Publshing Document (Magazine )Pages as Jpegs
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I’ve been experimenting with creating a 8.5″ x 11″ INDD template to deploy a series of ongoing multi-page articles (documents) via three main distribution routes. Each document consists of text and linked images which are at least 300 dpi to ensure that articles can be printed if required.
1. Blogger via Custom Domain – Export document pages as low quality 72 dpi jpegs which are further compressed with ImageOptim. The images are stacked vertically within each blog post and designed to be read like a series of magazine pages by scrolling up or down. I’ve made some tests using Chrome’s mobile device emulator and tested using a cheap Tracfone with a slower Wifi network. I’ve also completed tests on desktops. Pages are watermarked with the site’s logo. This will be the primary content to drive users to the site with revenue being provided by specific affiliate ads related to my content. I modified the xhtml and css of one of Blogger’s existing templates which was created to be mobile ready as I don’t want to spend my time coding my own site.
2. PDF – Offer select articles, groups of articles, or larger sized articles as watermarked pdfs for download for a tiny fee (donation). I’ve tested a service for this that seems to work well.
3. Print – Offer collections of non-watermarked articles within a printed spiral bound book via Lula. I’ve tested Lulu’s INDD export plugin and uploaded a test product to a test Lulu store and it seemed to work well.
I’ve tried ePub, html and related apps and frankly do not like the way my content is being displayed. Rather than spending time writing these methods mean I would be spending most of my time tweaking various settings and software in the hopes the content might work on various devices.
Has anyone had any experience with #1 above? Essentially this would be a image blog consisting of magazine mages with text and image as content.
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Okay, first of all, you have the best screen name, and your email address (which isn’t public here, but we have ways…) is even better. So +1 to you for that.
But when it comes to what you’re trying to do with Blogger… wow, no, I’ve never heard of anyone publishing ID docs like that. Fascinating idea!
It seems like you’re really focusing on very fast delivery over the web… But have you tried something like Publish Online? That’s much easier way to put pages on a web site (though I don’t know how fast it would be on slow bandwidth connections).
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Thanks for the reply. The screen name and email are nicks names of beloved former pets.
Having spent a lot of money on the CS3 & CS6 Master Collection only to have Adobe discontinue the product and move to a monthly fee I am not really interested in doing future business with Adobe as I don’t trust the company.
I really don’t think it makes sense to pay Adobe for the “privilege” of not being able to monetize my content.
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