| Quark Xpress | ||
| Level: Essentials | Level: Advanced | |
| Duration - 2 Days | Duration - 1 Day | |
|
At the end of this course you will be familiar with the basics of DeskTop publishing and be able to produce simple spreads using QuarkXpress. Introduction to DTP• Overview of Quark Features• Mouse & Menu techniques • Main Screen - tolls, palettes • Setting Preferences • Using Help • Open • Save & Printing a document Page Setup & Master Pages• Page Setup• Using Layout View • Creating Master Pages • Setting Automatic Page Numbering • Using format Guidelines Importing Text• Creating Text Boxes• Linking & Unlinking Text Boxes Across Pages • Manipulating Text Boxes Text Editing• Basic Text Editing & Movement Keys• Overview of Word Processing Features Stylesheets• Creating• Editing & Deleting Styles • Setting Character Attributes & Paragraph Formats Drawing Lines• Drawing• Resizing & Deleting Lines • Setting Character Line Specifications & Styles • Paragraph Rules Picture Boxes & Imported Graphics• Creating• Reshaping & Deleting Picture Boxes • Importing Graphics • Frames & Runarounds Templates• Using & Creating Templates |
This is a one day Advanced Course. The student should have attended an Introductory Course and have a good understanding of the package. This course will introduce the student to the more advanced features of Desktop Publishing. Page Layout• Single page layout• Mixing text and graphics • Creating good page design Kerning & Tracking• Working with Kerning & Tracking table edit• Auxiliary dictionary • Hyphenation exceptions Colour Palettes• Comparing colour palettes• Creating new colours • Applying colour to pictures • Preparing a colour document for print Working with Objects• Repeating & aligning objects• Working with groups • Anchoring boxes to text • Linking & unlinking text boxes • Master page text boxes Typographic Functions• Working with Xpress tags• Using baseline shift • Changing a font globally Text Wrapping• All types of text wrap• Manual wrapping (customised wrap) • Re-shaping polygons |
|
