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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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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.
QuarkXPress provides different font icons ( , , ) for the three supported color
font formats so that the color fonts are easily differentiable from normal fonts
and from each other.
If an installed color font is available in more than one format on the system,
then the one having the higher preference order will be enumerated in the
font list. The preference order is: SVG, COLR, SBIX.
Both Windows and macOS have a default color font (Segoe UI Emoji font on
Windows and Apple Color Emoji on macOS).
Color fonts based on vector glyphs can be resized without any loss, just like any
regular font. Color bitmap fonts, like any other photo or pixel-based image, will
scale properly up to a certain size, depending on their original resolution.
Beyond that resolution, the lettering will look pixelated.
Bitmap fonts will work in high-quality output (such as print), however that
depends on the resolution added to such a font. You might see issue with
bitmap-based fonts when you use large font sizes. If you use a color font that
contains many hi-res bitmaps, the output will also significantly increase in size.
Emoji glyphs and color font glyphs can be inserted from the Glyph palette. If an
emoji glyph has a multi code point value then the glyphs will be displayed as
unencoded glyphs but can inserted as a single glyph.
Color fonts glyphs which have a single code point, can be inserted from System
Character Viewer (Cmd+ Control + Escape) on Mac, Emoji Panel (Windows key +
,) or (Windows key+ ;) on Windows, Emoji key on Touch keyboard on Windows.
Multi code point Emoji sequences cannot be inserted as a single character, nor
do the individual characters in correct sequence combine to form a single emoji
glyph. QuarkXPress doesn’t provide a UI option in the Glyph palette to access all
variants of a base emoji glyph (like skin tone variants).
Working with the Glyphs palette
A glyph is the smallest unit of a font — each uppercase letter, for example,
consists of its own glyph. To access all the glyphs in a font — especially an
OpenType font that may include tens of thousands of glyphs — you need to view
a complete character map. You can access such a character map in the Glyphs
palette (Window menu), which enables you to view all the glyphs in the selected