Quark XPress course
QuarkXPress 8: Introduction
Overview
This two day Quark authorised course is designed to provide users of QuarkXPress with an excellent grounding in this immensely powerful desktop publishing program.
A further two day Advanced QuarkXPress course is recommended for those who need to use Quark’s drawing, image editing and graphics features in depth. In this introductory course you will learn how to produce professional documentation ranging from single page newsletters to highly sophisticated magazine layouts.
The course covers all the major page layout and text handling features in QuarkXPress and highlights time-saving shortcuts and hints and tips from XPress professionals.
The course covers setting up page layouts from scratch, editing existing page layouts, working with templates, using text management features, making use of styles and master pages to save production time, working with colour, importing graphics and images, creating tables, using layers and preparing your project for print.
Course Content
DAY ONE
INTRODUCTION
QUARKXPRESS BASICS
QuarkXPress tools
Creating text and picture boxes
Entering and importing text
Different shaped picture boxes
Importing pictures
The Quark Job Jacket
SETTING UP PAGES IN QUARK
Setting the page size and margins
Columns and gutters
Positioning the document origin
Quark’s measurement systems
Using multiple undo
THE DOCUMENT LAYOUT PALETTE
Moving around the document
Creating and deleting pages
The Measurements palette
TEXT AND GRAPHICS FEATURES
Framing text and picture boxes
Rotating graphics
Cropping images
Wrapping text around items
Different types of runarounds
Grouping and multiple selections
Finding and changing text
Linking and unlinking text boxes
Image editing in QuarkVista
Controlling transparency
USING MASTER PAGES
Creating and editing master pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating headers and footers
COLOUR MODELS
Creating custom colours
CREATING AND FORMATTING DOCUMENTS
Fonts, styles and sizes
Text rotation and flips
Leading and tracking values
Modifying text and picture boxes
Using invisibles and guides
SETTING QUARK PREFERENCES
Typesetting preferences
Introducing tabs and rules
Using the rules
MORE TEXT CONTROLS
Re-shaping text boxes
Anchored text boxes
Using the Baseline Grid
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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DAY TWO
MORE ABOUT MASTER PAGES
Using combinations of Master Pages
Creating and deleting Master Pages
FURTHER TEXT CONTROLS
Paragraph and character style sheets
Style sheets with templates
Runaround techniques
Soft and hard returns
Using space/align
Using the QuarkXPress library
WORKING WITH COLOUR
Creating, editing and appending colours
Creating colour blends
WORKING WITH TABLES
The Table tool
Tables with picture boxes
Importing data from MS Excel
WORKING WITH BEZIERS
Creating custom shapes and paths
Creating text on a path
WORKING WITH LAYERS
Using layers to isolate items that should not print
The Layers palette
Adding, removing and merging layers
The Layer Attributes dialog box
Using Keep Runaround in layers
The Layer selection area
Deleting Layers
WORKING WITH CONTEXT MENUS
Activating a context menu
Customising keyboard commands
VISUAL INDICATORS
The purpose of visual indicators
DOCUMENT FACILITIES
Moving pages between documents
Importing native Photoshop files
Exporting as a PDF
PRINTING FROM QUARK XPRESS
Automatically embedding fonts, colours and images for trouble-free printing from QuarkXPress.
A printing checklist
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Course Fee: £435 + VAT
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