Quark Xpress Training, NEW! Blitz
5-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
Tools
Palettes
Preferences
Navigation
Zooming tool plus shortcuts
Using guides to help control layout
Creating shapes and lines
Main properties palette
Menu items, in order of usage
Pages and Master Pages
Multi-page documents
Facing and non-facing documents
Editing and duplicating master pages
Creating gatefolds and more
Master Pages Advanced Control
Master page changes and application
Page sectioning and section numbering
Sectioning
Indexing
Special characters
Linking
Hyperlinking
Page Layout
Organising Library Items
Grouped-item Manipulation
Step and Repeat
Adjusting Space Between Items
Working with Layer Items
Stacking orders
Grids and baseline structure
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
Alpha channels for transparency
Clipping paths
When things go wrong on import
Import control
Drop shadows
Opacity
Picture effects
Tables
Simple tables and using tables as ingenious solutions
Formatting cell properties
Adding images to cells
Resizing, merging, adding or removing row or column cells
Importing table data from spreadsheets
Creating tables from selected text
Cell inset spacing
Adding text & pictures to tables
Choosing separators
Linking table cells
Tabs and rules
Using tables for certain results
Professionally Typesetting Layouts
Justification options
Finding and changing advanced options
Using tabs in QuarkXPress
Setting paragraph rules
Defining space before and after
Paragraph and character style sheets editing
Hyphenation
Text Tracking & Kerning Type
Ligatures and glyphs
Word counts
Dictionaries
Spell-checks
Creating Bezier Paths
Bezier control
Shapes and paths
Using alpha channels that are embedded
Merge and Split commands
Converting text to an outline
Importing text or pictures into converted text
Inverted runaround
Runaround on imported clipping paths
Editing imported clipping paths
Quark clipping path
Importing PSD
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
Text column control
Text flow
Text runaround on objects
Paragraph and column breaks, widows and orphans
Formatting with drop caps, baseline shift, paragraph rules
Tabbed lists
Keep options
Hanging indentation
Invisible characters
Special characters
Type boxes as imageholders
Anchored drop caps
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
Style Sheets
Character v Paragraph Style Sheets – when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents
Image styles
Time saving features
Style sheets and master pages
Building and working with multi-page documents
Page Management
Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages
Master page basics
Adding content to the master page
Layers
Using layers to control elements
Transparency
Dealing with transparency
Transparency control
QuarkVista
Advanced picture adjustment
Batch converting pictures
Saving & re-using settings
Synchronisation
Understanding Shared Content
Working with boxes
Creating a synchronised picture entry
Creating a synchronised text entry
Composition Zones
Creating a composition zone
Editing a composition zone
Sharing layouts
Applying Colour Management
Set Up
Choosing Printer Device Profiles
Trapping Settings
Changing Image Profiles
Printing from Quark XPress
Picture usage utility
Font usage utility
Collecting for output and limitations
Creating reusable print styles
Setting Quark Preferences
Component status
Profiles
Trapping
Getting Interactive
Layouts for the web
Creating hyperlinks
Rollovers & Forms
Create interactive button controls
Simple Flash animations
PowerPoint-style presentations with full end-user interactivity
Importing movies
Saving under HTML/Web export options
SWF Output
Output
Collecting for output, and pitfalls
Creating PDF files
Default tool properties and how to change them
Predefined colours
Saving and Printing
Separations
Limitations
PPDs
Proofing
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
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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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