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Keeping your file size under control for graphic ePUBs

Skilled Workman Posted on September 10, 2012 by David BergslandSeptember 10, 2012

I was working on my best-selling book this morning, Practical Font Design, Third Edition. It’s an ePUB with 266 graphics in it—almost entirely screen captures—showing what I am doing in FontLab as I design a font. I design my ePUBs in InDesign CS6 & use the export unchanged I realize that’s anathema to many of you code geeks, but the ePUBs out of InDesign are now more than good enough—if you design within its limitations. Now that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, On-Demand Publishing, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon Kindle, epub, epub file size, InDesign, IPad, JPEG, OpenType, Photoshop, save for web

What skills are needed to self-publish?

Skilled Workman Posted on July 30, 2012 by David BergslandSeptember 17, 2012

What skills do you need? The idea is that InDesign can be learned and you can become comfortable enough with the software so that it becomes an extension of your creativity. For example, as I started this chapter in the Writing In InDesign book, I hit the shortcut to set my headline. This started the chapter on the next odd page (which is the norm). When I wrote the headline and hit the Return key, InDesign changed to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, how do I self-publish, IBook, ibook2, InDesign, IPad, Kindle Fire, Kobo, publishing, Self-publishing, Typography, writing

An InDesign default paragraph-character styles set

Skilled Workman Posted on July 25, 2012 by David BergslandJune 30, 2017

Setting up an InDesign default paragraph-character styles set as you begin using InDesign THIS IS A PRACTICAL STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE FOR WHAT IS DESCRIBED IN ALL MY INDESIGN PRODUCTION BOOKS SINCE 1996. IT’S CURRENTLY CHAPTER 22 IN: Book Publishing With InDesign CC We are going to set up the styles shown in the book. This will give you actual experience in setting up styles. Plus you will begin developing your own personal set of styles—which will become the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, character styles, default styles, formatting, justification, Paragraph, paragraph styles, Point (typography)

The use of small caps is required

Skilled Workman Posted on July 11, 2012 by David BergslandJuly 11, 2012

Use small caps. Small caps are a specialized letterform. They are a smaller set of capital letters (often a bit larger than the x-height), used in place of the lowercase letters, which are designed so they have the same color as the rest of the font. Many of the OpenType Pro font families have real small caps. Faux small caps One of the typesetting options in most professional software (and many word processors) has been the use … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged All caps, Bringhurst, font, Letter case, lining figures, oldstyle figures, OpenType, small cap figures, small caps, Text figures, true small caps

Kindle Export Plug-in for InDesign CS6 Released!

Skilled Workman Posted on July 10, 2012 by David BergslandJuly 10, 2012

I probably shouldn’t have put an exclamation mark on the title for I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. I’m still wading through the documentation. But I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The CS6 plug-in Here’s a quote from their Web page from which you can download the plug-in. Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign® (Beta) is officially supported by Amazon to convert files to the Kindle format. We recommend you use Kindle … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Software Review, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, converting books to ebooks, eb, ebook design, InDesign, kindle, Kindle Fire, Non-Breaking Space, OpenType

You must learn to produce your own book

Skilled Workman Posted on June 11, 2012 by David BergslandJune 11, 2012

For the past two decades, I have taught digital publishing skills. For the past fifteen years I have written and published books, both traditionally and on-demand. I have taught skills to present digital content transparently, effectively, and gracefully. I’ve learned how to present reader-centered books to my students and followers. But Word [and word processors in general] cannot do this. There are skills and capabilities that are necessary which are simply not available in Office. Here’s a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, CS6, designing your book, desktop publishing, ebook design, epub, how do I design my book, how do I self-publish, InDesign, word, Word processing

Exporting KF8 (a Kindle Fire book) from your book in InDesign

Skilled Workman Posted on May 26, 2012 by David BergslandMay 26, 2012

Producing a KF8 Kindle book Until very recently, I gave some very explicit instructions for the construction of the HTML and CSS needed to step back in time to Amazon’s MOBI format. It was extremely limited in what was allowed. Designers are rarely good coders, and writers even less so. InDesign is the best tool we have at present, but there’s still a long way to go until some of the typographic niceties we rely on in print … Continue reading →

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