All Sides preference is set by default.
Running text around text boxes To apply text runaround to a text box in front of another text box, select the front text box, and then: Use the Runaround tab of the Measurements palette and choose an option from the Type drop-down menu ● Choose None to run text behind an active text box. ● 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.
● Choose Non-White Areas to create a runaround path based on the picture’s subject. Depending on the value in the Threshold field, the runaround path will outline a dark figure within a larger white or near-white background (or vice versa). ● Choose Same As Clipping to set the text runaround path to the clipping path selected in the Clipping tab. ● Choose Picture Bounds to run text around the rectangular “canvas area” of the imported picture file.
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.
3 Smoothness lets you control path accuracy. A lower value creates a more complex path with a greater number of points. A higher value creates a less accurate path. 4 Threshold determines how “white” is defined. All pixels defined as “white” are excluded. For example, if the Threshold value is 20%, and a pixel’s gray value is below or at 20%, the pixel will be considered “white” and excluded from the runaround path. Editing a runaround path To adjust a runaround path, check Runaround (Item > Edit).
To add text to a line or path, select the Text Content tool line or path. and double-click the To control the way text rides the selected text path, use the Text Box tab of the Measurements palette. Choose an option from the Text Orientation area to choose how the text should ride the path. You can also choose an option from the Align Text drop-down menu to determine which part of a font is used to position characters on the path.
Using anchored boxes You can paste boxes and lines of any shape in text, which makes them act like characters and flow with text. This is especially helpful when text reflows, because anchored items reflow like other characters in the text. If items are not anchored and text reflows, they become displaced, and can end up overlapping text. Anchored objects (boxes, lines and tables) can be nested as deep as you like with no limit.
Working with OpenType Styles OpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft that accommodates large character sets and glyphs, often including fractions, discretionary ligatures, old-style numerals, and more. In the latest version of QuarkXPress, the UI for the OpenType Styles feature has been greatly improved, making it much more user-friendly. Now, the user has precise control over OpenType glyph positioning and placement in the text layout.
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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.
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. Click Reset to Default to reset your choices to the default choices applied to the style sheet.
● Position: Apply superscript, subscript, scientific inferior, numerator, and denominator glyphs to selected text. ● Alternate Metrics: Apply alternate widths or heights based on story direction (vertical or horizontal). ● Alternate Vertical Half Metrics: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional heights. ● Alternate Vertical Metrics: Center glyphs inside a full-em height. ● Proportional Alternate Metrics: Fit glyphs to individual, proportional widths.
● 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. It is available in the Alternate’s subgroup under OpenType Styles. ● Petite Capitals: Some fonts contain an additional size of capital letters, shorter than the regular small caps to better harmonize with lowercase text than the taller small caps.
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.
● Added the ability to apply more than one stylistic set to text at the same time. ● Added the ability to display descriptive names of Stylistic Sets. Use the Glyphs palette to access the available OpenType features in each font. 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.
Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop support SVG and SBIX fonts, while Text Edit, Pixelmator, and Sketch applications support SBIX fonts. QuarkXPress is the only application that supports all the three color font formats. It is the only application that COLR fonts. To use a color font, just install the color font in one of the three supported formats in macOS or Windows and use it like any other font in QuarkXPress.
font, view the OpenType glyphs in the font, double-click a glyph to insert that glyph in text, and save favorite glyphs for easy access.
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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 upperleft 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.
Inserting spaces To insert a specific type of space — such as an em space — at the text insertion point, choose Utilities > Insert Character > Special > Em Space or Utilities > Insert Character > Special (nonbreaking) > Em Space. The options in the Nonbreaking Space submenu act as “glue” between two words or numbers, for example, preventing breaks from occurring between the two “glued” elements at the end of a line.
For more information about the Font Fallback feature, see “Preferences — Application — Font Fallback.” Working with font mapping rules When you open a project, the application checks to make sure all the fonts applied to text are active on your system. If not, the Missing Fonts alert displays, which gives you the opportunity to replace missing fonts with active fonts. You can save those replacements as global “font mapping rules,” which can be applied automatically each time you open a project.
Font Mapping dialog Once you create a font mapping rule by clicking Save As Rule in the Missing Fonts alert, the rule is saved in preferences for your copy of the application and applied to all articles. 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.
Grid lines Each design grid includes the following grid lines: bottomline, baseline, centerline, and topline. In addition, design grids include a full cell box, which makes it easy for you to align characters vertically or horizontally. You can align text and items to any of these grid lines. A line in a design grid includes a bottomline, a baseline, a centerline, and a topline.
You can configure a page’s design grid by displaying the page’s master page and then choosing Page > Master Guides & Grid. You can control a text box’s design grid by choosing Grid Settings from the text box’s context menu. 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.” To use the baseline grid feature as it existed in QuarkXPress and QuarkXPress CopyDesk 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.
Design grid basics The following topics explain how to work with design grids. For information about grid styles, see “Working with grid styles.” Configuring a master page grid To configure a master page grid, display a master page and then choose Page > Master Guides & Grid. The Master Guides & Grid dialog box displays. Use the Master Guides & Grid dialog box to control master page grids.
● Under Column Guides, enter a value in the Columns field to specify the number of columns on the master page. Enter a value in the Gutter Width field to define the space between columns. ● The Content Dimensions field displays the area inside the margin guides. ● 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 display of the grid, use the controls in the Display 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.” ● To preview changes as you make them, check Preview. ● To use the specifications of an existing master page grid, grid style, or style sheet, click Load Settings. For more information, see “Loading grid settings.
● 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.
● Adjust: Click to display the Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box for master page grids, or the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box for text box grids. For more information, see “Adjust Lines Within Margins dialog box.” ● Lines within margin or Lines within box: This field displays the number of lines that can fit on a page or in a box, based on the settings above. ● Cells per line: This field displays the number of cells that can fit on a line, based on the settings above.
● 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.
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.
If you check Preview before displaying the Adjust Lines Within Box dialog box, you can view the results of changes when you close the dialog box. 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.
Design grids: Cell Alignment tab Use the Cell Alignment tab to specify how cells are aligned within the grid. 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. 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.
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
