Quarkxpress introduction
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In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Level
Beginner
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Days
This course is an introduction to page layout using QuarkXPress. We will guide you through a wide variety of techniques used for creating single page newsletters to multi-page presentation documents. QuarkXPress is the industry standard page-layout application.
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About this course
Good Mac or PC skills - This is an introduction course.
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Course programme
This course is an introduction to page layout using QuarkXPress. We will guide you through a wide variety of techniques used for creating single page newsletters to multi-page presentation documents. QuarkXPress is the industry standard page-layout application.
Prerequisites
Good Mac or PC skills - This is an introduction course.
Course Content Creating Projects
- View options & shortcuts
- Using guidelines
- Palettes & their keyboard shortcuts
- Item, type & picture tool modes
- Context Menus and Measurements palette
- Drawing items
- Positioning items
- Resizing / Rotating items
- OpenType and Unicode
- Inputting text
- Viewing invisibles
- Selecting text
- Undo, cut, copy, paste
- Importing text
- Selecting fonts & font sizes
- Scaling text
- Kerning/tracking
- Leading
- Baseline shift
- Indents
- Indent here invisible
- Hanging characters
- Space before/after
- Working with drop caps
- Text inset
- First baseline
- Vertical alignment
- Baseline grids / Grid styles
- Flipping text
- Multiple column boxes
- Linking/unlinking text boxes
- Controlling text flow
- Inserting tabs
- Setting tab ruler markers
- Adding/deleting tabs
- Adding fill characters
- Using paragraph rules
- Creating tables
- Modifying tables
- Converting text to tables
- Working with gridlines
- Grouping tables
- Introduction to colour
- Creating & naming colours
- Adding a frame
- Using the colours palette
- Using Item-Modify for colour
- Using graduated blends
- Creating straight lines
- Modifying straight line
- Importing pictures
- Drag/drop Import
- Interactive resizing / scaling / cropping pictures
- Picture file formats
- QuarkVista
- Setting transparency for text
- Setting transparency for pictures & picture boxes
- Drop Shadow XTension
- Applying drop shadow effects
- Use of None & Item modes
- Aligning text to picture bounds, auto image & embedded path
- Duplicate and Step & Repeat
- Working with layers
- Selecting through layers
- Synchronising items between layouts
- Locking Items
- Creating a new library
- Copying to & from a library
- Listing library contents
- Creating character styles
- Creating paragraph styles
- Creating item styles
- Applying styles
- Duplicating styles
- Using based on styles
- Single & spread masters
- Modifying master guides
- Creating master items
- Creating master design grids
- Automatic page numbering
- Using multiple master pages
Quarkxpress introduction