QuarkXPress 8.0 Training DVD - Level 2 (Mac/PC DVD)

This is a great DVD for those who already know the basics of QuarkXPress but want to get their knowledge up to the next level. You will be shown some really great ways to save time and how to create professional looking documents. See all of the features in five-ten minutes bite size chunks.

The Talented Pixie DVDs are unique in their approach, designed for industry professionals to dive in and out to learn a specific area of the software. No more wading through hours of video or manuals to get the information you want when you want. With the Talented Pixie DVDs you can expect high quality sound and graphics with experienced professionals and British voices. Do not expect hours and hours of training video, waffle or the trainer extolling their own virtues.

Item styles - Item styles allow you to apply and change box settings across many boxes quickly and easily.
Hanging characters - This module looks at the new Hanging Characters settings for more advanced typographic design.
Proof output - Use on screen proofs to give you an accurate picture of how your job will appear when it comes of the printing press.
Tables - This tutorial covers creating and editing tables, link tables to external Excel documents and style them.
Transparency - Learn how to apply different opacities to items and how to work with transparency from other imported files
Composition zones - Learn about the composition zones feature which allows several people to collaborate on the same document.
Table of contents - In this tutorial we show you how to create tables of contents and indexes automatically.
H and Js - Hyphenation and Justification, we take you through the options to help you make full use of this copy fitting tool.
Glyphs - Learn how to insert special characters and symbols, use Open Type format and find out just what your fonts can do.
Layouts - In this tutorial we look at what options are available and how to use them for rapid document creation and editing.
Page grids - A new feature that allows you to align type and images across multiple columns and pages.
Find and change - Explore how to make changes across your text, remove problem elements like unwanted paragraph returns, and change box properties.
Picture effects - Picture effects lets you apply effects and filters to images non-destructively, directly on your page in Quark.

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