Learning Outcomes:

Lesson 1 - Understanding The Workspace

• Launching the Quark Workspace
• Introduction to Projects and Layouts
• The Work Environment
• Using Multiple Layout Views
• Using Split Windows
• Tool Palettes
• Measurement Palettes
• Palette Groups and Sets
• Preferences and Defaults
• Application Preferences
• Project Preferences
• Layout Preferences

Lesson 2 - Building Layouts and Pages

• Creating Projects
• Defining a QuarkXPress Layout
• Save File Options
• Automatic Saving Routines
• Exporting Layouts
• Templates and Master Files
• Appending Assets
• Single Layout Mode
• Navigating Pages
• The Page Layout Palette
• Zooming In and Out
• Pages and Spreads
• Master Pages
• Elements of Page Geometry
• Printer's Marks and Trim Marks
• Guides, Margins, and Rulers
• Using the Guide Manager XTension
• Creating Folding Documents
• Working with Signatures
• Printer's and Reader's Spreads
• Understanding Signatures
• Do-It-Yourself Printer's Spreads

Lesson 3 - Working with Objects

• The Measurements Palette
• Overriding the Measurement System
• Creating Simple Boxes
• Editing Box Shape
• Creating Lines
• Line Attributes
• Custom Dashes & Stripes
• Drawing Freehand and Bezier Shapes
• Locking Objects
• Deleting Objects
• Grouping Objects
• Adding Color to Objects
• Positioning Objects
• Stacking Order of Objects
• Working with Libraries
• Creating Complex Shapes
• Merging Objects
• Converting Text to Graphics

Lesson 4 - Working with Color

• Understanding Color Gamut
• The QuarkXPress Colors Palette
• Defining Color
• Color Models
• Color Separation
• Importing Colors
• Editing and Deleting Colors
• Changing Spot to Process
• Renaming Colors
• Deleting Used Colors
• Colors Imported with EPS Files
• Deleting Unused Colors
• Color Blends

Lesson 5 - Working with Text

• Managing Text Boxes
• The Automatic Text Box
• Customizing Tool Preferences
• Modifying Text Box Parameters
• Text Runaround
• Working in the Text Box
• Navigating Text
• Creating and Importing Text
• Locking Text
• Linking Text Boxes
• Unlinking Text Boxes
• Character Formatting
• Paragraph Formatting
• Formats, Tabs, and Rules
• Using Type Style Utilities
• Using Special Characters
• Page Numbers and Jumps
• Working with Open Type
• Font Fallback
• The Glyphs Palette
• Creating Type on a Path

Lesson 6 - Working with Style Sheets

• Understanding Style Sheets
• Character and Paragraph Styles
• Defining Style Sheets
• Adding Character Style Sheets
• Using Keyboard Equivalents
• Adding Paragraph Style Sheets
• Editing Style Sheets
• Appending Style Sheets
• Importing Style Sheets from WP Docs
• Applying Style Sheets
• Deleting Style Sheets
• Removing Unused Style Sheets

Lesson 7 - Working with Tables

• Creating New Tables
• Formatting Tables
• Adding Table Content
• Converting Text to Tables
• Importing Excel Tables
• Auto Fitting Table Cells
• Splitting Tables
• Repeating Headers and Footers
• Converting Tables

Lesson 8 - Working with Text Utilities

• Checking Spelling
• Using an Auxiliary Dictionary
• Searching Content
• Finding Text Attributes
• Wild Cards
• Finding Special Characters
• Hyphenation and Justification
• Justification Method
• Suggestion Hyphenation
• Discretionary Hyphens
• Hyphenation Exceptions
• Kerning and Tracking Tables
• Editing Kerning Tables
• Editing Tracking Tables

Lesson 9 - Working with Graphics

• Vector and Raster Images Resolution
• Screen Ruling and Image Resolution
• Graphics and File Formats
• Importing Images
• Working with PDF Files
• Picture Locking
• Transforming Placed Pictures
• Coloring Pictures
• Working with Transparency

Lesson 10 - Outputting Files

• Preparing for a Service Provider
• Checking Font Usage
• Checking Image Usage
• Printing a Layout
• Device Options
• Pages Options
• Pictures Options
• Fonts Options
• Marks Options
• Bleed Options
• Exporting Layouts as PDF