QuarkXpress 8: Introduction
Course Outline

DURATION	1 Day
OVERVIEW	QuarkXPress is used by just about every graphic designer on the planet. It is a precision tool used for the page layout aspect of electronic publishing. Powerful yet user-friendly, Quark can be used for putting together anything from a promotional flier to a film poster or magazine.
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Overview of QuarkXPress

• When to use QuarkXPress

• The standard workspace

• Files, Projects and Layouts

• Palettes and Preferences

• Using keyboard shortcuts

Document Basics

• Working in Projects and Layouts

• Document navigation

• Layout Properties...

• Creating a new Project

• Saving options

Content Boxes

• Creating boxes

• Manipulating boxes

• Inserting text

• Importing text

• Preparing images for print

• Placing images

• Dragging and dropping images

• Changing image properties

Editing and formatting text

• Character and Paragraph option in the Measurements palette

• Character options in the style menu

• Paragraph options in the style menu

• Text options in the Modify dialogue

• Baseline grids

Defining master pages

• Using the Pages Layout palette

• Adding elements to a Master

Text box linking and flowing documents

• Page numbering

• Creating sections for variable numbering

• Linking text boxes

• Creating "from" and "to" fields

Typography

• Kerning and Tracking

• Leading

• Hyphenation and Justification sets

• Typography pitfalls

• OpenType fonts and ligatures

• Glyphs

• Hanging characters

• Drop caps

Style Sheets

• Creating a Paragraph style

• Creating a Character style

• Applying styles

• Editing styles

• Changing default styles

• Item styles