InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Default Preferences

Like QuarkXPress, InDesign lets you set preferences that control your working environment. Just like in XPress, if you set preferences with no documents open, they apply to all new documents, or you can set them while a document is open for them to apply to only that document. You can access preferences from the Edit menu in or the Application menu (depending on your operating system). You can jump directly to one of the nine preference sections by selecting it from the Preferences submenu, or by choosing General Preferences and then clicking the preference type along the left side of the Preferences dialog box.

General Preferences

The general preferences provide a host of options that are not found in QuarkXPress (see Figure 7-3). For example, because InDesign uses an automatic crash recovery, which is not optional like that found in XPress, you can use this dialog to set the location of the temporary file.

• Page Numbering. This controls the way pages appear in the Pages palette.




• General Options. You can also use this section to configure the Tools palette, and to disable or enable tool tipsthose small pop-up windows which describe the tool name and appear when your mouse rolls over a tool or a palette icon.




• Print Options. This preference lets you set whether black overprints or knocks out colors beneath a black object.




• Temporary Folder. You can also set the folder for the location of your temporary filesMacintosh OS X users may wish to move this location to something easier to find than the Users folder. Because this controls where your preferences and saved data are stored, you can use this to help find these files if the preferences become corrupt or InDesign is trying to open an auto-saved version of a file that you don't want.




• Clipboard. These settings control whether objects are copied or pasted in the PDF file format. If you copy and paste objects from Adobe Illustrator, you probably want to leave Prefer PDF When Pasting turned off.

Text Preferences

Like in QuarkXPress, you can set the size applied to superscripted, subscripted and small-capped characters (for fonts that don't have these characters built-in) in the Text preferences section (see Figure 7-4).

You can also define whether InDesign should use typographers' quotes and, important for QuarkXPress users, whether leading is applied to the entire paragraph. By default InDesign applies leading only to selected lines within a paragraph, not to the entire paragrapha very unusual option for QuarkXPress users, though a familiar one to some traditional typesetters and PageMaker users. If you prefer the QuarkXpress shortcut of being able to click three times to select a line, select this option.

Correct Optical Size lets users of Multiple Master fonts have the correct optical size be used at a certain size. Multiple Master fonts may include this feature which varies the appearance of the typeface for improved readability at various sizes. The Adjust Text Attributes When Scaling option changes how text values are displayed within the Character palette. With this option enabled, when you increase a text frame with 12 pt type and it is then displayed as 24 pt. You can disable this option and the display in the Character palette is then listed as "12pt (24pt)".

Composition Preferences

Using the Composition preferences (see Figure 7-5) you can ask InDesign to alert you to missing fonts or poorly composed text that violated hyphenation and justification rules that are applied to paragraphs.

Unlike QuarkXPress, InDesign lets you decide whether text should justify around a wrapped object or remain ragged. You can set this by clicking the Justify option in the Text wrap section of this dialog box.

Units & Increments

The Units & Increments panel lets you pick the vertical and horizontal forms of measurement used by InDesign. It supports all the same measurement systems as XPress, and even allows you to establish your own form of measurement.

You can also define what values the Arrow keys nudge objects, and how much kerning, baseline shifting and type sizes are affected when using keyboard shortcuts.

Grids & Guides Preferences

With the Grids preferences you can define the frequency, starting point and color of both the document grid and the baseline grid (see Figure 7-6). You can also define the view threshold for the baseline grid, which determines the magnification at which the baseline grid becomes visible or invisible. QuarkXPress either displays the preference or it doesn't based upon the View setting selected. InDesign enables or disable the viewing automatically based upon what view magnification is being used. Like QuarkXPress, grids are placed either in front of or behind page objects based upon preference settings, with InDesign you can set this in the grids preferences.

Guides preferences let you define their color and the snap zone within which objects are pulled to them.

Dictionary Preferences

You can define the look of single quotes and double quotes under the Dictionary preferences (remember that the choice for whether to convert straight quotes to curly quotes is found under the Text preferences, though).

If you are using a third-party dictionary for spell checking and hyphenation, you can select them in this section (Chapter 42.

You can also set complex composition options, including which dictionaries are used to flow the document. By default the user dictionary and the document dictionary are both used for hyphenation exceptions, so this should not need to be modified unless you want only one or the other to be used for composing purposes.

By default user dictionaries are merged into documents, but you can disable this if you desire. You can also set all documents to be recomposed (reflowed) if the user dictionary is modified. You would use this if you set specific rules for hyphenating words in your user dictionary and need them to retroactively apply to stories that have been previously flowed into a document.

Display Performance

We've found many users who commented on poor performance with InDesign have had their Display Performance preferences set to operate inefficiently. InDesign is capable of displaying all images, including imported Photoshop or Illustrator files, at their native resolution. But just because InDesign can do this does not mean that this is a good thing in every case.

If you have many placed images and you set your images to display them all at their maximum resolution, InDesign will operate more slowly. The more images it must display at high resolution, the slower it operates.

You can still get high quality images when you need them but not overload your system to a point where it becomes unbearably slow. The Typical radio button in the Adjust View Settings portion of the Display Performance preferences (see Figure 7-8) gives you similar quality settings to QuarkXPress. When you need higher quality settings, choose the High Quality Display from the Display Performance context menu.

Workgroup Preferences

You can select the Enable Workgroup Functionality option to allow you to check files out from a workgroup file server, such as a WebDAV server. This allows for centralized management of who is working on what files. If you are not using a WebDAV server, you can ignore this feature, which has no QuarkXPress counterpart. But if file management is a problem in your workflow, you may wish to investigate this feature further.