Part 3 of 3: Job Jackets and Project Files
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Creating a Project from a Ticket Template

Choosing File > New > Project from Ticket opens a new dialog box where you can select the ticket template from which to create a new project.

If you don't see the jacket or ticket you need, you can click the Browse button and locate the job-jacket XML file on your system.

When you open the New Project from Ticket dialog box, you can choose a job jacket or a specific ticket template within a jacket. If you choose a jacket in the list, the default ticket template will be applied. If you choose a specific ticket template in the list, the settings in that ticket template will be applied.

By default, the Share Jacket check box is selected, which means you are linking to the external job jacket. If you uncheck this box, you are effectively duplicating the selected ticket template and jacket and converting the duplicate to be embedded within the project file. A project created by embedding a copy of a job jacket/ticket template is not dynamically linked to the original job jacket; any changes to ticket resources are not reflected back to the original job jacket.

The New Project

Remember: a ticket template can define one or more specific layouts. The layout settings include some combination of the following resources:

• Description
• Job description
• Medium type
• Source color configuration
• Proof output
• Proof rendering intent
• Layout specification (page count and size, margins, crossover and spread allowance, binding specifications, bleed allowance, color standard, spot colors, and total number of inks)
• Rule sets
• Output specifications (image color space, format, and resolution; ink density; trapping amount; overprint allowance; output method and style; halftone frequency; and PDF/X compliance)
• Instructions

When you create a project from a ticket template, the resulting project will have the same number of layouts that are defined in the ticket template. All of the resources that are defined in a specific layout resource item will be applied to or available in the new project.

If you did not define a specific page size in the job jacket's layout specification — or if you did not define a job-ticket layout at all — clicking Select in the New Project from Ticket dialog box opens the New Project dialog box, where you have to define a page size (you can't have a layout without defining its page size at some point). The resulting project will still include all of the resources that are defined in the job jacket.

Note: When you create a new project from a ticket template, a copy of the ticket template will be created in the job jacket. That copy is a job ticket, not a ticket template. Otherwise, it functions the same as a ticket template in the Job Jackets Manager.

This reinforces the point that you don't have to select or define every available option to take advantage of QuarkXPress job jackets. If, for example, a service provider sent a job jacket with the necessary production information (output setups, output specifications) but without defining a layout, you can still incorporate the job-jacket settings and work as you normally do — the only difference is one extra dialog box where you have to specify the job ticket from which to create the project.

Create a Project from a Ticket Template

In QuarkXPress, choose File > New > Project from Ticket.

 

In the New Project from Ticket dialog box, select the Movie Campaign job jacket in the list.

Depending on what you or someone else has done since you completed the previous exercise, other job jackets might also be listed. This dialog box shows every job jacket that is currently available in your installation of QuarkXPress.

You can collapse the job jackets to make the dialog box manageable, but you can't close them from within this dialog box.

Click Select.

 

A new project is created with two layouts: Poster and Magazine Ad, which are the layouts that you defined in the previous exercise.

Note: When you select a job jacket in the New Project from Ticket
dialog box, the new project is created based on the jacket's
default ticket template.

With the Poster layout active, open the Layout Properties dialog box. The layout is 24" X 30", with 0.75" margins — the settings you defined in the Poster layout specification.

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