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Class Project MacDonald’s Light Princess free book

Skilled Workman 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 J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald. The cover is simply a book designer’s bit of humor. I thought you might like to have a copy to read. By clicking on the cover or the link in … 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 | Leave a reply

Converting Books to Ebooks with InDesign CC

Skilled Workman 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 often seems a bit like wizard work requiring incantations, lots of smoke, and mirrors. Sad to say, on the Kindle end of things, that’s fairly accurate. Yet things are not as they seem, as InDesign CC has … 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 | Leave a reply

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

Skilled Workman 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 full color graphics. Let me know if you are interested. Here’s a link to the page with more information and purchase links. If word processor book production is taking up too much time and the results are … 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 | 3 Replies

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

Skilled Workman 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 reader services are no longer written or included. Most of this is simply because of the inexperience and lack of training by the normal self-publishing novelist and writer of devotions. You should take a look and seriously … 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 | 3 Replies

Basic Page Layout: Part 2, Margins & Columns

Skilled Workman 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 is Berthold Baskerville Book 8/12, while the caption is Adobe Garamond Pro 6/7. So, no one can read it—too small. The columns are so narrow that there are only 7-9 words per line with the average closer … Continue reading →

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Basic page layout: Part One, Book size

Skilled Workman 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 decisions you need to make. Setting up your book to be read: One of the more daunting aspects of book design for the inexperienced is page layout. Most people have Word experience and as I have said … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, New Book Release, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, Design Issues, graphic design, InDesign, InDesign CC, page layout, Self-publishing, Typography | Leave a reply

Butterick’s Practical Typography, a new online book

Skilled Workman 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 Goblet. It is quite good. In it, the concept of invisible typography is taken apart. As I have taught that for years, it was good for me to hear the counter arguments. The second article: Typography in … 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 | 3 Replies

New release! Practical Font Design With FontLab 5

Skilled Workman 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 version in digital form. This is especially true if you have one of the earlier editions. I need feedback on the superiority of the new workflow. I know it works much better for me. I need to … 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 | 3 Replies

Font Speciman Book for the new fonts

Skilled Workman 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 40 years of graphic design and over 20 years of font design. I published the specimen book with InDesign CC’s Publish Online ability. You can download a free PDF if you would like one. The Librum Production … Continue reading →

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