InDesign

Adobe ignores the moral of its own story at its peril

by Adam Banks on 3 May 2011 in Analysis
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By Ian Betteridge Once upon a time, there was a software company called Quark. Quark had, through a combination of smart engineering and aggressive business practices, become the dominant player in the nascent field of desktop publishing. If you were a pro publisher, you used QuarkXPress. The only real alternative – Adobe’s PageMaker – was [...]

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Adobe launches Creative Suite 5.5 and Digital Publishing Suite Pro

by Kenny Hemphill on 3 May 2011 in News

Adobe has announced the release of Creative Suite 5.5, which it says will be the first of a regular series of mid-cycle releases.

The new features are focused on web production and include new tools for Flash authoring, HTML5 and app development, and improved jQuery support.

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Amazon plugs InDesign into Kindle

by Simon Aughton on 6 October 2010 in News
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Amazon has released a plugin for InDesign that lets developers export files from the Adobe software in the Kindle ebook format.

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Line ‘em up: the secret to designing with grids

by Keith Martin on 6 August 2010 in Design for Print
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Page layout is chiefly about how objects on a page interact with each other, which is why grids play such a vital role is design. Here’s how they work… Page design is seen as a bit of a black art by so many people. It’s true that it isn’t a doddle, but there are certain [...]

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Adobe to add iPad publishing tools to InDesign

by Simon Aughton on 20 July 2010 in News
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Adobe has announced that it is developing new tools that will enable InDesign users to generate layouts that are formatted especially for the iPad. The company’s Digital Magazine Solution is based on the work that it did with Wired magazine to create its first digital edition using a new .issue file format.

Bundling vertical and horizontal magazine layouts, metadata, code to enable interactivity, and associated assets (images, video, etc.), the compressed file format is then viewed on the iPad via a native app — a publisher-branded version of Adobe’s Digital Content Viewer.

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Break the bad attitude

by Kenny Hemphill on 18 May 2010 in Last Word

iAds will make yet more profit for Apple, but the company must change its attitude to developers to ensure that its renaissance continues. As I write this, Apple is on the verge of passing Microsoft to become the second biggest company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil. It’s just been placed third in Brandz’s annual [...]

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