January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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iPad Issue using Adobe Digital Publishing solution...
Here’s the next stage: an issue built from scratch!
The process was reasonably straightforward, only a few glitches. For example the slideshow function does not work with back and forward buttons as it is supposed to, so I had to use a thumbnail image index instead. Overall though it went smoothly enough, and I got all the elements I tried out to work - slideshow, video, hyperlinks,...
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iPad Issue using Adobe Digital Publishing solution
So I tried out my first iPad creation today. I had worked through the tutorial files for the new Adobe Digital Content Creator some time ago and finally got around to testing it out on my new iPad. It all worked OK and looked great. I’m slightly disappointed that I can’t pinch to zoom on all the pages like I can with websites. I’m not sure why this is. See the sideshow below...
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My Fry
This is an interesting way to navigate through an e-book.
It almost recreates how one might flick through a printed book in a casual way to see what catches the attention (but with more subject specificity and links built in)!
I don’t know if this is officially ‘micro-chunking’ but it certainly looks as though it breaks the text down into manageable little pieces. Good...
ICA Talk
Here’s a video of a talk I went to a couple of weeks ago at the ICA. The panel members discussed the problems of the newspaper and book industries mainly (there was very little mention of the magazine industry).
There was a general consensus that newspapers and newspaper journalists themselves have been struggling terribly for a long time now and that we are fast approaching crisis point....
October 2010
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