QuarkXPress 9 Expert Tip: Cloning Pages
In Macworld UK, Michael Burns wrote helpful decriptions of 18 of the new features in QuarkXPress 9.
Their editors have graciously allowed us to publish a few, including the one below. Be sure to catch all of them in “QuarkXPress 9 Expert Tips” here.
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Cloning pages
You can use Cloner to copy pages into a separate project. First, deselect all items. Next, choose Utilities > Cloner to display the Cloner dialog box. Click Pages in the Clone Source area and either specify All or specify a page number or range of pages. You can now check the Make Section box and choose to either keep all of the page copies in a single layout in the destination layout – even if they originate from different sections (Keep Contiguous option) – or preserve section breaks in the copies, if the indicated page range includes section breaks (Multiple Sections option).
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Jay, are you doing a training for QuarkXpress 9 for Lynda.com. Quark is the only publishing software I use, and I only use Lynda.com for this reason alone.
Hi Monica. Thanks for asking about that.
Inexplicably, the folks at Lynda.com have chosen not to create a QuarkXPress 9 title. My QuarkXPress 7 and 8 titles are doing quite well, so I’m baffled at their position.
I encourage you to contact them and let them know your thoughts. :-)
I am having a lot of problems with cloner or any way of copying pages to a new document in Quark. Why can’t I just cut and paste like with pretty much everything else? The problem is I select the one page and I only get all of the pages inserted into my file and I am unable to delete them time and time again. I can’t figure out how to cut and paste the section into the new file or use Page layout to do it and I need to move on in my life. Is Quark this hard for most people to use? I have to use it and would probably want to try another document like In Design- in fact I probably should have imported Quark to it if that program is more usable. But having said that if i can overcome the problems with Quark I would like using it. Why do I have so many problems with Clonter.
Michael: it sounds like you’re having a fundamental misunderstanding of how Quark handles the page-moving process. It may not work the way you expect, but it’s totally functional. Perhaps a look at my video training would help? http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/50682