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Table Of Contents
- About this Guide
- The User Interface
- Tools
- Tool key commands
- Scissors tool
- Starburst tool
- ShapeMaker tools
- Using the Star tool
- Default star settings
- Using the Polygon tool
- Default polygon settings
- Using the Rounded Rectangle tool
- Default rounded rectangle settings
- Using the Diamond tool
- Default diamond settings
- Using the Triangle tool
- Default triangle settings
- Using the Wave tool
- Default wave settings
- Using the Spiral tool
- Default spiral settings
- Using the Cloud tool
- Default cloud settings
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Articles palette
- Advanced Image Control palette
- Books palette
- Callout Styles palette
- Colors palette
- Conditional Styles palette
- Content palette
- Content Variables palette
- Flex Layout Blocks
- Flex Object Browser palette
- Flex Page Builder palette
- Footnote Styles palette
- Glyphs palette
- Gradients palette
- Grid Styles palette
- Guides palette
- HTML5 Palette
- Hyperlinks palette
- Image Editing palette
- Index palette
- Item Styles palette
- JavaScript palette
- JavaScript Debugger palette
- Layers palette
- Lists palette
- Measurements palette
- Page Layout palette
- Profile Information palette
- Redline palette
- Scale palette
- Style Sheets palette
- Table Styles palette
- Text Shading Styles palette
- Tools palette
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
- Tools
- Projects and Layouts
- Native QuarkXPress Objects
- Content Variables
- Boxes, Lines, and Tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadows
- Item Find/Change
- Integration of Custom Border Styles with Item Find/Change
- Working with boxes
- Creating text and picture boxes
- 9-Point Reference Grid
- Resizing boxes
- Auto Grow/Shrink Text Boxes
- Locking box and picture proportions
- Reshaping boxes
- Adding borders to boxes
- Applying colors to boxes
- Applying gradients to boxes
- Specifying number of columns in text boxes
- Merging and splitting boxes
- Adding text and pictures to boxes
- Changing box type
- Creating a box from a clipping path
- Copying attributes from one box to another
- Super Step and Repeat
- ShapeMaker
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
- Drawing a table
- Converting text to tables
- New Table Model with Table Styles
- Importing Excel tables
- Importing Excel charts
- Adding text and pictures to tables
- Editing table text
- Linking table cells
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Combining cells
- Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns
- Converting tables back to text
- Working with tables and groups
- Continuing tables in other locations
- Use Tables as Anchors
- Text and Typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
- Word Filter
- Finding and changing text
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- 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
- 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
- Break options in Paragraph Style
- Working with text shading
- Controlling kerning
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
- Controlling tracking
- Working with style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
- Bullets and numbering
- Positioning text in text boxes
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
- Working with OpenType Styles
- Working with Color Fonts
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
- Working with rubi text
- Working with hanging characters
- Working with Mojigumi sets and classes
- Character mapping for legacy projects
- Type Tricks
- 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
- 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
- Importing a picture
- On-Canvas Picture Status
- Stock Images
- Creating and Managing Stock Image Collections
- Spring Loading on Cursor
- Spring Loading Progress Bar
- Moving pictures
- Resizing pictures
- Cropping pictures
- Rotating and skewing pictures
- Coloring and shading pictures
- Flipping pictures
- Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures
- Specifying background colors for pictures
- Maintaining picture attributes
- Editing the raster image
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
- Improvements in EPS Images
- Support of SVG format Images*
- Working with pictures
- Cross references
- Color, Opacity, and Drop Shadows
- Working with colors
- The Colors palette
- The Colors dialog box
- Creating a color
- Auto Color Name
- Creating gradients
- Editing a color
- Editing of the Colors
- Duplicating a color
- Deleting a color
- Adding colors using the color picker tool
- Importing colors from another article or project
- Changing all instances of one color to another color
- Applying color and shade to text
- Applying color and shade to lines
- Applying transparency blend modes
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Source setups and output setups
- The color management experience for users
- Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert
- Working in a legacy color management environment
- Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)
- Color management for experts
- Creating a source setup
- Creating an output setup
- Managing profiles
- Working with drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Custom Bleeds
- Item Styles
- DejaVu (Windows only)
- Default Path
- Redline
- Document Construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating layers
- Selecting layers
- Showing and hiding layers
- Determining which layer an item is on
- Deleting layers
- Changing layer options
- Moving items to a different layer
- Copying and pasting items between layers
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Layers and text runaround
- Duplicating layers
- Merging layers
- Locking items on layers
- Using master pages with layers
- Suppressing printout of layers
- Object (Boxes) browser support with layers
- Object Naming from Layers Palette
- Using PDF 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
- Collaboration and Single-sourcing
- Notes
- Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
- Working with Multiple Languages
- XTensions Software
- Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Color Theme
- Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences - Application - Font Management
- Preferences — Application — Undo
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Sharing
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — Text Highlighting
- Preferences — Application — East Asian
- Preferences — Application — Dynamic Guides Color
- Preferences — Application — File List
- Preferences — Application — Default Path
- Preferences — Application — Index
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Notes
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — Redline
- Preferences — Application — Spell-Check
- Preferences — Application — Tables
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Project preferences
- Layout preferences
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Tools
- Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Bleed
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Document Recovery
- Contacting Quark
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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. However, some labels, buttons, key combinations, and other
aspects of the application must differ between Mac OS® and Windows®
because of user interface conventions or other factors. In such cases, both
the Mac OS and Windows versions are presented, separated by a slash, with
the Mac OS version presented first. For example, if the Mac OS version of a
button is labeled Select, and the Windows version is labeled Browse, you are
directed to “Click Select/Browse.” More complex cross-platform differences
are mentioned in notes or parenthetical statements.
Technology note
Quark has developed QuarkXPress for Mac OS X and Windows to give
publishers control over typography, color, and collaboration. In addition to
unique typographic controls, QuarkXPress offers comprehensive font support,
including support for TrueType®, OpenType®, and Unicode®. Designers can use
PANTONE® (the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM®), Hexachrome®, Trumatch®,
Focoltone®, DIC®, and Toyo to add color to page layouts.
QuarkXPress acts as a hub for collaborative publishing environments because it
allows you to import and export content in multiple file formats, and to share
design components with other users. You can import files from applications
such as Microsoft® Word, Microsoft Excel®, Adobe® Illustrator®, and Adobe
Photoshop®. QuarkXPress supports copy paste of content from external
applications, and allows the user to convert the imported vector picture data to
Native Objects. You can output content as PostScript® or in PDF format for
Adobe Acrobat® Reader®. QuarkXPress supports export of digital output in
ePub, and HTML5 Publications. The ePub file is compatible with all prominent
ePub Readers and Google Chrome. You can also export files that can be viewed
using Safari®, Google Chrome®, Firefox®, Microsoft Edge® and other
compatible browsers. Using features such as Job Jackets® and Composition
Zones®, you can be sure that multiple people share specifications to produce
consistent publications, even while working on a single publication
simultaneously.
The QuarkXPress software architecture lets you and software developers
expand publishing capability. Through XTensions® software technology, third-
party developers can create custom modules for QuarkXPress.