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QuarkXPress Basics, and Intermediate and Advanced

QuarkXPress is the layout and design choice of many publishers. It is available in 11 languages. It is an integrated publishing package which allows you combine pictures, text, typography, writing, editing, and printing, all in one application.

MacTraining Enterprises offers a Basics and and Intermediate/Advanced level class. The one day Basics workshop provides all the essential techniques necessary to create brochures, simple newsletters, signs, and more.

The Intermediate and Advanced class covers master pages for documents that have some of the same elements on all pages, like page numbering, document titles, etc., more work with styles, creating and managing long documents, and a host of other techniques required by today's designers. This class is a must for catalogers and manual producers.

All classes are hands-on with a maximum of 6 persons per class. They are currently training on version 6.5, since there are stability issues with version 7.

MacTraining Enterprises'
Basic QuarkXPress– a one day class

Quick Tour: We start with an overview of the key features of QuarkXPress including application vs. document preferences. We'll go over the tools, create page guides, learn efficient ways to navigate through a document, work with items by creating and then modifying their properties, their contents, and learn how to use the measurement palette correctly.

Working with Text: We'll import text into text boxes, learn how to quickly format text, create paragraph styles by example, review copy and paste, and apply paragraph and character attributes and styles, too, to text.

Essential Picture Considerations: We'll import graphics into picture boxes, do runaround, do some visual effects and styling of pictures, and learn to copy and paste a picture box, and a text box, too, with all it's/their attributes.

Printing: This chapter goes over many of the features of the new Print Dialog, You'll select a printer, update your pictures if necessary, and specify printing options for your job. You may not need all your graphics to print out at high res just for a proof!

Prerequisite: You need a working knowledge of your computer and it's operating system, OS X or Windows, including use of the mouse, standard menus, and commands; as well as how to open, save, and close files.

Single registrant fee: $395. There is a sliding percent discount, up to 20%, for 2-6 attendees from your company attending the same session. The fee for a private, one-on-one class is $495. No other registrants will be in your private class. The class fee includes the cost of all manuals and handouts. Contact MacTraining at 414.258.1646 to register or email our class registrar.

MacTraining Enterprises'
Intermediate and Advanced QuarkXPress – a 2 day class

Constructing a New Document and Using Color: This section includes setting preferences, formatting Master Pages to include page numbering and graphic and textual elements, automatically flowing in a long block of text, adding and rearranging pages, and modifying master elements after the document is in progress. During the color segment, your will create and apply process colors, Pantone colors, see how the Hexachrome system works, and experiment with creating new colors from 2 or more spot colors.

Working with Text and Fine Tuning Type: This comprehensive section teaches you to link text boxes correctly, format text and create and apply character and paragraph style sheets, set tabs, run a spell check, and doing a search and replace. This lesson continues with practice on leading, tracking, kerning, hyphenation and justification, and preventing widows and orphans.

Page Elements: You'll learn shortcuts in modifying the stacking order of elements, changing the box content, how to group item and modify items in the group, how to create and use Libraries (and excellent feature), layers, and how to evenly replicate items on your layout.

Preparing for High Res Printing: This section covers printing preliminary color separations, composites, Collect for Output and topics about sending your files to a service bureau. You will also get tips on how to replicate your fonts for the service bureau, and be shown an amazing file that demonstrates the difference between TruType and Type 1 fonts.

We'll go over drawing with the Bezier line tools, although serious designers will use Adobe Illustrator to create logos, etc. While those familiar with Adobe Illustrator will have and easier time with these tools, they do function slightly differently in QuarkXPress. This section also covers creating shapes with the Merge command, reshaping boxes, and changing the properties of anchor points and segments.

Advanced Graphics: crop pictures using embedded paths and channels, and create and modify a clipping path, these techniques belong in a program purposely written to do them. This section does include some useful techniques for managing imported pictures.

Productivity Topics: There is more work with libraries, using templates, and getting the most out of Character and Paragraph style sheets.

Books, Lists, and Indexes: This is the section of the Advanced class that publishers of catalogs, manuscripts, instruction manuals, even school papers, really need.

You will create a book, a compilation of multiple documents. You'll rearrange chapters, create independently numbered sections, and change the Master Chapter of the book, synchronizing the Styles of the Book.

In the Lists section of this workshop, you'll create style sheets for the TOC (Table of Contents), add the style sheet to the book chapters, define some lists for the TOC, build a list for a chapter and a book, and learn how to jump to different chapters and sections in the Book.

You'll learn to create a simple index, prepare more style sheets and a Master Page, define the punctuation for the index, tag entries, edit the entries, create a cross reference and build a formatted index.

This is a valuable day for anyone using QuarkXPress for anything more than brochures and advertising pieces.

Single registrant fee: $645. There is a sliding percent discount, up to 20%, for 2-6 attendees from your company attending the same session. The fee for a private, one-on-one class is $693. No other registrants will be in your private class. The class fee includes the cost of all manuals and handouts. Contact MacTraining at 414.258.1646 to register or email our class registrar.

Prerequisite: QuarkXPress Basics or a general knowledge of QuarkXPress, including creating text and picture boxes, formatting text, and creating and applying paragraph styles.

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