QuarkXPress 7 - Job Jackets and Job Tickets

QuarkXPress 7 isn't just a revolutionary upgrade for designers; it contains a vast range of new features for studio and production managers and service providers as well. Among the most exciting of key areas where QuarkXPress has changed is the addition of Job Jackets. In this one-day course we'll examine in detail how to exploit this powerful new addition to the leading DTP package.

Job Jackets allow workgroups to maintain consistency between related projects. In a nutshell, they provide a designer with a set of digital guidelines that ensure a QuarkXPress project is created according to the specifications of the final output device that it is destined for, the logic being that it's better to stop errors from happening in the first place than to correct them after they've happened. Projects can now be synchronised with dynamically update-able design specifications that include everything from style sheets and colours to page size and count. If you're organising a workflow where several people work at once on a single or related projects, and you want to avoid the miscommunication, ambiguous specifications and mistakes that often occur at the prepress stage, then learning about QuarkXPress 7 Job Jackets will dramatically improve your workflow.

In this one-day course, you'll learn about the key area of Job Jacket creation and implementation: Job Jackets, Output Styles, Job Tickets and Project Linking as well as on-the-go job evaluation and job jacket/ticket modification. By the end of this course you will be able to use the full range of QuarkXPress 7's new tools to produce a more reliable and streamlined workflow than ever before.

Output Styles
-Creating PDF Output Styles
-Creating Print Output Styles
-Creating EPS Output Styles

Job Jacket Manager
-Overview of the Job Jacket Manager
-Creating new Job Jackets
-Adding contacts
-Appending/Creating Style Settings
-Adding Layout Specifications: Pages, Margins, Spreads, Inks etc.

Advanced Settings
-Loading Resources
-Adding Output Styles
-Adding Output Specifications to your Job Jacket
-Adding Output Methods, Styles, Colour Spaces etc.

Job Jacket Rules to evaluate your work
-Adding Rules from the Resources Pane: Colours, Fonts, Paths etc.
-Creating Rule Sets

Job Tickets and Ticket Templates
-Creating New Job Tickets in the Job Jacket Manager
-Adding Design Resources
-Adding Output Specifications
-Adding Rules
-Adding other resources

Document Creation with Job Jackets
-Creating new Projects from Tickets

Document Evaluation
-Evaluating layouts
-Finding and correcting errors - Show case

Document Outputting
-Using Output Job...
-Testing for PDF/X compliance on export

Modifying Job Specification on-the-go
-Linking Existing Projects
-Modifying Job Tickets
-Sharing Job Jackets

Job Jacket Preferences
-Setting Preferences