In Brooks Jensen's recent Lenswork podcast, which one can listen to here, he extols the virtues of using pdf format e-books to enable photographers to reach a wider audience, while avoiding the fiscal constraints that are associated with publishing a physical book. I was intrigued by this, though I wonder if the constraints are as strong as implied given the newer methods of self-publishing associated with print-on-demand services available from companies like Blurb.
Nonetheless, I found the idea interesting and tried to search around the internet a bit for information about designing and producing a pdf photography book. However, I found very little out there. Now, I know very little about using Adobe Acrobat and suspect that my inability to locate information on this subject may simply be that what is required is a good general book about how to use Acrobat, as opposed to special information on how to create pdf photography books.
So, I guess I am hoping that perhaps someone out there might be able to provide some good resource books or websites on the topic of how to use Acrobat to publish photographic e-books....or at least some place to start obtaining a bit of background knowledge. Anybody want to make suggestions????
Mar 18, 2009
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if you want to produce an ebook from scratch, you might want to look into using in-design or quark to build the book, and then export the pages to PDF.
there are tons of books out there on book design and layout design. but nothing specific about making a fine art book. So grab your favorite photo books off the shelf and study their layout and their typographic choices with a critical eye, and just improvise on your own.
I written some stuff on my blog. You don't really need to use Acrobat (which I think is clunky). On pc there's pdf995 suite, there's InDesign, Scribus or pdf print utilities as well.
Martin (doonster), I am really interested in the material you have written in your blog about it but can't seem to find the posts or how to contact you via e-mail. If you see this would you mind putting a link to the posts or contacting me via e-mail about it.
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