Chapter 8. Color Managing Documents in QuarkXPress

In this chapter, you'll learn to configure QuarkXPress for a color-managed page-layout workflow; create a document with different color elements; soft proof the document to simulate how the colors will look on various output devices; and use Quark CMS's utilities to color manage documents.

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This chapter takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Until this point, we've practiced using color management on individual elements, such as an image or illustration, to improve the predictability and accuracy of color. However, in the everyday world, you're much more likely to color manage a combination of elements, such as images, illustrations and text, that form a document or Web page.

Because each element within a document has its own source color space, color managing a document created in a page layout application like QuarkXPress or InDesign can be more complicated than color managing a single image or illustration. For instance, you can output such a document to a number of destinations: a display or printer for proofing, a press, or the Web. Regardless of the destination, each element on the page will be transformed from its source space to one or more output spaces. Color management can ensure consistency within each element across these media.

The exercises in this chapter use QuarkXPress 6.5 to construct, proof, and print a designed page. While I don't go into detail in this chapter about the use of InDesign in a color-managed environment, keep in mind that the concepts for InDesign are similar to those for QuarkXPress. You already learned how to use InDesign's color settings and functions in Chapter 7, so with that knowledge and by following the same workflow principles presented in this chapter, you can color manage within InDesign just as easily.