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Quark Xpress

Overview & Prerequisite

In this course, students use QuarkXPress to lay out professional quality single and multiple-page documents that include text and graphics, and are designed for professional printing and publication.

Course content

Creating a Basic Single-Page Document

  • Create a New Document
  • Place Graphics
  • Add Display Type
  • Align Items to Guides
  • Create Bleeds

Structuring a Multi-Page Document

  • Set Up a Facing-Pages Layout
  • Create Additional Pages
  • Define Colors
  • Apply Colors
  • Create and Apply Master Pages

Typesetting

  • Flow Text
  • Adjust Vertical Spacing
  • Align Type Horizontally
  • Create Paragraph Rules
  • Format Type with Style Sheets
  • Modify Style Sheets

Presenting Text and Graphics in Tables

  • Create a Table Manually
  • Create a Table from Text
  • Display Graphics in Table Cells
  • Resize Rows and Columns
  • Modify Table Structure
  • Format Table Cells

 

Enhancing a Publications Readability

  • Check Spelling
  • Apply Runaround
  • Format Item Frames
  • Inset Text
  • Apply Continuation Page Numbering

Finalizing a Document for Commercial Printing

  • Check Picture Usage
  • Check Font Usage
  • Print a Proof
  • Create Print Styles
  • Collect for Output

 

Intermediate and Advanced course content available on request

 

 

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