Background

Designed for those who have a working knowledge of QuarkXPress but need to get the most from this extremely powerful software. During this two-day Quark authorised course you will explore Quark’s text handling controls in detail and cover the powerful drawing, document management and design tools.

The course also looks at the dos and don’ts of page layout, how to use Quark’s advanced typographic controls and highlights shortcuts designed to increase production speed and efficiency. This course is designed to turn users into power users.

Who should attend

This course is designed for those using QuarkXPress in a print capacity. If you are using QuarkXPress for web publishing, please call for details of our Web Publishing using QuarkXPress course.

Course Outline

DAY ONE

EFFECTIVE PAGE DESIGN
Dos and don’ts of page layout
Merging content from different sources

ADVANCED TEXT CONTROLS
Controlling text flow
Working with synchronised text
Experimenting with indent options
Using the Baseline Grid
Advanced Styles management
Advanced Runaround techniques
Inverted clipping paths
Reshaping text and picture boxes
Converting text to outlines and filling with pictures or text
Creating better looking Drop Caps
Anchoring boxes and lines in text

TYPOGRAPHIC CONTROLS
Creating custom hyphenation and justification settings
Saving and appending hyphenation and justification settings
Using the hyphenation dictionary
Using tabs in QuarkXPress
Using drop shadows
Using Rules in QuarkXPress

COLOUR AND OUTPUT
Using Quark’s colour management systems
Understanding RGB and CMYK
What is the difference between the
colour models?
Colour matching in Quark
Creating colour separations
Spot colours and CMYK

MASTER PAGES
Using a combination of Master Pages
Tips and tricks with Master Pages

DOCUMENT FACILITIES IN XPRESS
Finding and changing by font or style
Generating a table of contents
Multiple undos in XPress
Creating lists and indexes
Using nested and run-in indexes
Using the QuarkXPress library

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

DAY TWO

BEZIER AND FREEHAND TOOLS
Working with Bezier controls
Creating shapes and paths
Using the Merge and Split commands
Punching holes in shapes
Merging Bezier endpoints
Turning text into an outline
Using embedded paths
Using embedded alpha channels
Text effects in QuarkXPress
Using transparency in Xpress
Specifying opacity of any item

DATABASE PUBLISHING FEATURES
Support for Personalised Print Markup Language (PPML)

MORE ABOUT RUNAROUNDS
Running text around imported clipping paths
Editing imported clipping paths
Running text inside ‘holes’ in pictures
Creating a clipping path in QuarkXPress
Flowing text around all sides of an image

MEDIA INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING
An overview of using QuarkXPress for cross-media publishing

PRINTING YOUR WORK
Using font usage
Using picture usage
Using Quark Job Jacket for output
Creating reusable print styles
Setting Quark Preferences
Readers pairs and printers pairs
PDF export from QuarkXPress
XML export from QuarkXPress
Before you print: a checklist
Dealing with printing problems
Dealing with postscript errors

INVALUABLE SHORTCUTS
A guide to QuarkXtensions

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS