Duplica User's Guide and Tips
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1. with the high resolution version of the image retaining the settings of the low resolution image A low resolution picture placed for position only continues 12 Copying and Pasting with Duplica Select the low resolution picture with the Contents tool and choose Copy Picture Attributes to Clipboard Paste Next Paste Duplicate SD i Step and Repeat Picture Attributes Clone Box Attributes This example assumes that the dimensions of both the low and high resolution Page Attributes pictures are the same When the dialog shows up click the All button to check every possible picture attribute Copy Picture Attributes Picture Geometry Miscellaneous a Offset bj Angle bj Flipping jf Scale ef Skew ba Suppression Picture Style a Negative lf Color ki Halftone lf Shade Duplica Tip Now import the high resolution picture into the picture box Every Duplica attribute n dialog has the buttons All and None Clicking All will select all the possible attributes clicking None will deselect them all Note that in order to OK a dialog at least one check With the picture still selected choose Paste or Command V button must be cherked 13 Badia Duplica XT Copying and Pasting Box Attributes Duplica allows you to copy and paste a variety of attributes for all kinds of boxes including anchored boxes When a box is selected either with2. 22 997 15 380 Continue selecting the remaining items in the column and choose Paste or Command V until you reach the last line 1997 1996 1995 12 827 4 000 15 992 33 508 33 980 35 909 11 822 8 679 7 202 3 154 1 433 724 15 380 7 965 2 046 72 294 49 599 22 997 E en EE E E E EE E E ee E EEE E E E E E EEEE Duplica Tip Duplica remembers the buttons that you checked after closing a dialog Next time you perform a copy operation those options will be checked by default Click the None button if you want to start over P A E I At this point you may be asking yourself Is Duplica a replacement for XPress paragraph and character i style sheets The answer is of course no Duplica was created to complement XPress style sheets not to replace them You should use style sheets as much as possible because they help make the document more consistent in style and it s a breeze to make global document changes However there are lots of cases in which style sheets may not be the final answer when creating an ad for example in which several styles may be used but each appears only once or twice Or when you want to copy only paragraph rules from one paragraph to another Creating a style sheet with rules only is impossible you have to specify all the other paragraph settings as well And of course let s face it we all begin creating style sheets religiously
3. Copying and Pasting Character Attributes to Clipboard aC If you select a character or group of characters Unstyled Text you will be able to duplicate their attributes and Next Paste dii Character Attributes p Paragraph Attributes Clone Again step and Repeat Choosing Copy Character Attributes brings up Clone NT this dialog Copy Character Attributes Character Style Character Geometry a Font L Color Size Track L Type Style C Shade 4Scale L Baseline Shift paste them into other sections of the document Page Attributes You can select any combination of these attributes by checking or unchecking their respective check buttons Only the attributes that you choose will be copied and duplicated when you perform Paste Duplica Tip later on in other parts of the document Every Duplica attribute dialog has the buttons All If you select text that has different instances of the same attribute for and None Clicking All example the color attribute but different colors that attribute will select all the possible will be dimmed telling you that you cannot copy it In the following attributes clicking None will deselect them all Note that in order to OK a dialog at least one check Copy Character Attributes button must be checked Character Style Character Geometry Track jf Type Style C Shade 4Scale L Baseline Shift example the selection contains different instances of
4. and all applicable affiliated companies Mac OS is a trademark or Apple Computer Inc All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners Badia Duplica XT Copyright 1998 by Badia Software All Rights Reserved Portions Copyrighted 1988 1998 Quark Technology Partnership All Rights Reserved Badia Duplica XT is for use with Mac OS QuarkXPress version 4 03 or higher for the English language and can only be used with a valid registered copy of QuarkXPress Liability Badia Duplica XT software is distributed on an As Is basis without warranties or guaranties of any kind Badia Software shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by use of the software Credits Original idea and development Dario Badia Quality Assurance Nigel Allen Beta testing Achille Lombardi Sylvia Schlittke The following disclaimer is required by Quark Inc QUARK INC MAKES NO WARRANTIES EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REGARDING THE ENCLOSED SOFTWARE PACKAGE ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE QUARK DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE ENCLOSED SOFTWARE PACKAGE ALL OTHER WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WHETHER EXPRESS IMPLIED COLLATERAL MADE BY THE DISTRIBUTORS RETAILERS OR DEVELOPERS OF THE ENCLOSED SOFTWARE ARE DISCLAIMED BY QUARK INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NON INFRINGEMENT COMPATIBILITY OR THAT THE SOFTWARE I
5. 0 5 pt In the Clone dialog box we only enter the Width and Height fields adding a 6pt offset for each of the 10 steps and we paste every cloned item behind the previous one Boundary Offsets Across Down Width Height a Paste Behind Y L Group If we clone the same box with those settings but add a Corner Radius offset of 3pt we get this Geometry Offsets Angle Skew Corner Radius p3 Frame Width O pt continues Original box to be cloned Duplica Tip Duplica s pop up menu also conveniently contains XPress s Step and Repeat menu item 32 Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica If instead of 3pt we use 3pt Geometry Offsets Angle And with 1p Geometry Offsets Angle Skew Corner Radius ip Frame Width O pt Finally the following snapshot shows the same box cloned 20 times with no Corner Radius offset and a Frame Shade offset of 5 Shade Offsets Copies 33 bm Paste Behind L Group Duplica Tip Duplica clones as many items as t can even if some of them fall outside the pasteboard area or another kind of error is generated for some items Count CONDS Badia Duplica XT Example 2 Creating a B zier line with a 3D effect We are going to use Duplica s Clone feature to create a realistic 3D effect with a B zier line First we begin by painting the following 1pt B zier line with a 0
6. are also duplicated Points B zier boxes only The B zier points that make up the actual B zier box Note that in most cases you will select this attribute along with the Shape attribute to guarantee that the box is converted 15 QuarkXPress Tip When placing and modify ing boxes you can always use the arithmetic operands add subtract multiply and divide in any of the box coordi nate fields For example if you want to make a box 3 times larger your could multiply the W and H fields by 3 using the operand fo 4 16p4 WiZp9i FA Y 18p2 H 2p3 3 _ OOUOOL The Shape attribute refers to any of these box shapes Badia Duplica XT to a B zier box That is if you paste the Points attribute of a B zier box into a rectangular box without pasting the Shape attribute nothing will happen because a rectangular box cannot contain B zier points you must change its shape first Columns Text boxes only The number of Columns A i Duplica Tip _ Gutter Text boxes only The Gutter Width between columns Text Inset Text boxes only The Text Inset offset Text Angle Text boxes only The Text Angle L Frame Text Skew Text boxes only The Text Skew First Baseline Text boxes only The First Baseline settings includ ing Minimum and Offset Vertical Align Text boxes only The Vertical Alignment settings including Type and Inter Y Max E Around All Sides Text
7. but after a document gets revised and edited and the client wants to see a proof right away you may end up having text here and there that has no style sheets applied Or you may have hundreds of style sheets with names like caption 1 caption new Those are the cases in which Duplica comes in handy a quick way to duplicate the type settings from one place to another More importantly Duplica expands this concept beyond character and paragraph settings to include picture box line and page attributes something that is not possible using XPress style sheets We will explain this later kk i a nm c kit A Copying and Pasting with Duplica Copying and Pasting Paragraph Attributes When a paragraph or group of paragraphs is selected choosing Copy Paragraph Attributes brings up this dialog Copy Paragraph Attributes Paragraph Formats Rules amp Tabs L Left Indent C Rule Above Tab Stops O First Line O Rule Below Right Indent LI Rig Miscellaneous Ol Alignment Lines Together O Space Before O H amp J O Keep with Next L Space After LC Drop Caps LC Lock to Grid Leading If you select several paragraphs some of the attributes may be greyed out indicating that there are different instances of that attribute Also if the selection contains no tab stops the Tab Stops Duplica Tip attribute will be disabled You can undo and redo paste paragraph operations List of Paragraph Attribute
8. converted to box Style gt Text to Box Copy these box attributes using Duplica Width Height Shape Points and Color ep 5 Select the grouped dots and choose Paste continues 23 a t Saat Badia Duplica XT Fri e 000 eo oe 0 0 000000 We can now copy the line s style and apply it to the remaining lines Select Copy Line Attributes with these settings Copy Line Attributes Line Boundaries Line Geometry L Angle ki Shape _ Skew lf Points Miscellaneous style Color O Origin Down be Line Width ef Shade FA Width LI Gap Height Suppression ef Text Path Origin Across Cancel Note that we are also copying the line s boundary Width if you don t specify this attribute all the lines will retain their existing width which means that the B zier points will all be located at the same vertical position To finish select the remaining lines and choose Paste oo o o o i eeeeee e eo oso 0 o ooo o 0 0 0 e 0 e e e 0 e e e 0 e 0 08 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 08 Duplica Tip shift control You can also access any of ha ii Duplica s menus by pressing the Shift and Control keys and clicking anywhere in a document Copying and Pasting with Duplica Copying and Pasting Page Attributes Duplica even allows you to copy and paste horizontal and vertical guides These now become page attributes With any document open you can choose Copy Page Attrib
9. field A Rotate Around Point Point Across Point Down 20p Angle Step 45 Duplica Tip You can use any of In this case the rotation point is 7p across from the left side of the the incremental offsets page and 20p down from the top of the page and each item will be simultaneously as you wadai around i rotate an item around a point The rotation always takes place from the center of the item to the rotation point l Original box Rotation point i i Specifying Copies To specify the number of copies that you want to make enter Copies a number from 1 to 999 in the Count field There are also Count two check buttons that you can set on and off if you check E Paste Behind FA Group the Paste Behind button each cloned copy will be placed behind the previous one or on top of the previous one if you Specifying number of clone copies as well as Paste uncheck it checking the Group button will group all the cloned copies Behind and Croup seinas except the original otherwise they will remain ungrouped 30 Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica Cloning Zero Copies As a bonus you can also enter 0 zero in the Count field of the Clone dialog You may have already guessed what this does it will modify the original item with the offsets and or rotation that you specified without creating any clone Here s a case in which you may find this feature useful let s suppose tha
10. shade of blue Line Shade fer Im Now we create a new dash Edit gt Dashes amp Stripes that has a rounded endcap and use it for the Style of our line Item gt Modify gt Style Dash Attributes Repeats Every 5 cr Miter Endcap 47 Co L tretch to Corners Next we use Duplica s Clone with these settings Boundary Offsets Shade Offsets Across Item im gt Down aan Width Height C Rotate Around Point Geometry Offsets Angle Skew Line Width Q Wwf Paste Behind 4 Group Clear All Cancel 34 Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica Because our original line had 0 shade and a width of 1pt in each step the cloned lines will have 1 2 3 99 shade of blue and a width of 1 25pt 1 5pt 1 75pt 25 75pt respectively Here s the final result Example 3 Rotating and cloning single items to create circular frames and complex symmetrical shapes In this example we are going to rotate simple shapes with Duplica to create circular frames and complex shapes We begin by placing two guides in the position of the rotation point a vertical guide located at 3 5 across and a horizontal guide at 4 La Duplica Tip _ ___ down We place the object that we are going to rotate centered on i The rotation always takes the horizontal rule in this case a triangle bio ener he item to the rotation point Rotation point We are going to rota
11. the Item or Content tool you can choose Copy Box Attributes The following dialog appears Copy Box Attributes Box Boundaries Text Flow lf Origin Across C Width Columns L First Baseline Origin Down Height L Gutter Yertical Align ce a O Text Inset Around All Sides Text Angle C Flipping Add Width to Origin Across LI Text Skew Box Geometry C Angle Miscellaneous C Skew L Color Blend L Corner Radius C Shade C Suppression You can copy box attributes only when a single box is selected not a group of boxes However you can paste box attributes into a single or group of boxes When you paste a certain box attribute with Duplica all the other attributes that you are not pasting remain unchanged For example if you paste only the Angle attribute the across and down offsets of o Duplica Tip When you Paste a certain the box will still be the same before after box attribute with Duplica all the other attributes that you are not pasting remain unchanged We copied the Angle attribute from the box on the left and pasted it onto the picture box Note that the X and Y coordinates of the picture box remain the same only its angle has changed 14 Copying and Pasting with Duplica List of Box Attributes Origin Across The box Origin Across measured from the left side of the page not the spread This is an absolute value independent of the ruler origin locat
12. Badia Duplica XT Version 1 0 Powerful X Tensions software for copying pasting and duplicating attributes and items in QuarkXPress 4 User s Guide and Tips ha x badia Mac OS software Badia Duplica XT Powerful XTensions software for copying pasting and duplicating attributes and items in QuarkXPress 4 Version 1 0 User s Guide and Tips badia software Badia Duplica XT User s Guide and Tips Copyright 1998 by Badia Software All Rights Reserved No part of this book including design may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means electronic photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Badia Software Liability The information in this book is distributed on an As Is basis without warranties or guaranties of any kind While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book Badia Software shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software described in it Credits Contents design and typesetting Dario Badia Editing Ian Scott Trademarks Quark QuarkXPress QuarkXTensions and XTensions are trademarks of Quark Inc and all applicable affiliated companies Reg U S Pat amp Tm Off and in many other countries The Quark logo and the XTensions logo are trademarks of Quark Inc
13. EBE SSN 2 4500 i po i 4000 i SONT RM 2500 a 3000 O O e 2500 io Gi PP PE PPOO fpem i Duplica Tip 2000 i When you copy the Shape ae eee eee eee ee A ee attribute of a box with Bae E E I i I E E corner radius like rounded corner or beveled corner remember to check Corner Radius as well a 4500 4000 3500 3000 i 2500 i 2000 1500 1000 BOC A AO Note that if you change your mind and decide to create a different design you can change just one of the bars copy its box attributes and paste them into the remaining boxes E 19 Badia Duplica XT Copying and Pasting Line Attributes In many ways lines behave much like boxes For this reason you will see that copying and pasting line attributes is similar to copying and pasting box attributes As with boxes you can copy attributes only when a single line is selected not a group of lines However you can paste attributes into single or grouped lines When you select any kind of line including anchored lines with the Item or Content tools you can perform Copy Line Attributes This dialog appears Copy Line Attributes Line Boundaries C Shape C Points Miscellaneous L Style O Line Width Arrowheads Wi Origin Across Origin Down C Width C Height Suppression a A Duplica Tip For regular and orthogonal lines the first point refers to the point that was created wh
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15. al lines First select the top horizontal line and choose Copy Line Attributes Check only First Point Down Line Boundaries First Point Across 3 First Point Down C Last Point Across 22 Now select all the vertical rules at once and choose Paste or Command V Next Paste r ec lt Duplicate D Step and Repeat Clone Next select the bottom horizontal line and choose Copy Line Attributes Check only Last Point Down Select all the vertical rules again and choose Paste Example 2 Working with line shapes In this example we are going to create a line design copy its attrib utes and paste them into a group of lines Let s suppose you have the following design n qe l We will modify one of the line s design by adding some segments and changing its Style Width Color Shade and Text Path settings Copying and Pasting with Duplica Duplica Tip Here s an easy way to draw an object along a path 1 Begin by drawing the path 2 Create a new dotted dash with gaps that resemble the spacing between the objects in the path and paint the line with that style adjust ing its width eee 3 Select the line and con vert it to a B zier box Item gt Shape gt B zier box Split the outside paths Item gt Split gt Outside Paths and group the result esse A ae i 4 Paint the object that you want to use We used a Zapf Dingbats character
16. all the vertical guides Option click the vertical ruler Make sure that the page touches the top left corner of the document window You can do the same for spread guides but clicking on an area of the rulers that touches the pasteboard QA The current page Colors HF i H amp ls H Lists Dashes amp Stripes Print Styles Next Paste The Next Paste submenu under the Edit menu Badia Duplica XT For example let s suppose that you copy some text to the Clipboard The Next Paste becomes Paste the Contents of the Clipboard If you copy Character Attributes later on the Next Paste becomes Paste Character Attributes If you check the Next Paste submenu it should look like this Duplica Tip You can still paste box Copy Paste Next Paste from Clipboard Duplicate Step and Repeat Character Attributes Clone not the lines The same is attributes into a group that contains boxes and lines the attributes will be past ed only onto the boxes true for pasting line attrib utes into a group that contains boxes as well the attributes will be pasted only onto the lines Note that there is a checkmark beside Character Attributes this tells you that the next time you perform a Paste operation by choosing Paste or Command V the character attributes that you copied pre viously will be pasted not the contents of the Clipb
17. area where you are pasting them You can do this now with Duplica select the text to Clipboard whose characters you want to copy and choose Paste E Unstyled Text Copy Unstyled Text Locate the place where you Next Paste Character Attributes Paragraph Attributes want to place it select Paste or Command V Duplicate D e Step and Repeat The pasted text now has the attributes of the new Fiane AA insertion point Page Attributes Remember that the contents of the Clipboard are not altered when you copy unstyled text As well you can always undo and redo the paste operation Note You can copy and replace up to 50 000 characters at once If you try to copy more only the first 50 000 characters will be copied E Copying and Pasting Picture Attributes Duplica allows you to copy and paste picture attributes much the same way you can copy and paste character and paragraph attributes For example the Offset and the Color of a picture are picture attributes Duplica Ti Lupuca lip Choosing Copy Paragraph Attributes brings up this dialog You can either use Duplica s pop up menu Copy Picture Attributes or Edit gt Copy gt Picture Geometry Miscellaneous Picture Attributes Wwf Offset C Angle C Flipping Wi Scale Skew Suppression Picture Style C Negative Color Halftone C Shade dl Badia Duplica XT You can copy picture attributes only when a picture box is s
18. attributes into a group of boxes or lines or both This operation cannot be undone Save your document first or experiment with just one item if you are not sure about the final results One or more cloned items cannot be pasted because they are off the pasteboard Some items can not be cloned during the clone operation because they fall outside the pasteboard area However Duplica clones as many items as it can One or more attributes cannot be pasted because An error occurs while attempting to paste an attribute Some attrib utes may be applied since Duplica stops only when QuarkXPress reports an error One or more attributes cannot be pasted because errors occurred including Errors occurred while attempting to paste attributes in a multiple item selection and the last of those errors is displayed Duplica pasted as many attributes as it could with the rest of the items Cannot paste the attribute Color because the color does not exist in this document You are attempting to paste the Color attribute of a color name that no longer exists Duplica will not paste this attribute Badia Duplica XT cannot be used with this version of QuarkXPress Duplica can only be used with QuarkXPress 4 03 or higher for Power Macintosh Too many copies of Badia Duplica XT with serial number are already running You cannot use a copy of Badia Duplica with the same serial number in more than one computer at once Some QuarkXPre
19. boxes only The Run Text Around All Sides status most after Flipping Text boxes only The Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical text settings By copying the Shape and Points attributes from Color The box background Color the box at top you can Shade The box background Shade duplicate the actual look of a box from one box Blend The box Blend settings including Style Angle Color and ante Notaalenthat Shade This is actually the second color used for a blend so make the width and height of sure that you also copy the Color and Shade attributes for the the modified box remain first color to reproduce the complete blend unchanged Suppression The box Suppress Printout Note The current version of Badia Duplica does not support copy ing and pasting the Runaround box attribute E Examples Example 1 Placing a box precisely below the last baseline of another box Let s suppose you want to place the top of a box exactly at the base line of the last line of type of another box QuarkXpress does not allow you to determine directly the coordinate of the baseline of the 16 Copying and Pasting with Duplica last line in a box If you know the position of the first line baseline you can figure this out by counting the number of lines multiplied by the leading amount This can sometimes be cumbersome yet you can do this easily with Duplica Create a small transparent box with no contents Item gt Con
20. ca Integrates with QuarkXPress At Badia Software we believe that integration with QuarkXPress is a crucial part in the development of an XTension For starters Duplica can Undo and Redo paste and clone operations just the way you expect it to with no hidden surprises Most of the commercial XTensions available today don t give you the opportunity to undo the XTension operation you just performed You are forced to save the document first just in case you are not satisfied with the results Others have an Eraser or similar tool but may behave awkwardly and there are always cases in which you cannot use the tool or in which the results are unpredictable Duplica takes a simple and straightforward approach it makes it feel as if it s just another QuarkXPress command that has been performed Just press Command Z or select Undo from the Edit menu Press Command Z or select Redo from the Edit menu to redo the opera tion again Duplica also makes your QuarkXPress experience easier by offering for the first time a contextual pop up menu that shows up when you hold the Shift and Control keys and click anywhere in a document A box cloned 4 times with Width Height and Angle incremental offsets Undo Cloning ded Unlike other commercial XTensions Badia Duplica can undo and redo paste and clone operations just the way you expect it to with no hidden surprises control ha Pressing the Shif
21. each of the attributes Font Color and Size You cannot copy the Font Color and Size attributes because the selection contains different instances of each of those attributes Badia Duplica XT Duplica offers an easygoing approach when there are conflicting attributes it lets you copy and paste as many attributes as it can Other commercial XTensions do not allow you to copy at all or they give you a message punishing you for what you have just selected List of Character Attributes Font The characters Font You can paste this attribute even after the font is no longer available in your system though a substitute font will be used Type Style The characters Type Style such as Bold Underline etc Note that overriding a type style with the same style will toggle the style on and off For example if you paste the Italic style into text that already has Italic applied you will be converting the text back to Roman Color The characters Color You cannot paste this attribute if the color no longer exists in the document after it gets copied for example if you delete the color or switch to a document that does not contain the color Shade The characters Shade Size The characters Size Scale The Horizontal or Vertical but not both characters Scale percentage Track The characters Track Note that you can even copy this attribute if the selection contains only an insertion po
22. elected with the Contents tool and the box contains a picture However you can paste picture attributes even if the picture box is empty List of Picture Attributes Offset The picture Offset Across and Offset Down within the picture box Scale The picture Scale Across and Scale Down Angle The picture Angle QuarkXPress Tip _ Skew The picture Skew When using Get Picture to import a TIFF image if you Negative The picture Negative setting Only available if the picture hoidihe E kymi ce format allows this control Open a color TIFF image l l l will be imported as a gray Halftone The picture Halftone settings including Frequence i scale image and a gray Angle and Function Only available if the picture format allows scale image will be imported this control as a bitmap image Color The picture Color Only available if the picture format allows this control Shade The picture Shade Only available if the picture format allows this control Flipping The picture Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical Suppression The Suppress Picture Printout status Note The current version of Badia Duplica does not support copying and pasting the Contrast or Clipping picture attributes M Example Replacing a low resolution picture with a high resolution picture retaining the settings and cropping Let s suppose you have a low resolution picture that you have cropped and scaled for position only You now want to replace it
23. en you started dragging the mouse to build the line and the last point is the one you Point and Last Point attributes are only available for regular or created after you finished Depending on the line shape regular orthogonal or B zier you will see that certain options are not available For example First orthogonal lines whereas Angle Skew and Point are only available dragging for B zier lines Remember also that when you paste a certain line attribute with Duplica all the other attributes that you are not pasting remain unchanged List of Line Attributes First Point Across Regular and orthogonal lines only The coordi nate across of the first point of the line First Across measured from the left side of the page not the spread This is an absolute 20 Copying and Pasting with Duplica value independent of the ruler origin location You can even copy and paste this attribute with anchored lines First Point Down Regular and orthogonal lines only The coor dinate down of the first point of the line First Down measured from the top side of the page not the spread This is an absolute value independent of the ruler origin location You can even copy and paste this attribute with anchored lines Last Point Across Regular and orthogonal lines only The coor dinate across of the last point of the line Last Across measured from the left side of the page not the spread This is an absol
24. er Attributes or Box Attributes because you can t paste them anyway at that point However this does not mean that any of the clipboard contents are erased just select any box or text and those options will be available again 27 Duplica Ti If you copy something to the Clipboard from a different application and you want to paste it into a QuarkXPress document make sure that you select from Clipboard in the Next Paste submenu Duplica Tip The contents of Duplica s clipboards remain available even after you close or change documents Badia Duplica XT 3 Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica You can clone any kind of box or line using Duplica s powerful Clone feature Cloning an item is similar to using XPress s Step and Repeat command but Duplica allows you to specify several other attribute offsets that can change with each duplication You can cre ate up to 999 copies with one single clone operation With an item selected with the Content or Item tools choose Clone from the Item menu or use Duplica s pop up menu The following dialog appears T a 2 gt ro t i Across Down Width Height a ro a rn a a ro LA Angle Skew Corner Radius Frame Width 0 pt di Paste Behind 4 Group Clear All This dialog allows you to enter values for different item attribute incremental offsets An item attribute incremental offset is the value that w
25. es this is the Frame Width incre ment for lines this is the Line Width increment Shade For boxes this is the background Shade increment for lines it s the line Shade increment Frame Boxes only The box frame Shade increment Note Shade offsets are only available for items with a color other than None E Rotating an Item Around a Point A unique Duplica feature allows you to rotate and clone an item around a point within a page in much the same way illustration programs do You can use any of the previously described incremen tal offsets simultaneously with each cloned item rotation 29 Duplica Tip After cloning an item the Duplicate menu item under the Item menu changes to Clone Again If you use XPress s Step and Repeat command Clone Again switches back to Duplicate The keyboard command is always 96 D Duplica Tip You can undo and redo clone operations by simply pressing 38 Z or from the menu Edit gt Undo Redo Cloning Badia Duplica XT The rotation will take place around the Rotation Point within the page You specify the rotation point by entering the values in the Point Across and Point Down fields These values are measured from the edge of the page independent of the location of the ruler origin With each step you also have to specify the angle that will be used to rotate the cloned item in relation to the previous one You do this by entering a value in the Angle Step
26. g with Duplica Copying and Pasting Character Attributes List of Character Attributes Example Copying and Pasting Paragraph Attributes List of Paragraph Attributes Example Copying and Pasting Unstyled Text Copying and Pasting Picture Attributes List of Picture Attributes Example Copying and Pasting Box Attributes List of Box Attributes Examples Copying and Pasting Line Attributes List of Line Attributes Examples Copying and Pasting Page Attributes Using Next Paste Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica Specifying Incremental Offsets Rotating an Item Around a Point Specifying Copies Cloning Zero Copies Examples Appendix Warnings and Error Messages N a O ON NW A UW 11 11 12 12 14 15 16 20 20 22 25 25 28 29 29 30 31 32 39 Introduction 1 Introduction Badia Duplica is an XTension for Mac OS QuarkXPress 4 0 that expands the functions of copying pasting and duplicating attributes and items allowing you to e copy almost any kind of attribute applied not only to characters and paragraphs but pictures boxes lines and pages as well and paste them into other parts of the same or another document without altering the contents of the Clipboard e copy unstyled text text without character or paragraph attributes and paste it elsewhere applying the text attributes of the new An attribute is a charac teristic that defines and insertion point changes the way text e c
27. he same story you could use the keyboard command Option Shift Click to copy the tabs but this also copies all the other paragraph settings including rules etc Duplica allows you to copy and paste only the tabs from a story or document and paste them somewhere else Place the cursor any where in the paragraph whose tabs you wish to copy and select Copy Paragraph Attributes When the dialog shows up check only Tab Stops Rules amp Tabs C Rule Above Tab Stops L Rule Below Now insert the cursor anywhere in the paragraph in which you want to place the tabs or select a group of paragraphs and choose Paste That s it All the tab settings will be pasted E 10 QuarkXPress Tip The document s View percentage determines the number of decimals used when placing and modifying XPress tabs manually rather than mathemati cally For example with pica units at 100 view scale you can move tabs with 1pt increments at 200 5pt increments at 300 333pt increments at 400 25pt increments and at 800 125pt incre ments Any other irregular percentage view will result in useless decimals Copying and Pasting with Duplica Copying and Pasting Unstyled Text In QuarkXPress if you copy text and then paste it somewhere else its attributes also get pasted Though this can be handy in certain cases there are times when you wish you could copy only the characters and apply the attributes already in use in the
28. ill be added or subtracted from the previous attribute value to generate the new cloned item For example cloning a box that has a 1pt frame with a Frame Width offset of 1pt means that the frame will increase 1pt with each duplication resulting in cloned boxes with 2pt 3pt 4pt frame widths Note The current version of Badia Duplica does not allow you to clone grouped items E 28 Shape Content Edit Duplica s Clone menu item under the Item menu Duplica Tip Use the Clear All button to return every field in the Clone dialog to 0 and dis able the Rotate Around Point feature Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica Specifying Incremental Offsets Here s a description of each of the clone incremental offsets Across The offset Across the page This is identical to Step and Repeat s Horizontal Offset Down The offset Down the page This is identical to Step and Repeat s Vertical Offset Width Boxes and B zier lines only The box or B zier line Width increment Height Boxes and B zier lines only The box or B zier line Height increment Width Boxes and B zier lines only The box or B zier line Width increment Angle Boxes and B zier lines only The box or B zier line Angle increment Skew Boxes and B zier lines only The box or B zier line Skew increment Corner Radius Rectangular boxes only The box Corner Radius increment Frame Width Line Width For box
29. int the track will be copied not the kern Baseline Shift The characters Baseline Shift as a percentage of the original type size Note that pasting this attribute into text with different sizes will result in different baseline shifts Example Changing the Color and Font in one column of a table Let s suppose you have the following QuarkXPress table and you want to quickly change the 1997 figures to a bolder font in a different color QuarkXPress Ti When you have to squeeze a line of text to make it fit within a box try not to change the tracking too much since the difference may become obvious Instead change the Hori zontal Scale to say 98 38 Option decreases the scale by 1 and or the Word Space Tracking 38 Option Shift Control decreases the word space by 1 track unit You will need the free Type Tricks XTension to apply word space tracking Duplica Tip _ __ When you copy the Baseline Shift character attribute its value is expressed as a percentage of the selected text type size That percentage is then used when you perform Paste Copying and Pasting with Duplica 1997 1996 1995 12 827 4 000 15 992 33 508 33 980 35 909 11 822 8 679 7 202 3 154 1 433 724 15 380 7 965 2 046 72 294 49 599 22 997 Though you could create a character style sheet there s an even easier and faster way using Duplica s Copy Character Attributes Begin by changing just o
30. ion You can even copy but not paste this attribute with anchored boxes Origin Down The box Origin Down measured from the top of the page not the spread This is an absolute value independent of the ruler origin location You can even copy but not paste this attribute with anchored boxes Width The box Width Height The box Height Add Width to Origin Across This is not an attribute per se When you check this option the box width will be added to the origin across value only available if you check Origin Across first and for boxes with no angle or skew applied Add Height to Origin Down This is not an attribute per se When you check this option the box height will be added to the origin down value only available if you check Origin Down first and for boxes with no angle or skew applied Angle The box Angle Skew The box Skew Corner Radius The box Corner Radius Frame The box Frame settings including Width Style Color Shade and Gap When you Paste this attribute the frame will be drawn inside or outside the box depending on the status of the Framing document preference Edit gt Preferences gt Document gt General gt Framing Shape The box Shape including Rectangle Rounded corner Beveled corner Concave corner Oval and B zier Note that for B zier boxes in most cases you will select this attribute along with the Points attribute to guarantee that the box B zier points
31. lone boxes and lines any number of times and specify not only pictures items and pages in an offset but several of their attributes as well including width ai height angle skew corner radius frame and shade Thes calar e paste cloned copies behind or in front of the previous clone the text are text attributes e clone and rotate boxes and lines around a point within the page whereas the frame and e repeat the last paste or clone action with a single keystroke For the blend color of a box are example if you have to change the font of several non contiguous did words you can just keep pasting the new font attribute that you previously copied By attribute we mean a characteristic that defines and changes the way text pictures items and pages in a document look or behave You are already familiar with several text and paragraph attributes such as font type style and leading Duplica expands the category of attributes further to include picture box line and page attributes Thus with Duplica the scale and offset of a picture are picture attributes the angle and background color of a box are box attrib utes the width and style of a line are line attributes the horizontal and vertical guides are page attributes There are a total of 82 different attributes that you can choose from and combine Copying attributes means that you can retain attributes temporarily from a document element and apply or paste them int
32. ne of the figures into the new font and color in this case 1997 1997 1996 1995 12 827 4 000 15 992 33 508 33 980 35 909 11 822 8 679 7 202 3 154 1 433 724 15 380 7 965 2 046 72 294 49 599 22 997 Hold down the Shift and Control keys to bring up Duplica s pop up menu 1997 1996 1995 to Clipboard IRE Unstyled Text Next Paste Character Attributes Duplicate p Paragraph Attributes Step and Repeat Clone SEL Box Attributes 12 294 49 Page Attributes Select Copy Character Attributes and when the dialog appears check Font and Color Copy Character Attributes Character Style Character Geometry C Size Track Scale L Baseline Shift L Type Style C Shade QuarkXPress Tip Always choose the font weight from the Font menu instead of changing the type style to bold or italic Though this might seem slower it guarantees that the font weight does exist and that it will print cor rectly Also if you are using kerned font sets there may be different values for each of the weight pairs which will not be applied if you use the regular font and then change its type style to bold or italic Badia Duplica XT Now select 12 827 in the next line Choose Paste or press Command V 1997 1996 1995 12 827 4 000 15 992 33 508 35 909 11 822 MICELI 77202 2 046 Duplicate D Step and Repeat 72 294 Clone
33. o other elements later on Duplica does not use the Clipboard to store these attributes instead think of having additional clipboards that maintain related attribute information a clipboard for storing text attributes one for paragraph attributes one for box attributes and so on These attribute clipboards act independently from each other and their contents remain unchanged until you override them Badia Duplica XT by doing a new copy operation or until you quit QuarkXPress In this way you can close and switch documents and still paste the attributes that you copied previously With the Step and Repeat command in QuarkXPress you can dupli cate items specifying an offset for each step With Duplica s Clone command you can specify several other attributes as well that can change in each step width height angle skew corner radius line width item shade frame width and frame shade By using incremental offsets each duplication will add the specified amount to the selected attribute every time a new cloning is performed For example you can clone a box 10 times with an angle offset of 5 each step will not only duplicate the box it will rotate it 5 from the previous one You can also clone an item by rotating it around a point within a page and apply any of those offsets in each rotation As well you can specify whether to paste the cloned copies behind or in front of the previously cloned item How Dupli
34. oard But you should also note that you can now switch back to pasting the contents of the Clipboard Just select Next Paste gt from Clipboard Copy Paste EY Next Paste gt from Clipboard Duplica Ti Duplicate D The Next Paste changes Step and Repeat Clone e Character Attributes automatically every time you perform a new Copy operation After you select from Clipboard a checkmark will appear next to that option Now if you select Paste the contents of the Clipboard will be pasted Let s now copy some box attributes The Next Paste submenu will look like this 26 Copying and Pasting with Duplica Copy Paste Next Paste from Clipboard Duplicate 6 0 Step and Repeat Character Attributes Clone C Box Attributes Box Attributes now become the Next Paste Again you can always switch back to any of the previous clipboards The contents of Duplica s clipboards remain available even after you close or change documents They will be erased however when you quit QuarkXPress except the Mac OS Clipboard Depending on the selection and the status of the clipboards Duplica is smart enough to make available in the Next Paste submenu only the options that you can choose from and it greys out the ones that are not applicable In the previous example if you deselect all the boxes in the document you will now not be able to switch to Charact
35. or Command V Use First Baseline offset to place the first text baseline at a fixed distance under the bottom of the picture box Badia Duplica XT Example 2 Creating a bar chart In this example we are going to create a bar chart and modify its design using Duplica Let s suppose you have the following plain bar chart Duplicate any of the bars and create a more interesting design In this case we added a linear blend and changed its shape from rectangular to rounded corner Perret TTI a a 3000 2 E E f i a 2000 1500 1000 continues 18 Duplica Tip Duplica also helps you ensure consistency across pages For example let s Suppose you want to make several boxes that were placed by eye begin at the same position on differ ent pages Just copy the Origin Across and Origin Down attributes of the model box and then select Paste or 36 V on each of the remaining boxes the boxes will all have the same origin throughout Copying and Pasting with Duplica With that box selected choose Copy Box Attributes and check these options Corner Radius Shape Color Shade and Blend Box Geometry J Angle Skew ef Shape Lf Color E piena gt so e ilk Mm Shade CI Suppression Now select all the bars in the chart and choose Paste or Command V A message will warn you that you will not be able to undo this multiple box paste operation Click OK P
36. plicated Points B zier lines only The B zier points that make up the actual B zier line Note that in most cases you will select this attribute 21 Badia Duplica XT along with the Shape attribute to guarantee that the line is converted to a B zier line That is if you paste the Points attribute of a B zier line into a regular line without pasting the Shape attribute nothing will happen because a regular line cannot contain B zier points you must change its shape first Style The line Style Line Width The line Width Arrowheads The line Arrowheads Duplica Tip Duplica remembers the Suppression The line Suppress Printout buttons that you checked after closing a dialog Next Color The line Color time you perform a Copy Shade The line Shade operation those options will be checked by default Gap The line Gap settings including Color and Shade Click the None button if l you want to start over Text Path Lines with Text Content only The line Text Path settings including Text Orientation Text Alignment and Flip Text Note The current version of Badia Duplica does not support copy ing and pasting the Runaround line attribute E Examples Example 1 Aligning orthogonal lines We ll show you how you can align a group of horizontal and vertical orthogonal lines precisely Suppose you have the following situation a group of vertical lines that need to butt against two horizont
37. s by simply pressing 96 Z or from the menu Edit gt Left Indent The paragraph Left Indent Undo Redo Paste First Indent The paragraph First Indent Right Indent The paragraph Right Indent Leading The paragraph Leading You can copy and paste absolute relative and auto leadings Space Before The paragraph Space Before Space After The paragraph Space After Rule Above The paragraph Rule Above complete settings such as Width Color etc This option will be dimmed if the selection contains several paragraphs with rules above that have conflict ing settings Rule Below The paragraph Rule Below complete settings such as Width Color etc This option will be dimmed if the selection Badia Duplica XT contains several paragraphs with rules above that have conflict ing settings Tab Stops The paragraph Tabs including Position Fill and Align characters Alignment The paragraph Alignment H amp J The paragraph Hyphenation and Justification Drop Caps The paragraph Drop Caps including Character and Line Count Lines Together The paragraph Keep Lines Together including All Lines In J and Start and End counts Keep with Next The paragraph Keep with Next 1 Lock to Grid The paragraph Lock to Baseline Grid Example Copying and pasting tab settings There are plenty of occasions when you want to copy the tab setting from one paragraph to another even from different stories or documents If the paragraph is in t
38. ss menu items may not be available Use the XTensions Manager to disable Badia Duplica and restart QuarkXPress Please contact Badia Software for information on how to purchase a site license for Badia Duplica 39 Badia Software 392 Sherbourne St Suite 802 Toronto Ontario info badiasoftware com Canada M4X 1K3 www badiasoftware com badia software
39. t and Control keys changes the XPress cursor to Duplica s pop up cursor Introduction Duplica s pop up menu appears only when you need it and it gets out of the way when you don t No need to open new floating palettes that clutter your already packed working screen h l l di d Paste ay Note that certain menu items are dimmed as RE RA NRE Duplica shows you all the possible options but Duplicate sep Paragraph Attributes you can select only the ones that are applicable Step and Repeat f Clone Box Attributes to the current selection in the document Page Attributes You won t have to remember any new keyboard commands either Duplica shares common key Duplica integrates seam board commands and menu items with QuarkXPress and adds lessly with QuarkXPress and incorporates the first pop up contextual menu in the history of Quark XTensions just a couple of new menu items Here are the modified Edit and Item menus Item Mio dif Frame Runaround Copy hierarchical submenu to Clipboa Paste CI lah Clone Agai Shared ear one Again are Character Shared Paste Select All Paragraph Step and Repeat Duplicate and menu item Delete Clone Again and keystroke TA menu items and keystroke Show Clipboard Page Attril Find Change a6 F Preferences p Style Sheets Fil Colors iF il H Js 36s H Lists Dashes amp Stripes Send
40. t you want to increase the width of a box from its center until a certain overflow text fits in it Just enter 1pt or any appropriate value in the Width Boundary Offset field 0 5 pt for the left side and 0 5pt for the right side and 0 in the Count field Select Clone Again repeatedly or Command D until the text fits the box A box with overflow text Srown fix e The same box cloned 0 times with a jumps over thex 1pt Width incremental offset n rown fox 3 The same box after pressing D jumps over ther Y rown fox The same box after pressing D jumps over ther b rown fox jump The same box after pressing 86 D over the lazy O TOO fox jumps over i ore La 38 D text fits t i the lazy dog ow the text fits the box See ECC LeeLee Ea The center of the box remained the same in each Clone Again operation en Original box left and right margins Because Duplica applies incremental offsets from the center of the item note that the box center always remains the same in each step Si Duplica Tip You can create up to 999 copies with one single clone operation Duplica Tip The Width Height Angle and Skew incremental off sets are always applied from the center of the item Badia Duplica XT Examples Example 1 Cloning a beveled corner box In this example we are going to clone in several different ways a beveled corner box that has a corner radius of 1p6 and a black frame of
41. te and clone the triangle around the rotation point by 5 with each duplication To cover a complete circle we will need 71 steps 360 5 72 minus 1 because we already have the original triangle Note that this will always keep our triangle pointing to the right so we also need to rotate each copy around its center by 5 35 Badia Duplica XT Geometry Offsets Angle Skew Frame Width 0 pt Clear All Here s the result bm Rotate Around Poit Point Across Point Down Angle Step Copies Count C Paste Behind L Group For our final example we are going to rotate and clone a B zier shape placed at the rotation point to create a more complex shape 36 Duplica Tip To place a cloned item at exactly the same position as the original item open Duplica s Clone dialog and click the Clear All but ton This will reset all the attribute offsets to zero deselect Rotate Around Point and set the Count field to 1 The cloned item will be placed in front or behind the original item depending on the status of the Paste Behind button Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica We ll use a Geometry Angle and Step Angle of 10 and 35 copies 360 10 36 minus 1 37 Badia Duplica XT 38 Appendix Appendix Warnings and Error Messages Pasting attributes into this multiple selection cannot be undone OK to continue You are attempting to paste box or line
42. tent gt None and with the Item tool selected select Cut or Command X Now select the Content tool and paste that box as an anchored box at the end of the last line Duis autem vel eum iriure drerit in vulputate velit esse molestie Select the anchored box and choose Copy Box Attributes When the dialog shows up select only Origin Down and Add Height to Origin Down You can now delete the anchored box if you wish Box Boundaries C Width C Height C Origin Across lf Origin Down Wi Add Height to Origin Down Now select the box whose top you want to align with that last base line Choose Paste or Command V cene gigia drerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat augue duis dolore te feugait The top of this box has been positioned exactly at the last baseline of the other text box Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet con sectetuer adipiscing elit sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut You can now place text on the box below at a precise distance from the last baseline of the other box just enter the value in the First Baseline field Item gt Modify gt Text gt First Baseline gt Offset We used 2p6 for this example E 17 Duplica Tip You can also use this tech nique to place a caption text box precisely under a picture box copy the Origin Across Origin Down and Width of the picture box and select Add Height to Origin Down Select the text box and choose Paste
43. to Back Shape Content Edit Print Styles New menu item Next Paste New menu item Sharing a menu item indicates that its meaning changes depending on whether the last operation was a QuarkXPress operation or a Duplica operation For instance after copying paragraph attributes Badia Duplica XT Paste or Command V means Paste Paragraph Attributes If you now copy text to the Clipboard Paste retains its XPress meaning of Paste the Contents of the Clipboard Similarly after cloning an item Duplicate or Command D changes to Clone Again After using the XPress Step and Repeat command Clone Again switches back to Duplicate Copy Paste A unique and powerful Duplica feature allows AEE PARTE from Clipboard you not only to store Copy operations in separate Duplicate D Step and Repeat Character Attributes Clone clipboards but also to switch between them specifying which one will be used the next time you perform a Paste operation You do this by using Y Box Attributes the Next Paste submenu which is discussed later The Next Paste submenu allows you to specify what will be pasted the next time you perform a Paste operation Copying and Pasting with Duplica 2 Copying and Pasting with Duplica In addition to copying and pasting text and items the old fashioned way you can now copy and paste a variety of attributes without changing the contents of the Clipboard
44. ute value independent of the ruler origin location You can even copy and paste this attribute with anchored lines Last Point Down Regular and orthogonal lines only The coordinate down of the last point of the line Last Down measured from the top side of the page not the spread This is an absolute value inde pendent of the ruler origin location You can even copy and paste this attribute with anchored lines Origin Across B zier lines only The line Origin Across measured from the left side of the page not the spread This is an absolute value independent of the ruler origin location You can even copy but not paste this attribute with anchored lines Origin Down B zier lines only The line Origin Down measured from the top side of the page not the spread This is an absolute value independent of the ruler origin location You can even copy but not paste this attribute with anchored lines Width B zier lines only The line boundary box Width Height B zier lines only The line boundary box Height y Angle B zier lines only The line boundary box Angle Da Skew B zier lines only The line boundary box Skew E Shape The line Shape including Regular Orthogonal and B zier Note that for B zier lines in most cases you will select this attribute The Shape attribute refers along with the Points attribute to guarantee that the line B zier to any of these line shapes points are also du
45. utes and the following dialog appears Copy Page Attributes Spread Guides LC Horizontal Page Guides C Horizontal L ertical Cancel Horizontal and Vertical Page Guides refer to guides that were created within the page limits Horizontal and Vertical Spread Guides are the ones created in the pasteboard area Once you copy page attributes you can go to other pages of the document including master pages and choose Paste to apply the guides that you copied previously The page whose guides you are copying or pasting into is the current page You can determine the current page at any given moment by looking at the lower left corner of your document window Note As with any guide operation in QuarkXPress you cannot undo pasting page attributes M Using Next Paste A unique and powerful Duplica feature allows you not only to store copy Operations separately from each other but also to switch between them specifying which one will be the next to be pasted You do this by using the Next Paste submenu As mentioned earlier you never lose the contents of the Clipboard after copying any attribute instead they get stored in several sepa rate clipboards Every time you perform a copy operation to the Clipboard or clipboards you are automatically changing the Next Paste 25 QuarkXPress Tip To delete all the horizontal guides in a page Option click the horizontal ruler to delete
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