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you to access projects with increased speed and ease. You can also use DejaVu to designate
default folders for retrieving text and pictures, and for opening and saving projects.
The File List feature adds a list of recently opened projects to the File menu, either at the
bottom or as a hierarchical menu from the File > Open submenu. You can choose to
display from three to nine recently edited and saved projects. To change File List settings,
use the controls in the File List pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit
menu).
Use the Default Path feature to designate default folders for the following File menu
commands: Open, Import, Save, and Save as.
The Default Path feature does not work until you specify default paths. To do so, display
the Default Path pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu). Once
you have specified a default path for a File menu command, the application uses that path
whenever you execute that command.
Drop Shadow XTensions software
With Drop Shadow XTensions software, you can apply automatic feathered drop shadows
to items and text in a layout.
There are two ways to apply drop shadow effects to active items: Using the Drop Shadow
tab of the Measurements palette and using the Drop Shadow pane of the Modify dialog
box (Item menu). In either case, however, the options are as follows:
• Angle field: Enter a value between 180° and –180° in .001 increments to specify the angle
of the "light source" causing the drop shadow.
• Synchronize Angle check box: Check this to synchronize the angle with other drop
shadows in the layout for which this feature is checked. Changing the Angle value of any
drop shadows for which Synchronize Angle is checked will affect all of the drop shadows
for which the box is checked.
• Distance field: Enter an offset value for the item; the drop shadow offset is measured from
the upper left corner of the item's bounding box.
• Scale field: Enter a value from 0 to 1,000% to specify the size of the drop shadow in relation
to the original item.
• Blur field: Enter a value to specify how blurry the edges of the drop shadow are, with
higher values creating fuzzier edges.
• Skew field: Enter a value between –75° and 75° to slant the drop shadow at a certain angle.
• Color, Shade, and Opacity: Choose a color from the drop-down menu and enter values
in the fields to specify color, shade, and opacity of the drop shadow.
• Multiply Drop Shadow: This setting controls how the shadow is combined with its
background. When this box is checked, the shadow color is combined with the background
color or colors using a "multiply" blending mode, producing a darker result (similar to an
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