I’m at Macworld in San Francisco this week, so I’m a bit behind in my reading and writing. (Besides, I was up mast midnight watching Tron 3D at an IMAX cinema. Wow! Nerdgasm.) Nevertheless, InDesign never sleeps and we’ve got a huge bunch of content you should see this week. Check this stuff out:
- Do you use InCopy? There’s some good tips for printing and stuff here.
- I’m embarassed… I think we forgot to mention on IDS that InDesign CS4 6.0.6 came out!
- How to Convert HTML to XML with Adobe InDesign (from XML Publishing with Adobe InDesign By Dorothy Hoskins)
- Kelly “document geek” Vaughn wrote an interesting article about global relinking called Making InDesign Absolute Links behave like Relative Links
- Here’s a few little InDesign tips at Silicon Beach training
- I wrote an article in InDesign Magazine about how to use object styles to positioning object on your page. Now it’s available to everyone!
- This is a fun little tutorial on how to create a grid based resume (cv)
- Here’s a little tutorial on how to create an InDesign table from an excel file
EPUB and Interactive Stuff
- What’s important when creating epub files? Joshua Tallent argues more energy must be put into design!
- Apple’s iBooks offers a new fixed-layout EPUB format. Here’s an article about how to do it.
- Does it really cost that much to create an eBook: Ebook Pricing vs Revenue
- This news really scared me: Apple enforcement of in-app purchase clause may imperil e-book apps
- iPad magazine sales have been dropping. This is not surprising to me. The numbers will rise again, but it’s going to be a slow improvement.
- Do digital/interactive ads work? This Adobe-sponsored research white paper says yes.
- Being frustrated by eBook and how hard it is to make them look nice, I thought this was great: The Death of Book Design
- In case you want even more information on using InDesign to make Ebooks, check out this list of resources, gathered by Colleen Cunningham
- Liz Castro has uncovered some fun ways to make an Expandable Photo Blocks in iBooks on iPad
- If you’re into making interactive documents, check out this book excerpt, called Creating Multi-object Buttons in Adobe InDesign (excerpted from Interactive InDesign CS5: Take your Print Skills to the Web and Beyond, by Mira Rubin)
Th th th th that’s all folks! Enjoy!
This article was last modified on December 20, 2021
This article was first published on January 28, 2011
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