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Class Project MacDonald’s Light Princess free book

Posted on August 30, 2017 by David BergslandAugust 30, 2017

In the new video course, InDesign CC Book Production, Putting the book together, one of the books actually produced is a Class Project MacDonald’s Light Princess. The Light Princess is a delightful, whimsical fairy tale by one of the major influences of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Production, New Book Release, New Video Coursework, Recent Posts | Tagged Book Design, challenges, Design Issues, epub, free book, pdf, public domain, publish online

Converting Books to Ebooks with InDesign CC

Posted on September 16, 2016 by David BergslandSeptember 16, 2016

Book designers often dread converting books to ebooks — the process of changing a greyscale printed book to various full-color ebooks: downloadable PDFs, ePUB FXL and Reflow, & Kindle books of various flavors from e-ink to large Fire tablet. It … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Kindle book design, New Book Release, Readability, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, Book Design, challenges, Design Issues, E-book, epub, graphic design, iBooks, kindle, page layout, publishing, Typography

A free sample of “Book Publishing With InDesign CC” is available

Posted on April 8, 2016 by David BergslandApril 11, 2016

I’ve published a sample of the new book on the Adobe servers. It’s about 75 pages of the various sections of the book. If you are interested in a review copy I recommend the PDF is reader’s spreads with the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, ePUB3, Illustration, New Book Release, On-Demand Publishing, Pre-release Excerpts, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Christian, Design Issues, E-book, epub, graphic design, iBooks, kindle, Kobo, nook, on-demand, OpenType, page layout, professional, publishing, Readability, reality, Self-publishing, Typography

Self-publishing Front & Back matter: It’s all about the reader

Posted on March 1, 2016 by David BergslandMarch 1, 2018

Today, in this third post on formatting, I want to talk about many things which have been lost in the rush toward ebooks: self-publishing front back matter. This is an excerpt from my book: Book Publishing With InDesign CC Many … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, New Book Release, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged afterword, appendix, back matter, Book Design, ebook, font matter, frontispiece, half title, introduction, list of figures, preface, print, prologue, publishing

Basic Page Layout: Part 2, Margins & Columns

Posted on February 29, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 26, 2016

This is part two of the new series on page layout from my new book, Self-Publishing With InDesign CC. We continue with two of the most important controls for readability. To the left is an example of bad design. The body text … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, New Book Release, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Column, graphic design, margins, page layout, publishing, Self-publishing, Typography

Basic page layout: Part One, Book size

Posted on February 26, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 26, 2016

As I get ready to release my new book, Self-Publishing With InDesign CC, I want to share some of the basic ideas in the book. Self-publishers rarely know page layout standards So, this little series will help with some of those basic … Continue reading →

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Butterick’s Practical Typography, a new online book

Posted on February 15, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 15, 2016

A new typography resource, beautifully done Graphics.com gave a link today to an online book, Butterick’s Practical Typography [shareware, to use an old term] which looks to have some excellent pieces. I just read the first article: Drowning the Crystal … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Review, New Book Release, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged practical, setting type, shareware, The Crystal Goblet, Typography, Web typography

New release! Practical Font Design With FontLab 5

Posted on January 15, 2016 by David BergslandJanuary 15, 2016

I’m looking for reviewers Click the headline above and let me know what format you want. I recommend the PDF in spreads or the ePUB FXL [also in spreads]. This way you can get the formatting advantages of the print … Continue reading →

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Posted in New Book Release, News, Practical Font Design, Recent Posts | Tagged better workflow, font design, fontlab 5, kerning, letterspacing, new book, new release, opentype features, type design typography

Font Speciman Book for the new fonts

Posted on January 6, 2016 by David BergslandJanuary 7, 2016

These are the fonts produced for the new book The 15 fonts developed for Practical Font Design With FontLab 5 are being released as part of book release. These are superior fonts for book design incorporating what I have learned in … Continue reading →

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Posted in New Book Release, New Font Release, News, Recent Posts | Tagged companion sans, display font family, ebook font license, font design, new book, new font release, specimen book, text font family, Typography
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