This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 89

David Blatner

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It’s been a busy, busy couple of weeks, but nevertheless we have some fun links for you to read over the weekend, or over your morning coffee…

• Did you know Keith Gilbert’s awesome new Guide to What’s New in CS6 is out?!
• Adobe Press has a new newsletter, which you can sign up to here. Lots of good information, links, and deals on books and stuff.
• Do you use iStockphoto? Check out their new plug-ins for Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop
• There’s a new version of the amazing Chartwell font, and there’s a good movie on how to use it here.
• I found this article called “An iTunes Playlist for Magazine Articles? Zinio Thinks Outside the Brand” rather interesting.
• This nails it on the head, in my opinion!: Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps. Similarly: Are Apps The Future of Book Publishing?
• There are a wide variety of helpful templates and tips at MagCloud.
• Michael Murphy points out what is new and different with EPUB in CS6. He doesn’t talk about the underlying CSS changes, though, and there are some significant ones — including some that are causing a lot of frustration for users. (For example, Space Before is no long supported, only space after… grrrrr!)
• If you use CS6 and DPS, you’ll be super happy to hear that Adobe Edge (HTML animation tool) now supports exporting to InDesign
• We talked about Indic Preferences in our last podcast. Now Vikrant goes into more detail about what this mysterious script does.
• Want to learn more about Adobe DPS Single Edition? The FAQ has a lot of good info. Here’s another good DPS link: how you can integrate social network sharing with your DPS apps.
• Want to create DPS apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch? Read this!
• The folks at PaperSpecs are doing a webinar on “print’s special effects magic” — that is, things you can do in print, such as varnish, stamping, and so on. Looks like it’ll be cool. Sign up here. (Thanks, Eugene, for that link.)
• You may not be into the Quark thing anymore, but their acquisition of PressRun means that Quark is an important player in the iPad app-solution market… for InDesign users!

Enjoy!