Today’s #eprdctn hour featured Diane Burns, Kris Vetter, and Laura Brady talking about two approaches to creating animation. Diane explained using InDesign CC, while Kris focused on CSS3 animations. Both had great insight and information. https://storify.com/KevinBNGO/animation-in-ebooks-indesign-and-css3-approaches#publicize Be sure to scroll to…Continue Reading →
This is the first installment in a 3-part series on Indexes in ebooks, written by Stephen Ingle, president of WordCo Indexing Services. We’ll publish the final 2 pieces over the next few weeks. Steve will also be a guest on #eprdctn hour on September…Continue Reading →
Colleen Cunningham (@BookDesignGirl) has done a lot (I mean a lot!) of R&D on semantic markup. Here’s the Storify session from today. Make sure you examine her examples closely. And, if you’re not clear on the meaning of semantics, Colleen…Continue Reading →
The EPUB community is spreading its social wings even further. There’s now a page on Instagram, where you’ll find images of beautiful (and not so beautiful) ebooks, some video, a pic or two of some #eprdctn folk doing what comes naturally…Continue Reading →
Today’s #eprdctn hour on Twitter was a great success. Lots of ideas, lots of participation. No surprise, though: all of the previous sessions have been rollicking. Today, Tzviya Siegman, Lead of Wiley Digital Book Standards & Capabilities, led a spirited discussion…Continue Reading →
Adobe has jut rolled out the Creative Cloud 2015 updates. Before I go any further, I want to remind anyone who hasn’t upgraded yet to make sure you read this first: http://indesignsecrets.com/avoiding-problems-installing-indesign-cc-2015.php If you speed through the update you’ll wipe…Continue Reading →
The entire 2015 Adobe Creative Cloud suite has been released. Some new features: Paragraph Shading Images in table cells Publish Online (Tech Preview, English Only) CC Libraries enhancements – Support for Para and Char styles – Linked Assets : Images,…Continue Reading →
Justin Putney, developer of in5 and recent PePcon 2015 speaker, has written a short survey for folks interested in interactivity in ebooks. Click here to go to the survey. I saw some great examples of interactive ebooks at PePcon. It’s exciting…Continue Reading →
When I first started making ebooks, I found the Twitter feed #eprdctn (either from Anne-Marie Concepción’s Lynda course on Indesign to EPUB or from Liz Castro’s EPUB Straight to the Point). I signed up for Twitter, got my own handle (@BNGObooks),…Continue Reading →
Amazon has done us all a favor and added hyphenation and a new font (Bookerly), and has refined its support for drop caps. Professional typesetting standards are now supported! We can provide high-quality ebooks to our readers, knowing that a drop cap will align nicely…Continue Reading →