QuarkXPress Advanced

Quark XPress is powerful layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with colour and pictures to produce dynamic final output. Quark XPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalogue houses, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing requirements.

Course Content

Typography

• Using typographic shortcuts
• Default and document style sheets
• Setting kerning defaults
• Setting tracking defaults
• Using Hyphenation and justification
• Solving layout problems
• Exporting text to other applications

Page layout

• Forcing text into a specified shape
• Handling complex layouts
• Customising text wrap
• Options for linking text blocks
• Creating complex forms and tables
• Uses of the Constrain command
• Copying pages in thumbnail view

Document handling

• Monitoring and editing font usage
• Advanced text box linkage
• Monitoring imported graphics
• Modifying imported graphics
• Customising halftone screens

Master pages

• How master pages work in Quark
• Duplicating Page masters
• Editing the default master
• Double and single page masters
• Using an automatic text box
• Creating master page items
• Renaming master pages
• Adding page numbers
• Working with multiple masters

Working with long documents

• Defining a list
• Setting list options
• Using the List palette
• Generating a list
• Creating a table of contents
• Marking text for Index inclusion
• Creating an index
• Creating and using books
• Creating a library
• Adding items to a library
• Labeling library items
• Inserting library items
• Creating templates
• Special effects

Placing text on a path

• Customising shapes
• Customising clipping and runaround
• Creating typographic effects
• Converting text into picture boxes
• Creating dual coloured letters
• Using anchored text and graphics
• Creating custom bullets

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