Posted on April 15, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Time again to peek in on our cookbook project and see if it’s baked yet. You know they say you lose 10° every time you open the oven door. So does that mean if I opened it enough times, I could turn the oven into a freezer? Just wondering.
We left off last time with
decent-looking code, [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Still a few things left to do before our cookbook project is cooked.
First thing is to get some Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to give the cookbook some personality on the Web. As you probably guessed from the fact I’m using a canned WordPress theme, I’m not a web designer. But I want to be one [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Has it been more than a week since we left off with the cookbook project? My how blog time flies. Let’s continue.
During the first two posts on this topic, we converted the old XPress file, and tagged the content in InDesign and exported it. Right now we have XML masquerading as HTML. Let’s open it [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Mike Rankin
When we left off with our project, we had transmogrified the cookbook Quark file into InDesign, and a made few observations about the potential work needed to make it the apple of our cross-media eyes.
Remember, what we (I) have to work with is Quark Xpress 4.11, InDesign CS3, Acrobat, and no scripting knowledge, Xtensions, Xcetera. [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Now that all our Easter eggs have been consumed, let’s continue on with that XML theme with a little project to illustrate the joy and pain of bringing old content into the brave new world of cross-media publishing. The goal is to take the files from old print project, languishing on some dusty CD in [...]
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