After receiving several emails and comments in recent months, I thought it was time to finally write up my simple ‘vertical page spreads’ technique for InDesign CS5. You can read it on InDesign Secrets: http://bit.ly/f8Tab9. I hope you guys enjoy the post.
With the release of the Apple iPad earlier in the year and the increase in the number of reading devices, such as the Kindle, Sony or Kobo eReader etc., digital publishing is quickly becoming the new way in which we develop, distribute and read our books, magazines and newspapers. In the upcoming InDesign User Group meeting in Perth, Western Australia…read more →
Today’s WoodWing World Tour in Sydney, featuring Tablet Publishing was simply inspiring. Hans Janssen (CEO WoodWing Software) opened with his keynote “Best of Times!”, giving us a peak into WoodWing’s history, strategy and tablet trending, that really indicated to the audience that tablet publishing = opportunity.
Updated 13-Nov-2010, added Footnotes Note. Received an email today in which the following question was asked: “Is there an InDesign add-on that you know of that a) can take static endnotes and transform them to dynamic (i.e. linked) footnotes and b) can change static endnotes to dynamic endnotes”.
Part 3: Handling grouped illustrations This is the third in a series of articles I’m dedicating to conversion of print publications to EPUB. The first article covered handling of content order, the second looked at controlling break points in EPUBs. I was going to dedicate the third article on text-formatting, but have decided to return to the topic of graphics…read more →
I was on a roll writing about the Page tool today on the InDesign Secrets blog, so thought I’d write another blog-post on how you can build a document up with page spreads and then later break-up the spreads so that you can provide your printer with individual pages with bleed on all for sides. It is something that is…read more →
Just finished writing a long-overdue blog-post for InDesign Secrets. As I do a fair bit of work within the advertising industry, I opted to look at how InDesign CS5′s new Page Tool would work in combination with Layout Adjustment. It really gives us huge possibilities. Imagine having to build an advertising campaign, with the same ad set in different sizes?…read more →
The Transform Sequence Again command in Adobe InDesign is a cool feature that allows you play back a series of transformations you’ve just applied to one object or group on another object or group, by transparently recording the transformation actions you are applying.