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QuarkXPress 8 Training DVD

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This QuarkXPress 8 training DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

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Introduction

Welcome Demo
Using the exercise files
What is QuarkXPress? Demo

1. QuarkXPress Basics

Getting started Demo
Managing files in Quark Demo
Exploring the QuarkXPress interface Demo
Restoring, reverting, and undoing Demo
Navigating your layout Demo
Adding and moving pages Demo

2. Working with Items

Understanding items and contents Demo
Making boxes and lines
Putting text on a path
Moving and locking items
Resizing, reshaping, rotating, and flipping items
Duplicating items Demo
Deleting items
Using the Bézier Pen tool
Converting text to boxes
Merging shapes
Understanding relationships between items
Setting item styles
Using Item Find/Change

3. Layers and Guides

Reviewing the Layers palette
Utilizing guides and rulers
Understanding Guide Manager Pro
Using frames, dashes, and stripes
Setting libraries
Appending settings

4. Building a Layout

Building a new layout
Creating projects and layouts
Working with Master Pages
Creating automatic text boxes
Working with Master Pages and Layout Pages
Making pages
Modifying your pages
Using automatic page insertion
Using automatic page numbering and "continued"
Working with sections and page numbering
Building with multipage spreads

5. Text: Importing, Exporting, and Editing

Navigating through a layout
Selecting text
Deleting text
Changing text case
Importing text
Exporting text
Showing invisible characters
Using the Glyph panel
Working with ligatures

6. Text: Find/Change and Spelling

Finding and changing
Using Spell Check

7. Formatting Characters

Understanding basic character formatting
Setting color, shade, and transparency
Using horizontal and vertical scaling
Setting kerning and tracking
Inserting typographic special effects
Adjusting font preferences and open-type fonts
Finding a missing font

8. Formatting Paragraphs

Applying basic paragraph formatting
Applying leading to paragraphs
Establishing paragraph rules
Setting tabs
Setting hyphenation and justification
Understanding widow and orphan control
Working with hanging characters

9. Text Boxes and Page Layout

Linking items together
Learning about style sheets
Creating style sheets
Editing style sheets
Applying styles
Deleting styles
Appending styles
Using grids

10. Tables

Building tables
Importing Excel tables
Working with tables
Formatting tables
Splitting tables with headers and footers
Adding graphics
Converting a table to text or a group

11. Long Documents

Building books
Creating lists
Building an index

12. Pictures

Importing pictures
Working with pictures
Mastering picture management
Editing and exporting pictures
Looking into preview quality and greeking images
Exporting a page as EPS

13. Nondestructive Image Editing

Working with Photoshop documents
Understanding the Style menu
Building picture effects

14. Text Meets Graphics

Working with text runaround
Setting anchored boxes

15. Color

What You See and What You Get
Describing color
Specifying color
Creating color blends
Setting opacity
Using color from outside sources
Understanding color management and proofing

16. Syncing and Collaborating

Synchronizing items
Building composition zones
Working in shared layouts
Understanding job jackets

17. Printing

Collecting for output and exporting
Adjusting basic printer settings
Reviewing advanced printer settings
Establishing print styles

18. PDF

Creating and exporting a PDF
Creating PDF output styles
Building hyperlinks in interactive PDFs
Adding bookmarks for interactive PDFs

19. HTML and Flash

Building a web page
Inserting hyperlinks in a document
Creating a form for HTML
Exporting and importing as HTML
Building Flash projects

20. Workflow Resources

Working with XTensions
Scripting in QuarkXPress 8

Conclusion

Goodbye

QuarkXPress 8 Info

Title Information.

QuarkXPress has always been the perfect tool for creating and publishing documents. In QuarkXPress 8 Essential Training, Jay Nelson—the publisher of Design Tools Monthly and a QuarkXPress expert—covers all the tools and features in this updated version of the program, from basic page layout to Flash integration and web page creation. Throughout this comprehensive training, Jay shows what's needed to produce professional-quality projects that integrate text, pictures, graphics, and tables. He also offers real-world page layout techniques that designers can apply to their own projects. Exercise files accompany the course. . Close »

Instructor : Jay Nelson

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Publisher:

lynda.com, Inc.

Duration:

8 hours - 120 lessons

Platform:

PC or Mac

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DVD Video

Price:

$99.95

£69.17

€80.86

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