Training Program Details
Overview of QuarkXPress
-When to use QuarkXPress
-The standard workspace
-Files, Projects and Layouts
-Palettes and Preferences
Document Basics
-Working in Projects and Layouts
-Document navigation
-Layout Properties...
-Creating a new Project
-Saving options
Text Boxes
-Creating boxes
-Inserting text
-Importing text
-Preparing images for print
-Placing images
-Changing image properties
Editing and formatting text
-Character and Paragraph option in the Measurements palette
-Character options in the style menu
-Paragraph options in the style menu
-Text options in the Modfiy dialogue
-Basline grids
Defining master pages
-Using the Pages Layout palette
-Adding elements to a Master
Text box linking and flowing documents
-Page numbering
-Creating sections for variable numbering
-Linking text boxes
-Creating "from" and "to" fields
Typography
-Kerning and Tracking
-Leading
-Hyphenation and Justification sets
-Typography pitfalls
Style Sheets
-Creating a Paragraph style
-Creating a Character style
-Applying styles
-Editing styles
-Changing default styles
Colour Swatches and Gradients
-Adding a CMYK swatch
-Pitfalls with QuarkXPress's default colours
-Working with spot colours
-Changing default colours
-Creating colour tints
-Creating colour gradients
Preparing pictures for print
-Image size, resolution and cropping
-RGB or CMYK?
-Sharpening for print
-Saving options: TIFF, EPS, PDF and JPEG
Picture boxes
-Drawing picture boxes
-Runaround options for images
-Embedded paths and Alpha Channels
-Reshaping picture boxes
-Changing box content
Picture Effects
-New image import options
-Modifying image attributes
-Adding filters to images
-Loading and saving presets
-Creating outlines from text
Layout features
-Aligning objects
-Duplicate
-Step and Repeat
Tables
-Creating tables
-Creating tables from existing tabbed data
-Reverting data to tabulated data
-Table format options
-Cell format options
-Colouring cells and strokes
Outputting
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