As a creative professional, it is exciting to have access to an infinite canvas like Mag+. One can get really carried away with bringing their design to life with HTML, movies and other rich media. The only problem is that these exciting options add to the overall file size of each issue. As your file …
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Yes, Virginia, you can put HTML on the A-layer.
Posted on February 17, 2012, by
Matt
Recently I’ve been spreading false information about HTML’s capabilities within Mag+ A-layer. I was under the impression that you could only embed HTML on the B-layer. Turns out I’ve been lying! For shame. Typically everything must be grouped in order for the graphic hierarchy created in InDesign to hold up. Grouping is exactly what overrides …
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Decoding the wild world of analytics
Posted on February 16, 2012, by
Mike
One of the things we get asked about a lot—and rightly so—is analytics. In brief, analytics refers to the ability to track what users are doing in your app. It can be a very useful tool for figuring out what your users want, where they’re getting stuck and, perhaps most crucially, whether they’re looking at …
TRICK: How to share story text via e-mail
Posted on February 14, 2012, by
Mike
As many of you know, it’s possible to make a hotspot link in a Mag+ issue that automatically opens a pre-populated e-mail. Just hit the Add Link button and put “mailto://” followed by the e-mail address in the URL field. You can even pre-populate the subject line by typing (fill in your own address and …
Newsstand here we come!
Posted on October 6, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
At this week’s Apple event, the company announced that iOS5 would go live next Wednesday, Oct 14, and with it one of the developments we’re most excited about: Newsstand. Newsstand will be a dedicated space on the iPad where users can manage and shop for periodicals that offer a subscription, giving publishers far greater visibility …
Simple Pop-Ups – no HTML!
Posted on August 19, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
I’ve been with Mag+ since it was a twinkle in our R&D director’s eye, so I love it when teaches me something brand new about the platform. Here’s an ingenius little trick I just picked up from the brilliant designers at one of our newest clients, CGI Interactive. There’s a little-used function in our system …
Let’s get to work!
Posted on August 10, 2011, by
linda
Greetings ladies & gentlemen, Thank you for checking in. For those new here, like myself, this is where you’ll find weekly updates on my progress as the new Creative Director for Mag+. I’ll be sharing my experiences with the Mag+ tools as I build and design all manner of printed materials for the iPad and …
Quick and dirty remote review
Posted on August 9, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
The Mag+ Reviewer app lets you check out your vertical and issues on an iPad that’s on the same wireless network, but what if you want to show an issue to someone in another city? You can set up a remote review server, but here I’ll show you a quick and dirty way solution that …
Tips and Tricks: Scrolling text inside a box
Posted on August 8, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
Here’s a slick little use of HTML we just started playing with: making text scroll inside of a box. Default Mag+ behavior is of course that the A layer (top layer) scrolls freely over the B layer, but what if you want a B-layer-only design but still have scrolling text; or even have horizontally scrolling …
Who needs coders? Check out our new HTML wizard!
Posted on August 3, 2011, by
Linda Wakeham
We decided awhile ago that instead of complicating the Mag+ plug-in with tons of options and buttons, we’d just build wide support for HTML into the platform: Anything that’ll run in a webkit browser will run inside a Mag+ page. The problem: Not all print designers know how to code HTML. So we created the …