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Bob Bringhurst of Adobe wrote an excellent blog post explaining when, why and how to update the Folio Producer Tools in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). As he points out, one of the things about DPS that confuse people the most is why you need to update two separate components of DPS within InDesign. On the one hand, when updating you need to update the Folio Producer Tools and on [ Read More ]
It isn’t often that we get a chance to see cutting edge Adobe technology that has not been released. But this year at MAX, Adobe decided to give us a taste of what lies ahead for the InDesign Team. In a nutshell, the ability to create liquid layouts with InDesign that will adapt themselves to different screen sizes. This is ideal in a world of ever changing tablet devices that [ Read More ]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. Read the rest at USATODAY.com
Taken from thenextweb.com We might be one step closer to a fully digital classroom if California State University and The Nature Publishing Group have their way about things. The two have paired up to bring us a step closer to the reality by agreeing to a three-year partnership in support of a Principles of Biology textbook. Our challenge this week at TNW was to find topics relevant to technology in [ Read More ]
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is like a well-written bedtime story and an immersive animated movie at once. Fastcodesign.com – E-books are already a fraught subject for many readers, writers, publishers and designers, but children’s e-books are even more so. Is it rotting their minds? Is it as good as good ol’ paper? Is it too interactive for their own good? Obviously there are no practical answers [ Read More ]
Idea Flight from Idea Flight on Vimeo. CrunchGear – Condé Nast has unveiled a new iPad app called Idea Flight that they claim “is a new tool designed to share ideas, presentations, documents and designs easily and effectively.” One iPad user is a the “pilot” for a presentation and up to 15 “passenger” iPads can follow along via WiFi or Bluetooth. Idea Flight isn’t a general purpose presentation app, but [ Read More ]
Wired.com – Following the announcement that J.K. Rowling is to self-publish the e-books to her successful Harry Potter series, Wired UK has gathered some of the new techniques that authors and publishers are using to bring their tomes to market. The J.K. Rowling approach This is self-publishing to the max. Rowling is not only publishing the Harry Potter e-books herself, but she has built her own e-commerce platform — thus [ Read More ]
VentureBeat – Faced with tough competition from Apple, LeapFrog Enterprises is defending its turf in children’s learning devices with the launch of a tablet for children called LeapPad. The device shows that Emeryville, Calif.-based LeapFrog is accelerating its efforts to remain relevant to kids in the age of the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Kids love those devices, but LeapFrog’s device is tailored just for the needs of kids. If [ Read More ]
Wired.com – Apple has dropped a rule that had required publishers to charge no more for content through the iTunes store than it did elsewhere. It’s a significant reversal of the subscription plan that was tepidly received when it was rolled out only last February, and not even scheduled to be enforced until the end of this month. The change, first noticed by Jordan Golson at MacRumors, means that [ Read More ]
Tablet buyers are in crunch time right now, poring over specs and trying to decide if it’s worth it to go for Apple’s iPad 2. Or perhaps it would be a better idea to wait for one of the other delectable and as-yet-unreleased offerings from Samsung, HP or LG. That’s where this helpful infographic from Skattertech comes in. Here’s the iPad 2 matched up against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10, [ Read More ]
