Creating PNGs from Illustrator
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).
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EPUB Export & Relative to Page Size
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.
Topics: Adobe, EPUB, InDesign, Publishing Technology | 13 Comments »
InDesign Character Styles & EPUB
I’ve been head deep into EPUB… and wanted to share another finding with InDesign CS5.5. A short post only, because I’m in the middle of work 
InDesign CS5.5 now recognises character styles that are applied through nested styles and GREP styles during EPUB export. That’s very cool! It adds a span tag with class references to the style names by default, when leaving the Export Tagging, Tag setting set to [automatic] and Class field left empty.
FWIW I’m not promoting using the [automatic] setting with class field left empty as a ‘best practice’… :)
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Multi-Find/Change 1.02 Released
Martinho da Gloria (www.automatication.com), this week released the 1.02 update for the Mulit-Find/Change plug-in he developed for InDesign.
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InDesign CS5.5 Lists & EPUB.
Updated 10-May-2011 (added alternate option, thanks to Bob’s comment)
Publishers quite often generate multiple paragraph styles for bulleted and numbered lists behaviour. For instance the first or last bullet point in a list might have slightly different space before and after settings applied to it.
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InDesign Secrets: When smart guides turn blue
Have just posted a new blog-post on the InDesign Secrets blog. If you’re curious about pink, green and blue smart guides, then go and have a look and discover where and when smart guides pop-up in InDesign CS5.
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Studying for Adobe Recert…
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 do enjoy spending time really studying new software releases, as you always end up discovering new things and refresh your memory on cool features you’d forgotten about
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CS5.5 & Any Screen
As creatives all over the world wake-up today… we’re greeted with Adobe’s official CS5.5 announcement.
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Topics: Adobe, Apps, Creative Suite, Electronic Magazines, EPUB, Online, Publishing Technology, Tablets | No Comments »