Quark XPress Training - beginners & intermediate
2 day beginners & intermediate Quark Xpress training course.
One to one and small group Quark Xpress training in Birmingham and Midlands UK and custom Quark XPress training working with your own documents and designs.
This Quark XPress training will cover the basics of desktop publishing and design with Quark XPress and how to work accurately and efficiently as you create more advanced document designs using master pages and style sheets.
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Beginners and Intermediate Quark Training summary
Quark XPress training duration: 2 days
Level: beginners / intermediate Quark training
Software: QuarkXpress 7, Quark Xpress 6, Quark Xpress 4,
Quark Xpress 5, on PC or Mac
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up
to 4
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Locations:
1) At client's site in Birmingham, Midlands and around the UK (PC or Mac).
2) For one or two trainees, here in South Birmingham (PC - version 5 or 7).
Quark XPress training requirements:
You should have good computer skills. Some knowledge of other design
software will be useful, particularly Photoshop for
image resizing and colour correction.
Quark XPress Training -
Beginners and Intermediate
2 day Course Outline
The Quark XPress training will cover the basics of page layout and design
with Quark XPress and look at time saving features like style sheets and
master pages.
During the Quark training you will normally work through some of your own documents
and designs, creating simple documents like flyers, small adverts, leaflets,
newsletters, etc.
* Other more advanced documents may be covered as part of the Quark XPress training
with prior arrangement and if examples are provided *
Quark XPress - Beginners Introduction - Day 1
Creating a new Quark Xpress document
Starting a new document:
Setting document size and margins and other options
Saving a document and organising files
Modifying page properties
Quark Xpress work area
Moving around the document
Zoom tool and shortcut keys for zooming in and out
Using guidelines to help control layout
Tools
Content & Item tools
Picture boxes and text boxes
Line and shape tools
Text linking tools
Shapes and lines
Creating shapes and lines
Setting fill colour other properties for shapes
Setting line style, colour and arrows for lines
Colours
Colours palette - adding new colours
Pantone “spot” colours and CMYK colours
Choosing colour for type, fills and borders
Creating tints and gradients
Importing colour lists from other documents
Automatically loading a predefined set of colours with every new document
Working with Images
Create a picture box - set size and position
Import a picture (file type, size, quality considerations)
Positioning an image within the picture box
Scaling, cropping and rotating images
Putting a border around an image
Text & Typography
Creating Text Boxes
Editing text box properties
Adding text, importing text or using Jabber
Setting type properties: size, font, style, alignment
Changing the number of columns of text
Flowing type from one text box to another
Hyphenation, leading, tracking and kerning
Paragraph formatting - indents, paragraph spacing
Checking Spelling
Flowing type around images and other objects
Shapes and Selected Objects
Shape Modifying – changing from one shape to another
Converting between picture boxes and text boxes
Using the Measurements Palette for accurate measurements and calculations
Duplicating selected objects
Grouping objects together & manipulating them as a group
Spacing and aligning items on the page
Locking objects to prevent accidental moving
Adding a drop shadow to an image or other objects – QX7
Page Management
Adding, removing and organising pages
Editing a master page
Various
Keyboard shortcuts: for scaling pictures and text, duplicating, selecting, turning palettes on & off.
Create a Document
Create a simple document such as a flyer, small advert, poster, or a simple newsletter.
Quark Xpress - Intermediate - Day 2
Pages and Master Pages
Working with multi-page documents
Creating a spread of 2 or more pages
Creating Master Pages
Applying a master page to document pages
Editing and duplicating master pages
Automatic page numbering
Dividing a document into sections
Setting section numbering options
Type & Typography
Tabs - creating hanging indents and tabbed lists
Controlling paragraph breaks and column breaks
Advanced Paragraph formatting - drop caps, baseline shift, paragraph rules, keep options, etc.
Inserting Glyphs and special characters e.g. • © ™ etc. – QX7
Inline graphics (graphics inside the type )
Automatic text flowing for large documents and books
Placing text on a curved path
Convert type into outlines which can be filled or manipulated like any shape
Style Sheets
Style Sheets to format type
Character and Paragraph Style Sheets
Applying and editing Style Sheets
Importing styles from other documents
Other type features
Using Find & Replace to replace repeated text elements in a document
Showing hidden characters (paragraphs, tabs, spaces, etc.) within the text
Tables
Creating and working with simple tables
Formatting cell colours and cell stroke properties
Resizing cells, merging cells, adding or removing rows or columns
Importing table data from spreadsheet documents or creating a table from existing text
Formatting text, setting cell inset spacing
Adding images to table cells
Images
Using clipping paths or alpha channels to create areas of transparency in an image
PSD Import – QX7
Working with layered Photoshop PSD files and transparency in Photoshop files.
Adjusting image colours inside Quark
Picture Effects – QX7
Layers
Using layers to separate and lock various design elements
Bezier Tools
Creating and modifying simple bezier boxes and lines and custom shapes
Object Manipulation
Using Step and Repeat to duplicate selected objects
Opacity settings - QX7
Output
Collecting together all files and fonts needed for printing
Creating PDF files for electronic distribution
Various
Modifying default tool properties
Font & Picture usage – check which images and fonts are used
Create a multi-page document
Create a document of your own choice, usually something typical of the documents you will need to produce with Quark Xpress.
Optional areas
Can be included if requested in advance of the training:
Libraries and library items
Advanced table design for larger more complex tables
Design of larger multi page or multi section documents
Generating a table of contents from page headings
Creating a book with multiple chapters
This course outline is a summary of what can be covered in the training.
Every Quark XPress course is slightly different and will be based on individual
requirements.
Intermediate Quark Xpress courses will normally be based around working through
some of your own projects and designs.
Advanced Quark training can be organised with other trainers if required. This may include preparing print ready documents and creating more complex long document designs.
This Quark XPress training is available onsite in Birmingham and Midlands
areas including Solihull, Bomsgrove, Redditch and Worcester.
Quark XPress courses can be arranged with other trainers around the UK
Quark XPress 5 courses and QuarkXPress 7 courses are also available for one or two people at our premises in South Birmingham.
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