Imagine how your productivity will increase when you understand the complexities of QuarkXpress, including managing your work flow, structuring documents, creating advanced style sheets, text and graphics, long documents and colour output after just 2 days of training.

That's what you'll be able to do after taking the Quark Xpress - Advanced course with Academy Class.

This course is designed to improve your skills working with the advanced features and special functions of this popular layout program. We will explore some fairly complex issues, including managing your work flow, structuring documents, creating advanced style sheets, text and graphics, long documents and colour output. We recommend that you be very comfortable with using QuarkXPress before taking this class and, if possible, have previously taken an introduction course.

Managing Workflow

• QuarkXPress preferences
• Application preferences
• Document preferences
• Libraries
• Templates
• Managing Images

Structuring Your Layouts

• Grids
• Using custom grids and template files
• Copy and layout fitting
• Kerning and Tracking
• Type colour

Working With Shapes

• Complex merging
• Applying blends to merged objects
• Advanced bezier tool techniques

Complex Text Elements

• Converting text to paths
• Putting type inside of character based graphics
• Text on paths
• Text on curved paths
• Text on circles or ovals
• Digbats and type paths

Text and Graphics Living Together

• Colouring text and text boxes
• Runarounds and clipping paths
• Creating runarounds
• Adjusting hyphenation and justification of runarounds
• Kerning and tracking in runarounds
• Alternatives to automatic runarounds
• QuarkXpress clipping paths
• Running text inside a picture's contours
• Anchored objects

Advanced Style Sheets

• Editorial priority
• Building style sheets
• Appending style sheets from another document
• Style sheets and workflow
• Creating character styles sheets

Working With Long Documents

• The importance of consistency
• Starting with a primary master document
• Books
• Lists
• Index creation prep
• The index palette

Managing Output

• Workflow issues for printing
• Working with print styles
• Separations
• Tiling
• Halftoning
• Using the PPD Manager
• PostScript and QuarkXPress
• Trapping
• Save for Output issues
• Output tips

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge: QuarkXPress - Introduction

Graphic professionals who need an advanced understanding of page layout. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• create graphic effects using Bézier lines and shapes.
• create type effects so that body text and display type enhance the design of a layout.
• lay out pages efficiently.
• control type color so that the densities of text blocks are as you want.
• apply color management so that colors match as accurately as possible.
• manage long documents.

Quark Xpress - Introduction