Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Introduction

This 2-day Introduction course will enhance your existing knowledge of Adobe InDesign by showing you everything you need to use the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. With this powerful tool, designers and agencies now have an easy way to publish interactive media for mobile users across the world. Our course will give you the tips to get started in this fast-growing market.

Together, we will build a 'Single Edition' app, allowing you to deliver dynamic, engaging content on mobile and tablet devices. Feel free to bring along your own iPad or Android tablet so you can test the results for yourself. (Just make sure to download the latest Adobe Content Viewer from the relevant app store before the course.)

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Digital Publishing Suite environment
• Design and lay out mobile documents
• Specify safe areas and page orientations for mobile devices
• Build articles that support horizontal swiping, pinch and zoom, and more
• Adjust display rules for multiple types of tablet
• Create proper folder structures
• Add hyperlinks and multi-state objects to your content
• Produce a 'Single Edition' app

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

• The future of publishing
• Course objectives
• Overview of the DPS Workflow
• Using Adobe IDs for the DPS
• DPS pricing options
• Bringing the future to the present
• System requirements
• Installing the DPS tools
• DPS resources

• Digital page orientation
• Smooth scrolling articles
• Swipe articles horizontally
• Snap to page articles
• Pinch and zoom articles

• Guidelines
• Horizontal/Vertical orientation
• Smooth scrolling articles
• Documents for multiple devices
• Renditions
• Multiple renditions
• Folder structure

• Creating interactive overlays
• Supported/Unsupported features
• Best practice
• The Overlay Creator panel

• Links using the buttons panel
• Links using the hyperlinks panel
• Links to other articles
• Web page hyperlinks
• Email hyperlinks
• Article hyperlinks

• Create multi-state objects
• Slideshow overlay settings
• Slideshow overlay options

• Create an image sequence overlay
• Specify image sequence settings

• Video overlays
• Audio overlays
• Place an audio file into an article
• Add a progressive playback skin
• Placing a video poster frame

• Place a panorama file
• Specify panorama overlay settings
• Overlay creator options

• Place image into document
• Pan and zoom tips
• Specify pan and zoom settings

• Scrollable frame ‘pan’ method
• The ‘Paste Into’ command
• Scrollable text frame ‘pan’ method

• Adding web content
• Insert a ‘local’ HTML file
• Scale and interactive options

• The Folio Builder panel
• Filter displayed folios
• Sort folios
• Signing into the folio panel
• Create, share and delete a folio
• Create local folios

• From an open InDesign document
• Add layout to an article
• Structuring folders
• Import InDesign documents

• Add and change article properties
• Edit and update an article
• Copy an article to another folio
• Rename and delete an article
• Changing the order of articles

• DPS Dashboard Folio Producer
• DPS Single Edition features
• Types of custom viewer apps
• Single Folio viewer app
• Using the Folio Producer
• Folio Producer Editor

• The Adobe Content Viewer
• Create offline folios
• Previewing iPad content
• Previewing Android content
• Previewing Playbook content

• Create a Single Edition folio
• Create a Single Edition viewer app