QuarkXPress 4 Only
Authors: Frank Romano, Eike Lumma
Venue:  (1998)

From the Book:PREFACE: QuarkxPress 4 There are over 70 new or enhanced features of QuarkxPress 4. We say "4" because there was 4.0, then 4.1, then 4.2, and now (at the writing of this book) 4.3. You can tell what level you are at by checking the Quark Environment screen (which is where your serial number lives). All updates are on the www.quark.com web site. The addition of Bezier curves, which includes clipping paths, text on a path, shape merging, freehand drawing, the conversion of text to a box, etc., provided a separate illustration application. Quark then merged the source code for the Windows, Mac OS, and international versions of QuarkxPress so it can ship on both platforms and for all primary languages simultaneously. QuarkxPress 4 for Mac OS requires System 7.1 or higher (with a 68020 or higher processor or a PowerPC processor). QXP 4 for Windows requires Windows95, Windows NT 3.51, or Windows NT 4.0. The Mac OS and Windows versions of QuarkxPress both ship on CD-ROM. The Mac OS version is available in 68K, fat binary, and PowerPC versions. Get lots of memory. Many of the international versions of QuarkxPress have been consolidated into QuarkxPress Passport, which supports multilingual publishing in Danish, Dutch, International English, U.S. English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss-German. East Asian versions of QuarkxPress 4 (Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean) remain single-language products. 4.x documents can be saved in 3.3x format. Page elements and text created with features specific to version 4 are modified when saved in 3.3x format. For example, Bezier boxes will becomecomplexpolygon boxes. QuarkxPress 4 for Mac OS will work with most existing 3.3x XTensions, if you still need them. XTensions for QuarkxPress 3.3x for Windows will need to be updated for version 4. Quark's CMS (Color Management Software) XTension provides HiFi color support including the ability to separate RGB graphics into HiFi color separations. QuarkxPress 4 provides ICC-based color management on both Mac OS and Windows systems. Apple ColorSync 2.1 and Kodak Digital Science technology are both be supported. The EfiColor XTension will no longer be included with QuarkxPress. QuarkxPress 4 New and Enhanced Features Palettes and controls Customize the Tool palette by rearranging and hiding tools with Tool palette's new pop-out setup. Open and use up to eleven movable palettes for quicker access to controls and fields related to a given task. Access find and change controls from a movable palette for convenient text editing during search and replace. Use tabbed dialog boxes that consolidate related control sets through folder/tab metaphor. Use Item tool and Content tool without having to switch between them (e.g., multiple-select items in Content mode or apply picture styles in Item mode). Click the right mouse button in a document to display a context menu that includes common clipboard, view, and modify commands (Windows version). Viewing and navigating Navigate using page icons just like Bobzilla. Force screen to redraw with a keyboard command. Interrupt screen draw by choosing from a menu or clicking in document. Change document display from 10% to 800% (from the previous maximum of 400%) using menus or the Zoom tool, or by entering a percent in a field (maximum percent for Windows version may be smaller depending on monitor resolution). View actual page numbers in a sectioned document, or view "absolute" page numbers. Set preference to show the true look of the document as you drag, resize, or reshape (observe correct text flow and item stacking). View Type 1 font's PostScript name, file name, font type, and version number. Miscellaneous preferences Set preferences for multiple tools simultaneously. Set preference to automatically save document window position. Choose among eight measurement systems including agate for classified ads each with a precision of .001 unit. Opening, saving, and exporting Save in QuarkxPress 3.3 format (but remember that some Version 4 functions will not convert). Conserve document size by automatically listing which colors, style sheets, etc., are used in a document and which are not. Use a single dialog box and multiple source documents and libraries for importing style sheets, colors, line and frame styles, etc. New documents Choose landscape or portrait when creating a new document rather than swapping numerical measurements. Drawing, merging, and reshaping. Draw five standard picture box and text box shapes or draw a custom Bezier shape and switch among shape types any time. Draw Bezier picture boxes, text boxes, lines, and text paths using point-by-point tools. Sketch Bezier boxes, lines, and text paths using Freehand tools. Edit Bezier points, segments, and curve handles during creation. Illustrate by merging multiple items to form one composite box (six methods). Merge endpoints from two Bezier lines to form one line with selected end points. Flow text along a Bezier path, with four options for flow style and four options for position. Convert highlighted text into Bezier-outline box and fill with picture or text. Change boxes to lines and vice versa. Change traditionally shaped items into Bezier items and vice versa. Change text boxes to picture boxes and vice versa, or change Bezier lines to text paths and vice versa, by choosing a content type from a menu. Change a text box or a picture box to a no-content box (a box about "nothing"). Select, move, and fully edit Bezier items using only one tool (either Item or Content tool). Choose among symmetrical, smooth, or corner states for a Bezier point. Reshape curved segments in a Bezier item by dragging curve handles, or by intuitively dragging different parts of a segment. Access fields in Measurements palette that indicate distance and angle of curve handles from their associated point. Automatically select all points in a Bezier item. Cut out parts of a Bezier item by punching through with an overlapping shape. Split multiple-path items to form several individual items. Reshape text outlines that have been converted to Bezier boxes. Positioning, resizing, scaling, and stacking Resize groups (with option to scale all picture contents, text contents, frame widths, and line weights). Rotating, skewing, and flipping. Flip asymmetrical boxes by dragging resize handles. Line, frame, and box background attributes (strokes and fills). Create scalable, custom dash or stripe styles for use with lines and frames, or choose from 11 default dash and stripe styles. Use dash and stripe styles to stroke Bezier items. Apply color and shade to gaps in dotted or dashed lines and frames. Long documents The maximum number of style sheets, colors, H&J sets, tabs, and paragraphs per story has been expanded to allow thousands of each more than you should ever need. Switch type styles at more than a million locations in a document or create more than a million paragraphs per document more than all of us together will ever need. Tag words for a four-level nested index or a two-level run-in index. Access most indexing controls from a movable palette. Create cross references for an index. Choose among six options that determine the scope of an index entry's page reference (including length of the entry, number of paragraphs, or the next style sheet change). Specify the format, punctuation, master page, and style sheets for index creation. Create formatted tables of contents and other paragraph-style-sheet-based lists automatically. Automatically alphabetize paragraphs with Lists. Automatically update lists/indexes after editing text. Create book files consisting of multiple QuarkxPress files for efficient network-based construction of long documents. Open chapters through a book's palette on the local drive or across a network. Synchronize page numbering, style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, and line and frame styles among documents that are part of a book. Reorganize and add chapters to a book at any time. Print all or selected chapters in a book with the same print settings. Originating and importing text Automatically account for word space character inclusion when you double-click to highlight (then cut and paste) a word. Style sheets Create and apply character style sheets for faster local text formatting. Find and change style sheets, including character style sheets. Character manipulation Convert highlighted text into Bezier-outline box and fill with picture or text. Hyphenation and justification Choose expanded hyphenation (which is also the default) method to access new built-in hyphenation dictionary for more accurate results. Automatic text wrap (runaround) Run text inside the "holes" of a picture's subject matter. Base automatic runaround path on picture's white areas, its box, an alpha channel, an embedded path, or a clipping path. Edit runaround path using Bezier tools. Run a single column of text around all sides of an item or items finally. Flow text inside five standard text box shapes or a custom Bezier shape, and switch among them. Anchoring items to flow in text Anchor picture and text boxes, lines, and rules to flow with text, including nonrectangular or Bezier-shaped items. Automatically maintain baseline when converting highlighted text into an anchored Bszier box. Picture importing (linking) and updating View picture file's full path, file size, modification date, dimensions, and color depth. Picture manipulation Mask parts of a picture using five standard picture box shapes or a custom Bezier shape, and use any line style to stroke the frame. Create clipping paths automatically from within QuarkxPress (based on white areas, an alpha channel, or an embedded path). Edit clipping paths using Bezier tools. Invert any clipping path. Remove a picture from its bounding box. Coloring elements Apply color and shade to gaps in lines and frames. Create "multi-ink" colors that consist of user-specified percentages of any number of spot or process colors. Color management Predict color using ICC-based color management from Apple ColorSync 2.1 (Mac OS only) or Kodak (Windows or Mac OS). Specify picture sources, device profiles, and color management preferences using the full suite of controls in bundled CMS software. Halftoning, separating, and trapping Control screen frequency, angle, and dot function separately for each plate. Use high-fidelity color to reduce need for spot colors. Separate RGB pictures into high-fidelity color space for minimal loss in gamut. Printing Automatically learn which item is causing a printing problem using Quark's PostScript error handler. View how your page will be positioned on the selected paper size. Print a non-continuous range of pages. Create reusable print styles for common print settings. Manage PPDs from within QuarkxPress. Manage which XTensions or XTension sets will be active when you launch using new XTensions Manager. Summary In 1993 Quark upgraded QuarkxPress to Version 3.3 for Macintosh and Windows. In 1997 Version 4.0 was introduced, followed by 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 in 1998. As with many software developers, they integrated all new and enhanced features into their documentation. Although lists of the new features and information about many of them was provided in print and on their Web site, there was no single comprehensive guide to all of them in one place at one time. This book is our attempt to bring all of the information about QuarkxPress 4 together. The only area we have not covered is that of color management, since it goes well beyond QuarkxPress. This book is not a replacement for the QuarkxPress manuals. It attempts to provide a training aid for users who already know QuarkxPress and would like to review only the new and enhanced features.