QuarkXPress Introduction

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 Contents

Overview

• Creating and saving a document
• Opening and Closing a file
• Overview of features
• Using the 'box' concept of page -layout
• Measurements
• Colours
• Page set-up
• Print Preview and Print
• Using the help menu

Text handling

• The XPress text box
• Changing the style of text
• Using style sheets
• Tabs and indentation
• Cut, Copy and Paste
• Using Find and replace
• Spell-checker
• Automatic and manual text chains

Style sheets

• Paragraph styles
• Character styles
• Defining style by example
• Creating paragraph style
• Setting character & paragraph attributes
• Using Rules and tabs
• Linking styles
• Setting and Using keyboard shortcuts
• Applying and updating styles

Tables

• Creating tables
• Formatting table cells
• Adding images to tables
• Inserting rows and columns
• Setting gridlines
• Convert Text to Table

Page layout

• The document layout palette
• Importing text and graphics
• Modifying text and graphics boxes
• Frame and runaround options
• Step and repeat, Group and Lock
• Creating and applying colours
• Editing imported graphics
• Embedding objects
• Using master pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating sections in a document
• Defaults and preferences

Colours

• Defining new colours
• Document vs. default colours
• RGB vs. CMYK colours
• Spot vs. process colours
• Defining Pantone colours
• Setting the fill colour
• Applying colour to text

Typography

• Kerning and tracking
• Leading and baseline shift
• Horizontal scale
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Text rotation
• Vertical justification
• Using the baseline grid