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Quark Xpress Training, For Print

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
Effects and limitations
Transparency

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
Find and replace

Shapes and Objects

The Measurements Palette
Modifying shapes
Super step and repeat
Converting picture boxes to text boxes and vice versa
Spacing and aligning items
Duplicating objects

Object Grouping
Locking objects

Style Sheets

Item styles
Character v Paragraph Style Sheets – when to apply which
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing style sheets from other documents

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

Applying Colour Management

Set Up
Choosing Printer Device Profiles
Trapping Settings
Changing Image Profiles
Proof monitoring

Page Management

Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages 

Master page basics
Adding content to the master page

Saving and Printing

Collect for output
Fonts
PPDs
Job jackets
Sectioning
Collaboration, synching and sharing
Previewing performance
PDF
Image quality
Colour profiles
Artwork checklist
Separations
Component status
Using Distiller
Proof output
Extensions

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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

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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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