Introduction

Badia Duplica 2.0

The Professional Copying and Cloning Engine

User’s Guide

Badia Duplica 2.0 is an XTension for Mac QuarkXPress 5.0 that expands the functions of copying, pasting and duplicating attributes and items,allowing you to:

• copy almost any kind of attribute applied not only to characters and paragraphs,but pictures, boxes,lines and pages as well,and paste them into other parts of the same or another document without altering the contents of the Clipboard;

• copy unstyled text (text without character or paragraph attributes) and paste it elsewhere, applying the text attributes of the new insertion point;

• clone boxes and lines any number of times,and specify not only an offset,but several of their attributes as well,including width,height,angle,skew,corner radius,frame and shade;

• paste cloned copies behind or in front of the previous clone;

• clone and rotate boxes and lines around a point within the page;

• repeat the last paste or clone action with a single keystroke.For example,if you have to change the font of several non-contiguous words,just keep “pasting”the new font attribute you recently copied.

An attribute is a characteristic that defines and changes the way text,pictures,items and pages in a document look or behave.Duplica expands the category of attributes further to include picture, box,line and page attributes.Thus with Duplica,the scale and offset of a picture are picture attributes;the angle and background color of a box are box attributes;the width and style of a line are line attributes;and the horizontal and vertical guides are page attributes.There are more than 80 different attributes you can choose from and combine.

With the Step and Repeat command in QuarkXPress you can duplicate items,specifying an offset for each step.Duplica’s Clone command lets you specify several additional attributes that can be modified with each step:width,height,angle,skew,corner radius,line width,item shade,frame width and frame shade.Using incremental offsets,with each duplication you can add a specified amount to the selected attribute every time a new clone is performed.For example,you can clone a box 10 times with an angle offset of 5°:with each step you not only duplicate the box,you also rotate it 5° from the previous one.

How to Use Duplica

You can access the Duplica features by using the palette,menus and contextual menus,or their keyboard equivalents.

1.Using Duplica palette (View–>Show/Hide Badia Duplica):
2.Using the Edit menu or contextual menus:
3.Using keyboard equivalents.There are two shortcuts for repeated copying and pasting – Command-Option-C for Copy Special Again,and Command-Option-V for Paste Special Again.You can also use Badia LiveKeys XT to add new shortcuts to all Duplica menus and submenus.

Copy Special and Paste Special

Copying attributes means you can temporarily retain attributes from a document element and apply or paste them into other elements later on.You do this by using the Copy Special and Paste Special commands.

To copy attributes,select an option from the Copy Special submenu and then check the attributes you wish to copy from the dialog.Duplica does not use the Clipboard to store these attributes – instead think of having additional clipboards that maintain related attribute information:a clipboard for storing text attributes,one for paragraph attributes,one for box attributes,and so on.These attribute clipboards act independently from each other and their contents remain unchanged until you override them by doing a new copy operation,or until you quit QuarkXPress.To switch between these attribute clipboards,select an option from the Paste Special submenu.

A check mark beside the Copy Special submenu indicates the last set of attributes that was copied.The Copy Special Again command will copy these attributes again.Similarly,a check mark beside the Paste Special submenu indicates the last set of attributes that was pasted.The Paste Special Again command will apply those attributes again.

NOTE:You can only copy one set of attributes at a time.However,if you first copy character attributes and then paragraph attributes,you can paste them both at the same time (Paste Special –> Character & Paragraph).

Applying Text Attributes to Multiple Text Boxes

Duplica 2.0 allows you to paste any character or paragraph attribute to multiple text boxes or to an entire text box.Simply select the box or boxes with the Drag tool,and choose Paste Special –> Character/Paragraph/Character & Paragraph.

Copy and Paste Character Attributes

If you select a character or group of characters,you will be able to duplicate their attributes and paste them into other sections of the document.Choosing Copy Special –> Character brings up this dialog: You can select any combination of these attributes by checking or unchecking their respective check buttons.Only the attributes that you choose will be copied and duplicated when you perform Paste Special later on in other parts of the document.

If you select text that has different instances of the same attribute (for example,text with different colors),that attribute will be dimmed;however, you can still copy the other attributes.

Copy and Paste Paragraph Attributes

When a paragraph or group of paragraphs is selected, choose Copy Special –> Paragraph.

Duplica vs. Style Sheets

At this point, you may be asking yourself, Is Duplica a replacement for XPress’ paragraph and character style sheets?

The answer is, of course, no. Duplica was created to complement XPress’ style sheets, not to replace them. You should use style sheets as much as possible, because they help make the document more consistent in style and it’s a breeze to make global document changes.

However, there are lots of cases in which style sheets may not be the final answer – when creating an ad, for example, in which several styles may be used but each appears only once or twice.

Or when you want to copy only paragraph rules from one paragraph to another. Creating a style sheet with rules only is impossible: you have to specify all the other paragraph settings as well.

And of course, let’s face it, we all begin creating style sheets religiously, but after a document gets revised and edited (and the client wants to see a proof right away), you may end up having text here and there that has no style sheets applied. Or you may have hundreds of style sheets with names like caption 1, caption new, ...

Those are the cases in which Duplica comes in handy: a quick way to duplicate the type settings from one place to another.

More importantly, Duplica expands this concept beyond character and paragraph settings to include picture, box, line and page attributes, something that is not possible using XPress style sheets.

If you select several paragraphs,some of the attributes may be grayed-out,indicating that there are different instances of that attribute.Also,if the selection contains no tab stops,the Tab Stops attribute will be disabled.

Copy and Paste Unstyled Text

In QuarkXPress,if you copy text and then paste it somewhere else,its attributes also get pasted. Though this can be handy in certain cases,there are times when you wish you could copy only the characters and apply the attributes already in use in the area where you are pasting them.

You can do this now with Duplica:select the text whose characters you want to copy and choose Copy Special –> Unstyled Text.Locate the place where you want to place it,select Paste Special –> Unstyled Text or Paste Special Again.The transferred text now has the attributes of the new insertion point.

Copy and Paste Picture Attributes

Duplica allows you to copy and paste picture attributes just as you do character and paragraph attributes.For example,the Offset and the Color of a picture are picture attributes.

Select a picture,then Copy Special –> Picture: Certain attributes are only available if the picture format allows them.

Copy and Paste Box Attributes

Duplica allows you to copy and paste a variety of attributes for all kinds of boxes,including anchored boxes.When a box is selected – either with the Item or Content tool – you can choose Copy Special –> Box.The following dialog appears: You can copy box attributes only when a single box is selected,not a group of boxes.However, you can paste box attributes onto a single or group of boxes.

When you paste a certain box attribute with Duplica,all the other attributes that you are not pasting remain unchanged. For example, if you paste only the Angle attribute,the across and down offsets of the box will still be the same.

NOTE:The box Origin Across and Origin Down attributes are measured from the left side of the page (not the spread).This is an absolute value,independent of the ruler origin location.

When you check the options Add Width to Origin Across or Add Height to Origin Down,the box width/height will be added to the origin value (only available for boxes with no angle or skew applied).Use these options to place boxes exactly below or to the right of the original boxes (captions, for example).

The box Frame attributes include Width, Style, Color, Shade, and Gap.

The box Points attribute are the Bézier points that make up the actual Bézier box.Note that,in most cases,you will select this attribute along with the Shape attribute to guarantee that the box is converted to a Bézier box.That is,if you paste the Points attribute of a Bézier box onto a rectangular box without pasting the Shape attribute,nothing will happen,because a rectangular box cannot contain Bézier points (you must change its shape first).

Copy and Paste Line Attributes

In many ways lines behave like boxes.So you will see that copying and pasting line attributes is similar to copying and pasting box attributes.

As with boxes,you can copy attributes only when a single line is selected,not a group of lines. However,you can paste attributes onto a single line or grouped lines.

When you select any type of line – including anchored lines – with the Item or Content tools,you can perform Copy Special –> Line.This dialog appears:

Depending on the line shape – regular, orthogonal or Bézier – you will see that certain options are not available.For example, First Point and Last Point attributes are only available for regular or orthogonal lines,whereas Angle, Skew,and Point are only available for Bézier lines.

The First/Last Point Across and First/Last Point Down attributes are the coordinates across/down of the first/last point of the line measured from the left/top side of the page (not the spread).This is an absolute value,independent of the ruler origin location.You can even copy and paste this attribute with anchored lines.

NOTE:See discussion under Copy and Paste Box attributes for Origin Across/Down,Points and Shape attributes.

Copy and Paste Page Attributes

Duplica even allows you to copy and paste horizontal and vertical guides.These now become “page attributes.”With any document open,you can choose Copy Special –> Page and a dialog appears.

Horizontal and Vertical Page Guides refer to guides that are created within the page limits; Horizontal and Vertical Spread Guides are the ones created in the pasteboard area.

Once you copy page attributes,you can go to other pages in document (including master pages) and choose Paste to apply the guides you recently copied.

The page whose guides you are copying (or pasting into) is the current page.You can determine the current page at any given moment by looking at the lower left corner of your document window.

Cloning Boxes and Lines with Duplica

You can clone any type of box or line using Duplica’s powerful Clone feature.Cloning an item is similar to using XPress’s Step and Repeat command,but Duplica allows you to specify several other attribute offsets that can be modified with each duplication. For an item selected with the Content or Item tools,choose Clone.The following dialog appears: This dialog allows you to enter values for different item attribute incremental offsets.An item attribute incremental offset is the value that will be added (or subtracted) from the previous attribute value to generate the new cloned item.For example,cloning a box that has a 1pt frame with a Frame Width offset of 1pt means that the frame will increase 1pt with each duplication,resulting in cloned boxes with 2pt,3pt,4pt,...frame widths.

Specifying Incremental Offsets

Here’s a description of each of the clone incremental offsets:

Across The offset Across the page.This is identical to Step and Repeat’s Horizontal Offset. Down The offset Down the page.This is identical to Step and Repeat’s Vertical Offset. Width (Boxes and Bézier lines only) The box or Bézier line Width increment.

Height (Boxes and Bézier lines only) The box or Bézier line Height increment. Width (Boxes and Bézier lines only) The box or Bézier line Width increment. Angle (Boxes and Bézier lines only) The box or Bézier line Angle increment. Skew (Boxes and Bézier lines only) The box or Bézier line Skew increment. Corner Radius (Rectangular boxes only) The box Corner Radius increment.

Frame Width / Line Width For boxes,this is the Frame Width increment;for lines,this is the Line Width increment.

Shade For boxes,this is the background Shade increment;for lines,it’s the line Shade increment. Frame (Boxes only) The box frame Shade increment.

Rotating an Item Around a Point

A unique Duplica feature allows you to rotate and clone an item around a point within a page,just the way illustration programs do.You can use any of the previously described incremental offsets simultaneously with each cloned item rotation.

The rotation will take place around the Rotation Point within the page.You specify the rotation point by entering the values in the Point Across and Point Down fields.These values are measured from the edge of the page,independent of the location of the ruler origin.With each step,you also have to specify the angle that will be used to rotate the cloned item in relation to the previous one.You do this by entering a value in the Angle Step field: In this case,the rotation point is 7p across from the left side of the page and 20p down from the top of the page and each item will be rotated 45º around it.

The rotation always takes place from the center of the item to the rotation point.

Specifying Copies

To specify the number of copies you want to make,enter a number from 1 to 199 in the Count field.There are also two check buttons that you can set on and off:if you check the Paste Behind button,each cloned copy will be placed behind the previous one,or on top of the previous one if you uncheck it;checking the Group button will group all the cloned copies (except the original), otherwise they will remain ungrouped.

Cloning “Zero Copies”

As a “bonus”you can also enter 0 (zero) in the Count field of the Clone dialog.You may have already guessed what this does:it will modify the original item with the offsets and/or rotation that you specified without creating any clone.

Here’s a case in which you may find this feature useful:let’s suppose you want to increase the width of a box from its center until a certain overflow text fits in it.Just enter 1pt (or any appropriate value) in the Width Boundary Offset field (0.5 pt for the left side and 0.5 pt for the right side), and 0 in the Count field.Keep selecting Clone Again until the text fits the box.

Preferences

To access Duplica preferences,select Edit –> Preferences –> Application –> Badia Duplica,or click on the bottom button of the Duplica palette.

Display Paste Special error messages: When checked,any errors that occur while pasting attributes will be reported (see “Warning and Error Messages”).Uncheck this button to ignore those errors. Display Clone error messages: When checked,any errors that occur while cloning items will be reported (see “Warning and Error Messages”).Uncheck this button to ignore those errors.

Warnings and Error Messages

One or more cloned items cannot be pasted because they are off the pasteboard.

Some items can not be cloned during the clone operation because they fall outside the pasteboard area.However,Duplica clones as many items as it can.

One or more attributes cannot be pasted because: _________

An error occurs while attempting to paste an attribute.Some attributes may be applied,since Duplica stops only when QuarkXPress reports an error.

One or more attributes cannot be pasted because errors occurred, including: _________ Errors occurred while attempting to paste attributes in a multiple item selection and the last of those errors is displayed.Duplica pasted as many attributes as it could with the rest of the items. Cannot paste the attribute Color because the color _________ does not exist in this document. You are attempting to paste the Color attribute of a color name that no longer exists.Duplica will not paste this attribute.

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Editing: Ian Scott

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