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QuarkXPress 7: Advanced
Print Design Courses |
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Public scheduled course £435
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This course is designed for those who have a working knowledge of QuarkXPress but need to get the most from this extremely powerful software. During this two day Quark authorised course you will explore Quark’s text handling controls in detail and cover the powerful drawing, document management and design tools.
The course also looks at the dos and don’ts of page layout, how to use Quark’s advanced typographic controls and highlights shortcuts designed to increase production speed and efficiency. This course is designed to turn users into power users.
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DAY ONE
Effective page design
• Dos and don’ts of page layout
• Merging content from different sources
Advanced text controls
• Controlling text flow
• Working with synchronised text
• Experimenting with indent options
• Using the Baseline Grid
• Advanced Styles management
• Advanced Runaround techniques
• Inverted clipping paths
• Reshaping text and picture boxes
• Converting text to outlines and filling with pictures or text
• Creating better looking Drop Caps
• Anchoring boxes and lines in text
Typographic controls
• Creating custom hyphenation and justification settings
• Saving and appending hyphenation and justification settings
• Using the hyphenation dictionary
• Using tabs in QuarkXPress
• Using drop shadows
• Using Rules in QuarkXPress
Colour and output
• Using Quark’s colour management systems
• Understanding RGB and CMYK
• What is the difference between the colour models?
• Colour matching in Quark
• Creating colour separations
• Spot colours and CMYK
Master Pages
• Using a combination of Master Pages
• Tips and tricks with Master Pages
Document facilities in XPress
• Finding and changing by font or style
• Generating a table of contents
• Multiple undos in XPress
• Creating lists and indexes
• Using nested and run-in indexes
• Using the QuarkXPress library
Practical exercises
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DAY TWO
Bezier and Freehand tools
• Working with Bezier controls
• Creating shapes and paths
• Using the Merge and Split commands
• Punching holes in shapes
• Merging Bezier endpoints
• Turning text into an outline
• Using embedded paths
• Using embedded alpha channels
• Text effects in QuarkXPress
• Using transparency in XPress
• Specifying opacity of any item
More about Runarounds
• Running text around imported clipping paths
• Editing imported clipping paths
• Running text inside ‘holes’ in pictures
• Creating a clipping path in QuarkXPress
• Flowing text around all sides of an image
Media independent publishing
• An overview of cross media publishing
Printing your work
• Using font usage
• Using picture usage
• Using Quark Job Jacket for output
• Creating reusable print styles
• Setting Quark preferences
• Readers pairs and printers pairs
• PDF export from QuarkXPress
• XML export from QuarkXPress
• Before you print: a checklist
• Dealing with printing problems
• Dealing with postscript errors
Invaluable shortcuts
• A guide to QuarkXtensions
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If you'd like to book by phone, or discuss your requirements;
 Courses provided by partners Media Training.
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