QuarkXpress 8: Introduction
Course Outline

DURATION	2 Days
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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DAY 1

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

• Import/Export/Save styles

DAY 2

Colour Swatches and Gradients

• Adding a CMYK swatch

• Pitfalls with QuarkXPress's default colours

• Working with spot colours

• Changing default colours

• Creating colour tints

• Creating colour gradients

Preparing pictures for print

• Image size, resolution and cropping

• RGB or CMYK colour mode?

• Sharpening for print

• Saving options: TIFF, EPS, PDF and JPEG

Picture boxes

• Drawing picture boxes

• Runaround options for images

• Embedded paths and Alpha Channels

• Reshaping picture boxes

Graphic Effects

• Modifying image attributes

• Working with opacity

• Creating blends with transparency

• Applying drop shadows

• Customizing drop shadows

• Importing and working with PSD files

• Dragging and dropping selections from a PDF file

• Loading and saving presets

Layout features

• Synchronisation of content

• Split views of projects

• Aligning objects

• Duplicate functions

• Step and Repeat

Composition Zones

• Creating a Composition Zone

• Sharing a Composition Zone

• Editing a composition layout

• Using collaboration setup

Tables


• Creating tables

• Creating tables from existing tabbed data

• Reverting data to tabulated data

• Table and cell format options

• Importing excel tables

• Colouring cells and strokes

Job Jacket Overview

• Job Jackets explained

• Benefits of Job Jackets

• Sample Job Jacket workflow

Outputting

• Collecting files for output

• QuarkXPress print settings & Dialogue Boxes

• Creating a PDF for proof and for print