QuarkXPress Introduction

QuarkXPress Introduction

QuarkXPress all versions through to 8
MAC or PC knowledge
Introduction to QuarkXPress

A QuarkXPress introduction course – learn the many features of QuarkXPress from text through to graphics handling.  During the course you will put together a variety of documentation ranging from flyers, posters, business cards through to newsletters and small brochures.

This is a one day course.  At the end of the delegates will be able to put together different documents ready for the print process.

QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress Interface

tools bar
palettes
measurements bar

QuarkXPress document handling
creating / editing / saving documents
insert / edit / manipulate / delete pages
identify normal and master pages
grids including baseline grid
guides
rulers

QuarkXPress colour palette
colour palette
adding colours
editing colours
applying colours
gradients / fills / strokes

QuarkXpress text
entering text
text formatting
importing and positioning text
linking / unlinking text boxes
text to box
text on a path

QuarkXPress type handling
character styles / paragraph styles
style sheets
advanced type layout / tracking, kerning, optical margin alignment etc

QuarkXPress text meets graphics
inserting images
roundtrip editing using basic photoshop techniques
runaround
graphics formats ie. eps, png etc
transparency
clipping paths

QuarkXPress print output
spot / process printing
collect for output
for .pdf

Associated courses QuarkXPress Advanced, QuarkXPress Workshop, Adobe PhotoShop Introduction

For more information or a more blended training approach to suit your company contact us on bloggin@homechoice.co.uk or gretie@yahoo.com

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