Introduction
QuarkXPress basics
QuarkXPress tools
Creating text and picture boxes
Entering and importing text
Different shaped picture boxes
Importing pictures
The Quark Job Jacket
Setting up pages in Quark
Setting the page size and margins
Columns and gutters
Positioning the document origin
Quark’s measurement systems
Using multiple undo
The document layout palette
Moving around the document
Creating and deleting pages
The Measurements palette
Text and graphics features
Framing text and picture boxes
Rotating graphics
Cropping images
Wrapping text around items
Different types of runarounds
Grouping and multiple selections
Finding and changing text
Linking and unlinking text boxes
Image Editing in Quark Vista
Controlling transparency
Using master pages
Creating and editing master pages
Automatic page numbering
Creating headers and footers
Colour models
Creating custom colours
Creating and formatting documents
Fonts, styles and sizes
Text rotation and flips
Leading and tracking values
Modifying text and picture boxes
Using invisibles and guides
Setting Quark preferences
Typesetting preferences
Introducing tabs and rules
Using the rules
More text controls
Re-shaping text boxes
Anchored text boxes
Using the Baseline Grid
Questions and answers
More about Master Pages
Using combinations of Master Pages
Creating and deleting Master Pages
Further text controls
Paragraph and character style sheets
Style sheets with templates
Runaround techniques
Soft and hard returns
Using space/align
Using the QuarkXPress library
Working with colour
Creating, editing and appending colours
Creating colour blends
Working with tables
The Table tool
Tables with picture boxes
Importing data from MS Excel
Working with beziers
Creating custom shapes and paths
Creating text on a path
Working with layers
Using layers to isolate items that should not print
The Layers palette
Adding, removing and merging layers
The Layer Attributes dialog box
Using Keep Runaround in layers
The Layer selection area
Deleting Layers
Working with context menus
Activating a context menu
Customising keyboard commands
Visual indicators
The purpose of visual indicators
Document facilities
Moving pages between documents
Importing native Photoshop files
Exporting as a PDF
Printing from QuarkXPress
Automatically embedding fonts, colours and images for trouble-free printing
A printing checklist
Questions and answers |
