Welcome Students!

By Cyndie Shaffstall

In collaboration with Quark, X-Ray Magazine is providing you these quick-start templates to help you get up and running with QuarkXPress 8 in a snap!

In 1992, I wrote the book titled, QuarkXPress: Making the Most of Your Negative Experiences. That book was actually a series of templates and step-by-step instructions on how to create QuarkXPress documents that could be printed directly to negatives. Okay, those are days long since gone, but the lessons there are still valid today when you print to your desktop output device.

Many of these templates include crop marks so that you can create art and designs that bleed off the edge. Some are layouts appropriate for output directly to stock paper and labels available at your local office supply store.

Purchase QuarkXPress 8 at the educational pricing (contact Chris Edwards) and you can get my new book on QuarkXPress at 40% off. Once you purchase QuarkXPress, Chris will set you up with a discount code so that you, your classmates, your instructor, and your institution can all benefit from this great discount.

If you would like to download all tempates at once, click here to subscribe to X-Ray Magazine's online story notices and as a special thank you, we will send you a link to the entire template collection.

If you're just getting started with QuarkXPress 8, be sure to check out our story: QuarkXPress 8: a Suite Response.

		Letterhead, Envelope, and Business Card with Shared Content and Composition Zones This template group is a single project that includes a letterhead, #10 envelope, 4-up business card with no bleed, and a 4-up business card with bleed. Bleed is any image or text that runs off the edge of the printed piece. Generally when you create a bleed in QuarkXPress 8, you will extended the item by about 1/8", or 9 points. Using the guides feature of QuarkXPress 8, you can place bleed guides at the desired measurement by choosing bleed and safety guides from the guides palette's fly-out menu. The best feature of this group is that it uses shared content and composition zones to ensure continuity throughout the project.

		CD DVD Jewell Case and CD Label This template is another great lesson in the use of shared content. Using a third layout, you can fill in the text boxes with the required information and the information will be populated throughout the project.

		Tri-fold Brochure (letter) You can print this template on your desktop printer. There are fold marks that you can drag onto the page so that they will print. The pre-defined guidelines will enable you to fold the project accurately, with allowance for creep. Creep is the allowance for the movement of paper as it is folded. Think of what happens when you fold 50 sheets together. The pages in the middle push outward. When you adjust for creep, the image on the page is adjusted so that you can trim all of the pages to have even edges without running the risk of cutting into the image. In the case of a tri-fold, you want to be sure that the center panel is about 1/32" inch narrower than the two panels on the outside.

		Tri-fold Brochure (letter) This version of the tri-fold brochure is designed to be printed on a larger sheet by a press. The crop marks show the printer the page edge and where to cut so that the final size is 8.5 X 11". The fold marks indicate the proper fold for the individual panels.

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