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ZEN OF THE PEN™ (Simulation by Laurie Wigham)
Laurie Wigham
Illustrator, ePub, & iBooks Author
When Laurie Wigham was working with Sharon Steuer on editing and redesigning
The Zen of The Pen
™ (
info@zenofthepen.net
) as both an ePub and for Apple's iBooks
Author (iBA), she realized that collecting all the Illustrator files into one document
would streamline the workflow. The key to doing this was putting each figure and its
caption on its own artboard so it could be placed separately into InDesign for
export to ePub. In InDesign's Place dialog she enabled Show Import Options so she
could then choose to import all artboards. To use the same images in iBA, Wigham
went back to Illustrator and chose File> Export. In the dialog she enabled the Use
Artboards option, chose JPG format, and clicked Export to save each artboard as a
separate JPG file. Because she had scaled the files in Illustrator to actual size and
cropped the artboard to fit the images, she was able to drag the JPG files into
position in iBA without doing any extra work. However, after viewing the test
document on her iPad, Wigham realized that the captions were hard to read. She
went back to Illustrator to adjust the size and weight, using the Character Styles
panel to change all the files with a few keystrokes. Back in InDesign she was able to
automatically update the placed images, but she had to go through one more step
for iBA. After exporting the revised artboards as JPG files, she had to individually
replace the files in iBA. (Figures above, counter-clockwise from top: Artboards
panel and artboards in Illustrator, InDesign Place dialog with import options, iBA file
preview.)
