Resident InDesign expert
Areas of Expertise:
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- FrameMaker
- Acrobat
- Pitstop
- ePub
- eBooks
- Book Design
- Publishing
- Pre-Press
- HTML/XML
- consulting
Ron Bilodeau is a graphic designer specializing in book template design and digital media. He has designed and refined interior templates for Cooks Illustrated and O'Reilly Media, including O'Reilly's four-color Learning series, the most recent example of which is Learning Flash CS4 Professional.
In addition to his design work, Ron is using InDesign to develop a seamless workflow for easily exporting print-ready PDFs and web-ready digital formats from the same source files. He is currently the Production and Design Specialist at O'Reilly, where he is focusing on producing valid ePub documents from InDesign, the successful results of which are being offered in some of O'Reilly's eBook bundles.
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Creating a Successful eBook (PePcon 2011)
May 24 2011
After my presentation on "Creating a Successful eBook" at PePcon, I got lots of requests for the GREP expressions that I used to clean up my ePub files, so here they are read moreHow to create automated Index page headers in InDesign
November 03 2010
Have you ever wanted to include "Real" index headers for your index file? Only to find that if anything changes or the index re-flows, you need to update them all manually? Now this can be set up to happen "on-the-fly" by simply using Text Variables and invisible Nested Styles. read moreePub export from InDesign, Tips & Tricks
March 08 2010
I have been wanting to do this for a while and now have the motivation to begin. This past fall, I gave a presentation on how to set up your files (using InDesign) in order to achieve a usable ePub... read moreHow to set up your InDesign files for ePub export
December 10 2009
This morning, I had my first professional speaking gig hosted by the Association of Canadian Publishers. I traveled to Toronto to give a presentation and workshop on how to set up InDesign files for ePub export. I have included a... read moreAdobe Improves ePub Export from InDesign, But Still Has a Ways to Go
May 21 2009
So Adobe has finally released the latest update for InDesign CS4 (6.0.2). Basically, before this update was released, the ePub export functionality was broken. Here is the latest blog post from Adobe about the update: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2009/05/indesign_602_and_epub_export.html . With this update, I... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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