Adobe CS5.5 (v.7.5) Mac Upgrade NO 65103437 User Manual

Left Sides, Side Towards Spine, Side 

Away From Spine, and Largest Area. 
While QuarkXPress limits you to 

flowing text around objects placed 

above the text box, text wrap in 

InDesign affects text frames above 

and below an object. However, if 

you prefer InDesign to limit its text 

wrap behavior, open the Preferences 

dialog box, choose the Composition 

pane, and select the Text Wrap Only 

Affects Text Beneath option.

Character and paragraph styles are 

great time-savers for text-intensive 

publications like newspapers, books, 

You can choose File > Open in 

InDesign to open documents and 

templates created with QuarkXPress 

or QuarkXPress Passport 3.3–4.11. 
When you open a QuarkXPress file 

in InDesign, a new, untitled docu-

ment is created. InDesign converts 

the original file information to native 

InDesign information. Most objects, 

styles, and colors are translated prop-

erly, but text may reflow differently, 

so proof the results carefully.
Before converting a QuarkXPress 

document, you should store all 

imported picture files in a single 

folder, relink all pictures in the Pic-

tures tab of the Usage dialog box 

(Utilities > Usage > Picture), and 

then use File > Save As to save a 

clean version of the document in 

QuarkXPress. This ensures that all 

links are preserved. 
If your QuarkXPress document does 

not convert, check the original file 

and remove any objects that require 

an XTension; then save and try to 

convert the document again.
QuarkXPress 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x files 

are stored in a proprietary format 

that InDesign cannot directly open. 

However, a third-party developer 

called Markzware (www.markzware.

com) offers a conversion utility called 

Q2ID that can convert these files.
Opening a QuarkXPress document 

may be efficient in the short run, 

but it is often better to re-create the 

document, making use of the unique 

features of InDesign, such as based-

on master pages, nested styles, and 

object styles. Another option is to 

export the QuarkXPress file as a PDF 

and place each page of the PDF inside 

the InDesign document as a graphic.

magazines, and catalogs. InDesign 

also includes object styles, which you 

can apply to any InDesign object, 

and table styles and cell styles, which 

make document-wide changes to 

table and cell formatting quickly and 

painlessly.

However, note that character styles 

are handled differently in InDesign 

than in QuarkXPress. You can define 

a character style in InDesign to be 

as specific as you want. For example, 

your character style could be defined 

to apply only italic, ignoring any 

other formatting already applied to 

the text. You could then apply that 

same “italic” character style to text 

set in different fonts and sizes, and it 

would always make it italic—except 

in the case where a font doesn’t have 

an italic style. (InDesign will never 

apply a “fake” italic to text.)
Note that in general you should not 

format an entire paragraph with a 

single character style. Instead, use a 

paragraph style, which applies both 

paragraph and character formatting 

to the selected text.
Character styles also allow for some 

of the most powerful text format-

ting features in InDesign, including 

nested styles, GREP styles, and drop 

cap styles. For more information, see 

“Nested Styles” on page 42.

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