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Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Course 4 - Editorial Tools: «Book» archives

By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer

Editorial and Typeface Designer. Campanet, Spain.
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About the video: «Book» archives

Overview

“I will explain why Adobe suggests the use of "book" files. We will see the automatic paging options, add and edit documents, determine a source or root document and synchronization options. We will also see how to update page numbering, how to send to print and how to export the entire book to a single pdf. ”

In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: «Book» archives, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4 - Editorial Tools. Discover the full potential of the main tools for the editorial workflow.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we will talk about the Book Files, is an important tool that offers you InDesign and that you propose to avoid that when you have a giant book, with many pages and many pictures, you fall, corrupt and never recover it again. With the Book Files you can relate different separate documents in a single project, you can synchronize pagination, colors, styles of the different elements you work with and in addition, print everything together or separately. I'll show you how this is done. If you have to form a book of say 600 pages and in many of them there are high resolution pictu...”

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Course summary for: Course 4 - Editorial Tools

  • Level: Beginner
  • 7 students
  • 7 units
  • 11 lessons (2h 32m)
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Javier Alcaraz

Javier Alcaraz
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.


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Course 4 - Editorial Tools

By Javier Alcaraz
Editorial and Typeface Designer. Campanet, Spain.
Joined November 2015
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