QuarkXPress Advanced

Course Description

This Advanced QuarkXPress training course consists entirely of hands-on practical work using a series of exercises designed to help you refine your knowledge of QuarkXPress. Perhaps you've been on the Introductory or Intermediate level QuarkXPress training course and now it's time to develop your skills? Or maybe you've had no formal training but have been using QuarkXPress for a while and feel there are things you're missing out on? Either way, this could well be the course you're looking for.
1 Day
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Who should attend

Ideally, students should have attended the QuarkXPress Introductory or Intermediate training course and have had plenty of hands-on practice before attending this course. The course is also suitable for those who have had extensive experience using QuarkXPress but no formal training.
Time will be made available to discuss and work through particular difficulties encountered by students in their own work using QuarkXPress.

QuarkXPress defaults reviewed

QuarkXPress Application and Document Defaults
Customising the Default Style Sheet, Colour Palette, and H&J Profiles

Master pages reviewed

Setting Up Master Pages in QuarkXPress
Creating Additional Master Pages
Linking the Text in Additional Master Pages to the Flow of the Default Master Page
Trouble-shooting Master Pages

Advanced page layout controls

Creating New H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Profiles for use in QuarkXPress documents
Copy-Fitting
Copy-Fitting Using the Baseline Grid
Saving your Work

Preparing text for import to QuarkXPress

How QuarkXPress Supports Paragraph Styles Used in a Word-Processor
Pre-Tagging Text
Using the XTags Extension

All about Béziers

What is a Bézier Path?
Creating Curved Lines and Boxes
Controlling the Shape of Curves
Corner, Smooth and Symmetrical Points
Straight and Curved Segments
Changing the Shapes of Curves

Transforming items by merging, splitting and converting

Using Text as a Picture Box
Understanding the Different Merge Options
Understanding the Split Commands
Using the Merge and Split Commands for Creative Graphic Effects

Clipping paths

QuarkXPress Support for Embedded Clipping Paths
Creating an Internal QuarkXPress Clipping Path
Editing Clipping Paths
Running Text Around Clipping Paths

Custom dashes and stripes

Creating and Editing Dash Styles
Creating and Editing Stripe Styles
Applying Custom Dash and Stripe Styles

Using the Append command

Appending Colours, Stylesheets, H&Js, Dashes & Stripes, Lists etc from one QuarkXPress Document to another

Colour issues

Using Spot, Process, Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards in QuarkXPress
Adding Colours to the Colours Palette
Converting Pantone Colour to CMYK
Trapping

Longer document handling features

Using Spot, Process, Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards in QuarkXPress
Adding Colours to the Colours Palette
Converting Pantone Colour to CMYK
Trapping

Printing and output

Creating a Print Style
Printing Using a Print Style
Printing Colour Separations
Creating PDF Output from QuarkXPress
Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts, Picture Formats & Mac/PC issues
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