Which is why I began tearing apart the design of our book as soon as I started paging through it. The first thing I noticed is that many - perhaps half - of the pictures are pixelated. They're less noticeable onscreen, because we're used to pictures being pixelated onscreen. But in a book? No sir, that is not acceptable.
I knew that some of the pictures were going to be pixelated, because some weren't exactly high quality to begin with. I was kind of hoping it wouldn't be too noticeable, but it is. Also, two of my pictures were pixelated - ones that were (supposed to be) high quality! That really bugged me. I reasoned that it must have been caused by the linked-to file not being there, which would have caused Indesign to export a low-res version. Now, the images being pixelated on the page isn't the end of the world. But it's still really unfortunate.
In retrospect, using Indesign sure did cause some annoyances. Not that I couldn't work them out - and not that it totally wasn't worth it for the level of control it gave me. And not that I won't continue using it exclusively. But still.
I was happy that the flow of our book made sense. When I was laying out all the sections with their retrospective title pages, I thought it would look like it was a last-ditch effort to tie together sections with vastly different stylistic decisions that would have otherwise not at all fit together. Not so. Although the sections were, of course, still vastly different, this was fine. The viewer understood our basic premise more than I would have given them credit for, and the flow of the book was, in my opinion, not jarring at all. Yay.
-Rowan
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