Entries tagged with “indesign” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Over at Deke.com, I've written about how we use anchored notes to communicate between the team members who work on our bestselling One-on-One series books. As much as I like having graphically oriented authors work directly with the layout, it certainly brings up issues when it comes to editing passes. Although we've tried InCopy successfully, on books by Stephen Johnson...

Deke McClelland joins the InDesign Secrets podcast, and the hosts help untangle some of the knots Deke encountered when creating his latest book in (and about) InDesign.

For most of the 1990s, the design market was shared by three programs: page-layout software QuarkXPress, image editor Adobe Photoshop, and drawing application Macromedia FreeHand. (Some shops preferred Illustrator, but FreeHand tended to be the more popular choice of page designers.) This benefited users by inspiring fierce competition between the suitors, with each doing its dead-level best to remain on...

The prevailing theme of the InDesign Conference Master Class in Seattle last week was definitely "taking control." Not that the attendees weren't talented creative types, but this group seemed to be particularly concerned with how to work as elegantly, efficiently, and painlessly as possible. Sessions on .INX, XML, and scripts were where it was at. InDesigners have clearly taken...

I'm in Seattle for the InDesign Conference Master Class; coming to you from the Adobe campus this morning, in fact. In preparation for this week, I spent some time catching up on the coolness at InDesignSecrets.com. (ID Secrets guy, David Blatner is the Conference Director here.) Thought I'd start the week by sharing a cool InDesign tip I discovered there---the...