QuarkXPress training class intermediate - Topics covered

  • Long-document features
  • Transparency and other effects
  • Color management
  • Shared content
  • Composition zones
  • Job jackets
  • Interactive layouts
  • Digital publishing
  • Layout automation

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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

 

Custom and private QuarkXPress classes

This QuarkXPress course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. QuarkXPress classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.

QuarkXPress Training Class Intermediate Prerequisites

We recommend that you have the QuarkXPress software before starting the class. You can purchase the software or obtain a trial version of it from the QuarkXPress website.

QuarkXPress Training Class Intermediate Course Materials

You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the Certified Instructors at AGI.

Available Delivery Methods For This Class

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