ADVANCED APPLICATION TRAINING
Quark XPress 7
Advanced Level
This one day hands-on instructor led course is designed to introduce the
more advanced features of QuarkXPress and this outline is a rough guide
to the elements that could be covered. This course would be useful for
anyone involved in the publication of long documents utilising all the
productivity features of the application such as indexing, styles and
master pages.
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.
Drawing
- Using the Freehand and Bezier line tools
- Drawing a Bezier box
- Working with points and handles
- Working with segments
- Changing the shape of an item
- Using the Merge command
- Cropping a picture using an embedded path
- Cropping a picture using a channel
- Creating a clipping path
- Modifying clipping paths
- Managing imported pictures
- Creating and using Libraries
- Using templates
- More on Character Style sheets
- More on paragraph Style sheets
- Using and managing XTensions software
- Creating a new book
- Opening a book and it's chapters
- Re-arranging chapters in a book
- Creating independantly numbered sections
- Changing a books Master Chapter
- Synchronising book styles
Lists
- Creating style sheets for tables and content
- Adding style sheets to book chapters
- Defining lists for tables of content
- Builing a list for a chapter
- Building a list for a book
- Jumping to chapters and section starts
- The steps
- Creating a simple index
- Preparing style sheets and a master page
- Defining punctuation for an index
- Tagging index entries
- Editing index entries
- Creating a cross reference
- Building a formatted index
- Printing a book
- Printing chapters
- Producing a booked PDF file
