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Building EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Breaks
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Org. posted 1-Jan-2012, Updated 3-Jan-2012 / Postscript added One of the pitfalls of converting print publications to EBooks, is that designers often use forced line breaks (Shift+Return/Enter) in print-layouts to control where headings and even paragraph lines are broken. Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to EPUB later on. [...]
Tomaxxi’s Script: Renaming images from within InDesign
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Some time ago Tomaxxi (Marijan Tompa) wrote a small script that allows you to rename images from within InDesign. You might wonder why you’d want to use a script like this? Well, I actually found myself using it this morning as part of an EPUB production process. I’d received client-supplied print artwork in InDesign, and [...]
Figures in InDesign CS5.5 and Accessibility
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
After reading David’s blog-post on InDesign Secrets, titled “Building an Org Chart or Flowchart in InDesign“. I thought… “How does building illustrations in InDesign impact the development of Accessible PDF with InDesign CS5.5?” InDesign CS5.5 introduced significant new features for EPUB/HTML and PDF export. Building Accessible PDFs is now much, MUCH easier… It’s not yet [...]
InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 Update fixes EPUB issues
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Amongst a list of issues that’s been resolved with today’s Adobe InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 update release are a couple of EPUB issues. Notably: An issue in the DOCTYPE of the EPUB, where InDesign would insert an extra space, which in turn caused iBooks to return an error and stop rendering the EPUB. The iBooks rendering [...]
Back to the Basics with Perth IDUG
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The upcoming Perth InDesign User Group meeting, October 5, is the 3rd anniversary of the user group. We will take you back to the basics during this meet… The IDUG meetings are a great way of meeting other InDesign users from in and around Perth. Membership’s absolutely free, and you can even grab a cool [...]
InDesign Secrets: creative Place and Story Linking
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
InDesign CS5.5 introduces a new feature called Linked Stories. I’ve just posted a contributor blog-post on InDesign Secrets that gives one example of how you could use this new feature.
Creating PNGs from Illustrator
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
We all get this question as designers: “Can you provide us with a copy of the logo or masterhead design in a format that we can use in Microsoft Word”… or “PowerPoint”? Illustrator CS, released back in 2003, introduced the Save for Microsoft Office command. (File menu), which converts your Illustrator artwork to a 150ppi [...]
EPUB Export & Relative to Page Size
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Updated 7 June 2011 (added additional notes ). One of the new InDesign CS5.5′s EPUB Export Option features is the ability to control whether images are exported with Fixed width or Relative to Page Size setting. In this blog-post I’m running through a few findings.