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Table Of Contents

Contents
About this guide
- What we're assuming about you
- Where to go for help
- Conventions
- Technology note
The user interface
- Tools
- Web tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
Projects and layouts
- Working with projects
- Working with layouts
  - Project-level and layout-level resources
- Working with guides
- Undoing and redoing actions
Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
  - Import/export filters
  - Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Finding and changing text
  - Special character codes
- Checking spelling
  - Auxiliary dictionaries
- Counting words and characters
- Applying character attributes
  - Applying a font
  - Choosing a font size
  - Applying type styles
  - Applying color, shade, and opacity
  - Applying horizontal or vertical scale
  - Applying baseline shift
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
- Controlling kerning
  - Kerning manually
  - Kerning automatically
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
  - Specifying hyphenation exceptions
  - Using discretionary hyphens
- Controlling tracking
  - Tracking manually
  - Editing tracking tables
- Working with style sheets
  - Creating and editing paragraph style sheets
  - Creating and editing 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
  - Working with bullet styles
  - Working with numbering styles
  - Working with outline styles
  - Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets
- Positioning text in text boxes
  - Using baseline grid
  - Aligning text vertically
  - Specifying text inset
- 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
  - 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
  - Unanchoring boxes and lines
- Working with OpenType fonts
  - Applying OpenType styles
  - Using ligatures
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
  - Inserting spaces
  - Inserting other special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- 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 hanging characters
  - Creating hanging character classes
  - Creating hanging character sets
  - Applying hanging character sets
Pictures
- Understanding pictures
- Supported picture file types
- Working with pictures
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
- Using picture effects
Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Understanding color
  - Understanding spot and process colors
  - Specifying matching system colors
- Working with colors
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Working with drop shadows
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
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
- Using Collaboration Setup
Interactive layouts
- Understanding Interactive layouts
- Creating interactive building blocks
- Working with actions
  - Assigning actions
  - Action reference
- Working with events
  - Choosing a user event
  - Configuring user events
- Working with scripts
- Previewing and exporting Interactive layouts
- Working with expressions
  - Understanding expressions
  - Using the Expression Editor dialog box
    - Calling a function on an interactive object
    - Assigning a value to a variable
eBooks
- Working with Reflow view
- Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks
  - Adding audio to an ePub eBook
  - Adding video to an ePub eBook
- Adding interactivity to Blio eBooks
- Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle
- Creating a TOC for Blio
- Working with eBook metadata
- Exporting for ePub
  - Specifying CSS for ePub export
- Exporting for Kindle
- Exporting for Blio eReader
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 Output Specifications
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
Web layouts
- Working with Web layouts
- Hyperlinks
- Rollovers
- Image maps
  - Creating an image map
  - Editing an image map
- Forms
- Menus
  - Working with standard menus
    - Creating a standard menu
    - Using a standard menu
  - Working with cascading menus
- Tables in Web layouts
- Meta tags
  - Creating a meta tag set
  - Specifying a meta tag set for a Web page
- Previewing Web pages
  - Specifying additional browsers for preview
- Exporting Web pages
  - Preparing for export
  - Exporting a Web page
Working with multiple languages
- Applying a character language
- Changing the program language
XTensions software
- Working with XTensions modules
  - Installing XTensions modules
  - Enabling and disabling XTensions modules
  - Working with XTensions sets
- Custom Bleeds XTensions software
  - Using Custom Bleeds
  - Using Clip at Bleed Edge
- DejaVu XTensions software
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Full Resolution Preview XTensions software
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
  - Using the Guides palette
  - Guides palette menu
  - Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro
  - Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro
  - Creating rows and columns
  - Creating bleed and safety guides
- HTML Text Import XTensions software
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Item Styles XTensions software
  - Using the Item Styles palette
  - Creating Item Styles
  - Checking Item Style usage
- OPI XTensions software
  - Targeting an imported picture for OPI exchange
  - Activating OPI for a layout
  - Creating OPI comments for print, EPS, and PDF
- PDF Filter XTensions software
  - Importing a PDF file into a picture box
- Scale XTensions software
- Scissors XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
  - Box Tools submenu
  - Grid submenu
  - Images submenu
  - Picture Box submenu
  - Printing submenu
  - Saving submenu
  - Special submenu
  - Stories submenu
  - Tables submenu
  - Typography submenu
- Shape of Things XTensions software
  - Using the Star Box tool
- Super Step and Repeat XTensions software
  - Using Super Step and Repeat
- Table Import XTensions software
- Type Tricks
  - Make Fraction
  - Make Price
  - Word Space Tracking
  - Line Check
  - Custom Underline
- Word 6–2000 Filter
- WordPerfect Filter
- XSLT Export XTensions software
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
- ShapeMaker XTensions software
  - ShapeMaker Waves tab
  - ShapeMaker Polygons tab
  - ShapeMaker Spirals tab
  - ShapeMaker Rectangles tab
  - ShapeMaker Presets tab
- Other XTensions modules
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Legal notices
Index

• Proof Output: Lets you preview how the layout will look when output to different media

and for different printing methods. This display simulation is accurate enough for soft

proofing.

• Reflow View: Displays the Reflow view (if any) for this layout. For more information, see

"Working with Reflow view."

• Full Res Previews: Displays full-resolution pictures on screen using the picture files' full

resolution. You can scale or magnify image without pixilation.

• Story Editor: Displays the active story in Story Editor view. For more information, see

"Using Story Editor view."

Utilities menu

The Utilities menu includes the following commands:

• 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: Lets you specify an auxiliary dictionary for use in spell checking.

• Edit Auxiliary: Lets you edit the auxiliary dictionary associated with the active layout.

• Word And Character Count: Displays the Word and Character Count dialog box.

• Insert Character: Lets you easily insert special characters, including special breaking and

nonbreaking spaces.

• Suggested Hyphenation: Displays the suggested hyphenation for the word containing

the text insertion point.

• Hyphenation Exceptions: Lets you specify whether and how particular words should be

hyphenated in the active article.

• Job Jackets Manager: Displays the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.

• Usage: Lets you view and update the status of fonts, pictures, QuarkVista effects, color

profiles, tables, Composition Zones, assets used in App Studio layouts, and assets used in

Blio interactivity.

• XTensions Manager: Lets you control which XTensions modules are loaded when the

application is launched.

• Font Mapping: Lets you create and edit rules for substituting a new font for a font that is

requested by a project but which is not installed on your computer.

• Component Status: Lets you view the status of required software components.

• PPD Manager: Lets you control which PostScript Printer Description files (PPDs) are loaded

in the Print dialog box.

• Use German (Reformed): Lets you control whether spell checking uses the reformed

German dictionary.

• Convert Project Language: Lets you convert all of the characters in the active article that

use a particular character language to a different character language.

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