By Keith Gilbert
A technique being used by many publishers of content-rich tablet apps such as magazines is to have a video play on the cover or the first page of a feature, and then have the video “freeze” at the last frame. This can be done using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Johannes Henseler first documented…
By Mike Rankin for InDesignSecrets.com
It’s no “secret” that InDesign has a boat load of preferences. Press command/ctrl+k and you’re met with a dialog box offering eighteen sets of preferences. I was going to count how many individual settings there were, but even I’m not that much of a geek. Suffice to say, there’s a lot. One key thing to remember as you traipse through all those settings: some are application-wide and will affect your interactions with all documents, others will only affect the current document. You need to close all open documents to make changes in document-specific preferences apply to new documents (otherwise you’d just be changing the preference for the current document).
So how can you tell which ones are document-specific?
By The GraphicMac
Ever want to give your text in Adobe InDesign a highlighted appearance but not want to bother with creating a separate piece of artwork to overlay? It’s a simple effect to create, with the added benefit that it sticks with the text when it gets reflowed.
By Keith Gilbert for Gilbert Consulting blog
Use the following checklist to ensure that video content is optimized for tablet apps you create with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS).
[ ] Save the video in .mp4 format with .h264 encoding
[ ] Scale and crop the video to the exact size that you want it to play in your DPS app before placing it
Watch Kiyomasa Toma, giving you a sneek peak on Liquid Layouts in InDesign.
Really awesome stuff!
By Gavin Selby on VectorTuts+
Scripting is a sure way to save time when performing repetitive tasks within InDesign. Scripts will automatically complete a task for the user, for example, creating crop marks to a specified object. The following tut will serve as an introduction to scripting and will explore a few of the useful sample scripts already contained within InDesign.
Threading text within InDesign can hugely improve the experience of editing and amending copy while working on layouts. The process of threading text is linking two or more text frames allowing text to flow from one separate frame to another. Gavin Selby shows you the basics.
via Quick Tip: An Introduction to Threading Text in InDesign CS5 | Vectortuts+.
By Keith Gilbert on InDesignSecrets.com
What is the minimum image resolution required when creating a document or screen that will be viewed on an iPad? The answer might surprise you.
If you’ve missed the addition of the Page Tool to InDesign CS5, take ten minutes out to discover the capabilities this superb tool offers when working with multiple page sizes.
By Keith Gilbert
If you are planning creating apps with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, I strongly recommend that you have Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended in your tool set. Here’s why.If you’re not aware, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and newer comes in two “flavors”: Photoshop and Photoshop Extended. Both…
