Quark QuarkXPress 9.3 User guide

A Guide to QuarkXPress 9.3

Contents

About this guide.............................................................................18

What we're assuming about you..........................................................................18

Where to go for help............................................................................................18

Conventions..........................................................................................................19

Technology note...................................................................................................19

The user interface...........................................................................21

Tools......................................................................................................................21

Web tools..............................................................................................................24

Menus...................................................................................................................24

QuarkXPress menu (Mac OS only).................................................................................25

File menu.......................................................................................................................25

Edit menu......................................................................................................................26

Style menu.....................................................................................................................28

Item menu.....................................................................................................................30

Page menu....................................................................................................................32

Layout menu..................................................................................................................32

Table menu...................................................................................................................33

View menu.....................................................................................................................34

Utilities menu.................................................................................................................35

Window menu...............................................................................................................36

Help menu ....................................................................................................................38

Context menus......................................................................................................38

Palettes.................................................................................................................38

Tools palette.................................................................................................................39

Measurements palette...................................................................................................39

Page Layout palette......................................................................................................40

Style Sheets palette.......................................................................................................41

Conditional Styles palette.............................................................................................42

Colors palette................................................................................................................42

Shared Content palette.................................................................................................43

Trap Information palette...............................................................................................43

Lists palette...................................................................................................................43

App Studio palette........................................................................................................44

Profile Information palette.............................................................................................44

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Callout Styles palette....................................................................................................45

Glyphs palette...............................................................................................................45

Grid Styles palette.........................................................................................................45

Blio Table of Contents palette......................................................................................46

Reflow Tagging palette.................................................................................................46

Reflow Table of Contents palette..................................................................................46

Hyperlinks palette.........................................................................................................46

Index palette.................................................................................................................47

Interactive palette.........................................................................................................48

Layers palette................................................................................................................48

Picture Effects palette...................................................................................................48

Guides palette...............................................................................................................49

Item Styles palette.........................................................................................................49

PSD Import palette........................................................................................................49

Scale palette..................................................................................................................49

Palette groups and palette sets............................................................................49

Layout controls.....................................................................................................50

Views and view sets..............................................................................................51

Splitting a window.........................................................................................................51

Creating a window........................................................................................................52

Using Story Editor view.................................................................................................52

View sets........................................................................................................................53

Projects and layouts........................................................................56

Working with projects..........................................................................................56

Options for Print layouts................................................................................................57

Options for Web layouts...............................................................................................57

Saving and naming a QuarkXPress project...................................................................58

Exporting layouts and projects......................................................................................58

Working with layouts............................................................................................58

Project-level and layout-level resources........................................................................59

Working with guides.............................................................................................60

Column and margin guides...........................................................................................60

Ruler guides..................................................................................................................61

Snapping to guides.......................................................................................................61

Undoing and redoing actions................................................................................62

Boxes, lines, and tables...................................................................63

Understanding items and content.........................................................................63

Understanding handles.........................................................................................64

Understanding Bézier shapes...............................................................................66

Working with boxes..............................................................................................67

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Creating text and picture boxes....................................................................................68

Resizing boxes...............................................................................................................69

Locking box and picture proportions............................................................................69

Reshaping boxes...........................................................................................................70

Adding frames to boxes................................................................................................70

Applying colors to boxes..............................................................................................71

Applying blends to boxes.............................................................................................71

Merging and splitting boxes.........................................................................................72

Adding text and pictures to boxes................................................................................72

Changing box type........................................................................................................73

Creating a box from a clipping path.............................................................................73

Working with lines................................................................................................73

Creating lines................................................................................................................73

Line modes for straight lines.........................................................................................74

Resizing lines.................................................................................................................74

Reshaping lines.............................................................................................................75

Controlling line appearance..........................................................................................75

Joining lines..................................................................................................................75

Manipulating items...............................................................................................76

Selecting items..............................................................................................................76

Moving items.................................................................................................................76

Cutting, copying, and pasting items.............................................................................76

Controlling the stacking order of items.........................................................................76

Grouping items.............................................................................................................77

Duplicating items..........................................................................................................78

Spacing and aligning items ..........................................................................................78

Rotating items...............................................................................................................79

Skewing items...............................................................................................................79

Locking and unlocking items.........................................................................................79

Anchoring items and groups in text..............................................................................79

Working with callouts...........................................................................................80

Understanding callouts..................................................................................................80

Creating a callout..........................................................................................................82

Configuring a callout anchor.........................................................................................83

Working with callout styles............................................................................................85

Callouts and runaround.................................................................................................85

Working with tables..............................................................................................86

Drawing a table.............................................................................................................86

Converting text to tables...............................................................................................87

Importing Excel tables...................................................................................................88

Importing Excel charts...................................................................................................90

Adding text and pictures to tables................................................................................90

Editing table text ..........................................................................................................90

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Linking table cells..........................................................................................................91

Formatting tables..........................................................................................................91

Formatting gridlines......................................................................................................91

Inserting and deleting rows and columns.....................................................................93

Combining cells.............................................................................................................93

Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns................................................................93

Converting tables back to text......................................................................................93

Working with tables and groups...................................................................................93

Continuing tables in other locations.............................................................................94

Text and typography.......................................................................99

Editing text...........................................................................................................99

Importing and exporting text...............................................................................99

Import/export filters....................................................................................................100

Importing and exporting text with Unicode options...................................................101

Finding and changing text..................................................................................101

Special character codes...............................................................................................103

Checking spelling................................................................................................104

Auxiliary dictionaries...................................................................................................105

Counting words and characters..........................................................................106

Applying character attributes.............................................................................106

Applying a font............................................................................................................106

Choosing a font size....................................................................................................107

Applying type styles....................................................................................................107

Applying color, shade, and opacity.............................................................................108

Applying horizontal or vertical scale...........................................................................108

Applying baseline shift................................................................................................109

Applying multiple character attributes........................................................................109

Applying paragraph attributes...........................................................................110

Controlling alignment.................................................................................................110

Controlling indentation...............................................................................................111

Controlling leading......................................................................................................112

Controlling space before and after paragraphs..........................................................113

Setting tabs.................................................................................................................113

Controlling widow and orphan lines...........................................................................113

Controlling kerning.............................................................................................114

Kerning manually.........................................................................................................114

Kerning automatically..................................................................................................115

Controlling hyphenation and justification...........................................................115

Specifying hyphenation exceptions............................................................................116

Using discretionary hyphens.......................................................................................116

Controlling tracking............................................................................................116

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Tracking manually........................................................................................................117

Editing tracking tables.................................................................................................117

Working with style sheets..................................................................................118

Creating and editing paragraph style sheets..............................................................118

Creating and editing character style sheets................................................................120

Applying style sheets..................................................................................................122

Appending style sheets...............................................................................................123

Working with conditional styles..........................................................................123

Creating a conditional style.........................................................................................125

Applying a conditional style........................................................................................127

Removing conditional styles........................................................................................128

Using conditional style markers...................................................................................128

Editing a conditional style...........................................................................................129

Bullets and numbering........................................................................................129

Working with bullet styles...........................................................................................130

Working with numbering styles...................................................................................132

Working with outline styles.........................................................................................133

Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets............................................................136

Positioning text in text boxes.............................................................................137

Using baseline grid......................................................................................................137

Aligning text vertically.................................................................................................137

Specifying text inset....................................................................................................137

Controlling font usage........................................................................................138

Converting text to boxes....................................................................................138

Using text runaround..........................................................................................138

Running text around all sides of an item.....................................................................139

Running text around lines and text paths....................................................................139

Running text around text boxes .................................................................................139

Running text around pictures......................................................................................140

Fine-tuning a runaround path.....................................................................................141

Editing a runaround path............................................................................................141

Working with text paths.....................................................................................142

Creating drop caps.............................................................................................142

Creating rules above and below paragraphs......................................................143

Using anchored boxes.........................................................................................143

Anchoring boxes and lines in text...............................................................................143

Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines...........................144

Unanchoring boxes and lines......................................................................................144

Working with OpenType fonts...........................................................................144

Applying OpenType styles..........................................................................................144

Using ligatures.............................................................................................................146

Working with the Glyphs palette........................................................................147

Displaying invisible characters............................................................................148

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Inserting special characters.................................................................................148

Inserting spaces...........................................................................................................148

Inserting other special characters................................................................................148

Specifying character language............................................................................148

Using font fallback..............................................................................................149

Importing and exporting text with Unicode options..........................................149

Working with font mapping rules.......................................................................149

Working with design grids..................................................................................150

Understanding design grids........................................................................................150

Design grid basics.......................................................................................................152

Working with grid styles..............................................................................................159

Using design grids.......................................................................................................161

Working with hanging characters.......................................................................163

Creating hanging character classes.............................................................................165

Creating hanging character sets ................................................................................166

Applying hanging character sets.................................................................................166

Pictures.........................................................................................167

Understanding pictures.......................................................................................167

Supported picture file types...............................................................................168

Working with pictures.........................................................................................169

Importing a picture......................................................................................................169

Moving pictures...........................................................................................................169

Resizing pictures..........................................................................................................170

Cropping pictures.......................................................................................................170

Rotating and skewing pictures....................................................................................170

Coloring and shading pictures....................................................................................170

Flipping pictures..........................................................................................................170

Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures.......................................................171

Specifying background colors for pictures..................................................................171

Maintaining picture attributes.....................................................................................171

Working with clipping paths...............................................................................171

Creating clipping paths...............................................................................................172

Using embedded clipping paths.................................................................................173

Manipulating clipping paths........................................................................................173

Creating special effects with clipping paths................................................................174

Working with alpha masks..................................................................................174

Working with PSD pictures.................................................................................175

Preparing PSD files......................................................................................................176

Working with PSD layers.............................................................................................176

Working with PSD channels.........................................................................................177

Working with PSD paths..............................................................................................178

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Printing with PSD Import.............................................................................................178

Using picture effects...........................................................................................179

Working with picture effects........................................................................................179

Removing and deleting picture effects.......................................................................180

Displaying effects at full resolution.............................................................................180

Picture Effects: Filters..................................................................................................180

Picture Effects: Adjustments........................................................................................181

Saving and loading Picture Effects presets.................................................................182

Reviewing Picture Effects usage..................................................................................183

Saving picture files......................................................................................................183

Color, opacity, and drop shadows................................................184

Understanding color...........................................................................................184

Understanding spot and process colors......................................................................184

Specifying matching system colors.............................................................................184

Working with colors............................................................................................185

The Colors palette.......................................................................................................185

The Colors dialog box.................................................................................................185

Creating a color...........................................................................................................186

Editing a color.............................................................................................................187

Duplicating a color......................................................................................................187

Deleting a color...........................................................................................................187

Importing colors from another article or project.........................................................187

Changing all instances of one color to another color.................................................187

Applying color, shade, and blends.............................................................................188

Applying color and shade to text................................................................................188

Applying color and shade to lines...............................................................................188

Working with opacity..........................................................................................189

Specifying opacity.......................................................................................................189

Specifying opacity for groups.....................................................................................189

Creating blends with transparency..............................................................................190

Color management..............................................................................................190

Source setups and output setups................................................................................190

The color management experience for users..............................................................190

Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert..........................192

Working in a legacy color management environment................................................192

Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)......................................................................193

Color management for experts...................................................................................194

Creating a source setup..............................................................................................194

Creating an output setup............................................................................................194

Managing profiles.......................................................................................................195

Working with drop shadows...............................................................................196

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Applying drop shadows..............................................................................................197

Customizing drop shadows.........................................................................................197

Incorporating drop shadows with items......................................................................197

Document construction.................................................................199

Using automatic page numbering.......................................................................199

Creating an automatic text box..........................................................................199

Working with master pages................................................................................200

Creating a master page...............................................................................................200

Applying master pages...............................................................................................204

Updating master pages...............................................................................................204

Master pages and layout families................................................................................205

Working with layers............................................................................................205

Understanding layers...................................................................................................206

Creating layers............................................................................................................206

Selecting layers...........................................................................................................206

Showing and hiding layers..........................................................................................207

Determining which layer an item is on........................................................................208

Deleting layers............................................................................................................208

Changing layer options...............................................................................................208

Moving items to a different layer................................................................................209

Changing the stacking order of layers........................................................................209

Layers and text runaround...........................................................................................210

Duplicating layers........................................................................................................210

Merging layers.............................................................................................................211

Locking items on layers...............................................................................................211

Using master pages with layers...................................................................................211

Suppressing printout of layers.....................................................................................212

Using PDF layers.........................................................................................................212

Working with lists...............................................................................................213

Preparing for lists.........................................................................................................213

Creating a list..............................................................................................................213

Importing lists from another document.......................................................................214

Navigating with lists....................................................................................................214

Building lists................................................................................................................215

Updating lists..............................................................................................................215

Working with lists in books..........................................................................................215

Working with indexes.........................................................................................216

Specifying the index marker color...............................................................................216

Creating index entries.................................................................................................217

Creating cross-references............................................................................................219

Editing an index entry.................................................................................................220

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Deleting an index entry...............................................................................................220

Specifying the punctuation used in an index..............................................................220

Building an index.........................................................................................................221

Editing final indexes....................................................................................................222

Working with books............................................................................................223

Creating books............................................................................................................224

Working with chapters.................................................................................................224

Controlling page numbers..........................................................................................226

Synchronizing chapters...............................................................................................227

Printing chapters.........................................................................................................228

Creating indexes and tables of contents for books....................................................229

Working with libraries.........................................................................................229

Creating libraries.........................................................................................................230

Adding library entries..................................................................................................230

Retrieving library entries..............................................................................................231

Manipulating library entries.........................................................................................231

Working with labels.....................................................................................................231

Saving libraries............................................................................................................232

Output...........................................................................................233

Printing layouts...................................................................................................233

Updating picture paths................................................................................................233

Setting Print dialog box controls.................................................................................234

Print dialog box...........................................................................................................235

Printing color separations............................................................................................240

Printing color composites............................................................................................241

Exporting layouts................................................................................................242

Exporting a layout in EPS format.................................................................................243

Exporting a layout in PDF format................................................................................243

Creating a PostScript file.............................................................................................245

Using Collect for Output.....................................................................................245

Working with output styles................................................................................247

Working with trapping........................................................................................247

Understanding flattening and production issues................................................248

Collaboration and single-sourcing.................................................249

Working with shared content.............................................................................249

Sharing and synchronizing content.............................................................................251

Understanding synchronization options......................................................................252

Placing a synchronized item........................................................................................253

Placing synchronized content......................................................................................253

Importing content into the shared content library......................................................253

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Working with Composition Zones.......................................................................254

Understanding Composition Zones............................................................................254

Creating a Composition Zones item...........................................................................259

Placing a Composition Zones item..............................................................................261

Sharing a composition layout......................................................................................263

Using Collaboration Setup..................................................................................271

Linking to other projects.............................................................................................271

Viewing information about linkable composition layouts ..........................................272

Importing and managing shared content....................................................................272

Specifying update options..........................................................................................273

Interactive layouts.........................................................................274

Understanding Interactive layouts......................................................................274

Types of Interactive layouts.........................................................................................275

Types of objects..........................................................................................................275

Interactive layouts in action.........................................................................................276

Creating interactive building blocks...................................................................283

Creating a Presentation layout....................................................................................283

Creating an object.......................................................................................................284

Configuring an SWF object.........................................................................................285

Configuring a Video object.........................................................................................287

Working with Animation objects.................................................................................288

Working with Button objects.......................................................................................294

Image Sequence layouts, Button layouts, and Shared Content..................................298

Working with menus....................................................................................................298

Configuring a Window object.....................................................................................302

Configuring a Text Box object....................................................................................303

Working with transitions..............................................................................................304

Working with pages in Interactive layouts...................................................................305

Working with keyboard commands.............................................................................307

Configuring Interactive preferences............................................................................308

Working with actions..........................................................................................308

Assigning actions........................................................................................................309

Action reference..........................................................................................................309

Working with events...........................................................................................317

Choosing a user event.................................................................................................318

Configuring user events..............................................................................................318

Working with scripts...........................................................................................320

Creating a script..........................................................................................................320

Using conditional statements......................................................................................321

Running a script ..........................................................................................................324

Exporting and importing scripts..................................................................................325

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Previewing and exporting Interactive layouts....................................................325

Previewing a Presentation layout................................................................................325

Checking interactive object usage..............................................................................326

Exporting a Presentation layout..................................................................................326

Configuring export settings........................................................................................326

Working with expressions...................................................................................327

Understanding expressions.........................................................................................327

Using the Expression Editor dialog box......................................................................331

eBooks...........................................................................................334

Working with Reflow view..................................................................................334

Creating reflow articles................................................................................................336

Mapping style sheets to Reflow tags..........................................................................339

Adding content to a reflow article...............................................................................340

Splitting a reflow component......................................................................................341

Reordering components in a reflow article.................................................................341

Editing content in Reflow view....................................................................................341

Updating content in Reflow view................................................................................344

Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks..................................................................345

Adding audio to an ePub eBook.................................................................................345

Adding video to an ePub eBook.................................................................................346

Adding interactivity to Blio eBooks....................................................................346

Adding a slideshow to a Blio eBook...........................................................................347

Adding video to a Blio eBook.....................................................................................348

Adding HTML to a Blio eBook....................................................................................348

Adding a URL link to a picture box in a Blio eBook....................................................349

Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle.....................................................................349

Creating a TOC for Blio.......................................................................................349

Working with eBook metadata...........................................................................350

Exporting for ePub.............................................................................................351

Specifying CSS for ePub export..................................................................................352

Exporting for Kindle...........................................................................................353

Exporting for Blio eReader.................................................................................354

Job Jackets...................................................................................356

Understanding Job Jackets.................................................................................356

What are Job Jackets?................................................................................................357

The structure of Job Jackets.......................................................................................357

Sample Job Jackets workflow.....................................................................................362

Working with Job Jackets...................................................................................363

Basic mode and advanced mode................................................................................363

Creating Job Jackets files...........................................................................................364

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Working with Job Tickets...................................................................................368

Creating a Job Ticket template...................................................................................368

Adding a layout definition to a Job Ticket: Advanced mode.....................................373

Applying a Job Ticket template to a project...............................................................374

Applying a layout definition to a project.....................................................................377

Collaborating with shared Job Jackets.......................................................................377

Exporting and importing Job Tickets..........................................................................380

The default Job Jackets file................................................................................381

Editing the default Job Ticket template: File menu....................................................381

Editing the default Job Ticket template: Utilities menu..............................................381

Editing the default Job Jackets file.............................................................................382

Working with Resources: Advanced mode.........................................................382

Accessing Resources: Advanced mode.......................................................................382

Configuring Resources: Advanced mode....................................................................383

Specifying the location of Resources: Advanced mode..............................................384

Working with Layout Specifications....................................................................385

Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode......................................................385

Applying a Layout Specification to a layout................................................................386

Working with Output Specifications...................................................................388

Creating an Output Specification: Advanced mode...................................................389

Applying an Output Specification to a layout.............................................................389

Using Output Specifications with Output Job............................................................391

Working with Rules and Rule Sets......................................................................392

Creating Rules: Advanced mode................................................................................393

Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode.............................................................395

Applying a Rule Set to a layout...................................................................................396

Evaluating a layout.............................................................................................398

Job Jackets locking.............................................................................................400

Printing with JDF output....................................................................................401

Web layouts..................................................................................403

Working with Web layouts.................................................................................403

Creating a Web layout................................................................................................403

Text boxes in Web layouts..........................................................................................405

Graphic elements in Web layouts...............................................................................407

Converting to and from Web layouts..........................................................................408

Web layout limitations.................................................................................................409

Hyperlinks...........................................................................................................409

Creating a destination.................................................................................................411

Creating an anchor......................................................................................................412

Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination.....................................................412

Creating a hyperlink from scratch...............................................................................413

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Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette.......................................................................413

Formatting hyperlinks..................................................................................................413

Editing and deleting destinations...............................................................................414

Editing and deleting anchors......................................................................................414

Editing and deleting hyperlinks...................................................................................414

Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette.....................................................................414

Rollovers.............................................................................................................415

Creating a basic rollover.............................................................................................415

Editing and deleting basic rollovers............................................................................416

Creating a two-position rollover..................................................................................416

Switching between rollover images in the layout........................................................416

Removing a target from a two-position rollover box..................................................417

Unlinking a two-position rollover................................................................................417

Image maps.........................................................................................................417

Creating an image map...............................................................................................417

Editing an image map.................................................................................................418

Forms..................................................................................................................418

Creating a form box....................................................................................................419

Adding a text, password, or hidden field control.......................................................420

Adding a button control..............................................................................................421

Adding an image button control.................................................................................421

Adding pop-up menu and list controls.......................................................................422

Adding a group of radio button controls ...................................................................422

Adding a check box control .......................................................................................423

Adding a file submission control ................................................................................423

Menus.................................................................................................................424

Working with standard menus.....................................................................................424

Working with cascading menus...................................................................................426

Tables in Web layouts.........................................................................................429

Meta tags............................................................................................................430

Creating a meta tag set...............................................................................................430

Specifying a meta tag set for a Web page .................................................................431

Previewing Web pages.......................................................................................431

Specifying additional browsers for preview ...............................................................432

Exporting Web pages.........................................................................................432

Preparing for export ...................................................................................................432

Exporting a Web page ...............................................................................................432

Working with multiple languages..................................................435

Applying a character language...........................................................................435

Changing the program language........................................................................436

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XTensions software.......................................................................437

Working with XTensions modules.......................................................................437

Installing XTensions modules......................................................................................437

Enabling and disabling XTensions modules................................................................437

Working with XTensions sets.......................................................................................438

Custom Bleeds XTensions software....................................................................438

Using Custom Bleeds..................................................................................................439

Using Clip at Bleed Edge............................................................................................439

DejaVu XTensions software................................................................................439

Drop Shadow XTensions software......................................................................440

Full Resolution Preview XTensions software......................................................441

Guide Manager Pro XTensions software............................................................442

Using the Guides palette.............................................................................................442

Guides palette menu...................................................................................................443

Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro...................................................................444

Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro.....................................................................445

Creating rows and columns.........................................................................................447

Creating bleed and safety guides...............................................................................448

HTML Text Import XTensions software..............................................................450

Item Find/Change XTensions software...............................................................450

Item Styles XTensions software..........................................................................452

Using the Item Styles palette......................................................................................452

Creating Item Styles....................................................................................................453

Checking Item Style usage..........................................................................................454

OPI XTensions software......................................................................................455

Targeting an imported picture for OPI exchange.......................................................455

Activating OPI for a layout..........................................................................................455

Creating OPI comments for print, EPS, and PDF........................................................456

PDF Filter XTensions software...........................................................................456

Importing a PDF file into a picture box.......................................................................456

Scale XTensions software...................................................................................457

Scissors XTensions software...............................................................................458

Script XTensions software..................................................................................459

Box Tools submenu.....................................................................................................459

Grid submenu..............................................................................................................460

Images submenu.........................................................................................................460

Picture Box submenu..................................................................................................460

Printing submenu........................................................................................................460

Saving submenu..........................................................................................................460

Special submenu.........................................................................................................461

Stories submenu..........................................................................................................461

Tables submenu..........................................................................................................461

Typography submenu.................................................................................................461

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Shape of Things XTensions software..................................................................462

Using the Star Box tool...............................................................................................462

Super Step and Repeat XTensions software.......................................................462

Using Super Step and Repeat.....................................................................................462

Table Import XTensions software.......................................................................463

Type Tricks..........................................................................................................464

Make Fraction..............................................................................................................464

Make Price...................................................................................................................464

Word Space Tracking..................................................................................................465

Line Check...................................................................................................................465

Custom Underline.......................................................................................................466

Word 6–2000 Filter.............................................................................................466

WordPerfect Filter .............................................................................................466

XSLT Export XTensions software.......................................................................466

Cloner XTensions software.................................................................................467

ImageGrid XTensions software...........................................................................468

Linkster XTensions software...............................................................................470

ShapeMaker XTensions software........................................................................471

ShapeMaker Waves tab...............................................................................................472

ShapeMaker Polygons tab..........................................................................................473

ShapeMaker Spirals tab...............................................................................................474

ShapeMaker Rectangles tab........................................................................................475

ShapeMaker Presets tab..............................................................................................476

Other XTensions modules...................................................................................477

Preferences...................................................................................479

Understanding preferences................................................................................479

Nonmatching Preferences alert...................................................................................479

Changes to QuarkXPress preferences.........................................................................480

What's in the preferences files....................................................................................480

Application preferences......................................................................................481

Preferences — Application — Display........................................................................482

Preferences — Application — Input Settings..............................................................482

Preferences — Application — Font Fallback...............................................................483

Preferences — Application — Undo...........................................................................484

Preferences — Application — Open and Save...........................................................484

Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager....................................................485

Preferences — Application — Sharing........................................................................485

Preferences — Application — Fonts...........................................................................485

Preferences — Application — File List........................................................................485

Preferences — Application — Default Path................................................................485

Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview..........................................................486

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Preferences — Application — Browsers......................................................................486

Preferences — Application — Index...........................................................................486

Preferences — Application — Job Jackets.................................................................487

Preferences — Application — PDF.............................................................................487

Preferences — Application — PSD Import..................................................................488

Preferences — Application — Placeholders................................................................488

Preferences — Application — SpellCheck..................................................................488

Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price..............................................................489

Preferences — Application — Picture Effects.............................................................489

Project preferences.............................................................................................490

Preferences — Project — General...............................................................................490

Layout preferences.............................................................................................490

Preferences — Layout — General...............................................................................490

Preferences — Layout — Measurements....................................................................491

Preferences — Layout — Paragraph...........................................................................492

Preferences — Layout — Character............................................................................493

Preferences — Layout — Tools...................................................................................495

Preferences — Layout — Trapping.............................................................................495

Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid.................................................................495

Preferences — Layout — Color Manager....................................................................496

Preferences — Layout — Layers..................................................................................497

Preferences — Layout — Presentation........................................................................497

Preferences — Layout — SWF....................................................................................498

Legal notices.................................................................................499

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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:

• A Guide to QuarkXPress

• QuarkXPress Help

• 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.

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Conventions

Formatting conventions highlight information to help you quickly find what you need.

• 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 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®, WordPerfect®, Adobe® Illustrator®, and Adobe Photoshop®. You can output

content as PostScript® or in PDF format for Adobe Acrobat® Reader®. You can also export

files that can be viewed using QuickTime®, Internet Explorer®, Safari®, Firefox®, and

Netscape Navigator®. With Quark Interactive Designer™, you can export layouts in Flash®

format. 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

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custom modules for QuarkXPress. QuarkXTensions® (Quark® XTensions software) also

provide a modular approach for meeting your particular publishing 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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