Chapter 11. Where Text Meets Graphics
It’s a curious place, the wild frontier. Whether it’s the border between Mexico and the United States, or the border between our tiny planet and the great unknown of space, we humans strive to conquer and control. This book takes a slightly more microcosmic stance: we’re only trying to conquer and control the text and graphics on a page. Nonetheless, it’s a task that has been known to make designers shudder. This chapter will show you how this seemingly hostile frontier can be easily subdued.
In QuarkXPress, text and graphics on a page can interact in four ways.
They can be positioned so that they don’t interact at all.
They can intrude on each another, with either the picture or the text prevailing (the text ...
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