Dude, not THAT McCain. God, I am shameless. And for my link-baiting sins this site is probably being monitored by the FBI right now right now.
The McCain in the title refers to a binding style known as McCain. It is a case-bound and side-sewn style. Jargon free version: folded piles of paper stitched together through [...]
Filed under: InDesign | Tagged: InDesign, DTP, Book binding | 7 Comments »
Tonight was the 10th anniversary of the last episode of Seinfeld (and coincidentally, the last call for Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra). I always got a kick out seeing the Mac in the background of Seinfeld’s apartment, and how he silently “upgraded” each year to Apple’s latest and greatest. In the final season, Jerry even had [...]
Filed under: Adobe, InDesign, Page Layout, Photoshop, Quark XPress, XML | Tagged: Adobe, Apple, Dreamweaver, DTP, Google, iMac, InDesign, iTunes, K2, Macintosh, Quark, Seinfeld, SoundJam, XML | No Comments »
A Lament
Before you read this post, know o faithful reader, that it is but an shadow of a longer, greater, wittier post that was lost in a horrible instant when a flaky trackpad conspired with WordPress autosave to destroy five hours of writing and editing. Would you believe me if I told you it was [...]
Filed under: InDesign | Tagged: InDesign, DTP, keyboard shortcuts | 4 Comments »
About a dozen years ago, as I embarked upon my journey into the realm of publishing, I bought a book called The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams. I’m pretty sure it was recommended to me by the guy who taught my first Quark XPress class. I remember thinking it was a fine and fun [...]
Filed under: Books, Fonts, Web Design, graphic design | Tagged: Books, DTP, Fonts, graphic design, typography | No Comments »
The colors of spring are starting to pop where I live. The forsythia are spewing pure 100y by the driveway. The birch are popping a crazy out-of-gamut green, something like L74a(65)b65, The magnolias are blooming default [paper] on Comm Ave. and even my grass is a greener shade of brown. So what better time than [...]
Filed under: InDesign | Tagged: InDesign, Adobe, DTP, Photoshop, Illustrator, cats, color, swatch | 2 Comments »
Because my friends don’t really understand what I do, I often get asked by them to do things that are outside my area of knowledge
Can you design my letterhead/business card/logo?
I’m not a designer. I know more about design than I used to, and I have a decent sense of the basics, but I’m not going [...]
Filed under: Adobe, InDesign, Page Layout | Tagged: InDesign, DTP, publish, prepress, Page Layout | No Comments »
OK, it’s Friday, time for a little goofiness. Well, a little more goofiness than the other 6 days of the week.
XML.
XML XML XML XML XML XML XML XML XML.
I am so bloody sick of XML. Why, you ask? Isn’t XML going to save the publishing industry? Isn’t it going to make possible the workflow of [...]
Filed under: InDesign, XML | Tagged: XML, InDesign, DTP, publish, rock band, XML Spy | No Comments »
What started out as a joke in another post becomes a post in itself. C’est la blog.
Here’s my writing routine: Around 9 PM I head downstairs and settle in on the couch in the family room with my laptop. Shortly thereafter I am joined by two 11-week-old Siamese furballs named Sasha and Storm who make [...]
Filed under: Adobe, Flash, Photoshop, Uncategorized | Tagged: cats, DTP, Flash, Photoshop, UI | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
Filed under: CSS, Cookbook, HTML, InDesign, Quark XPress, XML | Tagged: Cookbook, CSS, Dreamweaver, DTP, HTML, InDesign, publish, Quark, Web development, XML | No Comments »
Michael kindly offered to have me share a few things that I’ve learned in my years working in publishing. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share, and hopeful that a few of my “learned the hard way” lessons can make someone else’s job much easier.
I’ve been working, in various aspects, of the printing industry for [...]
Filed under: Adobe, Cookbook, InDesign, Page Layout | Tagged: PDF, InDesign, Publishing, DTP, templates, prepress | 3 Comments »
