Quark Training

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This 1-day QuarkXpress Training Course provides a comprehensive coverage of the Quark page layout application. Quark is used worldwide to design and layout magazines, brochures and books. This instructor led Quark Course will provide you with all you need to know to combine text, pictures and other graphic elements, all of which together compose a page or series of pages.

Course Objectives

On completion of this Quark course the delegate will be able to use QuarkXpress to:

Design, layout and edit documents from single-page flyers and newsletters to multi-page magazines to books
Add and edit text and images
Create and add colour to the document
Use style sheets to simplify text styling
Output high resolution documents ready for print

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at those interested in creating graphical document layouts.

It's recommended that delegates familiarise themselves with the Quark interface before attending.

QuarkXPress User Interface

Define QuarkXPress
Introduction to Tools
Menus and Context Menus
Palettes
Layout Controls
View and View Sets

Projects and Layouts

Working with Projects
Working with Layouts and Guides
Undoing and Redoing Actions

Introduction to Content Variables

Edit Content Variables
Create Custom Content Variable
Insert Content Variable

Boxes, Lines, and Tables

Understanding Items and Content
Basics of Handles
Boxes and Lines
Manipulating Items
Working with Callouts and Tables

Text and Typography

Editing, Importing, and Exporting Text
Working with Footnotes and Endnotes
Applying Character and Paragraph Attributes
Text Shading
Control Kerning, Hyphenation, Justification, and Tracking
Working with Style Sheets and Conditional Styles
Bullets and Numbering
Position Text in Text Boxes
Using Text Runaround and Anchored Boxes
OpenType Styles
Working with Design Grid and Rubi Text
Introduction to Hanging Characters
Mojigumi Sets and Classes
Hyperlinks

Introduction to Pictures

Working with Pictures
Clipping Paths
Alpha Masks
PSD Pictures

Colour, Opacity, and Drop Shadows

Working with Colours and Opacity
Colour Management
Drop Shadows

Custom Bleeds and Item Styles

Use Custom Bleeds
Use Clips at Bleed Edge
Use Item Style Palette
Create Item Style

Document Construction

Use Automatic Page Numbering
Working with Master Pages
Layers, Lists, Indexes, Books, and Libraries
Guides Palette

Output

Print Layouts
Export Layouts
Output Styles and Trapping

Collaboration and Single-Sourcing

Working with Shared Content
Composition Zones
Placing a Composition Zones Item

Introduction to Notes and Redline

Create Notes
Working with Notes
Track Changes
Accept and Reject Changes

Understanding Job Jackets

Introduction to Job Jackets
Exploring Job Jackets and Job Tickets
Job Jacket File
Working with Resources and Layout Specifications
Rules and Rule Sets

Just a quick note to say how great the Quark training was – the trainer knew the package well and was able to cover all the areas that Manana and I specifically wanted to do. We are now able to create the documents in a more efficient manner and also in the correct way. I have found in the past that users of a particular software are much better tutors and this was demonstrated over the past couple of days

Jo Ellis - Design Assistant - Bristow Helicopters Ltd