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QuarkXpress Training UK


OFFER - 1 day £595 20% OFF! - now £476 for up to 8 people - at your premises


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This QuarkXpress training course uses the industry-standard page layout application used the world over for creating and editing print materials including magazines, books, leaflets, flyers and posters and other marketing materials. On this course you will learn how to produce and edit stylish professional layouts from entering text and images to sending to print.

What you will achieve on the course:


• You will learn how to place text and images on a page
• Create multi-page documents including posters, leaflets and magazines
• Add colour to text and images
• Learn how to send a document to print

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Course Outline


QuarkXpress working environment

  • The Palettes
  • Document Setup
  • Automatic text box
  • Opening and saving documents
  • Tool Palette
  • Rulers and Guides
  • Zooming and Scrolling Techniques
  • QuarkXpress Preferences

QuarkXpress Basics


  • Drawing text and image boxes and lines
  • Moving items
  • Positioning items
  • Resizing items
  • The Measurements Palette

Master Pages


  • The importance of master pages
  • Editing master pages
  • Creating new master pages
  • Adding a page number
  • The Document Layout Palette
  • Adding and Deleting Pages

Working with Text


  • Entering text
  • Find/Change Basics
  • Highlighting Text
  • Copy, Cut, Paste for Text
  • Linking Text Boxes
  • Text on Lines
  • Font Size
  • Leading
  • Kerning and Tracking
  • Changing Paragraph Settings
  • Setting Indents
  • Space Before, Space After
  • H&Js
  • Drop Caps

Working with images


  • Images and Picture Boxes
  • Placing Images
  • Scaling and cropping images
  • Using images in text
  • Text runaround

Colour


  • The colour spaces: CMYK and Pantone
  • Creating Process Colours
  • Creating a Spot (Pantone) Colour
  • Editing Colours
  • Applying colours
  • Using the Colour Palette
  • Creating Background Blends

Style Sheets


  • The importance of Style Sheets
  • Creating Paragraph Style Sheets
  • Creating Character Style Sheets
  • Applying Style Sheets
  • Editing Style Sheets
  • Appending Style Sheets

Tabs and Rules


  • Setting Tabs
  • Deleting Tabs
  • Editing Tabs
  • Paragraph Rules

Getting ready for print


  • Finalising your document
  • Image and type usage
  • Collect for output
  • Exporting layout as PDF - hi-res and low-res options

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