Posted on August 20, 2009 by Mike Rankin
And we’re back. Sometime Monday the domain mapping that transforms mild-mannered “pubtech.wordpress.com” to it’s super hero identity “publicious.net” expired. Silly me, forgot to pay the bill. For about 48 hours, I was thinking I had offended some very important bots in Internetland. All the incoming links to Publicious disappeared and traffic was down more than 90%. [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Crowdsourcing is all the rage nowadays, so I thought I’d make, er, empower you all to come up with your own theme this week. Yeah, that’s it. Here’s your template: Intro paragraph citing some current event, with possibly strained metaphor to publishing technology. Jokey second paragraph with parentheticals (galore). <<insert goofy Photoshopped graphic>> Closing paragraph, [...]
Filed under: Acrobat, Adobe, Flash, InDesign, Mark Logic, PDF, Photoshop, RIA, Web 2.0, XML, ebooks | Tagged: Acrobat, Adobe, crowdsourcing, InDesign, Johnny Cupcakes, MathML, open source, PDF, Photoshop, typography, XML | 5 Comments »
Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Had a “whoa” moment a little while ago. Whilst taking a deep dive into Adobe history and technology, I came across an article on the math behind Bézier curves. If you’ve ever used any of the Creative Suite apps, you know what these are. They’re the edges of objects you shape by pulling little control [...]
Filed under: Adobe, Books, CMS, Flash, Fonts, Google, Illustrator, InDesign, Mark Logic, Photoshop, RIA, XML, graphic design | Tagged: Adobe, AIR, Drupal, Flash, Google, Illustrator, InDesign, iPhone, Photoshop, typography, XML | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 16, 2009 by Mike Rankin
So Father’s Day is less than a week away and you’ve procrastinated once again. What are you going to get the old man? Fear not, Publicious is here to help. We’ve got you covered. Provided your dad is a publishing technology geek, who loves free online goodies. Otherwise, you’re on your own. Let’s face it, [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Now that the corporate malfeasance has been dealt with by a powerful surge of re-branding, AIG can go back to standing for “anchored inline graphic.” Whew! For a minute there I was worried we were all screwed. At least now the printers will be happy with all the millions spent on new business cards, stationery, [...]
Filed under: Acrobat, Adobe, GREP, InDesign, O'Reilly, PDF, Software, XML, graphic design | Tagged: Acrobat, Adobe, AIG, Balisage, GREP, InDesign, Montreal, PDF, XML | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 18, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Happy Birthday, Publicious! One year ago today, I published my first Publicious post. Here we are 150 posts later! This has been incredibly fun, rewarding, and tiring. In honor of the occasion, all of today’s links are staying “in house.” Sort of a Greatest Hits thing. Without further ado, here are the 10 most popular [...]
Filed under: Adobe, DTD, Flash, Flex, Fonts, InDesign, Page Layout, RIA, Schema, XML, ebooks, templates | Tagged: Adobe, Flash, Flex, Fonts, InDesign, Photoshop, prepress, RIA, XML | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 13, 2009 by Mike Rankin
XMAX JustSystems XMAX (XMetaL for ActiveX), is an embeddable ActiveX component designed for developers to integrate into custom environments. It is not an out-of-the-box authoring tool. Authoring Experience Users work in a familiar word-processing interface, while the underlying XML is hidden. XMAX can be configured to display parts or all of document using interactive forms. [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Serna Syntext Serna Enterprise is a customizable, multi-platform, XSL-driven XML content editor. Authoring Experience Serna Enterprise provides authors with familiar word-processing features (editing text and tables, cut and paste, multiple undo levels, spell checking, intuitive toolbars, etc) combined with XML efficiency features (drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation, context-sensitive element help and insertion, metadata templates). The XSL-driven [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Authentic Altova Available in both desktop and browser versions, Authentic is a free authoring tool. XML documents are created and edited in e-forms via a word processor-style interface, based on structured stylesheet designs. Authoring Experience Authentic users edit XML in a WYSIWYG word processor-style interface. Content is rendered in e-forms based on stylesheet designs created [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Eric is on vacation this week, so Publicious is without its resident XML g-nee-us. So in his stead, I am going to devote the week to a look at a dozen XML authoring tools. I guess I could’ve called it “XML Idol”, but I have never watched that show, so there’s too high a fraud [...]
Filed under: XML | Tagged: Altova, Aptara, Quark, Serna, Syntext, Weborganic, XMetaL, XML, Xopus | Leave a Comment »
