This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 20
I’m writing this about 13 hours before Steve Jobs walks on stage to announce… something. I’m personally torn between, on the one hand, wanting him to show the iPad/iTablet/iThing that I’ve been talking/hoping about for years, and, on the other hand, saying, “You guys are so funny! It was great reading the rumors, but we’re not doing a tablet! What were you thinking?! We’re doing a…” (insert something no one had even considered.
Anyway, back to what I’m dreaming of…. to be honest, I’m dreaming of this video of a tablet interactive version of Sports Illustrated that came out last month. If you haven’t seen it, you must. It is the future. But I really hope the future is tomorrow. And did I mention that I want to use InDesign to create this thing? As I’ve always said, “layout is layout.”
Anyway, here are some other links you should check out:
- Sometimes InDesign crashes. Repeatedly. Here’s one document-geek’s story.
- ePub is getting hotter all the time. Enter the Sigil ePub editor. Mac, Windows, Linux. Anyone have any experience with it? Can you edit InDesign ePubs with it?
- The Question Room… who are these mysterious guys?! Sure sounds like someone I know…
- If you want to learn how to write InDesign plug-ins: Kris Coppieters is teaching an Introduction to programming the InDesign SDK at the Creative Suite Developer Summit, May 3. More information here. Note that the Summit is the week before the InDesignSecrets Print and ePublishing Conference in Seattle… come stay for 2 weeks!
This has nothing to do with InDesign, but I love the Readability javascriptbooklet thing. Holy toledo, it’s awesome.- Okay, I can’t help it: Yet another ePub reference… this time, Adobe has posted a whole page of materials to help you with it!
That’s it for now. Time to go sleep and dream of… the iSock… the iLamp… the iCar… the iGeneticallyModifiedClonedButStillGreenEcoSoybean.
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A further slickly executed concept from this side of the pond along the lines of the Sports Illustrated link above which is discussed very much from the print analogy:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bonnier_rd/sets/72157622918954909/
https://vimeo.com/8217311
because work has been slow this week i’ve had a chance to catch up on a few forums and i came across this gem. it only seems appropriate that jongware should announce it, but its such a cool thing that other people should give it a try. its a javascript which draws a world globe in relation to lat/long position. so simple but so powerful. the link is:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/561546?tstart=30
and as i said on that forum, i can now look forward to more artwork featuring world globes AND marc autret’s wordalyser :D. seriously, they are both great scripters and great scripts. keep up the great work.