Day 1 - Quark XPress Course - Beginners Introduction
Introduction to QuarkXPress - tools, techniques and introduction to the basics of page layout and design with Quark XPress.
Creating a new Quark Xpress document
Setting document size and page margins and other options
Saving a document and organising files
Modifying page properties
Quark Xpress work area
Moving around the document
Using the Zoom tool and associated shortcut keys
Using guidelines to help control layout
Tools
Content & Item tools
Picture boxes and text boxes
Text linking tools
Shapes and lines
Creating shapes and lines
Setting fill colour other properties for shapes
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines
Colours
Colours palette - adding new colours
Choosing RGB, CMYK or Pantone Spot colours
Choosing colour for type, fills and borders
Creating tints and gradients
Importing colours from other documents
Working with Images
Create a picture box - set size and position
Import a picture (file type, size, quality considerations)
Positioning an image within the picture box
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Adding a border around an image
Text & Typography
Creating a text box
Modifying text box properties
Typing text, importing text or using Jabber
Setting type properties: size, font, style, alignment, hyphenation
Basic typography settings: leading, tracking and kerning
Paragraph formatting - indents, paragraph spacing
Checking Spelling
Changing the number of columns of text
Flowing type from one text box to another
Flowing type around images and other objects
Shapes and Selected Objects
Shape Modifying – changing from one shape to another
Converting between picture boxes and text boxes
Using the Measurements Palette for accurate measurements and calculations
Duplicating selected objects
Spacing and aligning items on the page
Create multiple identical objects with equal spacing using Step & Repeat
Grouping objects together
Locking objects to prevent accidental moving
Page Management
Adding new pages, organising pages, deleting pages
Basic overview of how a master page works and adding content to the master page
Create A Simple Document
Create a small simple document such as a single page newsletter, with text and images. This could be a simple document of your own - e.g. a poster, leaflet, postcard, magazine advert, simple newsletter or other small document.
Day 2 - Quark Xpress Course - Intermediate
Intermediate Quark Xpress training, looking at time saving features like style sheets and master pages, and how to build and work correctly with multi-page documents.
This is a typical course outline; it may be modified to suit your requirements.
During the QuarkXpress training you will normally work through some of your own documents and designs, and the exact areas covered will usually relate to the type of documents you want to produce.
Pages and Master Pages
Working with multi-page documents
Creating a spread of 2 or more pages
Creating Master Pages
Applying a master page to document pages
Editing and duplicating master pages
Automatic page numbering
Type & Typography
Controlling paragraph breaks and column breaks
Paragraph formatting - drop caps, baseline shift, paragraph rules, keep options, etc.
Tabs - creating hanging indents and tabbed lists
Inserting Glyphs and special characters e.g. • © ™ etc.
Inline graphics (graphics inside the type )
Using Find & Replace to replace repeated text elements in a document
Showing hidden characters (markers for paragraphs, tabs, spaces, etc.) within the text
Style Sheets
Using Style Sheets to format type
Character and Paragraph Style Sheets
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing styles from other documents
Tables
Creating and working with simple tables
Formatting cell colours and cell stroke properties
Resizing cells, merging cells, adding or removing rows or columns
Importing table data from spreadsheet documents or creating a table from existing text
Formatting text, setting cell inset spacing
Adding images to table cells
Images
Using clipping paths or alpha channels in an image, to create areas of transparency
Adding a drop shadow to an image or other objects
Opacity settings
Layers
Using layers to separate and lock various design elements
Output
Collecting together all files and fonts needed for printing
Creating PDF files for electronic distribution
Various
Modifying default tool properties
Automatically loading a predefined set of colours with every new document
Font & Picture usage – check which images and fonts are used
Create a multi-page document
Create a multi-page document of your own design or based on your own examples
