QuarkXPress Intro

QuarkXpress - Intro

This is a 2 Day Introduction to QuarkXPress course. QuarkXPress is a professional quality desktop publishing program.  It is the program of choice for many designers and advertising agencies and is used for brochures, adverts, newsletters and anything else that appears in print.

Prerequisites

No experience of QuarkXPress is necessary.

Benefits

Delegates will learn how to create these competently and effectively.

Course Content

Quark Extensions

• Extensions
• Document Files
• Template Files
• Libraries

Application Preferences

• Using Application Preferences
• Using The Application Preferences Dialog Box
• Using The Display Preferences

Document Preferences

• Using The Document Preferences
• Using The General Preferences
• Setting The Horizontal Measure
• Setting The Vertical Measure

QuarkXpress Interface

• Tools Palette
• Document Layout Palette
• Measurements Palette
• Document Window

New Documents

• Creating Documents
• Setting Margin Guides
• Setting The Document Size
• Setting Column Guides

Usage Dialog Box

• Opening The Usage Dialog Box
• Using The Fonts Usage Window
• Using The More Information Option
• Using The Replace Font Dialog Box
• Using The Pictures Usage Window
• Updating Pictures

Document Setup

• Changing The Document Setup
• Using The Document Setup Palette

Master Pages

• Using Master Pages
• Create New & Apply
• Update

Tools

• Basic
• Item
• Content
• Rotation
• Zoom
• Text & Picture Boxes
• Line

Modifying Objects

• Boxes
• Lines
• Groups
• Frames
• Runaround

Colours and Fills

• Custom Colours
• Colours Palette
• Gradient Fills

Text

• Inputting Text
• Get Text
• Modifying Text
• Editing Text
• Formatting Text
• Styles

Pictures

• Get Picture
• Modify Picture Box

Objects

• Grouping Objects
• Space Items
• Align Items
• Change Order

Output

• Printing Documents
• Document Tab
• Setup Tab
• Options Tab
• Preview Tab