QuarkXPress 7 - One Day Upgrade and New Features Training

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

New Interface Overview
-Measurements Palette additions
-Palette Grouping, Sets and Snapping
-Layer Colours
-Space/Align items dialog box

Transparency, drop shadows & alpha masking
-Working with opacity
-Creating blends with transparency
-Drop shadow features for boxes, lines and text
-Customising drop shadows
-Using alpha channels in TIF and PSD files
-Using custom masks

Expanded image effects
-Using QuarkVista for image adjustments
-Working with raster EPS files
-Alpha channel effects
-Contrast and negative features
-Curve adjustments with point values
-Synchronise picture attributes
-Retain attributes when replacing picture

Multi-user page composition
-Project collaboration with Composition Zones
-Export Composition Zones
-Edit Composition Zones
-Share Composition Zones or layouts
-Include a Composition Zone as shared content

Job control with Job Jackets
-Concept behind Job Jackets
-Working with provided Job Jackets
-Job Jacket Manager

Please note the creation of Job Jackets is a large subject area which can only partially be covered in this one day course.

For production managers looking to develop Job Jackets, please refer to the production course for QuarkXPress 7 with the focus on Job Jackets.

Typography Enhancements
-OpenType fonts and expanded character sets
-Unicode fonts
-Glyphs palette
-Updated character attributes window
-Import text dialog box
-Access to special characters

New Synchronisation options
-Synchronisation of content and attributes
-Synchronisation for picture and text boxes
-Shared content palette
-Shared item properties

Multiple layout views
-Window menu
-Horizontal/vertical splitting of project
-Different windows for same project

Table Enhancements
-Split non-anchored tables
-Auto-synchronised headers & footers for continued tables
-Auto expand to fit cells
-Rotate table
-Group table

Colour Management Features
-Default colour management settings
-Proof output as Grayscale, composite RGB, CMYK or CMYK and Spot
-Colour management settings from Job Jackets

Expanded output options and styles
-Output to PDF, HTML, XHTML, XSLT, XML and PPML
-Export Layout as PDF
-PDF/X output inc PDF/X 1a and 3
-Embedding fonts in EPS files