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Contact
us to book this Quark XPress
training course.
For details of Quark XPress
training courses
in the UK visit www.ppatraining.co.uk

This Quark XPress
Advanced training course
consists entirely of “hands-on” practical work using a series of exercises
designed to develop the various skills. Time will be made available to discuss
and work through particular difficulties encountered by students in their own
work using Quark XPress.
Ideally,
students should have attended the Quark XPress Introductory course and have had plenty of
hands-on practice before attending this course. The course is also suitable for
those who have had extensive experience using Quark XPress but no formal training.
This Quark XPress training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.
Topics covered
during this Quark XPress training course will
include:

-
Quark XPress
Application
and Document Defaults
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Customising
the Default Style Sheet, Colour Palette, and H&J Patterns

- Setting
Up a Master Page in Quark XPress
- Creating
Additional Master Pages
- Linking
the Text in Additional Master Pages to the Flow of the Default Master Page
- Trouble-shooting Master Pages

- Creating
New H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Definitions for use in Quark XPress
Documents
- Copy-Fitting
- Copy-Fitting
Using the Baseline Grid
- Saving your Work

- How Quark XPress Supports
Paragraph Styles Used in a Word-Processor
- Pre-Tagging Text
- Using
the XTags Extension

- What
is a Bézier Path?
- Creating
Curved Lines and Boxes
- Controlling
the Shape of Curves
- Corner,
Smooth and Symmetrical Points
- Straight
and Curved Segments
- Changing
the Shapes of Curves

- Understanding
the Different Merge Options
- Using
the Merge Command for Creative Graphic Effects
- Understanding
the Split Commands
- Using
the Split Command for Creative Graphic Effects
- Converting
Text to Boxes
- Using
the Convert Text to Box Command for Creative Graphic Effects

- Support
for Embedded Clipping Paths in Quark XPress
- Creating
an Internal Quark XPress Clipping Path
- Editing
Clipping Paths
- Running
Text Around Clipping Paths

- Creating
and Editing Dash Styles
- Creating
and Editing Stripe Styles
- Applying
Custom Dash and Stripe Styles


- Using
Spot, Process, Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards in Quark XPress
- Adding
Colours to the Colours Palette
- Converting
Pantone Colour to CMYK
- Trapping

- Linking
Quark XPress Documents using the Book Feature
- Creating
an Index
- Creating
a Table of Contents
- Creating
Other Custom Lists

- Creating
a Print Style
- Printing
Using a Print Style
- Printing
Colour Separations
- Saving Postscript
Files for output by remote service Bureaux
- Some Common Output
Problems explained – Fonts, Picture Formats & Mac/PC issues
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