Who should attend this QuarkXpress Course?
The course is suitable for those with little
or no previous experience of QuarkXPress or those who are self taught. Familiarity with the
operating system and the keyboard is a course prerequisite.
How long is this QuarkXpress
Course?
2 Days
What are the benefits of attending this course?
A practical
project based course on which you will learn how to create a variety of documents, ranging from
single page layouts to complex multi-page publications, which combine text and graphic elements. The
topics and features listed below will be taught on the course, giving you a thorough grounding in
the fundamental processes involved in producing professional documentation in QuarkXPress.
Course Outline
An introduction to the working environment
- Setting document
preferences
- An overview of the Toolbox
- Creating a new document
- Setting page
size and margins
- Setting columns and gutters
- Saving QuarkXPress
documents
- Magnification and view options
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- Setting
the zero point
- Placing guidelines and showing invisibles
Working with text
boxes
- Creating text boxes
- Inputting text
- Manipulating text
boxes
- Applying a frame
- Using the measurement palette
- Precise positioning of
boxes
- Multiple selections
- Locking and unlocking items
- Copying and
duplicating items
- Grouping and ungrouping items
- Manipulating the order of
items
Colour
- Applying colour to items
- Using solid and blended
colour
Type
- Methods of selecting text
- Introduction to typography
and understanding typography
- Text on a path effects
- Running text along shapes
terms
- Using picas & points
Formatting type
- Using different
typefaces, styles and type sizes
- Understanding leading
- Using paragraph
spacing
- Understanding tracking & kerning
- Creating text along
paths
- Creating drop caps in paragraphs
- Setting bulleted paragraphs
- Setting
rules above and below paragraphs
- Setting and editing tabs
- Creating tabs with
leaders
Style sheets
- Creating, formatting and editing paragraph
styles
- Creating, formatting and editing character styles
- Applying styles to
paragraphs
- Basing styles on existing styles
- Viewing used and unused
styles
Images
- Creating picture boxes
- Importing image
files
- Cropping images
- Manipulating image files using keyboard
shortcuts
- Manipulating image files using the measurement palette
- Sizing and scaling
images
- Removing picture backgrounds using clipping paths
- Rotating and skewing
graphics
- Integrating text & graphics
- Wrapping text around images and
items
- Understanding the different types of runarounds
Master
pages
- Creating single & double sided master pages
- Creating running
headers/footers
- Customising master pages
- Duplicating master pages
- Applying
master pages
- Modifying & editing master pages
- Understanding how to manually link
and unlink text across pages
- Understanding automatic text boxes
- Using automatic page
numbering across long documents
- Creating a multi page
spread
Printing
- Printing QuarkXPress files
- Understanding Collect
for Output
Related courses
- QuarkXPress Advanced
- Adobe
Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
