Details
InDesign is renowned for its print publishing capabilities. But right now, we are experiencing the reinvention of publishing. In this course, we will explore the current "state of the art" techniques for publishing to several devices, especially iPad and Kindle.
Note: the content these devices consume is essentially HTML and CSS, therefore some familiarity with these is extremely useful with current workflows. We will be using Adobe Dreamweaver as part of the production process, but one need not have experience with that particular application to benefit from this course. Of course, we have classes to help fill in the gaps as well as suggested resources.
Also discussed in this course is Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite: the tool used by Wired, Martha Stewart and many others to publish their magazines to the iPad. The DPS is constantly changing, and so is this class, so you can be on top of the current tech.
Prerequisites
You should be comfortable creating documents in Adobe InDesign, using Styles (Character, Paragraph, and Object), placing images, etc. In this class, we take those essential layout skills to the world of touch-screen devices.
what we cover
(Like these technologies, this class is continually under development)
- ePub
- repurposing print documents and planning for ePub
- controlling the order of content
- Anchored Object refresher
- font and typographic (in)flexibility
- the need for Character & Paragraph Styles
- tables of contents with no pages?
- publishing to Apple iBooks, Amazon's Kindle, and garden variety ePub
- embedding rich content like video in your ePub
- Digital Publishing Suite
- build your own magazine!
- working with the interactivity layer
- embedding video
- building scrollable text
- adding slideshows and animation
- including HTML content—yes, that can mean HTML5!