Advanced QuarkXPress 7.0 for print

Objectives

To learn techniques that speed up the creation of more complex documents and exploit the typographic and colour control offered by Quark XPress 7.0.


Pre-requisites:

A good working knowledge of XPress and a clear idea of the structure required for the documents to be created.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Text & Typography


· Setting a baseline grid
· Locking/Aligning text to a grid
· Kerning/tracking table edit
· En & Em space/dashes
· Customising the flex space


Hyphenation and Justifications


· Creating and applying H & Js
· Non-breaking hyphens
· Hyphenation exceptions
· Find/change & search criteria
· Text Flow


Advanced Runaround


· Running text around embedded paths
· Alpha channels and clipping options
· Running text around all sides


Bezier boxes and lines


· Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
· Editing Bezier points and segments
· Changing boxes to Bezier items
· Drawing freehand lines/boxes


Text paths


· Creating text paths
· Aligning text on a path
· Creating Bezier shapes from text
· Creating picture boxes from text


Working with table


· Creating/Formatting
· Adding table content
· Converting text to tables
· Importing table data from Excel


Graphics and Images


· Full Res and EPS Preview
· Importing Photoshop psd and PDF files
· Using Quark Vista Extensions


Printing


* New and Advanced print options
· Making postscript files for Distilling to PDF







Advanced item and miscellaneous features


· Merging/splitting items
· Changing item content
· Flipping asymetrical items
· Style sheets advanced
· Master pages advanced
· Creating an index
· Creating lists and tables of contents
· Creating books


Advanced colour features


· Features of spot/process/multi-ink models
· Colour management preferences
· Introduction to Trapping
· Setting trapping preferences
· Trapping exceptions colour by colour
· Trapping exceptions item by item


PDF files


· Importing & Exporting PDF files


Pre-Press checks


· Font/picture usage
· Colour separation
· Collect for output
· Proof printing
· Creating crop/cut marks
· Page set-up & print options
· PPD manager
· Capturing print settings
· Print style


Projects and Layouts


· Layout Properties
· Defining Preferences and Defaults
· Naming/Saving


Working with tables


· Working with Layers
· Creating/Managing/Deleting/Merging
· Moving items between layers
· Printing layers
· Visual Indicators


Keyboard Shortcuts