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Table Of Contents

About this Guide
- What we’re assuming about you
- Where to go for help
- Conventions
- Technology note
The User Interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
Projects and Layouts
- Long Document Support
- Working with projects
- Working with layouts
  - Project-level and layout-level resources
    - Project-level resources
    - Layout-level resources
  - Adaptive scaling
- Large Pasteboard size
- Working with Guides
- Dynamic Guides
- Undoing and redoing actions
Native QuarkXPress Objects
- Convert an existing item to a native QuarkXPress object
- Import an object as a native QuarkXPress object
Content Variables
- Edit content variables
- Create a custom content variable
- Picture Content Variable
- Insert a content variable
Boxes, Lines, and Tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
  - Item handles
  - Picture handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadows
- Item Find/Change
- Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Find/Change
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
- Use Tables as Anchors
Text and Typography
- Editing text
  - Preference for Defining Paste Behavior from External Applications
  - Fit Box to Text feature
- Importing and exporting text
- Word Filter
- Finding and changing text
  - Special character codes
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
  - Inserting footnotes and endnotes
  - Footnote/Endnote styles
  - Footnote separators
  - Export Endnotes as Hyperlinks
  - Convert Footnotes to Endnotes (and Vice Versa)
  - Find/Change Footnotes Content
  - Footnotes Visibility in Long Tables
- Checking spelling
  - Auxiliary dictionaries
  - Hunspell Spell Checker Integration
- Counting words and characters
- Working with grouped characters
- Working with non-breaking character sets
- Format painter
- Aligning characters on a line
- Applying character attributes
  - Applying a font
  - Applying font styles
  - Font Management in QuarkXPress
    - Why Do You Need to Manage Your Fonts?
    - Font Management in QuarkXPress is classified into 3 sub-categories:
  - Choosing a font size
  - Applying type styles
  - Applying color, shade, and opacity
  - Applying horizontal or vertical scale
  - Applying baseline shift
  - Applying emphasis value
  - Applying text stroke
  - Stroke support for Indic
  - Controlling half-width characters
  - Working with font sets
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Last Line Indent
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Controlling space between paragraphs using same style
  - Controlling column flow
    - Column flow examples
  - Keep option for Column Flow
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
- Break options in Paragraph Style
- Working with text shading
  - Creating and editing text shading styles
  - Applying text shading
- Controlling kerning
  - Kerning manually
  - Kerning automatically
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
  - Specifying hyphenation exceptions
  - Hyphenation exception files
    - Importing hyphenation exception files
    - Exporting hyphenation exception files
  - Job Jackets with hyphenation exceptions
    - Job Tickets and hyphenation exceptions
    - Synchronization between hyphenation exception files and layouts
  - Integrating with Quark Publishing Platform
    - Synchronization of hyphenation exceptions files on Platform
  - Using discretionary hyphens
- Controlling tracking
  - Tracking manually
  - Editing tracking tables
  - Sending
- Working with style sheets
  - Creating and editing paragraph style sheets
    - Updating paragraph style sheets
  - Creating and editing character style sheets
    - Updating character style sheets
  - Applying style sheets
  - Appending style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
  - Creating a conditional style
  - Applying a conditional style
  - Removing conditional styles
  - Using conditional style markers
  - Editing a conditional style
- Bullets and numbering
  - Quick access to Bullets & Numbering
  - Working with bullet styles
  - Working with numbering styles
  - Greek and Russian Numbering Formats
  - Working with outline styles
  - Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets
- Positioning text in text boxes
  - Using baseline grid
  - Aligning text vertically
  - Specifying text inset
  - Specifying story direction
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
  - Running text around all sides of an item
  - Running text around lines and text paths
  - Running text around text boxes
  - Running text around pictures
  - Runaround for Multiple Items (Boxes)
  - Fine-tuning a runaround path
  - Editing a runaround path
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
  - Anchoring boxes and lines in text
  - Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines
  - External anchors
- Working with OpenType Styles
  - Applying OpenType styles
  - Using ligatures
    - Ligature preferences
  - Working with OpenType Stylistic Sets
- Working with Color Fonts
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
  - Inserting spaces
  - Inserting other special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
  - Understanding design grids
  - Design grid basics
  - Working with grid styles
    - Creating grid styles
    - Applying a grid style to a text box
  - Using design grids
- Working with rubi text
  - Text tab
  - Character Attributes tab
  - Rubi alignment options
  - Mono rubi
  - Rubi base alignment options
  - Rubi overhang options
- Working with hanging characters
  - Creating hanging character classes
  - Creating hanging character sets
  - Applying hanging character sets
- Working with Mojigumi sets and classes
  - Creating and editing Mojigumi character classes
  - Creating and editing Mojigumi sets
  - Applying Mojigumi sets
- Character mapping for legacy projects
  - Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters
  - Mapping for projects that use custom characters
- Type Tricks
  - Make Fraction
  - Make Price
  - Word Space Tracking
  - Line Check
  - Custom Underline
- Hyperlinks
  - Destinations
  - Anchors
  - Creating a destination
  - Creating an anchor
  - Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination
  - Creating a hyperlink from scratch
  - Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette
  - Formatting hyperlinks
  - Editing and deleting destinations
  - Editing and deleting anchors
  - Editing and deleting hyperlinks
  - Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette
- Bookmarks Integration
  - Using Bookmarks:
  - Bookmark Enhancements
Indic Support
- Overview
- Text and Typography support
- Support for Indic Unicode Fonts
- Integration with Input Method Editors (IMEs)
- Indic text input
- Indic text deletion
- OpenType features
- Spell Check
- Hyphenation
- Drop Caps
- Find/ Change
- Enhanced Glyph palette support
- Font grouping, Font fallback, Font Locking, Language locking
- Kerning/ Tracking
- Support for Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner
Pictures
- Working with pictures
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
- Improvements in EPS Images
- Support of SVG format Images*
Cross references
- Inserting a cross reference
- Synchronizing cross references
Color, Opacity, and Drop Shadows
- Working with colors
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Working with drop shadows
Custom Bleeds
- Large Pasteboard Integration with Bleed
- Using Custom Bleeds
- Using Clip at Bleed Edge
Item Styles
- Creating Item Styles
- Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Styles
- Using the Item Styles palette
- Integration of Auto Grow Text Boxes in Item Styles
- Integration of Heterogeneous Borders in Item Styles
- Checking Item Style usage
DejaVu (Windows only)
Default Path
Redline
- Tracking changes
- Viewing tracked changes
- Accepting and rejecting changes
Document Construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
- Guides Palette
- Scale functionality
- Cloner functionality
- ImageGrid functionality
- Linkster functionality
Legacy Document Converter
QuarkXPress Document Converter
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
  - App Studio output styles
  - HTML5 Publication output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
- PDF
Collaboration and Single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
  - Understanding Composition Zones
    - Composition Zones terminology
  - Creating a Composition Zones item
- Placing a Composition Zones item
- Editing a composition layout: Content
- Editing the contents of a composition layout
- Unsynchronizing a composition layout
- Deleting a composition layout
Notes
- Creating notes
- Working with notes
Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
  - Basic mode and Advanced mode
  - Creating Job Jackets files
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
  - Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode
  - Applying a Layout Specification to a layout
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
Working with Multiple Languages
- Applying a character language
- Changing the program language
XTensions Software
- Working with XTensions modules
- Script XTensions software
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Document Recovery
- Automatic Document Recovery
Contacting Quark
- In the Americas
- Outside the Americas

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 PDF) 576 
Insert a PDF/AI ﬁle 581 
Collaboration and Single-sourcing 583 
Working with shared content 583 
Sharing and synchronizing content 584 
Understanding synchronization options 586 
Placing a synchronized item 587 
Placing synchronized content 587 
Importing content into the shared content library 587 
Working with Composition Zones 587 
Understanding Composition Zones 587 
Composition Zones terminology 590 
Creating a Composition Zones item 591 
Creating a Composition Zones item from a selection of multiple items 591 