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Category: Desktop Publishing
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Cost: $325 (1-Day Format) or $650 (2-Day Format)
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Course Summary:
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Explore the QuarkXPress interface. Work with tools and palettes; add text and pictures; modify text and picture boxes; learn how to create automatic and manual text links.
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Prerequisite: Intro to Macintosh, Windows or equivalent.
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Next Course of AACTTion: QuarkXPress - Part II (Save 10% when registering for both)
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Course Topics: QuarkXPress - Part I
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Category: Desktop Publishing
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Cost: $325 (1-Day Format) or $650 (2-Day Format)
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Course Summary:
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Work with colors and libraries; create Master Pages and Style Sheets effectively, create XPress Tags and Beziers. Use layers; understand Tracking, Kerning and Hyphenation; work with tables; use Font and Picture Usage, and create templates.
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Prerequisite: QuarkXPress - Part I or equivalent.
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Next Course of AACTTion: QuarkXPress - Part III (Save 15% when registering for all 3 parts)
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Course Topics: QuarkXPress - Part II
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QuarkXPress Part I - Course Topics
The QuarkXPress Environment
- QuarkXPress basics
- Greeking
- Set application preferences
- Palette Sets
- Text and picture boxes
- Customize a tool
- The Zero Point
Text Basics
- Working with text
- Overflow text
- Undo and Redo History
- Modifying
- Simple text editing
- Selecting text
- Moving text
- Character attributes
- Glyphs
Importing Text and Formatting Paragraphs
- Importing text
- Paragraph alignment
- Paragraph spacing
- Leading
- Paragraph rules
Tabs, Frames and Insets
- Set and move a Tab Stop
- Set a Fill character
- Add a Frame to a text box
- Set Inset spacing and vertical justification
Picture Basics
- Picture formats
- Import a picture
- Move and crop a picture
- Change the scale of a picture
- Rotate and Skew
- Add and modify a Drop Shadow
- Add a picture to a layout
Working with Items
- Standard and Super Repeating
- Space/Align
- Grouping and Ungrouping
- Merging
- Stacks
- Shape Shifting
Automatic and Manual Text Links
- Automatic text boxes
- Navigating multi-page documents
- Ruler Guides
- Manually linking text boxes
- Breaking and changing a link
- Locking tools
- Link text over multiple pages
One-Page Flyer Project
- Multiple Column Text Frames
- The Find/Change Command
- Style Sheets: first look
- Text Runaround
- Spell Check
- Collect for output
- PDFs
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QuarkXPress Part II - Course Topics
Clipping Paths, Picture Effects and Opacity
- Create a Clipping Path
- Clipping Outsets and Thresholds
- Change a picture's brightness
- Apply a filter to a picture
- Change an item's opacity
Colors and Libraries
- Working with color
- Points, Picas and Inches
- Create and use a Library
Master Pages
- Create a Master Page
- Pasteboard Ruler Guides
- Automatic page numbers
Style Sheets
- Creating and using Style Sheets
- Editing Style Sheets
- Direct Formatting
- The Baseline Grid
- Drop Caps
- Character Styles
XPress Tags
- Tags overview
- Paragraph Tags
Working with Bezier Text Boxes
- Wrap text inside a graphic
- Work with a Bezier text box
- Add points to a shape
Layers
- Create and use layers
- Append colors
- Create and modify layers
- Move layers
Tracking, Kerning and Hyphenation
- Tracking and Kerning
- Tracking tables
- Tracking a layout
- Hyphenation
- More Hyphenation controls
- Hyphenation Zones
Tables
- Creating Tables from scratch
- Converting text to a table
Usage and Templates
- Font usage
- Picture usage
- Create and use a Template
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QuarkXPress Part III - Course Topics
Sections, Inline Graphics and Dictionaries
- Create Sections
- Absolute page numbers
- Inline Graphics
- Automatic Continued Lines
- Auxiliary dictionaries
Books
- Book files
- Synchronize chapters
- Create book chapter sections
- Lists
- Indexing
Trapping
- Trapping basics
- Change trapping values
- The Trap Information palette
- Rich black colors
- Color separations
Layout Spaces, Shared Content & HTML
- Create a print layout
- Share text
- Web layouts
- Hyperlinks
- Alternative text
- Image Maps
Composition Zones and Job Jackets
- Collaborate using Composition Zones
- Create a Job Jacket
- Tickets
- Rules
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Category: Desktop Publishing
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Cost: $335 (1-Day Format) or $670 (2-Day Format)
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Course Summary:
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Create Sections, work with Inline graphics and dictionaries. Prepare book files, synchronize chapters, table of contents and indexes. Understand Trapping and Color Separations; create a print and Web layout, share text; work with hyperlinks and image maps. Collaborate using Composition Zones, and create Job Jackets.
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Prerequisite: QuarkXPress - Part II or equivalent.
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Next Course of AACTTion: Any Course
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Course Topics: QuarkXPress - Part III
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QuarkXPress 8 - Part Three