9.3

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Project preferences
The Project panes in the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) affect
all layouts in the active project. However, if you change project preferences with no projects
open, the new preferences become the default settings for all new projects.
Preferences Project General
Use the Project version of the General pane of the Preferences dialog box
(QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify default settings for auto picture import, single layout
mode, and OpenType kerning (for OpenType fonts).
Use the Auto Picture Import drop-down menu to control whether the application
automatically updates pictures that have been modified since you last opened a layout.
To enable the Auto Picture Import feature, choose On. When you open a project, the
application automatically reimports modified pictures.
To disable the Auto Picture Import feature, choose Off.
To display an alert before the application imports modified pictures, choose Verify.
Checking Single Layout Mode with no projects open will automatically check the Single
Layout Mode check box in the New Project dialog box.
Check Use OpenType Kerning to activate the default kerning values for OpenType fonts.
When OpenType kerning is active, it overrides any kerning specified through Kerning
Table Edit (Utilities menu) for OpenType fonts.
Layout preferences
The Layout panes in the Preferences dialog (QuarkXPress/Edit > Preferences) box affect
the way certain QuarkXPress features work with documents, including whether pages are
inserted automatically when text overflows and how colors trap.
Preferences Layout General
Use the Layout versions of the General pane of the Preferences dialog box
(QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to specify various default settings for page layout, such as the
snap distance for guides and the colors of hyperlinks and anchors.
In the Display area:
When you check Greek Text Below and enter a value in the field, QuarkXPress speeds
screen redraw by "greeking" displaying gray bars in place of text smaller than a specified
size. Greeking does not affect printing or export. Text greeking is affected by the viewing
percentage.
Check Greek Pictures to enable QuarkXPress to display imported pictures as gray boxes.
Selecting a box that contains a greeked picture displays the picture normally. This option
is unchecked by default.
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