The final layout addition in QuarkXPress 9 is one of those “finally!” additions: There’s now a Story Editor (something PageMaker pioneered 15 years ago) so you can edit a document’s text without the distraction of the layout. You can have individual pages copied to separate new documents and multiple-layout documents can be copied so each layout is in its own document. The Cloner tool lets you copy selected items or the contents of one or more pages to any of several locations, including new documents. This separation of anchoring from the object creation makes the task easy. Or select a different anchor to associate an item to it. Add an anchor in your text, select the item you want to associate to it, and choose Item -> Callout Anchor -> Associate Item to Callout Anchor. The other major layout capability added to QuarkXPress 9 is the Callouts feature, which lets you anchor items to specific spots in the text, so they move as the text does. QuarkXPress 9’s new ShapeMaker tool lets you create remarkably complex shapes, such as those using curved sides. My only wish is that you could get a real-time preview of the effect on the box you’re working with although there’s an onscreen preview of the shape itself, you can’t see what the effect will do to existing images in that box until you apply it. Get ready for a complex-shape boom once QuarkXPress 9 ships. With ShapeMaker, you use various controls such as sliders to manipulate the types of shapes it can create, and then apply those settings to an existing or new box. One of these capabilities is the ShapeMaker function, which lets you create all sorts of complex shapes that would be very difficult to draw, even with the program’s Bézier tools think squiggly or curved-sided boxes.
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