InDesign was updated in early October of this year and along with it came a slew of new EPUB features. And while the biggest update announced was the new Fixed Layout Interactivity, we’ll focus on just the myriad of small…Continue Reading →
Recently I led a webinar for Digital Book World on producing Books on the Web. It’s gotten a decent enough response that I thought it would be beneficial to publish some excerpts of it here as well. The first part…Continue Reading →
If you’ve been playing around with InDesign’s FXL export, you know it allows for a huge amount of interactivity with almost no hand coding. There’s just one thing they missed in the export option. When you tap on an element…Continue Reading →
Recently I led a webinar for Digital Book World on producing Books on the Web. It’s gotten a decent enough response that I thought it would be beneficial to publish some excerpts of it here as well. You can find…Continue Reading →
Prior to OS X Yosemite, Apple had a standalone app called Book Proofer that EPUB producers could use to test EPUB files on iOS Devices. Since Yosemite, however, the Book Proofer app has had issues syncing with iOS. Today with…Continue Reading →
Apple’s newest OS X release, Yosemite, seems to be breaking Kindle Previewer. Here’s how to fix it. Install Java Download the Apple supported version of Java here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Install xQuartz Install xQuartz from here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/ Once both of these applications are installed you…Continue Reading →
Apple’s iOS 8 operating system was released a few weeks ago, and with it comes improvements to iBooks. Here’s a quick rundown of some enhancements to keep in mind with the new app.
I worked on a large conversion project recently, creating EPUB files out of almost 200 RTF files. I needed to move them out very quickly so I invested a little time in figure out the most efficient means to a…Continue Reading →
When faced with ridiculous deadlines and last-minute, messy copy from editors, designers may resort to bad InDesign habits. Here are some basic InDesign best practices that are especially important to follow when the file will be exported to epub. While there…Continue Reading →
In Part 1, we looked at installing Dropbox on iOS for file testing. In Part 2, we’ll look at Dropbox on Android. Time to tackle getting Dropbox on your Android tablets. While on some devices, this is just as easy…Continue Reading →