This powerful layout application with its versatile interface lets the user combine writing, editing, and typography with colour and pictures to produce dynamic final output. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalog houses, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing requirements. This bigrockdesigns tutorial takes the user from an introduction to an advanced level of production creating numerous projects in the process.
Course Outline
Introduction
Overview
work environment
Navigating System
Applying undo
Measurement tools
Working with items
The Tool Bar
Item tool
Content tool
Text box tool
Bezier text box tool
Freehand text box tool
Text path tool
Rotate tool
Line tool
Tables tool
Linking tools
Scissors tool
Creating New Pages
Building a new project
Adding pages
Master pages
Adding Text and Graphics
Using Text
linking text
Runaround
Text box frame color
Dropcaps, tabs, rules
Tracking, kerning, leading
Style sheets
Synchronizing text
Check spelling
Turning text into a breezier box
Fractions and prices
Anchor boxes
Using Graphics
Importing pictures
Scaling and fitting a picture
clipping paths
Working with color
Combining boxes
Applying frames to boxes
Blended backgrounds
Line colors
Importing pdfs
Creating a Logo
Creating a logo
Tables
Creating new tables
Text to table
Converting tables to boxes
Lists, Indexes, Books and
Libraries
lists
libraries
Books
Indexes
Web Documents
Creating web documents
Exporting into html
Printing and PDFs
Collect for output
Outputting to a Pdfs
Printing
Summary
who should do this course
This course is ideal for the learner with sound PC or Mac skill base. A basic knowledge of Quarkxpress would be an advantage but not essential. If you have a desire to produce art work of a high standard quickly and easily this course is for you.
