X-Ray Magazine v5n6 QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response

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QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response

MAKE IT A ROUNDTRIP

QuarkXPress 8 supports drag and drop to and from any application that supports drag and drop. So, not only can you drag text and pictures into a layout from the OS or from another application, you can drag text and pictures from a QuarkXPress 8 layout to the OS or into another application. This invokes the open function if, for instance, you drag an image from a QuarkXPress layout and drop it onto an application icon in your dock (such as Photoshop).

If you use drag and drop to edit a picture by dropping it on an application, it functions much like the edit original feature with one major difference. You can drag and drop onto the application of your choice, whereas edit original opens the image in the application assigned to it at the OS level.

If the status of the picture is missing, then QuarkXPress will not pass a copy of the picture, but rather the raw pixel data (picture clipping). Some applications, such as Photoshop cannot accept raw pixel data because a file format is required. However, other applications, such as Word, are able to use this data.

When you drag a picture or text from a QuarkXPress 8 project (and depending on the status of the picture) a copy of the content is created and placed in the location of your drop. This is a great way to perform a collect for output process of a single page. Simply drag all the pictures on the page and drop them to a folder at the finder level.

Typing notes

DON'T DASH OFF

In QuarkXPress 6.X, if you added a discretionary hyphen (COMMAND + HYPHEN) at a point in a word, the word would hyphenate where you had inserted the hyphen (if necessary) and ignore any automatic hyphenation. If you placed a discretionary hyphen at the beginning of a word, it would break at that point (in essence, preventing a hyphen within the word itself). In QuarkXPress 7.X, Quark changed this behavior in an attempt to make it more flexible. After customer feedback, they've now changed it back to be more in keeping with the behavior style of QuarkXPress 6.X, but with the added flexibility of QuarkXPress 7 — namely word joiner. In QuarkXPress 8, a discretionary hyphen at the beginning of a word will simply kill hyphenation for that word (be it auto hyphenation or discretionary hyphens).

A discretionary hyphen placed within the word will cancel auto hyphenation and break the word at the point of the discretionary hyphen.
A discretionary hyphen placed at the beginning of a word will cancel both auto and discretionary hyphens within the word.
To cancel an automatically inserted hyphen, insert a word joiner at the point of the undesired hyphen.

X-Ray Magazine v5n6 QuarkXPress 8 Accessibility Defined Figure 41

Figure 41 Using word joiner, a feature of QuarkXPress 7, you can cancel both auto and discretionary hyphens placed within a word.

When you open a legacy document, it should not re-flow due to these discretionary-hyphen changes that have been made to each of the last versions of QuarkXPress. However, if you option + open an older document (in short, open the document and flow it using the new QuarkXPress 8 text flow), then any discretionary hyphen you inserted into the legacy text flow will adopt the new QuarkXPress 8 behavior and you might end up with unexpected line breaks. There's a simple fix: Use the find/change feature to remove discretionary hyphens and enable QuarkXPress 8 handling (find \h and replace with nothing). When a discretionary hyphen is found, it will not be viewable on the screen since discretionary hyphens are a zero-width character, but you can find/change them anyway.

ZOOM IN

Many of the glyphs for invisibles characters have been enlarged for easier viewing on the document page. (You can now safely put away your reading glasses.)

LEARNING TO SPELL

If you are a current user of QuarkXPress, I'm sure that you have felt the frustration at some time in the past when the spell checker insisted on stopping to check every URL and email address. Since QuarkXPress 7.31 you have been able to set preferences for whether or not the spell checker will bother with such words. I include it here because I just discovered it, and figure others have not yet. It's quite simple to change:

Choose QUARKXPRESS > PREFERENCES > SPELLCHECK.