It is Spring in Perth… and what better time of the year than go through a proper house clean-up. In the process of tidying the house I rediscovered some school projects I worked on back when I was about 13yo. A series of hand written and drawn reports in which glued photos and images I’d drawn. I have very fond memories of…read more →
Illustrator CS6 introduces the ability to apply a gradient to a stroke. This means we can now create tubular looking line effects, without the need to use more complex blending techniques. In addition, Illustrator CS6 provides strongly improved pattern controls. We can now create not only rectangular pattern tiles, but also hexagon shaped tiles, and Pattern Options you access whilst…read more →
On Monday Adobe officially announced Adobe Creative Suite 6 and Adobe Creative Cloud. A lot has already been written about new features in InDesign CS6, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6 etc. and I will add blog-posts about various applications and features over time. But what I’m truly excited about is what the Creative Cloud brings to the table. The Creative Cloud…read more →
The Find/Change Attributes extension allows you to load formatting attributes from selected text into InDesign’s Find/Change dialog box. That’s a handy feature to have for a range of production scenarios, but for me in particular it’s something I use a lot when cleaning up supplied InDesign files prior to EPUB conversion.
Adobe yesterday released some seriously cool technology on its Adobe Labs: Adobe Shadow 1.0. Shadow allows front-end web developers/designers to preview websites across different devices. As I’m in the process of making my web-site device responsive, I’m loving Shadow It’s super easy to install: Download Shadow release from Adobe Labs and install it. Download the Google Chrome browser extension and install…read more →
Today’s a public holiday in Australia… and I’ll be busy updating my site… Intentions are to turn it into a responsive web-site, so that the blog component will reflow and become more legible on mobile devices. As a result of the site works some links to from my site might not be working and the site might be down for…read more →
It’s been a very busy start to the new year. Working on great electronic publishing projects and transitions with clients… has meant I’ve had little or no time to write some blog-posts. I thought I’d start the year off with a guest blog-post over at InDesign Secrets. Today’s post is inspired by Liz Castro, who writes lovely articles on her…read more →
Org. posted 1-Jan-2012, Updated 3-Jan-2012 / Postscript added One of the pitfalls of converting print publications to EBooks, is that designers often use forced line breaks (Shift+Return/Enter) in print-layouts to control where headings and even paragraph lines are broken. Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to EPUB later on. Problems can occur when we…read more →