Professional Training

Who should attend

The course is designed for new users who wish to learn QuarkXPress and who have little or no previous experience of QuarkXPress or desktop publishing. Starting from first principles, you will be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing ones, and will consolidate your knowledge by means of a series of carefully constructed exercises at each stage.

Overview of Desktop Publishing

The Traditional Publishing Process
The Desktop Publishing Process using QuarkXPress

Understanding the user interface

The QuarkXPress Toolbox
The Measurements Palette
Setting QuarkXPress Application and Layout Preferences
The Pasteboard
Keyboard shortcuts

Creating, opening and saving projects and layouts

What is a QuarkXPress Project?
Working in Single Layout Mode
QuarkXPress Layout Setup
Setting up the Master Page
Automatic Page Numbering
Saving your Work
Retrieving (Opening) Projects
Adding Running Headers and Footers

Working with graphics

Importing Pictures and adding other Graphic Elements
Adding Picture Boxes
Modifying Picture Boxes
Understanding the Difference between Bitmap and Vector Graphics
Maintaining Image Quality – Avoiding the “Jaggies”
Using Rectangular, Elliptical and Polygonal Boxes
Cropping, Sizing & Scaling Images
Fitting Pictures to Boxes
Wrapping Text Around Boxes & Graphics
Moving & Transforming Boxes & Graphics
Drawing Lines & Boxes
Reshaping Boxes
Framing Boxes (adding borders)

Colour issues

Applying, Editing and Creating Colours
Using Pantone and Other Spot Colour Matching Standards
Converting Spot Colours to Process CMYK Colours
Working with the Colours Palette

Formatting and editing text

Adding Type to a Page with the Type Tool
Importing Text created in other applications into a QuarkXPress Layout
Modifying Text Box Attributes
Formatting Text
Spell Checking, Search & Replace
Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes
Setting Tabs
Drop Caps and Bullets

Printing and typesetting terminology explained

Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively
Understanding Leading, Kerning, Tracking etc.
Typesetting for maximum readability

Working with tables

Inserting a Table in a QuarkXPress Layout
Adding Text to a Table
Adding Pictures to a Table
Formatting Text in Tables
Merging & Splitting Table Cells
Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns
Setting the Grid & Border Properties

Longer document handling features

Using the Automatic Text Box
Creating and Using Paragraph Style Sheets
Creating and Using Character Style Sheets
Automatic Page Numbering
Headers & Footers
Hyphenation and Justification Profiles (H&Js)
Font, Picture and Table Usage
The Library Feature
The Document Layout Palette

Printing and output

Print Options
Send a Document to an External Print Provider using Collect for Output
PDF Output Options
Some Common Output Problems explained – Missing Fonts and Missing/Modified pictures

Templates

Creating and Saving QuarkXPress Document Templates
Creating New QuarkXPress Documents based on Templates
Modifying QuarkXPress Templates