DAY ONE
INTRODUCTION
QUARKXPRESS BASICS
QuarkXPress tools
Importing pictures
Entering and importing text
Different shaped picture & text boxes
Using the Tabs bar
Controlling palettes
Creating palette groups
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
WORKING WITH CONTEXT MENUS
Activating a context menu
Customising keyboard commands
TEXT AND GRAPHICS FEATURES
Framing text and picture boxes
Rotating graphics
Locking items and contents
Maintaining picture attributes
Transparency and drop shadows
Cropping images
Using runaround
Applying Runaround to a cut-out
Grouping and multiple selections
Finding and changing text
Linking and unlinking text boxes
Selecting through a stack of objects
Arranging items in a stack
Image editing in QuarkVista
USING MASTER PAGES
Creating and editing master pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating headers and footers
Using combinations of Master Pages
Creating and deleting Master Pages
WORKING WITH COLOUR
Creating custom colours
Understanding spot and process colours
Creating, editing and appending colours
Creating colour blends
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
Creating a project from a Job ticket
Splitting and creating new windows
Creating a template
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
DAY TWO
FURTHER TEXT CONTROLS
Paragraph and character style sheets
Versatile typography with OpenType
The Glyphs palette
Using special characters
Changing character case
Style sheets with templates
Runaround techniques
Soft and hard returns
Using space/align
Using the QuarkXPress library
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
The purpose of visual indicators
DOCUMENT FACILITIES
Single and Multiple layouts
Copying between layouts
Moving pages between documents
Importing native Photoshop files
PRINTING FROM QUARKXPRESS
Automatically embedding fonts, colours and images for trouble-free
printing from QuarkXPress.
A printing checklist
Creating Output Styles
Exporting as a PDF
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
