QuarkXPress 6 - Intermediate

Course Length: One-Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: QuarkXpress™ is the world’s premier electronic publishing software. It provides all the tools required to create, design, and deliver high-impact publications in both print and electronic media. At its core, QuarkXpress offers a powerful suite of publishing features for:

	Layout and design
	Printing and output
	Text processing
	Colour management
	Web page design

Delegates attending this course will have a basic understanding of how QuarkXpress works. This course will help delegates build on their existing skills to learn some of the more advanced features of QuarkXpress, as well as learn some techniques that will allow them to improve their workflow.

Course Objective: Delegates will use existing documents and use efficient techniques to make them more professional-looking.

Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

	Create graphic effects so that Bezier boxes and images appear as you want them to
	Create type effects so that body text and display type enhance the design of a layout
	Lay out pages efficiently
	Control type colour so that the densities of text blocks are as you want
	Apply colour management so that colours match as accurately as possible
	Manage long documents

Creating Graphic Effects with Bezier Paths

	Draw Bezier Paths
	Reshape a Picture Box
	Combine Bezier Shapes
	Silhouette Pictures

Creating Type Effects

	Create Drop Caps
	Reverse Type with a Style Sheet
	Typeset Numbers
	Create a Type Mask
	Flow Type on a Path
	Create a Type Shadow

Efficiently Laying Out Pages

	Organise Design Elements in Libraries
	Step and Repeat Items
	Adjust Space Between Items
	Manipulate Items Within Groups
	Layer Items

Professionally Typesetting Documents

	Choose Appropriate Typefaces
	Choose Appropriate Leading
	Set Justification Options
	Hyphenate Text
	Track Type
	Kern Type

Applying Colour Management

	Determine When To Use Colour Management
	Set Up Colour Management
	Change Image Profiles
	Choose Printer Device Profiles

Managing Long Documents

	Change Type Formatting Automatically
	Section a Document
	Create A List
	Index Documents
	Creating A Book

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