Category: Desktop Publishing

Cost: $325 (1-Day Format) or $650 (2-Day Format)

Course Summary:

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.

Prerequisite: Intro to Macintosh, Windows or equivalent.

Next Course of AACTTion: QuarkXPress - Part II (Save 10% when registering for both)

Course Topics: QuarkXPress - Part I

QuarkXPress 8 - Part One

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Category: Desktop Publishing

Cost: $325 (1-Day Format) or $650 (2-Day Format)

Course Summary:

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.

Prerequisite: QuarkXPress - Part I or equivalent.

Next Course of AACTTion: QuarkXPress - Part III (Save 15% when registering for all 3 parts)

Course Topics: QuarkXPress - Part II

QuarkXPress 8 - Part Two

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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QuarkXPress Part I

QuarkXPress Part II

QuarkXPress Part III

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Category: Desktop Publishing

Cost: $335 (1-Day Format) or $670 (2-Day Format)

Course Summary:

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.

Prerequisite: QuarkXPress - Part II or equivalent.

Next Course of AACTTion: Any Course

Course Topics: QuarkXPress - Part III

QuarkXPress 8 - Part Three

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