Quarkxpress advanced

Overview
This is a fast moving, hands-on course for experienced QuarkXPress users who want to discover the most effective ways to work in a professional environment. You will look at items covered in the introductory course in more detail and explore the use of the Bezier and its functions.

Prerequisites
Delegates should have attended our QuarkXPress Introduction course or have a good working knowledge of QuarkXPress.

Course Content Type & Typography

• Understanding OpenType & Unicode
• Setting a baseline grid
• Locking text to a grid
• Aligning text within a grid
• Kerning/tracking table edit
• En & Em space/dashes
• Customising the flex space

H & J¹s

• Creating & applying H & J¹s
• 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 side

Bezier Boxes & Lines

• Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
• Editing Bezier points & segments
• Changing boxes to Bezier items
• Drawing freehand lines/boxes

Composition Zones

• Creating a composition zone
• Sharing a composition layout
• Linking to a composition layout in another project
• Editing a composition layout
• Deleting a composition layout

Text Paths

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

Items Advanced

• Merging/splitting items
• Changing item content
• Flipping asymmetrical items
• Working with tables
• Style sheets advanced
• Master pages advanced
• Creating an index
• Creating lists & tables of contents
• Creating books

Colour Advanced

• Features of spot & process models
• Colour management preferences
• Managing profiles
• Introduction to Trapping
• Setting Trapping preferences
• Trapping exceptions colour by colour
• Trapping exceptions item by item

Output

• Creating an output style
• Editing an output style
• EPS
• PDF
• PPML

Job Jackets

• Understanding Job Jackets
• What are Job Jackets?
• Job Tickets
• Job Ticket Templates
• Job Jackets workflow

Pre-Press Checks

• Font/picture usage
• Quark Fontstore
• Colour separation
• Collect for output
• Proof printing
• Creating crop/cut marks
• Page set-up options
• PPD manager
• Print options
• Capturing print settings
• Print styles