Quark to InDesignCS3 Conversion Guide - InDesign User Group

Customizing Preferences and
Setting up Your Workspace
how do I modify InDesign preferences?
Like in QuarkXPress, if you modify
InDesign preferences when no
documents are open, the changes
apply to all new documents but not
to previously created documents.
If you modify preferences when
a document is open, the changes
apply only to the open document.
As you move through the various
panes of the Preferences dialog box,
you’ll see that many of the options
are identical to options found in
QuarkXPress. Here are a few unfamiliar
but useful Preference options
that you’ll find in InDesign CS3:
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Before you begin working on documents with InDesign, you should
familiarize yourself with the program’s default settings—specifically, the
options in the Preferences dialog box (InDesign > Preferences > General in
Mac OS or Edit > Preferences > General in Windows) and the New Document
dialog box (File > New > Document). You can also open and arrange
the panels you will use most often. You can customize InDesign to suit the
requirements of the publications you produce or the the tasks you do most
frequently, as well as your personal taste. By doing so, you can create a work
environment that’s both productive and comfortable.
• Highlight options (Composition
pane) let you flag occurrences of
keep violations, hyphenation and
justification (H&J) violations,
custom tracking/kerning, substituted
fonts, and substituted glyphs
within a document’s text.
• Text Wrap Only Affects Text
Beneath (Composition pane)
makes InDesign work similarly
to the default behavior in
QuarkXPress. When you select
this option, text wrap settings
applied to an object affect text only
in text frames that are beneath the
object. You specify text wrap settings
in the Text Wrap panel
(Window > Text Wrap).
If you don’t select text wrap
Only Affects text Beneath,
InDesign wraps text around
objects that are in front of
or behind text frames.