| Day one 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
Colour models
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
Questions and answers
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Day two
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
- Customising 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, colours and images for trouble-free
printing from QuarkXPress
- Working with Job Jackets
- A printing checklist
Questions and answers |
 
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