Quark XPress

Productive Layouting for Beginners and Advanced Users.

Conditions

Computer knowledge (PC or Mac) and the Objective, to accomplish productive layouts. On the basis of a personal discussion the special requirements of the respective participant will be written down and will flow into the course

Course Objective

All participants should be able to work productively with Quark XPress. 
Training takes place on real jobs, that the participants can bring to the course and therefor real working knowledge can be accomplished.

Content

• application of new techniques in Quark Xpress, such as:
  • lucency and shades
  • Composition Zones
  • a new measurerange
  • Unicode and OpenType
  • optimized pictureeffects and Adobe Photoshop® Integration
  • PDF/X
  • outputstiles
  • PPML-output
  • a new Color-Manager
  • Quark Job Jackets
  • PDF/X and outputstiles
  • lucency
  • shared contents
  • OpenType
  • improved Tables
  • data transfer QuarkXpress 6.5
  • front-end Quark XPress, menu-bar and tool-bar
  • useful default settings
  • colormanagement-settings
  • Lines and Bézierobjektes, seek Objekts, run around, unite
  • work with samples, Layout- and base linegrid
  • enhanced text functions
  • icons- and sizes
  • basic and special typographic Funktions
  • enhanced table functions
  • shortcuts, Export and Import of various Formats
  • colors and how to define color gradient, specialcolors
  • how to use the library
  • Index and table of contents
  • special Postscript-Options
  • PDF-Export and output
  

Duration

1 Day Course (can be extended on requirement)