Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
Mapping styles
A course by Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Mapping styles
Overview
“In this video, I'll show you why importing or placing a text is vastly superior to pasting it. We will see different options for importing texts, how to work and edit the Word styles that are placed in InDesign and I will teach you how to do a mapping that will format an entire book when importing it.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Mapping styles, which is part of the Domestika online course: Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign. Learn advanced techniques for creating professional literary layouts.
Partial transcription of the video
“As we saw before, the option to copy and paste It is not the best to work with a manuscript. That is why there is the function that I will explain in this lesson When importing a text to InDesign, you can map the styles, tell him that each style that you have applied in Word will automatically change by one of InDesign. That function will allow you Do the day job in one click. It's a thorough process, but I will show you That can be done very easily. The best way to load a text into InDesign It is importing or placing it. There are three ways to do it. Before showing you what they are, I wa...”
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Course summary for: Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
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Design, Digital Design, Editorial Design, Information Design
Javier Alcaraz
A course by Javier Alcaraz
Javier Alcaraz is a graphic designer specializing in Typographic Design and Art Direction for Editorial Design. He began his design career for Argentina newspapers and worked on developing publications and institutional communication in Ecuador. In 2004, he left Argentina for Mexico, where he worked for important publishing houses like Grupo Media and Expansión.
In 2011, he founded elcerezo, a studio that works on editorial design, branding, and typeface design for clients in Latin America and Europe, including Google, the Mexican Ministry of Culture, TetraPack, and Forbes. He currently resides in Spain.
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