Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com Training, Print & Electronic Publishing Consultancy, Technical Writing/Editing, Public Speaking Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:32:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stepping into the Adobe Creative Cloud… http://carijansen.com/2012/04/24/adobe-creative-cloud/ http://carijansen.com/2012/04/24/adobe-creative-cloud/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:35:18 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=3031 On Monday Adobe officially announced Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Adobe Creative Cloud. A lot has already been written about new features in InDesign CS6, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6 etc. and I will add blog-posts about various applications and features over time. But what I’m truly excited about is what the Creative Cloud brings to the table. The Creative Cloud...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2012/03/14/find-change-attributes-extension/feed/ 2 Out of the shadow into the limelight: Adobe Shadow http://carijansen.com/2012/03/08/out-of-the-shadow-into-the-limelight-adobe-shadow/ http://carijansen.com/2012/03/08/out-of-the-shadow-into-the-limelight-adobe-shadow/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:17:12 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2849 Adobe yesterday released some seriously cool technology on its Adobe Labs: Adobe Shadow 1.0. Shadow allows front-end web developers/designers to preview websites across different devices. As I’m in the process of making my web-site device responsive, I’m loving Shadow It’s super easy to install: Download Shadow release from Adobe Labs and install it. Download the Google Chrome browser extension and install...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2012/03/08/out-of-the-shadow-into-the-limelight-adobe-shadow/feed/ 0 Siteworks in progress.. http://carijansen.com/2012/03/05/siteworks-in-progress/ http://carijansen.com/2012/03/05/siteworks-in-progress/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:34:46 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2652 Today’s a public holiday in Australia… and I’ll be busy updating my site… Intentions are to turn it into a responsive web-site, so that the blog component will reflow and become more legible on mobile devices. As a result of the site works some links to from my site might not be working and the site might be down for...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2012/03/05/siteworks-in-progress/feed/ 2 My guest-blogpost about (blank) Paragraph Returns http://carijansen.com/2012/02/26/indesignsecrets-new-post-about-paragraph-returns/ http://carijansen.com/2012/02/26/indesignsecrets-new-post-about-paragraph-returns/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:16:57 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2647 It’s been a very busy start to the new year. Working on great electronic publishing projects and transitions with clients… has meant I’ve had little or no time to write some blog-posts. I thought I’d start the year off with a guest blog-post over at InDesign Secrets. Today’s post is inspired by Liz Castro, who writes lovely articles on her...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2012/02/26/indesignsecrets-new-post-about-paragraph-returns/feed/ 0 Building EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Breaks http://carijansen.com/2012/01/01/indesign-epub-1/ http://carijansen.com/2012/01/01/indesign-epub-1/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:18:15 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2549 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. Problems can occur when we...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2012/01/01/indesign-epub-1/feed/ 12 Best wishes… http://carijansen.com/2011/12/19/best-wishes/ http://carijansen.com/2011/12/19/best-wishes/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:28:49 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2540 To all my followers and friends, Thank you for your support in 2011. I’ve had an amazingly diverse year work-wise and am super grateful for having had the opportunity to meet many of you in person at #PePCon 2011 in Alexandria, VA and at InDesign User Group meetings in Australia and the Netherlands. Wishing you all an enjoyable holiday season...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/12/19/best-wishes/feed/ 4 Tomaxxi’s Script: Renaming images from within InDesign http://carijansen.com/2011/11/10/indesign-epub-support-tool-renaming-image-links/ http://carijansen.com/2011/11/10/indesign-epub-support-tool-renaming-image-links/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:17:12 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2483 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 the Links used in the...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/11/10/indesign-epub-support-tool-renaming-image-links/feed/ 8 Figures in InDesign CS5.5 and Accessibility http://carijansen.com/2011/10/25/indesign-figures-accessible-pdf/ http://carijansen.com/2011/10/25/indesign-figures-accessible-pdf/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:41:04 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2457 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 perfect and we’ll still need...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/10/25/indesign-figures-accessible-pdf/feed/ 0 InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 Update fixes EPUB issues http://carijansen.com/2011/10/20/indesigncs55-update752/ http://carijansen.com/2011/10/20/indesigncs55-update752/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:00:43 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2436 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 issue when ;­  (soft-hyphen) characters appear...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/10/20/indesigncs55-update752/feed/ 0 Back to the Basics with Perth IDUG http://carijansen.com/2011/09/18/back-to-the-basics-with-perth-idug/ http://carijansen.com/2011/09/18/back-to-the-basics-with-perth-idug/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:36:33 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2429 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 drink and a slice of...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/09/18/back-to-the-basics-with-perth-idug/feed/ 0 It’s been quiet http://carijansen.com/2011/08/17/its-been-quiet/ http://carijansen.com/2011/08/17/its-been-quiet/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:32:30 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2427 Wanted to let my loyal followers know I’m still here Apologies for the long pause between blog-posts… At the end of June I flew away for a couple of weeks… visiting family overseas and putting my feet up for a bit basically … Since I’ve been back I’ve been on the road a fair bit and not spend much time...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/08/17/its-been-quiet/feed/ 2 InDesign Secrets: creative Place and Story Linking http://carijansen.com/2011/06/16/indesign-secrets-creative-place-and-story-linking/ http://carijansen.com/2011/06/16/indesign-secrets-creative-place-and-story-linking/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:46:55 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2421 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.

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/06/16/indesign-secrets-creative-place-and-story-linking/feed/ 0 Creating PNGs from Illustrator http://carijansen.com/2011/06/14/creating-pngs-from-illustrator/ http://carijansen.com/2011/06/14/creating-pngs-from-illustrator/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:22:38 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2411 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 Portable Network Graphic (.png). Funnily...read more →

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]]> http://carijansen.com/2011/06/14/creating-pngs-from-illustrator/feed/ 5 EPUB Export & Relative to Page Size http://carijansen.com/2011/06/07/epub-export-relative-to-page-size/ http://carijansen.com/2011/06/07/epub-export-relative-to-page-size/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:30:29 +0000 Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/?p=2381 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. I’m only looking at the Fixed / Relative to Page Size settings in this blog-post,...read more →

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