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Application Overview:
QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress is a powerful page layout program for desktop publishing.

Create print, HTML, and XML content from the same file without the need for conversion or repurposing.

QuarkXPress allows you to take advantage of more advanced color management options than ever before. Use Color Setups and Quark Job Jackets to easily share, automatically update, and maintain settings among all users. QuarkXPress can output with PDF/X 1-a and PDF/X 3 support.

Set transparency of a frame, background, or single character at the color level with total independence. No need for item-based workarounds or third-party applications. Fully support your Adobe Photoshop files for design flexibility and reliability — all from a single, intuitive interface.

Users: Creative, Web, Engineering, Finance, IT, Legal, Marketing and Admin Professionals as well as anyone who needs to create, edit, assemble, publish and distribute electronic documents, imagery and illustration.

QuarkXPress Training

QuarkXPress
Introduction

QuarkXPress
Advanced

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QuarkXPress Training
Advanced

Course Information

Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: Call DPA

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Course Overview

Designed for experienced QuarkXPress users, in this course you will learn the powerful typographic and image control features of this program as well as numerous tips to improve your efficiency in producing documents. Proficiency in using the Toolbox is a prerequisite for this course.

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Course Content

  • Program preferences in detail: Display, Interactive, Save and XTensions Manager, Undo, File List, Default Path, PDF, Measurements, Paragraph, Character, Tools, Layers and General Preferences
  • Working with colour (Spot and Process), editing colours, applying blends, shade percentage
  • Colour trapping
  • Hyphenation and justification
  • Dashes and stripes
  • Paragraph rules
  • Anchored boxes
  • Using the Bezier drawing tools for lines and curves and Bezier shortcuts
  • Merging and splitting boxes
  • Working with text paths
  • Creating text outlines
  • Importing and editing graphics and combining object shapes
  • Creating a clipping path for a graphic
  • In-line graphics
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