 |
|
| AVAILABLE
PRINTING SERVICES |
|
| Magazine
Printing
|
| Catalog
Printing |
| Digest
Size Printing |
| Brochure
Printing |
| Mailing
Services |
| International
Shipping |
| Specialty
Binding |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
| |
|
Intermediate |
|
| |
|
|
Miscellaneous
Tips and Tricks For QuarkXPress™ - Part One |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
Tip No. 1
Setup the Measurements palette so lines are measured by
"First Point". This choice gives you the X1, Y1 coordinates
along with the line's angle and length. The default of "Endpoints"
gives you the X1, Y1, X2, Y2 coordinates and is not as easy
to work with.
Tip No. 2
For the height of all text boxes allow a minimum clearance of
one x-height below the lowest descender of the font used in
the text box (a font's x-height is the height of the letter
"x"). There are minute differences between computer systems.
If you establish a text box height that is too tight on your
system, it is liable to be too small for the text to display
or output on another's. The example below illustrates what can
happen and just how deep your text boxes should be to avoid
this.
Tip No. 3
When making text boxes with reversed type or with colored backgrounds,
it is better to make separate objects for the background and
text rather than make it as a single object. In the example
below, the preferred method is the one on the right. See Tip
No. 2 above for why. The output result of the one on the left
below may be a plain red box with no type.
Tip No. 4
When making corners from intersecting lines, be aware that
measurements and snapping occur from the midpoint of the line.
In the example below there is a corner made from the intersection
of two 8-point wide lines. Both the horizontal and vertical
lines on the left have the same x and y coordinates. In the
example on the right, the horizontal line was shifted to the
left 4 points (half the line thickness) to make a mitered corner.
Likewise, if 1-point wide lines are used the shift would have
to be .5 point to compensate.
Tip No. 5
A simple ad splash can be made from a polygon. Create the polygon,
give it a 1-point black frame and a white box color. Then drag
and drop it into a library and save it with other library items.
In the example below, the top item shows the polygon points,
and the bottom one was made by making a copy of the polygon
for a shadow. The shadow was given a black box color.
Tip No. 6
When you have applied a paragraph style and want to remove it
without changing the appearance of the text, Click Style
> Paragraph Style Sheet > No Style. This removes
the style sheet link and effectively applies local formatting
to the text.
Tip No. 7
Once you have setup local text formatting on a block of text
and you need to use it repeatedly in your document but you don't
want to create a style sheet, you can save a lot of time simply
by copying only one or two characters and pasting them at the
location where you want to repeat the style. This will save
the repetitious mouse clicks required to set it up each time.
Tip No. 8
Numbered and bulleted lists often use a hanging indent.
A hanging indent is where the text is indented to the right
of the bullet or number. To make a bulleted list style like
the example below, select the paragraph and click Style >
Formats... In the dialog enter a positive number for a "Left
Indent" amount and the same number as a negative number for
a "First Line" amount. Then paste a Zapf Dingbat character for
a bullet in front of the first line. Save the formatting as
a style sheet and apply it to the remaining paragraphs without
the bullets. Paste the bullets after applying the
style sheet.
The base style is 14 point AGaramond with 14 points of leading
and a space after of 3 points. The Zapf Dingbat bullet is a
10 point character created from a keypress using the lowercase
"u" (both Macintosh® or Windows®). There is one blank space
of AGaramond after the bullet character and before the main
body of text. In this case I used 12 points for a "Left Indent"
and -12 points for the "First Line".
Tip No. 9
When making paragraph styles to separate paragraphs use either
"Space Before" or "Space After" but not both...otherwise you
may wind up with a confusing mess. I prefer "Space After" because
most of my text is top aligned (Ascent) and all my text boxes
have extra space at the bottom.
Tip No. 10
Set your leading to the same number of points as the point size
of the font you use. Example, with a 14 point font, set the
leading to 14 points. Quark's "auto" leading is a bit too loose
for my taste.
Click
Here To Continue...
|
|
 |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
| |
| |
| Environmentally
Responsible |
Printing |
| |
|
|
