This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 50
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!
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Regarding my link above about “Apple enforcement of in-app purchase”: After reading more about this, I’m less concerned. It sounds as though there is a subtle difference in how Sony and Amazon were handling purchases. Amazon takes you to a web page where you buy the book and that book gets downloaded as a “raw file” to the iOS file system. That’s apparently very different than a straight “in-app” purchase in which the file is bought in a non-apple store inside the app, and which embeds the file into the app itself.
Given that, plus the fact that it’s pretty unlikely that Apple would try to kill of Amazon and BN’s (and other’s) apps, I’m sleeping better at night.
Given that, plus the fact that it?s pretty unlikely that Apple would try to kill of Amazon and BN?s (and other?s) apps…
Well, at least not yet… Once iBooks gets more traction, I would start worrying. I’m sure 30% on every e-book sale is very tempting, and Apple has changed their TOS before. Remember Flash? ;)
David,
I don’t know where you got your information from. According to ts article they are going directly after Amazon: https://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/02/apples-new-rules-snag-amazon.html
@Fred: Well, clearly this is a rapidly changing field. My comments were based on information at the end of January, and this article is based on news that Apple released mid-February.
This highlights one of the biggest problems people have today: When the rules and technologies shift this quickly, it’s hard to win.