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Provided by silicon beach training
This 2-day QuarkXpress Training Course provides a comprehensive coverage of the Quark page layout application. Quark is used worldwide to design and layout magazines, brochures and books. This instructor led Quark Training Course will provide you with all you need to know to combine text, pictures and other graphic elements, all of which together compose a page or series of pages.
On completion of this Quark training course the delegate will be able to use QuarkXpress to:
Design, layout and edit documents from single-page flyers and newsletters to multi-page magazines to books
Add and edit text and images
Create and add colour to the document
Use style sheets to simplify text styling
Output high resolution documents ready for print
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This QuarkXpress training coure will cover the following aspects of QuarkXpress through a series of demonstrations and project tasks:
Overview of QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress 8 tools
The QuarkXPress 8 interface
Documents and Projects
Single and multiple layouts
Creating text and picture boxes
Importing text and pictures
Document Basics
Working in Projects and Layouts
Document navigation
Layout Properties...
Creating a new Project
Saving options
Text and Graphics Features
Framing text and picture boxes
Rotating graphics
Cropping images
Wrapping text around items
Different types of runarounds
Grouping and multiple selections
Finding and changing text
Linking and unlinking text boxes
Image editing
An introduction to transparency
Editing & Formatting Text
Character and Paragraph options in the Measurements palette
Character options in the style menu
Paragraph options in the style menu
Text options in the Modify dialogue
Baseline grids
Defining Master Pages
Using the Pages Layout palette
Adding elements to a Master
Text Box Linking & 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
OpenType fonts and ligatures
Glyphs
Font Fallback
Style Sheets
Creating a Paragraph style
Creating a Character style
Applying styles
Editing styles
Changing default styles
Import/ Export/ Save styles
Using Master Pages
Creating and editing Master Pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating headers and footers
Using a combination of Master Pages
Toggling between Master and Page View
Colour Swatches & 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 colour mode?
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
Preparing images for print
Placing images
Changing image properties
Graphic Effects
Modifying image attributes
Working with opacity
Creating blends with transparency
Applying drop shadows
Customizing drop shadows
QuarkVista
Importing and working with PSD files
Loading and saving presets
Layout Features
Synchronisation of content
Split views of projects
Aligning objects
Duplicate functions
Step and Repeat
Composition Zones
Creating a Composition Zone
Sharing a Composition Zone
Editing a composition layout
Using collaboration setup
Tables
Creating tables
Creating tables from existing tabbed data
Reverting data to tabulated data
Table and cell format options
Importing excel tables
Colouring cells and strokes
Job Jacket Overview
Job Jackets explained
Benefits of Job Jackets
Quark 8 interactivity and Flash capability Overview
Outputting
Collecting files for output
QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes
Creating a PDF for proof and for print
Overview of QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress 8 tools
The QuarkXPress 8 interface
Documents and Projects
Single and multiple layouts
Creating text and picture boxes
Importing text and pictures
Document Basics
Working in Projects and Layouts
Document navigation
Layout Properties...
Creating a new Project
Saving options
Text and Graphics Features
Framing text and picture boxes
Rotating graphics
Cropping images
Wrapping text around items
Different types of runarounds
Grouping and multiple selections
Finding and changing text
Linking and unlinking text boxes
Image editing
An introduction to transparency
Editing & Formatting Text
Character and Paragraph options in the Measurements palette
Character options in the style menu
Paragraph options in the style menu
Text options in the Modify dialogue
Baseline grids
Defining Master Pages
Using the Pages Layout palette
Adding elements to a Master
Text Box Linking & 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
OpenType fonts and ligatures
Glyphs
Font Fallback
Style Sheets
Creating a Paragraph style
Creating a Character style
Applying styles
Editing styles
Changing default styles
Import/ Export/ Save styles
Using Master Pages
Creating and editing Master Pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating headers and footers
Using a combination of Master Pages
Toggling between Master and Page View
Colour Swatches & 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 colour mode?
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
Preparing images for print
Placing images
Changing image properties
Graphic Effects
Modifying image attributes
Working with opacity
Creating blends with transparency
Applying drop shadows
Customizing drop shadows
QuarkVista
Importing and working with PSD files
Loading and saving presets
Layout Features
Synchronisation of content
Split views of projects
Aligning objects
Duplicate functions
Step and Repeat
Composition Zones
Creating a Composition Zone
Sharing a Composition Zone
Editing a composition layout
Using collaboration setup
Tables
Creating tables
Creating tables from existing tabbed data
Reverting data to tabulated data
Table and cell format options
Importing excel tables
Colouring cells and strokes
Job Jacket Overview
Job Jackets explained
Benefits of Job Jackets
Quark 8 interactivity and Flash capability Overview
Outputting
Collecting files for output
QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes
Creating a PDF for proof and for print
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