Posted on April 21, 2008 by cinnamoncooper
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 [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by mvrankin
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 [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by mvrankin
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 mvrankin
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 mvrankin
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 April 5, 2008 by mvrankin
Very nice to read over my morning coffee that Adobe has made good on their intentions to revise the Photoshop Express Terms of Service to make them a lot less evil. In my first look at Photoshop Express, I was pretty down on Adobe for writing themselves ownership of your content throught the Universe. I [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by mvrankin
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 [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by mvrankin
You never know where inspiration will come from. Yesterday it came to me in the form of a traffic jam slowing my ride to work. Sitting on the commuter bus, mired in “bumpa-ta-bumpa”, I stared out the window. Life on pause. I imagined the lake of gasoline that was fueling all these cars, puffing out [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by mvrankin
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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