QuarkXPress is an Industry standard design and publishing program for creating fast and professional document layouts for the print industry; magazines, newspapers, catalogues and other material are often developed from this application.

Quarks straightforward approach with box driven tools makes the program easy to pick up. The power behind the scenes is a host of typographical touches. The course will cover master pages, typographical issues, paragraph formatting, style sheets, bezier shapes, importing graphics, multi-page design, saving and checking for print production.

Sample Course Outline - This can be customised to suit you!

General features
Setting up a new document
Using templates for standard layouts
Preferences

Main Tool Palette
Understanding the palettes and principles

Measurement palette
Understanding the measurement box

Text Boxes and Picture Boxes
Moving, Deleting
Positions, Resize - shortcuts

Basic Typography & Word processing Features
Intro to paragraph indents
Hanging indents - short cuts
Tabulation - leader tabs
Reversed text
Keyboard shortcuts
Spell check
Special characters
Rules

Graphics
Importing logos and images Clipping paths
Sizing, Colour issues
Run around and resize

Colours
Creating pantone and CMYK colours
Exercises
Practice with typography, text import and layout of newsletters and leaflets

Printing Issues
Checking separations

Typography Advanced
Paragraph indents
Hanging indents - short cuts
Tabulation - leader tabs, Viewing Invisibles

Creating Colours
Creating pantone and CMYK colours

The Style Palette
How to set up styles
How to change the style
Appending
H& J issues

Links with Photoshop

Special effects and transparency
Drop shadows
Filters

Master Pages and long documents
Adding master pages
Changing masters and adding masters
Tables
Step and repeat
Indenting text
Space/alignment of objects

Creating pdfs