QuarkXPress Introductory Course

(Short classroom-based, Instructor-led, Desktop Publishing Course)

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Next scheduled course: Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th February 2012

Venue: Guildford, Surrey

Price: £399+vat (£478.80 including vat)  inclusive of course reference notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

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QuarkXPress is a Desktop Publishing programme, that can be used to create typeset quality documents suitable for output to print or web-based media. The current version, as of January 2012, is QuarkXPress version 9.1

This 2-day QuarkXPress training course is designed for new users who wish to learn QuarkXPress and who 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. Click here to view examples of the type of documents you will create during the course.

At the end of the course, delegates should feel confident and enthusiastic about using QuarkXPress and will learn how 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.

The content of this QuarkXPress training course can also be tailored to your own requirements, and run on your own premises. Contact us for more details.

During this QuarkXPress training course you will learn about:

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Overview of Desktop Publishing

The Traditional Publishing Process

The Desktop Publishing Process using QuarkXPress

The QuarkXPress Toolbox

The Measurements Palette

Setting QuarkXPress Application and Layout Preferences

The Pasteboard

Keyboard shortcuts

What is a QuarkXPress Project?

Working in Single Layout Mode

QuarkXPress Layout Setup

Setting up the Master Page

Automatic Page Numbering

Saving your Work

Retrieving (Opening) Projects

Adding Running Headers and Footers

Importing Pictures and adding other Graphic Elements

Adding Picture Boxes

Modifying Picture Boxes

Understanding the Difference between Bitmap and Vector Graphics

Maintaining Image Quality – Avoiding the "Jaggies"

Using Rectangular, Elliptical and Polygonal Boxes

Cropping, Sizing & Scaling Images

Fitting Pictures to Boxes

Wrapping Text Around Boxes & Graphics

Moving & Transforming Boxes & Graphics

Drawing Lines & Boxes

Reshaping Boxes

Framing Boxes (adding borders)

Applying, Editing and Creating Colours

Using Pantone and Other Spot Colour Matching Standards

Converting Spot Colours to Process CMYK Colours

Working with the Colours Palette

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Formatting & Editing Text

Adding Type to a Page with the Type Tool

Importing (Placing) Text created in other applications into a QuarkXPress layout

Modifying Text Box Attributes

Formatting Text

Spell Checking, Search & Replace

Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes

Setting tabs

Drop Caps and Bullets

Printing & Typesetting Terminology Explained

Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively

Understanding Leading, Kerning, Tracking etc.

Typesetting for maximum readability

Working with Tables

Inserting a Table in a QuarkXPress Layout

Adding Text to a Table

Adding Pictures to a Table

Formatting Text in Tables

Merging & Splitting Table Cells

Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns

Setting the Grid & Border Properties

Longer Document Handling Features

Using the Automatic Text Box

Creating and Using Paragraph Style Sheets

Creating and Using Character Style Sheets

Automatic Page Numbering

Headers & Footers

Hyphenation and Justification Profiles (H&Js)

Font, Picture and Table Usage

The Library Feature

The Document Layout Palette

Printing & Output

Print Options

Send a Document to an External Print Provider using Collect for Output

PDF Output Options

Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats

Templates

Creating and Saving QuarkXPress Document Templates

Creating New QuarkXPress Documents based on Templates

Modifying QuarkXPress Templates

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