Getting started

• How QuarkXPress fits into the DTP production workflow

Document Set up

• Formatting the page
• Working with grids, guides and rulers
• Creating columns
• The measurement palette
• Setting up preferences

Creating a document

• Understanding text and picture boxes
• Importing text and graphics
• Editing text and picture boxes
• Linking text boxes
• Wrapping text around images
• Cropping
• Using text runaround

Working with text

• Applying font formatting
• Using tracking, kerning and leading
• Baseline shift
• Rotating and flipping text
• Using tabs

stylesheets

• Creating stylesheets
• Editing stylesheets
• Importing stylesheets

Multiple page documents

• Working with master pages
• Moving around a master page document
• Setting up automatic page numbering
• Creating permanent elements
• Working with the document layout palette
• Adding and deleting pages
• Changing the page sequence

Colour

• Using colour within QuarkXPress
• Selecting a colour model
• Using Pantone colours
• Editing a colour palette
• Sharing colour palettes across documents
• Working with tints
• Applying colour to text, boxes and frame borders
• Creating colour gradients
• Using trapping
• Printing colour separations

Bezier tools

• Understanding the bezier pen tools
• Creating irregular text and picture boxes
• Creating paths for text
• Editing complex paths with accuracy

Advanced editing features

• Using hyphenation and justification commands
• Setting the baseline grid
• Finding and replacing text
• Working with libraries
• Re-flowing text
• Working with clipping paths

Final output

• Creating a table of contents
• File formats
• Using collect for output
• Avoiding printing errors

Questions and Answers

Troubleshooting Tips