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QuarkXPress Advanced

Overview

This is a fast moving, hands-on course for experienced QuarkXPress users who want to discover the most effective ways to work in a professional environment. You will look at items covered in the introductory course in more detail and explore the use of the Bezier and its functions.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our QuarkXPress Introduction course or have a good working knowledge of QuarkXPress.

Course Content

Type & Typography

Understanding OpenType & Unicode
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 & J¹s

Creating & applying H & J¹s
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 side

Bezier Boxes & Lines

Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
Editing Bezier points & segments
Changing boxes to Bezier items
Drawing freehand lines/boxes

Composition Zones

Creating a composition zone
Sharing a composition layout
Linking to a composition layout in another project
Editing a composition layout
Deleting a composition layout

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
Managing profiles
Introduction to Trapping
Setting Trapping preferences
Trapping exceptions colour by colour
Trapping exceptions item by item

Output

Creating an output style
Editing an output style
EPS
PDF
PPML

Job Jackets

Understanding Job Jackets
What are Job Jackets?
Job Tickets
Job Ticket Templates
Job Jackets workflow

Pre-Press Checks

Font/picture usage
Quark Fontstore
Colour separation
Collect for output
Proof printing
Creating crop/cut marks
Page set-up options
PPD manager
Print options
Capturing print settings
Print styles

Other Relevant Courses

Course Booking Conditions

Duration

2 Days

Schedule

29/30 January 2009

Prices

£645

All the bookings come with lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support.

Costs

Studio Vouchers: £420 or less
Season Tickets: £348