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1. a TIFF image and Non White Areas makes white back grounds transparent Path Outset and Tolerance controls are there when applicable Note that QuarkXPress does not af fect the original high resolution files it stores the clipping paths within your document Using clipped images with the new Run Text Around All Sides option enables you to flow single column text around one or more objects The option is in the Text dialogue not in Runaround graphic exchange april may 1998 The Text to Box command lets you convert words into boxes then place pictures within the text outlines 59 Quark s Clipping dialogue box generates several types of paths Embedded Path duplicates a Photoshop em bedded path Alpha Channel creates a path based on an alpha channel in a TIFF image Character Styles enable you to apply formatting to any highlighted range of text They f are integrated into the floating Style faif Sheets palette along with paragraph styles Long document f features are indexing auto mated lists and book compiling Index commands reside on a floating palette CHARACTER STYLE SHEETS Character Styles enables you to apply formatting to any highlighted range of text independent of paragraph styling and also alter that formatting globally Unlike character style XTensions I ve tried with version 3 Character Styles in Quark 4 are efficient and fully integrated2. QuarkXPress 4 looks just like version 3 with a few XTen sions icons and palettes are primarily unchanged It seems that two principles have been applied here if it ain t broke don t fix it and no messing up the interface with dis tracting color and shading So maybe the current interface graphic exchange isn t quaint but it s timeless The tool palette has been subtly enhanced with pop out selections added to existing tools and new icons for b zier and text path tools Until you get into certain b zier func tions the contextual Measurements palette is essentially the same as before Drop down menus have been augmented not reconfigured And version 3 keyboard commands still work So QuarkXPress 3 users can actually go ahead and use version 4 without cracking open the manual And new functions flow logically from established procedures so you can pick them up quickly Page icons in the Document palette now display page numbers that you ve assigned with the Section command not just absolute numbering A new pop up menu in the lower left corner of your window displays Pagemaker like page icons as a fast alter native to scrolling and clicking for pages in the Document palette And you can now zoom up to 800 using menus or the Zoom tool Enhancements become more apparent when you get into menus or apply commands Certain dialogue boxes have be come contextual using a folder tab metaphor Accessing the r
3. be combined with J ustrator and Photoshop Let me play devil s advocate briefly maybe it s not that important for publishing applications to bring more functions in house If you ve got a professional system with lots of RAM it s not a big deal to keep several applications running Maybe integration is all that s needed Working for a magazine I exit QuarkXPress most often to use Photoshop not Ilustrator And integrating Photoshop is a problem for Quark because Adobe owns Photoshop and it s ubiqui tous If K2 pans out it ll certainly up the ante at the high end And we won t have to settle for merely OK upgrades from anyone we ll experience publishing rapture QuarkXPress 4 0 retails for around 1100 Upgrades are available only from Quark for 300 US call 307 772 7100 The 4 02r1 update can be obtained at www quark com graphic exchange april may 1998 6I
4. into the floating Style Sheets palette along with paragraph styles But like in dividually altered selections in version 3 you ll wipe out Character Style text formatting if you click the No Style para graph option The Style Sheets dialogue enables you to veri fy sheets currently in use And the Append dialogue now lets you select only the styles you want from another file QuarkXPress 4 lets you search and replace style sheets using a dramatically enhanced Find Change palette Search parameters can include text and or attributes including font size and type style But the palette still does only Find Next searches there s no Search from Beginning of Docu ment command And to access the attributes you expand the palette by unchecking the Ignore Attributes box which may be the most counter intuitive procedure ever devised LONG DOCUMENT FEATURES Three new features in version 4 are going to cheer up long document publishers considerably indexing auto mated lists and book compiling 60 april may 1998 graphic exchange Index commands reside on a floating palette where highlighted text displays automatically There you can apply styles redefine sequencing for instance placing 1998 un der N and assign the entry to a level within the index So phisticated Scope options enable you to create cross refer ences or specify that your entry covers a number of paragraphs a text selection or all the text prec
5. Immedia which produces proprietary non HTML code making it of zero interest to Web developers The only solution is third party XTensions like BeyondPress and HexWeb But for the price of an HTML XTension plus table XTension you could buy Pagemaker 6 5 with money left over for a really nice restaurant meal Also PageMaker ex ports files in PDF format and ships with Adobe Acrobat Dis tiller Quark so far has released a PDF Export Filter still in alpha version which still requires Distiller Version 3 XTensions for Mac OS if not redundant are still likely to work but check if upgrades that have been op timized for version 4 are available QuarkXPress 4 has been rewritten in 32 bit code for Windows Consequently Win dows XTensions all have to be recompiled and upgraded So if you re using version 3 will you upgrade Sure you will even if QuarkXPress 4 is still nowhere near the Unified Publishing Application we envision With XTensions it still defines the high end in print publishing Because Adobe Pagemaker 6 5 has a lower list price and doesn t require a heavy investment in extensions it s tempt ing if you re buying from scratch But personally I d still go for QuarkXPress 4 Or you could wait for K2 a Quark killer application that is said to be in the works at Adobe Supposedly it s not a revision of Pagemaker but an ob ject oriented application that will integrate into a PDF work flow And it may even
6. S58 april may 1998 R EV E W S PUBLISHING SOFTWARE ia om F EL la E QuarkXPress 4 02 BY PETER DUDAR ASTROPHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING IS LOOKING FOR A UNIFIED theory of everything in the universe On a more down to earth level graphic designers rhapsodize about a Unified Publishing Application Think of it as QuarkXPress Photo shop and Illustrator plus Director and Dreamweaver rolled into one Adobe is moving in this direction by creat ing a common interface for Photoshop Illustrator and Page Maker Problem is PageMaker is no QuarkXPress Since shipping in 1990 QuarkXPress 3 became more UPA like with a vast array of third party XTensions Some of version 4 s 75 plus new features incorporate functions previ ously available as XTensions Other new functions such as b zier tools and clipping paths will be familiar to users of vector applications like Mustrator and Freehand or Photo shop type image editing applications Some have voiced concern about the stability of QuarkXPress 4 and Quark has released four updates since its release Quark s Fix list Windows95 NT Mac OS runs on for several pages and the fixes range from very mi nor to significant Printing and Pictures are the largest prob lem categories However I ran QuarkXPress 4 01r1 and 4 02r1 on a Mac G3 under System 8 1 for several weeks with no crashes And nothing else has gone seriously wrong So I have no com plaints here THE INTERFACE
7. duces six color plates instead of four CMYK plus orange and green and consequently emulates RGB color more effectively You can also install Pantone Open Color Environment POCE XTensions software A Multi Ink option lets you create custom colors by mix ing process and or spot colors in your current palettes PRINT MANAGEMENT Features previously available as QuarkPrint XTensions are now part of version 4 The Print dialogue has been en hanced with tabbed menus Document Setup Output Op tions Preview and Profiles The Output menu lets you over ride halftone values specified in the Edit Color dialogue using Frequency Angle and Function pop up menus The Print dialogue also lets you access separate Printer Setup and Page Setup dialogues You ll still need Page Setup for PostScript options like Unlimited Downloadable Fonts The dialogue enables you to select continuous and non continu ous page ranges Included is Quark s PostScript Error Han dler which indicates where a printing problem originates in your page and identifies the element picture box text box line etc causing it In the Edit menu a Print Styles dia logue lets you edit import and export reusable styles Font Usage and Picture Usage options are now com bined in a tabbed box with a More Information check box More Information provides the PostScript name file name font type and version number for a selected font it provides the full path file size mod
8. econfigured Modify dialogue with a photo for instance calls up these tabbed menus Box Picture Frame Run around and Clipping Modify Command M or CTRL M is now the Swiss Army knife of Quark commands The Frame Runaround and Clipping commands produce the Modify box with the relevant tab selected And text oriented com mands such as Leading Formats Tabs and Rules open the Paragraph Attributes box in similar fashion T The tool palette has A Ei k T a AE pop out selections a added to A The Get Picture dialogue now provides color info di mensions resolution size date and time for any file you highlight in its menu DCS 2 0 EPS JPEG Photo CD PICT and TIFF formats are supported And you can get pictures or multiple select with either the Content or Item tool You can now Apply all procedures before closing dia logue boxes So adjusting a bit of type with Baseline Shift for instance no longer requires going back to the dialogue box over and over And QuarkXPress now has one user manual instead of the awkward two book system Using QuarkXPress and Ref erence Manual that shipped with version 3 been subtly enhanced with existing tools and new icons for b zier and text path tools BEZIERTOOLS B zier procedures in QuarkXPress 4 are a quick study since they correspond more or less to those in Mustrator and Photoshop type applications Text boxes can now be defin
9. ed with a click and drag pen tool or freehand drawing tool same with picture boxes and lines As with other ap plications you can manipulate curve handles or points as you draw by using keyboard commands plus you can alter points and line segments afterward using icons in the mea surements palette And your boxes or lines even if non rec tangular can be anchored to flow with text In QuarkXPress 4 a box is not immutably a box The Item menu has two conversion submenus Shape and Con tent Shape commands let you convert item shapes or types For instance you can change a rectangle into a line or change an ordinary line into a b zier line A text box is not irreversibly a text box Content com mands let you convert text boxes into picture boxes and vice versa Also ordinary lines can be made into text paths Another conversion command Text to Box Style menu is particularly amusing It enables you to convert words into b zier outlined picture boxes then place pictures within the text outlines You can get dramatic or tasteless results by combining conversion commands with other functions For instance an oval text box could be converted into a b zier line item gt Shape the text now runs along the outside of the oval You then flip the text Modify gt Text Path and it now runs along the inside of the oval Or if you ve converted text into a picture box Style gt Text to Box you could change it back i
10. eding a spe cific style sheet Since the Index XTension is not activated when you in stall QuarkXPress 4 you need to access Utilities gt XTensions Manager to enable it Also turn on the CMS XTension if you intend to use color management features If you start overloading on XTensions the new Manager lets you create custom sets Like Style Sheets you set up Lists using the Edit menu which makes sense since Lists are groups of paragraph style sheets To create a table of contents you could specify a list comprised of a Chapter Name style sheet and a Section Name style sheet You would then redefine how a style sheet entry in your list outputs to the table of contents with yet another style sheet A floating palette displays all the text associated with listed style sheets Producing tables or any other kind of list with the palette is very simple just make a text box and click Build In QuarkXPress 3 the only means of manipulating auto page numbers was the Section command It worked only on single files and numbering was all it did A QuarkXPress 4 Book is a set of sequentially numbered files that use the same style sheets colors H amp J s lists and custom lines And a Book can be stored in a shared loca tion so multiple users can access and edit its files chap ters When you create a new Book File gt New gt Book a floating palette appears To input a chapter you just click a button and browse Though the parame
11. hem proportionally or include line weights pictures and text in the resizing But despite the move to make QuarkXPress a graphics contender Quark has neglected to upgrade the application s simple gradients And two tools that you find everywhere else just aren t here a layer management palette and a soft shadow creator You still have to Command Option Shift click Mac or CTRL Option Shift click Windows to select stacked items or re order them with Send to Back and Bring to Front commands it s still primitive Uf you re not al ready using them you might want to check out the third party XTensions XPert Layers or Layer It As far as soft shadows are concerned you ll need to get or re install Shadowcaster or Extensis QX Effects Or exit to Photoshop A major time waster for page de signers is creating graphics in outside applications import ing them and then going back and forth between applica tions making adjustments out of context Adding sophisticated graphics tools to version 4 was supposed to minimize that Well at least the XTension makers are still out there to bring Quark s intention closer to fulfillment CLIPPING PATHS Quarks new Clipping dialogue generates several types of paths Picture Bounds creates a path based on the rectan gular boundary of the imported file Embedded Path dupli cates a picture embedded path drawn in Photoshop Alpha Channel creates a path based on an alpha channel built into
12. ification date dimensions and color depth for a picture If you re sending files to version 3 users you can save them in 3 3 format but certain version 4 elements will not be retained Character sheets are deleted but the text for matting survives B zier effects of course are not retained Installing QuarkXPress 4 requires a CD ROM and two floppy disks an Installer Disk and a User Registration Disk that you later mail to Quark Apparently this strange procedure is supposed to cut down on illegal copying Be cause of it PowerBook owners can t install QuarkXPress 4 without an external CD ROM drive STILL MISSING Pagemaker users criticize QuarkXPress for not being up to par in text composition Since the application composes text one line at a time without referring to other lines it can R EV ee ee S end up producing successively loose and tight lines of text So type color is inconsistent on the page Beyond the inclu sion of a new hyphenation dictionary nothing has been done about text aesthetics QuarkXPress 4 still has no table editing controls Quark advises picking up an XTension like Tableworks or Entable Others point out that QuarkXPress competitors don t re quire pricey extensions since they all create and edit tables in house QuarkXPress 4 is the only major publishing application with no Web export capabilities I find that incomprehensi ble One theory is that Quark is trying to make us buy Quark
13. nto a word shaped text box Item gt Content gt Text and input copy within the letters Creating b zier text paths is so easy I pray they won t turn up in every new QuarkXPress document You just draw a line with the text path tool and add the words The Modify dialogue box provides style options The Item menu now has complementary Merge and Split submenus Merge includes I ustrator like commands such as Intersection and Difference The Union command merges overlapping items and also works on non overlapping items making them behave like a single entity Join End points unites adjacent b zier lines or text paths The Split submenu enables you to separate a multiple path box into its constituents For instance a word that has been converted into a single b zier outlined picture box can be split into boxes made of single letters Importing custom lines into QuarkXPress 3 and then ap plying them as pictures was annoying Version 4 s Dashes and Stripes dialogue lets you generate all sorts of single and mul tiple line variations using graphic sliders and numerical en try boxes You can duplicate and edit existing lines or append lines from other files Once saved they can be accessed in the measurements palette or within frame dialogues Group bounding boxes now have draggable handles so you can simul gt i b zier outlined picture taneously resize multiple items As with single items you use modifier keys to scale t
14. ters reside in a sep arate Book file this first chapter is the master for all that follow So if you make a style sheet in a non master file and decide to use it throughout the Book you first append it in the master file Then you click the palette s Synchro nize button applying it to all the chapters The Book palette automatically renumbers your pages as you add chapters and you can change the sequencing of your files using arrow buttons It seems strange but the Book palette isn t accessed in the View menu like other palettes it relates to the Book file not what s onscreen So if you close the palette you have to re open it using the File menu COLOR MANAGEMENT EfiColor is now out Kodak is in QuarkXPress 4 now uses device independent ICC based International Color Consortium color management provided with CMS QuarkXTensions software Kodak CMM Kodak PRECISION and ColorSync color management system files are installed on Macs Kodak Digital Science color management system files are installed on Windows Version 4 s Color Management Preferences dialogue box lets you select device profiles from Monitor Composite Printer and Separation Printer pop up menus Then when you import visuals profiles become available in the Get Pic ture dialogue box A Profile Information palette can also be called up to switch profiles for visuals already on the page QuarkXPress 4 supports Pantone Hexachrome color a system that pro
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