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Training Course Summary:

Students will learn how to create a wide range of publications containing both text and graphics, and become familiar with Quark’s facilities.

Pre-Requisites:

No previous experience of printing, publishing or Desktop Publishing is assumed, although delegates should have Windows experience.

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for people who need to create complex page layouts or produce publications such as brochures, annual reports and newsletters.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Running Quark Xpress
The User Interface
Setting Application and Document Preferences
The Toolbox
The Pasteboard

Starting a New Publication
Document Setup
Setting up the Master Page
Automatic Page Numbering

Working with Quark Xpress items
Picture Boxes
Text Boxes
Lines
Reshaping Boxes
Framing Boxes

Text Handling
Getting (Importing) Text
Modifying Text Box Attribute
Formatting Text
Word processing Features
Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes
Drop Caps and Bullets

Picture Handling
Getting (Importing) Pictures
Modifying Picture Boxes
Cropping, Sizing and Scaling Pictures
Fitting Pictures to Boxes
Wrapping Text Around Pictures

Page Layout
Paragraph Style Sheets – Creating, Editing & Applying
Character Style Sheets – Creating, Editing & Applying
The Automatic Text Box
Hyphenation & Justification (H&J’s)
Font Usage
The Measurement Palette
The Library Feature
The Document Layout Palette

Templates
Creating and Saving Templates
Using Templates
Modifying Templates

Colour
Applying, Editing and Creating Colours
Converting Pantone Colour to CMYK

Output
Collecting Files for Output
Postscript Files