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 userfriendly, 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

 

 

 

 

 

 


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