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Quark Xpress
Levels: Introductory : Advanced

Introductory Top of Page

Duration: 2 Days

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


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Duration: 1 Day

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
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