You probably know that Microsoft has released its own search engine to try and topple Skynet, er, Google. A few days ago, in the WordPress stats I started seeing referrals from Bing.com. Literally, Bing hits. Heh. So I searched for “Publicious” on Bing, and we got 9 out of the top 10 spots. Righteous.
If you [...]
Filed under: Acrobat, Adobe | Tagged: Adobe, Bing, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, Micorsoft, Photoshop, prepress | 4 Comments »
Guides are a wonderful thing. If you’ve ever drawn a guide on your layout so you can lock frames to that guide, you’ll know how nice it is to just click, drag, let go and get perfectly aligned rows of frames. But sometimes you don’t want dozens of guides drawn all over your page.
If you [...]
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In anticipation of the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference, today’s menu of lunch links has a mostly “changey” flavor. As opposed to my usual links, which often taste like chicken.
iPublishCentral is a solution by Impelsys that allows Publishers to upload PDFs and build marketing and distribution tools around them. Everything from Flash-enabled micro widgets to [...]
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Tips, tricks, techniques, and tutorials. The four T’s that comprise so much of what I read and write about publishing tech on the Web. If you want/love/need/crave information about Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Quark, then what I’m about to share with you is the last tip you’ll ever need. Or it’s the neverending tip. [...]
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Got such a good response with the hybrid InCopy-XML workflow, I felt like it was worth revisiting to go into some details. Let’s look at the task of creating a new Schema file with XMLSpy.
In The Grand Schema of Things
The whole reason I start with a Schema and not a DTD is that XMLSpy lets [...]
Filed under: Books, DTD, InCopy, InDesign, Schema, XML | Tagged: Altova, DTD, DTP, InCopy, InDesign, publish, Schema, Workflow, XML, XMLSpy | 2 Comments »
