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The Typefi team is adapting well to the changes necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and most of our day-to-day operations are business as usual.
The Sri Lankan office is closed while our team members observe curfew, but the Australian office remains open with a skeleton staff. The majority of Typefi team members are now working from home with full access to workplace systems.
At first glance, it may not look like much—but Peter Kahrel’s extensive online repository of free scripts is an essential resource for anyone who works on long documents in InDesign.
After hosting the script repository on his own website for many years, its future was in doubt late last year when Peter made the decision to relocate from the UK to Spain. His UK ISP refused to let him keep the site, or even set up redirection links.
Fortunately, David Blatner at CreativePro Network came to the rescue, and the repository now has a new home at CreativePro.com.
In this interview, Peter shares insights into the repository’s history, and some of the ways that InDesign typesetters can use his free scripts to make their lives easier.
Damian Gibbs
Solutions Consultant, Typefi
The most common feedback from publishers when chatting about automation is the belief that their publications are beyond what automation can do.
As a book designer and typesetter with over 20 years’ experience in producing almost every kind of book possible, I get it.
The hours dedicated to ensuring each line is hyphenated correctly; taking care of widows, orphans, grunts, and rivers; deciding where to place images (with the perfect crop); appropriately placing artwork in relation to its reference in the content; adjusting leading and layouts to ensure the content fits a publication correctly; and so it goes, page after page.
As a book designer, I was so much more than a machine, and it brought in the bread and butter—and some jam every now and then.
As news of Australia’s bushfire crisis makes headlines around the world, many colleagues, customers and friends have contacted us to share their concern and offer support and well wishes.
The Sunshine Coast (where our head office is located) experienced several severe bushfires late last year—thankfully no one on our team was directly impacted, except by smoke.
We are a long way north of the current bushfire crisis in NSW, Victoria and South Australia, but it’s a distressing and challenging time for many Australians, whether we’re in the path of the fires or not.
Typefi is supporting the bushfire relief effort with financial donations to several organisations and causes.
