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QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response
Now that you've resized those items, what have you done to the pictures inside the picture boxes? Well, now you know: The effective image resolution field on the classic tab of the measurements palette displays the output resolution of the selected picture by calculating the picture's native resolution and factoring any scaling applied to the picture in QuarkXPress 8.
Figure 32 To view the effective resolution of any image, select the image and go to the classic tab of the measurements palette. The effective resolution is displayed in the bottom right-hand corner.
In QuarkXPress 8, you can now convert entire paragraphs of text to boxes maintaining kerning, spacing, leading, horizontal scale, and the like. The enhancements to this feature make it completely feasible to apply effects such as outlining of characters to entire bodies of text flow.
Choose ITEM > CONVERT TEXT TO BOXES > UNANCHORED (not in the current text flow) or ANCHORED (anchored as Bézier paths within the current text flow) or CONVERT ENTIRE BOX (available with multiple selections up to an entire spread). Notice in figure XX that the word Speeding has excessive tracking applied and that the text to box feature maintained this perfectly.
Figure 33 Here, I have already converted the text to boxes. In previous versions of QuarkXPress, you were limited to a single line of text when converting text to box. With QuarkXPress 8, choose all lines if you wish. Choose a pen tool to edit these characters or, because they are boxes, import a picture as shown below.
Figure 34 a and b Also in previous versions, many designers used the text to box feature so that they could import a picture into the text and have the picture span the entire line of characters. Now, given the ability to process multiple lines of text, an additional step is required to achieve this affect. Select all of the individual boxes and use ITEM > MERGE > COMBINE, then import the picture. (You can see the ghosted image behind the characters in my top sample and then the same sample with the ghosted image hidden.)
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