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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

Guides palette

The Guides palette lets you work with guides. For more information, see "Using the Guides

palette."

Item Styles palette

The Item Styles palette lets you work with item styles. For more information, see "Item

Styles XTensions software."

PSD Import palette

The PSD Import palette lets you control the display of imported Photoshop (PSD) files.

For more information, see "Working with PSD pictures."

The PSD Import palette lets you manipulate imported PSD pictures.

Scale palette

The Scale palette lets you perform advanced scaling operations. For more information,

see "Scale XTensions software."

Palette groups and palette sets

QuarkXPress offers two features that help you to manage palettes: palette groups and

palette sets.

Using palette groups

The Palette Groups feature lets you combine several palettes into one.

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