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The evolution of a book cover design

February 13, 2017 By Glenna Collett 7 Comments

book cover wtih question markDoes the prospect of creating a book cover design make you feel anxious? Jittery? Terrified? Do you start to contemplate cleaning out your basement instead? Don’t worry! You’re not the only one. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Book Cover Design Tagged With: color, images

Using the Book feature in InDesign

January 9, 2017 By Fiona Raven 65 Comments

Book feature for hardcover bookInDesign’s Book feature can be handy! Let’s say you’re working on a book with lots of images and/or chapters. And the file sizes are enormous. In fact, they are so big that you thought it would be smart to divide the book into separate documents for parts or chapters. That’s exactly what we did with Book Design Made Simple. It was more convenient for us to swap smaller sections back and forth than to send the entire book each time. All the parts or chapters were linked together at the end using InDesign’s Book feature. So this blog post explains how to create a Book file, or as we call it, “book” a book.

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Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: Book feature, contents, InDesign updates, paragraph styles

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