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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

User Guide | 8

Tool key commands

When no text box or text path is active, you can switch tools quickly using the

following key commands:

Scissors tool

Use the Scissors tool to cut the outline of a box and turn it into a line, or to cut a

line or text path into two.

The Scissors tool is displayed in the QuarkXPress Tools palette. To use the

Scissors tool:

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

Convert Point tool P P

Scissors tool P P

Select Point tool P P

Freehand Drawing tool P P

Item Format Painter tool I I

Table tool G G

Zoom tool Z Z

Pan tool X X