Who should attend?
Ideally, you should have attended the Introductory QuarkXPress training course and/or have had plenty of hands-on practice using the software before attending this one-day course. The online version of the course is split over two half-day sessions to make it easier for those working from home to fit the course around other commitments.
The course is run once every two months, and alternates between the classroom-based and online versions.
Contact us to run this QuarkXPress training course or a customised version of it on your own premises for just £415+vat per day for up to two people. Add just £75+vat for each additional person. The price is inclusive of course reference notes and email support but exclusive of the trainer's travel and overnight accommodation costs where required.
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Course Content
What you can expect to learn on this QuarkXPress training course:
QuarkXPress Defaults Reviewed
- QuarkXPress Application and Document Defaults
- Customising the Default Style Sheet, Colour Palette, and H&J Profiles
Master Pages Reviewed
- Setting Up Master Pages in QuarkXPress
- Creating Additional Master Pages
- Linking the Text in Additional Master Pages to the Flow of the Default Master Page
- Trouble-shooting Master Pages
Advanced Page Layout Controls
- Paragraph & Character Style Sheets Reviewed – Creating, Editing & Applying
- Using the Automatic Text Box
- The Library Palette
- The Document Layout Palette
- Creating New H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Profiles for use in QuarkXPress Documents
- Copy-Fitting
- Copy-Fitting Using the Baseline Grid
All About Béziers
- What is a Bézier Path?
- Creating Curved Lines and Boxes
- Controlling the Shape of Curves
- Corner, Smooth and Symmetrical Points
- Straight and Curved Segments
- Changing the Shapes of Curves
Transforming Items by Merging, Splitting and Converting
- Using Text as a Picture Box
- Understanding the Different Merge Options
- Understanding the Split Commands
- Using the Merge and Split Commands for Creative Graphic Effects
Creative Graphics Using Picture Effects
- Using Image Adjustment
- Special Picture Effects
Clipping Paths
- QuarkXPress Support for Embedded Clipping Paths
- Creating an Internal QuarkXPress Clipping Path
- Editing Clipping Paths
- Running Text Around Clipping Paths
Custom Dashes & Stripes
- Creating and Editing Dash Styles
- Creating and Editing Stripe Styles
- Applying Custom Dash and Stripe Styles
Using the Append Command
- Appending Colours, Stylesheets, H&Js, Dashes & Stripes, Lists etc from one QuarkXPress Document to another
Printing & Output
- Creating a Print Style
- Printing Using a Print Style
- Printing Colour Separations
- Creating PDF Output from QuarkXPress
- Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts, Picture Formats & Mac/PC issues
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