Background

QuarkXPress 7 is one of the application’s most significant upgrades. This one day Quark authorised course is designed to enable you to get the most from the range of new features and productivity enhancements built into QuarkXPress 7. The course is run as a private course so that the course content can be tailored to meet your exact requirements – if you wish to adapt the following course outline, please feel free to do so. We can also base the course around examples of your work if you wish - please call us to discuss your requirements if you would like to do this.

Who should attend
Requirements: You should have a working knowledge of QuarkXPress 6.5 or earlier.

Course Outline

Introduction
Overview of QuarkXPress 7:
Improved creative opportunities
Streamlining print workflows

Workflow changes
Documents become Projects – what does this mean for you?
Layouts and projects
Types of layouts
Single and multiple layout projects
Sharing content among layouts and projects
Synchronising text and items
Multiple layout views

Composition zones
Allowing multiple users to work on the same layout

Palette enhancements
Grouping palettes
Assigning custom shortcut keys
Changes to the measurements palette

Transparency
How transparency works in QuarkXPress 7
Specifying opacity at the colour level
Creating blends
Automatic drop shadows
Synchronising shadows for consistency

Typographic enhancements
Opentype support- understanding the extra
options this gives you
Using the new Glyphs palette

Graphics in QuarkXPress 7
Support for native Photoshop files
Working with layers, channels and paths
Special image effects and adjustments
Support for alpha channels

Working with Job Jackets
Setting up Job Jackets
Using Job Jackets to produce high
quality, consistent output
Colour management in QuarkXPress 7

Questions and answers