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A GUIDE TO QUARKXPRESS

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Acknowledgments

Quark, Inc., acknowledges with gratitude the contribution of its Research and Development Team, who developed QuarkXPress

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and QuarkXPress

Passport

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Introduction

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About this Book

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About the Other Books

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Tools

The Tool Palette

1.3

Tool Overview

1.5

Item Tool and Content Tool

1.7

Rotation Tool

1.12

Zoom Tool

1.14

Standard-Shape Text Box Tools

1.16

Standard-Shape Picture Box Tools

1.18

Straight Line Tools

1.20

Straight Text-Path Tools

1.22

Bézier Tools

1.24

Freehand Tools

1.26

Linking/Unlinking Tools

1.28

Page Grabber Hand Tool

1.30

Palettes

Displaying and Arranging Palettes

2.3

Measurements Palette

2.4

Document Layout Palette

2.14

Style Sheets Palette

2.17

Colors Palette

2.19

Trap Information Palette

2.21

Lists Palette

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Menus and Dialog Boxes

File Menu

3.3

Edit Menu

3.33

Style Menu for Text

3.115

Style Menu for Pictures

3.137

Style Menu for Lines

3.146

Item Menu

3.149

Page Menu

3.201

View Menu

3.213

Utilities Menu

3.221

Customizing QuarkXPress

Setting Defaults

4.3

Setting Preferences

4.5

Kerning and Tracking Tables, Hyphenation Exceptions, and Bitmap Frames

4.8

Saving XPress Preferences

4.10

Using XTensions

4.13

Managing Print Styles and PPDs

4.16

Using Apple Events Scripts

4.18

Understanding Nonmatching Preferences

4.19

Layout Tools

Arranging Documents

5.3

Navigating Documents

5.4

Changing Document Views

5.7

Using the Pasteboard

5.8

Using Rulers and Guides

5.10

Specifying Greeking

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Document Basics

Creating New Documents

6.3

Opening Documents

6.5

Saving Documents

6.6

Saving Documents Automatically

6.8

Saving Revisions of Documents

6.10

Saving Documents as Templates

6.12

Box Basics

Creating Boxes

7.3

Resizing Boxes

7.8

Reshaping Boxes

7.10

Moving Boxes

7.18

Framing Boxes

7.20

Coloring Boxes

7.29

Merging and Splitting Boxes

7.32

Filling and Converting Boxes

7.38

Understanding Symmetry and Smoothness

7.40

Line Basics

Creating Lines

8.3

Resizing Lines

8.7

Reshaping Lines

8.10

Moving Lines

8.16

Applying Line Styles

8.21

Manipulating Items

Selecting Items

9.3

Moving, Reshaping, and Resizing Items

9.4

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Items

9.5

Clearing and Deleting Items

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Undoing and Redoing

9.8

Locking and Unlocking Items

9.9

Controlling the Stacking Order of Items

9.10

Grouping Items

9.12

Duplicating and Repeating Items

9.14

Spacing and Aligning Items

9.17

Rotating and Skewing Items

9.20

Document Layout

Creating Master Pages

10.3

Formatting and Applying Master Pages

10.9

Creating Multipage Spreads

10.12

Numbering Pages and Sectioning Documents

10.15

Inserting, Deleting, and Moving Pages

10.17

Working with Text Chains

10.21

Creating “Continued” References

10.26

Working with Columns

10.28

Changing Page Size and Facing-Pages Status

10.30

Copying Items and Pages Between Documents

10.32

Text Basics

Editing Text

11.3

Importing and Exporting Text

11.6

Finding and Changing Text

11.9

Finding and Changing Attributes

11.12

Changing Fonts in a Document

11.16

Checking Spelling

11.19

Using Auxiliary Dictionaries

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Typography

Conﬁrming Typographic Preferences

12.3

Applying Character Attributes

12.5

Specifying Kerning and Tracking

12.13

Applying Paragraph Attributes

12.18

Specifying Alignment and Indents

12.19

Specifying Leading and Paragraph Spacing

12.22

Setting Tabs

12.25

Controlling Widow and Orphan Lines

12.28

Controlling Hyphenation and Justiﬁcation

12.30

Working with Style Sheets

12.39

Positioning Text in Text Boxes

12.48

Graphics in Typography

Converting Text to Boxes

13.3

Running Text Around Items

13.5

Creating Text Paths

13.16

Creating Initial Caps

13.21

Specifying Anchored Rules

13.24

Anchoring Boxes and Lines in Text

13.27

Pictures

Understanding Picture File Formats

14.3

Importing Pictures

14.9

Exporting Pictures

14.13

Manipulating Pictures

14.16

Applying Contrast to Pictures

14.23

Applying Custom Halftone Screens to Pictures

14.27

Creating and Editing Clipping Paths

14.29

Listing and Updating Pictures

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Color

Specifying Spot Versus Process Colors

15.3

Specifying Matching System Colors

15.4

Creating and Editing Colors

15.6

Applying Color, Shade, and Blends

15.19

Trapping

Understanding Trapping

16.3

Trapping Guidelines

16.5

Specifying Default Trapping

16.6

Specifying Color-Speciﬁc Trapping

16.12

Specifying Item-Speciﬁc Trapping

16.16

Trapping EPS Pictures to Background Colors

16.21

Creating and Using a Rich Black

16.23

Libraries

Creating New Libraries

17.3

Opening Libraries

17.4

Working with Libraries

17.5

Working with Labels

17.8

Saving Libraries

17.10

Books

Creating New Books

18.3

Opening and Saving Books

18.4

Working with Chapters

18.6

Controlling Page Numbers

18.11

Synchronizing Chapters

18.13

Printing Chapters

18.16

Creating Tables of Contents and Indexes

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Lists

Preparing Style Sheets for Lists

19.3

Specifying Lists

19.4

Displaying Lists

19.7

Updating Lists

19.9

Working with Lists in Books

19.11

Indexes

Installing the Index XTensions Software

20.3

Using the Index Palette

20.4

Specifying the Index Marker Color

20.9

Creating Index Entries

20.10

Creating Cross-References

20.14

Editing and Deleting Index Entries

20.17

Building Indexes

20.19

Editing Final Indexes

20.22

Nested Index Quick Reference

20.24

Run-in Index Quick Reference

20.25

Output

New Printing Features in QuarkXPress

21.3

Specifying Printing: The Print Dialog Box Tabs

21.4

Specifying Print Dialog Box Settings

21.17

Creating and Using Print Styles

21.19

Printing Color Separations

21.21

Specifying Setup for Imagesetters

21.22

Updating Picture Paths

21.24

Printing Odd-Sized Documents

21.25

Preparing Documents for Service Bureaus

21.29

Understanding DPI vs. LPI

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Technical Notes

An Introduction to Troubleshooting

22.3

The Document Environment

22.4

The Application Environment

22.6

The Operating System Environment

22.8

The PostScript Environment

22.10

QuarkXPress Passport Edition

QuarkXPress Passport Terms

23.3

Managing Language Files

23.4

Specifying the Program Language

23.5

Assigning Languages to Paragraphs

23.6

Checking Spelling

23.7

Hyphenation Methods

23.9

Saving Documents with Multiple Languages

23.11

Appendices

Error Messages

24.3

XPress Tags

24.29

Crossplatform Issues

24.42

Glossary

Index

Introduction

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About this Book

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About the Other Books

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Introduction

From the simplest brochure to highly complex

corporate communications, QuarkXPress encourages

you to push the boundaries of professional publishing.

With superior color capabilities, exceptional picture

handling, and precise typographic controls,

QuarkXPress increases your publishing power.

Create exciting and effective pieces that deliver your

message with impact. It’s no wonder QuarkXPress is

the leading choice among professional designers and

corporate publishers worldwide.

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Publishing with QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress is electronic publishing software. You can use it to create any

kind of publication, from a black-and-white business card to a multicolor

magazine. The best way to integrate QuarkXPress into your production

process depends on many factors, including the kind of publications you

create, how they are printed, the other hardware and software you use for

publishing, and the size and needs of your production staff. You will ﬁnd

that, no matter how you use QuarkXPress, the program’s ability to perform

virtually all layout and production tasks will make the publishing process

easier and will let those who use it do their jobs faster and more creatively.

Planning the project

Before you can begin creating a publication, you should answer a number of basic questions. First, what kind of publication will you create? In the case of a magazine or newspaper publishing organization, that decision has already been made. An advertising agency working with a corporate client, however, may have to do some information gathering before deciding what kind of publication will best meet a client’s needs.

Once you know what you’ll be publishing, you can address other important issues. What size will your publication be, and what colors will be used to create it? How will your publication be produced, printed, and distributed? And, what effect do budget considerations have on the publication planning process? Production can begin only after these issues have been addressed.

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Designing the layout

A designer must make dozens of decisions when planning and designing a publication. Page size, margin widths, number of columns, the use of typefaces and type styles, and the use of color are just a few of the design issues that must be considered. QuarkXPress can help designers work through the planning process and develop a preliminary design. During production, the ﬂexible layout environment of QuarkXPress lets designers rework and reﬁne the preliminary design until they are satisﬁed.

Editing text

Because QuarkXPress includes powerful word processing capabilities, you can write directly in QuarkXPress. Basic editing features like cut, copy, paste, and delete, plus more sophisticated features such as drag-and-drop text, ﬁnd/change, and spell checking let writers enter and edit text without having to purchase and learn a separate word processing program. For long publications, QuarkXPress provides features for tracking multiple documents, generating a table of contents, and creating an index. It is also possible to generate text using a word processing program, and then import the text directly into a QuarkXPress layout.

Creating and importing graphics

While writers and editors work on text, graphic artists create the illustrations, photographs, and other graphic elements that will accompany text and enhance the layout.

Using the drawing tools in QuarkXPress, designers can create boxes and lines with straight edges and Bézier curves. The ﬂexible drawing tools let designers create charts, line drawings, and other design elements directly in QuarkXPress. You can also ﬂow text along any shaped path, and even convert characters to boxes.

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Publishing with QuarkXPress

With QuarkXPress, you can import many types of pictures, including line art, and grayscale or color digital images in various ﬁle formats (TIFF, EPS, etc.). QuarkXPress has the ability to read or create a custom clipping path for an image. This lets you precisely control how much of an imported picture appears on the page. Once imported, you can use QuarkXPress to separate color layouts into color separation plates.

Fine-tuning the layout

The ﬁnal stage of production begins when all the editorial and design elements are ready to be combined and laid out on the page. No matter how you generate your text and graphics, the page layout features in QuarkXPress let you build documents quickly.

You can create templates for often-used document layouts so that you can quickly place text and pictures onto formatted pages. Using paragraph style sheets, you can style text into headlines, subheads, body copy, and captions, making even complicated text formatting a simple, one-step process. With character style sheets, you can apply multiple formats to individual words in one step.

Typographic polishing can include everything from precise adjustments, to leading, kerning, line spacing, word spacing, and character spacing to ﬁnetuning hyphenation and line breaks. Text adjustments can be made locally or implemented on a global scale by editing kerning and tracking tables and using an increasingly sophisticated group of typographic preferences.

Imported pictures can be framed, rotated, skewed, sized, and cropped. You can also add background color and shade to some imported picture formats. Sophisticated text runaround controls let you create elegant text wraps around pictures and items.

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The electronic publishing advantage

By taking advantage of the speed and precision offered by computer technology, you can use QuarkXPress to produce top-quality publications in less time and for less money than those who still use traditional manual techniques. The program’s ability to handle all facets of document production — from preliminary design through prepress production — makes it the ideal tool for any publishing situation. But QuarkXPress is more than a tool. It provides a work environment that gives you the freedom to be more creative and more productive.

Printing

The printing process actually begins with preliminary, rough copies in the early stages of production. You can print roughs with an inkjet or laser printer; you can use a color printer to proof copies of color publications. Because text and pictures are easily edited, you can make changes at any time during the production process.

When it is time to print the ﬁnal version, a laser printer may be adequate for your needs. But, if you are working on a sophisticated publication, you may be working with a service bureau or in-house production department to produce imagesetter output — including separation plates for color printing. Although QuarkXPress lets you control many prepress factors such as trapping, color separation, and screening, many users have their output provider set these speciﬁcations to ensure their job looks great when it comes off the press.

XTensions

If QuarkXPress does not already meet all your publishing needs, you can add custom features with XTensions. Many XTensions exist to fulﬁll speciﬁc functions that were not built into the application itself.

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About this Book

A Guide to QuarkXPress is not meant to be read cover to cover. The book is

designed so that you can look things up quickly, ﬁnd out what you need to

know, and get on with your work. However, if you need more comprehensive

information about electronic publishing, that is also provided.

Where we’re coming from

This book assumes you are familiar with your computer and know how to:

• Launch an application

• Open, save, and close ﬁles

• Use menus, dialog boxes, and palettes

• Use the mouse, keyboard commands, and modiﬁer keys

If you need help performing any of these tasks, consult the documentation resources (user/reference guides) provided with your computer.

Where to look

This book is split into two distinct sections: Introducing QuarkXPress, which describes the interface, and

Using QuarkXPress, which offers steps for speciﬁc tasks. Both sections include concept blocks, which provide helpful background information about various features without interrupting tasks.

Introducing QuarkXPress

If you stumble on an unfamiliar command, or want more information about how to use a tool, check the ﬁrst section of this book:

Introducing

QuarkXPress.

A black bar on the upper right corner of each two-page

spread makes the section easy to ﬁnd.

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The Introducing section explains the QuarkXPress interface, including menus and dialog boxes, tools, palettes, and preferences. Commands are documented in menu order, starting with the ﬁrst command in the

File

menu and ending with the last command in the Utilities menu.

Using QuarkXPress

Whenever you think to yourself, “I wonder how to do this …,” check the second section of this book,

Using QuarkXPress. The detailed Table of Contents at the beginning of this book, the condensed Table of Contents at the beginning of each chapter, and the Index should help you quickly ﬁnd the information you need.

Each chapter in the

Using section includes a series of speciﬁc tasks such as “Creating New Documents” or “Importing Pictures.” Instructions for accomplishing tasks are presented in steps or bullets. Tips from expert QuarkXPress users are frequently included in the sidebars of these pages.

Concept blocks

If you need background information about publishing tasks or issues, look at the concept blocks throughout this book. Concept blocks, on shaded pages, are placed at the beginning or end of chapters. The ﬁrst word in the title of a concept block is usually “Understanding,” for example: “Understanding Picture File Formats.” You can read concept blocks any time — they’re designed to round out your knowledge of electronic publishing without relating to a speciﬁc task.

What you’re looking at

This book uses various conventions (styles) to help you ﬁnd information quickly:

Bold type style

The names of QuarkXPress menu commands, dialog boxes, and other controls are set in bold type. For example: “The

Colors palette lets you

apply colors to text, pictures, lines, and box backgrounds.”

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References and arrows

Whenever a feature is mentioned, a reference shows how to access that feature. For example: “The

Save as dialog box (File menu) lets you save a copy of a document.” Arrows are used to represent the menu path to a feature. For example: “Choose

File & Print to display the Print dialog box.”

Icons

The names of tools and graphic buttons are followed by the appropriate icons. For example: “Select the Item tool

e in the Tool palette” or

“Click the centered button

} in the Measurements palette.”

Charts

The Introducing QuarkXPress section charts the range of values that any control can accept. Charts follow this format:

Range Measurement system Smallest increment

2 to 720 pt various (", pt, cm, etc.) .001

The “Range” is expressed in the default measurement system. You can enter values in ﬁelds according to the “Measurement system” column. For example, measurements may be expressed in pixels, points, or any measurement system supported by QuarkXPress. (The example above shows a feature that accepts any supported measurement system.) The “Smallest increment” is often the smallest unit of measurement you can enter.

Notes and tips

Notes provide helpful information about particular features.

Tips provide extra information about particular features and general techniques for electronic publishing.

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About the Other Books

The QuarkXPress box also contains a tutorial, A Preview to QuarkXPress,

and various other cards and booklets.

A Preview to QuarkXPress

If you are new to electronic publishing applications, this tutorial is for you. The introduction familiarizes you with the QuarkXPress interface, and the exercises highlight the primary features of this version.

What’s New in QuarkXPress 4.0

If you are a proﬁcient QuarkXPress user, start with this booklet. It provides a brief overview of all the new features in this version of QuarkXPress to get you started with your new software as quickly as possible.

Other pieces in the box

Your QuarkXPress box also includes installation and user registration instructions, service plan information, a book about QuarkXPress color features, a list of keyboard commands, and documentation for any latebreaking features.

Choosing File &Print.

Introduction

QuarkXPress Basics

To use QuarkXPress effectively, you need to understand the basic concepts.

Read this section if you are new to QuarkXPress or if you need a quick

refresher. QuarkXPress uses concepts from traditional publishing to make

its tools and layout environment more familiar.

Document environment

A work area called the pasteboard surrounds each page or spread. You use the pasteboard to store items temporarily or to experiment with something before you put it on a page. You can have individual pages or multipage spreads, and you can add, move, and delete pages as you work. Pages can be manipulated using the

Document Layout palette,

the

Page menu, and in Thumbnails view.

Basic tools

QuarkXPress pages contain items. Items are text boxes, text paths, picture boxes, and lines; they are created in QuarkXPress and manipulated primarily with the Item tool

e. Contents are text and pictures; they are

manipulated primarily with the Content tool

In general, you will use

Item menu commands and the left half of the

Measurements palette when working with items. Likewise, you will use

the

Style menu and the right half of the Measurements palette when

working with contents.

The controls in the Measurements palette change according to the current selection — whether it is a text box, picture box, line, text, or picture.

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The box concept

In QuarkXPress, most things go into a box. Text is contained in text boxes and pictures are contained in picture boxes. Text can also be placed on a path. You have control over the size, shape, layering, color, and other properties of each box or path — and you have similar control over the text or pictures contained in them.

Working with text

A text box or a text path contains text. To create a text box or path, use a Text Box tool

T or a Text Path tool ˜. Then use the Get Text command

(

File menu) to import text ﬁles from other sources, including many popular word processors, databases, and spreadsheets. Or, create or select a text box with the Content tool

E and begin typing.

The

Style menu provides formatting options such as fonts, type styles, and colors when you are working with text. High-end typographic controls are provided through a combination of menu items, keyboard commands, and preferences. To simplify text formatting, you can create paragraph and character style sheets (

Edit & Style Sheets) and apply them using a menu

command, the

Style Sheets palette, or keyboard commands.

To ﬂow text from one text box to the next (or from one text path to the next), you can create an automatic chain of text. You can also use the Linking

u and Unlinking U tools to manually create custom text

chains. To create an automatic text chain, check

Automatic Text Box

in the New Document dialog box (File & New & Document).

Placing pictures

Picture is a general term for any type of graphic ﬁle in a QuarkXPress document. Just as text boxes contain text, picture boxes contain pictures. To create a picture box, use any of the picture box creation tools

p, x, O,

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å, 7, ƒ, or ∂. Then, use the Get Picture command (File menu) to import a copy of a picture ﬁle. You can also paste a picture that has been copied to the

Clipboard into your document.

When you are working with pictures, the

Style menu provides formatting choices like contrast, line screen, and colors. Picture formatting options are selectively available depending on the imported picture’s graphic ﬁle format.

Shapes and lines

To create a colored shape, create any shape picture box and apply a color to the background of the box. Background colors are applied to boxes using the

Colors palette (View menu) or the Box tab of the Modify dia-

log box (

Item menu). The Merge controls (Item menu) let you create

boxes with multiple contours and combine different boxes.

Create custom line styles using the

Dashes & Stripes dialog box (Edit menu); then use line creation tools to draw any shape lines. When a line is selected, the

Modify dialog box and the Style menu provide options

for formatting lines such as style, width, and arrowheads.

Electronic paste-up

Items can be moved, resized, reshaped, and layered with other items. You can drag items into place by aligning them with rulers and guides, or you can enter precise

X and Y coordinates in the Measurements palette.

Each type of item has its own

Modify dialog box (Item menu) that controls the size, position, background color, position of the contents, and more. To ﬂow text around pictures, lines, and other items, use the Runaround tab in the Modify dialog box. Other Item menu commands let you group items so they can be moved together, change the stacking order (layering) of items, duplicate items, and space selected items evenly.

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When you choose Item & Modify, a dialog box speciﬁc to the selected item is displayed. The various tabs in the

Modify dialog box provide access to different sets of controls.

Master pages and templates

Items (pictures and text) that need to go on many pages in your document can be placed on master pages. Applying a master page to a document page places the recurring items automatically. For example, if you are working on a newsletter, you might want a master page for the cover and nameplate, one for the inside spreads, and one with mailing information for the back page. Master pages can be created, edited, and applied using the

Document Layout palette. Once you’ve established the format-

ting of a publication, you can save a document as a reusable template.

Customizing QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress has many options for customizing how you work, how your text ﬂows, how your tools work, and more. These are called

Prefer-

ences

(Edit menu), and you can control preferences for your copy of

QuarkXPress (

Application Preferences) or for individual documents

(

Document Preferences).

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In addition to preferences, you can create custom style sheets, colors, dashes and stripes, frames, lists (style-sheet generated lists), and H&Js (hyphenation and justiﬁcation speciﬁcations) for use in a document or template. All these speciﬁcations are created through commands in the

Edit menu.

On to output

The Print dialog box (File menu) offers plenty of output options. For convenience, you can combine all these settings and save them as

Styles

(Edit menu). When you print, QuarkXPress requires all the font

and picture ﬁles used in the document. The

Collect for Output (File menu) feature automatically gathers the document and pictures into one folder, and it produces a report of the document’s fonts, colors, trapping, and other settings — ready for output.

Power through palettes and keyboard commands

As you use QuarkXPress, you will develop your own working style. Maybe you will prefer to use the mouse and menu commands for everything. Or, you may ﬁnd that you prefer the quick access to features provided by palettes and extensive keyboard commands. In many cases, QuarkXPress offers multiple ways to perform a given task.

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The Interface

QuarkXPress menus and dialog boxes adhere to Mac OS conventions —

with a few enhancements. This section provides a quick look at standard

interface controls, and highlights features unique to QuarkXPress. If you

are new to the Mac OS, we recommend that you consult the documenta-

tion resources provided with your computer for complete information

about using the Mac OS. If you are new to QuarkXPress, we recommend

that you perform the tutorial contained in

A Preview to QuarkXPress.

QuarkXPress menus

The menu bar displays the seven menus available in QuarkXPress: File, Edit, Style, Item, Page, View,

and Utilities. The menu bar can also display QuarkXTensions such as QuarkImmedia and QuarkDispatch. Each menu contains groups of related commands separated by lines. Many menu entries are followed by keyboard shortcuts, displayed with the following modiﬁer keys: Command (

C), Option (`), Control (^), and

Shift (

w). See Figure 1.

Context-sensitive menus

QuarkXPress menus are context-sensitive (menu items change according to the active item, the current situation, or the tool selected).

• The commands listed under a menu may change. For example, the

Style menu commands change depending on whether text, a picture, or a line is active.

• An individual menu command may change. For example, the

Undo

command (Edit menu) changes to reﬂect your last action (such as Undo Typing or Undo Item Deletion).

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• The availability of menu entries may change. For example, when a picture is selected,

Save Text (File menu) is dimmed and not available.

• The availability of entire menus may change. For example, the

Style

menu entries for text are available only when a text box is active and the Content tool

E is selected.

• The function of a menu command may change slightly when you press a modiﬁer key while selecting the menu. For example, if you press the Option key while you choose the

Item menu, the Send to Back com-

mand changes to

Send Backward.

Check mark

A check mark j in a menu indicates one of the following:

• A function has been performed. For example, a check mark is displayed next to

Flip Vertical (Style menu) when the contents of a box are

ﬂipped vertically.

See Figure 2.

• A feature is turned on. For example, a check mark next to Snap to Guides

(View menu) means that items in your document will snap to

the guides you’ve created.

• A format from a list has been applied. For example, a check mark is displayed in the

Font submenu next to the font applied to selected text. When multiple formats have been applied to a selection, check marks are displayed next to formats common to the entire selection only.

QuarkXPress dialog boxes

Choosing a menu entry followed by an ellipsis (…) displays a dialog box. Dialog boxes contain related commands that allow you to specify exactly what you want to happen. The context-sensitive controls in QuarkXPress dialog boxes consist primarily of tabs, areas, ﬁelds, pop-up menus, radio buttons, check boxes, and buttons.

See Figure 3.

Figure 1: Like other QuarkXPress menus, the

File menu contains groups of related

commands separated by lines.

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Tabs

Many dialog boxes provide multiple functions through tabs. By clicking a tab icon, you can display different sets of controls. Pressing ControlTab takes you to the next tab in a dialog box.

Area

Related commands within a dialog box or tab are grouped into an “area,” which is named and surrounded by a border. For example, the Box tab in the Modify dialog box (Item menu) has a Blend area, which lets you specify a custom blend for a box.

See Figure 4.

List

Some dialog boxes include lists of elements for you to select or edit. For example, the

Colors dialog box (Edit menu) displays a list of colors. You can navigate through lists using the up and down arrow keys. Depending on the type of list, you may be able to multiple-select items to edit. For example, in the

Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box

(

Edit & Preferences & Document), you can select multiple tools and

edit common attributes. To select a group of continuous elements, click the ﬁrst element then press the Shift key while clicking the last element in the range. To select a group of noncontinuous elements, press the

key while clicking them.

Field

A ﬁeld is a rectangular box for entering a speciﬁc value. For example, in the

Text tab of the Modify dialog box (Item menu), you can enter the

number of columns for an active text box in the

Columns ﬁeld. Fields

have the following characteristics:

• You can enter measurements in any of the supported measurement sys-

tems, using the following abbreviations: inches or inches decimal ("), picas (p), points (pt), millimeters (mm), centimeters (cm), ciceros (c), and agates (ag).

Figure 2: The check mark next to Flip Vertical

in the Style menu for text indi-

cates that the contents of the active text box are ﬂipped vertically.

Figure 3: The

Modify dialog box (Item

menu) includes tabs, areas, ﬁelds, pop-up menus, check boxes, and buttons.

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• You only need to specify units of measure with an abbreviation when you are not using the default measurement system. For example, if your measurement preferences are set to inches, and you want to specify an indent in points, you can enter “6 pt” in the ﬁeld. The measurement will be converted to inches the next time you open the dialog box.

•The default measurement system is speciﬁed in the

Horizontal Mea-

sure

and Vertical Measure pop-up menus in the General tab of the

Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document).

• You can tab to highlight the next ﬁeld in a dialog box and Shift-Tab to highlight the previous ﬁeld.

• You can perform math in ﬁelds using these operators: + (addition), – (subtraction), * (multiplication), or, / (division). For example, to double the width of a box, you can multiply the width by 2 by entering *2 to the right of the current value. You can even perform multiple operations — such as dividing a value by 4, then adding 2.

See Figure 5.

QuarkXPress performs multiplication and division ﬁrst, followed by subtraction and addition, from left to right; you cannot use parentheses when performing math in ﬁelds. You can add and subtract speciﬁc measurements, such as 2".

Pop-up menu

A pop-up menu is a small menu within a dialog box or palette. A pop-up menu like this contains a list of options. A pop-up menu like this contains an editable ﬁeld in addition to a list of options. You can enter a value (such as a percentage) or a word (like a font name) in the ﬁeld, rather than choosing an option from the list.

See Figure 6.

Check box

A check box lets you turn options on and off . Checking a box may activate other controls; checking or unchecking a box may expand a dialog box to display more controls.

Figure 4: The Box tab of the Modify dialog box (

Item menu) includes a bordered

Blend area.

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Radio button

A radio button lets you select from mutually exclusive options. For example, in the

XTensions tab (Edit & Preferences & Application),

you can choose when to display the

XTensions Manager dialog box by

clicking a radio button.

Button

A button, shaped like this , performs an action. If a button has a border around it , you can also press Return or Enter on the keyboard rather than clicking the button with the mouse. A button may also include a pop-up menu that lets you choose a type of action. For example, the

New button in the Style Sheets dialog box (Edit menu) lets

you create either a character style sheet or a paragraph style sheet.

Many dialog boxes in QuarkXPress include an

Apply button so you can

preview your changes before closing the dialog box. For example, the Apply button in the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Style & Formats) lets you see how your changes affect selected paragraphs. If you press the Option key the ﬁrst time you click

Apply, you can view all your changes

as you make them without clicking the

Apply button again.

Figure 5: You can perform math in QuarkXPress ﬁelds. The formula in the Width ﬁeld multiplies the width of the box by 2, then adds 1 point. The formula in the

Height ﬁeld divides the height of

the box by 2, then subtracts .25 inch.

Figure 6: A pop-up menu offers a list of options, and often includes a ﬁeld that accepts custom values. For example, the Width pop-up menu in the Frame tab of the

Modify dialog box (Item menu)

includes a list of frame widths and a ﬁeld.

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Figure 7: The Save as dialog box (File menu) is an example of a directory dialog box. It includes the current disk name, the

Eject, Desktop, New Folder, Can-

cel

, and Save buttons, pop-up menus for

ﬁle type and version, a scroll list for navigating through folders, and a check box.

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Directory dialog boxes

Directory dialog boxes are used to open, import, export, or save ﬁles; they include standard Mac OS controls for navigating through disks and folders so you can locate ﬁles, or choose where you want to save ﬁles.

See Figure 7. Dialog boxes in QuarkXPress with directory dialog

box elements include:

New Library, New Book, Open, Save as, Get

Text, Save Text, Append, Save Page as EPS, Collect for Output,

and

Auxiliary Dictionary.

Alert dialog boxes

An alert is a dialog box that warns you when there is a problem and often suggests a solution. For example, if you enter an invalid value in a ﬁeld, an alert notiﬁes you and often provides an acceptable range of values for the ﬁeld. The “Error Messages” section of Chapter 24, “Appendices” lists and explains the alerts you may encounter in QuarkXPress.

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Tools

The Tool Palette

1.3

Tool Overview

1.5

Item Tool and Content Tool

1.7

Rotation Tool

1.12

Zoom Tool

1.14

Standard-Shape Text Box Tools

1.16

Standard-Shape Picture Box Tools

1.18

Straight Line Tools

1.20

Straight Text-Path Tools

1.22

Bézier Tools

1.24

Freehand Tools

1.26

Linking/Unlinking Tools

1.28

Page Grabber Hand Tool

1.30

Tools

QuarkXPress preserves the cliché “you need the

right tools to get the job done.” The

Tool palette

provides easy access to powerful tools that allow

you to accomplish the most basic — and the most

sophisticated — publishing tasks.

Tools let you create and place boxes, lines, pictures,

and text; rotate items; link text boxes so text ﬂows

from page to page; and enlarge and reduce the

document view. You can customize the

Tool palette

by rearranging and hiding tools, and you can cus-

tomize many individual tools using preferences.

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The Tool Palette

Use the tools in the Tool palette to create and edit many elements in

QuarkXPress, including text boxes, picture boxes, lines, text paths, text,

and pictures. The selected tool determines which commands in

QuarkXPress are available.

Displaying the Tool palette

To display the Tool palette, choose View & Show Tools. The Tool palette remains open until you close it. To close the Tool palette, choose View & Hide Tools or click the close box.

Selecting a tool

To select a tool, click it. Press C-Tab to select the tool below the current tool; press

C-Shift-Tab to select the tool above the current tool.

Tool preferences

You can specify default settings for magniﬁcation and item creation through the

Tools tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit &

Preferences & Document). You can also access the Tools tab by double-

clicking an item creation tool or the Zoom tool

Z. Tool preferences

apply to the active document; if no documents are open, tool preferences become application defaults.

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The Tool Palette

Tips

Using the Tool palette

• Click a tool to select it.

• The selected tool determines which QuarkXPress commands are available.

• Press the Control key while selecting a pop-out tool to add the tool to the Tool palette. Press the Control key while clicking an unnecessary tool to remove it from the Tool palette.

• Double-click an item creation tool or the Zoom tool Z to set its preferences.

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Customizing the Tool palette

QuarkXPress lets you customize the Tool palette by rearranging, hiding, and adding tools. Many tools are condensed under “pop-outs” indicated by an arrow next to the tool.

• To display the pop-out tools, click and hold a tool that displays an arrow next to it.

• To use a pop-out tool, click and drag to select the tool. This replaces the tool in the main

Tool palette.

• To add a tool to the main

Tool palette, press the Control key while you

click and drag to select a new tool from a pop-out.

• To hide a tool, press the Control key while you click that tool. At least one tool from each pop-out must remain on the palette.

When you quit QuarkXPress, your current tool arrangement is saved in the

XPress Preferences ﬁle. The next time you launch

QuarkXPress, your

Tool palette will be just as you left it.

Keyboard commands

Use the following keyboard commands with the Tool palette and tools:

Tool choice Command

Show Tools F8 Hide Tools F8 Show/Hide individual tool Control-click Select tool below current tool C-Tab Select tool above current tool C-Shift-Tab Show Tool tab (Document Preferences) Double-click any creation tool Use Page Grabber Hand H Option* Use Zoom In pointer M Control Use Zoom Out pointer

m Option-Control

*The Page Grabber Hand H is not accessible when the Zoom tool Z is

selected or when the Caps Lock key is down.

Tools

Tool palette and text box pop-out tools

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Tool Overview

The basic function of each tool in the Tool palette is described below.

Complete information about how each tool works is covered in the

remainder of this chapter.

Default Tool palette

Item tool

Selects, moves, resizes, and reshapes items (boxes, lines, text paths, and groups), and reshapes clipping and runaround paths.

Content tool

Imports and edits text and pictures, and imitates most Item tool functionality.

Rotation tool

Rotates items visually rather than numerically.

Zoom tool

Enlarges or reduces the document view.

Text Box tool

Creates a rectangular text box; provides access to other text box tools.

p, x, ç, ∂

Picture Box tools

Create a rectangle, rounded-corner, oval, or Bézier picture box; the Rectangle Picture Box tool

p provides access to other picture box tools.

Line tool

Creates straight lines of any angle; provides access to other line tools.

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Orthogonal Line tool

Creates straight lines that are perfectly horizontal or vertical.

Line Text-Path tool

Creates a straight line, of any angle, that contains text; provides access to other text-path tools.

Linking tool

Establishes text chains to ﬂow text among text boxes.

Unlinking tool

Breaks links among text boxes.

Page Grabber Hand (not displayed in the palette; press Option key to use)

Scrolls a page in any direction.

Pop-out tools

Å, ı, Ç, Î, ´, Ô

Text Box tools

Create a rounded-corner, concave-corner, beveled-corner, oval, Bézier, or freehand Bézier text box.

å, ∫, ƒ

Picture Box tools

Create a concave-corner, beveled-corner, or freehand Bézier picture box.

∞, §

Line tools

Create a Bézier line or freehand Bézier line.

, Â, ˜

Text-Path tools

Create an orthogonal, Bézier, or freehand Bézier text path.

Tools

Tool palette with all the tools showing. (Control-drag while selecting a pop-out tool to add it to the palette.)

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Item Tool e and Content Tool

When the Item tool e is selected, you can cut, copy, and paste picture

boxes, lines, text paths, and groups. When the Content tool

E is selected,

you can cut, copy, paste, clear, and edit text or pictures. The Item tool and

the Content tool also have several characteristics common to both tools.

Use the Item and Content tools interchangeably to select and manipulate

boxes, lines, and text paths — or to import and apply styles to pictures.

Arrow pointer a

When you select the Item or Content tool, the Arrow pointer a displays. To select an item, click it with the Arrow pointer; to select multiple items, press the Shift key while you click them.

Mover pointer e

When the Item tool is over the interior of a box, a straight line, or a Bézier line whose bounding box is displayed, the Mover pointer

e displays. You

can access the Mover pointer

e when the Content tool is selected by

pressing the

C key. To move active items, click and drag with the Mover

pointer

e. If no items are selected, you can press the Shift key while select-

ing and dragging to move an item horizontally or vertically only.

When you drag, an outline of the item is displayed. To see the item and its contents when you drag, press the mouse button until the item ﬂashes, and then start dragging.

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Tips

“Items” in QuarkXPress are

• Picture boxes

• Text boxes

• Lines

• Text paths

• Groups

• Multiple-selected items

Using the Item and Content tools

• Click items to select them for modiﬁcation.

• Click and drag to move items.

• Drag bounding box handles to resize items. (Not available if Item & Edit & Shape is checked.)

• Drag points, curve handles, or segments to reshape a Bézier shape. (An option must be checked in the

Item & Edit submenu.)

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Resizing pointer #

When the Item or Content tool is over a bounding box handle on an active item, the Resizing pointer

# displays. To enlarge or reduce an

item, click and drag the Resizing pointer.

You can scale the contents of a box or text path, while you resize the item itself, by pressing modiﬁer keys as you drag a handle:

Resize item and scale contents Command

Scale C-Drag Scale and constrain to square bounding box C-Shift-Drag Scale and maintain proportions

C-Option-Shift-Drag

Point pointer ˝

When the Item or Content tool is over a point on a selected Bézier shape, the Point pointer

˝ displays. To select a point, click with the

Point pointer displayed.

• Press the Shift key while clicking to select multiple points.

• Double-click a point to select all the points in the shape. Triple-click to select all the points in a multiple-path item.

• To reshape, click and drag the Point pointer. If the point is deselected, you can press the Shift key while selecting and dragging to move the point in 45° increments only.

• Press the Option key to change the Point pointer into a Point Deletion pointer

v, and click to delete the point.

Curve Handle pointers Ï, Ó

When the Item or Content tool is over a curve handle on a selected Bézier shape, one of the two Curve Handle pointers

Ï, Ó displays.

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Resizing handles

Delayed item dragging in action

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To reshape a curve, click and drag with the Curve Handle pointer displayed. Curve handle angles determine the starting angles for curves. The distance of the curve handles from the point determines the extremity of the curve.

•Press the Shift key while dragging a curve handle to move it in 45° increments from the point.

• Press the Control key while dragging a curve handle to change a smooth point to a corner point or vice versa.

• Press the Option key to change the Curve Handle pointer into the Retract Curve Handle pointer

v, and click to retract the curve handle.

Line Segment pointer ˆ

When the Item or Content tool is over a line segment on a selected Bézier shape, the Line Segment pointer

ˆ displays. To select a line seg-

ment (and the two points attached to it), click with the Line Segment pointer displayed.

• To reshape a Bézier item, click and drag the Line Segment pointer.

• Press the Shift key while dragging a line segment to constrain both its curve handles to 45° increments.

• Press the Option key to change the Line Segment pointer into an Add Point pointer

V, and click to add a point.

Marquee o

When the Item or Content tool is selected, you can access a standard Marquee pointer

o for selecting multiple items. Click the mouse button

outside the boundaries of any items, then drag the Marquee over items to select them. To add or remove an item from a Marquee selection, press the Shift key while you click it.

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Features speciﬁc to the Item tool e

When the Item tool is selected, this additional functionality is available:

• Cut, copy, or paste active items entirely. (This is also possible when any other tool is selected except the Content tool

E.)

• Delete active Bézier points using the Delete key.

• Move active items using arrow keys.

• Activate a group by selecting only one of its items.

• Change the line attributes of an active text path. (This is also possible when any other tool is selected except the Content tool

E.)

Features speciﬁc to the Content tool E

When the Content tool is selected, this additional functionality is available:

Cut, copy, paste, or clear contents

When the Content tool is selected, you can cut, copy, paste, or clear highlighted text or a picture in an active picture box. The box itself is unaffected.

Import and edit text

Use the Content tool to edit and apply attributes to existing text or import new text into an active text box or text path.

I-beam pointer

When the Content tool is over a selected text box or text path, the Ibeam pointer

I displays. Click the I-beam pointer to place the Text Inser-

tion bar

i where you want to begin importing or editing text. You cannot

place the Text Insertion bar

i below existing paragraphs within a text

box. To highlight text, click and drag the I-beam pointer

I. You can cut,

copy, clear, drag-and-drop, or apply

Style menu attributes to highlighted

text.

Tools

Tips

“Contents” in QuarkXPress are

• Pictures

• Text

Using the Content tool E

• Click a text box or text path to import or edit text.

• Click a picture box to import or edit

a picture.

• Choose File & Get Picture or File & Get Text to import a picture ﬁle or text ﬁle.

• Highlight text to edit it.

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Text Insertion bar

When you click the I-beam pointer I in text, a blinking Text Insertion bar

i displays. This is the text insertion point. When you create a new

text box, the Text Insertion bar

i displays automatically at the top of the

box.

You can enter text at this point by typing or choosing

File & Get Text.

You can delete text preceding this point by pressing the Delete key. To reposition the Text Insertion bar

i, use the arrow keys on the keyboard

or click with the I-beam pointer

Picture Mover pointer

When the Content tool is over an active picture box containing a picture, the Picture Mover pointer

H displays. To move the picture, click and drag

the Picture Mover pointer in any direction, or use the arrow keys.

You can edit the picture using the

Style menu, the Measurements palette, keyboard commands, or the Picture tab of the Modify dialog box (

Item & Modify).

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Rotation Tool

Use the Rotation tool to rotate items visually around a point you establish.

Arrow pointer a

If no items are selected when you select the Rotation tool, the Arrow pointer

a displays. To select an item to rotate, click it with the Arrow

pointer.

Rotation pointer :

When the Rotation tool is over an active item, the Rotation pointer : displays. To establish a point for an item to rotate around, click and hold the Rotation pointer. The rotation point can be within or outside the active item.

Arrowhead pointer ;

After you establish the Rotation point, the Arrowhead pointer ; displays. To rotate the item, drag the Arrowhead pointer in a circular motion. A line extends from the center of the rotation point to the Arrowhead pointer indicating the item’s angle of rotation.

You can rotate an item from –360° to +360°. As you drag the Arrowhead pointer

;, the r ﬁeld in the Measurements palette displays the angle

change. Press the Shift key to constrain rotation to 45° increments.

Rotating boxes

When you rotate an item, an outline of the item is displayed. To see the item and its contents when you rotate, press the mouse button until the item ﬂashes before you begin rotating.

Tools

Tips

You can rotate items visually or numerically

• Use the Rotation tool to establish a point to rotate an item around, then rotate the item visually.

• Use the rotation ﬁeld r in the Measurements palette to rotate a box around its center numerically.

Using the Rotation tool R

• Select an item to rotate it.

• Click the Rotation pointer : to establish a rotation point, then drag the Arrowhead pointer ; to rotate the item.

• The Rotation tool reverts to the Item tool e or the Content tool E automatically.

The rotation point

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Rotating straight lines

Straight lines deﬁned in Endpoints Mode (Item & Modify & Line tab) can only be rotated with the Rotation tool.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you rotate an item, the Rotation tool automatically reverts to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E). To prevent this,

press the Option key while selecting the Rotation tool. This allows you to experiment with the rotation of one item without having to reselect the tool each time you rotate.

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Zoom Tool

Use the Zoom tool to change the view percent of a document or to view a

speciﬁc area.

Zoom In pointer M

When you select the Zoom tool, the Zoom In pointer M displays. To enlarge the document view according to a speciﬁed interval, click the Zoom In pointer. To enlarge a speciﬁc area of a document to ﬁt in the document window, marquee the area.

Zoom Out pointer m

When the Zoom In pointer is displayed, press the Option key to access the Zoom Out pointer

m. To reduce the document view, click the Zoom

Out pointer. To view a speciﬁc area of a document, marquee an area larger than the existing view area by clicking and dragging. The area is reduced as necessary to ﬁt the document window.

Zoom tool preferences

The Zoom tool enlarges or reduces the document view according to the

Minimum, Maximum, and Increment settings in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document).

To quickly access the

Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box,

double-click the Zoom tool.

Tools

Tips

Using the Zoom tool Z

• Click the Zoom In pointer M to enlarge the document view.

• Click and drag the Zoom In M or Zoom Out m pointer to select an area to view.

• Press the Option key to access the Zoom Out pointer m; click to reduce the document view.

• Each time you click the Zoom tool, the view is enlarged or reduced according to the Increment speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences &

Document).

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Click and drag the mouse with the Zoom tool selected to zoom in on the area of the marquee.

The values in the Minimum and Maximum ﬁelds indicate the smallest and largest document views you can obtain by clicking the Zoom tool (within the 10% to 800% range). The value in the

Increment ﬁeld indicates the percent change in view for each mouse click of the Zoom In pointer

M or Zoom Out pointer m. The default value is 25%.

Accessing the Zoom tool

When any other tool is selected, you can access the Zoom In pointer M by pressing the Control key. You can access the Zoom Out pointer m while any tool is selected by pressing the Option and Control keys. (If the pointer is over a Bézier point when you press the Control key, the Zoom tool will not display.)

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Zoom Tool

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Standard-Shape Text Box Tools T, Å, ı, Ç,

Use the standard-shape text box tools to create text boxes (containers for

text) in the following predeﬁned shapes:

• Rectangle Text Box tool T for rectangular or square text boxes.

• Rounded-corner Text Box tool

Å for rectangular text boxes with

curved corners.

•Concave-corner Text Box tool

ı for rectangular text boxes with cor-

ners rounded inward.

• Beveled-corner Text Box tool

Ç for rectangular text boxes with

beveled corners.

•Oval Text Box tool

Î for oval or circular text boxes.

Crosshair pointer c

When a standard-shape text box tool is selected, the Crosshair pointer c displays. To create a standard-shape text box, click and drag the Crosshair pointer diagonally. To create a square or circular text box, press the Shift key while you click and drag. (You can change the shape of a selected text box using the

Shape submenu of the Item menu.)

Size and placement

As you click and drag the Crosshair pointer c, the X, Y, W, and H ﬁelds in the

Measurements palette display the coordinates, width, and height of the text box. If the Rulers are showing in the document window (

View & Show Rulers), small lines on the ruler indicate the starting posi-

tion of the Crosshair pointer and the width and height of the text box.

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• Text is imported or entered into text boxes.

• New text boxes have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document) for the selected text box tool.

Using the standard-shape text box tools

• Click and drag diagonally to create a new text box.

• Press the Shift key while creating a text box to make it square or circular.

• The text box tools revert to the Item tool e or the Content tool E automatically.

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Click and drag the mouse in any direction to create a text box using a standardshape text box tool.

Text box tool preferences

New text boxes have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document

). To quickly access the Tool tab of the Document Preferences

dialog box, double-click a text box tool.

Use the

Modify button in the Tool tab to access a dialog box that allows you to specify attributes for new text boxes such as the background color, number of columns, frame, and runaround. You can also specify Corner Radius (the amount of space taken up by the corners) for rounded-corner, concave-corner, and beveled-corner text boxes.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you create a text box, the text box tools automatically revert to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E). To prevent this,

press the Option key while selecting a text box tool. This allows you to draw several text boxes without selecting the tool again.

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Standard-Shape Text Box Tools

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Standard-Shape Picture Box Tools p, x,

ç, å, ∫

Use the standard-shape picture box tools to create picture boxes (containers

for pictures) in the following predeﬁned shapes:

• Rectangle Picture Box tool p for rectangular or square picture boxes.

• Rounded-corner Picture Box tool

x for rectangular picture boxes with

curved corners.

• Concave-corner Picture Box tool

å for rectangular picture boxes with

corners rounded inward.

• Beveled-corner Picture Box tool

∫ for rectangular picture boxes with

beveled corners.

• Oval Picture Box tool

ç for oval or circular picture boxes.

Crosshair pointer c

When a standard-shape picture box tool is selected, the Crosshair pointer

c displays. To create a standard-shape picture box, click and drag

the Crosshair pointer diagonally. To create a square or circular picture box, press the Shift key while you click and drag. (You can change the shape of a selected picture box using the

Shape submenu of the Item menu.)

Size and placement

As you click and drag the Crosshair pointer c, the X, Y, W, and H ﬁelds in the Measurements palette display the coordinates, width, and height of the picture box. If the Rulers are showing in the document window (

View & Show Rulers), small lines on the ruler indi-

cate the starting position of the Crosshair pointer and the width and height of the picture box.

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• Pictures are imported into picture boxes; you cannot have a picture in a document without a box.

• New picture boxes have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document) for the selected picture box tool.

Using the standard-shape picture box tools

• Click and drag diagonally to create a new picture box.

• Press the Shift key while creating a picture box to make it square or circular.

• The picture box tools revert to the Item tool e or the Content tool E automatically.

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Click and drag the mouse in any direction to create a picture box using a standardshape picture box tool.

Picture box tool preferences

New picture boxes have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document

). To quickly access the Tool tab of the Document Preferences

dialog box, double-click any picture box tool.

Use the

Modify button in the Tool tab to access a dialog box that allows you to specify attributes for new picture boxes such as the background color, picture angle, frame, and runaround. You can also specify

Corner

Radius

(the amount of space taken up by the corners) for rounded-cor-

ner, concave-corner, and beveled-corner picture boxes.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you create a picture box, the picture box tools automatically revert to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E ). To pre-

vent this, press the Option key while selecting a picture box tool. This allows you to draw several picture boxes without selecting the tool again.

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Straight Line Tools

o, L

Use the straight line tools to create horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines:

• Orthogonal Line tool o for horizontal and vertical lines.

• Line tool

L for diagonal lines.

Crosshair pointer c

When either straight line tool is selected, the Crosshair pointer c displays. To create a straight line, click and drag the Crosshair pointer. To constrain lines created with the Line tool

L to any 45˚ increment (0˚,

45˚, 90˚, etc.), press the Shift key while you click and drag.

Size and position

As you click and drag the Crosshair pointer c, the ﬁelds in the Measurements

palette change to reﬂect the position, length, and/or angle of the

line. If the

Rulers are showing in the document window (View & Show

Rulers

), small lines on the ruler indicate the starting and ending position

of the Crosshair pointer.

QuarkXPress reports the position of straight lines according to their

End-

points, First Point, Midpoint,

or Last Point. Fields in the Measurements palette change to report the appropriate values for the selected line mode. The

ﬁrst point is the endpoint you draw from; the last point is the endpoint

created when you release the mouse button.

Line tool preferences

New lines have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences

dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document). To

quickly access the

Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box,

double-click one of the line tools.

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• Lines can be positioned, sized, and rotated in several modes: Endpoints, First Point, Midpoint, and Last Point.

• New lines have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document) for the selected line tool.

Using the straight line tools

• Click and drag to create a line with either of the straight line tools.

• Use the Orthogonal Line tool o to create horizontal and vertical lines.

• Use the Line tool L to create diagonal lines.

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Click and drag the mouse to create a straight line using the Line tool or the Orthogonal Line tool.

Use the Modify button in the Tool tab to access a dialog box that allows you to specify attributes for new lines such as the style, width, color, shade, and runaround.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you create a line, the line tools automatically revert to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E ). To prevent this, press the

Option key while selecting a line tool. This allows you to draw several lines without selecting the tool again.

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Straight Text-Path Tools

, Ò

Use the straight text-path tools to create horizontal, vertical, and diagonal

text paths (lines that support text):

• Orthogonal Text-Path tool  for horizontal and vertical text paths.

• Line Text-Path tool

Ò for diagonal text paths.

Crosshair pointer c

When either straight text-path tool is selected, the Crosshair pointer c displays. To create a straight text path, click and drag the Crosshair pointer. To constrain text paths created with the Line Text-Path tool to any 45˚ increment (0˚, 45˚, 90˚, etc.), press the Shift key while you click and drag.

Size and position

As you click and drag the Crosshair pointer c, the ﬁelds in the Measurements

palette change to reﬂect the position, length, and/or angle of the

text path. If the

Rulers are showing in the document window (View &

Show Rulers), small lines on the ruler indicate the starting and ending

position of the Crosshair pointer.

QuarkXPress reports the position of straight text paths according to their

Endpoints, First Point, Midpoint, or Last Point. Fields in the Measurements

palette change to report the appropriate values for the selected

line mode. The

ﬁrst point is the endpoint you draw from; the last point is

the endpoint created when you release the mouse button.

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• Text is imported or entered onto text paths.

• Text paths can be positioned, sized, and rotated in several modes: Endpoints, First Point, Midpoint, and Last Point.

• New text paths have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document) for the selected textpath tool.

Using the straight text-path tools

• Click and drag to create a text path with either of the straight text-path tools.

• Use the Orthogonal Text-Path tool  to create horizontal and vertical text paths.

• Use the Line Text-Path tool Ò to create diagonal text paths.

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Click and drag the mouse to create a straight text path using the Line TextPath tool or the Orthogonal Text-Path tool.

Text-path tool preferences

New text paths have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document

). To quickly access the Tool tab of the Document Preferences

dialog box, double-click one of the text-path tools.

Use the

Modify button in the Tool tab to access a dialog box that allows you to specify attributes for new text paths such as the style, width, color, shade, and runaround for the line, or the alignment and orientation of text in relation to the line.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you create a text path, the text-path tools automatically revert to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E ). To prevent

this, press the Option key while selecting a text-path tool. This allows you to draw several text paths without selecting the tool again.

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Bézier Tools

´, ∂, ∞, Â

Use the Bézier tools to create text boxes, picture boxes, lines, and text

paths of any desired shape, with point-by-point control.

Crosshair pointer c

When a Bézier tool is selected, the Crosshair pointer c displays. To create a Bézier item:

• Click to establish the ﬁrst corner point in the shape, or click and drag to establish the ﬁrst smooth point in the shape. If you click and drag, the curve handles of the smooth point are exposed.

• Release the mouse button and repeat the above step to establish a second point, a third point, and so on. Segments display between each two points. Click when you want a corner point; click and drag when you want a smooth point.

• When curve handles display, their angles determine the starting angles for curves. The distance of the curve handles from the point determines the extremity of a curve.

• To access the Item tool

e to reshape the item before it is completed,

press the

C key. While the C key is pressed, the Crosshair pointer

changes to the Arrow pointer

a, or to one of the Bézier reshaping

pointers (

˝, Ï, Ó, ˆ) when placed over a point, segment, or curve

handle. Press the

C and Control keys while dragging a curve handle to

change a smooth point to a corner point with curve handles. See “Item Tool

e and Content Tool E” earlier in this section for descriptions of

the Bézier reshaping pointers.

• Complete the new shape by double-clicking to create the last point or by selecting a new tool in the

Tool palette. If you have one of the

Bézier box tools selected (

´, ∂), you can also complete the shape by

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• Bézier items can be text boxes, picture boxes, lines, or text paths depending on which Bézier tool you select.

• Bézier tools create shapes point by point. To create a Bézier item by simply dragging the mouse, you can use a freehand tool.

• New Bézier items have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document) for the selected tool.

Using the Bézier tools

• Click to create corner points; click and drag to create smooth points. Successive clicking produces straight segments only.

• To reshape a Bézier item before it is completed, press the C key. To reshape a Bézier item after it is completed, use the Item or Content tool and make sure Item &

Edit & Shape is checked.

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Using a Bézier tool, click to create each corner point; click and drag to create smooth points that form seamless transitions between two curved segments.

clicking the ﬁrst point in the box. The Crosshair pointer changes to the Close Box pointer

V when the pointer is positioned over the ﬁrst point

in a box.

Placement

As you click and drag using any of the Bézier pointers, the X and Y ﬁelds in the

Measurements palette display the pointer’s coordinates. If the

Rulers are showing in the document window (View & Show Rulers),

small lines on the ruler indicate the position of the pointer.

Bézier tool preferences

New Bézier items have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document).

To quickly access the

Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box,

double-click a Bézier tool.

Use the

Modify button in the Tool tab to access a dialog box that allows

you to specify attributes for the new Bézier item.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you create a Bézier item, the Bézier tools automatically revert to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E ). To prevent this,

press the Option key while selecting a Bézier tool. This allows you to draw several Bézier items without selecting the tool again.

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Freehand Tools

Ô, ƒ, §, ˜

Use the freehand tools to quickly create Bézier text boxes, picture boxes,

lines, and text paths of any shape you draw.

Crosshair pointer c

When a freehand tool is selected, the Crosshair pointer c displays. Click and drag the mouse to draw the shape you want to create.

Release the mouse button to complete the shape. If you are using one of the freehand box tools (

Ô, ƒ), the Close Box pointer V is displayed

when you drag the Crosshair pointer over the starting point.

To edit the Bézier curves of a completed freehand shape, use the Item tool e or Content tool E, and make sure Item & Edit & Shape is checked.

Placement

As you click and drag the Crosshair pointer c, the X and Y ﬁelds in the Measurements palette display the pointer’s coordinates. If the Rulers are

showing in the document window (

View & Show Rulers), small lines

on the ruler indicate the position of the Crosshair pointer.

Freehand tool preferences

New freehand Bézier items have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the

Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences &

Document). To quickly access the Tool tab of the Document Prefer- ences

dialog box, double-click a freehand tool.

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• Freehand items can be text boxes, picture boxes, lines, or text paths depending on which freehand tool you select.

• Freehand tools create Bézier items automatically according to how you drag the mouse.

• New Bézier items have the attributes speciﬁed in the Tool tab of the Document Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document) for the selected tool.

Using the freehand tools

• Drag the mouse to describe the Bézier shape you want QuarkXPress to create.

• To reshape a Bézier item after it is completed, use the Item or Content tool and make sure Item &

Edit & Shape is checked.

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Use the Modify button in the Tool tab to access a dialog box that allows you to specify attributes for new freehand items such as the background color, picture angle, frame, and runaround.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you create a freehand Bézier item, the freehand tools automatically revert to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E ). To

prevent this, press the Option key while selecting a freehand tool. This allows you to draw several freehand Bézier items without selecting the tool again.

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Freehand Tools

Using a freehand tool, drag the mouse to describe the Bézier shape you want QuarkXPress to create.

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Linking/Unlinking Tools u,

Use the Linking tool to link text boxes so that text ﬂows from box to box.

This text is referred to as a “chain” or “story.” Use the Unlinking tool to

break the links between text boxes.

Arrow pointer a

When you ﬁrst select the Linking tool, the Arrow pointer a displays. To select the ﬁrst text box in a chain, click it with the Arrow pointer. The text box displays a marquee .

Linking pointer /

When the ﬁrst text box in the chain is selected and displays a marquee, the Linking pointer

/ displays. To link the box to another box, click on

a second box. Text ﬂows through the boxes in the order in which you link them. When the Linking tool is selected, links for the selected text boxes are shown with arrows.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you link two boxes, the Linking tool automatically reverts to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content tool E ). To prevent this,

press the Option key while selecting the Linking tool. This allows you to link multiple boxes without selecting the tool again.

Arrow pointer a

When you ﬁrst select the Unlinking tool, the Arrow pointer a displays. Click any text box within a text chain; the text box links are shown with arrows.

Tools

Tips

Key concepts

• A text chain, or “story,” is created when you manually link several text boxes.

• The Automatic Text Box feature and master pages can be used to create an automatic text chain, without manually linking boxes.

Using the Linking tool u

• Click the ﬁrst text box in a chain to display a marquee around it.

• Click on the second text box in a chain to establish a link.

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Unlinking pointer ?

When a text box within a text chain is selected, the Unlinking pointer

? displays. To break links between boxes, click the arrowhead

(next box) or the tailfeathers (previous box) on the linking arrows.

To remove a text box from a text chain, and reroute the links around it, press the Shift key while you click the box with the Unlinking tool.

Reverting to the previous tool

After you break the link between two boxes, the Unlinking tool automatically reverts to the last tool selected (the Item tool

e or Content

tool

E). To prevent this, press the Option key while selecting the

Unlinking tool. This allows you to break the link between several boxes without selecting the tool again.

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Linking/Unlinking Tools

Tips

Using the Unlinking tool U

• Click the arrowhead (next box) or the tailfeathers (previous box) on the linking arrows, to break links between boxes.

• To remove a text box from a text chain and reroute the links around it, press the Shift key while you click a box with the Unlinking tool.

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Page Grabber Hand Tool

Use the Page Grabber Hand to scroll a page in any direction. The Page

Grabber Hand allows you to scroll with more precision than the scroll

bars, and to scroll horizontally and vertically at the same time.

Access from any tool

You can access the Page Grabber Hand by pressing the Option key while any tool except the Zoom tool

Z is selected. The Caps Lock key cannot

be pressed. Click and drag the mouse in any direction to move around within a page, spread, or document. When you release the Option key, the previous tool is selected again.

Live Scroll

The Page Grabber Hand is always in Live Scroll mode, regardless of the Live Scroll setting in the Interactive tab of the Application Preferences

dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Application). This means the document view is updated as you scroll, rather than redrawing after you stop.

Speed Scroll

Scrolling with the Page Grabber Hand is affected by the Speed Scroll setting in the

Interactive tab of the Application Preferences dialog box

(

Edit & Preferences & Application). Speed Scroll accelerates scrolling

by temporarily greeking pictures and blends; when you stop scrolling, the page elements redraw completely.

Tools

Tips

Using the Page Grabber Hand tool H

• Press the Option key with any tool

selected except the Zoom tool Z for temporary access to the Page Grabber Hand.

• Live Scroll is always active when

you use the Page Grabber Hand.

Palettes

Displaying and Arranging Palettes

2.3

Measurements Palette

2.4

Document Layout Palette

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Style Sheets Palette

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Colors Palette

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Trap Information Palette

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Lists Palette

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Palettes

In addition to the Tool palette described in

Chapter 1, “Tools,” several other palettes give you

complete control over page design, character for-

matting, color, trapping, and long-document pub-

lishing features.

Options on some palettes change depending on the

particular tool selected in the

Tool palette. Each

palette may be hidden or displayed, and placed

anywhere on your monitor, allowing you to fully

customize your workspace.

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Displaying and Arranging Palettes

The primary palettes in QuarkXPress include the Tool palette, the

Measurements palette, the Document Layout palette, the Style Sheets

palette, the Colors palette, the Trap Information palette, and the Lists

palette. Each of these palettes may be displayed using the View menu. For

more information about the

Books, Libraries, and Index palettes, see

their respective chapters.

Opening palettes

To open or display a palette, choose View & Show [name of palette]. Palettes always display in front of other windows, and remain open until you close them.

Closing palettes

You can hide palettes when you do not need them. To close an open palette, click the close box in the upper left corner of the palette, or choose

View & Hide [name of palette].

Moving palettes

Palettes are especially convenient because they can be placed anywhere on your screen, allowing you to customize your workspace. Click and drag the bar at the top of a palette to reposition it.

Resizing palettes

You can resize the Document Layout, Style Sheets, Colors, and Lists palettes by dragging the resize box in the lower right corner of the palettes.

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Displaying and Arranging Palettes

Show and hide palettes using the commands in the

View menu.

Clicking the close box to close a palette.

Resizing the

Colors palette by drag-

ging the

Size box.

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Measurements Palette

The Measurements palette (View & Show Measurements) lets you quickly

edit several commonly used item speciﬁcations without choosing

Item &

Modify or using the Style menu. Options on the Measurements palette

change to reﬂect the currently selected tool or item. The left side of the

palette indicates an item’s position; the right side indicates an item’s content.

Overview

You can edit any of the values in the Measurements palette (F9). Changes made to values on the left side of the palette are applied when you exit the palette; changes made to numerical values on the right side of the palette are applied when you move to a different ﬁeld or exit the palette. Clicking a button or choosing an item from a popup menu on the right side of the

Measurements palette applies the

change immediately.

Measurements displayed in the

Measurements palette are updated when you create, move, resize, or modify items, create or move guides, or reposition the ruler origin.

Click on the

Measurements palette to enter it, or press C-Option-M to

access the ﬁrst ﬁeld in the palette. Press the Tab key to highlight the next ﬁeld, or press Shift-Tab to highlight the previous ﬁeld. Click on the document, or press the Return or Enter key to apply changes made in the

Measurements palette. Press C-period (.) to exit the Measurements

palette without applying changes.

The ﬁelds displayed in the measurements palette correspond to ﬁelds that can be accessed by choosing

Item & Modify. Character attributes

and paragraph formats are described in “Style Menu for Text” in Chapter 3, “Menus and Dialog Boxes.”

Palettes

Measurements palette for text boxes

Item information

When a text box is selected in the document window, the left side of the Measurements palette lets you view and edit the text box item information. See Chapter 10, “Document Layout” and Chapter 12, “Typography.”

• The

X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical locations of the

origin (upper left corner) of the text box.

• The

W and H ﬁelds indicate the width and height of the text box.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the text box’s angle of rotation.

• The

Cols ﬁeld indicates the number of columns in the text box.

Content information

When the Content tool E is selected, the right side of the Measurements palette lets you edit the contents of the text box.

• The

( button lets you ﬂip the contents of the text box along a

horizontal axis.

•The

) button lets you ﬂip the contents of the text box along a

vertical axis.

•The

n ﬁeld indicates paragraph leading. Enter a value in the ﬁeld or click

the arrows to adjust leading. See “Specifying Leading and Paragraph Spacing” in Chapter 12, “Typography.”

• The

N ﬁeld indicates kerning when the Text Insertion bar i is

between two characters and indicates tracking when a block of text is highlighted. Enter a value in the ﬁeld or click the arrows to adjust kerning and tracking. See “Specifying Kerning and Tracking” in Chapter 12, “Typography.”

The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the location of the origin of the text box in relation to the upper left corner of the page.

The

W and H ﬁelds indicate the width

and height of the text box.

The

Cols ﬁeld indicates the number of

columns contained in the text box.

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Measurements Palette

• The {, }, [, $, ] buttons indicate left, centered, right, justiﬁed, and

forced justiﬁed alignment of selected paragraphs.

• The

Font pop-up menu < indicates the selected font. To change the

font, choose a font from the pop-up menu or enter the name of the font in the ﬁeld.

• The

Size pop-up menu < indicates the size of the selected font. To

change the font size, choose a size from the pop-up menu or enter a value in the ﬁeld.

• The

P, B, I, U, W, ?, O, S, K, H, +, _, and M buttons indicate

plain, bold, italics, underline, word underline, strike thru, outline, shadow, all caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, and superior type styles, respectively. Multiple type styles may be applied to a single character or group of characters.

The Measurements palette looks slightly different for anchored text boxes. When an anchored text box is active, the

Measurements

palette indicates whether the text box aligns with the ascent 6 or baseline

5 of the associated line of text. Click the ascent 6 or

baseline

5 buttons to change the alignment of an anchored text

box. The

X, Y, and r ﬁelds are not available for anchored text

boxes. When the Content tool

E is selected, the Measurements

palette displays the same content controls for anchored text boxes as those for nonanchored text boxes.

Measurements palette for picture boxes

Item information

When a picture box is selected in the document window, the left side of the

Measurements palette lets you edit the picture box item information.

See Chapter 14, “Pictures.”

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Palettes

The nandNﬁelds indicate leading and tracking/kerning respectively.

The

{, }, [, $

, and]buttons indicate the alignment applied to selected paragraphs.

The

and 5buttons indicate whether the anchored text box aligns with the ascent or baseline of the text.

The

X and Y ﬁelds indicate the location

of the origin of the picture box in relation to the upper left corner of the page.

The W and H ﬁelds indicate the width and height of the picture box.

The

and =ﬁelds indicate the picture box’s angle of rotation and the radii of its corners, respectively.

The

(

and )buttons let you ﬂip the contents of the picture box horizontally or vertically.

The

X% and Y% ﬁelds indicate the

scaling of the picture box’s contents.

The

and nﬁelds indicate horizontal and vertical offsets of the picture box’s contents from the upper left corner of the picture box.

The

and 5buttons indicate whether the anchored picture box aligns with the ascent or baseline of the text.

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• The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the location of the origin (upper left corner) of the picture box.

• The

W and H ﬁelds indicate the width and height of the picture box.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the picture box’s angle of rotation.

• The

= ﬁeld indicates the radii of the corners of the picture box.

Content information

When the Content tool E is selected, the right side of the Measurements palette lets you edit the contents of the picture box.

• The

( button lets you ﬂip the contents of the picture box along a

horizontal axis.

• The

) button lets you ﬂip the contents of the picture box along a

vertical axis.

• The

X% and Y% ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical scaling of

the contents of the picture box.

• The

N and n ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical offsets of the con-

tents of the picture box from the picture box’s origin (upper left corner).

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the angle of rotation of the contents of the

picture box.

• The

S ﬁeld indicates the skew (slant) of the contents of the picture box.

The Measurements palette looks slightly different for anchored picture boxes. When an anchored picture box is active, the

Mea-

surements

palette indicates whether the picture box aligns with

the ascent

6 or the baseline 5 of the associated line of text. Click

the ascent

6 or baseline 5 buttons to change the alignment of the

anchored picture box. The

X, Y, r, and = ﬁelds are not available

for anchored picture boxes. When the Content tool

E is selected,

the

Measurements palette displays the same content controls for

anchored picture boxes as those for nonanchored text boxes.

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Measurements palette for lines

Fields displayed in the Measurements palette for lines vary according to the line description method selected in the

Mode pop-up menu.

Line description methods available in the

Mode pop-up menu include

Endpoints, First Point, Midpoint, and Last Point. See Chapter 8,

“Line Basics.”

Endpoints

• The X1 and Y1 ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the ﬁrst endpoint of the line.

• The

X2 and Y2 ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of

the last endpoint of the line.

• The

Mode pop-up menu lets you choose whether to describe the

selected line by

Endpoints; by a First Point, length, and angle; by a

Last Point, length, and angle; or by a Midpoint, length, and angle.

• The

W ﬁeld indicates the width of the line.

• The left pop-up menu indicates the line’s style.

• The right pop-up menu indicates the line’s arrowheads.

First Point

• The X1 and Y1 ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the left endpoint of the line.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the line’s angle of rotation.

• The

L ﬁeld indicates the line’s length.

Palettes

The X1, Y1 and X2, Y2 ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the left and right endpoints of the line.

The

Mode pop-up menu indicates the

method used to describe the line.

The

and L ﬁelds indicate the angle

and length of the line, respectively.

The

W ﬁeld indicates the width of the line.

The two pop-up menus on the right side of the palette indicate the style of the line and its arrowheads.

• The Mode pop-up menu lets you choose whether to describe the selected line by

Endpoints; by the First Point, length, and angle; by

the

Last Point, length, and angle; or by a Midpoint, length, and angle.

• The

W ﬁeld indicates the width of the line.

• The left pop-up menu indicates the line’s style.

• The right pop-up menu indicates the line’s arrowheads.

Midpoint

• The XC and YC ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the midpoint of the line.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the line’s angle of rotation.

• The

L ﬁeld indicates the line’s length.

• The

Mode pop-up menu lets you choose whether to describe the

selected line by

Endpoints; by the First Point, length, and angle; by a

Last Point, length, and angle; or by a Midpoint, length, and angle.

• The

W ﬁeld indicates the width of the line.

• The left pop-up menu indicates the line’s style.

• The right pop-up menu indicates the line’s arrowheads.

Last Point

• The X2 and Y2 ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the right endpoint of the line.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the line’s angle of rotation.

• The

L ﬁeld indicates the line’s length.

The XC and YC ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the center point of the line.

The ﬂip text button √ places text on the opposite side of the line, starting from the opposite endpoint. For example, if you create a circular text path with text ﬂowing on the outside of the circle, Flip Text positions text on the inside of the circle. Text alignment is not affected.

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Measurements Palette

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• The Mode pop-up menu lets you choose whether to describe the selected line by

Endpoints; by the First Point, length, and angle; by

the

Last Point, length, and angle; or by a Midpoint, length, and angle.

• The

W ﬁeld indicates the width of the line.

• The left pop-up menu indicates the line’s style.

• The right pop-up menu indicates the line’s arrowheads.

Measurements palette for groups and multiple-selected items

When groups of items or multiple items are selected, the Measurements palette lets you edit the origin and angle of the group of items.

• The

X and Y ﬁelds indicate the location of the origin (upper left corner)

of the bounding box containing the group of items.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the angle of rotation of the group of items. When

an item is rotated with a group of items, it is rotated relative to the center of the bounding box enclosing the group, not to its own origin (upper left corner).

Measurements palette for editing Bézier items

When a point, line segment, or curve handle on a Bézier shape is selected, the

Measurements palette lets you edit the origin, dimension, and angle of the item, as well as the type of point or line segment in the shape. You can also enter values to manipulate point position and curve handle angle and length. See “Reshaping Boxes” in Chapter 7, “Box Basics.”

• The

X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical locations of the

origin (upper left corner) of the Bézier item’s bounding box.

Palettes

The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the upper left corner of the bounding box containing the group of items.

The

ﬁeld indicates the angle of the

group of items.

The point and line segment buttons for Bézier items let you manipulate active points and line segments.

The

XP and YP ﬁelds indicate the horizon-

tal and vertical location of the active point.

The

ﬁeld and the length ﬁeld for the

„ curve handle indicates the angle and length of the curve handle in relation to the active point.

The rﬁeld and length ﬁeld for the Œ curve indicates the angle and length of the curve handle in relation to the active point.

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• The W and H ﬁelds indicate the width and height of the Bézier item.

• The

r ﬁeld indicates the angle of rotation of the Bézier item.

• The Symmetrical Point button

† lets you convert a point into a

symmetrical point for a Bézier item.

• The Smooth Point button

¥ lets you convert a point into a smooth

point for a Bézier item.

• The Corner Point button

® lets you convert a point into a corner

point for a Bézier item.

• The Straight Segment button

œ lets you convert a curved line segment

to a straight line segment for a Bézier item.

• The Curved Segment button

∑ lets you convert a straight line segment

to a curved line segment for a Bézier item.

• The

XP and YP ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical location of

the active point.

• The Diamond Curve Handle Angle ﬁeld

r indicates the angle of the

diamond-shaped curve handle in relation to the active point.

• The Diamond Curve Handle Distance ﬁeld

„ indicates the distance of

the diamond-shaped curve handle from the active point.

• The Square Curve Handle Angle ﬁeld

r indicates the angle of the

square-shaped curve handle in relation to the active point.

• The Square Curve Handle Distance ﬁeld

Œ indicates the distance of the

square-shaped curve handle from the active point.

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Measurements palette for item creation

When a text box, picture box, or line is being created, the Measurements palette displays item information.

Text box creation

• The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical locations of

the origin (upper left corner) of the text box. These also display the coordinates of the pointer after selecting one of the text box creation tools in the

Tool palette but before clicking the mouse button.

•The

W and H ﬁelds indicate the changing width and height of the

text box.

Picture box creation

• The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical locations of the

origin (upper left corner) of the picture box. These also display the coordinates of the pointer after selecting one of the picture box creation tools in the

Tool palette but before clicking the mouse button.

•The

W and H ﬁelds indicate the changing width and height of the

picture box.

Palettes

Line creation

• Depending on the line description method selected in the Mode pop-up menu, the X1, Y1, X2, Y2, and XC, YC ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the left endpoint, right endpoint, or midpoint of the line.

Measurements palette for Ruler Origin relocation

The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the changing origin of the ruler when dragging the 0,0 origin crosshair out of the ruler origin box.

Measurements palette for Ruler Guide placement

The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal locations of vertical guides and the vertical positions of horizontal guides as they are dragged from the ruler.

The X and Y ﬁelds indicate the horizontal and vertical locations of the active ruler guide.

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Document Layout Palette

The Document Layout (View & Show Document Layout) palette lets

you add, delete, move, and access document pages and master pages using

page icons.

Page insert, duplicate, and delete area

The four icons at the top of the Document Layout palette (F10) let you insert single-sided and facing pages, and duplicate and delete selected pages.

•The

0 icon lets you insert blank single-sided document pages into a

layout. To insert a single-sided page, drag the

0 icon into the docu-

ment page area of the

Document Layout palette, move the pointer over the document page icons to preview the placement of the page, and release the mouse button to place the page in the layout.

• The

3 icon lets you insert blank facing-page document pages into a

layout. The

3 icon is available only if you have checked Facing Pages either in the New dialog box (File & New) or in the Document Setup dialog box (File & Document Setup). To insert a blank facing-page document page, drag the

3 icon into the document page area of the

Document Layout palette, move the pointer over the document page icons to preview the placement of the page, and release the mouse button to place the page in the layout.

•The

0 and 3 icon also lets you create new master pages. To create a

new master page, drag the

0 or 3 icon into the master page area of the

Document Layout palette and release the mouse button. Releasing the mouse button when an existing master page is highlighted replaces the master page with a blank page.

Palettes

The 0, 3,

, and Lbuttons let you add single-sided and facing pages and duplicate and delete selected pages.

The master pages area of the Document

Layout

palette lets you insert, apply,

and rename master pages.

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• The 22icon lets you create new master pages based on existing master

pages. To duplicate a master page, click the master page in the master page area to select it, then click the

22icon. The new master page is

placed in the master page area immediately after the master page from which it is duplicated.

• The

L icon lets you delete selected master pages and document

pages.To delete a master page, highlight it in the master page area of the

Document Layout palette, then click the L icon. To delete a docu-

ment page, highlight it in the document page area of the

Document

Layout

palette, then click the L icon. An alert asks you to conﬁrm or

abort the deletion. You can also press the Option key while clicking the delete icon to bypass the conﬁrmation alert.

Master pages area

The master pages area of the Document Layout palette lets you insert, apply, and rename user-deﬁned master pages.

• Master page icons

0 or ! let you insert master pages in a document.

To insert a master page, drag the master page’s icon

0 or ! into the

document page area of the

Document Layout palette, move the pointer over the document page icons to preview the placement of the page, and release the mouse button to place the page in the layout.

• Master page icons

0 or ! also let you apply master page elements to

blank pages. To apply a master page to a blank page, drag the master page’s icon on top of the blank page and release the mouse button.

• The name ﬁelds next to the master page icons

0 or ! let you rename

the master pages. Click the name ﬁeld to highlight it, then enter a name of up to 64 characters for the master page. Each master page may have a preﬁx of up to three characters. When created, new master pages are automatically assigned preﬁxes of “A,” “B,” “C,” and so on. To change the preﬁx of a master page, highlight the name ﬁeld next to the

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master page icon 0 or !, enter the preﬁx, followed immediately by a hyphen, followed by the remainder of the name.

You can expand the master page area with the split bar between the master page and document page areas. This lets you display an entire list of master pages. To expand the master page area, click the split bar and drag it down.

Document page area

The document page area of the Document Layout palette displays page layout, absolute page numbers, and the master pages on which individual pages are based.

• Document page icons

0, 1, 2 can be repositioned in the layout. To

reposition a page, drag the page to a new position in the layout.

• Single-page document page icons

0 indicate single pages not based on

master pages.

• Facing-page document page icons

1 indicate facing pages not based on

master pages.

• Facing-page document page icons

1 containing master page preﬁxes

indicate document pages based on master pages.

• Single-side page icons

0 that are based on a single-sided master page

will also have a letter on them.

• The number beneath a page indicates the page’s actual page number, including preﬁxes, section starts, etc.

• The bar at the bottom of the

Document Layout palette indicates the

page number of a selected page. Clicking this bar displays the

Section

dialog box (Page & Section).

• Double-clicking a document page icon displays the associated page in the document window.

Palettes

The document page area lets you position and access pages in your layout.

Style Sheets Palette

The Style Sheets palette (View & Show Style Sheets) lets you create,

apply, edit, duplicate, and delete character and paragraph style sheets.

Style Sheets pop-out menu

Four options display to the right of the style sheets when you press the

C key and click a style sheet name in the Style Sheets palette

(F11). This lets you edit, duplicate, delete, and create new paragraph and character style sheets. See “Working with Style Sheets” in Chapter 12, “Typography.” To display the

Edit Style Sheets dialog box

(

Edit & Style Sheets) from the Style Sheets palette, press C-Option

while clicking a style sheet name.

Pressing Cwhile clicking a style sheet name in the Style Sheets palette lets you edit, duplicate, delete, or create character and paragraph style sheets.

Paragraph style sheet area

The paragraph style sheet area lets you select paragraph style sheets and apply them to text. Style sheets

π in the paragraph style sheet area are

available when both the Content tool

E and a text box are selected.

Clicking the paragraph style sheet name or the

icon lets you apply paragraph

style sheets.

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Style Sheets Palette

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• Clicking the π icon next to paragraph style sheet, or clicking the paragraph style sheet name, let you apply the style sheet to selected paragraphs or at the text insertion point

• A highlighted paragraph style sheet name indicates that the style sheet is chosen. Click a paragraph style sheet’s name to choose it. Only one paragraph style sheet and it’s associated character style sheet may be chosen at a time.

• The keyboard equivalent (if any) speciﬁed for a paragraph style sheet is displayed to the right of the style sheet name.

Character style sheet area

The character style sheet area lets you select character style sheets and apply them to text. Style sheets in the character style sheet area are available when both the Content tool

E and a text box are selected.

•Clicking the

Ø icon next to a character style sheet, or clicking the style

sheet name, lets you apply the style sheet to selected characters or at the text insertion bar

• A highlighted character style sheet name indicates that the style sheet is chosen. Click a character style sheet’s name to choose it. Only one character style sheet may be chosen at a time.

• The keyboard equivalent (if any) speciﬁed for a character style sheet is displayed to the right of the style sheet name.

The split bar between the paragraph style sheet and character style sheet areas lets you expand the paragraph style sheet area so you can display your entire list of paragraph style sheets. To expand the character style sheet area, click the split bar and drag it up.

Palettes

Clicking the character style sheet name or the

icon in the character style sheet area lets you apply character style sheets to selected text.

Buttons at the top of the Colors palette let you apply colors to frames, text, lines, and backgrounds.

Buttons displayed when a line is selected let you apply color to a line.

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Colors Palette

The Colors palette (View & Show Colors) lets you add color to selected

text, pictures, box backgrounds, lines, and frames.

Colors palette buttons

The buttons located at the top of the Colors palette (F12) let you choose whether to apply the color to frames, text, lines, or the background of picture boxes and text boxes.

• The

J button lets you view and apply the colors to the frame for the

selected text boxes or picture boxes.

• The

T button lets you view and apply the color to selected text or the

text insertion bar

• The

L button lets you view and apply the color to a selected line.

• The

Y button lets you view and apply the colors to the background for

the selected text boxes, picture boxes, and groups.

• The

p icon lets you apply color to certain picture formats.

• The

Shade pop-up menu indicates the saturation of a selected color. To change the saturation of a selected color, choose a value from the popup menu, or enter a value directly in the ﬁeld. You can enter values from 0 to 100% in increments as ﬁne as 0.1%.

Blends area

The blends area of the Colors palette lets you apply color blends to the backgrounds of text boxes and picture boxes. The Cool Blends XTensions software must be running to see anything except solid and linear blend patterns.

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• The Type pop-up menu indicates the type of blend applied to the back- grounds of selected text boxes or picture boxes. Options in the

Type pop-

up menu include

Solid, Linear Blend, Mid-Linear Blend, Rectangular

Blend

, Diamond Blend, Circular Blend, and Full Circular Blend.

• The #1 and #2 buttons let you choose the beginning and ending colors of a blend when an option other than

Solid is chosen from

the

Type pop-up menu. Clicking the #1 button lets you specify the

ﬁrst color in the blend; clicking the

#2 button lets you specify the second color. Blends are displayed in active text boxes only when the Item tool

e is selected.

•The

Angle ﬁeld indicates the angle at which a blend ﬁlls a box. You can

enter a value from –360˚ to 360˚ in increments as ﬁne as 0.001˚.

To display the Colors dialog box (Edit & Colors) from the Colors palette, press C while clicking a color name.

Color selection area

The color selection area of the Colors palette lets you apply colors to frames, text, pictures, lines, and backgrounds of text boxes and picture boxes.

•Swatches display colors next to their names in a list.

• Swatches also let you apply colors to selected lines, frames, and the backgrounds of text boxes and picture boxes. To apply a color to a line, frame, or background, drag and drop the associated swatch over the item in the document page.

• A highlighted color name indicates the chosen color. If various colors are applied to multiple selected items, no color name is highlighted.

Palettes

The Type pop-up menu, #1 and #2 but- tons, and the

Angle ﬁeld let you apply

blends to the backgrounds of text boxes and picture boxes.

Clicking the name of a color in the color list area applies the color to selected frames, text, lines, backgrounds, and certain picture formats based on the button selection at the top of the palette.

These values in the Trap Information palette (View&Show Trap Informa-

tion

) control how QuarkXPress traps the

Background for an active item.

These values control how QuarkXPress traps the

Text for an active item.

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Trap Information Palette

The Trap Information palette (View & Show Trap Information) lets you

specify trapping information for adjacent colors on an object-by-object

basis. See “Specifying Item-Speciﬁc Trapping” in Chapter 16, “Trapping.”

Background and Text ﬁelds for trapping boxes and text

The Background and Text ﬁelds of the Trap Information palette (Option-F12) display the element of a selected box. You can specify trapping for any QuarkXPress box, its contents (except for imported pictures), its frames, and its background. The following information features a text box containing text and a background color with no frame.

Background and Text pop-up menu

The Background and Text pop-up menus indicate the elements of the selected item. Options vary depending on the type of item selected.

•

Default indicates the default for the Background and Text ﬁelds using the trapping values speciﬁed in the

Trap Speciﬁcations dialog box

(

Edit & Colors & Edit Trap) for the item’s current object color against

the item’s current background color.

•

Overprint indicates that QuarkXPress will overprint an active item. Overprint overrides the Overprint Limit value entered in the Trapping

tab and overprints regardless of the shade of the object and back-

ground colors involved.

•

Knockout indicates that an active item will knockout its background.

•

Auto Amount (+) will apply the positive value entered in the Auto Amount

ﬁeld of the Trapping tab. This value is displayed to the right

of the pop-up menu as a positive number (a spread).

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• Auto Amount (–) will apply the negative value entered in the Auto Amount

ﬁeld of the Trapping tab. This value is displayed to the right

of the pop-up menu as a negative number (a choke).

•

Custom will specify a custom choke or spread value for the active item, entered in the ﬁeld to the right of the pop-up menu.

Trapping for frames

A frame for a box always traps to the background color(s) speciﬁed for the box, to the color(s) used to color the frame, and to any background color(s) underneath the box. The trapping type from the pop-up menus specify trapping values for the

Frame Inside, Frame Middle and Frame

Outside

ﬁelds.

•

Frame Inside indicates trapping applied between the innermost color of a frame and the box contents (background color or picture).

•

Frame Middle indicates trapping applied to colors within a frame.

•

Frame Outside indicates trapping applied between the outermost color of a frame and colors underneath it.

The trapping types contained in the pop-up menus are the same as those described in “Background and Text ﬁelds for trapping boxes and text” earlier in this section.

Palettes

These values control how QuarkXPress traps the

Picture for an active item.

The

Trap Information palette indicates

trapping for the

Inside, Middle, and

Outside of a frame created with a multi-

line style.

The Trap Information palette indicates trapping for the

Line, Line Middle, and

Gap of a line created with a multiline

style

The

Default Trap information window

displays information about active items with

Default selected.

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Trapping for lines

A line always traps to the color(s) used to color it, and to any background colors underneath the line. Choose a trapping type from the pop-up menu to specify trapping values for the

Line, Line Middle,

and

Gap ﬁelds.

•The

Line ﬁeld indicates trapping applied to the Line color speciﬁed for

a line in relation to an adjacent background color.

•

Line Middle indicates trapping applied to colors within a line.

• The

Gap ﬁeld indicates trapping applied to the Gap color speciﬁed for

a line in relation to an adjacent background color. The

Gap ﬁeld is only

available with dashed lines or multi-lines with only one arrowhead.

The trapping types contained in the pop-up menus are the same as those described in “Background and Text ﬁelds for trapping boxes and text” earlier in this section.

Default Trap information window

Information about a Default trap value can be viewed by clicking the question mark to the right of the value. The

Default Trap information window is displayed, and ﬁelds will be highlighted or dimmed. See “Specifying Default Trapping” in Chapter 16, “Trapping.”

•

Object Color indicates the color applied to the element of the active box.

•

Underneath Color indicates the color and color type of the object(s) underneath the selected item.

Multiple will display if there are multiple background colors, and there is not a conﬂict between the choke and spread amount in the

Trap Speciﬁcations dialog box. Indeterminate will display if there is a conﬂict between the choke amount and the spread amount. Otherwise, the name of the color covering the entire background of the object is displayed.

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Source of Trap Values area

Text displayed in this area is dimmed if that trap source is not being used.

•

Edit Trap indicates the source of trap value is from settings in the Trap Speciﬁcations

dialog box (Edit & Colors & Edit Trap). See “Specifying

Color-Speciﬁc Trapping” in Chapter 16, “Trapping.”

•

Trap Preferences indicates the source of the trap value is from settings in the

Trapping Preferences dialog box (Edit & Preferences &

Document & Trapping tab). See “Specifying Default Trapping” in

Chapter 16, “Trapping.”

Properties area

Text displayed in this area is dimmed if that trap property is not being used.

•

Proportional indicates that proportional trapping is applied. Proportional

trapping uses the calculated trap value multiplied by the difference between the luminance of the object color and background color to calculate the trapping value.

•

Process Trapping indicates the object color and background color have process trapping applied. Process trapping is not applied if the background underneath the object has more than one color.

•

Rich Black indicates Rich Black is applied to the object color or background, and that

Rich Black trapping will be used. See “Creating and

Using a Rich Black” in Chapter 16, “Trapping.”

•

Small Object indicates that trapping for text less than 24 points, or for an object width (such as a stripe, a line, etc.) less than 10 points will require special trapping if process trapping is on.

•

Overprint Limit indicates that the object color was set to overprint the background, but the shade of the object was less than the overprint limit in the

Overprint Limit ﬁeld of the Trapping tab (Edit & Prefer-

ences

& Document & Trapping tab).

Palettes

The Source of Trap Values area has one selection highlighted, which shows the location where the trap information is taken from. Text displayed in this area is dimmed if that trap source is not being used.

The

Properties area displays high-

lighted text when that trap property is being used. Text displayed in this area is dimmed if that trap source is not being used.

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• Knockout Limit indicates that the color’s luminance is less than or equal to the knockout limits speciﬁed in the

Trapping Preferences

dialog box (Edit & Preferences & Document & Trapping tab).

•

Smallest Trap Value indicates that multiple underneath colors have traps in the same direction (all chokes or all spreads). The smallest trap value of the underneath colors is used.

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Lists Palette

The Lists palette helps you create lists, such as table of content lists, for

any number of documents. The

Lists palette displays text with style sheets

applied, as deﬁned in the

Lists dialog box (Edit & Lists).

Viewing and updating lists

The Lists palette (Option-F11) helps you work with lists. You can view and update lists for a single document, a chapter of a book, or an entire book.

Viewing lists

Documents, chapters, or books must be open to view lists.

• The

Show List For pop-up menu lets you choose to display lists for a

book or current document. Choosing

Current Document lets you view the list for the open document; choosing an entry below the gray line lets you view lists for any open book.

• The

List Name pop-up menu displays the name of all lists for the

current document or book.

•

Find lets you locate items in the Lists palette. Enter the ﬁrst few letters of a list entry and it ﬁnds the closest entry in the

Lists palette. Double-

click the entry to locate the item in the document.

•

Build lets you copy the current list to an active text box. The Format As

style sheets for the list are applied automatically. The Build button

is not available unless a text box is active.

Palettes

Blank Lists palette

Use the options in the

Lists palette to

create lists for your documentation.

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Updating lists for chapters and documents

The Lists palette is not automatically updated as you work. If you have made changes to the text, you will need to update the list to be sure it is current.

Update lets you scan the document for list items in the current document, build a list, and save it with the document. When the process is complete, the list is displayed in the

Lists palette.

Updating lists for books

Update lets you update lists for the open book. QuarkXPress reads the saved list information from the publication ﬁle and displays it in the Lists palette. However, you may not have the most recent versions of the lists for each chapter. Click

Update to force QuarkXPress to rescan all chapters in a book and build a new list. Building an accurate list for the book is very important if you are working on a shared book. See “Creating Tables of Contents and Indexes” in Chapter 18, “Books.”

To display the most accurate list for a book, all chapters must be “Available” in the

Books palette before you Update. If QuarkXPress encounters a chapter that is unavailable, you will be alerted that chapters are missing. Clicking

OK continues the list-building process, but the unavailable chapter is skipped. The result is a list that does not include list items from the missing chapter.

Introducing QuarkXPress

Lists Palette

Menus and Dialog Boxes

File Menu

3.3

Edit Menu

3.33

Style Menu for Text

3.115

Style Menu for Pictures

3.137

Style Menu for Lines

3.146

Item Menu

3.149

Page Menu

3.201

View Menu

3.213

Utilities Menu

3.221

Menus and Dialog Boxes

Menus group an application’s primary functions

and make them readily available, while dialog

boxes offer easy access to a variety of controls.

Menus and dialog boxes let you “feel” your way

through an application and learn it by intuition.

The QuarkXPress interface is structured so you can

learn it quickly. By skimming through the menus,

you will ﬁnd that many commands are familiar or

self-explanatory. And, with a little experimentation,

you will see that menu and dialog box controls act

the way you expect them to. Once you become famil-

iar with QuarkXPress, you will discover that keyboard

commands and palettes offer convenient access to

features you ﬁrst learn to access through menus.

File menu

3.3

A Guide to QuarkXPress

File Menu

The QuarkXPress File menu lets you manipulate electronic ﬁles in a number

of ways, from creating, opening, and saving ﬁles, to setting up a document

for printing.

Sections

The File menu is divided into ﬁve sections:

• The ﬁrst section lets you create and open documents, libraries, and books. The

New and Open commands are available unless too many ﬁles are open (25 documents and libraries combined, plus an additional 25 books).

•The second section lets you close and save document ﬁles and work with revisions of ﬁles. The

Close and Save as commands are available

when a ﬁle is open. The

Save and Revert to Saved commands are

available any time unsaved changes were made to a ﬁle.

•The third section lets you import text and pictures into documents, save text in a variety of formats, append sets of document attributes, save document pages as EPS ﬁles, and collect the picture ﬁles required for output into a folder with the document. The

Append, Save Page as

EPS

, and Collect for Output commands are available when a docu-

ment is open.

Get Text is available when a text box is active; Get Pic-

ture

is available when a picture box is active.

• The fourth section lets you change a document’s size and control the way it prints. The

Document Setup, Page Setup, and Print commands

are available when a document is active.

• The ﬁfth section lets you close the application. The

Quit command is

always available.

Introducing QuarkXPress

File Menu

3.4

A Guide to QuarkXPress

New (submenu)

File menu

The New command displays a submenu that lets you create new documents, libraries, and books.

Document (command)

File &New

The Document command (C-N) displays the New Document dialog box, which lets you specify the setup of a new document.

New Document (dialog box)

File &New &Document

The New Document dialog box lets you deﬁne a document’s ﬁrst page and original master page. (All new documents contain a master page by default.) These speciﬁcations become program defaults and are displayed the next time you open the

New Document dialog box.

Page (area)

File &New &Document

The Page area lets you specify a standard or custom page size, and lets you specify an orientation for the document.

• To specify a standard page size, choose an option from the

Size pop-up menu. The appropriate dimensions are automatically displayed in the Width and Height ﬁelds.

• To specify a custom page size, enter values in the

Width and Height ﬁelds. The minimum page size is 1" ´ 1"; the maximum is 48" ´ 48". When you enter values in the ﬁelds, the option in the

Size pop-up

menu changes to

Custom.

• To change the Orientation of the document, click the portrait ™ (vertical) or landscape £ (horizontal) icon. The values in the Width and Height ﬁelds change to reﬂect the new orientation.

Menus and Dialog Boxes

New submenu

Document command

New Document dialog box and Page area

Margin Guides area

Column Guides area

3.5

A Guide to QuarkXPress

Margin Guides (area)

File &New &Document

The Margin Guides area lets you specify the position of margin guides on the default master page and its document pages. You can also specify whether a document contains facing pages or nonfacing pages.

• Enter values in the

Top, Bottom, Left, and Right ﬁelds to specify the

margins for the default master page. When

Facing Pages is checked,

the

Left and Right margin ﬁelds change to Inside and Outside (the

Inside margin is nearest the binding; the Outside margin is on the

opposite edge).

• Check

Facing Pages to create a document with different left and right

page formats (like this manual). If you check

Facing Pages, the new document’s original master page, and any additional master pages you create, will be divided into left and right components to represent the facing-page spread.

If you check Automatic Text Box, the values you enter in the Margin Guides ﬁelds determine the size and location of the

automatic text box.

Column Guides (area)

File &New &Document

The Column Guides area lets you specify the position of column guides on the default master page.

• Enter a value between 1 and 30 in the

Columns ﬁeld to specify the

number of columns.

• Enter a value from 3 to 288 points (4") in the

Gutter Width ﬁeld to

specify the amount of white space between columns.

If you check Automatic Text Box, the values you enter in the Column Guides ﬁelds are used to divide the automatic text box.

Introducing QuarkXPress

File Menu

3.6

A Guide to QuarkXPress

Automatic Text Box (check box)

File &New &Document

Check Automatic Text Box to place an initial automatic text box on the ﬁrst page of a new document. The values in the

Margin Guides and Col-

umn Guides

ﬁelds determine the size, placement, and columns in the

automatic text box.

An automatic text box is a text box deﬁned on a master page through which text ﬂows automatically to other pages when pages are inserted into a document. When you check

Automatic Text

Box

, this text box is automatically placed on the master page. The ﬁrst page of the document, because it is based on the original master page, also includes the automatic text box.

Library (command)

File &New

A library is a ﬁle that displays as a palette and lets you store and retrieve QuarkXPress items. The

Library command (C-Option-N) displays the

New Library directory dialog box, which lets you create a new library.

New Library (dialog box)

File &New &Library

The New Library directory dialog box lets you specify a location for the library ﬁle and name the library. Enter a name in the

Library Name ﬁeld

and click

Create to display the new library. See Chapter 17, “Libraries,”

for information about using libraries.

Menus and Dialog Boxes

Automatic Text Box check box

Library command

New Library dialog box

Quark QuarkXPress User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Table of Contents

Introduction

Publishing with QuarkXPress

About this Book

About the Other Books

QuarkXPress Basics

The Interface

Tools

The Tool Palette

Tool Overview

Item Tool and Content Tool

Rotation Tool

Zoom Tool

Straight Line Tools

Straight Text-Path Tools

Bézier Tools

Freehand Tools

Page Grabber Hand Tool

Palettes

Displaying and Arranging Palettes

Measurements Palette

Document Layout Palette

Style Sheets Palette

Colors Palette

Trap Information Palette

Lists Palette

Menus and Dialog Boxes

File Menu