Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …