QuarkXPress: Introduction

Pre-Course Requirements

You need no previous experience of QuarkXPress to attend this course.

Course Content

QuarkXPress basics
• Quark's relationship to other software applications • QuarkXPress tools
• Single and multiple layouts
• Creating text and picture boxes
• Importing text and pictures

Setting up pages in Quark
• Setting the page size and margins • Columns and gutters
• Creating and deleting pages
• The Measurements palette

Adding text and graphics
• Framing text and picture boxes
• Cropping and rotating graphics
• Wrapping text around items
• Different types of runarounds
• Understanding Callouts
• Using Step and Repeat
• Finding and changing text
• Linking and unlinking text boxes
• An introduction to transparency and drop shadows

Using Master Pages
• Creating and editing Master Pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating headers and footers
• Using a combination of Master Pages

Working with colour
• Understanding bleeds
• Spot colours and pantones
• Creating custom colours

Creating and formatting documents
• Fonts, styles and sizes
• Working with templates
• Paragraph formatting

• Leading, tracking and kerning
• Modifying text and picture boxes • Using invisibles and guides
• Introducing tabs
• Rules above and below

• Bullets and numbering in QuarkXPress Further text controls

• Paragraph and character style sheets
• Style sheets with templates
• Runaround techniques
• Conditional styles

• Working with the Story Editor
• Editing in the Story Editor
• Using space/align
• Using the QuarkXPress library
• Using the Baseline Grid

Working with beziers
• Creating custom shapes and paths • Creating text on a path
• Working with ShapeMaker

Working with layers
• Using the Layers palette
• Using layers to isolate items that should not print
• Adding, removing and merging layers
• The Layer Attributes dialog box
• Using Keep Runaround in layers
• The Layer selection area
• Deleting Layers

Document facilities
• Moving pages between documents
• Exporting different file formats
• Exporting as a PDF

Printing from QuarkXPress

• Automatically embedding fonts, colours and images for trouble-free printing from QuarkXPress
• Overview of Job Jackets • A printing checklist