Latitude3195 goes live today
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 for delivery to Apple.
You can download it from the App Store today.
It’s been a fun project to work on! What better way to learn how to use the new tools Adobe’s providing us for mobile and tablet publishing, than to actively produce a product with it? The first edition is a short teaser of 10-pages, that will hopefully give you an idea of what is to come in the future. I’ve aimed to keep the design simple and hopefully effective. All feedback welcome. Hope to make the next one bigger and better of course 
I’ve launched a separate web-site for this magazine as well www.latitude3195.com
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Style Group Names to CSS prefix
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 turn into prefixes for the class names.
Here’s an example:
- I name the Paragraph Style Group based on where the style is applied. For instance styles that are used within body cells of a table would appear in a Style Group named ‘
td‘. - Within the Style Group, the paragraph styles names themselves also have short names. E.g.
text-blue
When applying the paragraph style “text-blue” to some text in a table cell, the resulting stylesheet in the CSS will become:
p.td-text-blue {
}
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Synchronised coolness…
Every now and again I encounter something in InDesign that I really like and that surprises me… I just had one of those “OMG… this is soooo cooool” moments… It’s probably something that’s been working in InDesign for a while… it might have even been announced as a new feature at some point… what ever it was… I hadn’t noticed it until about 20mins ago Continue reading »
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Site migration completed
Happy to announce my site has been migrated without hiccups… If you’re looking at my site from the US, you might experience a slight slow-down in load time, as the site’s now hosted on a server in Australia (to formerly being hosed on a server in the US). A few more hops to get to the site and back to your computer 
to be honest, there shouldn’t really be a noticeable difference.
Topics: miscellaneous | 4 Comments »
Moving…
Wanted to let you all know that my domain will be moving over the next week or so. In fact, I’m moving countries… currently the domain is hosted in the US, and I’m bringing it home to Australia. The transition could lead to a short outage, which I’d like to apologize for in advance. In the meantime I have my fingers and toes crossed that the transfer of site, databases, emails all goes well
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InDesign Secrets: Vertical Balance…
Balancing columns in InDesign CS5 is a breeze in the park… no more stress, no more loss of sanity. Want to learn more?
Read my new blog-post on InDesign Secrets: Keeping our (Vertical) Balance.
Topics: Adobe, InDesign | No Comments »
InDesign & XML Additional Notes
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.
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InDesign & XML
Figure 1. Reviewing the structure of a design and assigning tags to content.
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 Continue reading » I’m posting them un-edited, so if you spot any glaring errors feel free to send me an email or leave a comment, and I’ll update the posts accordingly.
Topics: Adobe, InDesign, XML | 20 Comments »