QuarkXpress 8: Introduction 2 Days

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    Course

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Duration

    2 Days

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DAY 1

Overview of QuarkXPress
  • When to use QuarkXPress

  • The standard workspace

  • Files, Projects and Layouts

  • Palettes and Preferences

  • Using keyboard shortcuts


Document Basics

  • Working in Projects and Layouts

  • Document navigation

  • Layout Properties...

  • Creating a new Project

  • Saving options


Content Boxes

  • Creating boxes

  • Manipulating boxes 

  • Inserting text

  • Importing text

  • Preparing images for print

  • Placing images

  • Dragging and dropping images

  • Changing image properties


Editing and formatting text

  • Character and Paragraph option in the Measurements palette

  • Character options in the style menu

  • Paragraph options in the style menu

  • Text options in the Modify dialogue

  • Baseline grids


Defining master pages

  • Using the Pages Layout palette

  • Adding elements to a Master 


Text box linking and flowing documents

  • Page numbering

  • Creating sections for variable numbering

  • Linking text boxes

  • Creating "from" and "to" fields


Typography

  • Kerning and Tracking

  • Leading

  • Hyphenation and Justification sets

  • Typography pitfalls

  • OpenType fonts and ligatures

  • Glyphs

  • Hanging characters

  • Drop caps


Style Sheets

  • Creating a Paragraph style

  • Creating a Character style

  • Applying styles

  • Editing styles

  • Changing default styles

  • Item styles
  • Import/Export/Save styles
DAY 2
Colour Swatches and Gradients

  • Adding a CMYK swatch

  • Pitfalls with QuarkXPress's default colours

  • Working with spot colours

  • Changing default colours

  • Creating colour tints

  • Creating colour gradients


Preparing pictures for print

  • Image size, resolution and cropping

  • RGB or CMYK colour mode?

  • Sharpening for print

  • Saving options: TIFF, EPS, PDF and JPEG


Picture boxes

  • Drawing picture boxes

  • Runaround options for images

  • Embedded paths and Alpha Channels

  • Reshaping picture boxes


Graphic Effects

  • Modifying image attributes

  • Working with opacity

  • Creating blends with transparency

  • Applying drop shadows

  • Customizing drop shadows 

  • Importing and working with PSD files

  • Dragging and dropping selections from a PDF file

  • Loading and saving presets


Layout features

  • Synchronisation of content

  • Split views of projects

  • Aligning objects

  • Duplicate functions

  • Step and Repeat


Composition Zones

  • Creating a Composition Zone

  • Sharing a Composition Zone

  • Editing a composition layout

  • Using collaboration setup


Tables

  • Creating tables

  • Creating tables from existing tabbed data

  • Reverting data to tabulated data

  • Table and cell format options

  • Importing excel tables

  • Colouring cells and strokes


Job Jacket Overview

  • Job Jackets explained

  • Benefits of Job Jackets

  • Sample Job Jacket workflow


Outputting

  • Collecting files for output

  • QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes

  • Creating a PDF for proof and for print




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