InDesign to Web?
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- mekk0
This thread makes me lose my faith in professionality.
- pressplay0
How can a program that was built for colour correction and image editing be more appropriate for designing a website than a program that was made for layout? What about that InDesign is for print bullshit, what I see on my screen are pixels, no matter if I‘m in fucking Photoshop or InDesign...
- Xopher0
Indesign: Print
Illustrator: Drawing stuff
Photoshop: Web, and erm photos.End.
- *buzz*
wrongmonospaced - Right.Xopher
- InDesign is great for web layouts. It's also great for digital publishing. If you think otherwise, you're naive.monospaced
- Logical, not naive.
Xopher - illustrator can be useful for web design early on as welldoesnotexist
- this is rightfadein11
- *buzz*
- Xopher0
- don't you mean effeX?monospaced
- Try designing something without loads of effects?MrT
- Just sayin.Xopher
- ismith0
I always thought that if Adobe wanted to make a serious effort at improving the web they should dump Flash and turn InDesign into a web layout+typesetting beast, even if that meant implementing a new markup language (or superset of HTML). Take a little bit of TeX, a little bit of HTML, wrap in XML if necessary and release it into the wild...
- but that was several years ago and now I no longer care. *goes back to browsing metafont dumpsismith
- maikel0
You can do your layout with bloody watercolours on a canvas or Microsoft paint - just make sure you run the website through a Dev (who will hate you anyway for being designer) to remove all the crap in your source code before going live.
- animatedgif0
This thread actually points out more problems with Adobe than it does with peoples workflows.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/201…
I mean you look at the feature list for PS CS6 and a whole bunch of them are aimed at UI design in Photoshop, when they already have 2 tools better for that same job (Well 3 if you count Illustrator).
"Path snapping"......... should it not have done this in the first place if it was meant for web design? But instead we have the quite clumsy vector mask with layer styles on to create buttons which can slip to sub pixels and have to be manually resnapped. So then you get designers who can't be bothered doing that so they make all their buttons using bitmap masks and manually marquee select then fill/delete to change the sizes. Watching people work like this is like nails on a chalkboard to me, I honestly can't believe people design UIs that way and not wonder there might be a better way to do all this.
In FW with the keyboard resize addon if I want to make a button 10px wider I select it and press option+shift+right, no zooming in and selecting right vector handles then shifting them manually or editing bitmap data.
- i_was0
i use Paint
- fadein110
Breaking news:
Just called Adobe and InDesign is a product for print. The person on the phone laughed when I mentioned using it for web design and to quote him:
"Anyone who uses InDesign for web design is a total bellend and obviously was a print design who now does a bit of web and not in a position to comment on a totally different industry."
So there you go. From the horse's mouth as it were.
- maikel0
^ I am sure people at Adobe are totally into calling customers 'bellends'
- janne0
hey fadein11
you are an idiot
- fadein110
^ you are an idiot for not seeing a joke.
anyway - I'm off. time is money and I really do get bored of these endless debates (mac vs pc, android vs iphone, flash vs html5, indesign vs fw/ps) - got clients to keep happy!
later.- [plays with little plastic designer toys stuck to the top of my monitor]fadein11
- nb0
1. Ask your developer what file type(s) they would prefer.
2. Stop whining and start being a designer.:)
- freshdude0
3.