Two Days – usual price £469 +VAT special discount price £399 +VAT

Our advanced Quark training course is designed for experienced users of Quark. The QuarkXpress course will dramatically improve your DTP skills. The QuarkXpress course is practical in nature. Led by a Quark expert, delegates undertake a series of step-by-step exercises so that their skills are quickly improved.

We generally conduct our Quark training in London but can come to your offices if this is more convenient. By the end of our advanced QuarkXpress class your skills will be taken to a very sophisticated level.

We offer substantial discounts for bulk bookings.

What our clients say about this course

"Thanks Europa Training for a very comprehensive and well structured course. The Trainer was patient and knowledgeable, I would recommend him to anyone wanting to learn from scratch or benefit from a refresher course."
Hayley Smith,
Sheepdrove Organic Farm


"Excellent individualised training so I could easily apply it to the work I was doing once back at my desk"
Melissa Dodd, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

“I really enjoyed the course although I have forgotten quite a few things! It was a lot to take in!”
Emma Curnow
Splendid Communications


"Thanks for providing an excellent and user-friendly approach to learning InDesign. This course is highly recommended for all."
Helen Richards,
Leica Microsystems


Course outline

Setting a baseline grid
Locking text to a grid
Aligning text within a grid
Kerning/tracking table edit
En and Em space/dashes
Customising the flex space

Hyphenation and Justifications
Creating and applying H and Js
Non-breaking hyphens
Hyphenation exceptions
Find/change and search criteria

Text Flow
Advanced Runaround
Running text around embedded paths
Alpha channels and clipping options
Running text around all sides

Bezier boxes and lines
Drawing Bezier lines/boxes
Editing Bezier points and segments
Changing boxes to Bezier items
Drawing freehand lines/boxes

Text paths
Creating text paths
Aligning text on a path

Creating Bezier shapes from text
Creating picture boxes from text

Advanced item and miscellaneous features
Merging/splitting items
Changing item content
Flipping asymmetrical items
Style sheets advanced
Master pages advanced
Creating an index
Creating lists and tables of contents
Creating books

Advanced colour features
Features of spot/process/multi-ink models
Colour management preferences

Introduction to Trapping
Setting trapping preferences
Trapping exceptions colour by colour
Trapping exceptions item by item

PDF files
Importing and Exporting PDF files
Pre-Press checks

Font/picture usage
Colour separation
Collect for output
Proof printing
Creating crop/cut marks
Page set-up and print options
PPD manager
Capturing print settings

Drop shadows
Transparency

Collaboration
Composition zones
Job Jackets

Provider

*If you cancel a course without at least five full working days warning there may be a cancellation fee.