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Typesetter

Code 7321.1.6

Typesetters ensure that printed text is correctly set and visually pleasing. While typesetting was originally done manually and later employed techniques like linotype and phototypesetting, almost all typesetting is now done digitally using design programs or specialised typesetting programs.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • GIMP (graphics editor software)
  • Microsoft Visio
  • SketchBook Pro
  • Synfig
  • graphic design
  • quality standards
  • prepress processes
  • graphics editor software
  • printing materials
  • typography

Skills and competences

  • align content with form
  • apply desktop publishing techniques
  • lay out digital written content
  • consult with editor
  • track changes in text editing
  • interpret illustration needs
  • operate printing machinery
  • prepare imposition
  • produce prepress proof
  • transcribe texts
  • use microsoft office
  • use markup languages
  • use typesetting software

Transversal competences

  • apply grammar and spelling rules

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences