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Introduction
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1
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
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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
2.26
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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
4
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
5
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
5.14
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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
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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
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Line Basics
Creating Lines
8.3
Resizing Lines
8.7
Reshaping Lines
8.10
Moving Lines
8.16
Applying Line Styles
8.21
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Manipulating Items
Selecting Items
9.3
Moving, Reshaping, and Resizing Items
9.4
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Items
9.5
Clearing and Deleting Items
9.7
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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
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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
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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
11.22
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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
13
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
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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
14.38
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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
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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
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Libraries
Creating New Libraries
17.3
Opening Libraries
17.4
Working with Libraries
17.5
Working with Labels
17.8
Saving Libraries
17.10
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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
18.18
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Appendices
Error Messages
24.3
XPress Tags
24.29
Crossplatform Issues
24.42
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Glossary
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Index
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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
R
Notes provide helpful information about particular features.
S
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
E.
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
Print
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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