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It’s time for templates again! This time it’s a perfect bound cover for Premium members of InDesignSecrets. (Not a Premium member? Sign up here.) Once again, the original template came to us from James Wamser of Ripon Printers. We modified it and added elements to make laying out a cover for a perfect-bound document easy and efficient. […]
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Why Shoot in Raw Format? Whether you realize it or not, if you are using a DSLR camera you already are shooting in RAW. When you shoot in JPEG the camera is just processing the RAW file for you and compressing it. You may be wondering “then why shoot RAW at all”? The reason that […]
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The book cover template contains two three-page spreads for the inside and outside of the front cover, back cover, and spine. It also contains a basic set of styles that you can quickly adapt to your needs to make a handsome cover for all kinds of print projects.
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I often recommend that clients use Adobe InDesign’s “package” feature to collect all assets into one folder to give to another party. While it is not completely foolproof, it is certainly better than providing no links or fonts at all, or wasting time trying to find those assets manually. When packaging a file used for […]
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In the recent past I’ve written about Free Fonts – the pros and cons, the ins and outs, etc. Another piece of that “typographic” puzzle is an additional category of free font, commonly referred to as open source fonts. The term “open source” stems from a reference to software, but since fonts are considered software, […]
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I saw this question on twitter recently: “What is the fundamental difference between EPUB3 and Adobe DPS?” and I realized that I’ve been asked this a lot recently. For example, we had an EPUB track and a DPS track at The InDesign Conference and a lot of people wrote in to ask which one they […]
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Computers and software have come a long way in terms of making features and functions user-friendly using the keyboard and mouse. But there are still actions that are time-consuming and awkward, requiring several steps to accomplish the desired result. Flow is the answer! Flow is a very cool tool in development that can shorten and […]
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