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Hi, all,

here's a small guide on how to avoid having to first export as SWF and then reimport in web layout.

QuarkXPress can do that for you automatically:

1. Create your interactive layout.
2. Create your web layout (in the same project, so use "Layout > New" NOT "File > New")
3. Go to "Advanced Layout Properties" (sub menu in Layout menu) of your Interactive Layout and enable Share there.
4. Go to the web layout and open "Shared Content" palette.
5. Drag your interactive layout - which appears there now - into your web layout and adjust.
    You can even overlay it (e.g. put SWF over HTML).

When you export as HTML, then the interactive layout is also exported (as SWF) automatically.

Enjoy!
Matthias

Thank You Matthias. Your small guide saved my day. An interactive layout with another embedded interactive layout wouldn't export properly untill I used this 'shared content' trick. Thanks again Gerard

You are welcome. Graag gedan.

Developing my website was an absolute joy in XPress 8! Using composition zones to embed swf's inside other swf's. Using homepages to hold the navigation elements. Using layers to maneuver around stacks of pictures. Every corner of the XPress environment has been intelligently put to use by the developers of QID. I did come across some odd things though. To edit composition zones containing interactive lay-outs, I control click them and choose edit. I found no other way to do this, nor can I find these parts anywhere. Shouldn't they show up in the tab bar along with the "button" parts? And a simple feature request: it would be most convenient if the (print) default cmyk black was automatically changed to rgb black in Interactive lay-outs. gerards regards If you would like to see the result of my study got to http://www.biknewz.nl - never saw one line of code, everything was made in XPress.

Hi bik104,

Very nice website. Great work!

You can edit Composition Zones using Shared Content Palette(available in Window menu).

Regards,

Jyoti

Jyoti Bhatnagar (Quark):

Hi bik104,

Very nice website. Great work!

You can edit Composition Zones using Shared Content Palette(available in Window menu).

Regards,

Jyoti

Thanks for the kind words. In Shared Content is where I looked for them, but somehow my Composition Zones do not show up there, nor in the tabs of the document window. I will have to think hard how exactly I created them. It probably was by duplicating the first Composition Zone. Everything works very well, all Composition Zones are accessible from the context menu. regards Gerard

The composition zones in your project are not shared then.

You can use Item menu > Composition Zone > Edit.

If you want to see the composition zone as a separate layout in your project then perform following steps:

1. On main layout select Composition Zone > Select Item menu > Composition Zone > Edit. 
2. Go to Layout menu > Advance Layout Properties > Check Show Tab in Project Window option.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Jyoti