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Web Page Layout
Layout Considerations
While QuarkXPress and BeyondPress give you powerful tools to create stunning and exciting Web pages, the web itself imposes limitations on how and what you can display. In most cases BeyondPress will automatically convert your page elements to the appropriate Web format (according to the settings in BeyondPress Preferences and any item-by-item overrides), but you should keep the following limitations in mind as you design your pages.
HTML Font limitations: HTML limits the number of font sizes that can be displayed (font sizes 1 through 7), and the fonts available on each user's system will determine which fonts can be displayed. BeyondPress converts your non-standard font sizes according to the settings in the BeyondPress Font Size Preferences. For font families, either limit font usage to standard fonts, or use TrueDoc font technology.
HTML layout limitations: Standard HTML provides no ability to overlap images, lines, or text boxes. If you overlap text, images, and/or lines and try to export, you will get a warning message in the Export Progress Window. You can overcome this limitation by enabling DHTML/CSS positioning in the BeyondPress Layout Preferences, by grouping elements in QuarkXPress, or by creating overlapping graphic and text elements in another application (like Illustrator or Freehand) and importing them into your layout.
HTML Runaround limitations: Standard HTML does not provide runaround of items as QuarkXPress does. To achieve the effect of runaround without using DHTML/CSS, anchor picture boxes in text, or position text and picture boxes so that they do not overlap.
HTML Rotated items or polygonal item limitations: HTML only allows for rectangular items. BeyondPress will convert polygonal image boxes and rotated images to rectangular images using the "bounding box" of the item. Keep in mind that although two rotated or polygonal items in QuarkXPress may not be overlapping, their bounding boxes may overlap. You should convert rotated text boxes to an image to maintain their appearance.
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