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Quark XPress 8 Introduction course
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Overview
This course is designed to introduce delegates to Desktop Publishing with Quark Xpress. It covers how to create publications for print using text layout, images and artwork to create professional looking publications such as brochures, leaflets, stationery, newsletters, posters, magazines, packaging and more.
Audience
Anyone needing an essential understanding of page layout techniques to design publications.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to create, edit and format effective publications.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge of Quark is assumed however familiarity with Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite products is useful.
Course Contents (2 days)
- Introduction to Desk Top Publishing Concepts
- The Quark Xpress interface & Tools
- Customise Your Workspace
- Set General Preferences
- Introducing tabs and rules
- Composition zones
- Manage Document Presets
- Using invisibles and guides
- Designing Documents
- Create a New Document
- Alter a Document's Layout –
Size, Margins, columns, gutters etc. - Create the Structure of a Document
- Develop Master Pages
- Creating and editing
- Page numbering
- Headers and Footers
- Using a combination of Master Pages
- Toggling - Master & Page View
- Manage Text and Graphic Placement
- Develop Layers
- Use Templates & Style Sheets
- Single & Multiple layouts
- Using Text Tools
- Add/Edit/Find Text
- Thread Text & changing Text Threads
- Creating Special Effects with text
- Format Characters/Paragraphs
- Runaround techniques
- Soft and hard returns
- Using space/align
- Framing Text and picture boxes
- Wrapping text around other items
- Linking/unlinking text boxes
- Anchored text boxes
- Using the Baseline Grid
- Manage Styles
- Working with Graphics and Pictures
- Utilising Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
- Utilise Colour
- Utilise Swatches
- Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes
- Cropping & rotating images
- Grouping
- Importing Text and Pictures
- The Job Jacket
- Creating various Publications
- E.g. Business Card, Headed Paper,
Poster, Leaflet, Newsletter/Magazine layout
- E.g. Business Card, Headed Paper,
- Managing Transparency
- Apply Transparency
- Apply Transparency Flattener Presets
- Using Tables
- Create a Table
- Modify & Format a table
- Tables with picture boxes
- Importing from Excel
- Working with beziers
- Creating custom shapes and paths
- Creating text on a path
- Using layers
- Using layers to isolate items that
should not print - The Layers palette
- Adding, removing and merging layers
- The Layer Attributes dialog box
- Using Keep Runaround in layers
- The Layer selection area
- Deleting Layers
- Using layers to isolate items that
- Context menus
- Activating a context menu
- Customising keyboard commands
- Visual indicators
- Document facilities
- Moving pages between documents
- Importing native Photoshop files
- Exporting as a PDF
- Printing
- Using the Palettes
- Typography
- Embedding fonts, colours & images
- Working with Job Jackets
- Print a Document
- Package Files
- Preview Output
- Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
- Keyboard Shortcuts and Tips