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  7505 readersOne of the more difficult tasks of e-book creation for designers is the often necessary clean-up of the HTML and CSS files created from the page layout program. Using a script to access those files can speed things up considerably. If you’re creating .mobi files for Kindle, the MobiUnpack script lets you drag and drop that file

• The Great File Hunt

  970 readersA good file naming structure cannot be stressed enough. Imagine me on a safari, dressed like they did in King Solomon’s Mines with Stewart Granger. Reality check, T-shirt and jeans, with a black ball cap to cut down on fluorescent lighting. Why hunt files? I get to the point where there are so many files on

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  Convert PDFs to Other Formats

  9508 readers Recosoft’s PDF2Office 5 ($70–$129) converts PDFs into fully editable Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint formats, maintaining the original layout and graphics, including tables, headers and footers, endnotes and footnotes, columns and sections. It can also extract text or graphics from PDFs, convert to HTML or RTF, and batch-convert files. For longer PDF files, you can

• ID2Office Converts InDesign Files to Microsoft Office Files

  1293 readersID2Office converts the text, associated fonts and styles, paragraph structure, corresponding property information, frames linking information, tables, graphics and other InDesign object and document properties to the matching Microsoft Word/PowerPoint ...

• Art Files 2 Adds CS5 Support

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  Use Quick Look to Preview Quark & Adobe Documents

  5076 readers The Mac OS X Quick Look feature can display the content from many file formats by simply pressing the Spacebar when the file is highlighted in the Finder. However, it can’t preview files from Adobe and Quark documents. MetaDesign Solutions’ ADOVIEW adds Quick Look support for QuarkXPress 6–8, InDesign CS3–CS6 documents, templates and snippets, InDesign XML Interchange

• Batch-Convert Illustrator to PDF

  6366 readersHere’s a trick for updating the file format of your old logos and other artwork to a more modern format such as PDF: Adobe Illustrator has a script that will batch-convert them for you! Just open them all in Illustrator (you can drag them all onto Illustrator’s icon), and then choose File> Scripts> SaveDocAsPDF. All the

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  Better eBook Typography

  4604 readers Author Chris Jennings’ eBook Typography ($6.99 at Apple’s iBookstore) sets out to help designers have better control over the typography in electronic books. Since most of the changes and enhancements will need to be made in your ePub’s resulting CSS and HTML files instead of in your page layout program, Jennings gives us how-to tips

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  Gluon Slugger: Extreme Slugs

  3978 readersGluon’s Slugger is an XTension for QuarkXPress 7/8/9 that adds a completely customizable slug to each printed page. You can include document tracking information such as Job Number, Time/Date Last Saved/Printed, Document Size, Bleed Size, Trim Size, Fonts Used, File Path (location on network), your company logo, chips for each color used, grayscale bars, sign-offs,

• Link to DPS App Using Custom URL Scheme

  6675 readersThe “Optional URL Scheme” option in Viewer Builder is a relatively obscure feature that can come in handy. If you’re viewing this blog post on an iPad or iPhone in mobile Safari, tapping the following link opens the DPS Tips app if you have it installed (and updated to the newest version): OPEN DPS TIPS NOTE: If