Wiley QuarkXPress6 Bible
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1. bas Server environment RRE Composting andaninatinpregran tI LLL laetam Luonun L Figure 1 2 This Macworld table of contents contains boxes for pictures and text as well as ruling lines Because of the emphasis on boxes QuarkXPress is considered to be a box based program Although the idea of text boxes picture boxes and lines sounds simple and straightforward in the right hands it can generate truly impressive results These page elements are explained further in the Speaking the Language section of this chapter d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 26 cb 26 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress The right and wrong projects for QuarkXPress Like other programs QuarkXPress has its strengths and weaknesses For example it s great for producing a brochure that requires color separations and trapping On its own it s not so great for a textbook that requires scientific equations and foot notes You can however meet special needs such as these by adding features with XTensions which are plug in modules for QuarkXPress Although you can adapt QuarkXPress to almost any publishing need its roots in layout and print can cause problems With the paste up method and the emphasis on boxes the items you place on pages in QuarkXPress can end up being tied to the pages So changing or multipurposing the content has been difficult in the past although the XML support ma2. integrate into your Web site via specialized Web publishing tools and HTML editors In a workgroup many of the steps in the publishing process are happening at the same time Writers are writing artists are creating graphics and illustrations and photographers are submitting pictures Meanwhile a graphic designer is producing the shell of a publication When the contents are ready he or she pops them into place and makes them look good Figure 1 3 shows the various components that make up a QuarkXPress document Oun OO ETEV eT Ntat ytt ANETT CUCETICC MEME ISIS WOE Cid Pacey omoun W tugtar an Ww Ounae neia pS DOA reps Figure 1 3 A QuarkXPress document and the imported Word EPS and TIFF files used in it But the beauty of QuarkXPress is that you don t have to work this way You can do everything in QuarkXPress If you re a one person one program shop you can still get a lot done You can write in QuarkXPress edit in QuarkXPress import pictures from a Photo CD directly into QuarkXPress and be done Speaking the Language To understand the way you put pages together in QuarkXPress it helps to know exactly what makes up a page And if you can call the items on the page the same thing that we call them and the same thing that Quark calls them it s easier to communicate with other users and to look things up when you re confused 4 d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 29 cb Chapter 1 Int
3. same ways the primary difference among the different types is what you can put inside them Figure 1 6 shows each type of item in QuarkXPress You can create the following types of items in QuarkXPress Text boxes A text box is a container for text You need to create one to type paste or import text Picture boxes A picture box is a container for any graphic that originated outside QuarkXPress in Adobe Photoshop for example No content boxes A no content box is a box that cannot contain text or pic tures they are primarily used for colored backgrounds and shapes d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 32 cb 42 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress Lines A line is just what it sounds like a straight diagonal curvy or irregu lar line that you draw on the page as decoration Text paths A text path is like a line in shape but you can flow text along it Tables A table is really a series of grouped and linked text boxes which you can use to format or import data Figure 1 6 Top row from left to right a text box a picture box and a One partly speedy Klingon eB ia kisses schizo Lhe ic ke p z Phrenic dvaras P no content box filled with a diamond a pros stym OEE blend Bottom row from left to right gressive subway ER p V a line with a dotted line style a text gern EER PE path and a table a guard suo a Vy yin g 4 2 2 ee i2 CN a If all this s
4. this menu in version 4 although it didn t manage the display of palettes until version 6 Wa AL J Platform Difference Mi QuarkXPress 6 for Macintosh has a new QuarkXPress menu that contains the Preferences menu option This change conforms to Mac OS X s interface standards Platform Difference New features In addition to refining existing tools and capabilities Quark has introduced addi tional features to make working in QuarkXPress 6 more efficient and exciting The new features are as follows Synchronized text This feature provides a way to handle boilerplate text more efficiently Such boilerplate copy could include copyright lines page folios legal statements product names navigation bars and other text that needs to be consistent throughout a document Even though text changes are automatically applied to all instances of the synchronized text you can apply separate paragraph and character styles to the various uses of the synchro nized text and have those retained even when the text changes Native PDF export Exporting PDF files no longer requires that you own a copy of Adobe Acrobat Distiller Instead Quark has built the PDF creation code right into QuarkXPress Full Resolution Preview This feature lets QuarkXPress 6 display pictures onscreen using the picture file s full resolution This lets you scale or magnify the image with minimal pixelation and lets you create more accurate Qua
5. versions in the same file making it easier to ensure consistency A business report can combine two sided pages with single page chapter dividers In QuarkXPress 6 you work on one layout at a time as if they were separate documents and you can convert a layout to another form size single sided versus two sided and Web to print or print to Web at any time Pages and layers Each project in QuarkXPress is made up of pages which are outlined on your screen in black Depending on how you ve set up the project the pages may be side by side in spreads and they may have margins and columns indicated by blue lines Generally each page in a document will end up being a page in a printed piece But sometimes you ll have multiple pages on a page such as with a trifold brochure on an 8 x 11 page or a page of business cards Some pages can also be Web pages You can create layers for pages which function like clear overlays that you can show hide and print as necessary When you create a layer it applies to all the pages in a layout Layers are handy for storing two different versions of text or _ d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 30 cb 40 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress graphics in the same document They re also good for isolating items so you can work on them without being distracted by other items on a page A page consisting of several layers is shown in Figure 1 4 a oa se Layer a Sere
6. Web documents Create documents specifically for Web publishing set up with the measurements and tools you prefer Interactivity Add interactivity to Web documents with rollovers image maps and hyperlinks Incorporate tables and meta tags as well XML content Use the XML features of the included Avenue Quark XTension to cre ate media independent content PDF Add hyperlinks to exported PDF pages Tables Create tables that contain linked text cells and graphics Layers Use layers to organize components of a design or versions of content such as multiple versions of a similar ad Underline Styles Create custom underline styles including color shade width and offset and apply them to text Line Check Search for text flow issues such as widows orphans and text overflow Starburst tool A free Quark XTension previously available for download was added to the Tool palette it lets you create you guessed it starburst boxes Summary QuarkXPress is the most popular publishing application in the world with good reason With its paste up method of working and its flexibility QuarkXPress is ideal for projects that run the gamut from black and white garage sale fliers to newspa pers to glossy coffee table books d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 40 cb 40 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress To understand QuarkXPress you need to understand the concepts of items boxes and lines and conten
7. chures is painful And keep in mind that just because QuarkXPress can do something doesn t mean it will do it exactly the way you want it or need it Be prepared to experiment adjust your workflow and add XTensions before solving your unique publishing situations The Publishing Workflow Obviously your publishing workflow will depend largely on where you work and what you re creating A one person newsletter operation will have a significantly different workflow than a national newsmagazine And a graphic designer creating ads will work differently than a textbook publisher But in general most workflows reflect the need to play to a program s strengths This means you let each program in your publishing environment do what it does best So you Write in a word processor Even if you re working alone you ll benefit from writing and editing text in a word processor You can take advantage of the superior spell checker and revision tracking in a program such as Microsoft Word while concentrating on the words rather than the layout Then import the text into QuarkXPress for formatting Draw in an illustration program Yes you can make curvy items in QuarkXPress and combine text and graphics in dramatic ways But for the ultimate flexibility use an illustration program such as Adobe Illustrator for your line art You can then use the picture file in as many places as you want Prepare pictures in an image editing progra
8. d 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 34 cb 54 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress Ce Figure 1 8 The Style menu for pictures Color gt Shade gt Negative 2 Contrast OBC Halftone OH Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical Center Picture OM Fit Picture To Box QF Fit Picture To Box Proportionally C 3F Fit Box To Picture Hyperlink gt Anchor gt What s New in Version 6 The most significant change from QuarkXPress 5 to QuarkXPress 6 is the new project approach to multi layout documents Or maybe it s the capability to create produc tion quality PDF files without needing Adobe s Acrobat Distiller software Or maybe it s the new synchronized text feature where text that is used in multiple places has one master source that if changed updates all versions of it even though they have different text and paragraph styles applied to them Or maybe it s the fact that QuarkXPress now supports multiple undos and redos Or maybe it s the fact that QuarkXPress 6 is Mac OS X native Carbonized in Mac lingo These are all sig nificant advances for QuarkXPress and the most significant depends on what s most important to you QuarkXPress also has enhancements scattered throughout the program For exam ple Web page creators can now make two point rollovers and have dynamic page links Print designers can truly lock items on layers paste a copy in the same loca tion as the original paste in place see full resolution preview
9. d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 23 Introducing QuarkXPress uarkXPress 6 is a powerful and complex program and whether you re new to the subject or an old hand it s best to begin at the beginning This chapter details the wide range of uses QuarkXPress is being put to around the globe points out the ways in which QuarkXPress can be of use to you illuminates the key new features of version 6 and describes the basic metaphor on which the program is based There s also a comprehensive list of the terms clearly and concisely defined that we use throughout the book So whether you re an expert or novice please read on and pre pare yourself for a great adventure Looking at What QuarkXPress Can Do fron QuarkXPress is used by a long and impressive list of people Nearly three quarters of all American magazines including Rolling Stone Folio Wired US Macworld and Reader s Digest are produced with QuarkXPress as are many newspapers around the world It s also the best selling page layout pro gram among professional design firms QuarkXPress is the leading publishing program in Europe and the international version of QuarkXPress QuarkXPress Passport supports most Western and Eastern European languages There s also a version for East Asian languages Japanese Chinese and Korean This edition of the QuarkXPress 6 Bible includes many new layout and production tips culled from experi
10. e QuarkXPress 6 supports SmoothShading which lets you print gradients without using separate bands and static halftone values resulting in improved quality in printed blends from many devices QuarkXPress also supports As Is color which retains the source color space during output to a PostScript composite color device This lets you manage color output at the final printing device You can apply As Is color to printed projects and EPS files that you create in QuarkXPress The new support for Adobe PostScript s DeviceN capability lets you output blends multi inks colorized TIFF images and other items as composite color while retain ing their color separation definitions This lets you print proof copies on composite devices such as inkjet and thermal wax printers while retaining separation informa tion for eventual output to CMYK negatives or plates You can apply DeviceN to EPS files that you create using the QuarkXPress Save Page as EPS dialog box Web pages You can create page to page hyperlinks within a print or Web layout You can also now use the Append feature to import hyperlinks into a project Quark has enhanced the Hyperlinks palette so you can specify how the palette displays hyperlinks and anchors QuarkXPress 6 supports cascading menus so you can create Web pages with a com prehensive user interface Using cascading menus lets you simplify your design by hiding menu items until the user moves the mouse pointer ove
11. ed to have two preferences dialog boxes Application and Document along with assorted pref erences for the various XTensions you were using Now the application has one big prefer ences dialog box for Application Preferences Print Layout Preferences and Web Layout Preferences Plus you still get assorted preferences dialog boxes for XTensions Even though the preferences are all in one dialog box accessed through QuarkXPress Preferences or Option Shift 88 Y on the Mac and through Edit Preferences or Ctrl Alt Shift Y in Windows they still work the same _ d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 39 Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress Application Preferences apply to the QuarkXPress application not to individual documents Print Layout and Web Layout Preferences apply to the active QuarkXPress document If no documents are open they become program defaults QuarkXPress 5 also streamlined the Tool palette Quark combined all the various types of picture boxes into a single pop out for picture box tools and combined the two line tools into a pop out as well If you create a Web layout you get an additional Tool palette for cre ating items such as image maps QuarkXPress 5 also brought in a bunch of new menu items and enhancements including the following Index palette You can change the width of the Index palette Not a huge deal until you start trying to decipher the index entries at their default width
12. enced QuarkXPress designers including about a dozen extended expert techniques where designers share their production secrets CHAP E In This Chapter The QuarkXPress approach to publishing The publishing workflow Speaking the language What s new in version 6 A refresher on version 5 changes a d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 24 24 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress What does this information mean for you It means that QuarkXPress can handle sophisticated tasks such as magazine and newspaper page layout as shown in Figure 1 1 while its simple approach to publishing also makes it a good choice for smaller projects such as fliers and newsletters IT S ABOUT wow Figure 1 1 Folio magazine is just one of the thousands of magazines and other publications that use QuarkXPress QuarkXPress can also be a good choice for corporate publishing tasks such as mar keting collateral ads proposals and annual reports some of which are often dis tributed via print Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format PDF and the Web Long document features make it a viable tool for books and other lengthy publica tions Using QuarkXPress puts you in good company Discovering the QuarkXPress Approach QuarkXPress is considered to be a page layout program But what does that mean What can you do with it and how do you do it Well you can do everything from writing lette
13. graphics arts programs use the term stroke to mean adding a border to an item whether it s a box or line QuarkXPress never uses that term preferring frame for strokes on boxes and simply width for strokes on lines and text paths To make matters more confusing other programs use the term frame for what QuarkXPress calls a box When it comes to QuarkXPress remember that a shape is a box and the border around it is a frame Text and picture styles QuarkXPress provides all kinds of styles for formatting text and manipulating pic tures You can select and apply options such as fonts sizes underlines justifica tion and much more to text And you can resize distort and flip pictures at will When text is selected the Style menu for text shown in Figure 1 7 provides all the options You can even save most of the formats you apply to text in style sheets through the Edit menu When a picture is selected the Style menu for pictures shown in Figure 1 8 provides options specific to that type of picture Font Size Type Style Color Shade vvvvyv Horizontal Vertical Scale Baseline Shift Character Character Style Sheet to Ro Alignment Leading Formats Tabs Rules Paragraph Style Sheet Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical Synchronize Text Unsynchronize Hyperlink Anchor Underline Styles 2D OE OF OT DEN gt Figure 1 7 The Style menu for text DS d541153 ch01 qx
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15. m Whether you re starting with scans images from Photo CDs files from digital cameras or images you ve grabbed from the Internet you ll generally need to save the picture in an image editing program Again QuarkXPress does give you some cropping resizing and retouching tools But most images will benefit from the profes sional tools in a program such as Adobe Photoshop Pull it all together in QuarkXPress QuarkXPress is the place to design your layout the way your text and graphics interact with each other and with other elements on the page Once you get the structure of your pages in place you can start collecting the text and graphics files from yourself or from oth ers importing them into the QuarkXPress document and formatting them as you like Print proofs make revisions and perform final output from QuarkXPress Whether your project will be printed on your laser printer or color separated onto film by a service bureau this is one of the reasons you re using QuarkXPress for reliable output d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 28 cb 28 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress In a Web environment there are great tools for creating Web pages and maintaining Web sites organization and standards QuarkXPress can pro duce Web pages but rarely will it be your primary Web development tool Instead think of it as a great tool to convert print documents to Web form that your Web developers will further refine and
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17. ounds incredibly structured you ll be happy to know that the items are flexible You can convert the type of any boxes so if you start out with a no content box you can convert it to a text box If you draw a nice curved line then decide to flow text on it you can convert it to a text path And if you draw an exquisite closed shape with a line tool you can convert it to any type of box so it can have contents Attributes and styles By themselves items and contents don t look like much It s the attributes you apply to the items and the styles you apply to the contents that bring your docu ments life Item attributes Aside from adding content you can do two basic things to items add color and stroke them For boxes you add a background color To stroke boxes you actually specify a frame including its width line style and colors For lines and text paths you simply pick a color width and style Of course you can do a lot of other things to items themselves including rotating and skewing them The Item menu and in particular the Modify command provides the controls you need for applying attributes to items For frames and lines QuarkXPress provides various styles such as double lines and dots and it lets you create your own patterns with its Dashes amp Stripes command in the Edit menu d541153 ch01 qxd Tip 6 19 03 we 8 47 AM Page 33 Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress Most publishing and
18. r a specific item The program also now supports HTML cascading style sheets which specify fonts for Web browsers to use providing a series of alternatives if the browser doesn t have your first choice The two position rollovers feature of QuarkXPress 6 lets you add greater visual interest to your Web pages Because a two position rollover lets you specify sepa rate origin and target boxes you can make rollovers from text or picture boxes in different areas of the page For example when a user passes the mouse over a menu item not only will that menu item s color change as was possible using the previous one position rollovers feature but it will also let a text or picture box become active such as to show submenus or highlight options elsewhere on the page To make previewing and exporting layouts more convenient HTML Preview and HTML Export features have been added to the context menu d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 38 cb 48 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress There are several improvements to form controls in QuarkXPress 6 You can quickly create form boxes by changing the content of an existing box to Form You can place a form on a layer You can create form boxes in table cells You can change the name of a browser in the Preferences dialog box You can specify additional export folders for pictures and rasterized text boxes in Web layouts Avenue Quark and XML import Both the Avenue Quark interacti
19. rkXPress clipping paths Paste in Place The new Paste in Place command in the Edit menu lets you copy items to the same coordinates as the original very handy when copy ing an item from one page to another Before the copy would appear in a seemingly random location so you d have to know the X Y coordinates to move it to after making the copy d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 36 46 Part Welcome to QuarkXPress Enhanced features Quark has refined several of the features introduced in version 5 making them more powerful and easy to use Tables You can now link table text cells to one another or to any text box in a layout for more flexible text flow You can now set the tab order of cells letting you move from cell to cell in the order that makes most sense for you Cells and gridlines can now assume the attributes of adjacent cells saving you time when inserting rows or columns that have the same formatting as adjacent rows and columns QuarkXPress 6 can remove gridlines so that table cells abut one another and snap to a table gridline to onscreen guides for precise positioning Quark has also made subtle changes to how you apply color to table elements such as cells the table box and gridlines to ease formatting Also you can now apply clipping settings to pictures in picture cells You can convert a table to a group which is useful when you save a layout contain ing features that are not
20. roducing QuarkXPress 29 QuarkXPress documents for print consist primarily of pages items and contents To make these things look good you use item attributes and styles We ll take a quick look at each Fanes See Chapter 37 for information about the basic components of Web documents eterence Projects and layouts One of the biggest changes in QuarkXPress 6 is the concept of projects Gone is the old QuarkXPress term document What s the difference Plenty A project can be made up of a typical print document such as a magazine feature or a book chapter the definition of a document in previous versions of QuarkXPress But it can also be composed of multiple print documents multiple Web documents or a combination of print and Web documents These are all stored in the same file the project QuarkXPress 6 calls each of these project components layouts A layout is essen tially a collection of pages that have the same basic page setup such as two sided 8 x 10 pages and content type print or Web The project layout concept is more than a semantic change It lets designers group related components into one file rather than have separate files for one project Consider some applications A print magazine that has a foldout table in an article no longer needs a separate document for the foldout with its different page set tings A print magazine that makes Web versions of its features can now have the print and Web
21. rs and printing them on your laser printer to designing high end glossy d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 25 Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress 25 magazines that you send out for color separations and four color printing And in QuarkXPress you can go beyond print to designing Web pages PDF documents and XML Extensible Markup Language content XML content is media independent and can be output in a number of ways But due to the paste up method that lies behind designing in QuarkXPress it is better suited to some projects than others The paste up method You build pages in QuarkXPress using the paste up method so it literally feels as if you re creating little blocks of text and graphic elements placing them on a page and then resizing and scooting them around until you re satisfied First you set up the basic framework of the project including the page size and orientation mar gins number of columns and so on You then fill that framework with boxes that contain text boxes that contain pictures and with lines as shown in Figure 1 2 Deosnber 2002 ewmamacnrH com als Fro he Bator Dash ri Hod gout bak Mach TOA to D pp REA E irto einen 3123 Feedbacks 132 Ihratiof ser mumo Bg shn ditn gcd tawainga antoa EM surenirose cutawye rai Kostrena Wie s Moc wonti M Tamen eison muspana ore mat a capu ditimi sesasih nk mints AUNAN Daa OIP AN q Aph
22. s of images get smoother output of blends and better work with tables Despite the significant new functionality and the refinements to the program QuarkXPress designers will find that the basics haven t changed dramatically you ll find some new features and some interface changes but nothing that will trip you up If you re making the transition from version 5 to version 6 skim through this section to familiarize yourself with QuarkXPress 6 Application level changes The new projects and layouts approach to document creation allows multiple size pages in one project as well as print and Web documents in one project This brings with it anew menu Layout d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 35 cb Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress 45 Multiple undos and redos is another powerful change in version 6 letting you go back several steps and even undo multiple steps at once QuarkXPress 6 also abandons older operating systems It now supports only Mac OS X Windows XP and Windows 2000 You can save projects into QuarkXPress 5 format document files each layout is saved as a separate document for compatibility with users on Windows 95 Windows 98 Mac OS 8 x and Mac OS 9 x In the Macintosh version QuarkXPress 6 now has the Window menu that the Windows version has had for some time This menu lets you get a list of open pro jects as well as display and hide the many palettes QuarkXPress for Windows added
23. supported in previous versions of QuarkXPress Layers The Print dialog box now lets you specify which layers print Even though you can still check Suppress Output in the Attributes dialog box for each individual layer the addition of layer printing controls in the Print dialog box lets you easily choose on the fly what to print Quark has enhanced how layers Suppress Output settings work A layer s Suppress Output setting now overrides but doesn t modify the Suppress Output settings for each individual item on that layer Thus when you check Suppress Output for a layer none of the items on the layer print And when you uncheck Suppress Output for a layer QuarkXPress honors the individual Suppress settings for each item on that layer The locking behavior of layers is also improved When you lock a layer QuarkXPress prevents items on the locked layer from being selected or modified All the items on the layer are locked When you unlock it QuarkXPress honors the Lock setting for each item on that layer which was designed to prevent accidental repositioning of items via the mouse but allowed designers to change box and other settings through palettes and dialog boxes A new command Select All Items on Layer is now available in the Layers palette context menu d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 37 Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress 4 Printing To print smoother blends when you output to a PostScript Level 3 devic
24. there are also lines text paths and tables Contents as mentioned are text and pictures QuarkXPress calls any imported graphic a picture whether it s a logotype a chart a line drawing or a photograph Contents are always placed within an item so you can have items without con tents but you cannot have contents without items Figure 1 5 shows a picture con tent moving around within its box an item d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 31 Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress 41 Figure 1 5 A picture box is an item and the picture you import into it is its contents The reason you need to understand the distinction between items and contents is that QuarkXPress provides different tools and menus for handling them The two primary tools at the top of the Tool palette the Item tool and the Content tool are designed to work with their respective page elements Although as QuarkXPress has evolved the tools have become increasingly flexible and their functions now overlap quite a bit Generally you select and manipulate items such as boxes with the Item tool And you select and modify text and pictures with the Content tool QuarkXPress also provides the Style menu for modifying the look of contents and the Item menu for modifying the look of items Item types The broad category of items in QuarkXPress consists of primarily boxes and lines You can create format and manipulate boxes and lines in basically the
25. ts text and pictures With version 6 you also need to understand the concept of projects and layouts if you want go beyond the single document at a time view of publishing To work you ll need to know how to work with these different elements and to communicate you ll need to know what to call them If you re already familiar with QuarkXPress you ll appreciate the new fea tures for projects and layouts undo and synchronized text as well as the enhance ments for tables Web pages PDF output printing and layers plus of course its newfound Mac OS X nativeness
26. ve document and XML import features have been updated to include more comprehensive placeholder features and a more intuitive interface A refresher on version 5 changes If you re jumping from QuarkXPress version 4 to 6 many QuarkXPress users did not adopt version 5 for a variety of reasons including lack of native Mac OS X support here s what you missed In version 5 power users noticed a few changes to the overall application Required Components a new Preferences dialog box and a streamlined Tool palette The biggest functional change in version 5 was the capability to create tables Version 5 of QuarkXPress included one significant change to the application itself the addition of Required Components These small software modules add features such as tables HTML export and GIF import to QuarkXPress Unlike XTensions optional add ons for QuarkXPress Required Components must be present for QuarkXPress to run Many of Quark s old XTensions such as Cool Blends now exist as Required Components The idea is that Quark can update and distribute these small modules without updating the entire program Plus Quark no longer has to test the software in all the different configurations with and without XTensions Required Components are stored in a folder called Required Components inside your QuarkXPress folder which is where you should leave them One other across the board change was the Preferences dialog box QuarkXPress us
27. y help change that In addition QuarkXPress has a lot of features and may be too much to learn for simpler projects In general the following projects are ideal for QuarkXPress Anything printed in four colors or more Books with a high level of design such as coffee table books Magazines and newsletters Corporate identity pieces letterhead envelopes business cards Marketing collateral brochures and fliers Advertisements and posters Novelty items and packaging Content that may need to be output in many different forms print PDF Web and so on The following projects may not fare as well at least without XTensions Books with footnotes and more complex indexes Books with headers and footers that change with the page content Text that includes scientific equations Text that relies on automatic numbering such as an outline or many num bered steps that change often Letters or articles that need to be distributed to many people for customiza tion stick with Microsoft Word for this type of thing Publications with a low level of design but a high level of editorial demands such as tracking changes d541153 ch01 qxd 6 19 03 8 47 AM Page 27 Chapter 1 Introducing QuarkXPress 27 When deciding whether to use QuarkXPress remember the old saying use the simplest tool for the job Writing letters to friends in QuarkXPress is surely overkill but forcing Microsoft Word to lay out bro
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