Who should attend this QuarkXpress course?
The QuarkXPress Advanced course is suitable
for those who have attended our QuarkXPress Introduction course or are self taught and have a good
working knowledge of the software.
How long is this QUarkXpress course?
1 Day
What are the benefits of attending this course?
On this course you will learn to use
the program more efficiently by employing its sophisticated features and processes effectively. You
will learn to use Quark's powerful typographic, page layout and image controls to their fullest
extent, expanding the principles of appropriate documentation layout and design principles taught on
our QuarkXPress Introduction course.
Course Outline
Workshop recap
- Tips and tricks to get started
- Power usage of keyboard shortcuts
Mastering master pages
- Understanding linking and the automatic text box feature
- Understanding and setting
general, paragraph, character, tool preferences
Long document features
- Using continued on & from counters
- Numbering documents and sections using
automatic counters
- Finding and changing words, attributes, invisible characters,
unwanted paragraph breaks, tabs
- Advanced usage of style sheets
- Managing
styles across documents
Advanced typography
- Using and
understanding automatic, incremental and absolute leading
- Setting and using a baseline
grid
- Controlling widows and orphans
- Editing kerning & tracking
tables
- Understanding and using hyphenation and justification
- Applying
various hyphenation settings to paragraphs & styles
- Specifying non-breaking
hyphens, hyphenation exceptions and discretionary hyphens
- Using em & en dashes,
& spaces
Drawing
- Specifying and manipulating types of
points and segments
- Converting and manipulating boxes and type into bézier
paths
- Adding and deleting bézier points
Advanced colour
- Colour and the print process
- Working with process and spot colour
models
- Creating multi inks
Advanced image settings
- Creating clipping paths manually and automatically
- Editing imported clipping
paths
- Exploring image runaround options
- Customising TIFF images
- Changing the contrast for different colour channels
- Changing an image to a
negative
- Saving pages as an EPS file
- Power usage of the merge and split
options:
- union
- intersection
- difference
- reverse difference
- exclusive or
- combine
- join endpoints
Working with the
align palette
- Creating inline graphics
- Using Collect for
Output
- Using font usage and picture usage
- Updating picture files
Long document features
- Exploring & using the book feature
- Generating and formatting a table of contents
- Understanding the index
palette
- Understanding different scopes
- Ordering levels of indices
- Creating nested and run-in indices
Libraries
- Creating,
editing & using libraries
- Using libraries to append elements in a document
- Using the different line tools
- Scalable custom dashes & stripes
- Step and repeat objects
- Creating an auxiliary dictionary
- Editing an
auxiliary dictionary
