Quark QuarkXPress 2017 User manual

Category
Software
Type
User manual
A Guide to QuarkXPress
2017
Contents
About this guide.........................................................................15
What we're assuming about you.....................................................................15
Where to go for help.......................................................................................15
Conventions....................................................................................................15
Technology note..............................................................................................16
The user interface.......................................................................18
Tools................................................................................................................18
Scissors tool.............................................................................................................21
Starburst tool...........................................................................................................22
ShapeMaker tools....................................................................................................22
Menus..............................................................................................................41
QuarkXPress menu (Mac OS X only).......................................................................41
File menu.................................................................................................................42
Edit menu................................................................................................................42
Style menu...............................................................................................................44
Item menu...............................................................................................................47
Page menu..............................................................................................................49
Layout menu............................................................................................................49
Table menu.............................................................................................................50
View menu...............................................................................................................51
Utilities menu...........................................................................................................52
Window menu.........................................................................................................54
Help menu ..............................................................................................................56
Context menus................................................................................................56
Palettes...........................................................................................................56
Advanced Image Control palette............................................................................58
Books palette..........................................................................................................58
Callout Styles palette..............................................................................................59
Colors palette..........................................................................................................59
Conditional Styles palette.......................................................................................59
Content palette.......................................................................................................59
Content Variables palette.......................................................................................60
Footnote Styles palette...........................................................................................60
Glyphs palette.........................................................................................................61
Gradients palette....................................................................................................62
Grid Styles palette...................................................................................................62
Guides palette.........................................................................................................63
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HTML5 Palette.........................................................................................................63
Hyperlinks palette...................................................................................................63
Image Editing palette..............................................................................................64
Index palette...........................................................................................................64
Item Styles palette...................................................................................................65
Layers palette..........................................................................................................65
Lists palette.............................................................................................................65
Measurements palette.............................................................................................66
Measurements palette - Mac OS X.........................................................................66
Measurements palette - Windows...........................................................................68
Page Layout palette................................................................................................70
Profile Information palette......................................................................................70
Redline palette........................................................................................................70
Reflow Tagging palette...........................................................................................71
Scale palette............................................................................................................71
Style Sheets palette.................................................................................................71
Table Styles palette.................................................................................................71
Text Shading Styles palette.....................................................................................72
Tools palette...........................................................................................................72
Palette groups and palette sets..............................................................................72
Layout controls................................................................................................74
Views and view sets........................................................................................75
Splitting a window...................................................................................................75
Creating a window..................................................................................................76
Using Story Editor view...........................................................................................76
View sets..................................................................................................................77
Projects and layouts...................................................................79
Working with projects.....................................................................................79
Options for Print layouts.........................................................................................80
Saving and naming a QuarkXPress project.............................................................81
Exporting layouts and projects................................................................................81
Custom page size....................................................................................................81
Working with layouts......................................................................................83
Project-level and layout-level resources..................................................................84
Adaptive scaling......................................................................................................84
Working with guides.......................................................................................86
Column and margin guides.....................................................................................86
Ruler guides............................................................................................................87
Snapping to guides.................................................................................................87
Dynamic Guides......................................................................................................88
Undoing and redoing actions..........................................................................89
Native QuarkXPress objects......................................................90
Convert an existing item to a native QuarkXPress object..............................90
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Import an object as a native QuarkXPress object...........................................91
Content variables.......................................................................93
Edit content variables.....................................................................................94
Create a custom content variable...................................................................95
Insert a content variable.................................................................................97
Boxes, lines, and tables..............................................................98
Understanding items and content...................................................................98
Understanding handles....................................................................................99
Understanding Bézier shapes........................................................................100
Drop Shadows...............................................................................................103
Item Find/Change..........................................................................................104
Working with boxes......................................................................................105
Creating text and picture boxes............................................................................105
Resizing boxes.......................................................................................................107
Locking box and picture proportions....................................................................107
Reshaping boxes...................................................................................................108
Adding frames to boxes........................................................................................108
Applying colors to boxes......................................................................................109
Applying gradients to boxes.................................................................................109
Specifying number of columns in text boxes........................................................109
Merging and splitting boxes.................................................................................110
Adding text and pictures to boxes........................................................................111
Changing box type................................................................................................111
Creating a box from a clipping path.....................................................................111
Copying attributes from one box to another........................................................111
Super Step and Repeat.........................................................................................113
ShapeMaker..........................................................................................................114
Working with lines.........................................................................................119
Creating lines........................................................................................................119
Line modes for orthogonal lines...........................................................................120
Resizing lines.........................................................................................................120
Reshaping lines.....................................................................................................121
Controlling line appearance..................................................................................121
Joining lines..........................................................................................................121
Joining, extending and closing open paths..........................................................122
Copying attributes from one line to another.........................................................122
Manipulating items........................................................................................123
Selecting items......................................................................................................123
Moving items.........................................................................................................123
Cutting, copying, and pasting items.....................................................................124
Controlling the stacking order of items.................................................................124
Grouping items.....................................................................................................125
Duplicating items..................................................................................................125
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Spacing and aligning items ..................................................................................126
Rotating items.......................................................................................................126
Skewing items.......................................................................................................127
Locking and unlocking items.................................................................................127
Anchoring items and groups in text......................................................................127
Working with callouts....................................................................................127
Understanding callouts..........................................................................................128
Creating a callout..................................................................................................130
Configuring a callout anchor.................................................................................131
Working with callout styles....................................................................................131
Callouts and runaround.........................................................................................132
Working with tables......................................................................................132
Drawing a table.....................................................................................................133
Converting text to tables......................................................................................134
Importing Excel tables...........................................................................................135
Importing Excel charts...........................................................................................137
Inline tables...........................................................................................................137
Table styles............................................................................................................138
Adding text and pictures to tables........................................................................139
Editing table text ..................................................................................................140
Linking table cells..................................................................................................140
Formatting tables..................................................................................................141
Formatting gridlines..............................................................................................141
Inserting and deleting rows and columns.............................................................142
Combining cells.....................................................................................................143
Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns........................................................143
Converting tables back to text..............................................................................143
Working with tables and groups...........................................................................143
Continuing tables in other locations.....................................................................143
Table Import..........................................................................................................147
Text and typography................................................................149
Editing text...................................................................................................149
Fit Box to Text feature...........................................................................................149
Importing and exporting text.......................................................................150
Importing and exporting text with Unicode options.............................................151
Finding and changing text.............................................................................151
Special character codes.........................................................................................153
Working with footnotes and endnotes.........................................................154
Inserting footnotes and endnotes.........................................................................155
Footnote/Endnote styles.......................................................................................156
Footnote separators..............................................................................................158
Checking spelling..........................................................................................160
Auxiliary dictionaries.............................................................................................162
Counting words and characters.....................................................................162
Applying character attributes.......................................................................164
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Applying a font......................................................................................................164
Choosing a font size..............................................................................................164
Applying type styles..............................................................................................165
Applying color, shade, and opacity......................................................................165
Applying horizontal or vertical scale.....................................................................166
Applying baseline shift..........................................................................................166
Applying text stroke..............................................................................................167
Applying multiple character attributes..................................................................168
Applying paragraph attributes......................................................................169
Controlling alignment...........................................................................................169
Controlling indentation.........................................................................................170
Controlling leading...............................................................................................171
Controlling space before and after paragraphs....................................................172
Controlling column flow........................................................................................172
Setting tabs...........................................................................................................179
Controlling widow and orphan lines.....................................................................180
Working with text shading............................................................................180
Creating and editing text shading styles...............................................................180
Applying text shading...........................................................................................183
Format painter..............................................................................................184
Controlling kerning.......................................................................................185
Kerning manually...................................................................................................185
Kerning automatically............................................................................................185
Controlling hyphenation and justification.....................................................186
Specifying hyphenation exceptions......................................................................188
Hyphenation exception files..................................................................................188
Using discretionary hyphens.................................................................................197
Controlling tracking.......................................................................................198
Tracking manually..................................................................................................198
Editing tracking tables...........................................................................................198
Working with style sheets.............................................................................199
Creating and editing paragraph style sheets........................................................199
Creating and editing character style sheets..........................................................201
Applying style sheets............................................................................................203
Appending style sheets.........................................................................................204
Working with conditional styles....................................................................204
Creating a conditional style...................................................................................206
Applying a conditional style..................................................................................208
Removing conditional styles..................................................................................209
Using conditional style markers.............................................................................209
Editing a conditional style.....................................................................................210
Bullets and numbering...................................................................................210
Working with bullet styles.....................................................................................211
Working with numbering styles.............................................................................212
Working with outline styles...................................................................................214
Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets......................................................216
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Positioning text in text boxes.......................................................................217
Using baseline grid................................................................................................217
Aligning text vertically...........................................................................................217
Specifying text inset..............................................................................................218
Controlling font usage...................................................................................218
Converting text to boxes..............................................................................219
Using text runaround....................................................................................219
Running text around all sides of an item...............................................................219
Running text around lines and text paths..............................................................220
Running text around text boxes ...........................................................................220
Running text around pictures................................................................................220
Fine-tuning a runaround path...............................................................................222
Editing a runaround path......................................................................................223
Working with text paths...............................................................................223
Creating drop caps........................................................................................224
Creating rules above and below paragraphs................................................224
Using anchored boxes...................................................................................224
Anchoring boxes and lines in text.........................................................................224
Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines.....................225
Unanchoring boxes and lines................................................................................225
Working with OpenType fonts......................................................................225
Applying OpenType styles....................................................................................226
Using ligatures.......................................................................................................228
Working with OpenType stylistic sets...................................................................228
Working with the Glyphs palette..................................................................231
Displaying invisible characters......................................................................232
Inserting special characters...........................................................................232
Inserting spaces.....................................................................................................232
Inserting other special characters..........................................................................232
Specifying character language......................................................................232
Using font fallback........................................................................................233
Working with font mapping rules.................................................................233
Working with design grids............................................................................234
Understanding design grids..................................................................................234
Design grid basics.................................................................................................237
Working with grid styles........................................................................................247
Using design grids.................................................................................................250
Working with hanging characters.................................................................251
Creating hanging character classes.......................................................................253
Creating hanging character sets ..........................................................................254
Applying hanging character sets...........................................................................255
Type Tricks....................................................................................................255
Make Fraction........................................................................................................255
Make Price.............................................................................................................256
Word Space Tracking............................................................................................256
Line Check.............................................................................................................257
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Custom Underline.................................................................................................257
Hyperlinks.....................................................................................................258
Creating a destination...........................................................................................259
Creating an anchor................................................................................................260
Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination...............................................260
Creating a hyperlink from scratch.........................................................................261
Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette.................................................................261
Formatting hyperlinks............................................................................................261
Editing and deleting destinations.........................................................................262
Editing and deleting anchors................................................................................262
Editing and deleting hyperlinks............................................................................262
Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette...............................................................262
Pictures.....................................................................................263
Working with pictures...................................................................................263
Importing a picture................................................................................................263
Moving pictures.....................................................................................................264
Resizing pictures....................................................................................................264
Cropping pictures.................................................................................................264
Rotating and skewing pictures..............................................................................264
Coloring and shading pictures..............................................................................264
Flipping pictures....................................................................................................265
Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures.................................................265
Specifying background colors for pictures............................................................265
Maintaining picture attributes...............................................................................265
Editing the raster image........................................................................................266
Working with clipping paths.........................................................................271
Creating clipping paths.........................................................................................271
Using embedded clipping paths...........................................................................272
Manipulating clipping paths..................................................................................273
Creating special effects with clipping paths..........................................................273
Working with alpha masks............................................................................273
Working with PSD pictures...........................................................................274
Preparing PSD files................................................................................................275
Working with PSD layers.......................................................................................275
Working with PSD channels...................................................................................276
Working with PSD paths........................................................................................277
Printing PSD pictures.............................................................................................277
Cross references.......................................................................278
Inserting a cross reference............................................................................278
Synchronizing cross references.....................................................................280
Color, opacity, and drop shadows............................................282
Working with colors......................................................................................282
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The Colors palette.................................................................................................282
The Colors dialog box...........................................................................................283
Creating a color.....................................................................................................283
Creating gradients.................................................................................................284
Editing a color.......................................................................................................287
Duplicating a color................................................................................................287
Deleting a color.....................................................................................................287
Adding colors using the color picker tool.............................................................288
Importing colors from another article or project...................................................290
Changing all instances of one color to another color...........................................290
Applying color and shade.....................................................................................290
Applying color and shade to text..........................................................................291
Applying color and shade to lines.........................................................................291
Applying transparency blend modes....................................................................291
Working with opacity....................................................................................296
Specifying opacity.................................................................................................296
Specifying opacity for groups...............................................................................296
Creating blends with transparency........................................................................297
Color management........................................................................................297
Source setups and output setups..........................................................................297
The color management experience for users........................................................297
Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert....................298
Working in a legacy color management environment..........................................299
Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)................................................................299
Color management for experts.............................................................................300
Creating a source setup........................................................................................300
Creating an output setup......................................................................................301
Managing profiles.................................................................................................302
Working with drop shadows.........................................................................303
Applying drop shadows........................................................................................303
Customizing drop shadows...................................................................................303
Incorporating drop shadows with items................................................................304
Custom Bleeds..........................................................................305
Using Custom Bleeds.....................................................................................305
Using Clip at Bleed Edge...............................................................................306
Item Styles................................................................................307
Using the Item Styles palette........................................................................307
Creating Item Styles......................................................................................308
Checking Item Style usage............................................................................309
DejaVu (Windows only)............................................................311
Document construction............................................................312
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Using automatic page numbering.................................................................312
Creating an automatic text box....................................................................312
Working with master pages..........................................................................313
Creating a master page.........................................................................................313
Applying master pages.........................................................................................317
Updating master pages.........................................................................................318
Master pages and layout families..........................................................................318
Working with layers......................................................................................318
Understanding layers.............................................................................................319
Creating layers......................................................................................................320
Selecting layers.....................................................................................................320
Showing and hiding layers....................................................................................320
Determining which layer an item is on..................................................................321
Deleting layers......................................................................................................321
Changing layer options.........................................................................................322
Moving items to a different layer..........................................................................323
Copying and pasting items between layers..........................................................323
Changing the stacking order of layers..................................................................324
Layers and text runaround.....................................................................................324
Duplicating layers..................................................................................................324
Merging layers.......................................................................................................325
Locking items on layers.........................................................................................325
Using master pages with layers.............................................................................325
Suppressing printout of layers...............................................................................326
Using PDF layers...................................................................................................326
Working with lists.........................................................................................327
Preparing for lists..................................................................................................327
Creating a list........................................................................................................327
Importing lists from another document................................................................328
Navigating with lists..............................................................................................328
Building lists..........................................................................................................329
Updating lists........................................................................................................329
Working with indexes...................................................................................329
Specifying the index marker color.........................................................................329
Creating index entries...........................................................................................330
Creating cross-references......................................................................................332
Editing an index entry...........................................................................................333
Deleting an index entry.........................................................................................333
Specifying the punctuation used in an index........................................................333
Building an index...................................................................................................334
Editing final indexes..............................................................................................335
Working with books......................................................................................336
Creating books......................................................................................................336
Working with chapters...........................................................................................337
Controlling page numbers....................................................................................339
Synchronizing chapters.........................................................................................340
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Printing chapters...................................................................................................341
Generate a PDF from a Book................................................................................341
Creating indexes and tables of contents for books..............................................342
Working with libraries...................................................................................343
Creating libraries...................................................................................................344
Adding library entries............................................................................................344
Retrieving library entries........................................................................................345
Manipulating library entries...................................................................................345
Working with labels...............................................................................................345
Saving libraries......................................................................................................346
Guides Palette...............................................................................................346
Using the Guides palette......................................................................................346
Guides palette menu.............................................................................................348
Creating guides with the Guides palette..............................................................348
Creating grids with the Guides palette.................................................................350
Creating rows and columns...................................................................................351
Creating bleed and safety guides.........................................................................352
Scale functionality.........................................................................................354
Cloner functionality.......................................................................................356
ImageGrid functionality.................................................................................357
Linkster functionality.....................................................................................359
Output......................................................................................361
Printing layouts.............................................................................................361
Updating picture paths.........................................................................................361
Setting Print dialog box controls...........................................................................361
Print dialog box.....................................................................................................363
Printing color separations......................................................................................368
Printing color composites......................................................................................369
Exporting layouts..........................................................................................370
Exporting a layout in EPS format...........................................................................370
Exporting a layout in PDF format..........................................................................371
Creating a PostScript file.......................................................................................373
Exporting a layout as an image.............................................................................373
Using Collect for Output...............................................................................373
Working with output styles...........................................................................375
App Studio output styles.......................................................................................375
HTML5 Publication output styles..........................................................................377
Working with trapping..................................................................................378
Understanding flattening and production issues..........................................379
PDF................................................................................................................379
Importing a PDF file into a picture box.................................................................379
Word Filter....................................................................................................381
Script XTensions software.............................................................................382
Box Tools submenu...............................................................................................383
Grid submenu........................................................................................................383
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Images submenu...................................................................................................383
Picture Box submenu............................................................................................384
Saving submenu....................................................................................................384
Special submenu...................................................................................................384
Stories submenu....................................................................................................384
Tables submenu....................................................................................................385
Typography submenu...........................................................................................385
Collaboration and single-sourcing............................................386
Working with shared content........................................................................386
Sharing and synchronizing content.......................................................................387
Understanding synchronization options................................................................389
Placing a synchronized item..................................................................................390
Placing synchronized content................................................................................390
Importing content into the shared content library................................................390
Working with Composition Zones.................................................................390
Understanding Composition Zones......................................................................390
Creating a Composition Zones item.....................................................................393
Placing a Composition Zones item................................................................395
Managing multiple pages in a placed Composition Zones item..........................396
Editing the attributes of a Composition Zones item.............................................397
Converting a Composition Zones item to a picture..............................................397
Unsynchronizing a Composition Zones item.........................................................398
Editing a composition layout: Content..........................................................398
Editing the contents of a composition layout...............................................398
Unsynchronizing a composition layout..........................................................399
Deleting a composition layout......................................................................399
Notes........................................................................................400
Creating notes...............................................................................................400
Working with notes.......................................................................................401
Opening and closing notes...................................................................................401
Showing and hiding notes.....................................................................................401
Deleting notes.......................................................................................................401
Converting between notes and text......................................................................401
Viewing notes by author, date, name, or color.....................................................401
Moving and resizing notes....................................................................................402
Printing notes........................................................................................................402
Notes in PDFs........................................................................................................402
Redline......................................................................................403
Tracking changes...........................................................................................403
Viewing tracked changes..............................................................................404
Accepting and rejecting changes..................................................................405
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Job Jackets...............................................................................406
Understanding Job Jackets...........................................................................406
What are Job Jackets?..........................................................................................407
The structure of Job Jackets.................................................................................407
Sample Job Jackets workflow...............................................................................411
Working with Job Jackets.............................................................................412
Basic mode and Advanced mode.........................................................................412
Creating Job Jackets files.....................................................................................413
Working with Job Tickets..............................................................................417
Creating a Job Ticket template.............................................................................417
Adding a layout definition to a Job Ticket: Advanced mode...............................421
Applying a Job Ticket template to a project.........................................................422
Applying a layout definition to a project...............................................................425
Exporting and importing Job Tickets....................................................................425
The default Job Jackets file...........................................................................426
Editing the default Job Ticket template: File menu..............................................426
Editing the default Job Ticket template: Utilities menu........................................426
Editing the default Job Jackets file.......................................................................427
Working with Resources: Advanced mode...................................................427
Accessing Resources: Advanced mode.................................................................427
Configuring Resources: Advanced mode..............................................................428
Specifying the location of Resources: Advanced mode........................................429
Working with Layout Specifications..............................................................430
Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode................................................430
Applying a Layout Specification to a layout..........................................................431
Working with Rules and Rule Sets.................................................................433
Creating Rules: Advanced mode..........................................................................434
Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode.......................................................436
Applying a Rule Set to a layout.............................................................................437
Evaluating a layout........................................................................................438
Job Jackets locking.......................................................................................440
Printing with JDF output...............................................................................441
Working with multiple languages.............................................443
Applying a character language......................................................................443
Changing the program language...................................................................444
XTensions software..................................................................445
Working with XTensions modules.................................................................445
Installing XTensions modules................................................................................445
Enabling and disabling XTensions modules.........................................................446
Working with XTensions sets (Windows only) ......................................................446
Preferences...............................................................................447
Understanding preferences...........................................................................447
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Nonmatching Preferences alert.............................................................................447
Changes to QuarkXPress preferences...................................................................448
What's in the preferences files..............................................................................448
Application preferences................................................................................449
Preferences — Application — Display..................................................................450
Preferences — Application — Color Theme.........................................................450
Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts........................................................450
Preferences — Application — Input Settings........................................................451
Preferences — Application — Font Fallback.........................................................452
Preferences — Application — Undo.....................................................................453
Preferences — Application — Open and Save.....................................................453
Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager..............................................454
Preferences — Application — Sharing..................................................................454
Preferences — Application — Fonts.....................................................................454
Preferences — Application — Text Highlighting..................................................454
Preferences — Application — East Asian..............................................................455
Preferences — Application — Dynamic Guides Color..........................................455
Preferences — Application — File List..................................................................455
Preferences — Application — Default Path..........................................................455
Preferences — Application — Index.....................................................................456
Preferences — Application — Job Jackets...........................................................456
Preferences — Application — Notes....................................................................456
Preferences — Application — PDF.......................................................................457
Preferences — Application — Redline..................................................................457
Preferences — Application — Spell-Check...........................................................458
Preferences — Application — Tables....................................................................458
Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price........................................................459
Project preferences.......................................................................................459
Preferences — Project — General.........................................................................459
Layout preferences.......................................................................................460
Preferences — Layout — General.........................................................................460
Preferences — Layout — Measurements..............................................................461
Preferences — Layout — Paragraph.....................................................................462
Preferences — Layout — Character......................................................................463
Preferences — Layout — Tools.............................................................................464
Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid...........................................................465
Preferences — Layout — Color Manager..............................................................466
Preferences — Layout — Layers............................................................................466
Legal notices.............................................................................467
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About this guide
You do not need to read the QuarkXPress® documentation from beginning to end.
Instead, use this guide to quickly look up information, find out what you need to
know, and get on with your work.
What we're assuming about you
In writing this guide, we assume that you are familiar with your computer and know
how to:
• Launch an application
• Open, save, and close files
• Use menus, dialog boxes, and palettes
• Work within a networked computing environment
• Use the mouse, keyboard commands, and modifier keys
Consult the documentation provided with your computer or other resources if you
need more information in any of these areas.
Where to go for help
If you're new to QuarkXPress, or if you want to explore one of its other longstanding
features, consult the following resources:
• Third-party books
• General books about desktop publishing
If your issues are at the system level — saving files, moving files, activating fonts, for
example — consult the documentation resources provided with your computer.
Conventions
Formatting conventions highlight information to help you quickly find what you
need.
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• Bold type style: The names of all dialog boxes, fields, and other controls are set
in bold type. For example: "Click OK."
• References: In descriptions of features, parenthetical references guide you in
accessing those features. For example: "The Find/Change dialog box (Edit menu)
lets you find and replace text."
• Arrows: You will often see arrows (>), which map out the menu path to a feature.
For example: "Choose Edit > Style Sheets to display the Style Sheets dialog box."
• Icons: Although many tools and buttons are referenced by name, which you can
see by displaying ToolTips, in some cases icons are shown for easy identification.
For example, "Click the button on the Measurements palette to center text."
• Cross-platform issues: This application is quite consistent across operating systems.
However, some labels, buttons, key combinations, and other aspects of the
application must differ between Mac OS® and Windows® because of user interface
conventions or other factors. In such cases, both the Mac OS and Windows versions
are presented, separated by a slash, with the Mac OS version presented first. For
example, if the Mac OS version of a button is labeled Select, and the Windows
version is labeled Browse, you are directed to "Click Select/Browse." More complex
cross-platform differences are mentioned in notes or parenthetical statements.
Technology note
Quark developed QuarkXPress for Mac OS X and Windows to give publishers control
over typography, color, and collaboration. In addition to unique typographic controls,
QuarkXPress offers comprehensive font support, including support for TrueType®,
OpenType®, and Unicode®. Designers can use PANTONE® (the PANTONE MATCHING
SYSTEM®), Hexachrome®, Trumatch®, Focoltone®, DIC®, and Toyo to add color to
page layouts.
QuarkXPress acts as a hub for collaborative publishing environments because it allows
you to import and export content in multiple file formats, and to share design
components with other users. You can import files from applications such as Microsoft®
Word, Microsoft Excel®, Adobe® Illustrator®, and Adobe Photoshop®. QuarkXPress
supports copy paste of content from external applications, and allows the user to
convert the imported vector picture data to Native Objects. You can output content
as PostScript® or in PDF format for Adobe Acrobat® Reader®. QuarkXPress supports
export of digital output in ePub, Kindle format, and HTML5 Publications. The ePub
file is compatible with all prominent ePub Readers and Google Chrome. The Kindle
file is compatible with Kindle devices.You can also export files that can be viewed
using Internet Explorer®, Safari®, Google Chrome®, and Firefox®. Using features such
as Job Jackets® and Composition Zones®, you can be sure that multiple people share
specifications to produce consistent publications, even while working on a single
publication simultaneously.
The QuarkXPress software architecture lets you and software developers expand
publishing capability. Through XTensions® software technology, third-party developers
can create custom modules for QuarkXPress. QuarkXTensions® (Quark® XTensions
software) also provide a modular approach for meeting your particular publishing
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needs. And if you can write AppleScript® scripts, you can use this scripting language
from Apple® to automate many QuarkXPress activities.
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The user interface
Skimming through the QuarkXPress user interface, you will find that many commands
are familiar or self-explanatory. Once you become familiar with QuarkXPress menus
and dialog boxes, you will discover that keyboard commands and palettes offer
convenient access to features that you can also access through menus.
Tools
The Tools palette
The Tools palette includes the following controls:
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•
Use the Item tool to select, move, resize, and reshape items (boxes, lines, text
paths, and groups). When the Item tool is not selected, you can press
Command/Ctrl to temporarily access the Item tool.
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Use the Text Content tool to draw text boxes and work with text in boxes.
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Use the Text Linking tool to link text boxes. To maintain the text in their
respective boxes, hold down the Alt/Option key when using this tool.
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Use the Text Unlinking tool to unlink text boxes. To maintain the text in their
respective boxes, hold down the Alt/Option key when using this tool. To move
the box out of the text chain, with its text, hold down the Shift+Option keys
when using this tool.
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Use the Picture Content tool to draw picture boxes and work with pictures in
boxes.
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Use the Rectangle Box tool to create a rectangular box. To draw a square box,
press and hold Shift while drawing.
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Use the Starburst tool to create a star-shaped box.
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Use the Composition Zones tool to create a Composition Zones box.
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Use the Oval Box tool to create an oval box. To create a circular box, press and
hold Shift while drawing.
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Use the Star tool to create a star shape.
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Use the Polygon tool to create a polygon shape
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Use the Rounded Rectangle tool to create a rounded corner rectanglular shape.
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Use the Diamond tool to create a diamond shape.
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Use the Triangle tool to create a triangle shape.
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Use the Wave tool to create a wave shape.
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Use the Spiral tool to create a spiral shape.
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Use the Cloud tool to create a cloud shape.
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Use the Line tool to create straight diagonal lines of any angle. To constrain a
line angle to 45 degrees, press and hold Shift while drawing.
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Use the Orthogonal Line tool to create orthogonal lines.
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Use the Bézier Pen tool to create Bézier lines and boxes. To constrain a line
angle to 45 degrees, press and hold Shift while drawing.
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Use the Add Point tool to add a point to any type of path. Adding a point to
a content box automatically turns the content box into a Bézier item.
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Use the Remove Point tool to remove a point from any type of path.
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Use the Convert Point tool to automatically convert corner points to curve
points, and curve points to corner points. Click and drag to change the position
of a point, the curve of a curved line segment, or the position of a straight line
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segment. Select this tool and click a rectangular box or straight line to convert
the item to a Bézier box or line.
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Use the Scissors tool to cut an item into distinct paths.
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Use the Select Point tool to select curves or points so that you can move them
or delete them. Press Shift and click to select multiple points. Option-click/Alt-click
a point to make it symmetrical.
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Use the Freehand Drawing tool to draw any shape line or box you want. If
you don't close a freehand box, it remains a line. To automatically close a freehand
box, press Option/Alt.
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Use the Item Format Painter tool to copy all attributes applied to one item
and apply them to any other item.
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Use the Tables tool to create a table.
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Use the Zoom tool to enlarge or reduce the document view.
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Use the Pan tool to reposition the active layout.
You can use key commands to declare the box content type as you draw using the
Rectangle Box tool: Press R while drawing to declare Picture content or press T while
drawing to declare Text content. To change the content type of an existing box,
right-click on the box and choose Content > Text, Picture or None
For more information about Bézier boxes and lines, see "Creating Bézier boxes" and
"Creating Bézier lines."
To pan the layout while a Pen tool is selected, press Shift+Space and then click and
drag.
To add text to a line or path, select the Text Content tool and double-click the line
or path.
For more information about Composition Zones, see "Creating a Composition Zones
item."
Users can display the Tools palette (Windows menu) horizontally, as well as vertically.
To display the palette horizontally, on Windows Ctrl+double-click the title bar and on
Mac OS X dock the tool palette to the top edge.
Tool key commands
When no text box or text path is active, you can switch tools quickly using the
following key commands:
Mac OS XWindowsTool
VVItem tool
TTText Content tool
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