Cari Jansen

Moving print publications to EPUB – Part 2

Cari Jansen — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:45:13 +0000

In Part 2 of my article series on Moving Print Publications to EPUB we look at managing when certain EPUB content starts on a new page when reading a publication on our EPUB Reading device. It looks at defining content breaks in what appears to be a seemingly continuous flow of content.

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Moving print publications to EPUB – Part 1

Cari Jansen — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:42:05 +0000

Although earlier versions of InDesign have had support for Digital Editions Export (EPUB), up until the most recent release of InDesign (CS5), we would have had to change the way in which our documents were laid out in order to best prepare them for EPUB output. This was primarily due to the fact that the content order of the EPUB would be based on the document's Page Layout. InDesign CS5 enables content order creation based on Page Layout or XML Structure.

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Catching up on some blog-post reading

Cari Jansen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:47:59 +0000

Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls. Fall of Autumn‘s Alan Lastufka is the producer of the following video on Letterpress. Letter Press From job case, leading, quads, coppers & brasses, guide pins, chase & furniture to inking and printing. Deconvolution sharpening in Photoshop...read more →

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Sandee’s new blog and podcast

Cari Jansen — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:51:59 +0000

In case you’ve not yet seen or heard about this one: Sandee (Vectorbabe), InDesign guru from day ONE… has started a great blog and podcast on all things “print”. The blog and podcast are a great addition to her recently published book. “Bleed ? what’s bleeding? Uuuuhhhh why can’t you print my Powerpoint designed ad in your glossy magazine? Just...read more →

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Dutch Type

Cari Jansen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:18:28 +0000

Jan Middendorp writes that his “interest in Letterforms and text faces by Dutch designers such as Hollander, Caecilia, Quadraat, Theses”, were the main triggers for writing his 2004 book “Dutch Type“. As someone who used to carry a Dutch passport prior to swapping it for an Australian one over a decade ago, this book triggers more than an interest in fonts....read more →

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Colour Management

Cari Jansen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:49:45 +0000

As someone who has Real World Color Management by Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting and the late Bruce Fraser on the shelf. A publication I highly recommend for anyone interested in learning about “all things colour”. It’s great to see that Chris Murphy has written Colour Management Essential Training. According to Amazon.com’s write-up: Color Management Essential Training, is an in-depth exploration of...read more →

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Printing Glossary and Term

Cari Jansen — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:41:06 +0000

PrintingTips.com is an excellent site containing information on Print Preparation, Print Products and a Glossary of print terms. So next time your print asks you whether that job is going to be full bleed and is an A4 Roll folded to DL, you can look things up in the glossary. Ooooh and was that process or spot colour and with...read more →

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PDF or Native Files? On the soapbox…

Cari Jansen — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:28:41 +0000

Ok, after the previous post I could not resist the following ‘soapbox’ speech I believe that any organisation accepting digital artwork into its print production workflow (be it offset printing, label printing, screen printing, large format, sign writing etc.), would benefit from being able to handle artwork based on delivery of PDF files.. However, that is Utopianly-speaking. Reality begs to...read more →

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What you see is what you print

Cari Jansen — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:19:03 +0000

"What you see is what you print" is a dream come true for print service providers. The Adobe PDF Print Engine gives the prepress industry the ability to take another gigantic step into the automation of prepress. With the Adobe PDF Print Engine, native print hardware can output PDF files containing live transparency. JDF and PDF are combined providing printers...read more →

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