Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
Footnotes page
A course by Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Footnotes page
Overview
“In this lesson, I will describe how to import and respect footnotes to edit them in InDesign. We will see how to convert them into notes on the margin thanks to a script and we can include them in our design without losing time or control when doing it.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Footnotes page, 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
“Footnotes It's another kind of dynamic content. It works with two styles: one of Character, that is the Call, that little number that is in the body of text; and another one from Paragraph, which is the Reference, which is located at the bottom of the page. This tool, which is inside InDesign, It has some limitations. However, we can expand its capabilities with a script I'm going to teach you in this lesson. Lets go see it. I want to start by reminding you that, to matter the footnotes of a Word file, you must give it in the corresponding configuration from the Import window. In the first ...”
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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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