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Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign

Editing texts with scripts II: other resources

A course by Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer

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19,074 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: Editing texts with scripts II: other resources

Overview

“In this video, I want to share some other very good (and free) resources that will help you clean and form texts: ChainGrep , allows you to link different searches of regular expressions; FindChange Query Manager (plugin) will help you export and import your searches; in addition to WordSmokeStacks, a script to locate rosaries and other compositional flaws.”

In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Editing texts with scripts II: other resources, 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 you may have noticed, a script is not more than a series of chained instructions. This avoids repetitive work and greatly speeds up the process of correction and book formation. Now I'm going to present a series of scripts, I hope you fall in love as much as I do. As you saw in the previous election, is a very good practice save your searches to make correct the texts. You can then, between the queries, save those that you find useful and my recommendation is that to those searches, to those queries, You put a number to indicate the order in which they should be executed. This is very va...”

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Course summary for: Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (568)
19074 students
7 units
26 lessons (5h 40m)
21 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe InDesign
Areas
Design, Digital Design, Editorial Design, Information Design

Javier Alcaraz

A course by Javier Alcaraz

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Editorial and Typeface Designer

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.