VSBT

This course is designed for those who are Mac or Windows literate, but have never worked in QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress is covered comprehensively, including:

• basic layout
• text and graphics manipulation
• drawing tools (Bezier curves)
• color creation
• color application
• style sheets
• master pages
• multiple pages
• baseline grid
• hyphenation
• libraries
• anchored boxes
• indexing
• book creation
• The QuarkXPress Tool Palette
• Creation of Quark Document
• Basic Text Attributes:
  • font, size, leading
• Creation of Letter
  Creation of Additional Documents
• Typography Basics:
  • Character & Paragraph options (the Style Menu)
  • Tabs
  • Invisibles
• Typography Essentials (More Complex Formatting):
  • hanging bullets
  • hyphenation
  • manual kerning/tracking (including keystrokes)
• Rotating Text/Objects
  • Flipping Horizontal/Vertical
  • Multiple Page Documents
  • Controlling Page Numbers (Section Start)
• Color:
  • Application and Definition of colors
  • CMYK (Process) versus Pantone (Spot) Colors
  • Spot Color Mixing (Multi-Ink)
• The Item/Page/View Menus
• The Measurements Palette
• Bezier Drawing Tools
• Type on a Path
• Multiple Text Columns
• Basline Grid
• Text Runaround
• Paste in Place
• Graphics with Clipping Paths
• Style Sheets:
  • Paragraph Styles
  • Character Styles
• Baseline Grid
• H&Js (Hyphenation and Justification Settings)
• Tables:
  • creating new or importing
  • formatting
• Anchoring Images/Objects in Text
• Multiple Page Documents
• Master Pages
• Manually Linking Text Boxes (across pages)
• Controlling Page Numbers (Section Start)
• Automatic Page Numbering
• Library
• Find/Change
• Spell Checking
• Hyphenation/H&Js
• Advanced Keyboard Short Cuts
• Creating a Book:
  • setting up and using Master Pages
  • automatic flowing of text
  • using style sheets to style text
  • using Find/Change to speed things up
• Paragraph Rules
• Automatic Lists (Table Of Contents)
• Indexing
• Book Compiling & Synchronization
• Collecting Files for Output
• Printing Methods and Media
• Print Styles
• Document versus Application Preferences