Quark Xpress Training, For Web

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
Specifying 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
Limitations

Imagery

Quality issues
Image type, editing and importing
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Borders
File formats and optimisation

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

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

Layers

Using layers to control elements

Output

Collecting for output, and pitfalls
Creating interactive PDF files
Default tool properties and how to change them
Predefined colours
 

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
Limitations

Page Management

Adding new pages
Organising pages
Deleting pages 

Master page basics
Adding content to the master page

Saving

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