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Working
With Master Pages In QuarkXPress™ |
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Using master pages in QuarkXPress documents can save a tremendous
amount of time and will ensure that your layouts have a consistent,
uniform appearance. There are a few points to bear in mind when
using them.
The first concept to grasp is that there are master pages and
document pages in a QuarkXPress document - two completely separate
things. If you ever do a "Find / Change" you must remember to
do it twice - once for the document and once for the masters.
That includes fonts, images and text. You must do separate "Find
/ Change" operations for the document and the masters.
A QuarkXPress document can have multiple master pages. A master
page is built and edited the same as a document page. They are
saved with the document and reside in a different "area". Every
document uses a default master page. If you discover after laying
out a document page that you could have made a master page instead,
you can still copy the objects from an existing page and paste
them into a master page and continue from there.
Master pages are ideal for headers, footers, text blocks for
linked text chains, column guides and non-printing page guides
for objects to snap to. Once you have created a master page,
you apply it to a document page and place page objects on it:
When you apply a master page to your document, Quark places
the master page underneath the document page objects.
Quark™ allows the commingling of master page objects and
document page objects in the stacking order. This becomes important
if you reapply a master page to a document page because if you
do, the stacking order will revert like the diagram below:
You may design a document and place some or all of your page
objects under the master page objects. Very often you will do
this because text and images will oftentimes have opaque backgrounds
and they need to be sent to back so the master page objects
will be visible:
Your finished composition is a combination of master page objects
and document page objects:
You need to be mindful of the stacking order if you either:
a.) Apply a new master page, or
b.) Repaginate your document.
When you insert or delete pages, they may reflow and cause a
cascade of master page changes to your document. This becomes
tricky when working with documents with facing pages. Generally,
you need to insert or remove them two at a time in contiguous
blocks and/or create page sections in your document which will
prevent even and odd numbered pages from getting switched around
(more here).
If Quark™ detects that a page's position changes from
left to right or vice versa, it will apply the appropriate master
to accommodate the new pagination.
Changing Master Page Objects To Document Page Objects
One of the great features of QuarkXPress is the ability to edit
master page objects while editing a document page. This makes
it very easy to design headers and footers, text blocks and
other page objects which have a uniform size and appearance,
yet remain editable as individual page objects. This is a double-edge
sword, though, because once you edit a master page item in the
document, then that page inherits the item permanently.
How Do I Change The Margins???
When you first setup a QuarkXPress document you get a dialog
box like the one below:
Here you can enter specifications for column guides and margins
as well as the page size and orientation. Once you setup the
document, you never see this dialog again. Instead, you access
and make changes to the document and masters using two separate
dialogs.
Note: The reason for this is that
Quark allows multiple master pages and each master has its
own specifications for margins and column guides. There is
only one dialog for the document, but there may be several
for the masters.
If you want to change the page size and orientation, you must
first display a document page by clicking Page > Display
> Document. Next click File > Document Setup.
That gives you the dialog below left. If you want to change
the margins and column guides, you must first display a master
page by clicking Page > Display > [Master Page
Name]. Next click Page > Master Guides...
to get the dialog shown below right.
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