QuarkXPress For Dummies

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Nelson Jay J.. QuarkXPress For Dummies

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part 1. Getting Started with QuarkXPress

Chapter 1. Meeting QuarkXPress 2016

Understanding What QuarkXPress Does

Getting a Feel for What’s New in QuarkXPress 2016

Introducing the Big Features in Recent Versions

Managing Your Files

Chapter 2. Getting to Know the Interface

Getting a Feel for the Application Interface

Surveying the Project Interface

Marching through the Menus

Using Context Menus

Mastering Palettes

Organizing with View Sets

Visualizing with Output Preview

Zooming around Your Layout

Moving through pages

Using Split Views

Switching among Layouts

Chapter 3. Creating Items

Using the Item and Content Tools

Creating Boxes

Creating Lines and Arrows

Building Bézier Boxes and Lines

Applying Frames, Dashes, and Stripes

Creating Text Paths

Converting Text to Outlines for Special Effects

Using ShapeMaker to Generate Boxes and Lines

Converting PDF, EPS, or Adobe Illustrator Files to Native QuarkXPress Items

Converting Objects from InDesign, Microsoft Office, and Other Apps to Native QuarkXPress Items

Chapter 4. Working with Items

Selecting Items

Manipulating Items

Using Super Step & Repeat for Super Duplication

Cloning Items with Cloner

Scaling Items or Layouts, Intelligently

Stacking, Grouping, and Aligning Items

Illuminating the Layers Palette

Getting Guidance from Rulers and Guides

Merging and Splitting Items

Finding and Changing Item Attributes

Using Item Styles

Storing Items in Libraries

Chapter 5. Building a Layout

Making and Using Master Pages

Modifying Page Size and Margins (If You Dare)

Numbering Pages in Sections

Creating a “Continued on Page …” Jump Line

Chapter 6. Building a Book

Starting a Book

Working with Chapters

Generating a Table of Contents

Creating an Index

Using Footnotes and Endnotes

Chapter 7. Share and Share Alike: Syncing and Collaborating

Sharing and Synchronizing Items

Using Composition Zones

Understanding Job Jackets

Part 2. Speaking in Text

Chapter 8. Creating Text Boxes

Understanding Why You Need Text Boxes

Deciding Which Is Best: Manual or Automatic?

Creating a Text Box Manually

Changing the Shape and Appearance of a Text Box

Controlling the Position of Text in Its Box

Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes

Importing Text

Exporting Text

Chapter 9. Formatting Characters

Learning the Basics of Typography

Discovering and Replacing Fonts Used in Your Document

Choosing to Use the Measurements Palette

Applying Special Effects

Inserting Special Characters

Setting Typographic Preferences

Controlling Text Greeking

Working with Language Features

Chapter 10. Formatting Paragraphs

Formatting Paragraphs: The Basics

Formatting Paragraphs: Getting Fancy

Copying Formatting with the Format Painter

Styling with Style Sheets

Formatting Magic with Conditional Styles

Chapter 11. Editing Text

Finding and Changing Text or Attributes

Using the Spelling Checker

Using the Story Editor to Edit Text

Using Content Variables

Tracking Changes with Redline

Using Notes

Part 3. Communicating with Graphics

Chapter 12. Making Tables

Building a Table

Working with Tables

Chapter 13. Adding Pictures

Importing a Picture

Using ImageGrid to Import a Folder of Pictures

Working with Pictures

Adding a Drop Shadow

Managing Pictures

Controlling Layers, Channels, and Paths in Photoshop Documents

Creating a QR Code in QuarkXPress

Exporting Pictures

Greeking Picture Previews

Suppressing Output of Pictures

Chapter 14. When Text Met Graphics

Wrapping Text around Other Items

Anchoring Items inside the Text Flow

Creating and Configuring Callouts

Chapter 15. Making a Colorful Page

Describing Color

Specifying Color

Creating Color Blends

Adjusting Opacity (Transparency)

Adding Colors from Imported Pictures

Managing and Proofing Colors

Part 4. Getting Ready for Your Big Debut

Chapter 16. Prepping to Print

Understanding the Print Dialog Box

Creating an Output Style

Working with a Commercial Printer

Troubleshooting Your Print Results

Chapter 17. Going Digital: PDF, Hyperlinks, ePUB, and HTML5 Animations

Exporting Pages as Images

Exporting to PDF

Using Interactive PDF Features

Creating and Editing PDF Output Styles

Fixing Common PDF File Problems

Creating Hyperlinks

Understanding Digital Publishing Formats

Creating Projects for ePub, Kindle, HTML5, and App Studio

Adding Interactivity to Digital Layouts

Publishing to ePub and Kindle

Creating HTML5 Publications

Part 5. The Part of Tens

Chapter 18. Ten QuarkXPress Workflow Resources

Quark’s Free QuarkXPress Document Converter

App Studio

Key Commands for Tools

XTensions That Will Blow Your Mind

Other Affordable Workflow Tools

AppleScripts (Mac Only)

Documentation from Quark

The Skinny on QuarkXPress Tips & Tricks

Online Resources

Chapter 19. Ten Do’s and Don’ts When Using QuarkXPress

Do Talk with Your Commercial Printer

Don’t Use Scroll Bars

Do Temporarily Switch to the Item Tool

Don’t Copy When You Can Share

Do Use the Built-In Calculator

Do Make Style Sheets Quickly

Do Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Size Pictures and Text

Don’t Scale Pictures below the DPI You Need for Output

Do Use Auto-Save and Auto-Backup

Do Customize How QuarkXPress Works

Appendix. Chart of Features Added in QuarkXPress 7 and Up

About the Author

Acknowledgments

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At the height of its worldwide popularity, QuarkXPress had almost 4 million users. That proved too tempting a plum for the competing Adobe juggernaut not to pluck from the desktop publishing pie, so over the course of 10 years, Adobe was able to draw many graphic designers to InDesign by providing it for free in bundles with Photoshop and Illustrator. Meanwhile, Quark underwent a complete metamorphosis, changing ownership and management to become the company that created this jewel of digital publishing: QuarkXPress 2016.

Meanwhile, the publishing industry itself experienced major changes, embracing multiple ever-changing digital formats – and QuarkXPress evolved along with these changes. QuarkXPress 2016 is not your father’s, mother’s, or grandparents’ QuarkXPress: Although the program has maintained its trademark efficiency and focus on the day-to-day needs of real-world publishers, it has also become a multifunction, platform-agnostic publishing engine capable of efficiently producing documents for any medium today – or that may present itself in the future.

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Therefore, before you create a new QuarkXPress project, it’s smart to create a new project folder to hold it. A handy naming convention for the folder might be as follows: client name-project name-year-month, which would look like this:

petstumes-2017 catalog-16-11

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