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Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about Peachpit products and services that can be purchased through this site. You can also Control+click (Mac) or right+click (Windows) the rulers and choose an option from the Measure submenu of the context menu. Rulers: The Measurements pane of the Preferences dialog box lets you choose from Inches, Inches Decimal, Picas, Points, Millimeters, Centimeters, Ciceros, and Agates for the horizontal and vertical rulers.Text Box Grids: Specify the color of gridlines through the Grid Settings dialog box (context menu > Grid Settings) or a grid style (Window > Grid Styles).Page Grids: Specify the color of gridlines in the Master Guides & Grids dialog box when a master page is displayed.The Guides palette (Window menu) lets you specify the color of individual guides as well. Guides: Specify the color of margin guides and ruler guides in the Grids & Guides pane of the Preferences dialog box.Or, you can work in picas or centimeters instead of inches. You can customize most of the layout aids in QuarkXPress-for example, you can change the default color of guides if they are the same color as a layout’s background. The size of the magnetic field, called the Snap Distance, is specified in the Guides & Grids pane of the Preferences dialog box. When checked, these options create a sort of “magnetic field” around guides so that items automatically align with them. You can also activate the Snap to Guides and Snap to Page Grids commands in the View menu. Invisibles are particularly helpful when creating tabs and applying style sheets.įigure 2.18: In the bottom portion of the View menu, the checked options display onscreen.

Invisibles: Choose View > Invisibles to display nonprinting characters in text such as spaces (dots), tabs (arrows), and paragraph returns (¶).

The View > Ruler Direction submenu lets you choose Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left. By default, the ruler measures pages from left to right.

Rulers and ruler direction: Choose View > Rulers to display a horizontal ruler across the top of the project window along with a vertical ruler down the left side.

Text box grids: Choose View > Text Box Grids to display any grids applied to text boxes in the layout.

Page grids: Choose View > Page Grids to display each page’s grid.

Guides: Choose View > Guides to display margin guides, ruler guides, and any guides you created through the Guides palette (Window menu).

Viewing layout aidsĬhoose options from the View menu ( Figure 2.18) to control which layout aids display, including:

If you tend to use grids, notice the keyboard shortcuts listed in the menu and memorize the ones you use. Memorize the keyboard shortcuts for showing and hiding the rulers-Command+R (Mac) or Control+R (Windows)-as you may show and hide them often. Tip: Memorize keyboard shortcuts for favorites