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How to get Indesign consulting - roshi - 06-22-2011
I have a job that would take an experienced InDesign person a couple of hours. Is there a way, a site on the internets, where I can post the job and get bids?
thanks, roshi
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - jdc - 06-22-2011
Craigslist.
elance.
But if its really only going to take a couple of hours then you might not get many takers unless you make it like $100+. It cant be a $10 a hour job. Just out of curiosity -- if you dont know ID, then how can you guess that it will only "take a couple of hours"?
Thats like me saying it should only take a couple of hours to hand-build a table -- but I have no clue exactly *how* long it will take since I have never built one.
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - Jimmypoo - 06-22-2011
For what it's worth -- I knew PageMaker v1 through v7 like the back of my hand.
The more complex the document, the more I dived into it.
It was rare to find a "simple document" - unless you had a prototype drawn up or a version of someone
else's work that you wanted it to mimic - and that leaves possibilities to a minimum.
Otherwise I've done something as "simple" as a three column brochure (2 sided, so six columns)
that had three versions (just minor variations for 3 different audiences) - but in the end, each one,
due to proofing, word changes and sometimes as insignificant as a stray comma - or a new paragraph
required across three versions, that this brochure took about 3 days, and each had 29 revisions (in other
words, nearly 90 versions, nearly 90 PDFs made, nearly 90 "Package document fonts/graphics" - and
a total of about 30 or so hours into a single sheet of paper.
(and at the end, I moved it all over to InDesign 1.0 - because I wanted to learn how to use InDesign -
as I never used Express - and I knew that PM7 was the last of its kind) -- but of course, nobody got
billed for that.
Client was happy, literally ecstatic that I got it all done in time for them to hand deliver it to their printer
half way across the country - watch the output of just 200 of each variant, and I got $2500 for it.
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - roshi - 06-22-2011
Got it - an InDesign guy just contacted me, so I am good for this immediate job.
I write in InDesign, many hours a day, I just like the way it handles text onscreen and to print.
What I need expertise for is prepping documents to send to the printer. Because I am a writer, I forget all about master pages and margins and so forth. When you send a PDF to a printer to have thousands of copies made, it better be right!
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - Jimmypoo - 06-22-2011
That's a great way to operate -- get your content down first. Worry about formatting and pics and
pretty shapes and colors WAY down the road.
If what you have to "say" isn't right - all the layout in the world isn't going to help it.
I sometimes use the DTP app for catching words, but I've come to really like the "power" of Text Edit
for capturing things easily -- it has enough of options for bolds and italics, etc., and I can save each
section as its own document if I choose to, and just copy/paste it into my first drafts in InDesign, etc.
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - deckeda - 06-22-2011
What jdc said. Sounds a bit like the other end of a Seacrest thread.
Just wanna make sure you don't wind up here.
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - roshi - 06-22-2011
I like Text Edit also, it is almost always open over in the corner somewhere, it is handy for stripping junk formatting out of text.
I write many hours a day, so books in a certain stage of development are either in Evernote - when they are just being formed, or in Pages, or in InDesign. Once in awhile, because I need to send something to an editor, I have to work in poor, pathetic Word, which is so bloated it labors along just to open and figure out what a font is.
But there is a lot to be said for just having a folder with a lot of well-named Text-Edit files!
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - M>B> - 06-22-2011
Since you are having "thousands" of copies made, I would have the ID files "Flight Checked" by a pro for all the usual problems, like stray points, stroking, overprinting etc. etc. and spot colors, if any. Just for insurance get PostScript laser separation proofs made and have them checked by a pro too!
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - roshi - 06-22-2011
M>B>suggested, "I would have the ID files "Flight Checked" by a pro for all the usual problems ..."
thanks, M>B>, that's the ticket
and thanks everyone for the ideas
Re: How to get Indesign consulting - DRR - 06-22-2011
For a job like you describe, just have the "design" department at your printer do it. Limited creative design skills but tight integration with pre-press.