Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
Editing texts with scripts I: Find & ChangebyList
A course by Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Editing texts with scripts I: Find & ChangebyList
Overview
“What are scripts? In this lesson we will see where they are located and how they are loaded in the application, as well as which are some very powerful that you already have in InDesign. Find & ChangebyList, for example, will help you apply all your cleaning changes with a single click.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Editing texts with scripts I: Find & ChangebyList, 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
“In this lesson, I will introduce you to InDesign scripts. With a script, we can activate all searches That we want at once. Do not worry, there is no code that you have to learn. We will learn this new tool. Wouldn't it be great if, for example, all those changes what do you always do in your documents could they be done with just one click? I tell you that it is possible, not from an InDesign function, but from a set of functions that are coded in a language called JavaScript. With this programming language and the extensive description of objects that InDesign has, called InDesign Object ...”
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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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