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Course: |
MGD 113
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Title: | QuarkXPress |
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Long Title: | QuarkXPress |
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Course Description: | Introduces students to QuarkXPress, a digital page layout tool. Students learn how to assemble, organize, manipulate and manage text and graphics to produce a high quality publication. Class discussions and independent projects supplement hands-on classroom work. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Dramatize formatting attributes and text control. (I)
II. Examine style sheet customization (II)
III. Compose style sheets from art director specifications (II)
IV. Illustrate ability to import properly formatted graphics (III)
V. Create text runarounds (III)
VI. Explore various page management tools (IV) (V)
VII. Customize tools to meet document needs (IV)
VIII. Create master pages to expedite document development (VI)
IX. Discuss trapping techniques necessary for print output (VII)
X Simplify document construction using lists (VIII)
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Formatting type
A. Character attributes
B. Paragraph attributes
C. Text on a path
D. Outlining text
II. Style sheets
A. General
B. Formats
C. Tabs
D. Rules
III. Importing and exporting graphics
A. Positioning and cropping
B. Manipulating graphics
C. Runarounds
D. Pdf files
IV. Page management
A. Library
B. Hyphenation and justification
C. Dashes and stripes
D. Color control
E. Anchored boxes
V. File Management
A. Fonts
B. Images
VI. Master pages
A. Master templates
B. Document pages
C. Master guides
VII. Trapping
A. Global trapping
B. Trapping palette
VIII. Long document construction
A. Lists
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FRCC |
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