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This is a 1 Day fast moving, hands-on course for experienced QuarkXPress users who want to discover the most effective ways to work in a professional environment.
Prerequisites
Good Mac or PC skills. Delegates should have attended our Introduction to QuarkXPress course or have a good working knowledge of QuarkXpress.
Benefits
You will look at items covered in the introductory course in more detail and explore the use of the Bezier and list functions.
Course Content
Text & Typography
- Setting a baseline grid
- Locking text to a grid
- Aligning text within a grid
- Kerning/tracking table edit
- En & Em space/dashes
- Customising the flex space
H & J's
- Creating & applying H & J's
- Non-breaking hyphens
- Hyphenation exceptions
- Find/change & search criteria
- Text Flow
Advanced Runaround
- Running text around embedded paths
- Alpha channels and clipping options
- Running text around all sides
Bezier Boxes & Lines
- Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
- Editing Bezier points & segments
- Changing boxes to Bezier items
- Drawing freehand lines/boxes
Text paths
- Creating text paths
- Aligning text on a path
- Creating Bezier shapes from text
- Creating picture boxes from text
Items Advanced
- Merging/splitting items
- Changing item content
- Flipping asymmetrical items
- Working with tables
- Style sheets advanced
- Master pages advanced
- Creating an index
- Creating lists & tables of contents –Creating books
Colour Advanced
- Features of spot & process models
- Colour management preferences
- Introduction to Trapping
- Setting trapping preferences
- Trapping exceptions colour by colour
- Trapping exceptions item by item
PDF
- Importing PDf files
- Exporting PDf files
Pre-Press Checks
- Font/picture usage
- Colour separation
- Collect for output
- Proof printing
- Creating crop/cut marks
- Page set-up options
- PPD manager
- Print options
- Capturing print settings
- Print styles
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