Quark QuarkXPress 8.5 Plus Edition User guide

A Guide to QuarkXPress 8.5:

PLUS Edition

Contents

About this guide.............................................................................17

What we're assuming about you..........................................................................17

Where to go for help............................................................................................17

Conventions..........................................................................................................18

Technology note...................................................................................................18

The user interface...........................................................................20

Tools......................................................................................................................20

Web tools..............................................................................................................22

Menus...................................................................................................................23

QuarkXPress menu (Mac OS only).................................................................................23

File menu.......................................................................................................................24

Edit menu......................................................................................................................25

Style menu.....................................................................................................................27

Item menu.....................................................................................................................29

Page menu....................................................................................................................31

Layout menu..................................................................................................................31

Table menu...................................................................................................................32

View menu.....................................................................................................................32

Utilities menu.................................................................................................................33

Window menu...............................................................................................................35

Help menu ....................................................................................................................36

Context menus......................................................................................................36

Palettes.................................................................................................................36

Tools palette.................................................................................................................37

Measurements palette...................................................................................................37

Page Layout palette......................................................................................................38

Style Sheets palette.......................................................................................................39

Colors palette................................................................................................................39

Shared Content palette.................................................................................................40

Trap Information palette...............................................................................................40

Lists palette...................................................................................................................41

Profile Information palette.............................................................................................42

Glyphs palette...............................................................................................................42

Hyperlinks palette.........................................................................................................43

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Index palette.................................................................................................................44

Layers palette................................................................................................................44

Picture Effects palette...................................................................................................45

PSD Import palette........................................................................................................45

Palette groups and palette sets............................................................................46

Layout controls.....................................................................................................47

Splitting a window................................................................................................47

Creating a window................................................................................................48

Projects and layouts........................................................................49

Working with projects..........................................................................................49

Options for Print layouts................................................................................................50

Options for Web layouts...............................................................................................51

Saving and naming a QuarkXPress project...................................................................51

Exporting layouts and projects......................................................................................51

Working with layouts............................................................................................52

Project-level and layout-level resources........................................................................52

Working with guides.............................................................................................53

Column and margin guides...........................................................................................53

Ruler guides..................................................................................................................54

Snapping to guides.......................................................................................................54

Undoing and redoing actions................................................................................55

Boxes, lines, and tables...................................................................56

Understanding items and content.........................................................................56

Understanding handles.........................................................................................57

Understanding Bézier shapes...............................................................................59

Working with boxes..............................................................................................60

Creating text and picture boxes....................................................................................61

Resizing boxes...............................................................................................................62

Reshaping boxes...........................................................................................................62

Adding frames to boxes................................................................................................63

Applying colors to boxes..............................................................................................63

Applying blends to boxes.............................................................................................63

Merging and splitting boxes.........................................................................................64

Adding text and pictures to boxes................................................................................65

Changing box type........................................................................................................65

Working with lines................................................................................................65

Creating lines................................................................................................................65

Line modes for straight lines.........................................................................................66

Resizing lines.................................................................................................................66

Reshaping lines.............................................................................................................67

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Controlling line appearance..........................................................................................67

Joining lines..................................................................................................................68

Manipulating items...............................................................................................68

Selecting items..............................................................................................................68

Moving items.................................................................................................................68

Cutting, copying, and pasting items.............................................................................68

Controlling the stacking order of items.........................................................................69

Grouping items.............................................................................................................69

Duplicating items..........................................................................................................70

Spacing and aligning items ..........................................................................................70

Rotating items...............................................................................................................71

Skewing items...............................................................................................................71

Locking and unlocking items.........................................................................................71

Anchoring items and groups in text..............................................................................71

Working with tables..............................................................................................72

Drawing a table.............................................................................................................72

Converting text to tables...............................................................................................73

Importing Excel tables...................................................................................................74

Importing Excel charts...................................................................................................76

Adding text and pictures to tables................................................................................76

Editing table text ..........................................................................................................76

Linking table cells..........................................................................................................77

Formatting tables..........................................................................................................77

Formatting gridlines......................................................................................................77

Inserting and deleting rows and columns.....................................................................78

Combining cells.............................................................................................................79

Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns................................................................79

Converting tables back to text......................................................................................79

Working with tables and groups...................................................................................79

Breaking a table manually.............................................................................................80

Adding header and footer rows to tables.....................................................................81

Text and typography.......................................................................82

Editing text...........................................................................................................82

Importing and exporting text...............................................................................82

Import/export filters......................................................................................................83

Importing and exporting text with Unicode options.....................................................84

Finding and changing text....................................................................................84

Checking spelling..................................................................................................85

Auxiliary dictionaries.....................................................................................................87

Applying character attributes...............................................................................87

Applying a font..............................................................................................................87

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Choosing a font size......................................................................................................87

Applying type styles......................................................................................................88

Applying color, shade, and opacity...............................................................................89

Applying horizontal or vertical scale.............................................................................89

Applying baseline shift..................................................................................................90

Applying emphasis........................................................................................................90

Controlling half-width characters .................................................................................90

Counting characters......................................................................................................90

Working with font sets...................................................................................................90

Working with grouped characters.................................................................................91

Aligning characters on a line.........................................................................................92

Applying multiple character attributes..........................................................................94

Applying paragraph attributes.............................................................................95

Controlling alignment...................................................................................................95

Controlling indentation.................................................................................................96

Controlling leading........................................................................................................97

Controlling space before and after paragraphs............................................................98

Setting tabs...................................................................................................................98

Controlling widow and orphan lines.............................................................................98

Working with non-breaking character sets....................................................................99

Controlling kerning...............................................................................................99

Kerning manually.........................................................................................................100

Kerning automatically..................................................................................................100

Controlling hyphenation and justification...........................................................100

Specifying hyphenation exceptions............................................................................102

Using discretionary hyphens.......................................................................................102

Controlling tracking............................................................................................103

Tracking manually........................................................................................................103

Editing tracking tables.................................................................................................103

Sending ......................................................................................................................104

Working with style sheets..................................................................................104

Creating and editing paragraph style sheets..............................................................104

Creating and editing character style sheets................................................................107

Applying style sheets..................................................................................................108

Appending style sheets...............................................................................................108

Positioning text in text boxes.............................................................................108

Using baseline grid......................................................................................................108

Aligning text vertically.................................................................................................109

Specifying text inset....................................................................................................109

Specifying story direction............................................................................................109

Controlling font usage........................................................................................110

Converting text to boxes....................................................................................110

Using text runaround..........................................................................................110

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Running text around all sides of an item.....................................................................111

Running text around lines and text paths....................................................................111

Running text around text boxes .................................................................................111

Running text around pictures......................................................................................112

Fine-tuning a runaround path.....................................................................................113

Editing a runaround path............................................................................................113

Working with text paths.....................................................................................114

Creating drop caps.............................................................................................114

Creating rules above and below paragraphs......................................................115

Using anchored boxes.........................................................................................115

Anchoring boxes and lines in text...............................................................................115

Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines...........................116

Unanchoring boxes and lines......................................................................................116

Working with OpenType fonts...........................................................................116

Applying OpenType styles..........................................................................................116

Using ligatures.............................................................................................................118

Working with the Glyphs palette........................................................................119

Displaying invisible characters............................................................................121

Inserting special characters.................................................................................121

Inserting spaces...........................................................................................................121

Inserting other special characters................................................................................121

Specifying character language............................................................................121

Using font fallback..............................................................................................121

Importing and exporting text with Unicode options..........................................122

Working with font mapping rules.......................................................................122

Working with design grids..................................................................................123

Understanding design grids........................................................................................123

Design grid basics.......................................................................................................125

Working with grid styles..............................................................................................136

Using design grids.......................................................................................................139

Working with rubi text.......................................................................................140

Rubi alignment options...............................................................................................142

Mono rubi....................................................................................................................144

Rubi base alignment options.......................................................................................145

Rubi overhang options................................................................................................147

Working with hanging characters.......................................................................148

Creating hanging character classes.............................................................................150

Creating hanging character sets ................................................................................151

Applying hanging character sets.................................................................................152

Working with mojigumi sets and classes............................................................152

Creating and editing mojigumi character classes.......................................................153

Creating and editing mojigumi sets............................................................................154

Applying mojigumi sets...............................................................................................157

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Character mapping for legacy projects...............................................................157

Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters..................................................157

Mapping for projects that use custom characters.......................................................159

Pictures.........................................................................................160

Understanding pictures.......................................................................................160

Supported picture file types...............................................................................161

Working with pictures.........................................................................................162

Importing a picture......................................................................................................162

Moving pictures...........................................................................................................162

Resizing pictures..........................................................................................................163

Cropping pictures.......................................................................................................163

Rotating and skewing pictures....................................................................................163

Coloring and shading pictures....................................................................................163

Flipping pictures..........................................................................................................163

Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures.......................................................164

Specifying background colors for pictures..................................................................164

Maintaining picture attributes.....................................................................................164

Working with clipping paths...............................................................................164

Creating clipping paths...............................................................................................165

Using embedded clipping paths.................................................................................166

Manipulating clipping paths........................................................................................166

Creating special effects with clipping paths................................................................167

Working with alpha masks..................................................................................167

Working with PSD pictures.................................................................................168

Preparing PSD files......................................................................................................169

Working with PSD layers.............................................................................................169

Working with PSD channels.........................................................................................170

Working with PSD paths..............................................................................................171

Printing with PSD Import.............................................................................................171

Using picture effects...........................................................................................172

Working with picture effects........................................................................................172

Removing and deleting picture effects.......................................................................172

Displaying effects at full resolution.............................................................................173

Picture Effects: Filters..................................................................................................173

Picture Effects: Adjustments........................................................................................174

Saving and loading Picture Effects presets.................................................................175

Reviewing Picture Effects usage..................................................................................176

Saving picture files......................................................................................................176

Color, opacity, and drop shadows................................................177

Understanding color...........................................................................................177

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Understanding spot and process colors......................................................................177

Specifying matching system colors.............................................................................178

Working with colors............................................................................................178

The Colors palette.......................................................................................................178

The Colors dialog box.................................................................................................179

Creating a color...........................................................................................................179

Editing a color.............................................................................................................180

Duplicating a color......................................................................................................180

Deleting a color...........................................................................................................180

Importing colors from another article or project.........................................................180

Changing all instances of one color to another color.................................................181

Applying color, shade, and blends.............................................................................181

Applying color and shade to text................................................................................181

Applying color and shade to lines...............................................................................182

Working with opacity..........................................................................................182

Specifying opacity.......................................................................................................182

Specifying opacity for groups.....................................................................................182

Creating blends with transparency..............................................................................183

Color management..............................................................................................183

Source setups and output setups................................................................................183

The color management experience for users..............................................................183

Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert..........................185

Working in a legacy color management environment................................................185

Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)......................................................................186

Color management for experts...................................................................................187

Creating a source setup..............................................................................................187

Creating an output setup............................................................................................187

Managing profiles.......................................................................................................188

Working with drop shadows...............................................................................189

Applying drop shadows..............................................................................................190

Customizing drop shadows.........................................................................................190

Incorporating drop shadows with items......................................................................190

Document construction.................................................................191

Using automatic page numbering.......................................................................191

Creating an automatic text box..........................................................................191

Working with layers............................................................................................192

Understanding layers...................................................................................................192

Creating layers............................................................................................................193

Selecting layers...........................................................................................................193

Showing and hiding layers..........................................................................................194

Determining which layer an item is on........................................................................194

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Deleting layers............................................................................................................195

Changing layer options...............................................................................................195

Moving items to a different layer................................................................................196

Changing the stacking order of layers........................................................................196

Layers and text runaround...........................................................................................197

Duplicating layers........................................................................................................197

Merging layers.............................................................................................................197

Locking items on layers...............................................................................................198

Using master pages with layers...................................................................................198

Suppressing printout of layers.....................................................................................199

Working with lists...............................................................................................199

Preparing for lists.........................................................................................................199

Creating a list..............................................................................................................200

Importing lists from another document.......................................................................201

Navigating with lists....................................................................................................201

Building lists................................................................................................................202

Updating lists..............................................................................................................202

Working with lists in books..........................................................................................202

Working with indexes.........................................................................................203

Specifying the index marker color...............................................................................203

Creating index entries.................................................................................................204

Creating cross-references............................................................................................205

Editing an index entry.................................................................................................207

Deleting an index entry...............................................................................................207

Specifying the punctuation used in an index..............................................................207

Building an index.........................................................................................................208

Editing final indexes....................................................................................................209

Working with books............................................................................................210

Creating books............................................................................................................211

Working with chapters.................................................................................................211

Controlling page numbers..........................................................................................213

Synchronizing chapters...............................................................................................214

Printing chapters.........................................................................................................215

Creating indexes and tables of contents for books....................................................216

Working with libraries.........................................................................................216

Creating libraries.........................................................................................................217

Adding library entries..................................................................................................217

Retrieving library entries..............................................................................................218

Manipulating library entries.........................................................................................218

Working with labels.....................................................................................................218

Saving libraries............................................................................................................219

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Output...........................................................................................220

Printing layouts...................................................................................................220

Updating picture paths................................................................................................220

Setting Print dialog box controls.................................................................................221

Print dialog box...........................................................................................................222

Printing color separations............................................................................................227

Printing color composites............................................................................................228

Exporting layouts................................................................................................229

Exporting a layout in EPS format.................................................................................230

Exporting a layout in PDF format................................................................................230

Creating a PostScript file.............................................................................................232

Using Collect for Output.....................................................................................232

Working with output styles................................................................................233

Working with trapping........................................................................................234

Understanding trapping..............................................................................................234

Trapping EPS pictures.................................................................................................235

Creating and using a rich black...................................................................................236

Understanding flattening and production issues................................................236

Collaboration and single-sourcing.................................................238

Working with shared content.............................................................................238

Sharing and synchronizing content.............................................................................240

Understanding synchronization options......................................................................241

Placing a synchronized item........................................................................................242

Placing synchronized content......................................................................................242

Importing content into the shared content library......................................................242

Working with Composition Zones.......................................................................243

Understanding Composition Zones............................................................................243

Creating a Composition Zones item...........................................................................248

Placing a Composition Zones item..............................................................................250

Sharing a composition layout......................................................................................252

Using Collaboration Setup..................................................................................260

Linking to other projects.............................................................................................260

Viewing information about linkable composition layouts ..........................................261

Importing and managing shared content....................................................................261

Specifying update options..........................................................................................262

Interactive layouts.........................................................................263

Understanding Interactive layouts......................................................................263

Types of Interactive layouts.........................................................................................264

Types of objects..........................................................................................................264

Interactive layouts in action.........................................................................................265

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Creating interactive building blocks...................................................................272

Creating a Presentation layout....................................................................................272

Creating an object.......................................................................................................273

Configuring an SWF object.........................................................................................274

Configuring a Video object.........................................................................................276

Working with Animation objects.................................................................................277

Working with Button objects.......................................................................................283

Image Sequence layouts, Button layouts, and Shared Content..................................287

Working with menus....................................................................................................287

Configuring a Window object.....................................................................................291

Configuring a Text Box object....................................................................................292

Working with transitions..............................................................................................293

Working with pages in Interactive layouts...................................................................294

Working with keyboard commands.............................................................................296

Configuring Interactive preferences............................................................................297

Working with actions..........................................................................................297

Assigning actions........................................................................................................298

Action reference..........................................................................................................298

Working with events...........................................................................................306

Choosing a user event.................................................................................................307

Configuring user events..............................................................................................307

Working with scripts...........................................................................................309

Creating a script..........................................................................................................309

Using conditional statements......................................................................................310

Running a script ..........................................................................................................313

Exporting and importing scripts..................................................................................314

Previewing and exporting Interactive layouts....................................................314

Previewing a Presentation layout................................................................................314

Checking interactive object usage..............................................................................315

Exporting a Presentation layout..................................................................................315

Configuring export settings........................................................................................316

Working with expressions...................................................................................317

Understanding expressions.........................................................................................317

Using the Expression Editor dialog box......................................................................320

Job Jackets...................................................................................323

Understanding Job Jackets.................................................................................323

What are Job Jackets?................................................................................................324

The structure of Job Jackets.......................................................................................324

Sample Job Jackets workflow.....................................................................................329

Working with Job Jackets...................................................................................330

Basic mode and advanced mode................................................................................330

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Creating Job Jackets files...........................................................................................331

Working with Job Tickets...................................................................................335

Creating a Job Ticket template...................................................................................335

Adding a layout definition to a Job Ticket: Advanced mode.....................................340

Applying a Job Ticket template to a project...............................................................341

Applying a layout definition to a project.....................................................................344

Collaborating with shared Job Jackets.......................................................................344

Exporting and importing Job Tickets..........................................................................347

The default Job Jackets file................................................................................348

Editing the default Job Ticket template: File menu....................................................348

Editing the default Job Ticket template: Utilities menu..............................................348

Editing the default Job Jackets file.............................................................................349

Working with Resources: Advanced mode.........................................................349

Accessing Resources: Advanced mode.......................................................................349

Configuring Resources: Advanced mode....................................................................350

Specifying the location of Resources: Advanced mode..............................................351

Working with Layout Specifications....................................................................352

Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode......................................................352

Applying a Layout Specification to a layout................................................................353

Working with Output Specifications...................................................................355

Creating an Output Specification: Advanced mode...................................................356

Applying an Output Specification to a layout.............................................................356

Using Output Specifications with Output Job............................................................358

Working with Rules and Rule Sets......................................................................359

Creating Rules: Advanced mode................................................................................360

Adding Rules to a Rule Set: Advanced mode.............................................................362

Applying a Rule Set to a layout...................................................................................363

Evaluating a layout.............................................................................................365

Job Jackets locking.............................................................................................367

Printing with JDF output....................................................................................368

Web layouts..................................................................................370

Working with Web layouts.................................................................................370

Creating a Web layout................................................................................................370

Text boxes in Web layouts..........................................................................................372

Graphic elements in Web layouts...............................................................................374

Converting to and from Web layouts..........................................................................375

Web layout limitations.................................................................................................376

Hyperlinks...........................................................................................................376

Creating a destination.................................................................................................378

Creating an anchor......................................................................................................379

Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination.....................................................379

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Creating a hyperlink from scratch...............................................................................380

Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette.......................................................................380

Formatting hyperlinks..................................................................................................380

Editing and deleting destinations...............................................................................381

Editing and deleting anchors......................................................................................381

Editing and deleting hyperlinks...................................................................................381

Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette.....................................................................381

Rollovers.............................................................................................................382

Creating a basic rollover.............................................................................................382

Editing and deleting basic rollovers............................................................................383

Creating a two-position rollover..................................................................................383

Switching between rollover images in the layout........................................................383

Removing a target from a two-position rollover box..................................................384

Unlinking a two-position rollover................................................................................384

Image maps.........................................................................................................384

Creating an image map...............................................................................................384

Editing an image map.................................................................................................385

Forms..................................................................................................................385

Creating a form box....................................................................................................386

Adding a text, password, or hidden field control.......................................................387

Adding a button control..............................................................................................388

Adding an image button control.................................................................................388

Adding pop-up menu and list controls.......................................................................389

Adding a group of radio button controls ...................................................................389

Adding a check box control .......................................................................................390

Adding a file submission control ................................................................................390

Menus.................................................................................................................391

Working with standard menus.....................................................................................391

Working with cascading menus...................................................................................393

Tables in Web layouts.........................................................................................396

Meta tags............................................................................................................397

Creating a meta tag set...............................................................................................397

Specifying a meta tag set for a Web page .................................................................398

Previewing Web pages.......................................................................................398

Specifying additional browsers for preview ...............................................................399

Exporting Web pages.........................................................................................399

Preparing for export ...................................................................................................399

Exporting a Web page ...............................................................................................399

Working with multiple languages..................................................402

Applying a character language...........................................................................402

Changing the program language........................................................................403

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XTensions software.......................................................................404

Working with XTensions modules.......................................................................404

Installing XTensions modules......................................................................................404

Enabling and disabling XTensions modules................................................................404

Working with XTensions sets.......................................................................................405

Custom Bleeds XTensions software....................................................................405

Using Custom Bleeds..................................................................................................405

Using Clip at Bleed Edge............................................................................................406

DejaVu XTensions software................................................................................406

Drop Shadow XTensions software......................................................................407

Full Resolution Preview XTensions software......................................................408

Guide Manager Pro XTensions software............................................................408

Using the Guides palette.............................................................................................409

Guides palette menu...................................................................................................410

Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro...................................................................410

Creating grids with Guide Manager Pro.....................................................................412

Creating rows and columns.........................................................................................413

Creating bleed and safety guides...............................................................................414

HTML Text Import XTensions software..............................................................416

Item Find/Change XTensions software...............................................................416

Item Styles XTensions software..........................................................................418

Using the Item Styles palette......................................................................................418

Creating Item Styles....................................................................................................419

Checking Item Style usage..........................................................................................420

OPI XTensions software......................................................................................421

Targeting an imported picture for OPI exchange.......................................................421

Activating OPI for a layout..........................................................................................421

Creating OPI comments for print, EPS, and PDF........................................................422

PDF Filter XTensions software...........................................................................422

Importing a PDF file into a picture box.......................................................................422

Scale XTensions software...................................................................................423

Scissors XTensions software...............................................................................424

Script XTensions software..................................................................................425

Box Tools submenu.....................................................................................................425

Grid submenu..............................................................................................................426

Images submenu.........................................................................................................426

Picture Box submenu..................................................................................................426

Printing submenu........................................................................................................426

Saving submenu..........................................................................................................426

Special submenu.........................................................................................................427

Stories submenu..........................................................................................................427

Tables submenu..........................................................................................................427

Typography submenu.................................................................................................427

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Shape of Things XTensions software..................................................................428

Using the Star Box tool...............................................................................................428

Super Step and Repeat XTensions software.......................................................428

Using Super Step and Repeat.....................................................................................428

Table Import XTensions software.......................................................................429

Type Tricks..........................................................................................................430

Make Fraction..............................................................................................................430

Make Price...................................................................................................................430

Word Space Tracking..................................................................................................431

Line Check...................................................................................................................431

Custom Underline.......................................................................................................432

Word 6–2000 Filter.............................................................................................432

WordPerfect Filter .............................................................................................432

XSLT Export XTensions software.......................................................................432

Other XTensions modules...................................................................................433

Preferences...................................................................................435

Understanding preferences................................................................................435

Nonmatching Preferences alert...................................................................................435

Changes to QuarkXPress preferences.........................................................................436

What's in the preferences files....................................................................................436

Application preferences......................................................................................437

Preferences — Application — Display........................................................................438

Preferences — Application — Input Settings..............................................................438

Preferences — Application — Font Fallback...............................................................439

Preferences — Application — Undo...........................................................................440

Preferences — Application — Open and Save...........................................................440

Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager....................................................441

Preferences — Application — Sharing........................................................................441

Preferences — Application — Fonts...........................................................................441

Preferences — Application — File List........................................................................441

Preferences — Application — Default Path................................................................442

Preferences — Application — EPS..............................................................................442

Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview..........................................................442

Preferences — Application — Browsers......................................................................443

Preferences — Application — Index...........................................................................443

Preferences — Application — Job Jackets.................................................................443

Preferences — Application — PDF.............................................................................444

Preferences — Application — PSD Import..................................................................444

Preferences — Application — Placeholders................................................................445

Preferences — Application — SpellCheck..................................................................445

Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price..............................................................445

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Preferences — Application — Picture Effects.............................................................446

Project preferences.............................................................................................446

Preferences — Project — General...............................................................................446

Layout preferences.............................................................................................447

Preferences — Layout — General...............................................................................447

Preferences — Layout — Measurements....................................................................448

Preferences — Layout — Paragraph...........................................................................449

Preferences — Layout — Character............................................................................450

Preferences — Layout — Tools...................................................................................451

Preferences — Layout — Trapping.............................................................................452

Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid.................................................................453

Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill........................................................................453

Preferences — Layout — Color Manager....................................................................454

Preferences — Layout — Layers..................................................................................455

Preferences — Layout — Presentation........................................................................455

Preferences — Layout — SWF....................................................................................455

Legal notices.................................................................................456

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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 management with TrueType®, OpenType®, and

Unicode® support. 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

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

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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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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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