INTERMEDIATE TRAINING
QuarkXPress 6
Intermediate
This two day hands-on instructor led course is designed to introduce all
the essential features of Quark XPress required in the production of a
wide range of publications. It covers the fundamentals (see intorduction
course outline) in more depth as well as introducing more advanced features
for complicated layout solutions
The outline below is presented as a guide to the elements that would generally be covered however we will always include any special or additional requirements that are identified prior to the course.
Introduction to XPress
- The palettes and menus
- Viewing documents
- Navigating pages
- Working with Items and Contents
- Creating a new project
- Project layout settings
- Creating new projects
- Viewing projects
- Formatting master pages
- Adding page numbers
- Section starts
- Creating pages while flowing text
- Inserting and re-arranging pages
- Editing master items
- Creating text boxes
- Importing text
- Entering and formatting text
- Copying and pasting items
- Applying character attributes
- Creating picture boxes
- Importing pictures
- Running text round pictures
- Managing usage
- RGB and CMYK
- Spot and Process colours explained
- Using the colour dialogue box
- Viewing projects
- Synchronising text between layouts
- Working with linked text boxes
- Creating and applying style sheets
- Setting tabs and rules
- Spell checking
- Search and replace
Typography
- Adjusting kerning
- Hyphenation and justification
- Tracking text (range kerning)
- Working with text columns
- Anchoring items in text
- Creating initial caps
- Creating shaped text boxes
- Creating text paths
- Modifying contrast
- Creating clipping paths
- Modifying text runaround
- Modifying stacking order of items
- Changing box content
- Working with groups
- Using libraries
- Space/align options
- Using step and repeat
- Setting up templates
- Saving templates
- Creating layers
- Assigning items to layers
- Naming and viewing layers
- Creating tables
- Formatting tables and cells
- Combining cells
- Adding content to tables
- Updating missing or modified images
- Checking font usage
- Collecting for output
- Specifying print options
- Printing composites
- Creating PDF files
