InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

The General Panel

The Print dialog box's General panel is usually the first one you see, and it covers the most common printing choices you make. It includes some items which you find on the Document tab of QuarkXPress's Print dialog box, but also includes a few options which you won't find in XPress.

Here you may set any number of copies up to 999. If you want the Collate feature like in XPress, choose it here, but expect that it will greatly slow printing because your document is being collated "in software." Reverse order is the same as XPress's Back to Front feature.

Choosing Pages

To choose which pages of your document to print, either click All or type a page range with hyphens (or use commas for discontinuous ranges). By default, you have to type the page numbers exactly as they appear on the page. For instance, if you have used the Numbering and Section Options dialog box (see Chapter 37) to start the document on page 13 and you want to print the second page of the document, you need to type 14 into the Range field. If you specified a prefix for page numbering, such as "A-" then you'd have to type A-14.

Unfortunately, InDesign has no symbol for specifying absolute page numbering like in XPress. You can, however, change the Page Numbering option in the General panel of the Preferences dialog box (see Chapter 7) to Absolute Numbering. This way, you could specify the second page of the document by simply typing 2.

The Sequence feature is the same as QuarkXPress' Page Sequenceyou can choose All Pages, Even Pages or Odd Pages.

Old and New Options

The General panel also gives you control over printing spreads and blank pages, which are equivalent to the same features in XPress. However, unlike XPress, you can choose to print Master Pages (which prints the all the master pages and could be helpful when designing a document), and the Nonprinting Objects (which overrides the Nonprinting object attribute we describe in Chapter 23). You can also choose to print Visible Guides and Baseline Grids. These print in the color specified in the document, a great feature for page designers.