37 - 38 hours per week
Between £21,000 and £24,000 Per Year
What are you going to do:
The principal function of the job is making corrections to InDesign CS6 documents. The operator will make text corrections as marked and will undertake required reformatting and repagination with appropriate supervision. Corrections will be made with a consistent accuracy of no less than 95% and without introducing new errors and at an agreed speed of working.
The operator may also be required to perform other functions:
- editing scanned text in Microsoft Word to ensure its accuracy and applying styles appropriately
- making editorial changes as marked to text in Microsoft Word and applying styles appropriately
- making up pages of books in InDesign
- reformatting existing files
- and from time to time other duties as required
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- an excellent command of English language is essential: able to understand and carry out editors' and proofreaders' alterations; recognise possible errors; check spelling, grammar and punctuation
- competence in operating Apple Mac, including file naming, file saving
- competence in using InDesign
- competence in using Microsoft Word
- basic awareness of fonts and font usage (including typeface recognition, point/pica system of measurement)
- basic awareness of typographic design
Training will be given where necessary in InDesign and Word for the typesetter to be able to
- use methods of work consistent with other M Rules operators
- use Character and Paragraph style sheets (including applying styles, editing styles, creating new styles, selecting font and font style;
- using horizontal scale, tracking and baseline shift, indents, space above and below, lock to baseline grid, h&js, drop caps; using tabs and rules)
Other job functions
On-the-job training and assistance will be given to ensure competence in other duties.
What we offer:
- On the job training
- Flexible hours
- Varied work
- Friendly working environment
What we ask:
- At least finished high school
- Excellent command of English
- Competence in using Apple Mac
- Competence in using InDesign and MS Word
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Extra information
- Status
- Closed
- Education Level
- Other
- Location
- London
- Working hours per week
- 37 - 38
- Type of Contract
- Graduate Jobs, Full Time Jobs
- Salary indication
-
Between £21,000 and £24,000 Per Year
- Responsible for
- Corrections and other book typesetting related tasks
- Profession type
- Design / Fashion
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- Yes
- Cover Letter Required
- No
- Languages
- English
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