QuarkXpress 8: Introduction 2 Days
Course
In Southwark
Price on request
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Southwark
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Duration
2 Days
Facilities
Location
Start date
Southwark
(London)
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202 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NJ
Start date
On request
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Course programme
DAY 1
Overview of QuarkXPress
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When to use QuarkXPress
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The standard workspace
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Files, Projects and Layouts
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Palettes and Preferences
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Using keyboard shortcuts
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Working in Projects and Layouts
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Document navigation
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Layout Properties...
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Creating a new Project
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Saving options
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Creating boxes
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Manipulating boxes
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Inserting text
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Importing text
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Preparing images for print
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Placing images
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Dragging and dropping images
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Changing image properties
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Character and Paragraph option in the Measurements
palette
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Character options in the style menu
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Paragraph options in the style menu
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Text options in the Modify dialogue
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Baseline grids
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Using the Pages Layout palette
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Adding elements to a Master
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Page numbering
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Creating sections for variable numbering
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Linking text boxes
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Creating "from" and "to" fields
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Kerning and Tracking
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Leading
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Hyphenation and Justification sets
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Typography pitfalls
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OpenType fonts and ligatures
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Glyphs
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Hanging characters
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Drop caps
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Creating a Paragraph style
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Creating a Character style
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Applying styles
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Editing styles
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Changing default styles
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Item styles
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Import/Export/Save styles
Colour Swatches and Gradients
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Adding a CMYK swatch
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Pitfalls with QuarkXPress's default colours
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Working with spot colours
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Changing default colours
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Creating colour tints
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Creating colour gradients
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Image size, resolution and cropping
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RGB or CMYK colour mode?
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Sharpening for print
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Saving options: TIFF, EPS, PDF and JPEG
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Drawing picture boxes
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Runaround options for images
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Embedded paths and Alpha Channels
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Reshaping picture boxes
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Modifying image attributes
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Working with opacity
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Creating blends with transparency
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Applying drop shadows
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Customizing drop shadows
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Importing and working with PSD files
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Dragging and dropping selections from a PDF file
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Loading and saving presets
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Synchronisation of content
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Split views of projects
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Aligning objects
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Duplicate functions
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Step and Repeat
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Creating a Composition Zone
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Sharing a Composition Zone
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Editing a composition layout
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Using collaboration setup
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Creating tables
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Creating tables from existing tabbed data
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Reverting data to tabulated data
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Table and cell format options
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Importing excel tables
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Colouring cells and strokes
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Job Jackets explained
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Benefits of Job Jackets
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Sample Job Jacket workflow
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Collecting files for output
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QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes
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Creating a PDF for proof and for print
QuarkXpress 8: Introduction 2 Days
Price on request