BASICS AND ESSENTIALS QUARKXPRESS TUTORIALS

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Quark™ Documents - QuarkXPress™ is the industry standard page layout program. Although it is a professional level application with features that will handle virtually any pre-press circumstance that may occur, it is has a user-friendly, intuitive interface and is surprisingly easy to use.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Top Ten Tips for QuarkXpress - Here are Top Ten Tips for QuarkXpress

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXpress Keyboard Shortcuts - This list gives a comprehensive run-down of the keyboard shortcuts in QuarkXPress. You don't need to learn all of them but pick up just a few of these and it'll save you a lot of time compared to working through the menus in the program....

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Turn SmartQuotes Off - Smart Quotes - To temporarily turn SmartQuotes off, read this article.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Copy Paragraph Styles - Normally I would always suggest to use style sheets for all your paragraphs. But there may be occassions when you just want to copy a paragraph style for another paragraph without creating a style sheet.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Setting Up QuarkXPress™ Preferences Part I - QuarkXPress allows you to setup the application preferences so it works predictably for you every time. I'll just show you my personal preferences on how I like to setup Quark™. You can set yours up the way you want.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Setting Up QuarkXPress™ Preferences Part II - QuarkXPress allows you to setup the application preferences so it works predictably for you every time. I'll just show you my personal preferences on how I like to setup Quark™. You can set yours up the way you want.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Select Hidden Items - Learn how to grab an item that is buried beneath other items

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Basics of the Style Sheet - Traditionally, a style sheet was a sheet of paper used to keep track of the typographic details of a publication. A computer’s style sheets, available in most word processors and in all page layout programs, does that too. Do you use them? By the end of this article, you will know how to save time, prevent some particularly tedious and error-prone work, and have a consistently typeset product. Better, faster, and easier? Yes.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Working with Multiple Documents - If you have several document windows open, you can easily switch from one document to another

Beginner QuarkXpress Tutorialss -This Tutorials is geared towards helping first time users become familiar with the program. The sections to the right will take you through the key areas - Menus, Palettes, Layout explaining the different elements involved and what they are used for.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Edit Tabs in Style Sheet - When you need to change a tabs setting in a style sheet, there is an easy way to do this.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Creating Setting Up QuarkXPress™ Tool Defaults Part I - Create and Set up the tool defaults.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Basics of View - Tips on changing views in QuarkXpress

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Copy Pages to Another Document - Learn how to copy pages from one document to another.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Creating Setting Up QuarkXPress™ Tool Defaults Part II - Next we want to set the item runaround to "None" for all objects.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Basics of Quark Guides - Basics and tips for use of guides.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Setting Up The Color Palette - Next we want to setup the default color palette and add a few colors. Quark™ permits you to globally replace one color with another throughout the entire document. This can come in handy if you are preparing a monthly publication or other periodical. You can create a magazine, newsletter or catalog using the previous one as a template.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Images With Embedded Clipping Paths In QuarkXPress™ - Prior to version 4.0 the only way a clipping path could be used is if the image was saved as an EPS file with a clipping path. In version 4.x there are a couple of new things regarding clipping paths.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Working With Master Pages In QuarkXPress™ - Using master pages in QuarkXPress documents can save a tremendous amount of time and will ensure that your layouts have a consistent, uniform appearance. There are a few points to bear in mind when using them.

PRINTING AND PREPRESS QUARKXPRESS TUTORIALS

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXpress Tutorials 0003: Printing to 11 x 17 paper in QuarkXPress - Due to the numbers of questions I've answered related to this, I've decided to get this info online.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXpress Tutorials #0005: Basic Printing from QXP6 - Basic Printing Tutorials

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXpress Tutorials #0006: Setting up Print Styles - In order to save time when printing, you can setup Print Styles for the common printers that you use.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXPress Tutorials #0007: Fixing Corrupt Printing Preferences - The printing preferences tend to become corrupted somewhat frequently. As in, you can print fine several times, and the next time - nothing prints.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - How To Impose and Print Printer Spreads in QuarkXPress - Tips for using ALAP's Imposer XTension- QuarkXPress documents are in a format called reader spreads. Meaning, the front cover is the first page with the back cover being the last page. At times a format called Printers Spreads, where the first page is output with the last page, is required for final output. This is also useful when trying to build a composite with your laser printer. This will demonstrate how to use Imposer to create a duplexed comp with your laser printer.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Print Design and Production Essentials: Advanced Layout - In this collection of articles, learn how to get maximum results from your page layout program by tapping into program-specific features. Includes Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Printing Varnish Plates from QuarkXPress - Using ALAP ImagePort and Adobe Photoshop to prepare and output files for varnish-ready separations

ERRORS / TECHNICAL QUARKXPRESS TUTORIALS

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Recovering From And Preventing Data Loss In Quark™ - Sometimes you may encounter errors while working in QuarkXPress™. The program will crash or worse, you may see a message that the file you were working on is not a QuarkXPress document and you won't be able to open it at all.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Xpress Tags - Use of tags in QuarkXpress

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Laziness Breeds Invention - Applescript - Can you think of a small part of your work that is totally repetitive? Got a Mac? Applescript is programming for the rest of us.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXPress™ Technical Manual Project - This is an extensive Tutorials and has its own home page for ease of navigation. You will be able to return to this page from any of the lessons below.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Xtensions - An XTension is software that extends QuarkXPress, either by adding a completely new feature, or taking a tedious and error-prone chore and automating it. A QuarkXPress user with no XTensions is like a carpenter with a homeowner's first tool kit.

LAYOUT AND TEXT QUARKXPRESS TUTORIALS

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Basic Layout - Best Layout Tutorials on the net.

QuarkXpress Tutorials -Doing it Right is Faster and Easier with Tabs - Do you ever make things align with spaces or tabs, change the formatting, and some things jumped forward? the trick is to carefully adjust the tab markers on the ruler.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Appending H & Js In QuarkXPress™ (Hyphenation and Justification) - Each Quark™ document can have its own H & Js (Hyphenation and Justification specifications). Sometimes text blocks are copied from one document to the next. If the two documents were created using different H & Js, the text in the target document will not flow the same as in the source document.

QuarkXress Tutorials - Importing Messy Text into QuarkXpress - What's the best way to get messy sloppy text into manageable QuarkXPress pages?

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXpress Tutorials #0001: Basic Page Set-up - We are creating a one-page article for a local interest magazine detailing what we did on summer vacation. In this case, we went on a space shuttle mission.In this Tutorials we will create a single page document, with several photos, blocks of text, and background images.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Creating Stroked Text In QuarkXPress™ PART I - It used to be that the only way you could create a stroked text effect in Quark™ was to use another application (such as Adobe® Illustrator®). PART II

QuarkXpress Tutorials - QuarkXpress Tutorials #0002: How to Use an Imported Text File that includes Tables - As most of you know, you can place a text file in QuarkXpress much the way you can place an image. You simply create a text box and use the "Get Text" command on the File menu.

QuarkXperss Tutorials - Clean Up Your Quark Files Like a Pro with Typesetting - clean up your quark files like a pro with these wonderful tips

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks For QuarkXPress™ - Some handy tips in Quark Part 1 ... PART 2 ... PART 3 ... PART 4

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Copy Paragraph Styles - Normally I would always suggest to use style sheets for all your paragraphs. But there may be occassions when you just want to copy a paragraph style for another paragraph without creating a style sheet.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Design Your Business Cards in QuarkXPress 6 - This Tutorials will guide you through the process of designing a card in QuarkXpress 6 as well as the templates you need to get started quickly and easily.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Basics of the Style Sheet - Traditionally, a style sheet was a sheet of paper used to keep track of the typographic details of a publication. A computer’s style sheets, available in most word processors and in all page layout programs, does that too. Do you use them? By the end of this article, you will know how to save time, prevent some particularly tedious and error-prone work, and have a consistently typeset product. Better, faster, and easier? Yes.

EPS / PDF QUARKXPRESS TUTORIALS

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Working With EPS Files in QuarkXPress™ and Photoshop® Part I - EPS files are PostScript® and the letters "EPS" stand for "encapsulated PostScript". There is some basic data about EPS files in the Tutorials found here in the "Read Me First" section of the site. This Tutorials details some of the aspects of using EPS files in QuarkXPress or Adobe® Illustrator®. Adobe Photoshop5.5 was used to create the example EPS files. PART 2 ... PART 3

QuarkXPress Tutorials - QuarkXPress Tutorials #0008: Export your Layout as a PDF - There are several reasons to create a PDF file of an Illustrator document. PDF is "portable", meaning anyone with Acrobat Reader, or Apple's Preview application can open a PDF.

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Exporting Excel® Graphics For QuarkXPress™ Documents - Part One - "How do I get a chart from Excel into a Quark document?". There are a couple of ways to do this but the best way is to export the Excel graph as a PostScript® file, then open the PostScript file in Adobe® Illustrator® or other drawing program like Macromedia® FreeHand®, CorelDRAW® or Deneba Canvas™. Once opened in one of these programs, you can convert colors from RGB to CMYK or spot color so the colors will separate properly if the Quark document is intended for printed output. Then you can save the graphic as an EPS file and place this EPS file in the Quark document as a picture. PART 2 ... PART 3 ... PART 4

QuarkXpress Tutorials - PPD or PDF - QuarkXPress 3.3 (Macintosh) uses both PPD (PostScript Description Files) and PDF (Printer Description Files) for selecting printers. Which one should you use?

QuarkXpress Tutorials - Creating PDF's in QuarkXpress - Learn how to create PDFs from QuarkXpress