QuarkXpress 10 Training Course
in Denver

QuarkXpress Course outline

Introduction
• QuarkXPress tools
• Documents and Projects
• Single and multiple layouts
• Creating text and picture boxes
• Importing text and pictures
• The Quark Job Jacket

Setting up pages in Quark
• Setting the page size and margins
• Columns and gutters
• Positioning the document origin
• Quark's measurement systems
• Using multiple undo

The document layout palette
• Creating and deleting pages
• The Measurements palette

Text and graphics features
• Framing text and picture boxes
• Rotating graphics
• Cropping images
• Wrapping text around items
• Different types of runarounds
• Grouping and multiple selections
• Finding and changing text
• Linking and unlinking text boxes
• Image editing
• An introduction to transparency

Using Master Pages
• Creating and editing Master Pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating headers and footers
• Using a combination of Master Pages

Color models
• Creating custom colors

Creating and formatting documents
• Fonts, styles and sizes
• Working with templates
• Leading and tracking values
• Modifying text and picture boxes
• Using invisibles and guides

Setting Quark preferences
• Introducing tabs and rules
• Composition zones

More text controls
• Anchored text boxes
• Using the Baseline Grid

Further text controls
• Paragraph and character style sheets
• Style sheets with templates
• Runaround techniques
• Soft and hard returns
• Using space/align
• Using the QuarkXPress library

Working with tables
• The Table tool
• Tables with picture boxes
• Importing data from MS Excel

Working with beziers
• Creating custom shapes and paths
• Creating text on a path

Working with layers
• Using layers to isolate items that should not print
• The Layers palette
• Adding, removing and merging layers
• The Layer Attributes dialog box
• Using Keep Runaround in layers
• The Layer selection area
• Deleting Layers

Working with context menus
• Activating a context menu
• Customizing keyboard commands

Visual indicators
• The purpose of visual indicators

Document facilities
• Moving pages between documents
• Importing native Photoshop files
• Exporting as a PDF

Printing from QuarkXPress
• Automatically embedding fonts, colors and images for trouble-free printing from QuarkXPress
• Working with Job Jackets.
• A printing checklist

Effective page design
• Dos and don'ts of page layout
• Merging content from different sources

Advanced text controls
• Controlling text flow
• Working with synchronizedtext
• 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

Color and output
• Using Quark's color management systems
• Understanding RGB and CMYK
• What is the difference between the color models?
• Color matching in Quark
• Creating color separations
• Spot colors 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

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

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 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