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Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st January 2012
Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th March 2012
Location: Dublin city (Pearse Street)

Price: €599 now only €459 including course notes, lunch & refreshments, and unlimited email support following the course.

This course is run using QuarkXPress version 9 for Windows. (Places also available for users of earlier versions.)

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Quark XPress training Duration

This QuarkXPress training course is designed for new users of QuarkXPress who have little or no previous experience of QuarkXPress or desktop publishing. Starting from first principles, delegates will be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing ones, and will consolidate their knowledge by means of a series of carefully constructed exercises at each stage. At the end of the course, delegates should feel confident and enthusiastic about using QuarkXPress to create a range of simple but well laid-out documents including short, design-intensive publications such as flyers, leaflets and newsletters, through to longer single chapter books, catalogues and brochures.

This QuarkXPress training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.

Topics covered during this QuarkXPress training course will include:

Quark XPress training Overview of DTP
  • The Traditional Publishing Process
  • The Desktop Publishing Process using QuarkXPress

Quark XPress training User Interface

  • The QuarkXPress Toolbox
  • The Measurements Palette
  • Setting Application and Document Preferences
  • The Pasteboard

Quark XPress training Creating & Saving
  • QuarkXPress Document Setup
  • Setting up the Master Page
  • Automatic Page Numbering
  • Saving your Work
  • Retrieving (Opening) Documents

Quark XPress training Working with Items
  • What is a QuarkXPress "Item"?
  • Picture Boxes
  • Text Boxes
  • Lines
  • Reshaping Boxes
  • Framing Boxes

Quark XPress training Text Editing

  • Getting (Importing) Text created in other applications into a QuarkXPress document
  • Modifying Text Box Attributes
  • Formatting Text
  • Word Processing Features – Search and Replace, Find, Spell Check
  • Linking and Unlinking Text Boxes
  • Setting Tabs
  • Drop Caps and Bullets

Quark XPress training Printing & Typesetting Terminology
  • Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively
  • Setting Leading (Inter-Line space) Appropriately
  • Typesetting for maximum "readability"

Quark XPress training Picture Handling
  • Getting (Importing) Pictures into a QuarkXPress document
  • Modifying Picture Boxes
  • Cropping, Sizing and Scaling Pictures
  • Fitting Pictures to Boxes
  • Wrapping Text Around Pictures

Quark XPress training Tables

  • Inserting a Table in a QuarkXPress document

  • Setting Table Cell Content Properties

  • Combining & Splitting Table Cells

  • Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns

  • Setting the Grid & Border Properties

Quark XPress training Headers & Footers
  • Setting-up Running Headers and Footers
  • Inserting Page Numbers

Quark XPress training Long Doc Handling
  • Paragraph Style Sheets – Creating, Editing and Applying
  • Character Style Sheets – Creating, Editing and Applying
  • Using the Automatic Text Box
  • Hyphenation and Justification (H&J's) in QuarkXPress documents
  • Font Usage
  • The Measurement Palette
  • The Library Feature
  • The Document Layout Palette

Quark XPress training Inserting Hyperlinks

  • Creating Hyperlinks to external URLs
  • Creating internal QuarkXPress Document Hyperlinks

Quark XPress training Templates
  • Creating and Saving QuarkXPress Document Templates
  • Creating New Documents based on Templates
  • Modifying Templates

Quark XPress training Colour Issues
  • Applying, Editing and Creating Colours in QuarkXPress Documents
  • Using Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards
  • Converting Pantone Colours to Process CMYK Colours

Quark XPress training Printing & Output
  • Print options
  • Saving Postscript Files for output by remote service Bureaux
  • Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats, PC/Mac issues

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