Tag Archive | "Digital Publishing"

How to encode videos for the Retina iPad or Samsung Galaxy

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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How to easily and reliable convert videos for popular mobile devices like Apple iPad, amazon Kindle and Samsung Galaxy.

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Tip: Use PDF2DTP to Extract Images from PDFs

Monday, March 18, 2013

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I’m creating an EPUB book in QuarkXPress, and the client gave me a PDF containing his suggestions along with some product images for the book. He’s not easily available, so I didn’t want bother him to re-send me the images as separate files. What to do? I remembered that Markzware’s PDF2DTP XTension for QuarkXPress can [...]

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Recover Kodak Photo CD Images

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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If you have old Kodak Photo CDs, you may want to consider converting them to a current file format such as TIFF, and one way to do that is with GraphicConverter for Mac OS X ($40). Few apps other than GraphicConverter support the defunct Photo CD format, and it can convert a long list of [...]

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BigPicture: the Best Picture Manager

Monday, February 4, 2013

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Badia Software’s BigPicture ($59.99, or $14.99/month) is an XTension for QuarkXPress 9/8/7/6/5/4 or a plug-in for InDesign CS6/5/4/3 that lists all the pictures in a project, and shows all the vital information about them (color model, format, file size, effective resolution, compression, scaling, angle, date modified, fonts, colors, etc.). In addition, BigPicture can select all the pictures [...]

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