QuarkXpress 8: Introduction

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Duration

    1 Day

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Course programme




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



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