Course Overview
This two day Quark authorised
course is designed to provide new users of QuarkXPress 8 with an excellent
grounding in this immensely powerful desktop publishing application.
This
popular course covers 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.
This course covers creating 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 trouble-free
printing.
This is a comprehensive introduction for those new to
using QuarkXPress 8.
Course content
Day one
Introduction
QuarkXPress
8 tools
The QuarkXPress 8 interface
Documents and Projects
Single
and multiple layouts
Creating text and picture boxes
Importing text
and pictures
The Quark Job Jacket
Setting up pages in Quark
Setting
the page size and margins
The command icons
Columns and gutters
Positioning
the document origin
Quark's measurement systems
Using multiple undo
The
document layout palette
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
An
introduction to transparency
Using Master Pages
Creating and
editing Master Pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating headers and
footers
Using a combination of Master Pages
Toggling between Master
and Page View
Colour models
Creating custom colours
Creating
and formatting documents
Fonts, styles and sizes
Working with
templates
Leading and tracking values
Modifying text and picture
boxes
Using invisibles and guides
Setting Quark preferences
Introducing
tabs and rules
Composition zones
More text controls
Anchored
text boxes
Using the Baseline Grid
Questions and answers
Day
two
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 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 QuarkXPress
Automatically embedding fonts, colours and images for
trouble-free printing from QuarkXPress
Working with Job Jackets.
A
printing checklist
Questions and answers
