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Quark Xpress 5 Introduction

Course Overview

Students will learn how to create a wide range of publications containing both text and graphics, and become familiar with Quark’s facilities.

Prerequisites

No previous experience of printing, publishing or Desktop Publishing is assumed, although delegates should have Windows experience.

Benefits

Students will learn how to create and edit a publication; manipulate and format text; enhance drawings and text with shading and colour; create specialised layout styles and templates; and incorporate text and graphics files from other applications.

Target student

This course is designed for people who need to create complex page layouts or produce publications such as brochures, annual reports and newsletters.

We offer a range of Quark Xpress training courses

Running Quark Xpress
  • The User Interface
  • Setting Application and Document Preferences
  • The Toolbox
  • The Pasteboard
Starting a New Publication
  • Document Setup
  • Setting up the Master Page
  • Automatic Page Numbering
Working with Quark Xpress items
  • Picture Boxes
  • Text Boxes
  • Lines
  • Reshaping Boxes
  • Framing Boxes
Text Handling
  • Getting (Importing) Text
  • Modifying Text Box Attribute
  • Formatting Text
  • Word processing Features
  • Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes
  • Drop Caps and Bullets
Picture Handling
  • Getting (Importing) Pictures
  • Modifying Picture Boxes
  • Cropping, Sizing and Scaling Pictures
  • Fitting Pictures to Boxes
  • Wrapping Text Around Pictures
Page Layout
  • Paragraph Style Sheets – Creating, Editing & Applying
  • Character Style Sheets – Creating, Editing & Applying
  • The Automatic Text Box
  • Hyphenation & Justification (H&J’s)
  • Font Usage
  • The Measurement Palette
  • The Library Feature
  • The Document Layout Palette
Templates
  • Creating and Saving Templates
  • Using Templates
  • Modifying Templates
Colour
  • Applying, Editing and Creating Colours
  • Converting Pantone Colour to CMYK
Output
  • Collecting Files for Output
  • Postscript Files
 
Publisher: Quark
Version: 5
Length: 1 day
Course-ID: 084161
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