Quarkxpress introduction

Course

In London

£ 545 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Location

    London

  • 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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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2 Exmoor Street, W10 6BD

Start date

On request

About this course

Good Mac or PC skills - This is an introduction course.

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Course programme

Overview
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
Creating Items
  • Drawing items
  • Positioning items
  • Resizing / Rotating items
Type
  • OpenType and Unicode
  • Inputting text
  • Viewing invisibles
  • Selecting text
  • Undo, cut, copy, paste
  • Importing text
Typography
  • Selecting fonts & font sizes
  • Scaling text
  • Kerning/tracking
  • Leading
  • Baseline shift
Formatting Text
  • Indents
  • Indent here invisible
  • Hanging characters
  • Space before/after
  • Working with drop caps
Positioning Text within an Item
  • Text inset
  • First baseline
  • Vertical alignment
  • Baseline grids / Grid styles
  • Flipping text
Text Columns
  • Multiple column boxes
  • Linking/unlinking text boxes
  • Controlling text flow
Tabs
  • Inserting tabs
  • Setting tab ruler markers
  • Adding/deleting tabs
  • Adding fill characters
  • Using paragraph rules
Tables
  • Creating tables
  • Modifying tables
  • Converting text to tables
  • Working with gridlines
  • Grouping tables
Applying Colour
  • Introduction to colour
  • Creating & naming colours
  • Adding a frame
  • Using the colours palette
  • Using Item-Modify for colour
  • Using graduated blends
Lines
  • Creating straight lines
  • Modifying straight line
Pictures
  • Importing pictures
  • Drag/drop Import
  • Interactive resizing / scaling / cropping pictures
  • Picture file formats
  • QuarkVista
Transparency
  • Setting transparency for text
  • Setting transparency for pictures & picture boxes
Drop Shadows
  • Drop Shadow XTension
  • Applying drop shadow effects
Basic Runaround Options
  • Use of None & Item modes
  • Aligning text to picture bounds, auto image & embedded path
Working with Multiple Items
  • Duplicate and Step & Repeat
  • Working with layers
  • Selecting through layers
  • Synchronising items between layouts
  • Locking Items
Libraries
  • Creating a new library
  • Copying to & from a library
  • Listing library contents
Introduction to Style Sheets
  • Creating character styles
  • Creating paragraph styles
  • Creating item styles
  • Applying styles
  • Duplicating styles
  • Using based on styles
Introduction to Master Pages
  • Single & spread masters
  • Modifying master guides
  • Creating master items
  • Creating master design grids
  • Automatic page numbering
  • Using multiple master pages

Quarkxpress introduction

£ 545 + VAT