InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Font Menus

InDesign creates its own hierarchical font menus, organized by font family. (You can do this in XPress only with a third-party XTension or a system extension like the old Adobe Type Reunion.) Its menu scheme is quite sophisticated. The Adobe Garamond and ITC Garamond font families, for example, are alphabetized with other Garamond fonts in the "G"s (see Figure 43-1).

In QuarkXPress it's very easy to select a font and apply a type style (like Bold or Italic) that doesn't actually exist in the font. Onscreen, the font may be emboldened or obliqued, but if the font doesn't contain the style, it will print in an incorrect way to a PostScript printer. By contrast, InDesign's font menus only list the type styles which actually exist in the font, and it's not possible to pick a non-existing style.

QuarkXPress's Style menu and Measurement palette also include the Outline and Shadow type styles. XPress lets the operating system build these effects, and they print poorly on high-resolution printers. While InDesign doesn't include these styles, you can create a high-quality outline effect for type by adding a stroke to type and you can make much better shadows using the transparency effects we describe in Chapter 85.