Image quality and EPUB
Why is that in some cases images appear either totally pixelated or as a minute little graphics when generating an EPUB document from an existing InDesign file that was not originally created for EPUB...
View ArticleMoving print publications to EPUB – Part 1
Although earlier versions of InDesign have had support for Digital Editions Export (EPUB), up until the most recent release of InDesign (CS5), we would have had to change the way in which our documents...
View ArticleMoving print publications to EPUB – Part 2
In Part 2 of my article series on Moving Print Publications to EPUB we look at managing when certain EPUB content starts on a new page when reading a publication on our EPUB Reading device. It looks...
View ArticleMoving print publications to EPUB – Part 3
Part 3: Handling grouped illustrations This is the third in a series of articles I’m dedicating to conversion of print publications to EPUB. The first… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe...
View ArticleFootnotes and Endnotes with InDesign…
Updated 13-Nov-2010, added Footnotes Note. Received an email today in which the following question was asked: “Is there an InDesign add-on that you know of… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor,...
View ArticleFour News Ltd editors talk iPad and electronic newspapers
Interesting interview by Nick Evershed (NPA) with Australian editors, Garry Linnell (Daily Telegraph), Simon Pristel (Herald Sun), Mel Mansell (the Advertiser) and Michael Crutcher (Courier-Mail).…...
View ArticleInDesign for EBook and Digital Magazine publishing
With the release of the Apple iPad earlier in the year and the increase in the number of reading devices, such as the Kindle, Sony… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe certified instructor,...
View ArticlePreserving electronic publications
I found myself sitting in the classics library of one of Perth’s beautiful private colleges the other day… staring at the 1875 edition of the… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe certified...
View ArticleStyle 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… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe certified...
View ArticleCS5.5 & Any Screen
As creatives all over the world wake-up today… we’re greeted with Adobe’s official CS5.5 announcement. This mid-cycle Creative Suite release is all about the fast… Cari Jansen - Technical writer,...
View ArticleInDesign 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… Cari Jansen...
View ArticleInDesign 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… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe certified...
View ArticleEPUB 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… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe...
View ArticleInDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 Update fixes EPUB issues
Amongst a list of issues that’s been resolved with today’s Adobe InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 update release are a couple of EPUB issues. Notably: An issue… Cari Jansen - Technical writer, editor, adobe...
View ArticleBuilding EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Breaks
Updated 3-Jan-2012 / Postscript added One of the pitfalls of converting print publications to EBooks, is that designers often use forced line breaks (Shift+Return/Enter) in… Cari Jansen - Technical...
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