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QuarkXPress term | InDesign term Key Terms Project/Layout | Document With QuarkXPress 6 and 7, you create projects, which can contain one or more layouts. With InDesign, you create documents (File > New > Document). Item | Object In QuarkXPress, picture boxes, text boxes, lines, and text paths are collectively called items; in InDesign, picture frames, text frames, and paths are called objects. Box | frame QuarkXPress has picture boxes, text boxes, and boxes with no content, while InDesign has graphics frames, text frames, and unassigned frames. Line | Path In QuarkXPress, you can create straight lines with the Line tool and the Orthogonal Line tool, straight or curved lines with the Bézier Line tool, and freehand lines with the Freehand Line tool. These tools create only open shapes that cannot contain text or pictures. In InDesign, you create straight paths with 6 Adobe InDesign CS3 | Conversion guide Many of the terms in InDesign CS3 menus, dialog boxes, and panels are identical to and have the same meanings as terms used in QuarkXPress. For example, words like page, book, library, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, group/ungroup, lock/unlock, and pasteboard have essentially the same meaning in both programs. In some cases, QuarkXPress and InDesign use different terms for the same thing. QuarkXPress users work with items, while in InDesign you work with objects. Once you understand the difference in terms, you’re likely to find that associated concepts are quite similar. Here are some key terms that differ between QuarkXPress and InDesign. the Line tool, straight or curved paths with the Pen tool, and freehand paths with the Pencil tool. The Pen and Pencil tools let you create open or closed paths, both of which can contain text or graphics. Item tool | selection tool You use the Selection tool in InDesign (called the Item tool in QuarkXPress) to select objects, move frames and their contents, crop the contents of a graphics frame, and, when used with a keyboard shortcut, resize a frame and its contents. get Picture/get text; Import Picture/Import text | Place To import text or a picture into a QuarkXPress document, you must first select a picture box or text box, and then choose Get Picture or Get Text (Import Picture or Import Text in QuarkXPress 7). InDesign lets you place graphics and text with or without an existing frame. To place text or graphics, choose File > Place, locate the file you want, and click Open. If a frame is selected, the text or graphics content will appear in it automatically. Within InDesign CS3 you can specify default fit options for
frames (such as Fill Frame Proportionally) and include fit options in an object style. If a frame is not selected when you place a graphic, either click on an existing frame to place the file, or click and drag the loaded icon to create a frame and place its contents with the same action. Content tool | Position, Direct selection, and type tools In QuarkXPress, you use the Content tool when you want to move a picture within a picture box, modify text within a text box, or change the size of any box. In InDesign, the Position tool (paired with the Direct Selection tool in the Tools panel) is similar to the QuarkXPress Content tool for pictures and lets you move a graphic within its frame and resize the frame. You can also use the Direct Selection tool to move a graphic within its frame, as well as to reshape the frame by dragging any of its anchor points. To enter or format text in InDesign, use the Type tool. Also, click and drag the Type tool to create a new text frame. frame | stroke With InDesign, you can add a stroke to any InDesign object (you add a frame in QuarkXPress) and specify the color, weight, and style of the stroke. To stroke an object in InDesign, use the Stroke panel to assign a weight, apply built-in or custom stroke styles, and specify whether the stroke is placed inside, outside, or centered on the object’s edge. (You can place a QuarkXPress frame only inside or outside the edge.) Then apply a color, a tint, or a gradient using the Swatches, Color, or Gradient panel or the controls in the Tools panel. style sheets | styles In QuarkXPress, you use character and paragraph style sheets to apply a combination of typographic attributes to characters and paragraphs. In InDesign, the equivalent terms are character styles and paragraph styles. InDesign also includes additional style-related features, including nested styles, object styles, table styles, and cell styles. A nested style is a paragraph-level formatting option that allows you to apply character attributes to ranges of text within a paragraph. For more information, see page 55. Object styles let you quickly modify objects by applying attributes, such as fill color and tint, stroke width and color, corner effects, drop shadows, feathered edges, text frame options, and text wrap settings. For more information, see page 58. Table and cell styles allow you to rapidly format an entire table or a specific table region, such as a header or body row. For more information, see page 58. Runaround | text wrap Both QuarkXPress and InDesign let you specify how text will flow relative to an obstructing object. Text wrap improvements in InDesign CS3 let you flow text around objects to your custom specifications and wrap text to the left side, right side, or largest side of an object. To specify text wrap options in InDesign, choose Window > Text Wrap. In QuarkXPress, only objects in front of a text box affect the flow of text in the box. InDesign provides two options for wrapping text around objects: 1) You can wrap text only around objects that are in front of text frames or; 2. You can wrap text around objects that are in front of or beneath text frames. Linking | threading In QuarkXPress, you use the Linking tool to manually flow text through multiple text boxes. You break links between text boxes with the Unlinking tool. In InDesign, the in port and out port on a text frame let you thread text through multiple frames. For more information, see pages 28-29. Key Terms 7
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