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Application Overview:
QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is a powerful page layout program for desktop publishing. It is a page make-up program–an electronic equivalent to traditional graphic arts processes such as typesetting and paste-up.
QuarkXPress is capable of producing full-color output on high-volume color printing presses and also supports a wide range of output devices and formats such as desktop printers, PDF and HTML files.
QuarkXPress is box-oriented so layouts are built by placing boxes on the page. A box can contain either text or an image, or it can contain nothing at all. You can apply advanced ligatures, alternate characters, and extended character sets easily and reliably. Synchronize your text and graphics immediately throughout your entire project. QuarkXPress now allows you to edit an image, correct a typo, change a font, or reshape a box in one layout and watch the changes update everywhere.
You can quickly access the exact controls you need by grouping and saving preferred palette configurations. You can also group palettes on the fly or create different palette sets for different publishing tasks.
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.
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QuarkXPress Training
Introduction
Course Information
Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $745 CDN (+GST)
This class is limited to eight people.
Course Overview
Designed for the novice QuarkXPress user responsible for producing business correspondence, newsletters, brochures, flyers and manuals. Upon completion of this course you will have the skills to set-up publications specifying size, margin & column guides, set-up master pages, format text with style sheets, use tabs & indents, import and manipulate graphics, create tables and more!
Course Content
- The QuarkXPress Program Preferences
- Global default settings
- The basic work area and creating new documents
- Entering & importing text, formatting text (font, size, leading, kerning, tracking, aligning, justification)
- Using Rules Guides
- Viewing Documents
- The Measurements Palette
- Page Layout Palette: single/facing pages, inserting, selecting and deleting pages
- Working with text boxes: creating a text box, sizing, moving, selecting, deleting, rotating text boxes
- Modifying a text box: colour, shade, style, angle, skew
- Using the Frame Modify dialog box
- Colour: process and spot colour
- Formatting paragraphs, paragraph rules
- Drop caps & hanging indents
- Using the Find/Change function to replace text and invisible characters
- Linking and Unlinking text
- Lines
- Tabs
- Working with Style Sheets
- Checking spelling and the Auxiliary dictionary
- Creating Picture Boxes and importing, cropping, sizing and rotating pictures
- Tables: entering, formatting and selecting text, combining cells, applying colour, inserting rows & columns
Calendar Dates:
Jul 28/29, 2008
Sep 8/9, 2008
Oct 21/22, 2008
Nov 27/28, 2008
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