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Yo, I've been doing InDesign stuff professionally for 10 years or so. I used to do typesetting/layout/editing for an academic journal. I enjoyed the heck out of it! I was lucky because it was a small publication and I got a lot of creative control. I got to create a whole new style guide when I started. It was extremely satisfying to hold each printed issue in my hands.  Typesetting, printing, and graphic design are actually the family business. Both my parents and grandparents are/were in that business so I started learning the ropes at a quite young age. As a result, I have also watched the industry decline over the past 25 years or so. Like most creative industries, outsourcing and overseas contract work are a bitch. Basic tasks are easy to have done cheaply by someone in another Anglophone country. The result has been that the sexier full-time jobs in this domain now require a much higher or more specialized skill set. There are also domestic full time jobs on the lower skill level where there is some demand, like doing design/prepress at local print and copy shops, but the work itself can be pretty mind numbing. Like, you use InDesign all day to lay out wedding programs or menus for local pizza places. If you are knowledgeable about web design AND type design, you have a much better chance of working on something interesting. A lot of print designers don't know HTML/CSS and vice versa. If you can sell a client a FULL design concept that works across media, you have a big advantage. Also, if you work at an unrelated job, try to find opportunities to use InDesign for stuff. For example, my job now was using MS Word templates for conference materials for some pretty fancy-schmancy client meetings. I volunteered to start doing them in InDesign as part of my job, and it's been a big improvement and added a new interesting fun component to my work. That stuff also helps add to your portfolio for future freelance prospects. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk about this stuff more.
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Convexed posted:I fell into InDesign publishing too. I got my first gig out of university writing technical documents. It was my job to write and edit reams of content, and then we'd pass it onto the design team who would get to work typesetting these 200+ page documents. I'd really like to learn about this. I work with InDesign a great deal and I have some experience with highly technical subject matter (corporate law and securities regulation), and I wouldn't mind expanding my editorial skill set. Can you recommend some introductions to the nature of technical writing?
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