Course descriptionExplore the QuarkXPress interface. Work with tools and palettes; add text and pictures; modify text and picture boxes; learn how to create automatic and manual text links. Work with colors and libraries; create Master Pages and Style Sheets effectively, create XPress Tags and Beziers. Use layers; understand Tracking, Kerning and Hyphenation; work with tables; use Font and Picture Usage, and create templates. Create Sections, work with Inline graphics and dictionaries. Prepare book files, synchronize chapters, table of contents and indexes. Understand Trapping and Color Separations; create a print and Web layout, share text; work with hyperlinks and image maps. Collaborate using Composition Zones, and create Job Jackets.
QuarkXPress Part I - Course Topics The QuarkXPress Environment
QuarkXPress basics
Greeking
Set application preferences
Palette Sets
Text and picture boxes
Customize a tool
The Zero Point
Text Basics
Working with text
Overflow text
Undo and Redo History
Modifying
Simple text editing
Selecting text
Moving text
Character attributes
Glyphs
Importing Text and Formatting Paragraphs
Importing text
Paragraph alignment
Paragraph spacing
Leading
Paragraph rules
Tabs, Frames and Insets
Set and move a Tab Stop
Set a Fill character
Add a Frame to a text box
Set Inset spacing and vertical justification
Picture Basics
Picture formats
Import a picture
Move and crop a picture
Change the scale of a picture
Rotate and Skew
Add and modify a Drop Shadow
Add a picture to a layout
Working with Items
Standard and Super Repeating
Space/Align
Grouping and Ungrouping
Merging
Stacks
Shape Shifting
Automatic and Manual Text Links
Automatic text boxes
Navigating multi-page documents
Ruler Guides
Manually linking text boxes
Breaking and changing a link
Locking tools
Link text over multiple pages
One-Page Flyer Project
Multiple Column Text Frames
The Find/Change Command
Style Sheets: first look
Text Runaround
Spell Check
Collect for output
PDFs
QuarkXPress Part II - Course Topics Clipping Paths, Picture Effects and Opacity
Create a Clipping Path
Clipping Outsets and Thresholds
Change a picture's brightness
Apply a filter to a picture
Change an item's opacity
Colors and Libraries
Working with color
Points, Picas and Inches
Create and use a Library
Master Pages
Create a Master Page
Pasteboard Ruler Guides
Automatic page numbers
Style Sheets
Creating and using Style Sheets
Editing Style Sheets
Direct Formatting
The Baseline Grid
Drop Caps
Character Styles
XPress Tags
Tags overview
Paragraph Tags
Working with Bezier Text Boxes
Wrap text inside a graphic
Work with a Bezier text box
Add points to a shape
Layers
Create and use layers
Append colors
Create and modify layers
Move layers
Tracking, Kerning and Hyphenation
Tracking and Kerning
Tracking tables
Tracking a layout
Hyphenation
More Hyphenation controls
Hyphenation Zones
Tables
Creating Tables from scratch
Converting text to a table
Usage and Templates
Font usage
Picture usage
Create and use a Template
QuarkXPress Part III - Course Topics Sections, Inline Graphics and Dictionaries