Apple Submits Patent for CMY Display

Apple has filed for a patent on a new display that would use “subtractive filters” to create a CMY display for designers.

Goodbye iPhone, Hello Android

Mike Chambers on Flash CS5, the iPhone, and Android.

InDesign CS5 to Flash CS5

Paul Trani has posted a short and sweet demo of what it looks like to take interactive content from InDesign CS5 to Flash CS5:

Using InDesign CS5 Content in Flash CS5 from Paul Trani on Vimeo.

InDesign CS5: Span/Split Columns

One of the more compelling features in InDesign CS5 is the Span/Split columns feature. It’s a setting that enables a paragraph to span multiple columns in a text frame. Not only that, the feature enables you to split columns of text into multiple sub-columns. This feature is an enormous time saver for a whole lot of layout artists.

However, there are a couple gotchas and limitations in the first iteration of this feature.

See the movie below for the details.

More on Apple vs. Adobe Flash

InDesign Secrets…

UPDATE:

From the Telegraph.

Body Type 2

Back when I had a blog at Adobe, I did a post on Ina Saltz’s great book, Body Type.

Ina has since delivered a sequel to the first book:

Every InDesigner should also have a look at Ina’s book on tattoo-less typography.

Gone in a Flash…

Apple modifies the iPhone OS4 SDK Developer Agreement in a Flash-unfriendly way.

The iPhone OS4 Keynote is here.

Essential InDesign Add-ons: MultiFindChange

Martinho da Gloria of Automatication in New Zealand produces some extremely useful scripts for InDesign. Martinho authored the fabulous LayoutZone script that turns InDesign page elements into linked InDesign files that can be edited outside of the parent document.

Martinho’s upcoming release, MultiFindChange, is an essential bit of gear for anyone who regularly works with text files of any size…dirty text files that are emitted by people or algorithms that just don’t understand the first thing about what a layout artist needs in a text file…text that needs to be cleaned up with multiple Find & Change operations to remove extra spaces, carriage returns, straight quotes, fix calendar dates, etc.

Multi-Find/Change main features:

• Manage Find/Change queries in sets (folders)
• Exports set into a self contain file (xml)
• Import set (from xml file)
• Share set (xml file) over network.
• Easy way to backup queries
• Adds comments to query files
• Renames query files
• Deletes query files
• Load query into InDesign Find/Change editor

REQUIREMENTS:

• Adobe InDesign CS4 (Mac or Windows).
• Adobe InCopy CS4 (Mac or Windows).