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QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response

If you don't already have an item with the attributes you wish to find and change, simply follow these steps:

Choose EDIT > ITEM FIND/CHANGE.

 

From each relevant panel, in the left-hand pane (find what), choose the item attributes that you wish to find.

From each relevant panel, in the right-hand pane (change to), choose the item attributes that you wish to apply to items that meet the criteria you have defined on the left.

From the lower edge of the dialogue box, choose to what items you wish to limit the search.

Click FIND NEXT.

 

Click CHANGE THEN FIND, CHANGE, or CHANGE ALL, continuing until you have completed the search routine, or until you have found those instances that you wanted to change.

Close the window.

 

Figure 62 The item find/change dialogue box functions in essentially the same manner as the find/change dialogue box for text: define what to find on the left and define the changes you wish to make on the right.

Note: It is not required that you provide a change to attribute for each attribute on which you place find criteria.

Flash me

In QuarkXPress 7, Quark Interactive Designer, was a separate XTensions module. It's now been promoted and integrated fully.

There is so much to tell about QuarkXPress 8's interactive layouts that I simply couldn't fit is all into a single article. With interactive layouts you can easily — and with your run-of-the-mill QuarkXPress skills — create a Flash file — without having to learn a scripting language. It's truly a way for you to add an entirely new bragging-rights skill to your resumé.

Click here to go to X-Ray Magazine v5n6: Getting Your Animations Off the Ground.

I'm falling

Font fallback is a feature that can intelligently replace missing glyphs in imported or pasted-in text by applying fonts that contain those glyphs. With QuarkXPress 8 they have improved the font fallback feature enabling you to specify different replacement fonts for specific scripts or languages, including Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, and four East Asian languages.

What's in my PPD?

With QuarkxPress 8 you can now use the list of fonts in the printer's PPD file, and it's simple. Check PRINT > FONTS > USE PPD FONT SETTINGS.

Getting there

You can now import PDF 1.6 and PDF 1.7 files, but with this announcement a downside: transparencies are still flattened.

Imposing news

Quark Print Collection is not yet compatible with QuarkXPress 8, but my fingers are crossed.

How's it add up?

If you're using XPressMath, Quark hasn't announced a product roadmap, but like with Quark Print Collection, my fingers are crossed (I've added my toes for good measure).

Globally acceptable

Every version of QuarkXPress 8 — no matter in what region of the world you live and buy — comes with all the language resource files (hyphenation and spelling) for all languages supported by this version. This means that you may open all QuarkXPress version 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 file formats whether created in QuarkXPress IE, Passport, Canadian, Latin American, East Asian, or vanilla-flavored, simple US English.

What's more, you may down-save a QuarkXPress 8 file to a QuarkXPress 7 file format. When using the QuarkXPress 8 East Asian or PLUS edition, you may down-save to QuarkXPress 6 Japanese or Korean.

While not everyone bumped into the problem of not being able to open a QuarkXPress Passport document with QuarkXPress, for those of us that did, it generally meant phoning the customer and asking them to down-save to a single language. This was a higher phone bill, lost time, and gained frustration.

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