Quark Xpress Essentials

Course Overview

From Concept to Mechanicals
# QuarkXPress and the QuarkXPress environment
# Launching the program
# Tools, menus, and palettes
# The tool palette
# Other tools
# The menu bars
# Other palettes
# Guides, margins, and rulers
# Viewing guides
# Setting guides
# Adjusting and removing guides
# Other guide options
# Understanding the rulers

Working with Files
# Creating a new QuarkXPress document

# Modifying the document setup
# Saving files
# Save options
# Revert to saved
# Other save options
# Navigating QuarkXPress
# Zooming in and out
# Other frequently used shortcuts

Working with Objects
# Creating simple boxes
# Creating lines and shapes
# Modifying shapes and content types
# Editing simple elements
# Modifying with color
# Positioning elements
# Duplicating elements
# Moving items
# Stacking order
# Alignment
# Manipulating elements
# Modify dialog boxes vs. the measurement palette
# Skew, scale, rotate, flip, and move elements
# Applying transformations to figures

Working with Graphics
# Creating basic objects in QuarkXPress. (objects include: polygon, rectangle, circle, lines)
# Modifying graphics by using commands from the Elements menu.
# Crop graphics by using various tools and procedures. (tools include: resizing a frame, Cropping tool, Frame options)
# Colorizing and tinting imported graphics
# Appropriate graphic file format to use

Working with Colour
# Differences between spot and process colors, and the appropriate use for each type
# Understanding when a color would be added to the Colors palette when importing a graphic
# Import colors from another QuarkXPress file by using the Colors palette or the Utilities menu
# Apply colors by using the Colors palette
# Features available in QuarkXPress used for color management.

Working with Text
# Selecting text
# Using cut/copy/delete and pasting text
# Navigating through text blocks
# Overflow icon
# Setting text inset value
# Importing text files
# Pasting text from the clipboard
# Linking text boxes
# Formatting text
# Character attributes dialog box
# Measurement palette
# Horizontal spacing

Paragraph Formatting
# Paragraph formats dialog box
# Rules and paragraph rules
# Setting tabs

Style Sheets
# Character styles
# Paragraph styles
# Creating a new paragraph style sheet
# Edit existing styles
# Using the style sheets palette to apply styles

Images
# Getting images onto the page
# Importing a picture
# Copy/cut and paste pictures
# Scaling imported pictures
# Modifying picture boxes
# Using the measurements palette to scale
# Cropping pictures
# Anchored pictures
# Picture usage
# Status column messages for images
# Locating a picture within a document
# Updating pictures

Master Pages
# Creating elements on master pages
# Headers and footers
# Modifying master page items on document pages
# Reapplying master items

Creating Complex Shapes
# The freehand tools
# The bezier tools
# Anchor points & segments
# Closed and open paths
# Working with curves
# Merging shapes
# Creating text on a path
# Text on circles
# Controlling the position of type on paths

Working with Colours and Frames
# Frames and background colors
# Using the colors palette
# Defining colors blends
# Frames

Working with Text Utilities
# Spell checker
# Dictionaries
# Hyphenation and Justification
# Using find/change
# Double spaces after periods
# Double returns
# Smart quotes
# Optimizing workflows

Printing and Packaging
# Page setup dialog box
# Printing your document

Lesson Plans