Have you been using Quark for a few months and want to improve your efficiency with the software? Do you watch designers and want to know the short cuts they use? Perhaps you've been using Quark for some time but never received any formal training. If so, this course is for you.

It will help you polish your skills by focusing on the features you really need in long documents, such as books, journals, magazines and newsletters, and in shorter documents, such as ads and sales sheets. It will allow you to focus on the format most relevant to you in the practice sessions, while exploring advanced aspects of the software through taught sessions.

The aim is to provide you with training that fits as closely as possible with your day-to-day work. You can even bring your own files to work on during the course.

You'll have sole use of a PC, using QuarkXPress version 7. We restrict numbers to eight delegates per course to ensure a high level of personal tuition. Before attending, you'll need a good working knowledge of Quark, including the basics of styles, text flow, images and typography. You can get this from QuarkXPress 1.

Programme

• Setting up and managing grids in Quark
  • Rulers and guides
  • Layout grids for text books and illustrated books
  • Layout grids for newsletters and magazines
  • Baseline grids in books and journals and in newsletters
  • Setting up effective grids for short documents
• Typography
  • Hyphenation controls and word spacing settings for books and journals
  • Importing complex text flows and efficiently working with footnotes and end notes
  • Using find and change features effectively with fonts
  • Setting hyphenation and spacing controls in variable columns
• Working with illustrations and colour
  • Using and adjusting Photoshop or Quark clipping paths
  • 5th black for co-editions
  • Printing separations
• Consistency features
  • Templates
  • Using multiple master pages
  • Using styles in Books and Lists
  • Books
  • Setting up and using libraries
• Working with text
  • Importing styled text from Word
  • Checking for consistency in styles and fonts
  • Handling tabular text efficiently
  • Text flow in books and magazines
  • Tagging text for indexes (brief overview)

Your tutor
Sally Hughes is a freelance trainer and consultant who specialises in DTP applications, typography and document design. She works with both Mac and PC platforms and has authored a report on the use of IT in editorial practice. Sally also teaches on the PTC’s InDesign and Acrobat courses, as well as being a lecturer in publishing at Oxford Brookes University.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.

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Dates: 21-22 February/14-15 July/4-5 November 2008

Price: £619+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

Make a provisional booking on QuarkXPress 2