Use Jabberwocky to quickly fill your text boxes (QuarkXPress)

For those of you not up on children’s literature, Jabberwocky is a form of gibberish. In QuarkXPress, it’s an Xtension that makes adding dummy text fast and customizable. When you’re doing a rough layout and you need to fill some text boxes in your project, you can have Jabberwocky do the work for you. You can choose to use English, Esperanto, Klingon, or Latin and you can choose to jabber in prose or verse. You can also create your own jabber.

To specify the kind of text you want to insert:

1. Choose QuarkXPress [Edit in Windows] > Preferences and choose Jabberwocky from the Application list.
2. Select English, Esperanto, Klingon, or Latin in the When Jabbering, Use pop-up menu.
3. Choose Prose or Verse from the Jabber In pop-up menu and click OK.

To fill a text box, boxes, path, or paths with dummy text based on the Preferences you chose:

1. Choose the Content tool.
2. Click in the text box or path.
3. Choose Utilities > Jabber.

The text is inserted into the text area. The inserted text stops at the end of the text path, box, or text chain, and there isn’t any overflow text.