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Creating new projects and print layouts. QuarkXPress documents or files are called projects. Projects are containers for layouts. Layouts are containers for pages. In this video I will introduce you to this concept, a concept that is uniquely QuarkXPress. Every QuarkXPress project is made up of at least one layout. A layout in other applications is often referred to as a document. In QuarkXPress, you may have up to 25 layouts in a single project. That means that you could have a letterhead, envelope and business card all in the same project. You could also have a brochure, web page and an animated ad all in one project. The benefit here is that the components of a job can be stored in a single file and share assets, such as pictures, style sheets and the like. Let's get started by learning how to create projects and then we'll learn about layouts. When you first launch QuarkXPress, go to the File Menu and choose New. If you're on a Mac you could also click Project in the Create Pane of the Welcome Screen. When you go to the File Menu, you will also see that you can create a library or a project from a ticket. We'll cover this elsewhere in this video tutorial. When you click Project or choose it from the File Menu, you are presented with a dialog box where you can define your new project settings. The first task is to name the layout. This should not be confused with naming the project. Remember that you can have up to 25 layouts in a project so if you do not give them descriptive names it will be hard to keep track of them. For my example, I will name this one letterhead. Now I have to decide what type of layout this is. For my example I will print my letterhead at my local offset print shop. So I choose Print. If I were creating web pages, I would choose web and if I were creating interactive content, such as an ad or animated page banner, I would choose interactive. A project may contain any or all three. The Single Layout Mode Button creates your project with only one layout space and mimics the style of previous versions of QuarkXPress. If you choose this option but you change your mind later, you can easily add more layouts. In the Page Area of this dialog box I define the size of my page, the orientation and if you're using the Plus edition or East-Asian editions, you can also define the story direction. If you do not have this option, you may be using the US edition of QuarkXPress 8. Facing pages will create a project like a book where pages face each other. If you do not choose this you will have a single-page layout. But you can add more pages and have a series of single pages. QuarkXPress is a box-dependent application. You can use boxes to hold and define the size of content such as text and pictures. You may these container boxes around on the page to define their position. If you choose this Automatic Text Box Feature, the first box will be drawn for you. In the margin guides, type the gap between the guidelines defining your active page area and the edge of the page. Notice that because I checked the box for facing pages, my margins are inside and outside whereas yours may be left and right. In the Column Guide Section, I will define that my layout is one column. I'm not stuck with this decision throughout. I can change my mind at any time. The gutter width defines the space between columns had I chosen that option. Don't worry about this setting if you only have one column. It will be ignored and you can not delete it or set it to zero. When you click OK, your first project page is created. Notice here at the top of my page there is a tab and it is named Letterhead. Now let's create another one for an envelope. Go to the Layout Menu and choose New. The same dialog box appears and we can now set up a second layout. I'll define my settings quickly, then click OK. I now have a second tab at the top of my window and I can click back and forth between the two. Let's have a look at the Paste Board too. I'll reduce the size of my page by choosing 50 percent from the View Menu. See this area surrounding the page? This is the Paste Board. If you put items here, they will not print. It's a very handy place for keeping items close at hand as you work through your production. A nice feature here of the Paste Board is that if you delete a page from your layout and you have items on the Paste Board, those items will be moved to the next page in the sequence. You can set the color of your Paste Board and the Active Page by using your Preferences. Choose Preferences from the QuarkXPress Menu on a Mac or the Edit Menu on Windows and click Display. You can set a narrower Paste Board width if you choose. To change the color of the Paste Board click this color swatch and choose from the colors options. This check box will cause the Paste Board color to change and indicate what page of your layout is the active page. When you have this checked, you should also select a color for the active page. Click OK to apply your settings. If you've been following along you have now successfully created your first project in QuarkXPress 8.