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Quark Xpress Advanced Onsite

in Highlander Ltd (England)

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£1,300 + VAT

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Course objectives:

This course is designed to improve your skills working with the advanced features and special functions of Quark Xpress. Covering some fairly complex issues, including managing your work flow, structuring documents, creating advanced style sheets, text and graphics, long documents and color output.

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Course details

Type Course Duration 1 Day
Method / place Contact course provider Blended
Suitability Graphic professionals who need an advanced understanding of page layout. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.
Course objectives This course is designed to improve your skills working with the advanced features and special functions of Quark Xpress. Covering some fairly complex issues, including managing your work flow, structuring documents, creating advanced style sheets, text and graphics, long documents and color output.
Requirements
We recommend that you be very comfortable with using QuarkXPress before taking this class and if possible have previously taken an introduction course.
Price £1,300 + VAT
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Course programme

Quark Xpress Advanced Onsite
Quark Xpress Advanced Onsite

QuarkXPress 7 boasts 160 new, innovative features. Now you can take control of transparency with total independence. Create visually stunning graphics from within QuarkXPress 7 — no need to switch to another application. Use the revolutionary Composition Zones functionality to collaborate with multiple users anywhere in the world on the same layout at the same time. Optimize your production workflows with new Job Jackets technology. Work faster with a streamlined user interface and dynamic design tools and more.

This course is designed to improve your skills working with the advanced features and special functions of this popular layout program. We will explore some fairly complex issues, including managing your work flow, structuring documents, creating advanced style sheets, text and graphics, long documents and color output.

Objectives
  • Customizing preferences, libraries and templates

  • Custom grids, copyfitting, kerning & tracking

  • Shapes, curves and gradients

  • Complex text elements

  • Text and graphics together

  • Advanced styles

  • Long documents

  • Management of output


    Course Outline
    Managing Workflow

  • QuarkXPress preferences

  • Application preferences

  • Document preferences

  • Libraries

  • Templates

  • Managing Images

    Structuring your Layouts

  • Grids

  • Using custom grids and template files

  • Copy and layout fitting

  • Kerning and Tracking

  • Type color

    Working with Shapes


  • Complex merging

  • Applying blends to merged objects

  • Advanced bezier tool techniques

    Complex Text Elements


  • Converting text to paths

  • Putting type inside of characterbased graphics

  • Text on paths

  • Text on curved paths

  • Text on circles or ovals

  • Digbats and type paths

    Text and Graphics Living Together

  • Coloring text and text boxes

  • Runarounds and clipping paths

  • Creating runarounds

  • Adjusting hyphenation and justification of runarounds

  • Kerning and tracking in runarounds

  • Alternatives to automatic runarounds

  • QuarkXpress clipping paths

  • Running text inside a picture’s contours

  • Anchored objects

    Advanced Style Sheets

  • Editorial priority

  • Building style sheets

  • Appending style sheets from another document

  • Style sheets and workflow

  • Creating character styles sheets

    Working with Long Documents

  • The importance of consistency

  • Starting with a primary master document

  • Books

  • Lists

  • Index creation prep

  • The index palette

    Managing Output

  • Workflow issues for printing

  • Working with print styles

  • Separations

  • Tiling

  • Halftoning

  • Using the PPD Manager

  • PostScript and QuarkXPress

  • Trapping

  • Save for Output issues

  • Output tips
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    Provider description
    Since 1995 Highlander has been offering award winning training for web developers, graphic designers, desktop publishers and other IT professionals. A large number of Highlander's training classes now come with a full six months post course access to our instructor led learning portal. This gives you access to course files, slides, exercises, course glossary, discussion forums real world samples and more, ensuring you continue developing your skills once you leave the classroom. Check the individual course overviews for details of what is included with your course, or speak to one of our training advisors.
    Advantages of studying with Highlander Ltd
    By only using instructors who are experts in their field with years of hands on experience to back up their formal qualifications, Highlander provides essential skills that are truly applicable to real world projects. As an Authorised Adobe Training Centre, many of the courses Highlander runs are the official curriculum supporting the Adobe Certified Expert and Macromedia Certified Professional qualifications, which are recognised industry qualifications for designers and developers, and a great way to add value to your organisation's professional standards and quality, not to mention the individual's own skills and value.
    Course provider history
    Over the last 13 years Highlander has built up an excellent reputation as a specialist provider of training and consulting services. The first ever UK company to win the 'Macromedia European Training Partner of the Year' award, accredited by the Institute of IT Training, an Authorised Adobe Training Centre and an authorised Quark Education Centre, Highlander is the UK's favourite Adobe training provider.
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    Highlander primarily specialises in the Adobe product range, Internet Marketing and open source solutions such as PHP/MySQL. The Adobe courses can be taken at both an introductory and expert level, making Highlander the best choice for developers with all levels of experience. Specialist subjects include: Acrobat, Captivate, Coldfusion, DreamWeaver, Fireworks, Flash, Flex, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Highlander also runs internet marketing workshops covering Google Analytics, Google Adwords and Search Engine Optimisation which provides all the necessary skills to effectively market your company online.

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