InDesign for QuarkXPress Users

InDesign for QuarkXPress Users

by David Blatner, Christopher Smith, Steve Werner
Released April 2003
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
ISBN: 9780321159489

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Book description

While QuarkXPress is the most-widely used page-layout program in the world, Adobe InDesign is rapidly gaining ground with better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more overall control. Plus, InDesign 2 is Mac OS X native, QuarkXPress 5 isn't. But if you're a QuarkXPress user thinking of making the switch to InDesign, you know you can't afford to lose time and productivity at the office while learning a new program. Thanks to InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, you don't have to.

InDesign for QuarkXPress Users is the only book on the market that shows experienced graphic designers how to use InDesign from a QuarkXPress user's perspective. Using an easy-to-read and easy-to-digest style, this unique title focuses on common tasks, giving you quick solutions rather than bogging you down with lengthy theory. Written by well-known experts in the field, the book is abundantly illustrated and covers topics such as using InDesign's transparency features (possible in QuarkXPress only by unwieldy workarounds), and making the most of master pages and style sheets. It's also loaded with real-world tips on how you can apply your QuarkXPress know-how to this up-and-coming software.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
    1. Dedication
  2. Introduction
    1. How to Read This Book
    2. Why Use InDesign
      1. Features
      2. Performance
      3. What’s Your ROI?
      4. Add a Tool, Don’t Replace It
      5. For More Information
      6. Acknowledgements
  3. 1. The User Interface
    1. 1. The Tools Palette
      1. Tools for Selecting
      2. Type Tools
      3. Drawing Tools
        1. Pen
        2. Pencil
        3. Line
        4. Frame
        5. Shape
      4. Editing Tools
        1. Rotate
        2. Scale
        3. Shear
        4. Free Transform
        5. Eyedropper
        6. Gradient
      5. Navigation Tools
        1. Grabber Hand
        2. Zoom
      6. Determining Color Selections
    2. 2. Views and Navigation
      1. Navigating on a Page
        1. Document Window Navigation
        2. Zoom Tool
        3. Useful Key Commands for Navigating
        4. Page Grabber Hand
      2. Moving Between Pages
        1. Pages Palette
        2. Document Window Navigation
        3. Key Commands for Navigating
        4. The Navigator Palette
        5. The Layout Menu
        6. Scrollable Mouse
    3. 3. Showing and Hiding Page Elements
      1. Show and Hide Page Properties
        1. Frame Edges
        2. Baseline Grid
        3. Text Threads
        4. Master Items
        5. Document Grid
      2. Preview Mode
    4. 4. Palettes and Windows
      1. The Pasteboard
      2. Managing Palettes
        1. Palette Key Commands
        2. Minimize Palettes
        3. Combining and Docking Palettes
        4. Hide Your Palettes
        5. Tiny Text
    5. 5. Context Menus
      1. Document Window Context Menus
      2. Using Context Menus With Frames
      3. Text and Context Menus
    6. 6. Keyboard Shortcuts
      1. Finding Shortcuts
        1. Printing Shortcuts
      2. Customizing Shortcuts
    7. 7. Defaults & Preferences
      1. Page Settings
        1. Default Page Size
        2. Default Margins and Columns
      2. Default Preferences
        1. General Preferences
        2. Text Preferences
        3. Composition Preferences
        4. Units & Increments
        5. Grids & Guides Preferences
        6. Dictionary Preferences
        7. Display Performance
        8. Workgroup Preferences
      3. Preference File
    8. 8. Adobe Online
      1. Using Adobe Online
      2. Setting Online Preferences
    9. 9. InDesign Plug-ins
      1. What Are Plug-ins?
      2. Managing Plug-ins
        1. Plug-in Sets
      3. Third-Party Plug-ins
  4. 2. Building Pages
    1. 10. Creating Frames
      1. Understanding the Lingo
      2. Flexibility with Frames
        1. Placeholder Frames
        2. Frames On-the-Fly
        3. Dragging and Copying Shortcuts
    2. 11. Tools for Selecting
      1. Bounding Boxes and Anchor Points
      2. Selecting Multiple Objects
    3. 12. Creating and Editing Shapes
      1. Simple Shapes
        1. Line Tool
        2. Rectangle, Ellipse and Polygon Tools
      2. Freeform Shapes
        1. Pencil Tool
        2. Smooth Tool
        3. Erase Tool
      3. Precise Shapes with the Pen Tool
        1. Similarities and Differences
        2. Corner Point Tip
      4. Reshaping Paths and Frames
        1. Direct Selection Tool
        2. Add Anchor Point Tool
        3. Delete Anchor Point Tool
        4. Convert Direction Point Tool
        5. Scissors Tool
        6. What’s Missing—Merge and Shape Commands
    4. 13. Think Outside the Box: Nesting Objects
      1. Parent and Child Objects
        1. Selecting Nested Objects
        2. Using Text as a Background
    5. 14. Fills and Strokes
      1. Fills
      2. Strokes
        1. The Stroke Palette
        2. Dashes, Stripes, and Path End Shapes
    6. 15. Corner Effects
      1. Finding the Corners
      2. Editing Effects
    7. 16. Compound Paths
      1. How to Make Holes
      2. Editing Holes
      3. Releasing Holes
    8. 17. Moving and Resizing Objects
      1. The Transform Palette
        1. Information on the Palette
        2. Setting the Transformation Origin
        3. Pay Attention to What’s Selected
      2. Moving Objects
        1. By Dragging
        2. Using the Transform Palette
        3. Using the Move Dialog Box
        4. Using the Arrow Keys
      3. Resizing Objects
        1. Dragging the Bounding Box
        2. Using the Transform Palette
        3. Dragging with the Scale Tool
        4. Using the Scale Dialog Box
        5. Other Ways to Scale
        6. Stroke Weights and Scaling Objects
    9. 18. Other Object Transformations
      1. Rotating
        1. Dragging with the Rotate Tool
        2. Using the Rotate Dialog Box
      2. Flipping
      3. Skewing or Shearing
        1. Skew With the Transform Palette
        2. Using the Shear Dialog Box
        3. Dragging with the Shear Tool
      4. The Free Transform Tool
    10. 19. Grouping, Stacking, and Locking Objects
      1. Grouping
        1. Where Are Your Groups?
        2. Selecting the Members of a Group
      2. Stacking Order
      3. Locking
    11. 20. Selecting with Complex Stacking and Nesting
      1. Clicking Through the Stack
      2. Your Secret Weapon: The Group Selection Tool
      3. Combining Groups with Nesting
    12. 21. Duplicating and Deleting Objects
      1. Duplicating Objects
        1. Copying and Pasting
        2. Paste in Place
        3. Duplicating and Step-and-Repeating
        4. Option/Alt-Dragging
        5. Copying While Transforming
      2. Deleting Objects
    13. 22. Aligning and Distributing Objects
      1. Aligning Objects
      2. Distributing Objects
        1. Maintaining the Bounding Box
        2. Distributing Using Precise Spacing
    14. 23. Making Objects Non-printing
    15. 24. Layers
      1. Basic Layer Operations
        1. Assigning Objects to Layers
        2. Rearranging and Combining Layers
        3. Duplicating and Deleting Layers
      2. Differences from QuarkXPress 5 Layers
    16. 25. Object Libraries
      1. Creating and Managing Libraries
        1. Adding Objects to a Library
        2. Opening and Closing Libraries
        3. Using Library Items on a Page
        4. Deleting Library Items
      2. Asset Management
        1. Adding Information About an Item
        2. Finding Library Items
  5. 3. Building Documents
    1. 26. Creating New Documents
      1. Changing Page Size and Orientation
    2. 27. Opening and Saving Files
      1. Opening Files
      2. Saving Files
    3. 28. Adding, Deleting, and Arranging Pages
      1. The Pages Palette
        1. Adding Pages
        2. Arranging Pages
        3. Deleting Pages
    4. 29. Multipage Spreads
      1. Creating a Multipage Spread
        1. Creating a Multipage Master Page
    5. 30. Creating and Applying Master Pages
      1. Creating a New Master Page
        1. Automatic Linked Text Frames
      2. Duplicating a Master Page
      3. Converting a Document Page into a Master Page
      4. Applying Master Pages to Document Pages
    6. 31. Targeting versus Selecting Pages
      1. Targeting a Page or Spread
      2. Selecting a Page or Spread
    7. 32. Creating Parent/Child Relationships
      1. Working with a Parent Page
        1. Making Child Masters
        2. Overriding Parent Items on a Child Master
    8. 33. Overriding Master Items
      1. Changing Master Items
      2. Removing Master Item Changes
      3. Reapplying Master Pages
    9. 34. Ruler Guides
      1. Customizing Ruler Guides
        1. Guide Position
        2. Locking Guides
        3. Copying Guides
        4. Deleting Guides
      2. Create Guides
    10. 35. Margin and Column Guides
      1. How InDesign Handles Margin Guides
        1. Hiding Guides
        2. Editing Margin & Column Guides
      2. Layout Adjustment
    11. 36. Document and Baseline Grids
      1. Baseline Grid
      2. Document Grid
    12. 37. Numbering and Sectioning
      1. Creating Sections
      2. Section Options
        1. Prefixes
        2. Style
        3. Section Marker
      3. Editing Sections
  6. 4. Typography
    1. 38. Typing and Editing Text
      1. Selecting, Deleting, and Navigating
        1. Keyboard Navigating
      2. Hidden Characters
      3. Speeding Up Editing
    2. 39. Importing Text
      1. Import Filters
        1. Import Options
      2. Flowing Text
        1. Manual Flow
        2. Semi-Autoflow
        3. Autoflow
      3. Pasting Text
      4. Unlinking Imported Text
      5. Creating Placeholder Text
    3. 40. Threading and Unthreading Text Frames
      1. Threading Terminology
      2. Threading
      3. Unthreading
      4. Removing a Frame from the Chain
    4. 41. Checking Spelling
      1. Picking a Search Range
      2. Performing a Search
    5. 42. Foreign Languages and Dictionaries
      1. Foreign Languages
        1. Applying Language to Text
      2. Adding or Removing Words
        1. Hyphenation Points
        2. Removing Words
    6. 43. Think Outside the Box: InDesign and Fonts
      1. InDesign’s Font Folder
      2. Font Menus
      3. Access to All Characters
      4. OpenType Font Support
    7. 44. Character Formatting
      1. Selecting Text for Formatting
      2. Basic Character Formatting
        1. Typeface
        2. Font Size
        3. Leading
      3. Kerning and Tracking
        1. Metrics Kerning
        2. Manual Kerning
        3. Optical Kerning
        4. Word Space Kerning
        5. Tracking
      4. Type Styles
        1. Font Styling
        2. Underline and Strikethrough
        3. All Caps and Small Caps
        4. Changing Case
        5. Changing Position
        6. Ligatures
        7. No Break
      5. Other Character Formatting
        1. Horizontal and Vertical Scaling
        2. Color, Tint, Gradient and Stroke
        3. Baseline Shift
        4. Skew
        5. Language
    8. 45. Paragraph Formatting
      1. Selecting Paragraphs
      2. Alignment and Spacing
        1. Leading
        2. Horizontal Alignment
        3. Left and Right Indents
        4. Space Before and After
        5. Baseline Grid
      3. Drop Caps
      4. Keep Options
        1. Keep with Next
        2. Keep Lines Together
        3. Start Paragraph
    9. 46. Composition
      1. Single-line vs. Paragraph Composers
        1. Paragraph Composition
      2. Composition Preferences
    10. 47. Hanging Indents and Punctuation
      1. Hanging Indents
        1. Hanging in the Paragraph Palette
        2. Hanging with the Tabs Palette
        3. The Indent Here Character
      2. Hanging Punctuation
    11. 48. Hyphenation and Justification
      1. Applying H&J Settings
      2. Hyphenation Settings
        1. Hypenation Penalty Slider
      3. Justification Settings
        1. Word, Letter, and Glyph Spacing
        2. Flush Space Character
    12. 49. Setting Tabs
      1. Working with Tabs
        1. Creating Tab Stops
        2. Tab Alignment
        3. Tab Leaders
      2. Changing and Deleting Tabs
      3. Right Indent Tab
    13. 50. Text Frame Properties
      1. Fitting a Frame to Its Text
      2. Text Frame Options
        1. Columns
        2. Inset Spacing
        3. Vertical Text Alignment
    14. 51. Special Characters
      1. Calling Out Characters
        1. Insert Character Menus
        2. Glyphs Palette
        3. Keystrokes
      2. OpenType Fonts
      3. Fractions
      4. Typographers’ Quotes
      5. White Space Characters
      6. Break Characters
      7. Auto Page Numbers and Jump Lines
      8. Unicode Mapping Problems
    15. 52. Find and Change
      1. Setting the Search Range
      2. Specifying the Text
        1. Special Characters
        2. Wild Card Characters
        3. Other Options
      3. Performing a Text Search
      4. Finding/Changing Formatted Text
        1. Specifying Formatting
        2. Applying Formatting
        3. Using Wild Cards to Apply Word Underlining
    16. 53. Find Font
      1. Find Font Dialog Box
        1. Finding Information
        2. Replacing a Font
  7. 5. Styles
    1. 54. Paragraph Styles
      1. Creating Paragraph Styles
        1. Duplicating Paragraph Styles
    2. 55. Character Styles
    3. 56. Applying Styles
      1. Applying Paragraph Styles
      2. Applying Character Styles
      3. Overriding Local Attributes
      4. Copying Styles
    4. 57. Editing Styles
      1. Modifying Character and Paragraph Styles
      2. Redefining styles
      3. Deleting Styles
    5. 58. Importing Styles
      1. Appending Styles from InDesign Documents
        1. Importing All Styles from a Document
        2. Importing Only Paragraph or Character Styles
        3. Importing Styles as Defaults
      2. Importing Styles from Word Files
    6. 59. Exporting Text
      1. Text Formats
        1. Text Only
        2. Rich Text Format
        3. Adobe InDesign Tagged Text
    7. 60. Tagged Text
      1. InDesign Tagged Text versus XPress Tags
      2. Tagged Text Export Options
  8. 6. Graphics
    1. 61. Importing Graphics
      1. Placing Graphics
        1. Flexible Frames
        2. The Place Gun
        3. Drag & Drop Importing
        4. Additional Options
    2. 62. Think Outside the Box: InDesign and Graphic File Formats
      1. Importing Native File Formats
        1. To Import or Not to Import
        2. Native File Format Details
      2. Alternatives to Native Formats
        1. Recommended Prepress Formats
        2. Inappropriate File Formats
      3. Import Options
    3. 63. Copying Objects To and From Adobe Illustrator
      1. Setting Up Illustrator
      2. Copying Objects Into InDesign
      3. Copying Objects from InDesign into Illustrator
    4. 64. Scaling Graphics Precisely
      1. Big Differences
      2. Scaling Images
        1. Scaling with Fitting Commands
        2. Scaling With Key Commands
        3. Scaling with the Transform Palette
        4. Scaling a Graphic by Dragging
    5. 65. Linking & Embedding Graphics
      1. The Links Palette
        1. Updating and Changing Graphic Links
        2. Go to the Graphic
        3. Information about Graphics
        4. Editing the Original Graphic
      2. Embedding Graphics
    6. 66. Display Options
      1. View Menu Settings
      2. Individual Image Display Settings
      3. Setting Display Defaults
    7. 67. Colorizing Images
    8. 68. Clipping Paths
      1. Using Embedded Paths
      2. Creating Clipping Paths
      3. Editing a Clipping Path
      4. Converting Clipping Paths to Frames
  9. 7. Where Text Meets Graphics
    1. 69. Inline Objects
      1. Creating Inline Objects
        1. Manipulating an Inline Object
        2. Adjusting Leading and Spacing
      2. The No Ascent Workaround
    2. 70. Paragraph Rules
      1. Setting Appearance
      2. Positioning the Rules
        1. Vertical Position
        2. Horizontal Position
    3. 71. Text Wraps
      1. Wrap Options
      2. Creating Contours
        1. Contour Choices
        2. Editing the Contour
      3. Controlling Text Wrap
    4. 72. Converting Text to Outlines
      1. Creating Outlines
        1. Conversion Issues
      2. Manipulating Outlines
    5. 73. Text and Graphics on a Path
      1. Creating Path Type
        1. Clicking or Clicking-and-Dragging
        2. Path Type Controls
      2. Editing Path Type
        1. Threading Text
        2. Deleting Path Type
      3. Graphics on a Path
    6. 74. Creating and Importing Tables
      1. Table Terminology
        1. Tables versus Tabs
      2. Creating a New Table
        1. Entering Text in a Table
      3. Importing Tables
      4. Converting Tables to Text
    7. 75. Formatting Tables
      1. Selecting Tables
        1. Selecting Cells
        2. Selecting Rows or Columns
        3. Selecting the Entire Table
      2. Tools for Table Formatting
      3. Editing a Table’s Structure
        1. Scaling the Entire Table
        2. Adding Rows and Columns
        3. Deleting Rows, and Columns, and Tables
        4. Merging and Splitting Cells
        5. Changing Row or Column Size
      4. Setting Strokes and Fills
        1. Specifying the Table Border
        2. Using the Cell Options Dialog Box
        3. Using the Stroke and Swatches Palettes
        4. Adding Diagonal Lines
      5. Creating Alternating Patterns
        1. Adding Alternate Strokes
        2. Adding Alternate Fills
    8. 76. Formatting Text in Tables
      1. Text Formatting
        1. Tabs within Tables
        2. Overset Text in a Cell
        3. Text Rotation
      2. Table Flow Between Text Frames
      3. Copying, Pasting, and Deleting Content
    9. 77. Using Graphics within a Table
      1. Pasting or Placing Graphics
      2. Fitting Graphics
        1. Row Height
        2. Cell Alignment Options
        3. Clipping the Graphic
        4. Transforming the Graphic
      3. Choosing the Right Tool
      4. Handling Overset Graphics
    10. 78. Table Alignment and Spacing
      1. Alignment and Spacing Within a Cell
      2. Alignment and Spacing Around a Table
  10. 8. Color and Transparency
    1. 79. Creating Colors
      1. Swatches Palette
        1. Creating Swatches
        2. Tint Swatches
        3. Displaying Swatches
        4. Default Colors
      2. Color Palette
        1. Saving Unnamed Colors
    2. 80. Applying Colors
      1. Applying Colors to Frames and Text
        1. Applying Colors to Frames
        2. Changing the Color of Type
      2. Applying Color to Lines
    3. 81. Gradients
      1. Gradient Swatches
      2. Controlling Gradients
        1. Gradient Palette
        2. Gradient Tool
        3. Applying Gradients to Multiple Objects
        4. Applying Gradients to Text
    4. 82. Eyedropper Tool
      1. Copying and Applying Colors
        1. Eyedropper Tool Status
        2. Sampled Colors
      2. Copying Text and Other Formatting
        1. Eyedropper Options
    5. 83. Colors & Color Libraries
      1. Converting Spot Colors to Process
      2. Importing Colors
      3. Editing, Merging, and Deleting Colors
        1. Deleting and Merging Colors
    6. 84. Transparency
      1. Importing Transparent Objects
      2. Applying Transparency
        1. Blending Modes
        2. Blend Options
        3. Blend Space
    7. 85. Drop Shadows & Feathering
      1. Applying Drop Shadows
      2. Applying Feathering
    8. 86. Overprinting Color
      1. Setting Overprints
        1. Previewing and Printing Overprints
    9. 87. Color Management
      1. Setting Up Color Management
        1. Color Managing Imported Graphics
      2. Soft-Proofing Colors
      3. Color Managing Print Output
  11. 9. Long Documents
    1. 88. Managing Book Files
      1. Building a Book
      2. Standardizing Attributes
      3. Setting Page Order
      4. Preparing, Printing & Exporting Books
        1. Preparing Books for Printing
        2. Printing Books
        3. Exporting Books to PDF
    2. 89. Making a Table of Contents
      1. Building a TOC
      2. TOC Styles
    3. 90. Building an Index
      1. Indexing Topics
      2. Making References
      3. Building the Index
  12. 10. Printing
    1. 91. Preflighting
      1. The Preflight Dialog Box
        1. Fonts Panel
        2. Links and Images Panel
        3. Other Panels and Options
    2. 92. Packaging a Document for Print
      1. Printing Instructions
      2. Packaging Options
    3. 93. Printing
      1. Printing Overview
        1. Choosing a Printer
        2. PostScript Printers and PPDs
        3. Creating a PostScript File
        4. Previewing Your Printing
        5. Printer-Specific Options
      2. The General Panel
        1. Choosing Pages
        2. Old and New Options
      3. The Setup Panel
        1. Paper Size and Orientation
        2. Custom Paper Sizes
        3. Scaling and Positioning Options
        4. Thumbnails and Tiling
      4. The Marks & Bleeds Panel
        1. Printer’s Marks
        2. Bleed Area
    4. 94. Think Outside the Box: Transparency & Printing
      1. Transparency Must Be Flattened
        1. When Flattening Happens
        2. How Can You Tell There Is Transparency?
      2. Controlling How Flattening Occurs
        1. Customizing the Controls
    5. 95. Advanced Print Settings
      1. The Output Panel
        1. Kinds of Output
        2. Color Separations
        3. Choosing and Changing Inks
      2. The Graphics Panel
      3. Color Management Panel
      4. Advanced Panel
        1. OPI Workflows
        2. Gradients
        3. Transparency Flattening
      5. Summary Panel
      6. Resources for Print Service Providers
    6. 96. Creating Printer Styles
      1. Creating a Printer Style
        1. In the Print Dialog Box
        2. Using the Printer Styles Command
      2. Selecting Printer Styles
    7. 97. Trapping
      1. Built-in or In-RIP Trapping
      2. Trapping Controls
        1. Creating Trap Styles
        2. Assigning Trap Styles
        3. Ink Controls
  13. 11. Exporting
    1. 98. Exporting EPS
      1. General Options
        1. Format Settings
        2. Bleed
      2. Advanced Options
    2. 99. Creating PDF Files
      1. Exporting PDF
      2. An Alternative to Exporting
      3. Customizing PDF Export
        1. General
        2. Compression
        3. Marks & Bleeds
        4. Advanced
        5. Security
      4. PDF Styles
    3. 100. Exporting to HTML and SVG
      1. Exporting to HTML
      2. Exporting to SVG
  14. A. Converting QuarkXPress Files
    1. Conversion Isn’t Perfect
      1. What Translates Well
      2. Think “Templates”
    2. Converting QuarkXPress Files
      1. First Steps
      2. The Conversion Process
    3. Problem Areas to Look For
      1. Getting Help
    4. Other Conversion Options

Product information

  • Title: InDesign for QuarkXPress Users
  • Author(s): David Blatner, Christopher Smith, Steve Werner
  • Release date: April 2003
  • Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
  • ISBN: 9780321159489