QuarkXPress training class - Intermediate

QuarkXPress training class intermediate course topics

Long-document features

• Creating a book
• Rearranging chapters
• Creating independently numbered sections
• Changing a book's master chapter
• Synchronizing book styles
• Defining a TOC list
• Synchronizing a list
• Building a table of contents
• Updating a list
• Defining punctuation for an index
• Tagging index entries
• Editing index entries
• Creating a cross-reference
• Building a formatted index

Transparency and effects

• Controlling transparency for items
• Controlling transparency for groups
• Controlling transparency for text
• Creating a drop shadow for an item
• Creating a drop shadow for text
• Modifying a drop shadow
• Creating a drop shadow for a group

Color management

• Previewing color
• Configuring color management settings

Shared content

• Adding a layout to a project
• Creating a split view and a new window
• Synchronizing a picture between layouts
• Synchronizing text between layouts

Composition zones

• Creating a Composition Zones item
• Working with Composition Zones usage
• Linking to a composition layout

Job jackets

• Creating a project from a Job ticket template
• Applying a Job ticket template to a project
• Evaluating a layout
• Sharing a Job Jackets file
• Examining a Job Jackets file
• Adding and moving resources
• Adding a rule set
• Adding a layout definition

Interactive layouts

• Creating an On/Off button
• Creating the button states
• Configuring the button
• Previewing the button
• Playing background sound automatically
• Creating a menu
• Creating interactive menu objects
• Configuring the mouse-over effects
• Configuring user events
• Animating a logo
• Creating an Image Sequence
• Creating the frames in the Image Sequence
• Placing the Image Sequence in the layout
• Configuring a Play Animation action
• Adding a SWF animation
• Adding a video
• Creating scrollable text
• Exporting to a standalone Projector file
• Accessing the completed project files

Digital publishing

• Adding interactive content to a Blio layout
• Creating a Reflow view
• Adding pages and items
• Tagging content
• Adding a Blio TOC
• Adding eBook metadata
• Exporting an ePUB e-book
• Testing an ePUB e-book

Layout automation

• Creating bullet and numbering styles
• Applying bullet and numbering styles
• Creating an outline style
• Applying an outline style
• Creating call-outs and call-out anchors
• Creating and applying call-out styles
• Creating and applying a conditional style
• Using conditional style markers