QuarkXpress Level 2
Short course
In Washington
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
Washington
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Duration
1 Day
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 list functions.
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About this course
Delegates should have attended the Level 1 course or have equivalent knowledge
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Course programme
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 list functions.
Prerequisites
- Delegates should have attended the Level 1 course or have equivalent knowledge
- QuarkXpress Level 1 ()
- Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
- Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
- 1 delegate per computer
- Lunch (When at our training venue)
- Refreshments (When at our training venue)
- Relaxed refreshment area at our training room
Creating A New Document
- Extension management
- Customising preferences
- The append command
- Text and typography
- 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
- Creating and applying H & Js
- Non-breaking hyphens
- Hyphenation exceptions
- Find/change and search criteria
- Advanced runaround
- Running text around embedded paths
- Alpha channels and none white areas
- Running text around all sides
- Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
- Editing Bezier points and segments
- Changing boxes to Bezier items
- Drawing freehand lines/boxes
- Creating text paths
- Aligning text on a path
- Creating Bezier shapes from text
- Creating picture boxes from text
- Merging/splitting items
- Changing item content
- Flipping asymmetrical items
- Document management
- Style sheets advanced
- Master pages advanced
- Creating an index
- Creating lists and tables of contents
- Creating books
- Options of hexachrome and POCE
- Using libraries for colour swatches
- Colour management basics
- Colour management preferences
- Using profile manager
- Using the colour profile palette
- Features of spot and process models
- Setting trapping preferences
- Trapping exceptions colour by colour
- Trapping exceptions item by item
- Font/picture usage
- Colour separation
- Collect for output
- Proof printing
- Creating crop/cut marks
- Page set-up options
- PPD manager
- Print options
- Capturing print settings
- Print styles
QuarkXpress Level 2