QuarkXPress Overview

You have probably been using QuarkXPress for a while, and your skills may be to a point where you can easily create just about any type of document. However, you may still struggle when dealing with complicated layouts, or you may want to tackle some of the more advanced issues involved with high-end printing. In the first half of this course, you will apply some helpful techniques to make formatting forms much easier, and you will manipulate inks and apply trapping to documents in order to further control the way your documents print.

Also, if you've worked in the design industry, you have probably been asked to share your documents electronically, or post your documents via the Internet. In the second half of this course, you will generate several types of PDFs, and you will convert content from your documents to HTML and XML formats.

Objectives:

You will design complicated layouts more efficiently, control the way documents print to a high-end press, and produce output in PDF, HTML, and XML formats.

Prerequisites:

Before taking this course, you should complete the following courses, or have equivalent knowledge:

• QuarkXPress 5.0: Level 1
• QuarkXPress 5.0: Level 2

Designers and technicians with experience using QuarkXPress, who want to focus on commercial printing issues and outputting QuarkXPress documents electronically. They will already possess a variety of desktop publishing skills, and will likely need to share their documents in different formats.

Delivery Method:

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course duration

1 Day.

Hardware Requirements

You will need:

• A PowerPC-based Mac OS-compatible computer.
• A CD-ROM drive.
• At least 14MB available RAM (with virtual memory off), 20MB or more recommended for graphics-intensive documents.
• At least 36MB of hard disk space for QuarkXPress 5.0 installation, and an additional 10MB for the course data.

• Mac OS 8.6 or later. (QuarkXPress 5.0 is not OS X compatible)

• QuarkXPress 5.0.
• Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (or higher).
• Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (or higher).
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0 (or higher).

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• typeset a form.
• control inks for printing so that images and graphics print properly.
• set trapping options in a document.
• create PDF documents.
• export documents to HTML format.
• create XML documents.