It’s been a little quiet I know… I’ve been pretty flat-out with work and have just I spend my long-holiday weekend eating chocolate and studying for my Adobe Acrobat X Pro recertification exam. Glad to say, I’ve just completed the exam… and passed with a good score of 94%. Happy that I’ve got that one under my belt again I…read more →
As creatives all over the world wake-up today… we’re greeted with Adobe’s official CS5.5 announcement.
Happy to announce the launch of a new brain-child I’ve been working on in my limited spare time the past weeks. A new digital magazine published with Adobe tools… Adobe InDesign & Overlay creator plug-in for the layout, Digital Content Bundler for folio testing and Viewer Builder to generate the .ipa files (to test on my iPad) and .zip files…read more →
When working on EPUB output from InDesign, the stylesheet names in the generated CSS can become quite long, at the same time the number of styles for more complex documents can increase quickly. So I’ve started placing paragraph styles in particular in Style Groups that are named with short names. When InDesign generates the CSS file the Style Group names…read more →
Every now and again I encounter something in InDesign that I really like and that surprises me… I just had one of those “OMG… this is soooo cooool” moments… It’s probably something that’s been working in InDesign for a while… it might have even been announced as a new feature at some point… what ever it was… I hadn’t noticed…read more →
Balancing columns in InDesign CS5 is a breeze in the park… no more stress, no more loss of sanity. Want to learn more? Read my new blog-post on InDesign Secrets: Keeping our (Vertical) Balance.
The following notes might be helpful for those of you who are looking at doing a little more with XML in InDesign. They are by no means complete, and I’ll likely update this post in the near future, to make it more complete.
About 2 1/2 years ago I ran a series of seminars on working with XML and InDesign using an ‘out-of-the-box’ approach. I put together some notes at the time, and I recently rediscovered them and thought it was time to share them with the rest of the world I’m posting them un-edited, so if you spot any glaring errors feel…read more →