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Cost: €599

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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

• 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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