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How to stitch a job jacket and give tickets for speeding

Part 1: Stitching your first job jacket

So let’s get started with the job jackets manager; we need to create an actual jacket. Job jacket functions can save some serious time in our workflow.

Launch QuarkXPress 8, but don’t open any files.

 

Go to utilities > job jackets MANAGER. You should see that there is at least one default job jacket in the current view, but we will create our own.

Click the new job jacket button (the first button from the left represented by a sparkling folder in the job jackets dialogue box).

Name the job jacket Test Jacket. (Optionally change the default save location.)

Click save. You should have something that looks like figure 1. If you’ve been here before, you may have more than just the default job jacket.

Figure 1 The bulk of your interaction with job jackets will be through the job jackets manager dialogue box.

Basic mode

This view of the Job jackets manager in figure 1 is basic settings mode. There is an advanced settings mode as well, but we are going to try to keep it simple in the beginning. Now that we have a job jacket, let’s add some resources for later use.

Click on the title of the new jacket that you have just created.

 

Click on the edit button (the third button from the left, represented by the pencil icon).

Click the disclosure arrow next to settings. You should now see four tabs: tickets, style settings, contacts, and layout specifications.

Click on the style settings tab.

 

The style settings tab

Quark job jackets hold four major categories of objects: rules, specifications, tickets, and QuarkXPress resources such as style sheets, colors, and even H&Js. You can use job jackets to store style resources to maintain consistency or to act as a repository for commonly used resources.

Appending Style Resources

Here’s how I append my style resources. You can follow along with a document of your own, if you wish.

From the APPLICATION drop-down menu, choose browse.

 

Navigate to the QuarkXPress project from where you wish to collect style resources (such as style sheets).

Click OPEN. After locating the file, QuarkXPress displays the different resources available for import.

Click on character style sheets in the left-most pane of the dialogue box, labeled resources. When you do that, a list of available style sheets from the file you appended will appear in the available column. (Be sure to choose a file that you know has resources. It’s not a great example if you only have normal.)

You may import a single style sheet or all style sheets at one time. For just one style sheet, double click on the title of the style sheet in the available pane. It will now appear in the include pane. You can see my dialogue box in figure 2. After I imported that one style sheet, a color was automatically imported as well. I have two Pantone colors in these style sheets, so they are automatically included as well.

Repeat this process to load additional style sheets, colors, dashes and stripes, H&Js, and even lists to your job jacket.

Click OK.

 

Figure 2 You don’t have to start from scratch. Job jackets enables you to append resources such as style sheets from existing projects, like I’ve done here.

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