Hi Jim,

If you are targetting ebooks then most likely epub is a good solution as I’d guess it has a suitable DRM implementation for marketing to consumers, someone from the site would be able to advise on this better than myself. I’m no expert on that particular format as the field in which I work has different concerns.

Delivering high quality design documentation in print and digital format to clients and business collaborators in a business to business market where DRM is not very important but NDA and confidential contractual obligations are (they’re somewhat two sides of the same coin however) is a major factor.

Signed PDF’s achieved this for many years, interactive PDF’s should do too, or at least they used to. Adobe XD I understand much like you is only for use as a wireframing tool and not intended for actual production, perhaps an Adobe affiliate could enlighten users on if it will eventually be suitable for production and delivery? In addition I’m sure many users would also appreciate a roadmap with suitable assurance from Adobe that this could be a viable solution for businesses in line with internal organisation strategy.

I hope PDF as a format is just in a medically induced coma rather than end of life, as without a suitable replacement economic productivity is suffering. Above all we could all be doing really great stuff that will sell Adobe more software in turn.

cheers,
Sam

Hello David, I very much appreciate it, and totally understand the need for pre-moderation.

Your site is a very useful resource and it is great to be able to share knowledge and constructive discussion on techniques. If you are in London in the future please get in touch, I’d like to buy you a pint.

I’m especially interested in how parametric design can be implemented in desk top publishing as it is an area of interesting debate and techniques in other design fields.

Cheers, Sam.

Here’s a link to the publisher, if you don’t own this book I really do reccomend it, and I don’t make any money from this link!

https://www.niggli.ch/en/grid-systems-in-graphic-design.html

Sam

Hi Harshil,

You are correct in that it’s probably best to make versions for each device if you are looking to do something like a magazine in terms of design and layout with the bonus of everything digital should bring, interactivity, video and animation, audio etc.

The digital publishing tools were fairly good for delivering to mobile devices in terms of aesthetic freedom (using alternative layouts in InDesign) but now they are taboo from Adobe and replaced with the new solution (forgot what it’s called) that’s not cheap or a long term option to this conundrum based on previous support for digital publications in recent history.

It will be tricky to do a responsive design without a css and media query / flash like workflow in epub, pdf or as an app. Best would probably be to make it as web pages (and can live with those aesthetic constraints) but it’s no go if you intend to make revenue from it via purchase unless you have a market prepared to pay for pay walled content.

Best,
Sam

Hi RWVVV,

if you really need colour accuracy then get a monitor with a decent colour latitude, Apple screens are not very good in this aspect.

David is right about most callibration systems being good. The display is going to make the most difference for accuracy. Be aware about differences in gamma curves also from OSX to Windows etc.

Best,
S

Hello rr,

For reference here are valid html tags on w3c – https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_headings.asp , https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_paragraphs.asp for others please refer to the relevant areas of w3c schools.

Exporting html from InDesign can be then imported into WordPress via paste as html which was an option in the editor last time I used it, the export may need cleaning up to avoid inline styles.

Whatever styles are set up as definitions on the wordpress site in the css files for each tag will over-ride local formatting from InDesign exported html. If the goal is to re-create an exact replica from InDesign to WordPress for typography then the css or InDesign styles will need to be edited in order for both to be as close an approximation as possible, which may not be 100% achievable due to a number of factors. You should be able to get something close enough for the purposes though.

There is more information available on the Adobe documentation here – https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/paragraph-character-styles.html#map_styles_to_export_tags_cc_cs6_cs5_5

Hope this helps,
Sam