Next course: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Location: Dublin (Pearse Street)
Price: €345 including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

This course is run using QuarkXPress version 9 for Windows. Places also available for users of earlier versions - contact us for more information.

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So...you've been on the Introductory course and now it's time to develop your skills. Or maybe you've had no formal training but have been using QuarkXPress for a while and feel there are things you're missing out on.

Either way, this could well be the course you're looking for. This Intermediate QuarkXPress course consists entirely of “hands-on” practical work using a series of exercises designed to develop the various skills. Time will also be made available to discuss and work through particular difficulties encountered by students in their own work using QuarkXPress.

Ideally, students should have attended the QuarkXPress Introductory training course and have had plenty of hands-on practice using the software before attending this course. The course is also suitable for those who have had extensive experience using QuarkXPress but no formal training.

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

Topics covered during this QuarkXPress training course will include:

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  • QuarkXPress Application and Document Defaults

  • Customising the Default Style Sheet, Colour Palette, and H&J Patterns

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  • Setting Up Master Pages in QuarkXPress
  • Creating Additional Master Pages
  • Linking the Text in Additional Master Pages to the Flow of the Default Master Page
  • Trouble-shooting Master Pages

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  • Paragraph & Character Style Sheets Reviewed – Creating, Editing & Applying

  • Using the Automatic Text Box

  • The Library Palette

  • The Document Layout Palette

  • Creating New H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Profiles for use in QuarkXPress documents
  • Copy-Fitting
  • Copy-Fitting Using the Baseline Grid

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  • 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

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  • Using Text as a Picture Box
  • Understanding the Different Merge Options
  • Understanding the Split Commands
  • Using the Merge and Split Commands for Creative Graphic Effects

  • Using Image Adjustment
  • Special Picture Effects

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  • QuarkXPress Support for Embedded Clipping Paths
  • Creating an Internal QuarkXPress Clipping Path
  • Editing Clipping Paths
  • Running Text Around Clipping Paths

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

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  • Appending Colours, Stylesheets, H&Js, Dashes & Stripes, Lists etc from one QuarkXPress Document to another

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

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Learn to use the Bézier tools to create
boxes with curved edges

Use Text as a Picture Box

Think outside of the box!
Get creative with picture box shapes

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