Graphics and Web Design

Creating a New Document

• Xtension management
• Customising preferences
  

Views – Advanced

Text & typography

• Setting a baseline grid
• Locking text to a grid
• Aligning within a grid
• Kerning/tracking edit
• Customising the flex space
  

H & J’s

• Creating & applying h & J’s
• Non-breaking hyphens
• Hyphenation exceptions
• Find/change & search criteria

Text flow

• Advanced run-around
• Running text around embedded paths
• Alpha channels & none white areas
• Running text round all sides

Bezier Boxes & Lines

• Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
• Editing points & segments
• Changing boxes to Bezier items
• Drawing freehand lines/boxes
• Text paths
• Aligning text on a path
• Items – Advanced
• Creating picture boxes from text
• Merge/split items
• Changing item content
• Flipping asymmetrical items
• Document management
  

Style Sheets – Advanced

Master Pages-Advanced

• Creating an index
• Lists & tables of content
• Creating books

Colour – Advanced

• Features of spot & process models
• Using libraries for colour swatches
• Colour management basics
• Colour management preferences
• The profile manager
• Using the profile palette

Introduction to Trapping

• Trapping preferences
• Trapping exceptions colour by colour
• Trapping exceptions item by item

Pre-press Checks

• Font/picture usage
• Colour separation
• Collect for output
• Proof printing
• Creating crop/cut marks
• Page set-up options
• Print options
• Capturing print settings
• Print styles

About SquareOne

Any SquareOne course can be tailored to meet the particular requirements of your organisation.  We will be happy to use any of your examples for delegates to ensure that the course is as interesting and relevant as possible.

Course Objectives

This course is an in-depth introduction to page layout using QuarkXpress, the industry standard application. Delegates are guided through a wide variety of techniques used for creating anything from business cards up to multi page presentations.

Prerequisites: Good Mac or PC skills

Course Details

Duration:    2 Days
Timings:        9:30 - 16:30

Course Contents

The subjects listed on the left are an outline. If there are any additional subjects you wish to cover, please feel free to call us prior to the course.