Basic tips:
If you have recently started using QuarkXPress, you may find yourself doing some of the errors described in this article. Take a second to read through our main stumbling blocks for beginners ten and save a bit of frustration in getting to grips with their new software.
1. Do not set document properties for new projects
Beginners often creates a new project and click OK without paying much attention to the settings in the New Project dialog.
Quark maintains the configuration of the last project you created. If these are not appropriate for the document you are about to create, change the page size, orientation, margins and column guides as needed.
2. Margins of confusing the edge of the page
Having the margins set by creating a new project, many QuarkXPress users will still feel inclined to position your text and picture boxes within the margin guides, leaving extra space. Remember that the blue lines represent the margin guides not the edges of the page. Normally, the edges of the text boxes will be placed on the outside rather than inside them.
3. Excessive use ruler guides
Ruler guides are created by dragging the horizontal or vertical line to the page. Besides providing a visual reference guides can be used to align items horizontally and vertically by adjusting elements to them like a magnet. For example, if the top two text boxes are set to the same guidelines, both pictures are the same distance from the top of the page.
The guides are very helpful tools, but most used (as often happens with new users), you end up with a cover page in confusing green lines. Consider using the measurements palette, like this: enter the measurement of x equal to two boxes to adjust their left edges and the same measurement and align the top.
4. No objects snapping to guides
A classic mistake that beginners when using guides to align objects is as follows. To drag a guide and align (roughly) with one edge of a table then takes a second box in the directory. This means that only the second box is really adjusted to the guide.
Remember that both boxes must be adjusted to the guide to get the most benefit. Since one of the edges of the original box was used as a reference point for the guide, which is almost aligned, but not quite: simply move slightly until it actually fits the guide. Place the mouse pointer over the appropriate means of the controller box until the cursor changes to a pointing finger. Click and drag the handle so that it conforms to the guide. (If necessary, move the lever away from the guide and then back on it to feel the magnetic pressure.)
5. Misuse of automatic text box
The function of automatic text box in QuarkXPress can be activated when creating a new project, simply click the box marked "automatic text box." It allows us to get into something like word processing mode. It should be used to create multi-page documents containing mostly text, as a report or a book.
Many users assume that all of this feature is to automatically create a text box on the page for you, saving you the trouble of doing it yourself, without realizing that the text box created in this way has a special property. When filled with text, QuarkXPress automatically creates a new page with another text box linked to the cash machine on the first page.
So if you are creating a brochure or advertisement single page, an automatic text box is a responsibility, as if full of text for any reason (for example, when you are experimenting with fonts and font sizes) you end up with an additional page that is created.
6. When you click the text box tool to edit text
Another simple error new QuarkXPress users tend to do is to click the text box tool then try to modify the text. This is not as serious as it is a non-starter: the only thing you can do with the text box tool to create text boxes. The right tool for editing text content tool, the second tool in the QuarkXPress toolbar.
7. The attempt to modify the text when the article tool highlights
Another popular type of confusion with QuarkXPress tools is when to use the Item tool and when to use the tool of content. They are often the beginners trying to edit or import text, while the tool is selected. Like the above error is not like a big thing because sooner or later you will remember that you have to select the tool to access content before the text inside the box.
8. Stressing the Item tool when resizing boxes
Another common / Content tool is mistake that new users often insist on selecting the Item tool when resizing a box: in effect, change the size works well regardless of whether the tool or content item is selected.
9. Create text boxes too
QuarkXPress newbies tend to create more text boxes than they need (This box is for my departure, this is for my subheading, etc ...), remember that the format of the text can be changed as often as necessary within the same box.
Separated from the text boxes need to be created only on the attributes of the different blocks of text can not be accommodated within the same box, for example, a title that spans two columns over a two-story columns.
10. Focusing on the box and not the content
Beginners in QuarkXPress will often spend time aligning headings within a text box, for example vertically centered, forgetting that, since the box does not print, all that matters is the position of the text of the page.
A good way to cure this is to get into the habit of pressing F7 (a shortcut for View - Guides). This key combination toggles the visibility of QuarkXPress margin and ruler guides and the edges of the boxes that do not have frames. This means that you always remember that in reality the elements will be visible when the document is printed.