QuarkXPress For Dummies

Chapter 5

Building a Layout

IN THIS CHAPTER

Working with master pages

Changing your page size and margins

Numbering pages in the various sections of your layout

As noted in Chapter 1, a QuarkXPress project can contain multiple layouts, and each layout can have any size, orientation, and output intent (print or digital). For information on how to create projects and layouts, please flip back to Chapter 1. This chapter focuses on creating and managing pages within a layout, which includes using master pages to store items that appear on every page, setting up an automatic text box to link long stories across multiple pages, and adding automatic page numbers to every page.

Making and Using Master Pages

If your layout consists of just one or two pages, you can ignore master pages entirely. But if you’re using QuarkXPress to publish a newsletter, magazine, book, catalog, or other multipage document, master pages are essential to your pagination happiness.

You may think of a master page as a template for pages, but it’s more than that. For example, if you change a master page at any time, your change on the master page ripples throughout your document, affecting every layout page based ...