COURSE TITLE:
QuarkXPress Training UK
LEVEL:
Introduction : Intermediate : Advanced
COURSE LENGTH:
1 day
COURSE PRICES:
*All prices quoted exclude VAT
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Quark XPress allows you to do your own in-house desktop publishing in a professional and easy manner to help you save time and money. Quark XPress is a market leader in desktop publishing software. With 2 days of training it is easy to use to quite a professional level. Use Quark XPress to create your own business cards, letterheads, brochures or reports. Always make sure you are using the same desktop publishing software as your commercial printers use - this will save you time and money!
Advanced Quark XPress - to cover all topics on the advanced course would require 2 days of training.
Use the list below to choose the topics you wish to cover on a one day course. |
Introduction Level
QuarkXPress basics:
Navigate the screen
Set default preferences
Setup a new document
Use the toolbox
Work with views
Control the ruler:
use guides & reset zero point
Text boxes:
Create & manipulate text boxes
Apply frames to boxes
Specify box attributes
Use the measurement palette
Import text
Link text boxes
The automatic text box
Character format features:
Learn about typographical terms:
typeface, typestyle, point size,
baseline, leading, tracking & kerning
Cut, copy & paste
Paragraph format features:
Set alignment & drop caps
Create and apply bullets
Use indents
Set-up and modify tabs
Create and modify rules (ruled lines)
Character & paragraph style sheets:
Create & apply style sheets
Copy & edit style sheets
Append style sheets between documents
Print features:
Document set-up
Printer properties
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Intermediate Level
Picture boxes:
Create & modify picture boxes
Import & manipulate images
Learn about file formats:
eps, tiff, bmp, jpg, gif
Use the measurement palette
Resize & crop images
Apply runarounds: to control the way text wraps around images
Work with colour:
Apply colour to frames & images
Blend background colours
Change colour shades
Text along paths:
Create straight & curved paths
Modify text position & orientation
Edit curved paths
Master pages:
Use the document layout palette
Work with single-sided masters
Create and apply master pages
Customise master pages
Duplicate and modify master pages
Work with double-sided masters
Tables:
Creating tables
Modifying tables
Text and images in tables
Insert automatic page numbering
Insert section breaks
Modify page numbering per section
Printing QuarkXPress files
Understanding collect for output
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Advanced Level
Power usage of keyboard shortcuts
Colour and the print process
Understand calibration
Work with process and spot colour models
Create multi inks
Create colour separations
Understand trapping
Mastering master pages
Understand linking and the automatic text box
Use continued on and from counters
Numbering documents and sections
using automatic counters
Understand and set preferences:
general, paragraph, character, tools and trapping
Understand and apply automatic,
incremental and absolute leading
Set and apply a baseline grid
Control widows and orphans
Edit kerning and tracking tables
Manual kerning and kerning tables
Understand and apply hyphenation and justification
Applying various hyphenation settings to paragraphs & styles
Specify non-breaking hyphens,
hyphenation exceptions
and discretionary hyphens
Using em & en dashes, & spaces
Explore and use the book feature
Understand the index palette
Generate and format a table of contents
Understand different scopes
Order levels of indices
Create nested and run-in indices
Automatically punctuate tables of contents and indices
Create, edit and use libraries
Use libraries to append elements in a document
Use the different line tools
Scalable custom dashes & stripes
Stepping and repeating objects
Finding and changing words,
attributes, invisible characters,
unwanted paragraph breaks, tabs
Advanced usage of style sheets
Manage styles across documents
Create an auxiliary dictionary
Edit an auxiliary dictionary
Explore bézier drawing tools
Work with different bézier tools
Specify and manipulate types of points and segments
Convert and manipulate boxes and type into bézier paths
Add and delete bézier points
Create clipping paths manually and automatically
Edit imported clipping paths
Explore advanced text and image runaround options
Customise TIFF images
Change contrast for different colour channels
Change an image to a negative
Save pages as EPS files
Power usage of the merge and split options: union, intersection, difference, reverse difference, exclusive or, combine, join endpoints
Work with the align palette
Create inline graphics
Use Collect for Output and generating an output report
Use font usage
Use picture usage
Update picture files
Create print styles
Printing files
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