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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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Posted in Book Design, Kindle book design, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Amazon kindle plug-in for indesign, Calibre, E-book, epub, HTML, IBook, InDesign, kindle book design, kindle design, Mobipocket | 2 Replies

Control your spacing & alignments with tabs & fixed spaces

Skilled Workman Posted on May 23, 2012 by David BergslandMay 23, 2012

Tabs and fixed spaces Spaces cause many other problems for people trained in typewriting. On a typewriter, the spacebar is a known quantity. This is because every character in monospaced type is the same width—even the space. This is definitely not true for type. In fact, in type, the space band is often a different size than it was the last time you hit the key. This is caused by several factors. First, the word space character … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, InDesign, Justification (typesetting), Leading, Point (typography), Space, typewriter, Word processor | Leave a reply

Space, space and a half, double-space Horrors!

Skilled Workman Posted on May 16, 2012 by David BergslandMay 16, 2012

Space, space and a half, or double space? None of the above! This is why we use leading instead of spacing. Spacing is old typewriter terminology. The three options listed above were the only ones available for typewriters. In almost every case (unless you are trying to mimic a typewriter) a single space is too close, a space and a half is too far, and a double space is ridiculous. Again, the focus has to be on … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Readability, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, auto leading, autoleading, Bernhard Modern, Futura, Leading, line spacing, Paragraph, Point (typography), setting up line spacing, typewriter | Leave a reply

Link to the InDesign CS5.5 Help PDF

Skilled Workman Posted on May 10, 2012 by David BergslandMay 10, 2012

Anna-Marie gave us this link in Design Geek for the online help PDFs for CS5.5

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No, No! to double-space and double-returns

Skilled Workman Posted on May 9, 2012 by David BergslandMay 10, 2012

What follows is an excerpt from my new release, Writing In InDesign Second Edition. ******************************** Typography determines reader reactions It goes far beyond your font choices—important as they are. This is the first and most important thing you must understand. You are not only trying to control or at least predict the reaction of your typical reader to your content. You are also working you make your book a comfortable, friendly, and familiar part of the life … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Courier, Enter key, Leading, Monospaced font, page layout, Paragraph, publishing, Readability, Religion and Spirituality, Space, Typography | 1 Reply

Column width: the key to comfortable reading

Skilled Workman Posted on May 2, 2012 by David BergslandMay 2, 2012

Be very careful with your column choices—especially in books. (It’s the main reason blogs and ebooks are so hard to read.) Your focus must be easy, comfortable readability. Generally, the asymmetrical (off-center) layouts with wide margins are good. Of course, you can go crazy and make things totally illegible. Modern style tends to be chaotic, splashy, and overly complex. But your innate taste and discretion should keep these tendencies in check. The problem, of course, is that taste … Continue reading →

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Margins are more important than many think: Make the margins bigger

Skilled Workman Posted on April 28, 2012 by David BergslandApril 28, 2012

Make the margins bigger | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog. The I Love Typography blog is often over the top. Even as a typographer who has focused his career on type—both font design and page layout (the two parts of typography)— this blog is always fun, often beautiful, but commonly irrelevant to my daily work. On the other hand, the item discussed in the posting this morning is critical to excellence in typography. Margins … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, page layout, publishing, Readability, type design, Typography, Word processor | 2 Replies

Writing in InDesign is the only sensible choice for writers in the new paradigm of on-demand self-publishing

Skilled Workman Posted on April 25, 2012 by David BergslandApril 27, 2012

The greatly expanded and rewritten Writing In InDesign Second Edition has been released Buy it Now! Versions available so far Spiral-bound premium workbook $19.99 7×10 perfect-bound paperback $17.99 Kindle (with embedded fonts for Fire) $7.99 (Available in the Kindle Lending Library) What started as a relatively small update turned into a large scale revision when I began adapting my popular Writing In InDesign book to the responses and suggestions I received. I have been pleasantly surprised at all the people … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Christian Design, ePUB, On-Demand Publishing, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, epub, FaceBook, IBook, InDesign, IPad, on-demand, Self-publishing, Typography, writing in indesign | 5 Replies

InDesign CS6 is all about promises for the future…

Skilled Workman Posted on April 23, 2012 by David BergslandApril 23, 2012

There are many exciting things to be found in the new version of InDesign. But if you read carefully, most of them are focused on an unspecified future where ePUB3 and HTML5 /CSS3 are the normal standards of ebook publishing. They are not now. In fact, there is no ePUB3 reader in common use at this time. In fact, there is really nothing out there for readers of ePUB books. I love CS6. It makes excellent ePUBs. … Continue reading →

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Using styles enables global control of your book’s typography

Skilled Workman Posted on April 18, 2012 by David BergslandApril 18, 2012

Today I’m mentioning the basic structure of typography. There is one concept which enables typography as we know it in modern book publishing. This is the concept of styles. These styles are contained in styles panels. InDesign has five of them: paragraph, character, object, table, and cell. Styles are also available in word processors—even though they are not nearly so powerful there. What is a style? A style is a collection of specialized typographic defaults that can … Continue reading →

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