QuarkXPress 7: Creating Tickets From Job Jackets

In the last episode of this newsletter, you learned how to create Job Jackets in QuarkXPress that controls the specifications of a layout at the time it is created.

So now what? From Job Jackets, come Job Tickets. Each Job Jacket can have multiple Job Tickets. And each Ticket can contain Resources that can be applied to a Quark project.
Here are some of the Resources you can include in a Ticket:

Project settings: Style sheets, colors, output styles and color management settings

Layout definitions: A Layout Specification (page size, orientation), Output Specifications, Rule Sets, Medium type (Print or Web), Color management settings, and Proofing specifications (Proof Output)

Create a Ticket from a Job Jacket

1. Display the Job Jackets Manager.
2. Select a Job Jacket from the Job Jacket list at the left
3. Click the New Ticket Template button



The new ticket appears with the default name, "Ticket."

4. Highlight the Ticket name (it may take 2 clicks to highlight the name)
5. Change the ticket name and press [return]

Set Ticket Resources

1. If necessary, click the Advanced Settings button (if the Basic Settings button is displayed, you are currently viewing the Advanced Settings)



2. Select Layouts from the Resources area of the ticket you created earlier
3. Click the New Item button on the last panel

   A new layout item is created with the default name.

4. Click the plus sign (or triangle) at the left of the item name to expand the item
5. Select Print from the Medium type list (at the right of Medium type)
6. Scroll down and select Layout Specification from the Layout Specification list (you learned how to create the Layout Specification last week when you were first introduced to Job Jackets in QuarkXPress)
7. Select a Layout from the Layouts area



8. Click Save

Next week: Creating Rules for Tickets

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