QuarkXPress Advanced Course

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Location: Guildford, Surrey

Price: Ł399 (+vat) including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

Duration: Two Days

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This Advanced QuarkXPress course consists entirely of “hands-on” practical work using a series of exercises designed to develop the various skills. Time will be made available to discuss and work through particular difficulties encountered by students in their own work using QuarkXPress.

Ideally, students should have attended the QuarkXPress Introductory training course and have had plenty of hands-on practice before attending this course. The course is also suitable for those who have had extensive experience using QuarkXPress but no formal training.

This QuarkXPress training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.

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Topics covered during this QuarkXPress training course will include:

QuarkXPress Defaults Reviewed

QuarkXPress Application and Document Defaults
Customising the Default Style Sheet, Colour Palette, and H&J Patterns

Master Pages Reviewed

Setting Up Master Pages in QuarkXPress
Creating Additional Master Pages
Linking the Text in Additional Master Pages to the Flow of the Default Master Page
Trouble-shooting Master Pages

Advanced Page Layout Controls

Creating New H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Definitions for use in QuarkXPress documents
Copy-Fitting
Copy-Fitting Using the Baseline Grid
Saving your Work

Preparing Text for Importing to QuarkXPress

How QuarkXPress Supports Paragraph Styles Used in a Word-Processor
Pre-Tagging Text
Using the XTags Extension

All About Béziers

What is a Bézier Path?
Creating Curved Lines and Boxes
Controlling the Shape of Curves
Corner, Smooth and Symmetrical Points
Straight and Curved Segments
Changing the Shapes of Curves

Transforming Items by Splitting, Merging & Converting

Understanding the Different Merge Options
Using the Merge Command for Creative Graphic Effects
Understanding the Split Commands
Using the Split Command for Creative Graphic Effects
Converting Text to Boxes
Using the Convert Text to Box Command for Creative Graphic Effects

Clipping Paths

QuarkXPress Support for Embedded Clipping Paths
Creating an Internal QuarkXPress Clipping Path
Editing Clipping Paths
Running Text Around Clipping Paths

Custom Dashes & Stripes

Creating and Editing Dash Styles
Creating and Editing Stripe Styles
Applying Custom Dash and Stripe Styles

Using the Append Command

Appending StyleSheets, Lists, Colours, H&Js, Custom Dashes & Stripes, and other elements from one document to another

Colour Issues

Using Spot, Process, Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards in QuarkXPress
Adding Colours to the Colours Palette
Converting Pantone Colour to CMYK
Trapping

Longer Document Handling Features

Linking QuarkXPress Documents using the Book Feature
Creating an Index
Creating a Table of Contents
Creating Other Custom Lists

Printing & Output

Creating a Print Style
Printing Using a Print Style
Printing Colour Separations
Saving Postscript Files for output by remote service Bureaux
Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts, Picture Formats & Mac/PC issues

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