In this course, you'll use Quark XPress 8 to lay out professional quality single and multiple-page documents that include text and graphics, and are designed for professional printing and publication. This course is ideal for professional and prospective layout designers and technicians with any level of experience ; but with little or no experience using Quark XPress ; who need to learn to use Quark XPress to lay out publications.

Pre Requisites:

Before taking this course ; students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system. Students should also have basic word processing skills ; such as copying and pasting text ; formatting type ; and so on.

What you will learn:

A great introduction to Quark 8.

Certification:

Whilst there is no certification attached to this course our tutor is certified in Quark XPress 8

Quark XPress Basics

Basic functionality and Navigation ; QuarkXPress tools ; Creating text and picture boxes ; Entering and importing text & graphics

Setting up Pages in Quark

Setting the page size and margins ; Columns and gutters ; Positioning the document origin ; Using guides and rulers ; Quark's measurement systems ; The Measurements Palette

Creating and Formatting Documents

Fonts ; styles and sizes ; Text rotation and flips ; Leading and tracking values ; Modifying text and picture boxes

Text and Graphic Features

Framing text and picture boxes ; Cropping ; rotating and re-sizing images ; Using step and repeat ; Using space/align ; Linking and unlinking text boxes ; Displaying images using Full Resolution Preview

Colour Palette

Different colour models ; Creating and using custom colours ; Creating ; editing and appending colours ; Creating colour blends

Libraries

Creating new libraries ; Using existing libraries

Using Master Pages

Setting up facing pages documents ; Creating headers and footers ; Automatic page numbering

Enhancing a Publication's Readability

Space before and after ; Paragraph and character style sheets ; Wrapping text around items ; Using synchronise text ; Using Spellchecker

Presenting Text and Graphics in Tables

Create a Table Manually ; Create a Table from Text ; Display Graphics in Table Cells ; Resize Rows and Columns ; Modify Table Structure ; format Table Cells

Output

Saving and printing ; Using collect for output ; A printing checklist ; Printing from QuarkXPress

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