Recommended dimensions for online magazine
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Dear All,
(First of all: sorry for my bad english!) I have got a webmagazine. I have created it with PhotoShop, so it is in JPG, and I presenting it with a LightBox JavaScript tool by filling the screen on the webpage. (It’s dimensions are 2380 x 1664 pixels.)
And now, I am learning Adobe InDesign, and I would like to make it in SWF or PDF, but there aren’t recommended dimensions and properties in the book. (Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book)
The magazine is strongly designed, and it contains a lot of pictures. What dimensions should I use? For example 2048 x 1536 pixels? And what font sizes? If the user zooming it for 200% because the readability, the pictures are still in good quality. But if user reading it in 1024×768 size, it would be good to stay the fonts readable.Thank You, and BR: kagabor
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Hello Gábor!
You’re not working with physical dimensions when preparing an e-book (in your case magazine). Either work in pixels (except InDesign does not use pixels as a unit) or forget units and just keep to an optimal aspect ratio. The two most common readers will probably be the Kindle (600 pixels by 800 pixels) or the iPad (1024 pixels by 768 pixels). Both of those are the same aspect ratio: 3 by 4 in portrait or 4 by 3 in landscape.
Artwork Abode.
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InDesign does use pixels as a unit, has for some time now. Not sure if it does in CS5 though.
If it doesn’t, switch to points, which is functionally the same, 72 pts = 72 pixels = 1 inch.
Gabor, are your Photoshop files 2380 x 1664? That is very large (filesize) for something that will need to be downloaded onto a mobile device. I would consider downsampling and sharpening before bringing into InDesign, and then adding live text in InDesign.
AM
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