Quark Xpress Essentials

Quark Xpress Essentials

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.

Quark XPress Essentials is a 2 day course for beginners which starts with the basics and builds to an understanding of how you can increase your speed, skill and inventiveness using this great piece of software.

Objectives
Upon attending the course you will learn:

Using the toolbox, palettes, views, guides & navigation

Document layout

Working with text features

Pictures

Color management and Libraries

Effective page design

Advanced design techniques

Item placement and management

Putting it all together

Course Content
From Concept to Mechanicals

QuarkXPress and the QuarkXPress environment

Launching the program

Tools, menus, and palettes

The tool palette

Other tools

The menu bars

Other palettes

Guides, margins, and rulers

Viewing guides

Setting guides

Adjusting and removing guides

Other guide options

Understanding the rulers

Working with Files

Creating a new QuarkXPress document

Modifying the document setup

Saving files

Save options

Revert to saved

Other save options

Navigating QuarkXPress

Zooming in and out

Other frequently used shortcuts

Working with Objects

Creating simple boxes

Creating lines and shapes

Modifying shapes and content types

Editing simple elements

Modifying with color

Positioning elements

Duplicating elements

Moving items

Stacking order

Alignment

Manipulating elements

Modify dialog boxes vs. the measurement palette

Skew, scale, rotate, flip, and move elements

Applying transformations to figures

Working with Graphics

Creating basic objects in QuarkXPress. (objects include: polygon, rectangle, circle, lines)

Modifying graphics by using commands from the Elements menu.

Crop graphics by using various tools and procedures. (tools include: resizing a frame, Cropping tool, Frame options)

Colorizing and tinting imported graphics

Appropriate graphic file format to use

Working with Colour

Differences between spot and process colors, and the appropriate use for each type

Understanding when a color would be added to the Colors palette when importing a graphic

Import colors from another QuarkXPress file by using the Colors palette or the Utilities menu

Apply colors by using the Colors palette

Features available in QuarkXPress used for color management.

Working with Text

Selecting text

Using cut/copy/delete and pasting text

Navigating through text blocks

Overflow icon

Setting text inset value

Importing text files

Pasting text from the clipboard

Linking text boxes

Formatting text

Character attributes dialog box

Measurement palette

Horizontal spacing

Paragraph Formatting

Paragraph formats dialog box

Rules and paragraph rules

Setting tabs

Style Sheets

Character styles

Paragraph styles

Creating a new paragraph style sheet

Edit existing styles

Using the style sheets palette to apply styles

Images

Getting images onto the page

Importing a picture

Copy/cut and paste pictures

Scaling imported pictures

Modifying picture boxes

Using the measurements palette to scale

Cropping pictures

Anchored pictures

Picture usage

Status column messages for images

Locating a picture within a document

Updating pictures

Master Pages

Creating elements on master pages

Headers and footers

Modifying master page items on document pages

Reapplying master items

Creating Complex Shapes

The freehand tools

The bezier tools

Anchor points & segments

Closed and open paths

Working with curves

Merging shapes

Creating text on a path

Text on circles

Controlling the position of type on paths

Working with Colours and Frames

Frames and background colors

Using the colors palette

Defining colors blends

Frames

Working with Text Utilities

Spell checker

Dictionaries

Hyphenation and Justification

Using find/change

Double spaces after periods

Double returns

Smart quotes

Optimizing workflows

Printing and Packaging

Page setup dialog box

Printing your document