Quark Xpress Advanced

Course Overview

Managing Workflow
# QuarkXPress preferences
# Application preferences
# Document preferences
# Libraries
# Templates
# Managing Images

Structuring your Layouts
# Grids
# Using custom grids and template files
# Copy and layout fitting
# Kerning and Tracking
# Type color

Working with Shapes
# Complex merging
# Applying blends to merged objects
# Advanced bezier tool techniques

Complex Text Elements
# Converting text to paths
# Putting type inside of characterbased graphics
# Text on paths
# Text on curved paths
# Text on circles or ovals
# Digbats and type paths

Text and Graphics Living Together
# Coloring text and text boxes
# Runarounds and clipping paths
# Creating runarounds
# Adjusting hyphenation and justification of runarounds
# Kerning and tracking in runarounds
# Alternatives to automatic runarounds
# QuarkXpress clipping paths
# Running text inside a picture’s contours
# Anchored objects

Advanced Style Sheets
# Editorial priority
# Building style sheets
# Appending style sheets from another document
# Style sheets and workflow
# Creating character styles sheets

Working with Long Documents
# The importance of consistency
# Starting with a primary master document
# Books
# Lists
# Index creation prep
# The index palette

Managing Output
# Workflow issues for printing
# Working with print styles
# Separations
# Tiling
# Halftoning
# Using the PPD Manager
# PostScript and QuarkXPress
# Trapping
# Save for Output issues
# Output tips