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 →
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 →
I found myself sitting in the classics library of one of Perth’s beautiful private colleges the other day… staring at the 1875 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Taking a volume off the shelf and flipping through the fragile and slightly yellowish pages brought about a feeling of nostalgia… I couldn’t help but wonder how 135 years from now — in 2045…read more →
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.
Mark Colvin (ABC – the Full Story), interviews Richard Freudenstein, chief executive of News Digital Media and The Australian, and talks about News Corp’s move towards paid online content [audio | transcript] … “Price for overall package not yet known, but the Apps will be priced at $7.99″. Freudenstein thinks ”there is a lot of life left in the printing…read more →