Effective page design
Dos and don’ts of page layout
Merging content from different sources
Advanced text controls
Controlling text flow
Working with synchronised text
Experimenting with indent options
Using the Baseline Grid
Advanced Styles management
Advanced Runaround techniques
Inverted clipping paths
Reshaping text and picture boxes
Converting text to outlines and filling with pictures or text
Creating better looking Drop Caps
Anchoring boxes and lines in text
Typographic controls
Creating custom hyphenation and justification settings
Saving and appending hyphenation and justification settings
Using the hyphenation dictionary
Using tabs in QuarkXPress
Using drop shadows
Using Rules in QuarkXPress
Colour and output
Using Quark’s colour management systems
Understanding RGB and CMYK
What is the difference between the colour models?
Colour matching in Quark
Creating colour separations
Spot colours and CMYK
Master pages
Using a combination of Master Pages
Tips and tricks with Master Pages
Document facilities in Xpress
Finding and changing by font or style
Generating a table of contents
Multiple undos in XPress
Creating lists and indexes
Using nested and run-in indexes
Using the QuarkXPress library
Practical exercises
Questions and answers
Bezier and Freehand tools
Working with Bezier controls
Creating shapes and paths
Using the Merge and Split commands
Punching holes in shapes
Merging Bezier endpoints
Turning text into an outline
Using embedded paths
Using embedded alpha channels
Text effects in QuarkXPress
Using transparency in Xpress
Specifying opacity of any item
Database publishing features
Support for Personalised Print Markup Language (PPML)
More about Runarounds
Running text around imported clipping paths
Editing imported clipping paths
Running text inside ‘holes’ in pictures
Creating a clipping path in QuarkXPress
Flowing text around all sides of an image
Media independent publishing
An overview of using QuarkXPress for cross-media publishing
Printing your work
Using font usage
Using picture usage
Using Quark Job Jacket for output
Creating reusable print styles
Setting Quark Preferences
Readers pairs and printers pairs
PDF export from QuarkXPress
XML export from QuarkXPress
Before you print: a checklist
Dealing with printing problems
Dealing with postscript errors
Invaluable shortcuts
A guide to QuarkXtensions
Questions and answers |
