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QUARKXPRESS INTERMEDIATE Duration: 1 Day

Course Overview

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

 

 

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

Prerequisites:

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 course.

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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