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This QuarkXPress training course is designed for new users
who wish to learn QuarkXPress and have little or no previous
experience of QuarkXPress or desktop publishing. Starting from first principles, delegates will
be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing
ones, and will consolidate their knowledge by means of a series of carefully
constructed exercises at each stage. At the end of the course, delegates should
feel confident and enthusiastic about using QuarkXPress to create a range of
simple but well laid-out documents including short, design-intensive
publications such as flyers, leaflets and newsletters, through to longer single
chapter books, catalogues and brochures.
This QuarkXPress training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.
During this QuarkXPress training course
you will learn about:
- The Traditional
Publishing Process
- The Desktop
Publishing Process using QuarkXPress
- The QuarkXPress Toolbox
- The Measurements
Palette
- Setting QuarkXPress Application
and Document Preferences
- The Pasteboard
- QuarkXPress
Document Setup
- Setting up the
Master Page
- Automatic Page
Numbering
- Saving your Work
- Retrieving
(Opening) Documents
- What is an
"Item" in QuarkXPress?
- Picture Boxes
- Text Boxes
- Lines
- Reshaping Boxes
- Framing Boxes
- Getting (Importing)
Text created in other applications into a QuarkXPress document
- Modifying Text Box
Attributes
- Formatting Text
- Word Processing
Features – Search and Replace, Find, Spell Check
- Linking and
Unlinking Text Boxes
- Setting Tabs
- Drop Caps and
Bullets
- Choosing and Using
Typefaces Effectively
- Setting Leading
(Inter-Line space) Appropriately
- Typesetting for
maximum readability
- Getting
(Importing) Pictures into a QuarkXPress document
- Modifying Picture
Boxes
- Cropping, Sizing
and Scaling Pictures
- Fitting Pictures
to Boxes
- Wrapping Text
Around Pictures
-
Inserting
a Table in a QuarkXPress document
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Setting
Table Cell Content Properties
-
Combining
& Splitting Table Cells
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Inserting/Deleting
Rows & Columns
-
Setting
the Grid & Border Properties
- Setting-up Running
Headers and Footers
- Inserting Page Numbers
- Paragraph Style
Sheets – Creating, Editing and Applying
- Character Style
Sheets – Creating, Editing and Applying
- Using the
Automatic Text Box
- Hyphenation and
Justification (H&J's)
- Font Usage
- The Measurement
Palette
- The Library
Feature
- The Document
Layout Palette
- Creating Hyperlinks to
external URLs
- Creating internal Document
Hyperlinks
- Creating and
Saving QuarkXPress Document Templates
- Creating New QuarkXPress Documents based on Templates
- Modifying QuarkXPress Templates
- Applying, Editing
and Creating Colours
- Using Pantone and
Other Colour Matching Standards
- Converting Pantone
Colours to Process CMYK Colours
- Print options
- Saving Postscript
Files for output by remote service Bureau
- Some Common Output
Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats
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