All our courses are customised to meet your objectives, but based on a solid foundation as reccommended by Quark in their official course content.

All our courses are instructor led and very hands-on, going in to much details than the other courses. Making the courses more relevant to your interests, skill levels and objectives, incorporating real live work where possible, increases your involvement in the material and enhances your learning and recollection of the course material in addition to produce usable work!

Typical QuarkXPress Course Outline

Introduction

• QuarkXPress tools
• Documents and Projects
• Single and multiple layouts
• Creating text and picture boxes
• Importing text and pictures

Setting up pages in Quark

• Setting the page size and margins
• Columns and gutters
• Positioning the document origin
• Quark's measurement systems

The document layout palette

• Creating and deleting pages
• The Measurements palette

Text and graphics features

• Framing text and picture boxes
• Rotating graphics
• Cropping images
• Wrapping text around items
• Different types of runarounds
• Grouping and multiple selections
• Finding and changing text
• Linking and unlinking text boxes
• Image editing
• An introduction to transparency

Using Master Pages

• Creating and editing Master Pages
• Automatic page numbering
• Creating headers and footers
• Using a combination of Master Pages

Colour models

• Creating custom colours

Creating and formatting documents

• Fonts, styles and sizes
• Working with templates
• Leading and tracking values
• Modifying text and picture boxes
• Using invisibles and guides

Setting Quark preferences

• Introducing tabs and rules
• Composition zones

More text controls

• Anchored text boxes
• Using the Baseline Grid
• Paragraph and character style sheets
• Style sheets with templates
• Runaround techniques
• Soft and hard returns
• Using space/align
• Using the QuarkXPress library

Working with tables

• The Table tool
• Tables with picture boxes
• Importing data from MS Excel

Working with beziers

• Creating custom shapes and paths
• Creating text on a path

Working with layers

• Using layers to isolate items that should not print
• The Layers palette
• Adding, removing and merging layers
• The Layer Attributes dialog box
• Using Keep Runaround in layers
• The Layer selection area
• Deleting Layers
• Visual indicators

Working with context menus

• Activating a context menu
• Customising keyboard commands

Document facilities

• Moving pages between documents
• Importing native Photoshop files
• Exporting as a PDF and the PDF/X standard

Printing from QuarkXPress

• Automatically embedding fonts, colours and images for trouble-free printing
• A printing checklist