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 userfriendly, 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

 

 

 

 

 


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