QuarkXPress 4.1
Course Outline
Learn the superior graphics and text capabilities of QuarkXpress.
Start with the basics and build to an understanding of how you
can increase your speed, skill and inventiveness. This class
covers the major functions of the program and how to become an
experienced user.
Prerequisites
Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require
students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving
files, and the general operations of computers. While we will
make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient
skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their
best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We
highly recommend working with the application tutorial before
coming to the course.
What You Will Learn
· Using the toolbox, palettes, views, guides and navigation
· Document layout
· Working with text features
· Pictures
· Color management and Libraries
· Effectivepage design
· Advanced design techniques
· Item placement and management
· Putting it all together
LESSON I From Concept to Mechanicals
· QuarkXPress and the QuarkXPress environment
· Launching the program
· Tools, menus, and palettes
· The tool palette
· Other tools
· The menu bars
· Other palettes
· Guides, margins, and rulers
· Viewing guides
· Setting guides
· Adjusting and removing guides
· Other guide options
· Understanding the rulers
LESSON II Working with Files
· Creating a new QuarkXPress document
· Modifying the document setup
· Saving files
· Save options
· Revert to saved
· Other save options
· Navigating QuarkXPress
· Zooming in and out
· Other frequently used shortcuts
LESSON III Working with Objects
· Creating simple boxes
· Creating lines and shapes
· Modifying shapes and content types
· Editing simple elements
· Modifying with color
· Positioning elements
· Duplicating elements
· Moving items
· Stacking order
· Alignment
· Manipulating elements
· Modify dialog boxes vs. the measurement palette
· Skew, scale, rotate, flip, and move elements
· Applying transformations to figures
LESSON IV Working with Text
· Selecting text
· Using cut/copy/delete and pasting text
· Navigating through text blocks
· Overflow icon
· Setting text inset value
· Importing text files
· Pasting text from the clipboard
· Linking text boxes
· Formatting text
· Character attributes dialog box
· Measurement palette
· Horizontal spacing
LESSON V Paragraph Formatting
· Paragraph formats dialog box
· Rules and paragraph rules
· Setting tabs
LESSON VI Style Sheets
· Character styles
· Paragraph styles
· Creating a new paragraph style sheet
· Edit existing styles
· Using the style sheets palette to apply styles
LESSON VII Images
· Getting images onto the page
· Importing a picture
· Copy/cut and paste pictures
· Scaling imported pictures
· Modifying picture boxes
· Using the measurements palette to scale
· Cropping pictures
· Anchored pictures
· Picture usage
· Status column messages for images
· Locating a picture within a document
· Updating pictures
LESSON VIII Master Pages
· Creating elements on master pages
· Headers and footers
· Modifying master page items on document pages
· Reapplying master items
LESSON IX Creating Complex Shapes
· The freehand tools
· The bezier tools
· Anchor points & segments
· Closed and open paths
· Working with curves
· Merging shapes
· Creating text on a path
· Text on circles
· Controlling the position of type on paths
LESSON X Working with Colors and Frames
· Frames and background colors
· Using the colors palette
· Defining colors blends
· Frames
LESSON XI Working with Text Utilities
· Spell checker
· Dictionaries
· Hyphenation and Justification
· Using find/change
· Double spaces after periods
· Double returns
· Smart quotes
· Optimizing workflows
LESSON XII Printing & Packaging
· Page setup dialog box
· Printing your document
Pricing
QuarkXPress 4.1 is a one-day course for $250.00 plus $40.00 for
materials.
Time
Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00/4:30 p.m.
Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically
scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.