This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 40

David Blatner

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Very kind of Anne-Marie to step in and share some of her favorite links with us last week. That was great. But now I’m back from the wilderness and ready to point you to some great stuff myself again… here we go!

InDesign-specific goodies:

• Mike McHugh’s Creative Sweet TV video on the topic of building a table of contents in InDesign
• Want even more table of contents tips? Check out Adam Jury’s podcast on the topic.

On the topic of ePublishing:

• If you are into epub and you wish you could open an epub right inside your Web browser, look no further than the epubreader Firefox plug-in.
• Nine Important Trends in the Evolution of Digital Textbooks and E-learning Content?
• Here’s a good article the basics of ePub
• Once you get going with ePub, you’re going to quickly notice that your InDesign docs don’t always export in the order you expect. Cari Jansen to the rescue, with this excellent article on how to control export order in epub.
• Why Sports Illustrated is focusing on horizontal reading view for their tablet issues.
• Did you see that Oxygen XML editor now has an EPUB editor?
• Want some inspiration about what future ebooks will look like? Ideo has three visions in this movie.

Relevant discussions:

• John Deubert has been publishing the Acumen Journal for a long time, with all kinds of fun articles for people into programming and using PostScript and PDF. I noticed a good article on editing images inside PDF files in the most recent free downloadable journal.
• Here’s a fun interview between two InDesign authors (Sandee Cohen and myself), talking about our books and more!
• Love Illustrator? Then you’ll love this interview between my two favorite Illustrator authors at Peachpit Press!

Enjoy!