Quark Xpress Training, Basic Level
2-day course
Starting a new document
Setting document specifications and further options
Saving your document
Organising and managing files
Modifying the page properties
The Quark working area
Navigation
Zooming tool plus shortcuts
Using guides to help control layout
Tool palette
Creating shapes and lines
Specifiying fill and other properties for shapes
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines
Colour
Colours palette, creating new colours
The main colour models:RGB, CMYK and Spot colours
Colouring type, fills and borders
Tints and gradients
Importing colours
Imagery
Quality issues
Image type, editing and importing
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Borders
Text & Typography
Text boxes: creating, editing, and properties
Type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Changing leading, tracking and kerning
Paragraph formatting
Importing, Jabber
wocky
Spellchecking
Text column control
Text flow
Text runaround on objects
Exporting text from Quark
Composition
Composition tool
Modifying composition areas
Shapes and Objects
The Measurements Palette
Modifying shapes
Converting picture boxes to text boxes and vice versa
Spacing and aligning items
Duplicating objects
Step & Repeat
Object Grouping
Locking objects
Page Management
Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages
Master page basics
Adding content to the master page
Saving and Printing
QUARK XPRESS COURSES:
- Quark Xpress Basic Training
- Quark Xpress Intermediate Training
- Quark Xpress Advanced Training
- Quark Xpress Training: For Print
- Quark Xpress Training: For Web
- Quark Xpress Training: For Editors
- Quark Xpress: Crash Course
- Quark Xpress: New Features Upgrade Course
- Quark Xpress Bespoke / Customised Training
- Quark Xpress Training: Mixed with Other Software
- NEW! Quark Xpress Training Blitz
NEWEST VERSION
Released: August 2008
BOOK YOUR
VERSION 8
UPGRADE
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As a Half-day Summary or Full-day Summary & Trial
QUARK XPRESS 8
New Features Summary:
- Picture Content Tool
- Enhanced Bezier (Drawing) Tool
- Shared Content Feature
- Flash Integration
- Drag and Drop Enhancement
- Simplified Tools
- Flash background programming
- Enhanced hanging characters
- More powerful grid systems
- OpenType and Unicode Support
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QUARK XPRESS
Intermediate, Crash Course, 1-day