Reset Rulers’ Zero Point
QuarkXPress allows you to drag the origin (zero) point of its rulers to anywhere on your document page, thus changing the location from which items are measured. Just drag the square where the rulers meet down onto your document page to set its new origin.
To restore the origin to its original position, just Option-click that same square. (Windows: Alt-click)
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.
Dear Jay
I thought I should your attention to a possible issue with this feature in Quark 10, which I am currently preparing to introduce at work (in place of Quark 8.5.1). Our basic page template is A4 with margins at 12.5mm left and right and 15mm top and 16.5mm bottom.
If the ruler is set to the edge of page, as opposed to the edge of the type area, boxes will snap happily to zero. If, however, I set the ruler origin to the edge of the left margin (i.e. 12.5mm from the edge of the page) it is almost impossible to get boxes to snap accurately to the new zero. The figure in the measurements box for the x coordinate is usually something like 0.061. This is very frustrating. If I reset the ruler origin to the edge of page, all is well and again, and the box is shown at 12.5mm. Of course, you can input the numbers or do the maths, but that becomes very time consuming. I am using Quark 10 in tandem with 8.5.1 on a Mac Mini running Mac OS 10.7.5
Best wishes
David
David: Yikes! Thanks for alerting everyone to this bug. As some yanks say, “if it isn’t one thing, it’s another…” ;-)