Do you prefer learning by watching videos, stepping through tutorials, or browsing through examples in an app? Here are some useful resources to help you get up and running with DPS.

DPS Getting Started Guide

If you have a Professional or Enterprise subscription to DPS, consult the Adobe DPS Getting Started Guide (PDF).

Web Tutorials

To get a basic overview of the DPS workflow, download sample assets, step through Authoring Tutorials, and experiment.

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Video Tutorials

These AdobeTV channels include a number of videos about DPS:

AdobeTV - Learn Digital Publishing Suite

AdobeTV - Digital Publishing Channel

Adobe also recommends

DPS User Forum

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Installing DPS tools

The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is available for InDesign CS5 and later. To install the full set of tools for InDesign CC or CS6, run the DPS

Desktop Tools installer by choosing Help > Updates in InDesign. To install the full set of digital publishing tools for InDesign CS5/CS5.5, two separate installations are required. Install both the Folio Producer tools and the Folio Builder panel.

AIR 2.x is required to run AIR applications such as the Desktop Viewer. The most current version of AIR is available at http://get.adobe.com/air/ .

If you experience problems installing the tools, see "Common installation issues" later in this article.

Installation links

InDesign CC/CS6

CC/CS6 DPS Desktop Tools (Windows)

CC/CS6 DPS Desktop Tools (Mac OS)

InDesign CS5.5/CS5

CS5.5/CS5 Folio Producer tools (Windows)

CS5.5/CS5 Folio Producer tools (Mac OS)

CS5.5/CS5 Folio Builder panel (Windows)

CS5.5/CS5 Folio Builder panel (Mac OS)

DPS App Builder (Mac OS only)

DPS App Builder

Installing the DPS Desktop Tools (InDesign CS6)

In InDesign, choose Help > Updates, and update DPS Desktop Tools.

The DPS Desktop Tools installer installs the Folio Overlays panel, the Folio Builder panel, a required InDesign plugin, DPS App Builder, and the Desktop Viewer.

Note:

Whenever a new version is released, it can take a few days for the newest installer to be included in the InDesign Updates installer.

During this period, you can update the DPS Desktop Tools by clicking the link in the Folio Builder panel or by downloading the most current installer using the above links.

Installing the Folio Producer tools and Folio Builder panel (InDesign CS5/CS5.5)

1. Exit InDesign.

2. Install the DPS Tools.

Windows: Download Folio Producer tools (Windows)

Mac OS: Download Folio Producer tools (Mac OS)

3. Install the Folio Builder panel.

Windows: Download Folio Builder panel (Windows)

Mac OS: Download Folio Builder panel (Mac OS)

Installing the Adobe Content Viewer on a mobile device

If you have an iPad, an iPhone, an Android tablet, a Kindle Fire, or a Windows device that runs 8.1 or later, install the most current version of the

Adobe Content Viewer from the store. In the store, search for “Adobe Content Viewer.”

Updating the DPS Desktop Tools (InDesign CS6)

Whenever a new set of tools is released, choose Help > Updates in InDesign and update the DPS Desktop Tools. If you need to create folios that are compatible with an earlier viewer (v20 or later), you can use the Folio Builder panel to target that viewer version.

Updating the Folio Builder panel and/or the authoring tools (InDesign CS5/CS5.5)

The Digital Publishing Suite tools are updated frequently. Whenever there is a new release, the Folio Producer Service is updated on the web.

There is a separate installer for the Folio Builder panel so that you can update the panel without updating your tools. Whenever Adobe updates the web client, update the Folio Builder panel to make sure that the web client and the Folio Builder panel remain in sync.

Note that updating the Folio Builder panel does not update your authoring tools.

The Folio Builder panel updates are available on the Adobe Downloads pages:

Windows: Download Folio Builder panel (Windows)

Mac OS: Download Folio Builder panel (Mac OS)

You also have the option of updating the authoring tools when a new version is released. When you update the authoring tools, any folio you publish is not compatible with any pre-v20 viewer version. For v20 viewer versions and later, update the authoring tools, and you can specify the viewer version when you create a folio. See Create a folio.

With InDesign CS5/CS5.5, you may need to revert to a previous set of Folio Producer tools to be compatible with an older custom viewer (v19 or earlier). Uninstall the Folio Producer tools, and then download and install the appropriate version. Older tools are available on these pages:

Windows: Archive of older Folio Producer tools (Windows)

Mac OS: Archive of older Folio Producer tools (Mac OS)

Common installation issues

Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop not installed properly

In some instances, updating the DPS Desktop Tools or the Folio Producer tools fails to install the Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop (also called the "Desktop Viewer"). The workaround is to install the Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop manually. To do this, double-click the

AdobeContentViewer.air file:

Note: The location can vary slightly if you are on 64-bit version of Windows, or if you are installing the InDesign CS5/CS5.5 Folio Producer Tools.

Mac OS: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Installers/AdobeDigitalPublishingCS6/ContentViewer/AdobeContentViewer.air

Windows: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\AdobeDigitalPublishingCS6\ContentViewer\AdobeContentViewer.air

For details, see this tech note: http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/kb/manual-install-content-viewer.html

"Please update your app" error message

When customers attempt to download new folios in your branded viewer app, the following message appears: "Please update your app. This issue is available for download, but requires a newer version of the app."

If customers are getting this error, the viewer version of the folio is higher that viewer version of the app. To fix this problem, either publish the folio using an older viewer version that is compatible with your app, or submit a new version of your app to the store.

For details, see this article: http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/kb/please-update-app-download-folio.html

"You do not have a compatible Digital Publishing Plug-in" error message

After updating your Folio Producer tools, this error message tells you to download the Folio Producer tools, but you have the most current Folio

Producer tools and panel. This problem sometimes occur when there is a problem with the PlugInConfig.txt file. Moving or deleting this file usually resolves this issue. For details, see this tech note: http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/kb/error-do-have-compatible-digital.html

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Uninstalling the digital publishing tools (InDesign CS5/CS5.5)

To uninstall the Folio Producer tools, do either of the following:

In Windows, use the Control Panel (Add/Remove Programs) to uninstall the tools.

In Mac OS, use the uninstaller located in Applications > Utilities > Adobe Installers.

In InDesign CS6/CC, the digital publishing tools are integrated with InDesign. You can remove the DPS tools only by uninstalling InDesign.

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Using Adobe IDs for DPS

The Folio Builder panel, Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard, and DPS App Builder all require a verified Adobe ID to sign in.

Signing in to the Folio Builder panel is optional. If you don’t sign in, you can create local folios and preview them using the Desktop Viewer or the

Adobe Content Viewer on a mobile device. Signing in to the Folio Builder panel lets you upload folios to the acrobat.com server. You can download these folios to your mobile device or share them with other users.

Creating and verifying an Adobe ID (non-DPS subscribers)

If you’re not a subscriber to DPS or Creative Cloud, you can use DPS tools to create and share folios. To create individual Adobe IDs, go to https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/ and click Create Account. Sign up for an account using a valid email address. Adobe will send you a verification message. Open that message and verify it. Use the Adobe ID to sign in to the Folio Builder panel, Dashboard, or DPS App Builder.

Creative Cloud membership

If you have a Creative Cloud membership, use the Creative Cloud account to sign in. When you sign in to the DPS App Builder using the Creative

Cloud account, you can build iPad apps that you can submit to Apple.

Adobe ID tied to application (Professional and Enterprise subscribers)

You can use an Adobe ID for an individual (such as “[email protected]”) to sign in to the Folio Builder panel and create folios. However, if you’re publishing a multi-folio viewer app, such as a monthly magazine, we recommend that you use an Adobe ID specifically for that application, such as “[email protected]”). Use the Account Administration tool to assign the application role to an email account.

Application Adobe ID

A. Folio Builder panel B. DPS App Builder C. Custom viewer app created with DPS App Builder displays folios created with Folio Builder panel

The Adobe ID you use to sign in to the Folio Builder panel is tied to the Adobe ID (called the “Title ID”) you specify when creating the viewer app in DPS App Builder. This Adobe ID should be assigned an "Application" role using the Account Administration tool.

For example, suppose that you belong to a company called Sporty and you publish magazines about kayaking and cycling. For best results, create one Adobe ID called “[email protected]” and another called “[email protected].”

When creating and publishing folios about kayaking, use the kayaking Adobe ID to sign in to the Folio Builder panel and Folio Producer. When creating the custom viewer app for kayaking, you specify the kayaking Adobe ID in the Title ID field in DPS App Builder. (The Adobe ID you use to sign in to the DPS App Builder may be a different Adobe ID, depending on the settings in the Account Administration tool.)

Similarly, for the cycling app, you would use the cycling Adobe ID to create and publish folios, and you would specify the cycling Adobe ID as the

Title ID in DPS App Builder.

Folios you publish using the kayaking Adobe ID appear in the kayaking app. Folios you publish using the cycling Adobe ID appear in the cycling app.

Creating delegate Adobe IDs (subscribers)

A delegate Adobe ID is attached to a specific publishing account and can be used only for that account. If you want to use an email address as a delegate Adobe ID, use the Account Administration tool to create the Adobe ID. If you use a different method to make an email address an Adobe

ID, that email address cannot become a delegate Adobe ID.

If you’re a Professional or Enterprise subscriber, use the Account Administration tool to assign a different role to the Adobe ID so that you can use it to create an application or to sign in to the DPS App Builder. See Account Administration tool.

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Overview of the DPS workflow

Adobe InDesign is the central component of the workflow. Using InDesign, design teams create layouts and add interactivity. With layouts in hand, production teams assemble the layouts, add metadata, and publish them into a “folio” format.

Anyone who uses InDesign CS5 or later can author, preview, and share digital publishing folios. However, to create custom apps for commercial use, you need to do one of the following:

Subscribe to the Digital Publishing Suite with a Professional or Enterprise account. A DPS subscription lets you create unlimited apps for

Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and Windows Store. If you have a Professional or Enterprise account, please read the Adobe DPS Getting Started Guide (PDF).

Obtain an Adobe Creative Cloud membership. With a Creative Cloud membership, you can create unlimited single-folio apps (iPad only).

Obtain a Single Edition license to create a single viewer app (iPad only).

Getting your InDesign layout onto your iPad

Step 1: Install DPS tools

If you’re new to the Digital Publishing Suite, install the newest version of DPS tools. For InDesign CS6/CC, choose Help > Updates, and install the

DPS Desktop Tools. For InDesign CS5/CS5.5, install both the Folio Producer tools and the Folio Builder panel. The Folio Producer tools installer installs or updates the Folio Overlays panel, a required plug-in, and the Desktop Viewer. The Folio Builder panel installer installs only the Folio

Builder panel. See Installing digital publishing tools.

If you have an iPad or an Android device, install the most current version of the Adobe Content Viewer from the store (Apple App Store, Google

Play Store, or Amazon Appstore).

Step 2: Create source documents in InDesign

Create InDesign documents as the base layout for the digital content. With InDesign CS5/CS5.5, you can create both a portrait (vertical) and landscape (horizontal) layout in separate documents for each article. With InDesign CS6, you can create horizontal and vertical layouts within the same document. You can also limit your design to a single orientation. See Designing digital publications.

In addition to using InDesign files as source content, you can also create articles based on HTML. See Import HTML articles.

Step 3: Add interactive objects

Use the Folio Overlays panel to create and edit interactive objects. Not all InDesign interactivity features are supported. See Overview of

interactive overlays.

To see examples and how-to instructions for each overlay type, download the Digital Publishing Suite Tips app on your iPad or other mobile device.

Step 4: Use the Folio Builder to create folio and articles

Signing in to the Folio Builder panel is optional. If you sign in using a verified Adobe ID, folios you create are uploaded to an acrobat.com site. You can then download these folios to the Adobe Content Viewer app by signing in using the same account. If you have a Creative Cloud membership, sign in using your Creative Cloud account. If you do not have a verified Adobe ID, go to https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/ , click Create Account, and follow the prompts.

Use the Folio Builder panel to create or open a folio and add articles. Each article can have two layouts for horizontal and vertical orientations. See

Creating folios.

You can also edit folio metadata using the Folio Producer Organizer at http://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com

. See Folio Producer Organizer.

Step 5: Preview and share articles

To preview the folio using the Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop, select a folio or an article in the Folio Builder panel and click Preview. See

Use the Desktop Viewer to preview content.

To preview the folio on mobile devices such as the iPad, install the free Adobe Content Viewer on the device, and then sign in using the same

Adobe ID you used to sign in to the Folio Builder panel. Use the viewer library to download and view folios. See Preview folios and articles.

Use the Share command in the Folio Builder panel to share a folio with other people. Anyone with a valid Adobe ID can view the folio you share with them for free. When they use the Adobe ID to sign in to the Adobe Content Viewer, any folios you shared with them are available for downloading. See Share folios.

Step 6: Make folios available to customers (Subscribers and Single Edition only)

If you’re a Professional or Enterprise customer, use the Folio Producer Organizer to put the finishing touches on the folio and publish it to the

Distribution Service to make it publicly available. See Assemble and Publish.

Use the DPS App Builder to create a custom viewer app that you can submit to the Apple Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, or

Windows Store. If you have a Creative Cloud membership or if you obtain a Single Edition license, you can create a single-issue app for the iPad.

If you have a Professional or Enterprise account, you can enable subscriptions (iOS and Amazon), push notifications (iOS only), and Omniture analytics. See DPS App Builder.

Step 7: Analyze customer data and add and update folios (DPS Subscribers only)

After you publish your folio, use the Analytics page on the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard to track user data. See Omniture analytics.

Continue to add folios to your multi-folio custom viewer.

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Single Edition overview

The Single Edition model provides small to midsize design studios and freelance designers a way to deliver brochures, catalogs, portfolios, and training materials to the iPad. To create a custom app for the iPad that contains a built-in folio, either become an Adobe Creative Cloud member or pay a one-time fee. If you have a full (not individual) Creative Cloud membership, you can create an unlimited number of Single Edition iPad apps.

Single Edition apps you create work only on the iPad, not on the iPhone or Android devices. With Single Edition, your apps do not include many features such as a library, bookmarks, social sharing, and analytics that are available to Professional and Enterprise DPS subscribers.

Requirements

What you’ll need to create your folio:

InDesign CS5 or later.

DPS Desktop Tools (Folio Overlays panel and Folio Builder panel).

What you need to build your app:

A Mac OS computer running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later. Apple requires a Mac OS computer to create required certificates and upload the app. You can use a Windows computer to build your folios in InDesign.

DPS App Builder.

Membership to Apple’s iOS Developer Program (annual fee required). See http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/ .

A Creative Cloud membership or a Single Edition serial number.

Single Edition videos and resources

Use your Creative Cloud account to sign in to the Getting Started page, watch videos, and download useful assets.

DPS Single Edition Learn Tutorials

These videos and more appear on AdobeTV.

DPS Single Edition Learn Channel

Steps to create a single-folio viewer app

Follow these general steps to create your custom viewer app and submit it to the Apple Store.

Step 1: Understand the Basics

Before you start using InDesign to create content, get a basic understanding of the process. Watch videos, step through tutorials, and browse through help topics. See Getting started with the Digital Publishing Suite.

Use the DPS Tips app and other resources to learn the basics.

Step 2: Install the digital publishing tools

For InDesign CS6 or CC, install the DPS Desktop Tools. For InDesign CS5 or CS5.5, run two separate installers. First, install the Folio Producer tools to add the Folio Overlays panel, a required InDesign plugin, and the Desktop Viewer.

Then install the Folio Builder panel. See Installing digital publishing tools.

Install the digital publishing tools to work with InDesign.

In addition, download the Adobe Content Viewer to your iPad. When you create a folio, the content is uploaded to a web client powered by acrobat.com. Use the viewer to download and preview that folio. Search for “Adobe Content Viewer” in the iPad App Store or in the iTunes Store.

Step 3: Create and Preview Your Folio

Use the Folio Builder panel to create your folio. Preview your folio using the Adobe Content Viewer app on the iPad. When you folio is complete, select it, and choose Create App from the Folio Builder panel menu.

Step 4: Subscribe to Creative Cloud or Obtain Single Edition Serial Number

If you have a Creative Cloud membership, you can create an unlimited number of iPad Single Edition apps. Or, use the Adobe website to purchase your Single Edition serial number. If Single Edition is not yet available in your region, sign up to be notified when it becomes available.

Obtain the Single Edition serial number required to build the app.

Step 5: Download the Step-by-Step Guide

The Step-by-Step iPad Publishing Guide for Single Edition includes the information you need to create the required images and certificates, sign up as an Apple developer, build the iPad app, and submit it to Apple.

You can also download the Step-by-Step Publishing Guide from the Help menu in DPS App Builder.

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DPS pricing options

How much does it cost to use the Digital Publishing Suite? It depends on what you’re trying to do. Here are the options:

Free

If you have InDesign CS5 or later, you can install the digital publishing tools for free. You can create folios, preview them on your desktop and mobile devices, and share them with individuals. Using the DPS tools costs additional money only if you want to publish folios and create custom viewer apps that you can submit to stores or distribute privately.

Creative Cloud Membership

Obtain an Adobe Creative Cloud membership. With a full (not individual product) Creative Cloud membership, you can create unlimited single-folio apps for the iPad.

Single Edition

If you’re not a Creative Cloud member, you can pay a one-time fee to create a custom application for the iPad that contains a single folio. See Single Edition overview.

Note:

When you use Single Edition to create a single-folio app, you are not charged any additional download fees by Adobe. Only the Single

Edition fee and the Apple iOS developer subscription fee are required.

Professional Edition

With Professional Edition, you pay a subscription fee to create a single multi-folio viewer app that you can submit to supported stores such as the iTunes App Store, Google Play Store, and Windows Store. You can create unlimited built-in single-folio apps for the iPad.

Note that a new policy introduced in March 2014 set a limit of one multi-folio app per Professional Edition license. However, if you had already signed up for a Professional Edition license before the new policy was announced, you can continue to publish content for any multi-folio app you created before renewing your license. After you renew your license, you can create one additional app. If you need to build more than one additional app, a separate Professional License is required.

With Professional Edition, you get basic analytic reports to track user data.

Enterprise Edition

Enterprise Edition includes everything in Professional Edition, plus the ability to create multiple multi-folio apps, customize the viewer UI, create custom entitlement servers, and create in-house (private) enterprise apps.

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What's New

What’s new in this release

The following features are scheduled to be available for the v30 release.

For a compilation of release notes, see History of new feature release notes.

For a list of bug fixes, see DPS Bug Fix Release Notes.

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What's new in the v30 release (March 15)

The following features are planned for the upcoming v30 release on March 15, 2014. For a video overview, see Overview DPS Update March

2014 (video) .

Installation and sign-in

Folio Producer requires v29 or later tools

InDesign users at a minimum must be running the following: CC/CS6 – v29 for the DPS Desktop

Tools; CS5.5/CS5 – v29 for the Folio Builder panel only. If your Folio Builder panel in InDesign is not running v29 or later, a message will prompt you to update the panel. (To see which version you're using, choose About from the Folio Builder panel menu, and look at the last two digits.)

Installation instructions for the DPS tools can be found in the Installing DPS tools help article.

Terms of Use update

The Digital Publishing Suite Terms of Use (TOU) will be updated on Friday, March 14th at approximately 01:00pm PST.

) using the Adobe IDs you use for creating, publishing, and viewing DPS content.

Viewer features

The following changes to DPS viewers are planned.

Native viewers for Android and Windows

Native viewers for both Android and Windows Store are now available. These viewers do not yet have the same feature set that iOS viewers have. Improvements to these viewers are scheduled to release every three weeks. See this video about native viewers .

For the native Android viewer, HTML banners are now available in Web-based DPS App Builder. Updating folios is now supported. Image

Sequence overlays are partially supported. Swiping the image sequence is not yet supported in the native Android viewer—only tap to play or autoplay. For information about the native Android viewer, see Building native DPS apps for Android devices.

For the Windows Store viewer, Image Sequence overlays are now supported. For information about the Windows Store viewer, see Building DPS apps for Windows Store.

Relative navto links

You can now use the navto command to jump to the next/previous or first/last article. For example, a button with a

navto://relative/first action jumps to the first article in the folio. Valid formats include first, last, next, previous, and current. You can also jump to a specific article relative to its position in the folio, such as the fifth article.

Relative navto links are supported in the iOS and Windows Store viewers, but not yet supported in the native Android viewer, desktop viewer, or web viewer. Relative navto linking requires a v30 app version, but it works with any folio format.

See the Using relative navto links help article.

JS API support for relative navto linking (iOS only)

By creating a Web Content overlay or HTML article that accesses the Reading API, you can query the folio to determine information such as how many articles are in the folio and how many pages are in an article. You can then display this information or use it in another way within the overlay or HTML article. For more information, see New APIs and features in R30 .

Deep linking with parameters (Enterprise only, iOS only)

The v30 update enhances the v29 feature of capturing deep linking parameters. With the v29 release, deep links supported only custom slots (such as a custom store) as the destination. With v30 viewers, the link parameters are now available via the JS APIs regardless of the deep link destination. For example, you can now create a link that opens a specific folio and article in an app and offers a subscription discount.

When deep linking into applications, you can receive information back from the viewer via JavaScript APIs. This feature supports linking to articles using the navto format, writing to local storage, and setting a value in the application that is accessible via the JS API. For more information, see

New APIs and features in r30 .

Information Screen (iOS only)

In iOS viewers, you can invoke a transparent web view from anywhere in the app that can access the Reading

API or the Library and Store API, including the library, the custom store, a banner, or an article. You can determine reader entitlement state and other behaviors in order to display desired content in the transparent web view.

You can launch the Information Screen from either the app level (such as a custom library or entitlement banner) or from the folio level (HTML article or Web Content overlay). The HTML files used in the Information Screen must be hosted on a server outside the app, not stored within the app. Users must be connected to the Internet to view the Information Screen.

For a summary of features that can access JS APIs, see Using HTML and JS APIs to extend DPS.

For examples and instructions about creating an Information Screen, see New APIs and features in r30 and this Information Screen video .

Secure folios (Enterprise only, iOS only)

A new “Enable Secure Content” option is now available when you use the Account Administration tool to configure an application role for an Enterprise account. Select this option only if you have confidential or sensitive information in your app. Social sharing, web viewer, and background downloads are not available in a secure account.

Folios in a secure account are not available through the Folio Producer Service (acrobat.com). Folios are available only when published to the

Adobe Distribution Service. To preview folios in a secure account, you can use Preview on Device to view them in Adobe Content Viewer, or you can build a custom app and view published folios.

Folios are secure only if Enable Secure Content is selected for a v30 app and if v30 folios are published with "Encrypt Folio" selected.

Folios delivered to an app using the secure content feature are protected when the device is locked or powered off. The folios become available after the device is unlocked using a pass code. This is standard iOS functionality provided by the operating system.

For more information, see the Secure folios in DPS account help article and the Secure content video .

Calendar API support (iOS only)

Support for adding events to the calendar is now included in the JavaScript APIs. For example, you can allow users to tap a link to add an upcoming event to their Calendar app (non-recurring events only). You can also allow items such as a list of recipe ingredients to be added to the user’s Reminders app. For examples, see New APIs and features in r30 in the DPS Developer Center [article not yet available].

No more "Show More" in viewer library

On the iPad, readers can now scroll continuously through content in the library. Users no longer need to tap the Show More button at the bottom of the library to display additional folios.

Sign In / Subscribe enhancements (Enterprise)

You can now invoke the native viewer sign-in dialog box and subscription dialog box from within custom views. With this change, you can use the native subscription or sign-in dialog box to display purchase options instead of having to create your own. The native sign-in dialog box is available in the Library and Store API. The native subscription dialog box is available in both the

Library and Store API and the Reading API.

Enhancements to entitlement information (Enterprise)

Adobe will begin using an internal cloud-based service to provide proxy entitlement information. Enterprise publishers offering direct entitlement will still be able to provide both authentication and entitlements, but the Adobe service will be able to cache entitlements on behalf of publishers. For details, see the Changes to Direct Entitlement Infrastructure tech note.

Folio Producer services

Note the following changes to server features.

Enhancements to text notifications

A redesigned push notification service with extended capabilities is now available. This new Push

Notification Portal offers the following capabilities:

Schedule text notifications with an option to cancel unsent notifications.

View the history of text notifications. You can send notifications and view the status of current/scheduled notifications.

Pass deep links in text notifications. For example, you can provide a link that opens the app library.

Use SiteCatalyst analytics to evaluate text notification data.

For more information, see the Push notifications help article and this scheduled text notifications video .

Analytics improvements

In SiteCatalyst analytics, there is now complete tracking of background downloads starting from when push is received to when the folio is downloaded.

AEM/DPS workflow

Media Publisher is a module for the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) that allows the system to publish DPS content. Once

AEM and the module are configured and using the appropriate templates, you can create HTML articles and publish DPS folios. Articles can be uploaded directly to the Adobe Folio Producer service and can continually check to make sure articles are in sync with the latest changes. For more information about the AEM workflow, see the articles in Efficient DPS workflows leveraging CMS systems .

Web viewer

Note the following changes to Adobe Content Viewer for the Web (web viewer).

Adobe Content Viewer for Web SDK API enhancements

The embedded web viewer now provides new Javascript APIs which allow Enterprise publishers to implement their own “Next Article” and "Previous Article” buttons on their hosting web page. Users can then click these buttons in the iframe to jump to the next article or to the next page of a flattened article. These buttons can be skinned to match the branding and style of the hosting page. For more information, see Embedded Web Viewer SDK .

Browser support notice for Web Viewer

Adobe now detects the browser used to access the web viewer and provides helpful information related to browsers that provide the best experience. For web viewer content hosted at http://contentviewer.adobe.com/, when the web viewer detects a browser that is either not supported or is an “old” version of a supported browser, the web viewer will display a “Best Viewed with…” dialog box that recommends the most recent version of any of the supported browsers, but allows the user to view the folio content. For browsers that are so old they cannot even display this message, the web viewer will display an error message that instructs the user to upgrade to the most recent version of any of the supported browsers and then blocks access to the content (because the user experience is frequently poor).

When the web viewer is hosted on a web site using the Adobe Content Viewer for Web SDK, publishers can opt-in through the SDK to display this support notice or simply receive an API callback allowing publishers to display their own message or otherwise redirect the user to alternate content. For more information, see Embedded Web Viewer SDK .

Additional analytics tracking for web viewer

Changes to analytics tracking:

Source of traffic to the web viewer is tracked.

Purchase type associated with entitled content is tracked. When readers sign in to access web viewer content via direct entitlement, the web viewer should pass information that the content is purchased.

TOC clicks are tracked.

Clicks of the Paywall button are now tracked in the web viewer analytics reports.

For details, see SiteCatalyst DPS Report Guide (PDF) .

DPS

Folio format specification now available

The folio format spec is now available. Commercial publishers can extend their content through a variety of marketplaces that accept the .folio file format specification. Publishing to .folio as a universally accepted digital publishing file format will allow magazine publishers to more efficiently produce digital content for mobile devices by eliminating the need to create and publish interactive, digital content in multiple, individual proprietary file formats supported by each unique marketplace. Newsstands and marketplaces that accept the license for the .folio file format specification will be able to create their own native viewers capable of displaying digital magazines available in the

.folio file format.

Folio format spec download page

Advance notice: DPS to drop support of InDesign CS5.5 and CS5 in v32

With the v32 release (tentatively scheduled for September 2014),

InDesign CS5.5 and InDesign CS5 will still be able to create source documents for DPS, but uploading articles to the Folio Producer Service will require InDesign CS6 or later.

Twitter™ and Facebook posts are not covered under the terms of Creative Commons.

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History of new feature release notes

The Digital Publishing Suite tools are updated frequently. For a list of bug fixes, see DPS Bug Fix Release Notes .

Release 30 — Upcoming (scheduled for March 15)

To view a description of the new features in the current set of tools, see What’s new in this release.

Release 29

These features were added for v29 viewers.

Support for native Android viewer

You can now use the Web-based DPS App Builder to create native Android viewer apps. The Web-based DPS App Builder runs on both Mac OS and Windows. For the time being, you can still use the existing desktop DPS App Builder to create legacy AIR-based Android apps.

Two versions of the Adobe Content Viewer are available in the Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore. The “Adobe Content Viewer

(legacy)” app is still available for testing content in the legacy AIR-based Android viewer. The new “Adobe Content Viewer for Android” app lets you test content for native Android viewers.

The new native Android viewer supports both tablets and phones running Android 4.0.3 or later. For a list of supported features and limitations, see Building native DPS apps for Android devices. For a comparison chart, see the DPS supported feature list.

Windows viewer enhancements

The Adobe Content Viewer is now availabe in the Windows Store. This app requires Windows 8.1. Note that the ability to create custom Windows apps is not yet available in DPS App Builder. Renditions and pan & zoom overlays are now supported in the Windows viewer. See Building DPS apps for Windows Store.

Streaming Audio and Video

Reduce folio file size and improve download times with new support for streaming video and audio authoring. Audio and Video are now two separate sections in the Folio Overlays panel. For both Audio and Video overlays, you can specify a URL to a media file uploaded to a server.

When you specify a media file (MP4 or MP3) for streaming, you can select any option available for local media files, including Auto Play and Play in Background Across Folio.

This URL you specify must be "http" not "https." You cannot use this technique to stream movies from services such as YouTube and Vimeo.

Instead, use a Web Content overlay.

Streaming audio and video requires the v29 tools but not a v29 folio format. You can stream media files using an earlier folio format (v18 or later).

Segmented text notifications

Deliver targeted text push notifications to keep consumers engaged with your app and brand. You can identify groups of customers by segment, such as iPad users, iPhone users, or users who haven't used the app in more than 30 days. You can then send text messages to this subgroup of customers' devices to encourage them to download additional content or to view promotional offers.

If you have a SiteCatalyst analytics account, you can gather information for a subgroup of customers in a CSV file. You can then specify this CSV file when sending your text-based push notification. For detailed information, see the Segmented Push Notifications article in DPS Developer

Center.

Articles in free folios always available

Articles in folios published as Free are now displayed without a paywall in the web viewer even if the article is set to Protected or Metered. Before the v29 release, if a folio was published as Free, the paywall could be enabled and prevent users from viewing content. With free folios in v29 apps, the paywall never appears, even when enabled for the app.

Analytics enhancements

Base Analytics on the Dashboard is no longer beta. It is now localized and includes several bug fixes. In addition, SiteCatalyst analytics now includes tracking for auto started vs. user initiated overlays (iOS only).

Legacy Android viewer enhancements

The AIR-based Android viewer now supports Android 4.4. For Android viewers, pinch and zoom is now enabled for "flattened" articles set to

Horizontal Swipe Only. This behavior is already supported on iOS viewers.

Welcome screen for iOS apps (Enterprise only)

The welcome screen is a transparent Web View that displays HTML content between the splash screen and the Library/Store. The HTML content you provide in DPS App Builder appears the first time customers launch the app after installing it or the first time they launch the app after it's updated. For example, you can use the welcome screen to encourage readers to create an account, accept terms-of-use, explore a preview issue, or orient them to the app. The welcome screen has full access to the Library/Store JavaScript API, and you have full control over the experience.

Use the "Optional Welcome Screen" option in DPS App Builder to specify the .zip file containing your HTML files. If your app supports both iPad and iPhone, your HTML files should display content that works on both device sizes. For instructions and sample HTML files, see Getting started with a welcome screen in DPS Developer Center.

Social Sharing & Web Viewer improvements

Note the following changes to the DPS social sharing feature.

There is new behavior for protected articles. When a reader shares a protected article in a v29 app, the article URL is shared, not the

Publication URL. If unentitled recipients tap or click the shared URL link, they see the Paywall page. This change affects both the desktop web viewer and the article viewer on the iPad. The Publication URL option in DPS App Builder has been removed from the Social Settings page for v29 apps. The Publication URL is still used in v28 and earlier apps.

The web viewer now supports audio files with AAC/MP4 encoding.

The Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo social sharing options are now available in China. If publishers enable social sharing, their readers who have set a Chinese Keyboard for their iPad or Phone on iOS 7 will see options for Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo will in the sharing activity sheet menu. Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo are supported only in devices running iOS 7, not iOS 6.

The Right Edge Binding feature is now supported in web viewer. If this option is selected, the first article is right-most in web viewer as well as on devices.

In an embedded web viewer, publishers can now allow external links to be displayed in a new browser tab or window. See the Adobe

Content Viewer for Web SDK.

In an embedded web viewer, publishers can track when users navigate between pages. See the Adobe Content Viewer for Web SDK.

DPS App Builder enhancements

Note these changes in DPS App Builder.

The Social Sharing page was changed to reflect different behavior in iOS 6 and iOS 7. The Publication URL option was also removed for v29 apps.

(Enterprise) Push notifications are now supported in enterprise-signed apps. The mobileprovision file must have a non-wildcard Bundle ID.

(Enterprise) The Label value in custom icons was removed. If you want to use different names for Viewer or Library, edit the customized strings XML file.

(Enterprise) The localized strings for custom icons no longer includes redundant sections.

(Enterprise) "Optional iPhone Welcome Screen" is now called "Optional Welcome Screen." This option now supports iPad as well as iPhone.

Customer marketing improvements (Enterprise, iOS)

DPS now supports several API features designed to improve customer marketing. These features are available in both the Library/Store API and the Reading API, so they can be implemented in articles, stores, and other navigation webviews.

Publishers can use vendorIdentifier to track advertising campaigns. The vendor ID identifies the publisher. (Note that the advertisingIdentifier option that identifies each device was previously enabled and is no longer available at this time due to new Apple restrictions.)

Publishers can use canOpenURL to detect whether specific apps are installed using known URL schemes, allowing publishers to crosspromote apps more directly.

Publishers can use openExternal to launch an external URL from within a custom navigation webview.

Publishers can specify a URL scheme with parameters to pass campaign and promotional codes from email, text, or websites and launch the app directly into a navigation webview.

By combining these APIs, publishers can market their apps in a number of different ways. For example, publishers can collect data to determine which users have installed their apps but haven't subscribed. Publishers can then launch an email advertising campaign that offers a free 3-month subscription. Or, publishers can create a web overlay that checks if a different app is installed, and display different offers depending on whether users have downloaded that app and whether they have a subscription.

Improved behavior of apps with a large number of folios (Enterprise)

If an app includes a large number (such as 1,500) of folios, it takes a long time for the library to update. If you select a setting in DPS App Builder, you can use your entitlement server to control which folios are included when the custom library is updated.

Base analytics enhancements

In base analytics, you can select "Special Issues" as the publication frequency. When you select Special Issues, you can also set the Audience

Accumulation start and end date. In addition, base analytics includes a number of bug fixes that improve data display.

Improved stability of Folio Producer Services

The most recent AWS migration introduced several problems with uploading and downloading content through the Folio Producer Service powered

by acrobat.com. The services will be updated to fix these issues.

Release 28

Text-based push notifications (iOS, Professional/Enterprise)

Using a third-party push notification service is no longer required to send text notifications to your customers. By sending custom text messages, you can encourage repeat readers and subscribers on iOS devices by alerting readers of new content. Text notifications work with any viewer version. In addition, you can use SiteCatalyst analytics to measure customer reaction to push notifications, including the number of readers who opt-in to receiving push alerts.

Baseline analytics improvements (beta version, English only)

The DPS Dashboard includes a new beta version of baseline analytics reports. With the new baseline analytics, you can view Standard Audience

Accumulation metrics for digital readership that comply with the MPA Tablet Metrics guidelines. Newly available reports display data such as total readers, total sessions, total time spent per reader, average sessions per reader, devices, and operating system.

While analyzing data, you can change accumulation settings across standard metrics. With the redesigned interface, you can gain access to analytics and export report data to view in a spreadsheet.

Support for iOS 7

v28 apps include support for iOS 7. Note that on iOS 7 devices, any viewer created with v24 or earlier may perform poorly. In particular, folios with landscape orientation either fail to display or display poorly. For best results, update all DPS apps to v27 or v28.

Drop of support for iOS 5

Adobe DPS is dropping support for iOS 5. With this change, v28 apps will not run on iOS5, and by extension, on iPad 1 devices. If you want to continue supporting iPad 1 devices, make sure that you create folios that are compatible with the viewer version of the existing app (v27 or earlier).

iOS 7 requirements for DPS apps

With DPS App Builder, you can build v28 apps that comply with Apple iOS 7 design guidelines, including new light-colored user interface design themes. Consider the following iOS 7 requirements when designing and building your apps: iOS 7 requires the system bar to be displayed in apps. When you build a v28 app, the 20- or 40-pixel system status bar now appears above the top navigation bar in all views, including folio view. When users tap to display the navigation bars, more of your design area is covered.

Make necessary adjustments to your article layouts.

With iOS 7, the custom icons in the bottom Navigation toolbar (Enterprise only) work differently. When you build a v28 app with custom toolbar icons, you no longer provide three separate icons for Up, Down, and Disabled states. Instead, you provide a single PNG file with a transparent background, and iOS 7 changes the color of the display state automatically. (These files are 30x30 and 60x60 pixels.) You no longer need to embed the text label in the navigation icon. Instead, specify text in the Icon Label field in DPS App Builder, which appears below the custom icons. If your app supports multiple languages, you can localize this text. These new icons appear in the Navigation bar only if the icon is actionable. For example, the “Viewer” button does not appear until a folio is downloaded. If enabled, the Navigation toolbar is a few pixels taller than the Navigation toolbar in previous apps (12 pixels on SD iPads, 24 pixels on HD iPads). Again, make the necessary adjustments to your layouts. For more information about these icons, see Creating DPS apps for the iPad and iPhone.

For iOS 7, additional app icon sizes are required: 152x152 (iPad HD), 76x76 (iPad SD), and 120x120 (iPhone). These new icon files are required when you build either a v27 or v28 app in DPS App Builder.

DPS viewers include several UI changes for iOS 7. For example, the library background is much lighter than in previous versions, so check your cover images for appropriate contrast. If your app includes an article that describes how to use the app, you’ll likely want to update this help content.

Note that there are known problems with v24 and earlier apps working on iOS 7 devices. For best results, update existing apps to v27 or later.

AirDrop Support for iOS 7

With v28 apps on iOS 7 devices, you can share articles with people near you using AirDrop. When recipients receive shared article links via

AirDrop on an iPad, they can take advantage of the new v28 Mobile Safari Web Viewer feature.

Mobile Safari Web Viewer (iPad only)

When an iPad user taps a link to an unprotected shared article, the shared article opens directly in the Mobile Safari Web Viewer. This feature lets share recipients view a web viewer version of the article with a single tap on the iPad rather than having to download the app. The Mobile Safari

Web Viewer (also called “article viewer”) provides links to download the app or view the article if it's already downloaded on the iPad. In this initial release, some features such as certain overlay types are not yet supported.

Schedule Folio Availability Date

Define a specific date and time to make folio content available on the Distribution Service to app users, eliminating the need for production staff to manually push new content live.

You can also set Schedule Folio Availability Date information programmatically using the Folio Producer API (Enterprise only).

New default viewer version for folios

The default viewer version for folios is now v26 instead of v20. When you create a new folio, you can still target v20 through v28 viewer versions.

Camera API support

Use the device camera to allow users to take photographs from within your app, and either feature photos within your content or store them in the camera roll. For example, you can specify a frame image and allow users to take a picture (or specify an image from their Photos app) that appears within that frame.

Content on Android devices scaled up

In previous releases, smaller renditions in Android apps were not scaled up, causing both letterboxing and pillarboxing. With v28 AIR-based

Android apps, smaller renditions are now scaled up proportionally.

Lock orientation option

DPS App Builder includes a new settings that lets you lock the orientation of your app so that the library and folio view are displayed in only one orientation.

SiteCatalyst analytics improvements

New SiteCatalyst reports are available for author metadata, which is useful for tracking specific authors or advertisers. Additional custom eVar tracking is also available. See the related analytics articles in the DPS Developer Center for details.

Web Viewer localized

The Content Viewer for the Web (web viewer) now includes support for 20 different languages.

Distribution Service performance improvements

Folios uploaded to the Adobe Distribution Service are now stored on faster and more reliable Amazon Web Service servers. You should notice significant improvements in publishing, updating, and downloading folios.

Release 27

Pinterest support in Social Sharing (iOS, Professional/Enterprise)

Pinterest is now one of the Social Sharing options in DPS App Builder. When selected, the Pinterest option appears in the drop-down social sharing menu of your app. Customers who view your app on an iPad or iPhone can pin the preview image of an article page to their pinboards.

From Pinterest, readers can click the page image to experience interactive article content on a device or in the web viewer. You can set paywall limits on the number of articles available for viewing, as with other Social Sharing options.

Device GPS Integration (iOS, Professional/Enterprise)

With GPS integration, you can provide targeted content based on geographic location. In your app, you can add GPS logic to HTML content to achieve different purposes. Examples:

You can create a Web Content overlay or HTML article that displays different ads depending on where users are viewing the article.

In your custom store (Enterprise only), you can display region-specific folios and entitle users to folios based on their location.

In your custom library (Enterprise only), you can display region-specific banners.

Additional details: To enable GPS integration in a custom store or library, use the v2 custom story/library APIs. To enable GPS integration in a

Web Content overlay or HTML article, use the Reading API. Also, select the “Allow Access to Entitlement Information” option if you enable GPS integration in a Web Content overlay or HTML article.

Social Sharing/Web Viewer Improvements (iOS, Professional/Enterprise)

Note the following enhancements:

In the web viewer, articles that have an article access state set to "Free" in Folio Producer can now be viewed in the desktop web viewer without counting against the paywall threshold. There has been no change to the behavior for metered or protected articles. Metered articles still count against the paywall threshold and protected articles are available only to entitled readers. (The Free, Metered, and Protected settings now have the same effect in both web viewer and free article preview.)

In previous versions, thumbnail images of protected articles in the web viewer TOC were grayed out and displayed a lock icon on mouse over. In addition, left and right navigation actions skipped over protected articles. With v27, the web viewer no longer makes a distinction between protected, free, or metered articles in the TOC and in navigation. All articles appear in the TOC without distinction, and navigating within a folio allows users to visit every article, including protected articles. Protected articles are obscured by a paywall message.

In the embedded web viewer, the sign-in process has been streamlined to provide publishers the ability to authenticate users on their own web site.

Android viewer improvements (Professional/Enterprise)

The AIR-based Android viewer includes the following enhancements:

The folio size dimension limit has increased from 2048x2048 to 4095x4095 pixels. This allows you to create folios that target larger devices

such as 10” HD Android tablets.

Splash screens you specify on Android devices are now scaled up or down proportionally to fill the target screen. For example, you can specify 2560x1600 and 1600x2560 splash screens, which are scaled down (and cropped if the aspect ratio is different) for smaller devices.

Icons and UI elements are now larger on XLarge Android devices such as 10” HD tablets, making it easier to tap buttons and navigate in viewers on HD devices.

Custom navigation icons (Enterprise only) can now be 75x43, 98x52, or 214x114 pixels.

The native (non-AIR) Android viewer is still being developed.

Copy Folio

A Copy command is now available in the Folio Producer Organizer. You can copy (duplicate) your own folio or you can copy a folio shared with you from a different account. Copying either a published or unpublished folio creates a new folio on the Folio Producer server (acrobat.com), not the Distribution Service. You can then edit and publish the copied folio. If the folio was shared with you from a different computer, you need to obtain the source files and relink the articles in order to edit and update articles. Locked folios cannot be copied.

New "auto-open" option in DPS App Builder

"Auto-open latest entitled folio after download" is a new option in DPS App Builder. If "Auto-download latest entitled folio on first launch" is selected, the "Auto-open" option is selected by default so that first-time readers can download the app and start reading right away. If you turn off the "Auto-open" option, users see the folio being downloaded in the library, but the folio doesn't open until they tap the cover image. This allows publishers to provide a message in the banner that lets first-time users know that they're receiving a free folio.

Article Preview enhancements

Article Preview now supports Metered articles in addition to Free articles within preview folios. When a reader navigates to a metered article within a preview folio, a "Read Article" button will be displayed on the purchase pane, allowing the reader to tap and download the metered article to their device as part of their preview experience. The number of metered articles the reader can view is controlled by the device paywall threshold set by the publisher.

In addition, there are several UI improvements to free article preview. For example, the preview images of protected articles now appear behind a dark mesh pattern. Browse thumbnails now have a gradient treatment applied, and browse thumbnails are displayed for all pages of “flattened” articles (Horizontal Swiping Only) in both browse mode and as preview Images behind the mesh treatment in folio view.

Analytics improvements (Professional/Enterprise with SiteCatalyst account)

SiteCatalyst reports now include information on purchases by reader subscription type (new or renewal), term length of subscription (1 month, 6 months, and so on), and purchases by app marketplace. SiteCatalyst also reports the number of readers that opt in to receive push notifications. In addition, tracking of slideshow and scrollable frame overlays is more detailed.

Additional changes

Other v27 improvements include:

Privacy Policy is now enabled for the iPhone as well as the iPad. You can specify a Privacy Policy URL in DPS App Builder.

The sidecar.xml now supports Article Access settings, which means you can import the sidecar.xml file to apply Free/Metered/Protected settings to each article in the folio.

Links in the Library/Store v2 API can now display a separated web view window (also called an “in-app browser”) within the app that has a

Close button. The HTML in this web view window can still reference the APIs.

Release 26

Free Article Preview (iPad only)

You can allow customers to preview content in a retail folio. Users can tap the Preview button to download and read all free articles. When a user navigates to other articles in the app, a paywall prompts them to purchase the folio. To enable Free Article Preview in a retail folio, select the

"Enable Article Preview" setting in the Account Administration Tool, and use the Folio Producer Editor to mark specific articles as Free. (Free

Article Preview is iPad-only and currently does not work with folios that have Sections.)

Note: To apply the "Free" setting to articles in legacy folios, you need to update the folio viewer version to v26 or later AND update the articles within that folio.

PDF article support in both Android Viewer and Desktop Viewer

PDF articles are now supported on Android devices and in the Desktop Viewer. On Android viewers, you can take advantage of the PDF format to reduce file size, reuse iOS folios that have PDF articles, and use pinch & zoom on article pages. In the Desktop Viewer, you can now preview folios that have PDF articles, which is especially useful to preflight your folio for errors.

The app version needs to be v26 or later to display PDF articles, but the folio with PDF articles can be any version.

(Note that this is a change to the existing AIR-based Android viewer, not to the native Android viewer that is currently in development. In addition,

PDF support on Android does not include displaying PDF files in the in-app browser.)

iPad library improvements

Icons now appear beneath each cover preview image in the library so that users can see which content is free or retail without an extra tap.

Tapping a button with a price initiates a purchase. Tapping the free button or the cloud button initiates a download. A cloud icon appears if a user is entitled to a retail folio that hasn't been downloaded.

Tapping the cover preview image itself still displays a preview pane with additional information. If a custom library is configured to display only entitled folios, the preview pane does not appear when tapping the cover image.

(Enterprise only) If your custom library displays only folios to which your customers are entitled, no preview pane appears. Tapping a cover image begins to download the folio.

Full iPhone 5 support

You can now create 1136x640 folio renditions to avoid letterboxing content on the iPhone 5. In DPS App Builder, you must specify an additional

640x1136 launch image (splash screen) to comply with Apple requirements for iPhone 5 apps.

DPS App Builder enhancements

DPS App Builder includes the following changes:

Asset links are now stored on the server, allowing you to use different computers to build the app without having to relink to copied assets.

For example, an agency can go through DPS App Builder to specify most of the settings and files, and the client can then complete the app by specifying the certificates. When you edit an existing viewer, an "Asset stored on the server" message appears in the text field. Storing assets works only for an individual app; you cannot store assets on the server for use across multiple apps.

(Enterprise) When you create a custom store that takes advantage of new API features, creating a custom library is no longer required.

(Enterprise) If you want to continue using an older store that you've created, you can select Use Legacy Store APIs in DPS App Builder.

However, if you select this option, you cannot specify a custom library.

The "Enable hot zone to display folio view controls" option now includes a hot zone at both the top and bottom of screen, not just the bottom.

There is a new option for specifying an optional privacy policy URL that appears in the library settings menu.

Optional URL Scheme is now available for single-folio apps.

Analytics opt-in improvement

If you configure the viewer to allow users to opt out of analytics data, they have the option to change their mind and opt in using the settings menu. This is supported in both iOS and Android viewers.

Web Viewer enhancements

Web Viewer now includes the following improvements:

Embedded Web Viewer. You can now embed shared Web Viewer articles in your Web site with new support for iframe HTML tags in DPS.

Include surrounding design elements that convey a consistent, branded experience for your customers..

Web Viewer-only folio. You can create a special folio rendition for the Web Viewer that appears only in the Web Viewer browser, not on the device viewer. For example, you can create a 1024x580 folio that displays only a horizontal orientation, uses terminology such as "click" instead of "tap," and replaces an unsupported panorama with a static image. See Creating a Web Viewer rendition.

Custom stores and custom Libraries are now supported in Web Viewer. Integrate a Custom Store and Custom Library within the Web Viewer to feature special content, offers, or promotions.

Optional privacy policy URL. You can configure a web link to your app's privacy policy. This is supported in both iOS and Android Viewers.

Web Viewer analytics. Analytics data is now enabled for the Web Viewer.

Horizontal Swipe Only support (added in v25). The Web Viewer now displays "flattened" articles that have Horizontal Swipe Only selected.

New and enhanced Fulfillment Reports

The Fulfillment Report on the DPS Dashboard gives publishers easy-to-understand details related to the downloads of their folio content. The

Fulfillment Report now includes additional data fields to make it easier to build informative pivot tables that show how many downloads for each publication, per issue, with a total for all downloads and a breakout showing web viewer downloads separately. A new Consolidated Fulfillment

Report (currently called "Rollup Report") gives administrators the fulfillment data for all publications associated with their account. Finally, all report data is now recorded daily instead of weekly.

Online purchase of fulfillment bundles

A new online purchase option for 10,000 Fulfillment Bundles makes it easy for publishers to ensure their account is always in good standing.

Fulfillment renewals placed through a reseller or directly from Adobe can sometimes take a few days to process. To provide a faster purchase option, publishers can now buy a serial number for a 10,000 fulfillment bundle through the Adobe Store and redeem that serial number through the

DPS Dashboard.

Analytics improvements

Note the following improvements to analytics:

Complete articles read. You can track how many readers completely read articles in a single visit.

TOC tracking. You can track taps on the TOC button and also identify which articles are discovered through the TOC.

Readers that are directly entitled by publishers. You can get data about readers who sign in to the app and obtain folios through direct entitlement.

You can optionally return the reader's subscriber ID and subscriber type through the direct entitlement API. The subscriber type and subscriber ID

values are passed to SiteCatalyst so that you can track how these subscribers engage with the folio.

Free Article Preview. When customers tap the "Preview" button to preview the issue, the number of preview button taps and the free articles that get previewed are tracked. The number of conversions after the issue is previewed is also tracked.

Omniture Visitor ID and Push notification token. For each reader, an Omniture visitor ID and push notification token (if the reader has opted in to receiving push notifications) is added to SiteCatalyst.

Web Viewer: Web Viewer information is tracked.

First Folio Free API improvement

Enterprise publishers can now use the custom library API to configure the subscription banner to display messaging depending on whether the reader is a subscriber and can appropriately provide messaging that supports the latest free retail issue feature.

Release 25

Library UI improvements (iPad only)

The iPad viewer library was redesigned to include larger grid cover images. Tapping a cover image of a downloaded folio opens the folio. Tapping a cover image of a folio not yet downloaded opens a preview pane. Readers can use the gear menu button to select and remove folios.

Folio view includes several changes. The Home button is now the Library button in multi-folio apps. The function of the Browse button and the bottom scroll bar are now combined. Use the scroll bar to swipe through articles in browse mode. The arrows next to the scroll bar that jump to the next or previous article have been removed.

In DPS App Builder, you can also remove the Subscribe and Sign In buttons that appear in the upper left corner of the library in Enterprise subscription apps. The redesign requires larger subscription tile images for subscription apps.

First retail folio free

By selecting an option in the Account Administration tool, publishers can make the most recently published retail folio available to users who download the app for the first time.

Conditional HTML content (Enterprise only)

Designed to be used with the first folio free feature, this feature enables a publisher to create either an HTML article or a Web Content overlay that displays different content depending on how the folio was obtained. For example, if a user downloads a complimentary folio, the content can include a subscription offer. If a user obtains the folio through a subscription, the content can offer additional products.

To set up this conditional HTML content, do two things. First, select the Allow Access to Entitlement Information option for the Web Content overlay or the HTML article. Second, add a custom JavaScript API to your HTML code. For more information about this JavaScript API, contact your Adobe representative.

Auto-download latest entitled issue

When this DPS App Builder setting is selected, the most recent entitled issue is downloaded automatically—either the first free retail folio if enabled or the most recently published free folio. The purpose of this option is to provide a better experience for first-time app users.

Automatically open background-downloaded issue

When this DPS App Builder setting is selected, any folio that is downloaded in the background since the previous viewing session opens on app launch. If this option is not selected, the most recently viewed folio is opened in its last reading position

Open folio to last-read article

When you switch between folios, the previously viewed folio is no longer reset. Instead, the viewer remembers the reading position of all folios. To reset a folio, display the navigation bars in an article and triple-tap the title bar.

Dynamic subscriptions (Enterprise only)

Publishers can add or remove subscription options on an ongoing basis without having to update the app. This allows publishers to evaluate subscription durations to determine the best set of options.

Streamlined testing of Amazon apps

When you use DPS App Builder to create an app (.apk file) for Amazon, you can now load and test the .apk file on the Amazon device without having to load a separate .json file. Using a .json file is now required only to test retail content.

Local storage support on Android apps

In previous versions, Android viewers did not support local storage. Quitting an app resulted in losing the reading position or form fill-in data. With v25 Android apps, this information is now preserved, as it is in iOS apps.

goto:// navigation

The goto:// format lets Enterprise publishers create links in folio view to any custom icon content in the library. For example, if you create a custom icon in DPS App Builder with a “Store” label, you can create a button with a “goto://ApplicationViewState/Store” action that automatically opens the

Store HTML content—just like tapping the custom Store icon.

Hide top navigation bar

When this DPS App Builder setting is selected, only the bottom navigation bar is displayed when a user taps an article. This enables publishers to create a persistent navigation bar on all article pages for navigating within the folio.

Automated workflow API improvements (Enterprise only)

When using APIs for automated DPS publishing workflows, you can now publish and update folios and update article metadata (updating articles is planned for a future release).

SiteCatalyst analytics improvements

SiteCatalyst includes enhancements such as reporting the playback duration of videos.

Generate fulfillment download reports

Publishers can now generate reports to view download data from the Adobe Distribution Service. If you sign in to the DPS Dashboard using an

Application account, you can choose the Fulfillment Report option to download a .csv file that includes billable download statistics from the Adobe

Distribution Service for that app. If you sign in using an Admin account, you can click a link in the Dashboard to obtain a report that shows your fulfillment download balance.

iOS4 no longer supported

The v25 and later viewers no longer support iOS4—only iOS5 or later.

Release 24

Library background downloading (iOS)

When your customers are downloading any folio in a v24 app, they can leave the app, check email or view a different folio, and then come back later to find the folio downloaded. Note that the download pauses after ten minutes. Only one folio can be downloaded at a time.

Update multiple articles at a time

You can select multiple articles in the Folio Builder panel and choose Update to update all the selected articles. To select articles, Shift-click or Ctrl/Command-click the articles.

Sections

The new Sections feature will eventually allow your customers to download individual sections of a folio. For example, you can divide a folio into News, Sports, Business, Style, and Money sections, and your customers could download only the articles in the Sports and Money sections if they so choose. See Create Sections.

Disable Cover View in iPad viewer library

By default, all iPad viewer libraries include both a Grid View and a Cover View, which displays only one folio at a time. With the v24 DPS App Builder, you can select an option to include only the Grid View or both the Grid View and Cover View on iPads. (With Android viewers, you can already choose Grid View, Cover View, or both.)

DPS UI enhancements

When you create a folio, an Orientation setting is no longer selected by default. If you click OK without selecting an

Orientation setting, a red box appears around the option. This change should help avoid mistakenly creating a folio with an incorrect orientation setting.

In addition, many error messages now include links that direct you to a tech note.

Folio publishing enhancements

When a folio fails to publish properly due to a server error, you can click a Retry button to resume the publishing process after the server issue is resolved.

Improvements to DPS servers

performance.

The bandwidth of the Adobe Distribution Service has been increased, resulting in improved stability and

In addition, DPS servers are now in a separate cluster on acrobat.com, allowing folios to be uploaded and downloaded even if acrobat.com is undergoing maintenance.

“Restore Purchases” change

options menu.

The “Restore Purchases” dialog box now appears only when users choose Restore Purchases from the library

Enable caching of folio information in library (iOS)

In DPS App Builder, you can cache folio information to improve performance for apps with large libraries. Note that selecting this option can cause folio information to become out of date. For example, if you select this option and change the cost of retail folios, your library will display misleading information. This option is currently available only for subscription apps.

Improvements for Enterprise-signed apps (iOS, Enterprise only)

You can now sign an in-house application with an enterprise mobileprovision file that contains an explicit (non-wildcard) application ID. This change lets you manage the application independently from other apps in your organization.

Analytics enhancments

SiteCatalyst now makes a distinction between different types of mobile devices and different operating systems. A new

URL tracking report allows you to track actual URLs, URL clicks, the source of the URL (Hyperlink overlay, Web Content overlay, or application) and how the URL is opened (in Web Wiewer, in application viewer, or in device browser). App usage reports let you track peak day/time usage of the apps and number of launches since last update. These changes affect only SiteCatalyst analytics, not baseline analytics.

Release 23

Updated Distribution Service infrastructure

Publishing folios to the Distribution Service is now significantly faster. These server changes should result in fewer timeout errors and increased reliability in background downloads for iOS Newsstand.

Folio Builder panel UI improvements

The Folio Builder panel is wider, the navigation icons are larger and more intuitive, there are more tooltips and information bubbles, options are renamed for clarity, and other improvements make the panel easier to use. You can also launch the DPS App

Builder (previously called Viewer Builder) from the panel menu.

Changes to DPS App Builder (previously called Viewer Builder)

CS6 installer now installs the DPS App Builder.

The DPS App Builder includes several interface improvements. The InDesign

Drag and drop files into DPS App Builder

You can now drag and drop icons, splash screens, and other files from Finder into App Builder.

Choice between vector and bitmap for slideshows and scrollable frames (iOS only)

In overlays for PDF articles, you can select Vector or

Bitmap. Vector images look sharper but require a small load time. For overlays in JPG/PNG articles, slideshows and scrollable frames are always bitmap.

Multi-rendition articles (iOS only)

You can now create PDF articles that look great and perform well on both SD and HD versions of devices.

When creating overlays, you can include both SD and HD assets in the folio. The viewer uses the appropriate overlay assets for the specific iOS device.

If you’re creating a single-folio app, you can create a folio using PDF articles that work well for all iPad models. If you’re creating a multi-folio app, you can choose between creating multi-rendition articles in a folio or creating separate folio renditions. See Creating multi-rendition PDF articles for iOS devices.

Unlimited Single Edition folios with Creative Cloud membership (iPad only)

unlimited single-folio apps for the iPad.

With an Adobe Creative Cloud membership, you can create

Play audio in background (iOS only)

Audio clip can play while users browse through articles in the folio. An audio button appears in the top navigation bar to let users pause and play the audio. See Audio & Video overlays.

Stop on Last Frame (iOS only)

The Folio Overlays panel now includes an option for stopping the inline video at the last frame.

Disable controls for inline videos (iOS only)

If you create an inline video set to Auto Play, you can select the Do Not Allow Pause option to disable playback controls. This feature is especially useful for cover videos.

New Adobe Content Viewer behavior for invalid folios

In previous releases, invalid folios failed to appear in the Adobe Content Viewer. With the new release, invalid folios appear in the library and result in an error message on download. This change improves the Adobe Content Viewer library performance and provides more detailed preflighting information. For example, if you create a dual-orientation folio with one or more singleorientation articles, the error message indicates the problem rather than leaving you to guess.

PDF support for Smooth Scrolling articles (iOS only)

You can use the PDF image format for Smooth Scrolling articles regardless of their length. However, article pinch and zoom is not supported in any Smooth Scrolling article.

“Rate the App” option

When you create a custom viewers, you can select an option that allows a “Rate the App” prompt to appear. You can customize settings for this feature in the DPS App Builder.

Hot Zones for displaying navigation bars

In addition to the hot zones on the sides of the article page, there is a new hot zone option for the bottom of the article page. Tapping in the hot zone area at the bottom of the page displays the navigation bars (also called the “HUD”). Tapping anywhere above the bottom hot zone does not display the navigation bars. See App Details panel.

Buttons take precedence over the bottom hot zone, the bottom hot zone takes precedence over the side hot zones, and hot zones take precedence over all non-button overlays.

Go To Next/Previous Page support

When you create a button, the Go To Next Page and Go To Previous Page actions are now supported.

Analytics opt out option

In the DPS App Builder, you can allow your customers to turn off analytics while using your app. This option is especially useful in certain regions with strict controls over data collection.

Customizable viewer strings

You can customize all strings stored in the viewer in all supported languages, including button text in the library and text in dialog boxes. The DPS App Builder lets you download an XML template. You can then edit this XML file and specify it while building your app. See App Details panel.

Social Sharing enhancements (iOS only)

Note the following Social Sharing improvements. See Using social sharing.

Support for Web Viewer direct entitlement (Enterprise only). When customers hit the paywall limit in Web Viewer, they can now sign in using their subscription account to continue viewing articles.

Web Viewer supports Internet Explorer 10/Windows 8.

You can also set up a paywall for free folios.

The Web Viewer supports all overlays except for panoramas and audio clips.

If you create a 1024x768 folio using PDF image format, the content is now uploaded to the Web Viewer server in PNG format.

New Step-by-Step Publishing Guide for Single Edition

When you click the link on the Dashboard to download the DPS Publishing Companion

Guide, a .zip file is downloaded that contains both the Companion Guide for Professional and Enterprise publishers and a Step-by-Step Publishing

Guide for Single Edition users. You can also download both the Companion Guide and the Step-by-Step Guide from the Help menu in DPS App

Builder. In the near future, the Pro/Enterprise Companion Guide will be updated with the new design.

Release 22

Library Filters

If you create v22 folios or later, you can use the Folio Producer Organizer to specify a filter category for each folio, such as

“English,” “Spanish,” “French,” and “German.” In your viewer library, users can then choose filter options. For example, they can display only

Spanish and German folios and hide English and French folios in the viewer library. See Create library filters.

Custom HTML library

(Enterprise).

Enterprise publishers can create their own library instead of using the default viewer library. See Creating a custom library

Hot Zone enhancements

Both Enterprise and Professional publishers can now enable Hot Zones in DPS App Builder. Hot Zones let users tap the edges of the article to browse to the next or previous articles. The logic for overriding overlays has also changed. Hot Zones take precedent over all overlays with the exception of buttons. See App Details panel.

Strict renditions for Android 7" devices

By default, viewers on Android devices display folios of any size. To ensure that the viewer displays only folios that match the device size, you can select an option in Viewer Builder. At this time, strict renditions displays only 1024x600 folios for devices such as the Kindle Fire and 1280x800 folios for XLarge Android devices. This option is primarily useful for preventing unwanted folio renditions from appearing on Kindle Fire devices. If you have created Android renditions such as 1232x752 folios, do not turn on strict renditions when you create the viewer for the Android marketplace. See Create a custom viewer app for Android and Amazon devices.

Auto Hide Scrollbars

By default, a 6-pixel scrollbar area appears on the right side of articles in a folio. If you select this option in Viewer Builder, the scrollbar appears only when the user is scrolling in the article. See Viewer Details panel.

HTML video improvements

You can now make videos in HTML articles behave like video overlays. For example, rotating the device in a singleorientation HTML article also rotates the full-screen video. See Import HTML articles.

AIR captive runtime in Android viewers

Instead of relying on AIR to be installed on Android devices, viewers now include a built-in version of

AIR (3.2 or later). While this change increases the size of viewers from about 2 MB to 10 MB, it should improve stability and performance.

Improvements to Android viewer UI

especially on the Kindle Fire.

Icons and other UI elements in library view and folio view are now larger, making it easier to tap icons,

Two-finger swiping enabled for iOS

The two-finger swipe gesture is now enabled for iPad and iPhone viewers. This gesture is especially useful for “flattened” articles in which Horizontal Swipe Only is enabled, allowing readers to bypass the rest of the article pages to jump to the next or previous article.

Social Sharing enhancements

Note the following Social Sharing improvements. See Using social sharing.

Social Sharing is now supported in iPhone viewers.

Rendition mapping is now supported. When the shared article is viewed in a desktop web browser, only 1024x768 PNG or JPG articles appear properly in the Web Viewer. In previous versions, any folio shared from an iPad HD rendition (2048x1536) could not be viewed in

Web Viewer. If you create renditions for iOS devices, sharing the article from any device will now map to the 1024x768 version of the article in Web Viewer. For best results, make sure that your renditions are set up properly and that your Article Name values are identical in each folio rendition.

Facebook deep-linking is now supported. When a customer views the wall post in the Facebook app on an iPad, tapping the article link opens the article directly. Make sure that you enable deep linking when configuring your app on the Facebook developer site. See Setting up a DPS App for Social Networking .

The new Enable Fulfillment Limit option in the Account Administration tool lets you limit the number of article views in Web Viewer, similar to a “Sold Out” feature. See Account Administration tool.

The Web Viewer now supports scrollable frames.

Enabling a paywall affects only retail folios.

Release 21

Viewer Version control

When you create a new folio using the v21 Folio Builder panel, you can target either the v20 or v21 viewer version. This option is especially useful if either the newest version of the Adobe Content Viewer is awaiting approval or if you’re creating folios for a v20 viewer app. By default, the v20 version is selected. If you create a v20 folio, you can edit the folio’s properties to update it to v21. However, you cannot roll back a v21 folio to v20. You also cannot specify a viewer version earlier than v20. See Create a folio.

Preview on Device for active layout (iOS)

Before v21, Preview on Device was available only for entire folios. With v21, you can now use

Preview on Device in the Folio Overlays panel to preview the current layout (iOS only). Connect your iPad or iPhone to your computer and open the Adobe Content Viewer app. In the Folio Overlays panel, choose Preview on [device name]. See Use Preview on Device.

Social Sharing improvements

Several Social Sharing limitations have been addressed. Nested overlays, buttons, videos, HTML articles, and scrollable frames now work much better in the Web Viewer. In addition, the Web Viewer now displays articles marked as Advertisement or Hide from TOC properly. See Using social sharing.

You can use the Account Administration tool to turn off Web Viewer while still enabling social sharing through the iPad. See Account Administration tool.

Auto-view during folio download

When the Download or Buy button is tapped in the viewer library, the viewer displays the folio while remaining articles continue to download. Before this release, the View button became active during download, but the user had to tap it to begin viewing the folio.

Auto-download on subscription purchase

When a user successfully subscribes to a viewer app, the most recent folio begins downloading automatically. Users no longer need to tap the Download button.

Cover Date

The Cover Date option is now available in the Folio Producer Organizer. This option gives Enterprise publishers additional metadata control in direct entitlement of subscription content.

Release 20

InDesign CS6 compatibility

InDesign CS6 includes several new features that simplify creating InDesign source files. With the Alternate Layout

and Liquid Page Rules features, you can create layouts for different orientations and target devices within the same document. Flexible Column

Widths, Auto Size Text Frames, and Split Layout View also help with dynamic layouts. In addition, Insert HTML lets you quickly create an Web

Overlay by copying code, and packaging an InDesign document now includes overlay assets. See Create alternate layouts for DPS (InDesign

CS6).

iPhone support

DPS now supports the iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S (the iPhone 3G is not supported). When you use the Viewer Builder, you can create a custom viewer that works for the iPhone, the iPad, or both. When you create an app for both the iPad and iPhone, your customers are entitled to purchased folios on any supported iOS device. The iPhone viewer includes a new settings page, enhanced browse mode, and welcome screen that publishers can control.

Social sharing, bookmarks, and auto archiving are not yet supported for the iPhone. At this time, you cannot create a single-issue viewer app for the iPhone. See Creating content for the iPhone.

Web viewer for social sharing

If you enable social sharing in your app, representations of folio articles are uploaded to a web server for viewing in desktop browsers. Use the Protected setting in the Folio Producer Editor to determine which articles are available for desktop viewing. Use the

Account Administration tool to limit the number of viewable unprotected articles and to set up a paywall. See Using social media.

Social Sharing Enhancements

Social sharing is now available through Facebook, Twitter, email, and copy/paste. If you enable social sharing in your app, a customer can browse to an article and share it via Twitter, for example. If the article is protected, the link in the tweet points to the publication URL. If the article is unprotected, a person who clicks the link in a supported desktop browser sees the folio in the web viewer. And a person who clicks the link on an iPad can download the app, download or buy the folio, or view the article, depending on what is already downloaded. See Using social media.

Hide From TOC Option

The Hide From TOC article settings lets you hide an article from the TOC without having to mark it as an advertisement.

See Change article properties.

Background Publishing

When you use the Folio Producer Organizer to publish or update an article, the job is added to the publishing queue, and you can continue to use the Organizer and add other folios to the queue. You can check the status of the queue by choosing View > Publish

Requests in the Organizer. See Publish folios to the Distribution Service.

Display Download Counter

Professional and Enterprise customers can now see a download counter in the DPS Dashboard. The download counter appears only for accounts that have been audited for accuracy.

Desktop Viewer now resizeable

If you use the Desktop Viewer to preview a 2048x1536 folio, you can press Command+1 to view the actual size or press Command+0 to fit in window. You can also zoom in or out. See Use the Desktop Viewer to preview content.

Simplified Preview on Device

When you use the Viewer Builder to create a custom Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad, the Preview on Device feature no longer requires the Phone Disk utility. See Use Preview on Device.

UI Improvements

In the Folio Builder panel, the folio size appears below the folio name, making it easier to identify renditions. The Viewer Builder design makes it easy for you to check that the right icons are used for the various iPhone and iPad models. The Folio Producer Organizer and the

Folio Producer Editor windows have also been redesigned.

URL Scheme setting

The Optional URL Scheme setting in the Viewer Builder is now available for all iOS viewer app types, not just subscription apps. The URL Scheme lets you link to a viewer app from another app or from mobile Safari.

Lock orientation for HTML of custom icons

If you’re an Enterprise publisher, you can specify the orientation of the HTML pages that appear when users tap the custom nav bar icons. See Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only).

Improved Viewer Builder Speed

The Viewer Builder now builds apps much faster, usually in a matter of seconds.

Smooth Scrolling with limited PDF support

If your Smooth Scrolling article is no longer than two page lengths, you can use the PDF image format. If the article is longer than two pages, JPG or PNG is used for the Smooth Scrolling article.

“Hot zone” navigation

Enterprise publishers can enable hot zones that appear on the left and right sides of every article. Tapping an invisible hot zone navigates to the next or previous article. See Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only).

Release 19 iOS rendition support

The new HD iPad model was recently announced. When you use Viewer Builder to create a new app, you can specify icons and splash screens for alternate sizes. Renditions are enabled for iPad devices, letting you create folio renditions at an alternate size. Each iOS model downloads folios that best match the display of the tablet.

Enhanced Scrollable Frames

The Folio Overlays panel has a new overlay type called Scrollable Frames, which replaces the Pan Only option in the Pan & Zoom overlay. When you create scrollable content, you can determine the scroll direction, base the initial view on the location of the content frame, and hide the scroll bar.

Social Sharing

If you register your app with Facebook, you can turn on a social sharing option in your custom viewer’s nav bar. Your customers can tap the Facebook option and type a message. This message and a link to your publication site is then posted on the user’s Facebook wall. At this time, only a link to the publication website is displayed, and Facebook is the only available social media site.

Auto-Archive folios (iOS only)

In Viewer Builder, you can enable auto-archiving of folios and specify the maximum number of downloaded folios for your viewer app. When the threshold number is reached, the least recently downloaded folios are archived automatically. Customers can enable or disable auto-archiving using device settings, but they cannot change the threshold number. Customers can re-download any archived folio.

Smooth scrolling improvements

In previous versions, creating dual-orientation smooth scrolling articles required you to creating the article by import. Now, when you create an article using the Add button, you can set Smooth Scrolling options. When importing smooth scrolling articles, make sure that you specify a Smooth Scrolling option.

Bookmarks

If you enable bookmarks in Viewer Builder, customers can mark an article as a bookmark and then choose that bookmark from a drop-down menu in the nav bar to jump to the bookmarked article. Bookmarks work across multiple folios within the same viewer app.

Improved library update performance

When you return to the viewer library, the viewer checks only for changes, resulting in faster processing.

The “cannot update library” error message should appear less frequently — only when the library fails to update on first launch or when the library is empty and fails to update.

Analytics for HTML5 files

A Javascript API that captures analytics for HTML5 content on iOS and Android devices is now available. This JS API allows publishers to include HTML5 analytics in SiteCatalyst reports instead of viewing separate reports. For details, contact your Adobe representative.

Restricted distribution of folios (Enterprise only)

Enterprise publishers can now determine whether both free and retail folios appear in the library based on sign in. Publishers can set up the library so that only downloaded free folios appear in the library. For retail folios, both downloaded and entitled retail folios can appear in the library. Publishers don’t need to use a custom web store to make retail folios available.

Nav bar icon improvements (Enterprise only)

In Viewer Builder, Enterprise publishers can add as many as eight nav bar icons. You can now edit the appearance of the two default icons: Viewer and Library. In addition, the local HTML files used for these icons can include as many as five levels of nested asset folders. HTML assets are no longer required to be on the same level in the HTML structure.

Link to Store from article (Enterprise only)

You can create a button or hyperlink that lets customers jump from an article to the store page.

When creating a button or hyperlink, replace “http://” in the URL field with “ww.gotoStore” (“ww” is not a typo). You must also use Viewer Builder to create a “Store” label for the custom icon.

Nested overlay improvements

Many of the bugs and limitations in nested overlays have been fixed. For example, anchored buttons in scrollable frames no longer lose their appearance when outside the container frame, and the workaround for renaming scrollable frame objects in the Layers panel is no longer necessary.

Release 18

Embedded overlays in slideshows

are supported in slideshow states.

Interactive objects are now supported in multi-state objects. All interactive objects (except other slideshows)

Enhanced button overlays

The Video and Sound actions are now supported, so you can use buttons to play, pause, and stop videos. In addition, multiple actions are also supported in sequence. For example, a button can now play an audio clip and then change to a new slide when the audio ends.

MSO buttons in scrollable frames

Button actions that trigger the state of a multi-state object now work in scrollable frames. Note that when you paste the content frame into the container frame, the state action is removed, so you need to add the action again after pasting.

PDF pinch and zoom with all overlays

When you create a PDF article, you can pinch and zoom on any page even if it includes interactive objects. You can even pinch and zoom while an overlay is playing. PDF-based articles are still available only on iPad viewers, not the desktop viewer or other AIR-based viewers. When creating or updating your custom viewer, remember to select the “Enable PDF Zooming” option in the

Viewer Builder.

Custom-created Adobe Content Viewer

If you have a Professional or Enterprise account, you can use the Viewer Builder to create your own version of the Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad. The ability to build your own custom Content Viewer offers two advantages. First, when a new version of the Folio Producer tools becomes available, you can test the new features while the Adobe Content Viewer is awaiting approval.

Second, the Preview on Device feature is enabled in the custom Adobe Content Viewer.

Preview on Device support for iPad

When you use the Viewer Builder to create a Adobe Content Viewer, you can copy folio information directly to a connected iPad without going through the acrobat.com web client. However, Preview on Device for the iPad requires a third-party utility such as Phone Disk. Preview on Device for the iPad works only on Mac OS, not Windows.

Relink

If you move or rename your source files, you can use the Relink command in the Folio Builder panel to reconnect the article layouts to the source files.

Custom viewer apps for Amazon Appstore

Adobe and Amazon have resolved the issues that prevented custom viewers from being approved in the Amazon Appstore. In addition, folios are now stored in the App Data folder of the SD Card, thereby avoiding residual folios that might otherwise remain when an app is deleted.

Free subscriptions enabled for Newsstand

Custom viewers you create now support Apple’s “Free Subscription” option.

Notify option for push notifications

Push notifications are no longer triggered automatically whenever you publish a folio. After you publish or update a folio, click the Notify button in the Folio Producer Organizer to trigger push notifications.

Third-party push notification servers

With an Enterprise account, you can create a custom server to control push notifications.

Restricted distribution of free folios

If you’re an Enterprise publisher, you can hide free content in the viewer library, allowing you to entitle customers to download specific content based on their sign-in accounts.

HTML store enhancements

If you’re an Enterprise publisher, you can set up an HTML store that interacts with the viewer library. For example, when customers sign in to your third-party store, they can be signed in to the viewer automatically.

Subscription improvements

The entire subscription tile is now an active tap area, not just the button area in the lower right corner. When a user subscribes to an app, subscription options are hidden. If a user purchases the most recent folio, subscription options now remain available.

Cover View only for Android viewers

For Android viewer libraries, you have the option of using Grid View, Cover View, or Both. For smaller

Android devices, some publishers prefer allowing only Cover View.

Account Administration tool enhancements

You can now use the Admin tool to create limited accounts for in-house and contract designers.

Accounts you create are tied to the company’s account without allowing access to features such as analytics.

Release 17

Single Edition

Instead of paying a monthly subscription to Adobe for a Professional or Enterprise account, you can now pay a one-time fee to create a single-folio viewer app that you can submit to the Apple Store.

Viewer Builder support for Amazon Appstore

In Viewer Builder, you can create a custom viewer app that you can submit to the Amazon

Appstore. The Amazon Appstore is available on Android devices as well as the Amazon Fire tablet.

Account Administration tool

Use the Adobe Account Administration tool to create and provision accounts for your company rather than exchanging email messages with Adobe representatives. You can assign three types of accounts to an Adobe ID: Application, Viewer Builder, and

Administrator.

Scrollable frames with interactive overlays

except slideshows.

If you install the v17 Folio Producer tools, you can include any overlay in a scrollable frame overlay

PDF article enhancements

If a page in an article with a PDF image format includes URL-based buttons or hyperlinks, pinch and zoom works as long as there is no other interactive overlay type on the page.

Right Edge Binding option

Selecting this option in the Folio Producer Organizer displays articles from right to left rather than left to right in the viewer. This option is especially important for Asian languages.

Open Folio Producer Organizer from panel

Organizer in your default web client.

Choosing the Folio Producer command from the Folio Builder panel menu opens the Folio Producer

Improvements to server reliability

The product team continues to make fixes to improve the acrobat.com upload/download issues.

Release 16

Offline workflow

content.

You can now create a folio and articles without uploading the content to the web server. When you’re ready, you can upload the

Newsstand support

The updated Viewer Builder (version 1.5.1) includes Newsstand support for subscription viewer apps on the iPad.

Newsstand-enabled viewers appear in the Newsstand folder, allowing quick access to newspaper and magazine publications.

Private publishing for non-subscription users

If you don’t have an Enterprise or Professional subscription, you can use the Publish option in the Folio Producer Organizer to publish content as private. This option is especially useful if you are unable to download large folios using the acrobat.com server. Published folios downloaded from the Adobe Distribution Service are fast and reliable.

New option for audio assets

If you’re using InDesign CS5.5, selecting the Show First Image Initially option resizes the audio overlay frame based on the first _play image in the specified audio controller assets folder. In InDesign CS5, you still need to manually resize the overlay frame to fit the poster image.

Import HTML Resources option in Folio Builder panel

Folio Producer Editor.

You can now import the HTML Resources file in the Folio Builder panel as well as the

Enhanced Dashboard

The Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard includes links to videos and other useful content.

Separate installers for authoring tools and panel

Use one installer to install the authoring tools (Folio Overlays panel, InDesign plug-in, and desktop viewer). Use a different installer to install the Folio Builder panel.

Improvements to server reliability

The product team continues to make fixes to improve the acrobat.com upload/download issues. For example, publishing a folio now copies the folio contents directly from the acrobat.com server to the Adobe Distribution Service.

New analytics categories

external entitlement.

In analytics reports, you can view data regarding the type of downloaded folio: free, retail single, subscription, or

Release 15

Custom viewers for PlayBook

With the Viewer Builder, you can create custom viewer apps for iPad, Android, and BlackBerry PlayBook

platforms.

Enhanced scrollable frames

You can now create scrollable content by pasting a text frame into a container frame. In addition, the performance of scrollable frames has improved.

Hyperlinks in scrollable frames

Hyperlinks and hyperlink buttons in Pan Only scrollable frames are now supported. Hyperlinks in slideshows or in scrollable frames created using the Layers panel are not yet supported.

Improved memory handling

In previous releases, creating memory-intensive overlays on adjacent pages caused performance problems in some situations. The viewer now handles these situations better, resulting in improved performance.

Preview on Device

You can copy folio information directly to a connected mobile device without going through the acrobat.com web client. Until an updated Adobe Content Viewer is available in the App Store, the Preview on Device feature works only with Android devices. This initial offering requires additional setup effort.

Customize all five nav bar icons

the viewer nav bar (Enterprise only).

When using Viewer Builder to create a custom app, you can now replace the “Library” and “Viewer” buttons in

Simplified creation of in-house viewer apps

signed viewer apps (Enterprise only).

You are no longer required to specify distribution certificates and provisioning files for Enterprise-

Improved Omniture analytics

User data is now available for single-folio viewer apps (DPS subscribers only). Also, analytics includes a more detailed breakdown of download statistics.

Option to turn off “Sign In” button

avoid redundancy.

If you’re an Enterprise customer creating a custom entitlement viewer, you can turn off the Sign In button to

Add certificates at download

You now use Viewer Builder to create a custom viewer app file without specifying certificates. You then specify certificates when you download the viewer file. This allows different people to download and sign the app with certificates.

When you create a custom viewer, you no longer need to click the Refresh button to see if the viewer build is complete.

Improved library performance

In some instances, folios from acrobat.com were appearing only intermittently in the library. The Adobe Content

Viewer should display all available folios consistently.

Improvements to HTML articles in Android viewer

Scrolling is now enabled in HTML articles for the Android viewer.

Release 14 (Services and Viewer Builder only)

Rearrange article order

You can now rearrange the order of articles directly in the Folio Builder panel, not just in the web client. Simply drag and drop the articles to change their order.

Unshare folios

If you shared a folio with someone else, you can unshare the folio without having to delete it. You can also use the Folio Builder panel to remove a folio that was shared with you.

Change of article size limitation

With previous releases, the size limit of an article to be uploaded was 100MB. The article size limit is now 2GB.

However, mobile devices may not handle large articles well.

In-app payments for Android viewers

viewer library to purchase a folio.

You can now create retail folios for Android viewers. Customers can click a Buy button in the Android

Restore all purchases for Android viewers

Customers can now restore all purchases in Android viewers as they can do in iPad viewers.

Export option for single-folio viewers

An Export option now appears in the Folio Producer Organizer. Clicking Export creates a .zip file containing the contents of the selected folio. When using the Viewer Builder to create a single-folio viewer for the iPad, you specify this .zip file (or

a .folio file created with the Content Bundler).

Sideloading option in development builds

When you use the Viewer Builder to create a development viewer for the iPad, you can turn on sideloading. This option lets you manually copy a .folio file (not a .zip file) to the development viewer through iTunes.

Control language listing in iTunes

In previous versions, the viewer app appeared in 20 languages in the iTunes Store. The Viewer Builder now lets you limit which languages the viewer app should appear in.

Restore purchases menu option

manually restore purchases.

The library of custom viewers now includes a menu that lets customers choose a Restore Purchases option to

Analytics update

Subscription data is now captured in addition to individual folio statistics.

Release 13

Release 13 (June 2011) was the second public release of the Digital Publishing Suite. Release 13 tools used the 1.1.x installer and Viewer Builder

1.3.

Viewer download improvements

Customers can begin viewing a folio before it finishes downloading, and they can view partially downloaded folios offline. Interrupted downloads are automatically resumed when the iPad is regains its connection to the Internet. Use the Folio Producer

Editor to determine the download priority for articles.

Stop on last image

image when played.

With the Folio Overlays panel, you can now decide whether to stop slideshows and image sequences on the first or last

Horizontal Swipe Only articles in all viewers

Articles set to Horizontal Swipe Only (“flattened articles”) now work in the Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop, as well as for Android and PlayBook viewers.

Restore Purchases option

If customers restore or replace an iPad, they can download content they’re entitled to more easily. When the viewer is started the first time, customers are prompted to restore purchases.

Custom navigation toolbar buttons

Enterprise customers can create as many as three buttons that display an HTML page in the viewer. In addition to the Library and Viewer buttons that appear in the navigation toolbar, you can create additional buttons such as Store, Help, and News that display an HTML page.

Hide the navigation toolbar or Home button

When using the Viewer Builder to create your viewer app, you can hide the navigation toolbar at the bottom of the viewer or the Home button in the upper left corner of the viewer.

Additional analytics reports

The Analytics page on the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard now includes more reports for tracking user data.

Entitlement for Android

Enterprise customers can now provide entitlement for subscriptions.

Localized Android Content Viewer

The Adobe Content Viewer for the Android is now localized for the same languages as the iPad viewer.

Localized Viewer Builder

The Viewer Builder has been localized for the following languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

Improved usability

experience.

The Folio Builder panel, Folio Producer website, and Viewer Builder include a number of adjustments to improve the user

Release 12

Release 12 (May 2011) was the first public release of the Digital Publishing Suite. Release 12 tools used the 1.0.x installer and Viewer Builder 1.2.

New Folio Builder panel

The Folio Builder panel in InDesign replaces the Digital Content Bundler application. With the Folio Builder panel, you can add articles and article layouts and change folio and article properties.

Folios stored on web workspace

With the previous tools, you created a folio folder containing article folders. You bundled the folio folder to create .folio files that you either uploaded to the server or sideloaded to the iPad.With the new workflow, each folio is a workspace on a web server. The folios still consist of articles, but the articles can be copied to different folios and rearranged without bundling again. Click a Preview button to preview individual articles or entire folios. Or, sign in to the Adobe Content Viewer and download folios you created. You can use the

Import feature to create articles based on existing folder structures.

Digital Publishing Suite web client

Subscribers to the Digital Publishing Suite can sign in to the web client at http://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com.

The Dashboard includes links to tools and services.

Use the Analytics page to track customer data.

Use the Folio Producer to organize, edit, and publish folios. The Folio Producer includes an Organizer page that displays available folios and an Editor page that displays the articles in a selected folio.

Use the Viewer Builder to create custom apps.

Sharing

Use the Share option to share folios with other DPS users. For example, a publisher can share a folio with a designer who is assigned to create an article for a magazine. Or, an ad agency can share a folio with various publishers to make ads available. The share workflow replaces the “sideloading” workflow.

Redesigned Folio Overlays panel

The Folio Overlays panel has been redesigned. 360 Viewer overlays are now called Image Sequence overlays. Web View overlays are now called Web Content overlays. You can reset objects to convert them from overlays to normal objects.

Terminology changes

Distribution Service.

“Stacks” are now called “articles.” The Flatten option is now Swipe Horizontal Only. The fulfillment server is now called the

Release 11

Release 11 was the final prerelease version of the Digital Publishing Suite to use the Content Bundler workflow.

Folio download improvements

another.

On iPads, the download speed has doubled. In addition, Viewer users can read one folio while downloading

Android Viewer enhancements

app web view.

The performance of PNG and HTML articles on Android devices has improved. The Android Viewer supports in-

Navigation bar customization

Enterprise customers can add as many as three icons to the navigation bar that display a full-screen web view.

Subscription improvements

You can now set up an Apple (iOS) subscription without providing a custom entitlement server.

Release 10

Pinch and zoom in PDF folios

If you select the PDF export option while bundling, users can use the pinch gesture to zoom in on a page. At this time, pinch and zoom is not enabled on pages that have interactive overlays.

Content Viewer for Android

The Adobe Content Viewer is now available for Android devices. You cannot sideload folios to this Content Viewer.

Instead, upload and download files using the fulfillment server. Although the Android Viewer more closely matches the iPad Viewer, some features are not yet supported. Unsupported features include flattened articles, inline videos, panorama overlays, and folios exported in PDF format. HTML articles and Web View overlays may have performance issues.

Localized viewers

The Adobe Content Viewer language interface changes based on the device’s locale settings. At this time, supported languages include English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Japanese.

Additional subscription support

In-app subscription options are now available. Adobe supports Apple’s new subscription model for publishers who set up their own entitlement server.

Folio renditions

Mobile devices are now available in multiple dimensions. If you use the same 1024x768 folios for Android devices, the folios will be letterboxed with black bars. If you want to design for specific devices (such as 1024x600) or aspect ratios (16:9), you can create different renditions of the same folio. Create renditions by making the Magazine Title and Folio Number settings the same but the Dimension export settings different. The viewer offers only the rendition that most closely matches the device’s dimensions.

Pagination in HTML articles

HTML articles can now be divided into pages more elegantly.

Release 9 eCommerce subscription services in Viewer

Publishers can now set up their own subscription model that allows customers to subscribe to a magazine or newsletter and receive regular updates of folios. Customers can specify a range of folios that remain downloaded on the iPad— especially useful for news magazines.

Desktop Viewer enhancements

folios and Web View overlays.

The Content Viewer for Desktop now supports many previously unsupported features such as single-orientation

Right-edge binding

The Content Bundler includes a Binding setting that enables right-to-left reading of articles for Asian languages. If Right

Edge is selected, the first article appears as the right-most article, and users browse through the articles from right to left.

Folio update in viewer

An update message now appears in the library if a folio is updated on the fulfillment server. Tapping the Update button downloads new or edited mini .folio files.

Dual-orientation videos in single-orientation folios

Users can play a full-screen video in landscape orientation even if the folio is portrait only.

Data analysis enhancements

preserved.

When using analytic data to track usage, you can distinguish between ads and articles. Offline viewer data is also

Release 7/8

New Folio Overlays panel

The Folio Overlays panel in InDesign CS5 replaces the Interactive Overlay Creator application. This change means that you now create all interactive overlays natively in InDesign. Use the Folio Overlays panel to create overlays and change overlay settings.

Desktop AIR Viewer

An AIR-based version of the Viewer is now available for testing the issues (now called “folios”) that you create. The

Desktop Viewer currently does not support all the features, so use it only as a basic testing tool.

“Issue” -> “Folio”

The new term for “issue” is “folio.”

No ID options

Using the same overlay IDs in the horizontal and vertical layout is no longer required in most cases to provide continuity when the iPad is rotated. The Bundler uses the source assets and settings to determine related overlays.

Grid view in Viewer library

single view.

The Viewer library now lets you display eight folios at a time in a grid view. You can switch between grid view and

Order option

The Content Bundler includes a new “Order” column that makes it less likely for you to change the order of articles accidentally.

Enter a number where you want the article to appear in sequence, and it moves to that place.

Locked articles while bundling

The Content Bundler includes a new “Locked” column that lets you prevent articles from being updated when you bundle—especially useful when you just want to test the changes in one or two articles.

Sign Out button in Viewer

You no longer need to change your Adobe ID password to display the Sign In button.

3G download

Folios can now be downloaded to the iPad via a 3G connection.

Release 6

Flattened articles

When an article (called a “stack” at the time) is flattened, each page in the article essentially becomes a separate article, allowing customers to scroll horizontally to view the pages of an article. Only the first page of a flattened article shows up in the TOC, but all the pages appear in Browse mode and as scrubber thumbnails. You cannot flatten a article that is set to smooth scrolling.

Looser folder structure requirements

You can now build an entire interactive issue without an OverlayResources folder. In previous releases, the source files for overlays had to be in the OverlayResources folder, and the exported SWF files had to be in the Links folder of the documents in which they were placed.

Auto TOC generation

The PNG file for the table of contents that was previously required is now optional. If your article folder does not have a

PNG file, the Content Bundler generates a TOC icon automatically based on the first page of the article.

PDF image format

In addition to PNG and JPEG, the Bundler can output page images in PDF format. Using the PDF image format significantly reduces the file size and offers additional possibilities for future releases such as pinch and zoom and searching and selecting text.

HTML articles

You can now use either InDesign files or HTML files to create articles in an issue. When you create an article using HTML files, you can use the same HTML file for both orientations, or you can create separate HTML files for horizontal and vertical orientations.

Specifying HTML thumbnails

For InDesign articles, the Viewer automatically generates the thumbnails that appear when you drag the scrubber.

However, generating thumbnails for HTML articles takes more time, sometimes resulting in poorly rendered thumbnails. To improve thumbnail performance in HTML articles, you can allow the Bundler to generate thumbnail images based on the first page of each HTML article, or you can manually add image files to the HTML article folders.

Viewer UI improvements

Users complained that the scroll bar to the right of each article was too thin, so we widened the scroll bar. We also improved the appearance and performance of page thumbnails in Browse Mode.

Transparency in scrollable frames

Scrollable content frames are now transparent by default. If you don’t want the contents of the container frame to appear, apply a fill to the content frame.

Bundler changes

In the Content Bundler, the Issue Title metadata text never appeared anywhere in the Viewer, so this option was removed, as was the Dimension/Type Settings information. In addition, the Use Cover option was changed to Include Cover.

Release 5

Native slideshows and hyperlinks

The only way to create interactive slideshows and hyperlinks is through native features. Use the Object

States panel, the Buttons panel, and the Hyperlinks panel to create interactive objects. Change settings by typing the appropriate lines in the Script

Label panel. (We hope to include a UI for these settings in the next release.)

Enhanced native slideshows

You can create navigation buttons that jump to the next or previous slides in the slideshow. If you add the

“SS_swipeEnabled=yes” line to the Script Label panel when the multi-state object is selected, users can swipe to scroll through slides in a slideshow.

Links to specific pages

You can now create hyperlinks or buttons that jump to a specific page within an article.

Simplified “navto” hyperlinks

.html or .indd extension.

You can specify navtos hyperlinks using either of the target article’s source document names, with or without the

Single-orientation articles

You can create a portrait-only or landscape-only issue. Simply include only the portrait or landscape InDesign documents in the issue folder. The issue maintains its orientation even if the iPad is rotated.

Support of local HTML files for Web View

When creating a Web View overlay, you can specify an HTML file from your computer. In the

previous release, you could only specify a URL on the web to create a Web View overlay.

Scrollable frames

list of ingredients.

Create a view area that lets users scroll vertically or horizontally through the content. For example, users can scroll through a

Back button

The Viewer’s navigation bar includes a Back button between the Home and TOC buttons that lets users return to the page from where they jumped.

JPEG output in Bundler

JPEG format.

The Export Options dialog box in Bundler now includes an option for specifying whether to export content in PNG or

Improved error handing in Bundler

The Bundler provides better feedback during the bundling process.

Release 4

Web View overlay

Embed a live web page within a view area that you specify. You can determine whether users can interact with the web content and change other settings.

Auto Start options

Make an overlay play automatically (or after a specified delay) when the page is turned to. Auto Start is available for 360

Viewer, Audio, Video, and Web View overlays.

New 360 Viewer options

In addition to the Auto Start option, the 360 Viewer includes new options that give you control over playing and pausing, swiping, and looping the images.

navto hyperlinks

It’s now much easier to create hyperlinks that jump from one article to another. While creating either a native button or hyperlink in InDesign, specify the URL as “navto://<vertical InDesign document name>,” such as “navto://WiFi_v” to jump to the WiFi article from either the portrait or landscape orientation.

Simplified native slideshows

Multistate objects no longer need to be grouped. The Script Label panel is necessary now only to change settings.

Adobe Content Viewer

The Adobe Content Viewer lets you upload and download content from an Adobe server, and sideload content from your desktop. (Note: sideloading is no longer available.)

Upload issues to a fulfillment server

Adobe created a temporary server site that lets you upload and manage issues. While exporting, choose

Multiple Files from the Issue submenu, and then specify server upload options. After you upload test content to an Adobe server, you can download issues to the Viewer. For this release, the only way to download an issue is to log in using the same Adobe ID as the person who uploaded the issue.

Manage issues in Bundler

In the Bundler, you can preview the interface that lets you view and manage uploaded issues. For this release, you can add, view, and remove issues uploaded to the Adobe server.

Cover option

The first page of the first article can now be used as the cover of the issue in the library for issues you upload to the server.

Release 2.5/3

Bug fixes; no new features other than offering the Adobe Content Viewer through the Apple Store.

Release 2

More flexible overlay folder structure

In the previous version, each article folder required _h and _v InDesign files and a Links folder with the combined assets from the two files, and there was a single OverlayResources folder for the entire issue. While that structure is still valid, you can now have separate folders for the _h and _v files, with each folder containing a Links folder and an OverlayResources folder—especially useful for package folders. There are advantages to each method.

If you use the method in which the the InDesign files and Links folders appear in separate folders, you must also include a separate

OverlayResources folder in each article folder rather than the single OverlayResources folder for the entire issue.

Regardless of which structure you use, the InDesign files can now include either _h and _v suffixes (for horizontal and vertical) or _l and _p suffixes (for landscape and portrait).

Native InDesign interactivity

Hyperlinks, buttons, and multi-state objects in InDesign files can now be included in the issue without requiring the

Overlay Creator. You can use the Script Labels panel to change default settings for these objects.

Inline movies

Movies can now be played inline rather than full-screen only.

Panorama

The Overlay Creator now includes a Panorama option.

Sidecar.xml

You can avoid filling out the metadata each time you use the Bundler by creating a CSV file called “Info.csv.” Because of problems with certain characters not being displayed correctly, an XML file replaces the CSV file.

Multiple issues

You can now add more than one issue to the viewer. Tapping the Home icon takes you back to the library of issues rather than to the beginning of the current issue. You can create preview images for the library issues. Currently, you can load only eight issues.

Smooth scrolling

You can determine whether each article in the issue scrolls continuously or on a page-by-page basis.

Release 1

The first release of the Digital Publishing Suite tools offered the AIR-based Content Bundler and the Interactive Overview Creator apps. The first

Overlay Creator included Hyperlink, 360 Viewer, Slideshow, Audio, and Video overlay types. The Overlay Creator was the only method to create interactive objects.

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DPS Bug Fix Release Notes

Overview

This article lists known current issues as well as the most relevant bug fixes for each Digital Publishing Suite release. For a list of new features, see What's new in this release .

For a list of known DPS server issues and upcoming planned maintenance, see http://status.adobedps.com

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v30 Hot Fixes

March 21, 2014

When sending a text notification, including double-byte characters results in a message larger than the 256 bytes allowed into the text entry field.

The UI displays a negative value for number of bytes remaining, but the notification can still be sent to Apple, resulting in an error. With this hot fix, the service no longer allows a message larger than 256 bytes to be sent. When the text message exceeds the allowed limit, the UI displays an error message and you must reduce the number of double-byte characters to proceed.

March 20, 2014

In some instances, when the v30 tools are installed, users are not able to sign in to the Folio Builder panel using an Adobe ID that does not have an Application role assigned to it. This issue was resolved in this hot fix. To avoid this sign-in issue, update your DPS Desktop Tools (InDesign

CC/CS6) or your Folio Builder panel (InDesign CS5.5/CS5). See this article for links to installers.

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Current Known Issues and Guidance

Sign-in / Installation issues

If the Adobe Content Viewer fails to install when you update your DPS tools, see Can't install, locate Desktop Adobe Content Viewer .

If the DPS App Builder fails to install, remove the app from the Applications folder (if it exists), empty your trash, sign in to the DPS

Dashboard , and click DPS App Builder for the Mac.

If you get an "authentication failed" error when you sign in to the Adobe Content Viewer on the iPad with a verified Adobe ID, or if a valid, published folio fails to appear in a custom viewer app, there might be a problem with the server. See the "Authentication failed" section of the

Troubleshoot Adobe Content Viewer tech note, or contact your Adobe representative.

Known issues with native Android viewer

For a list of supported features and limitations in the native Android viewer, see Building native DPS apps for Android devices .

Known issues with social sharing / web viewer

iOS 6 social sharing is now disabled in any app built after February 7. The entire social sharing menu is disabled on devices that run iOS 6.

The social sharing menu is still available on iOS 7 devices.

Smooth Scrolling articles in web viewer may not display properly on the last page if the length of the smooth scrolling article is not an exact multiple of the folio height. For example, the last page of a 1024x2000 article may be cropped, but a 1024x1536 (2 times the height) or a

1024x2304 (3 times the height) should display fine. The issue is especially common in portrait orientation. One workaround is to make the height of the smooth scrolling page height an exact multiple of the folio height. Another workaround is to use PNG image format for the

Smooth Scrolling article instead of PDF.

TOC images larger than 70x70 are being cropped instead of scaled.

Other known issues

When using Application Loader to submit a DPS app, a "Warning: Version Mismatch" error message appears. You can either ignore this warning and continue to submit your app or edit the version number in iTunes Connect. At this time, Apple is not rejecting apps because of this issue. (3632944)

If you enable social sharing in your v29 or v30 app, articles in a folio published as free will be available for viewing in the web viewer and article viewer, even if the articles are set to Protected or Metered.

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v30 Bug Fix Release Notes (March 2014)

Authoring fixes

Folios in which overlays have line break characters in their name cause incomplete overlays and Android download failures. This issue was resolved. (3653600)

iOS viewer fixes

Non-Newsstand viewer and Adobe Content Viewer no longer lose downloaded folios after restart if the Folio Publication Name field contains forward slashes "/". (3706229)

Swiping on a Web Content overlay no longer activates it on iOS7. (3719813)

The viewer crashed if the user downloaded one section of a sectioned folio, the folio is unpublished, and the user views and interacts with that folio. This issue was resolved. (3712674)

Image sequence resetting on rotation and inertia is now available when swiping. (3711983)

On iOS 7, slideshow buttons no longer disappear when the device is rotated if the slideshow is nested in a scrollable frame. (3710367)

Tapping on valid navto links no longer fails and has no effect in some instances. (3704444)

Reading position for single-orientation folio is no longer lost when device is relaunched in opposite orientation (3701061)

Localstorage values are now retrieved properly after device sleeps or when the Home button is pressed. (3696400)

When you zoom in on a PDF page and swipe an image sequence, the image sequence now behaves properly. (3689978)

Auto Play slideshow that has been reset by a double tap no longer starts to play again when you leave the page. (3685543)

Newsstand folio cover now updates from a background push properly even if the user is not entitled to the folio. (3684294)

Image sequence overlays nested in a scrollable frame no longer fail to auto play in some cases. (3684291)

New folio alert does not appear in folio view if the viewer is not configured for direct entitlement. This issue was resolved. (3684290)

Viewer no longer crashes if user taps on several folios to purchase in a custom library then selects to go back to default library. (3678047)

Swiping very quickly on a slideshow sometimes moves to the next article instead of changing slides. This issue was fixed. (3673086)

On the iPhone 5 The "Forgot password?" text is outside the Sign-in box if the app is configured with a forgot password URL but not a create account URL. This issue is resolved in v30 apps. (3671662)

If you swipe quickly on a protected article next to a free article, it is possible to see protected articles without a purchase pane or mesh treatment. This issue was resolved. (3660132)

Custom HTML slots and Web View now extends behind viewer's UI properly. (3658854)

A previewed folio can now be downloaded even if a space is found in the name of a TOC asset. (3658214)

When zoomed in on a slideshow or image sequence with swipe enabled, you can now swipe vertically to scroll the page. (3656725)

Swiping on a horizontal scrollable frame where the image was cropped in InDesign no longer moves the page and shows jittery behavior.

(3653470)

Double-tapping an MSO now zooms in and out properly when the page is zoomed in in a PDF article. (3652078)

Usage tracking opt-out window is no longer disabled in offline mode. (3650422)

The title in the library no longer displays "Library Alert" if a folio is updated multiple times. (3649220)

After swiping on a vertical scrollable frame to go to the next page, the next page no longer displays briefly and then jumps back to the original page. (3647503)

Performance of the in-app browser is more reliable when viewing web content. (3610048) iTunes Subscriber receipt can now be validated if the device is restarted, is not unlocked, and the app is awoken via a Newsstand push.

(3595346)

Windows Store viewer fixes

Fixed a problem with Window Store viewer crashing on opening the library containing the folio with either publication date or cover date not specified. (3714037)

In some instances, folio with video overlay wasn’t archived correctly. As a result, users weren’t able to re-download the folio properly.

(3707309)

Web-based DPS App Builder fixes

Fixed an issue to improve how analytics are configured for Professional customers when building native Android apps.

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v30 Best Practices and Gotchas

When entering metadata for folios and articles, use basic characters such as A-Z, 0-9, and dashes and underscores. Avoid forward slashes, symbols, and extended ASCII characters.

If the "Free" option does not appear in the Folio Producer Editor, make sure that you do two things: (1) edit the folio's viewer version to v26 or later, and (2) update the articles within that folio. (When you update the folio's viewer version, the articles maintain their previous viewer version until they're updated.)

Although PDF is now supported on Android, linking to PDF files in the HTMLResources.zip file is not supported on Android.

Don't assume that all PDF articles will behave the same way on Android viewers as they do on iOS viewers. Web Content overlays in particular can experience different behavior. Panoramas, inline videos, and several other features are still not supported on Android.

When you create an HTML banner for a subscription app with entitlement, the banner spans the entire page. You might need to adjust your

HTML accordingly.

If you specify an entitlement banner, you're still required to provide subscription tile assets in DPS App Builder, even though the tile does not appear. (We tried to fix this, but a bug we caught late caused us to revert to the previous behavior.) You can use blank "dummy" images for the subscription tiles.

Amazon recently changed the embed format for YouTube videos. edit the YouTube embed code to include "scr=http://www.youtube.com" instead of "src=//www.youtube.com." Also, set the overlay to Auto Play and add a poster image in front of the overlay.

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Previous release bug fixes

For a list of previous release notes and bug fixes, see History of DPS Release Notes.

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Design and Layout

Layout design overview

A folio is a publication, such as an issue of a monthly magazine or the contents of a single-issue viewer app. A folio consists of one or more

articles (sometimes called “stacks”). Using InDesign CS5 or later, create source documents for your articles. Use the Folio Builder panel to create folios and articles. Use the Folio Overlays panel to add interactive objects to your documents.

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For InDesign CS6/CC, you can include horizontal and vertical layouts in the same InDesign document. For InDesign CS5/CS5.5, horizontal and vertical layouts must be in separate InDesign documents. You cannot mix and match orientations within folio; the entire folio must be dual, portrait, or landscape.

A dual-orientation article has two layouts—vertical or horizontal. When the user rotates the mobile device, the second orientation is displayed. A single-orientation folio is locked into that orientation. For example, if you create articles with only vertical InDesign files, that orientation remains in place even if the user rotates the mobile device. However, if a folio is portrait-only, full-screen videos can still be played in landscape mode.

Landscape and portrait layouts on the iPad

Each document can have multiple pages and assets that differ in the horizontal and vertical orientation.

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Creating source InDesign documents

Guidelines for creating InDesign documents

Create source InDesign documents (InDesign CS5 and CS5.5)

Create source InDesign documents (InDesign CS6 and CC)

If you’re basing a digital magazine article on an existing print article, creating a new document is usually the easiest approach. To repurpose a document, you can change settings in the Document Setup dialog box. Specify a page size (such as 1024 x 768 for the iPad SD) and orientation

(portrait or landscape). For dual-orientation folios in which customers can view content either horizontally or vertically, you can create two separate documents for each article—one portrait and one landscape. If you’re using InDesign CS6, you can also create alternate layouts within the same document.

Do not use facing pages in your source documents—use only one page per spread.

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Guidelines for creating InDesign documents

Turn off facing pages. Do not use the Page tool to change the page size, unless the page is smooth scrolling.

When creating your design, remember that a 6-pixel scroll bar crops the right edge of the article layout. Consider adding a guide or object on the master page to mark this area.

When designing layouts, you might want to account for the navigation bars that appear when users tap the background. The top navigation bar is 20- or 40-pixels (SD or HD) for the system status bar plus 44- or 88-pixels for the top navigation bar. The bottom navigation bar is 44or 88-pixels. Enterprise apps can display an additional navigation bar with custom navigation icons. This additional navigation bar is 56- or

112-pixels.

To avoid large folio files, use properly sized JPEG and PNG files for interactive assets such as image sequences, pan & zoom images, and panoramas. For non-interactive images or slideshow images, you can use any format, including PSD, TIFF, AI, PDF, and JPEG. When you create an article or layout, the non-interactive objects on each page are compressed and converted into a single PNG, JPEG, or PDF background image file. Similarly, slideshow and button images are compressed into PNG files.

When creating images to be used in interactive overlays, use the Save for Web & Devices option in Photoshop for best results.

If you place PDF files in your InDesign document, use non-flattened PDF 1.4 or later to avoid unwanted white lines.

For InDesign CS6/CC, you can set up links between text frames in different layouts. For InDesign CS5/CS5.5, you can use an InCopy-based feature to share text between portrait and landscape documents. See Rufus Deuchler’s video Using InCopy Assignments for DPS .

To get the best color fidelity, use RGB color images instead of CMYK or LAB.

For non-interactive content, you can use any image type. Non-interactive content is resampled as an image with the same dimensions as the folio size. For guidance on creating interactive content, see Best practices for creating overlays.

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Create source InDesign documents (InDesign CS5 and CS5.5)

1. In InDesign CS5 or InDesign CS5.5, choose File > New > Document.

2. (Optional) For Intent, choose Web.

Choosing Web makes the layout easier to work in for mobile devices. If you’ve already created a document with Intent set to Print, you cannot change it to Web. However, you can manually change the settings.

3. For Page Size, specify the dimensions of the device reader.

The standard definition iPad models use 1024x768 pixels. The high definition iPad uses 2048x1536. For best results, create a 1024x768 document, and use PDF image format so that the content looks good on all iPads.

A 6-pixel area on the right side of the page is cropped on the mobile device. The actual design area is 1018x768 (or 762x1024) pixels for

SD iPads.

For Android devices, content in an Android viewer is scaled up or down and letterboxed as needed to fit within the display area. See

Creating documents for multiple devices.

If you want to allow smooth scrolling, you can specify a custom page size (such as 1024x3000). See Smooth scrolling articles.

4. For Orientation, choose either Portrait or Landscape.

Creating a document for a device reader

A. Set Intent to Web B. Specify Page Size C. Choose Portrait or Landscape

5. For a dual-orientation article, follow the same procedure to create a second document.

When you save the files, include _v and _h suffixes in the filenames if you want to import articles. For example add an _v suffix for the vertical (portrait) document, such as article_v.indd.

6. Design your documents.

Not all InDesign interactivity features are supported in the digital publishing workflow. For details, see Supported interactivity features.

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Create source InDesign documents (InDesign CS6 and CC)

InDesign CS6 and CC includes several new features that simplify the DPS workflow. See the links below for more information on these features.

Note the following issues:

Folios you create or edit using InDesign CS6 or later are not compatible with any viewer version before v20.

If you create alternate layouts, you can create articles based on these layouts only through the Add Article feature, not through Import Article.

If you rely heavily on importing multiple files, continue using different documents for each layout until the Import Article feature supports alternate layouts.

To create a source document in InDesign CS6 or CC:

1. In InDesign CS6, choose File > New > Document.

2. For Intent, choose Digital Publishing.

3. For Page Size, specify the target device such as iPad. If necessary, change the width and height values.

A 6-pixel area on the right side of the page is cropped on the mobile device. The actual design area is 1018x768 (or 762x1024) pixels for

SD iPad models.

For Android devices, content in an Android viewer is scaled up or down and letterboxed as needed to fit within the display area. See

Creating documents for multiple devices.

If you want to allow smooth scrolling, you can specify a custom page size (such as 1024 x 3000). See Smooth scrolling articles.

4. For Orientation, choose either Portrait or Landscape.

Creating a document for a device reader

A. Set Intent to Digital Publishing B. Specify Page Size C. Choose Portrait or Landscape orientation

5. Leave Primary Text Frame selected if you want your text to reflow when you create alternate layouts. If your article does not have a main story thread, deselect this option.

6. Design your document.

Not all InDesign interactivity features are supported in the digital publishing workflow. For details, see Supported interactivity features.

7. For a dual-orientation article, do either of the following:

Create a second document that has a different orientation. When you save the files, include _v and _h suffixes in the filenames if you want to import articles. For example add an _v suffix for the vertical (portrait) document, such as article_v.indd.

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Creating documents for multiple devices

You can create folios and custom viewers for platforms to account for multiple device sizes. For example, the Android platform includes devices that appear in a number of different dimensions, including 1024x600, 1280x800, and 1920x1200. The iOS (Apple) platform includes 1024x768 and

2048x1536 models for the iPad and 480x320, 960x640, and 1136x640 models for the iPhone.

Android and iOS viewers have different requirements for displaying folios. Any folio size you create can appear in an Android viewer. The articles are scaled and letterboxed as needed. However, on the iPad, the viewer displays only folios with a 4:3 aspect ratio. The iPhone viewer displays only folios with a 3:2 or 16:9 (1136x640) aspect ratio.

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Single-folio approach (recommended)

Although renditions are an option, it's possible to create a single folio for each platform and allow the content to be scaled. For iPads, you can create a single 1024x768 folio that works on both SD and HD iPads. Similarly, you can create a single 480x360 folio that works on both SD and

HD iPhones. See Creating multi-rendition articles.

For Android viewers, you can create a single folio, such as the 1024x768 folio used for iPads or a 1280x800 folio that is a better match for Android renditions. In v28 and later viewers, that folio is scaled up or down on Android devices. For best results, test the folio on multiple Android devices.

For Windows Store viewers, we recommend creating a single 1024x768 folio. Content is scaled and letterboxed as needed.

Renditions

Multiple versions of the same folio designed for different devices are called renditions. If you create multiple folio renditions, the viewer makes available only the rendition that most closely matches the device’s dimensions. On Android devices, if the viewer displays a rendition that does not match the device’s aspect ratio, it scales the folio proportionally. The viewer can add either letterboxes (black bars top and bottom) or pillarboxes

(black bars on the sides) as needed.

Renditions are useful for three reasons:

To create iPhone content that is not letterboxed. For example, you can create a 480x320 rendition that works on iPhone 3/4 devices and a

1136x640 rendition that fills the display area of iPhone 5 and later devices.

To create a Web Viewer Only folio. See Customizing the Web Viewer.

To create folios for Android devices that require less scaling and letterboxing.

See Create folio renditions.

Folio renditions

A. 1024x768 folio B. 1024x600 folio C. 1024x768 folio letterboxed on 1024x600 device

Rendition options

You can use a number of different methods to account for the different device dimensions:

Create a single folio size (such as 1024x768) for the iPad. Layouts are scaled down or letterboxed as needed on Android devices. If you want your content to appear on the iPhone as well as the iPad, you need to create at least one additional folio size, such as 480x320. iPad folios do not appear in iPhone viewers.

Create separate source documents for multiple target devices. Create a different folio rendition for each set of source documents. For example, to create folio renditions for an Android viewer app, you could create folios and source files using 1024x600, 1280x800, and

1920x1200 sizes. However, this approach requires additional production work and is no longer necessary now that Android viewers scale content. See Creating DPS Folios for Android Devices .

For iPads or iPhones, create multi-rendition PDF articles that display different assets depending on whether the device is SD or HD. See

Creating multi-rendition PDF articles for iOS devices.

Use the same source documents, but create different folio renditions for multiple target mobile devices. For example, for the iPad, you can create one set of 1024x768 source documents, and then create two folios based on these documents. When the articles are uploaded, the source files are scaled according to the folio size. Scaling content when the articles are created is provides better performance than scaling content when the folio is displayed in the viewer. (See Creating content for different iPad models.) You can take this same approach when creating 480x320 and 960x640 renditions for the iPhone, but not for the iPhone 5 (1136x640) rendition. (See Creating content for the iPhone.)

Design guidelines for multiple renditions

If you want to repurpose the same document for different devices, note the following guidelines:

The iPad viewer displays only folios with a 4:3 aspect ratio, such as 1024x768. The iPhone viewer displays only folios with a 3:2 aspect ratio, such as 480x320 and 960x640, as well as 1136x640 (iPhone 5) folios.

On Android devices, the v28 and later viewer scales content both down and up.

If the Android viewer needs to scale down content, the performance may not be as smooth as it is for content that matches the size in a 1:1 ratio. Test your folios on Android devices.

When you add articles to a folio, the aspect ratio of the document’s Page Size setting must match the folio’s Size setting (unless you select a

Smooth Scrolling option). For example, you can add 1024x768 InDesign documents to a 2048x1536 folio because the aspect ratios are 4:3.

However, you cannot add 1024x768 documents to a 1280x800 folio.

When designing for a device that uses Android 3.0 or later (Honeycomb), account for the system navigation bar. At this time, the nav bar for the Xoom and Galaxy 10 is 48 pixels and the nav bar for the Nexus 7 is 64/75 pixels. For example, the navigation bar makes the actual size of the layout on the Xoom 1280x752 in landscape and 800x1232 in portrait. For information about targeting different devices, see Creating

DPS Folios for Android Devices .

Objects on hidden layers do not appear in the exported folio. You can create separate layers for different mobile devices and add objects that appear only when that layer is turned on. Before you create an article from a document, show and hide the appropriate layers and change

the page size as needed.

If you're enabling social sharing to display content in the Web Viewer, you can create a special rendition that appears on in the Web Viewer browser. See Creating a Web Viewer only rendition.

We recommend that you use different Application IDs for iOS and Android platforms so that you can use different content for iOS and

Android devices, if necessary.

Features not supported on other platforms

Some of the features that work on the iPad are not supported in the Android Viewer and other devices. For example, panoramas and inline (non full-screen) videos are not supported on the Android platform. For HTML content, check to make sure that it works properly in the platform’s browser and in the DPS folio. See Differences between iOS and Android viewers and DPS supported feature list.

For information about making DPS apps for Android devices, see Building native DPS apps for Android.

For information about making DPS apps for Windows Store, see Building DPS apps for Windows Store.

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Creating HTML articles for DPS

You can import HTML-based articles into a folio so that it can be displayed in the viewer as an article. One advantage of HTML articles is a much smaller file size that is better suited for weekly publications and simple, text-intensive articles. HTML articles can also include interactivity not available in the Folio Overlays panel.

For information about using Adobe Edge to create HTML for DPS, see Raghu Thricovil’s article Enhance your DPS Folios with HTML animations using Adobe Edge .

1. Create a folder containing HTML files.

Make sure that you include only the assets you’re using in the folder. All assets in the folder are uploaded, even if they’re not used.

2. If you are importing the HTML article into a single-orientation folder, add an _h or _v suffix to the .html file, such as index_h.html.

If you don’t add a suffix, the article is imported as a dual-orientation article. If you try to preview or publish the single-orientation folio, an error message appears.

3. In the Folio Builder panel, open the folio in which the HTML article will be included.

4. In the Articles view of the Folio Builder panel, choose Import Article from the panel menu.

5. Choose Import A Single Article, click the Location folder icon , and specify the HTML folder.

6. Specify additional settings, such as Smooth Scrolling, and click OK.

If you edit the HTML files, select the HTML article in the Folio Builder panel and choose Update.

HTML article requirements

You can create a single HTML file that works for both portrait and landscape orientations, or you can create separate HTML files for the two orientations. To use separate HTML files for portrait and landscape, add the _v and _h suffixes to the end of the HTML filenames, such as

“index_h.html.” If you’re creating a single-orientation folio, you need only one HTML file. Include the _h or _v suffix for the HTML file in a single-orientation folio.

Dynamic HTML (DHTML) files currently are not fully supported.

For file structure, one method is to place all associated graphics and scripts for the HTML file in the individual article folders. Another option is to place associated graphics and scripts for the entire folio in an HTMLResources.zip file. You import the HTMLResources.zip file into the folio from the Folio Builder panel or the Folio Producer on the web. See Import HTMLResources folder.

Example of an HTMLResources folder

Make sure that you use relative paths in your HTML code. If you’re linking to an image on the same level as the HTML file, use this approach:

If you’re linking to an image in the HTMLResources folder, use this approach:

For information on creating hyperlinks to and from HTML articles, see Create navto hyperlinks for HTML articles.

Creating HTML articles for Android Viewers

For guidance and requirements on creating HTML articles for Android Viewers, see Create HTML articles for Android Viewers .

HTML5 resources

For information about creating articles using HTML5, see Johannes Henseler’s article A single file HTML5 framework .

For information about using CreateJS to create HTML5 using Flash Pro, see Toolkit for CreateJS .

For information on which fonts are available in HTML articles and Web View overlays on the iPad, see www.michaelcritz.com/2010/04/02/fonts-for-ipad-iphone/ .

Rufus Deuchler created a video tutorial about using Adobe Muse to create HTML content for digital publications .

Creating scrubber thumbnails for HTML articles

For InDesign articles, the viewer automatically generates the thumbnails that appear when you drag the scrubber. However, generating thumbnails for HTML articles takes more time, sometimes resulting in poorly rendered thumbnails. To improve thumbnail performance in HTML articles, you can manually add image files to the HTML article folders.

Create png files that are named “scrubberthumbnail_h.png” and "scrubberthumbnail_v.png” (you can also use _l and _p suffixes). Add these files to the HTML article folder. There is no size restriction for these images, but note that they are scaled down proportionally to a height of 166 pixels.

As a point of reference, when thumbnails are generated, landscape thumbnails are 221x166 pixels, and portrait thumbnails are 125x166 pixels.

Allowing videos in HTML articles to behave like full-screen video overlays

When you create a single-orientation HTML article with video links, rotating the device can cause the playing video to rotate as well. In addition, when the video is finished playing, the in-app browser playing the video can be dismissed. To enable this behavior, use a “videofile://” prefix in your HTML video link.

For examples of video behavior, see the Effects issue of the free DPS Tips app.

Standard video behavior

With this example, the video plays within an in-app browser and does not rotate in a single-orientation folio.<a

href="Links/video.mp4">Play Video</a> or<a href="../HTMLResources/videos/video.mp4">Play Video</a>

Enhanced video behavior

With this example, the video rotates properly in a single-orientation folio and returns to the article when the video finishes.<a href="videfile://Links/video.mp4">Play Video</a> or<a href="videofile://../HTMLResources/videos/video.mp4">Play Video</a>

JavaScript

You can also trigger this behavior via JavaScript using the playFullscreenVideo function on the window object.<a onclick="window.playFullscreenVideo('Links/video.mp4');">Play Video</a> or<a onclick="window.playFullscreenVideo('../HTMLResources/videos/video.mp4');">Play Video</a>

Streaming video

This example plays a streaming video.<a href="videohttp://www.mysite.com/video.mp4">Play Video</a>

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Creating DPS content for iPads

The retina display iPad HD has 2048x1536-pixel dimensions compared to the 1024x768 dimensions of the iPad SD models. To create folios that target both SD and HD devices, you have the following options:

Create only 1024x768 folios in PDF image format (recommended)

You can use multi-rendition PDF articles to create a single 1024x768 folio that looks great on all iPad models. For example, you can create slideshows and scrollable frames in which the content is exported in vector format. You can include both SD and HD assets in the same folio, which is especially important for pan and zoom image overlays. See Creating multi-rendition PDF articles for iOS devices. This approach is especially useful for single-folio apps, which do not support renditions.

Create 1024x768 and 2048x1536 renditions

When you create folio renditions, the iPad SD models display only the 1024x768 rendition and the iPad HD displays only the 2048x1536 rendition. You can use either the same set of source files (recommended) or two different sets of source files to create the renditions. For additional guidance, see the articles by Bob Bringhurst and Colin Fleming linked below.

Create only 2048x1536 folios

This approach is not recommended. In multi-issue viewers, 2048x1536 folios appear only on the HD iPad. In single-issue viewers, the content is noticeably rasterized and performance problems can occur.

Important considerations when creating renditions:

If possible, avoid publishing renditions separately. Suppose that you publish a 1024×768 folio and then a week later you publish a

2048×1536 rendition of that folio. If your iPad 3 customers open the library before the larger rendition is available, only the smaller rendition remains available. The only way for them to get the larger rendition is to remove and reinstall the viewer app. (This limitation is scheduled to be fixed in an upcoming release.)

If you have a Newsstand app, do not trigger a push notification until all renditions have been published and are available.

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Creating DPS content for iPhones

The iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S models as well as the iPod Touch (Generation 4 and later) are supported for DPS. The iPhone 3G is not supported.

The iPhone 3GS has 480x320-pixel dimensions. The iPhone 4 and 4S have 960x640-pixel dimensions. The iPhone 5 models have 1136x640 pixel dimensions.

You can create a viewer app for both the iPhone and iPad. You cannot create a single-issue viewer app for the iPhone or an iPhone-only viewer app.

Folios you create for the iPad do not appear in the iPhone viewer. The iPhone viewer displays only folios with a 3:2 aspect ratio, such as 960x640, as well as 1136x640 folios for the iPhone 5 models. For best results, create folio renditions. If you set up renditions properly and create a custom viewer that supports both iPhone and iPad, you can ensure that your customers are entitled to the same issue on any iOS device. See Create folio renditions.

Bookmarks are not yet supported for the iPhone. Enterprise customers can create as many as three custom icons for the nav bar.

To create folios that target the iPhone, you have the following options:

Create 480x320, 960x640, and 1136x640 renditions

When you create folio renditions, the iPhone 3GS displays only the smaller rendition and the iPhone 4/4S models display only the larger rendition. You can use the same set of source files to create the 480x320 and 960x640 renditions.

You need to create separate layouts for the 1136x640 iPhone 5 rendition. In addition, create 1024x768 and 2048x1536 renditions for the iPad.

Create only one folio

You can create a single 480x320 folio with PDF articles that look good on all supported iPhone models, although the

1136x640 content is letterboxed. See Creating multi-rendition PDF articles for iOS devices. If you create only a 960x640 folio, it does not appear in the library of the iPhone 3GS. If you create only an 1136x640 folio, it appears only on the iPhone 5.

Important considerations:

To avoid problems, publish the renditions at the same time. Suppose that you publish a 480x320 folio and then a week later you publish a

960x640 rendition of that folio. If your iPhone 4S customers open the library before the larger rendition is available, only the smaller rendition remains available. The only way for them to get the larger rendition is to remove and reinstall the viewer app.

If you have a Newsstand app, do not trigger a push notification until all renditions have been published and are available.

When using DPS App Builder to create or update your viewer, create additional icons, splash screens and other images that support the iPhone sizes.

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Using HTML with DPS

Here are three main ways to take advantage of HTML using DPS tools:

Links to websites

Use hyperlinks or buttons to display a website. You can display websites either in the external mobile browser or in an in-app browser in which users click a Close button to return to the folio. See Hyperlink overlays.

Web Content overlays

Create a Web Content overlay that displays a website or local HTML files within a view area. See Web Content overlays.

HTML articles

Instead of creating articles with InDesign documents, you can create a folder with HTML assets and import it as an article. See

Import HTML articles.

An HTMLResources folder is useful for sharing the same assets (such as CSS, JavaScript, or image files) among multiple HTML articles or Web

Content overlays. See Import HTMLResources.

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Smooth scrolling articles

You can turn on the Smooth Scrolling option for individual articles. Smooth scrolling (not to be confused with scrollable frames) is useful for long, single-page layouts such as a table of contents. If smooth scrolling is turned on, create your design accordingly. For example, for the iPad, you can create landscape and portrait documents that are 1024x2000 and 768x2000, respectively.

A document with multiple pages cannot be used for a Smooth Scrolling article. If you create Smooth Scrolling articles using the PDF image format, pinch and zoom is not enabled.

In InDesign, use the New Document or Document Setup dialog box to specify the page size.

Page-by-page scrolling and smooth scrolling

A. Horizontal page-by-page scrolling B. Horizontal smooth scrolling C. Vertical page-by-page scrolling D. Vertical smooth scrolling

To create a Smooth Scrolling article, do either of the following:

1. Create a one-page document with the appropriate dimensions, such as 1024x2000 for a landscape document or 768x2000 for a portrait document.

2. In article view of the Folio Builder panel, click Add to create an article.

3. In the New Article dialog box, specify the following options:

Smooth Scrolling

Select Horizontal Only if the article will contain only a landscape layout with Smooth Scrolling. This option is useful for an article in a horizontal-only folio or an article in which the landscape version is Smooth Scrolling and the portrait version is off (snap to page).

Select Both Directions for dual-orientation folios in which both layouts are smooth scrolling.

Portrait Layout/Landscape Layout (InDesign CS6)

Specify the layout to be used for the article—especially useful if you created alternate layouts. If your portrait and landscape layouts are in separate documents, choose the appropriate layout for one option and None for the other. Then, open the other document and add it as the second layout.

Portrait/Landscape (InDesign CS5/CS5.5)

Specify the orientation of the document. For example, for a 768x2000 document, select Portrait.

For a 1024x2000 document, select Landscape.

4. Click OK.

5. In a dual-orientation folio, add the second layout to the article.

Additional Information

You can also create a smooth scrolling article by importing it. Create _h and _v source files and use the Import Article option. See Import InDesign articles.

Smooth scrolling works only vertically at this time. To scroll an article horizontally, you can create a scrollable frame. See Scrollable frame overlays.

To adjust the size of the smooth scrolling page, use the Page tool to select the page, and then adjust the page’s height.

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Swiping articles horizontally

If you want one or more articles to flow horizontally only, select the Horizontal Swipe Only option in the Article Properties dialog box. Users navigate “flattened articles” by swiping left and right rather than up and down.

Flatten articles

A. Unflattened article B. Flattened article

Only the first page of a flattened article shows up in the TOC, but all the pages appear in Browse mode. You cannot flatten an article that is set to

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Creating multi-rendition articles

Publishers face a challenge in that iPads and iPhones include both SD (Standard Definition) and HD (High Definition) models. One approach is to create a single folio that works on both SD and HD models. However, without creating multi-rendition articles, some content appears pixelated on the HD device, and some overlays behave differently. Another approach is to create different renditions for both the SD and HD models. However, renditions are somewhat difficult to maintain for some publishers, and single-issue apps do not support multiple folio renditions.

By creating multi-rendition articles, you can create a single 1024x768 folio with PDF articles that look great and perform well on both SD and HD iPads. When you create an article with a PDF image format, the PDF images now have a higher resolution than in previous versions (as high as

108 ppi instead of 72 ppi). While a multi-rendition article looks good on the iPhone 5, the content is letterboxed. For best results, create a separate

1136x640 rendition.

Note: If you want to use a resolution higher than 108 ppi for certain images, you can make that image a high-resolution overlay, such as an image sequence with only one image file.

In addition, you can perform the following tasks to create a multi-rendition PDF article:

Use a vector format for slideshows and scrollable frames

When you select a slideshow or scrollable frame object, the Folio Overlays panel displays an Export Format in PDF Articles option that lets you choose either Raster or Vector. If you select Vector, content—especially text—in slideshows and scrollable frames appears crisper on HD devices. However, vector content takes longer to load than raster content. For best results, use the Vector option for text-heavy content and Raster for image-heavy content.

Make sure that your folio viewer version is v23 or later. Otherwise, this option has no effect.

Unfortunately, there is no vector option for buttons. Buttons are downsampled to 72 ppi (not 108), causing button text to appear pixelated in some cases. A workaround is to create an image for the button and place an invisible button over that image.

Using vector format for a slideshow

Use different interactive assets for SD and HD devices

This feature is especially useful for pan and zoom images, but it can also be used for panoramas, image sequences, videos, and audio controller skins. You can include two different sets of assets. To do this, you create a subfolder called “HD” in the folder containing the SD assets. In the HD folder, use high-resolution images with identical names to the SD assets. In the Folio

Overlays panel, link to the folder containing the SD assets. The viewer on the SD iPad displays one set of assets, and the HD iPad viewer displays the assets in the HD folder.

Note:

The HD assets for pan & zoom, image sequence, and audio skins must have twice the dimensions as the SD assets. For example, if an image sequence includes 300x200 SD images in 72 ppi, the HD source files must be 600x400 in 72 ppi.

To use different panorama assets for HD and SD iPad models, create an HD folder containing high-resolution images with names identical to the lower resolution images.

For videos and pan & zoom images, you can create a single HD folder that includes multiple high-resolution files. For example, if your Links folder includes polarbear.jpg and video01.mp4, you can create an HD folder in the Links folder with high-resolution versions of the polarbear.jpg and video01.mp4 files.

Note that including two sets of assets for overlay types increases the folio size.

We recommend creating two different sets of assets for pan and zoom images in particular. It usually isn’t necessary to create separate SD and

HD versions for other overlay types. For example, some publishers create source files for image sequence overlays that fall somewhere between

SD and HD resolutions, such as images with a 108 effective ppi. If a high-resolution video plays on an SD iPad, there is no reason to create an additional low-resolution video.

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Structuring folders for imported articles

Create folder structure for importing multiple articles

Create a metadata sidecar file for importing articles

You can use the Import Article command in the Folio Builder panel to import articles from the desktop. To import files properly, you must follow the structure rules and file naming conventions to determine what is included in a folio.

To import multiple articles simultaneously, create a folio folder that consists of multiple article folders. When you select Import Multiple

Articles, navigate to the folio folder that contains article subfolders.

Article folders for dual-orientation folios must contain two InDesign documents. Create one document with an _h suffix (such as

“article1_h.indd”), and one with a _v suffix (such as “article1_v.indd”).

Article folders for single-orientation folios must contain only one InDesign file with an _h or _v suffix.

Each article folder can contain a PNG file for table-of-contents (TOC) thumbnails. If this file is missing, the toc image is generated automatically. For best results, keep your image assets in a Links subfolder rather than in the article folder so that a PNG image is not mistakenly used for the TOC.

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Create folder structure for importing multiple articles

When setting up the folder structure, you can use various methods to organize your article files. Files you link to in InDesign do not have to be in the article folder—they can be in any folder where InDesign can find them.

Keep filenames and folder names simple. Avoid using special characters.

Sample structure for files

A. Folio folder B. Article folders

If you’re importing multiple articles into a single-orientation folio, make sure that each article folder contains only one document. The InDesign files still require an _h or _v extension in single-orientation folios. You cannot combine single-orientation and dual-orientation articles in a folio.

Folio with only vertical articles

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Create a metadata sidecar file for importing articles

The metadata sidecar.xml file is an optional method for ordering articles and applying metadata when you import the files. Use a text editor or an XML editor to create a sidecar.xml file with metadata for each article. Save the sidecar.xml file in the root folio folder.

Note that not all article properties are available in the sidecar.xml format at this time.

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You can copy and paste the following text into a text editor and edit it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<entry>

<folderName>Article One</folderName>

<articleTitle>title</articleTitle>

<byline>byline</byline>

<kicker>kicker</kicker>

<description>description</description>

<isAd>false</isAd>

<smoothScrolling>never</smoothScrolling>

<isFlattenedStack>false</isFlattenedStack>

<section>section name</section>

</entry>

<entry>

<folderName>Article Two</folderName>

<articleTitle>article 2</articleTitle>

<byline>byline</byline>

<kicker>kicker</kicker>

<description>description</description>

<isAd>false</isAd>

<smoothScrolling>never</smoothScrolling>

<isFlattenedStack>false</isFlattenedStack>

<articleAccess>metered</articleAccess>

<section>section name</section>

</entry>

</sidecar>

Valid <isAd>, <isFlattenedStack>, and <isTrustedContent> values are “true” and “false.” The <isFlattenedStack> value determines whether

Horizontal Swipe Only is turned on, and <isTrustedContent> determines whether Allow Access to Entitlement Information is turned on for an

HTML article.

Valid <smoothScrolling> values include “always,” “portrait,” “landscape,” and “never.” The default is “never,” which means scrolling snaps to pages.

Valid <articleAccess> values include "free," "metered," and "protected."

You can use either <byline> or <author> for the Byline metadata.

For <section> entries, specify a string of characters, such as “Lifestyle.” Section values are valid only for v23 folios and later.

The order of the <entry> sections determines the order of the articles in your project when you create your project or when you update it. If an article’s folder name does not appear in the sidecar, it is moved below those that are listed. The order of items within each <entry> is insignificant.

Use sidecar.xml for importing multiple articles

1. Use a text editor or an XML editor to create a sidecar.xml file with metadata for each article.

2. Save the sidecar.xml file in the root folio folder.

3. In the Folio Builder panel, select a folio, and choose Import Article from the panel menu. In the Import Article dialog box, select Import

Multiple Articles, specify the folder folder containing the sidecar.xml file, and click OK.

Use sidecar.xml for updating article properties

If you want to use the sidecar.xml file to update your article metadata or change the order of articles, you can use the Folio Builder panel to import the sidecar.xml file.

This method works only for folios uploaded to the server, not for local folios.

1. Create or edit the sidecar.xml file for your folio. See

Create a metadata sidecar file for importing articles .

2. Copy or move the sidecar.xml file to its own folder.

3. In the Folio Builder panel, open the folio you want to edit, and choose Import Article from the panel menu.

4. Select Import Multiple Articles, specify the folder in which the sidecar.xml file is located, and click OK.

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DPS supported feature list

These tables indicate which features are supported.

= supported

= not supported

= not fully implemented or partially supported

Viewer types

iPad and iPhone viewers: Creating DPS content for iPads and Creating DPS content for iPhones

Native Android viewer / Legacy Android viewer: Building DPS apps for Android viewer

Windows Store viewer: Building DPS apps for Windows Store

Web viewer / Article viewer: Using social sharing

Desktop preview (Adobe Content Viewer for Desktop): Previewing folios and articles

Article features

iPad iPhone

Native

Android

Windows

Store

Web Viewer

Desktop

Preview

Legacy

Android

Dual- or singleorientation folio

Horizontal Swipe

Only (flattened articles)

HTML articles

Pinch and zoom page

Smooth Scrolling articles

Social Sharing

(Web Viewer)

Bookmarks

(Favorites)

Hot Zones

Right Edge Binding

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At this time, the library is always shown in portrait, and dual-orientation folios open as portrait and cannot be rotated in native Android viewers.

For native Android viewers, pinch and zoom is supported in PDF, PNG, and JPEG article formats. For all other viewers, pinch and zoom is supported only in PDF article format.

PDF articles are automatically uploaded as PNG images for the web viewer.

Platform subscrip tion

Custom entitlem ent

(Enterpr ise)

Custom

HTML library

Multifolio app

Singleissue app /

Single

Edition license

Platform in-app purchas e folios

Custom nav bar icons and store

Library backgro und downloa ding

Progres sive downloa ding

(view folio during downloa d)

Renditio

Social sharing works only with multi-folio apps. Social sharing is not supported in the Adobe Content Viewer.

Bookmarks are not enabled in Adobe Content Viewer or in single-folio apps.

Viewer features

iPad iPhone

Native

Android

Windows

Store

Web Viewer

Desktop

Preview

Legacy

Android

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1 1

2 ns

USB

Preview on

Device

Auto archive

Twofinger swiping

Filters

Section s

Push notificati ons

Analytic s

Folio view hides system nav bar

Newsst and backgro und downloa ding

N/A

N/A N/A

N/A

Supported in Amazon Appstore but not Google Play.

Renditions in native Android viewer are currently supported only for free folios.

Mac OS only.

Interactivity features

iPad iPhone

Native

Android

Windows

Store

Web Viewer

Article

Viewer

Desktop

Preview

Legacy

Android

Hyperli nks

Slidesh ows

Image

Sequen ce

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Audio in backgro und

Full screen video

Inline video

Nested overlay s

Panora mas

Pan and

Zoom

Scrolla ble

Frames

Web

Content

Audio

3 3

The goto:// format is not supported in AIR-based viewers.

Swiping in image sequences is not yet supported in native Android viewers.

Panorama overlays have been deprecated. There are no plans to support panoramas in non-iOS platforms.

In native Android viewer, scrollable frames currently support only raster content, not vector.

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Interactive Overlays

Video overlays

Supported video files you place in InDesign play when tapped in the viewer. For video files, use a format that is compatible with Apple iTunes, such as an MP4 file with h.264 encoding. When creating the video, use Baseline Profile for optimal compatibility with Android devices. Use .mp4 instead of .mov files, which are not supported in web viewer. If your video does not play properly in the viewer, re-encode the video to .mp4 h.264 using

Adobe Media Encoder or a third-party tool such as Handbrake.

Best practices for video files

For iOS viewers, you can play video inline or in full-screen mode. For Android viewers, you can play videos only in full-screen mode.

You can set up a video file to be played by letting users tap the view area or by creating separate buttons with the Video action. The Play,

Pause, and Stop options are supported. Resume and Stop All are not supported.

For best results with inline videos, create a movie in the appropriate dimensions, such as 400 x 300 pixels. Consider seting full-screen movies to 1024 pixels wide. The maximum video size for the HD iPad is 1920x1080, although creating a video that large increases the folio size. For a good balance between file size and quality, some publishers recommend 10-12 MB per minute of film. To reduce video size, some publishers use Adobe Media Encoder or a third-party application such as HandBrake. For details, see Keith Gilbert's article Compressing

Videos for Use in DPS .

You can specify a URL to stream video only from an http: website. To stream video using an https: website such as YouTube or Vimeo, create a Web Content overlay. In InDesign CS6 or later, you can use the Insert HTML command to insert the embed code of a YouTube clip.

Make sure that the embed code includes an "http://" prefix such as src="http://www.youtube.com/..." For best results, set the overlay to

Auto Play, and add a poster image on top of the overlay. For examples and instructions, see the Advanced Overlays issue of the free DPS

Tips app.

Videos stop playing when users move to a different article, but they keep playing when users move to a different page within the article. To stop the video on page turn, a workaround is to auto-play a "dummy" video. For details, see Johannes Henseler's article Stop a video when going to the next page of an article .

You can add video (including streaming video) to HTML articles. See Import HTML articles.

Creating Video overlays

1. Choose File > Place, and place the video file in your document.

2. Select the placed object, open the Media panel (Window > Interactive > Media), and specify a poster.

For a video file, you can choose an image or specify a frame from the video. For best results, choose an image that indicates the page item is interactive. You can also create a poster image simply by placing a non-interactive object (such as a transparent play button) on top of the video object.

3. Select the video object and specify any of the following options in the Folio Overlays panel.

URL or File

Specify a URL to stream a video, or click the folder and specify a video file if you haven't already placed it. When you specify a streaming URL, all options in the overlay are supported, including Auto Play and Full Screen.

Streaming a video supports http, not https. Services such as YouTube and Vimeo are not supported. Use Web Content overlays instead, as described in the "Best practices" section above.

If you both place a video and specify a streaming URL, the first action takes precedence. For example, if you specify a URL first and then place a video, the overlay uses the URL, not the embedded movie. (In fact, you can take advantage of this feature by selecting a poster for the streaming video.)

Auto Play

Select this option to play the video file when the page is loaded on the mobile device. You can also specify the number of seconds to delay. Auto Play is not supported for Android viewers.

Play Full Screen (iOS only)

If this option is selected, the video plays in full-screen mode. If this option is not selected, the video plays within its bounding area. Note that all videos on Android devices play full screen.

Tap To View Controller (iOS only)

If this option is selected, tapping the inline video while it’s playing displays a controller bar with pause and play controls. If this option is not selected, tapping the video pauses and restarts.

Do Not Allow Pause (iOS only)

If you select this option, users cannot tap the video to pause or stop it. This option is available only if Auto

Play is selected and Play Full Screen is not selected.

Stop on Last Frame (iOS only)

Select this option to display the final video image when the inline video stops playing. This option is available only if Play Full Screen is not selected.

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Overview of interactive overlays

Use the Folio Overlays panel to create and edit interactive objects. To open the Folio Overlays panel, choose Window > Extensions > Folio

Overlays (InDesign CS5/CS5.5) or choose Window > Folio Overlays (InDesign CS6/CC).

Why are interactive objects called overlays? When you create a folio, all non-interactive items on a page are compressed into a single image—

PDF, JPG, or PNG, depending on the article’s image format setting. If you mask or cover interactive overlays that you place in the document, the overlays appear on top of the layout in the folio. Only another overlay can mask an overlay.

The interactive object appears on top of the non-interactive items.

Ways to create overlays

Different overlays require different methods to create them.

For slideshows, hyperlinks, audio and video, pan & zoom images, and scrollable content, create or place the objects in the InDesign documents, and use the Folio Overlays panel to edit settings.

For image sequences, panoramas, and web content overlays, draw a rectangle frame as a placeholder or place an image to be used as a poster. Then select it and use the Folio Overlays panel to specify the source and change settings.

When you select a multi-state object, the Folio Overlays panel displays slideshow settings.

Maintaining continuity of interactive objects

When you use the same overlay in both the horizontal and vertical layouts, you want the overlay to maintain its state when the user rotates the mobile device. For example, if the slideshow displays the third slide, that third slide should remain visible when the user rotates the device.

For most overlays, no action is required to maintain continuity. Use the same source files and overlay settings. For slideshows, use the same

Object Name in the Object States panel for the multi-state objects in the horizontal and vertical layouts. In addition, make sure that the individual

state names are identical between the two layouts.

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Supported interactivity features

InDesign includes many interactivity features for exporting to SWF and PDF. Some—but not all—of these features are supported in the digital publishing workflow.

Supported interactivity features

Multi-State Objects

Use MSOs to create slideshows.

Hyperlinks

Create URL, Email, and Navto hyperlinks.

Buttons

Only the On Release event is supported. You can use multiple button actions. Button actions are played in sequence, not simultaneously.

Supported hyperlink actions include Go To First Page, Go To Last Page, Go To URL, Sound, Video, and Go To Page. Supported slideshow actions include Go To State, Go To Previous State, and Go To Next State.

Audio

Placed mp3 files play. You cannot loop or stream audio at this time.

Video

Supported video files (mp4 with h.264 encoding) play. You cannot loop video at this time. To stream video, use a web content overlay or

HTML article.

Additional interactive overlays

frames.

You can also create web content overlays, image sequences, pan and zoom images, panoramas, and scrollable

Interactivity features not supported

Animation

Animated objects are flattened when the article is created. One workaround is to export an animated InDesign document in FLA format and use the CreateJS plugin in Flash Professional to export an HTML5 file. You can then use this HTML5 file as a Web Content overlay.

Many publishers use Adobe Edge to create animation.

Certain hyperlinks

Text Anchor and Shared Destination hyperlinks are not supported.

Certain button actions

Go To Destination, Go To Next Page, Go To Previous Page, and Show/Hide Buttons actions are not supported. On Click and On Rollover events are not supported.

Other features not supported

Bookmarks, cross-references, and page transitions are not supported.

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Best practices for creating overlays

Source files

When creating the source assets for overlays, it helps to understand which overlays are resampled (compressed), and which ones are simply passed through during upload. The source assets of slideshows, scrollable frames, and buttons are resampled as PNG images. You can use any image format for these overlays. For best results, use at least 108 effective ppi for images that are compressed during upload.

The source assets of panoramas, image sequences, pan and zoom images, and audio skins are not resampled on upload—they’re passed through. Use either JPEG or PNG image format for these overlays. Using Save for Web in Photoshop is a great way to reduce file size and strip unnecessary metadata that bloats the file size.

To minimize file size, use JPEG images with medium compression (50-80% range) for the source files. Use PNG images only if the images include transparency. Compressing overlay images and video can significantly reduce the size of the folio.

Create the source files for panoramas, image sequences, inline videos, pan and zoom images, or audio controllers using the exact dimensions in pixels and 72 ppi. A common mistake is to create larger images than necessary and then scale down the overlay frame in

InDesign.

For iPad viewers, create 1024x768 source files and folios. You can minimize folio size and production work by creating multi-rendition PDF articles that target both SD and HD iOS devices. See Creating multi-rendition PDF articles for iOS devices.

In Photoshop and Illustrator, the File > Save for Web command is especially useful for saving image files with specific pixel dimensions. When you save images, choose None for metadata. For image sequence files in particular, metadata can increase file size unnecessarily.

In Lightroom, reduce image size by choosing File > Export, and then choose a compressed JPEG format using sRGB color space. Minimize metadata to reduce file size. For best results, create a preset.

If you create memory-intensive overlays, the viewer’s performance can slow down significantly to preload these overlays. If possible, spread out the overlays in your design to avoid multiple overlays from being preloaded simultaneously. For example, if you have two articles with nested overlays in scrollable frames, consider putting an ad or basic article between the two articles. Transparency in overlays or PDF articles can increase page load times.

For image sequences, find the right balance between the number of images and the amount of smoothness. Using too few images reduces smoothness. Using too many images increases the folio size and increases memory usage. Avoid unnecessary images in your set of image sequence files.

If you place PDF files in your slideshow state or scrollable frame content, use non-flattened PDF 1.4 or later to avoid white lines.

Setup

For panoramas, image sequences, audio skins, and local web content overlays, create a separate folder for overlay files. Use the Folio

Overlays panel to link to this folder.

Avoid running interactive objects into the bleed area. Keep interactive objects within the page size area.

Whenever possible, give real names to your overlays to make it easier to interpret analytics data. For example, use “Twitter Link” instead of

“Button 4” and “Cricket Slideshow” instead of “multi-state object 2.”

Tips and guidelines

When working with overlays, choose Window > Workspace > Interactive (InDesign CS5/CS5.5) or Window > Workspaces > Digital Publishing

(InDesign CS6 or later) to make interactive panels more accessible.

Use a consistent method to let users know which objects are interactive. For example, you can create poster images that use icons to indicate different types of interactivity.

When you place overlay files in InDesign, the frame size determines where you tap to activate the interactive content.

In interactive content, only basic transparency effects such as opacity and multiply are supported. Blending modes are not supported.

In some cases, you want an image to appear over the overlay, such as a mask for a video. To do this, create a “dummy” overlay. For examples of this trick, see examples in the free DPS Tips app by Bob Bringhurst or Creating Super Overlays by Johannes Henseler.

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Hyperlink and button overlays

Create links using the Buttons panel

Create links using the Hyperlinks panel

Create links to other articles using "navto"

Create relative navto hyperlinks

Create navto hyperlinks for HTML articles

Create goto links to custom icons

Link to assets in the HTML Resources folder

Create links to external apps and services

Control the appearance of hyperlinks and slideshows in the viewer

You can use the Hyperlinks panel or the Buttons panel to create links that jump to websites, other articles, and more. Not all button actions and hyperlink types are supported in folios.

Hyperlink overlays are supported in scrollable frames and slideshows, but not other overlays.

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Create links using the Buttons panel

Use the Buttons panel to create links to websites, to another page, or to another article.

For best results, use the Buttons panel instead of the Hyperlinks panel to create links. The Buttons panel is more flexible and more stable.

1. In InDesign, create the object to be used as the button.

For example, if you want the button to jump to a website, create a text frame or place an image.

2. Open the Buttons panel (Window > Interactive > Buttons), select the object, and click the Convert Object To Button icon.

3. For Event, choose On Release.

On Release is the only supported button event.

4. Click the plus sign next to Action and select a supported action.

Supported button actions

A. Supported actions for hyperlink buttons B. Supported actions for slideshow buttons

Supported hyperlink actions include Go To First Page, Go To Last Page, Go To Next Page, Go To Previous Page, Go To URL, Sound,

Video, and Go To Page. Go To Next State, Go To Previous State, and Go To State actions are supported for slideshows.

Do not use the Go To Destination action to jump to a different article. Instead, use the Go To URL action with a “navto” format. See the related section later in this article.

5. If desired, add additional button actions.

Actions are played in sequence. For example, if the first action plays a video and the second action displays a different slide, the video plays, and then the slide is displayed.

6. To change hyperlink settings, select the button object, and then specify these settings in the Folio Overlays panel:

Open in Folio

tel:.

Display the content in a web view within the viewer. Deselect this option when linking to URLs such as itms://, mailto:, and

Open in Device Browser

Display the content outside the viewer in the mobile device browser, such as mobile Safari on the iPad. Select

Ask First if you want a prompt to appear when users tap the link.

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Create links using the Hyperlinks panel

In InDesign, you can use the Hyperlinks panel to add hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are especially useful for text. If you want a frame to be a hyperlink, consider using the Buttons panel instead of the Hyperlinks panel. Buttons are more versatile and more stable.

1. Select the frame or text that you want to use as a hyperlink.

2. Open the Hyperlinks panel (Window > Interactive > Hyperlinks).

3. In the Hyperlinks panel, choose New Hyperlink from the panel menu.

4. Deselect Shared Destination.

Shared Destination lets you name and reuse hyperlinks, but it’s better to avoid using this option in the DPS workflow.

5. In the Link To menu, specify any of the following options, and then click OK:

URL

Tapping a URL hyperlink displays a web page (http://), an App Store application (itms://), an Amazon Appstore application (amzn://), or a different article (navto://).

Example: http://www.adobe.com

When linking to websites, type the entire URL, including “http://.”

Note:

When linking to an iTunes URL, deselect Open in Folio in the Folio Overlays panel. Otherwise, a “Cannot Open Page” error message appears when the hyperlink is tapped. Similarly, if you use an itms:// or amzn:// format to link to a store app, turn off Open In Folio.

A navto:// hyperlink jumps to a different article or a different page in that article. Type navto:// followed by the article name as it appears in the Folio Builder panel. Use the Article Name value, not the article’s Title value. If you want to include a page number, add # followed by a number. But keep in mind that the first page is 0, so adding #2 jumps to page 3.

Example: navto://newsarticle

Example: navto://newsarticle#2 (jumps to page 3)

Email

Tapping an Email hyperlink launches the Mail app with the To field filled in.

Page

Tapping a Page hyperlink jumps to a different page within the article. Do not use this option for jumping to a different article.

The Text Anchor hyperlink is not supported.

6. To change hyperlink settings, select the hyperlink objects, and then specify these settings in the Folio Overlays panel:

Open In Folio

tel:.

Display the content in a web view within the viewer. Deselect this option when linking to URLs such as itms://, mailto:, and

Open In Device Browser

Display the content outside the viewer in the mobile device browser, such as mobile Safari on the iPad. Select

Ask First if you want a prompt to appear when users tap the link. This option is disabled if Open In Folio is selected.

Note:

The Folio Overlays panel settings are not available for text hyperlinks. You cannot change settings for text hyperlinks; they are set to

Open In Folio by default. However, the viewer includes built-in exceptions for certain prefixes such as itms://, tel:, and mailto:. For these

URLs, an external app is opened by default.

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Create links to other articles using "navto"

Folio articles are stored on a server, so any link that specifies a path to an InDesign file is broken when previewed. Use the “navto” format to link to other articles.

When creating either a button or hyperlink, you can replace “http://” with “navto://” in the URL field. Then specify the target article name as it appears in the Folio Builder panel. Use the Article Name value, not the article’s Title value. Valid navto formats include navto://[articlename]

and navto://[articlename]#n. Adding #n specifies a page number. The first page of a document is 0, so specifying #2 jumps to page 3.

Jumping to page 3 of a different article

Navto examples: navto://biking navto://biking#2

(jumps to page 3 of biking article)

Note:

If you used a previous version of the tools to create a navto link using a folder name or article name that differs from the target article

name, your links are broken. To fix the navto links, you can either rename the article (the name, not the title) or edit the navto links to point to the article name as it appears in the Folio Creator panel.

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Create relative navto hyperlinks

The v30 release introduced new relative options for article and page navigation. Note that relative navto formats are supported only in v30 or later apps, but you can use any folio format (v20 or later). Relative navto links are supported in the iOS and Windows Store viewers, but not yet supported in the native Android viewer or web viewer.

You can use various navto://relative formats to jump to the next, previous, first, or last article. For example, a button with a navto://relative/first action jumps to the first article in the folio. Valid formats include first, last, next, previous, and current. You can also jump to a specific article relative to its position in the folio, such as the fifth article.

Example: navto://relative/last (jumps to last article in folio)

Example: navto://relative/last#last (jumps to last page of last article in folio)

Example: navto://relative/4 (jumps to fifth article in folio)

Example: navto://relative/4#2 (jumps to third page of fifth article in folio)

Using the "current" format is especially useful for page navigation. You can use #previous, #next, #first, #last, and you can jump to a specific page, such as #3 to jump to page 4 of the article.

Example: navto://relative/current#previous (jump to previous page in article)

Example: navto://relative/current#last (jumps to last page in article)

Example: navto://relative/current#3 (jumps to fourth page in current article)

In Smooth Scrolling articles, you can use decimals or percentages to jump to a specific position.

Example: navto://myarticle#3.3 (jumps to a specific position in smooth scrolling article that displays the bottom of page 4 and the top of page 5)

Example: navto://myarticle#50% (jumps to the middle of smooth scrolling article)

To extend these relative navto capabilities, you can create a Web Content overlay or HTML article that accesses the Reading API. For example, you can query the folio to determine information such as how many articles are in the folio and how many pages are in an article. You can then display this information or use it in another way within the overlay or HTML article. For more information, see New APIs and features in r30 in DPS

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Create navto hyperlinks for HTML articles

When you create a URL-based hyperlink or button, you can use the “navto://” URL to jump to a different article. Navto is especially useful for jumping to HTML articles.

Jump to HTML article

Type navto:// followed by the HTML article name (not the article title).

Example: navto://newsarticle

Jump to anchor in HTML article

You cannot jump to a specific page within an HTML article, but you can jump to an anchor by typing

navto://<foldername>#<anchor name>

Example: navto://newsarticle#part4

Note:

To define an anchor in an HTML file, open the HTML file in a text editor. Navigate to the text that you want to act as an anchor, and enclose the text with an anchor tag, such as “This is Part 4 of the Article.”

Jump to InDesign article from HTML article

Use the navto format to create a hyperlink from an HTML article to an InDesign article. Example:

<a href="navto://newsarticle">See the News Article</a>

You can also navigate to pages within an InDesign article by adding the page number after the document name. The first page of the document is

0, and the second page is 1, and so on. Example:

<a href="navto://Cycling#3">Go to Page 4 of the Cycling Article</a>

Jump from HTML to HTML

Use the navto format to jump from one HTML article to another using the folder name. Example:

<a href="navto://newsarticle">See the News Article</a>

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Create goto links to custom icons

You can create buttons that go to the library, to the list of sections, or to the last view (Back button). Use any of these goto:// formats in a button action: goto://ApplicationViewState/library goto://ApplicationViewState/sections goto://FolioNavigation/lastview

These goto:// formats are not supported in the legacy AIR-based Android viewer. Only the "library" and "lastview" formats are currently supported in the native Android viewer.

If you have an Enterprise DPS account, you can use the goto format to create links from articles to the HTML content associated with custom icons. For example, you can use the DPS App Builder to specify custom icons for “Store,” “Help,” and “Terms.” These buttons appear in the viewer library. To create a button in an article that opens the HTML content for any of these custom icons, use the following format: goto://ApplicationViewState/[label]

For example, the goto://ApplicationViewState/Store button action would open the HTML store—just like tapping the custom Store icon in the library.

Use the DPS App Builder to create custom icons and specify labels. See Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only).

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Link to assets in the HTML Resources folder

You can create a hyperlink or button that displays a local HTML, image, or PDF file in the viewer’s in-app browser.

1. Add a folder containing the local HTML file to the HTMLResources folder.

Make sure that the HTMLResources folder is included in the folio. See Import HTMLResources folder.

2. Create a link to display the HTML file in the in-app browser:

InDesign source document

Example:

In the URL field of either a hyperlink or button, enter the path without http://, navto://, or any other prefix.

HTMLResources/Cartoons/train1.html

HTML article

From an HTML article, specify the location. Example:

<a href=”../HTMLResources/Cartoons/train1”>See Train Cartoon Gallery</a>

Web Content overlay

Web Content overlays are nested two levels deeper than an HTML article. Example:

<a href=”../../../HTMLResources/Cartoons/train1”>See Train Cartoon Gallery</a>

Note:

For best results, avoid spaces and special characters in your HTML folders and files. If you include a space in a folder or file name, use the appropriate HTML code for the space character. For example, use “Cartoon%20Files” for a folder called “Cartoon Files.”

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Create links to external apps and services

You can create a link that sends an email message (mailto:), a text message (SMS), or calls a number (tel:) from an iPhone article. You can also create links that open the YouTube app or an iTunes song or album. To learn more about the required formats to use for the iPad, see the Apple

URL Scheme Reference .

For information about creating advanced email (mailto:) links, see James Lockman’s article Sending email and email attachments from DPS publications .

If you specify an Optional URL Scheme when using DPS App Builder to create an app, you can link to that app from another app or when viewed from a webpage in mobile Safari. See Viewer Details panel.

Note:

Whenever you create a link to an external app or service, select the button and choose the Open In Device Browser option in the Folio

Overlays panel.

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Control the appearance of hyperlinks and slideshows in the viewer

When users browse through a folio on the mobile device, the horizontal and vertical pages they see are rasterized images of each InDesign page.

The page thumbnails that appear when the user taps the Browse button or uses the scrubber at the bottom of the mobile device are also rasterized images. You can control the appearance of the hyperlinks and slideshows in these rasterized images.

To control the appearance of hyperlinks and slideshows, create a config text file and save it in the InDesign application folder. This file, called

NativeOverlays.config, lets you include or suppress native hyperlinks and slideshows.

1. Open a text editor.

2. Add one or more of the following lines.

(“Asset” refers to the main pages, “Thumbnails” refers to the Browse icon images, and “Scrubbers” refers to images that appear when the user drags the scrubber.)

SuppressOverlayTypesForAssets: <slideshow, hyperlink>

SuppressOverlayTypesForThumbnails: <slideshow, hyperlink>

SuppressOverlayTypesForScrubbers: <slideshow, hyperlink>

ResetHyperlinksToTopState: <ThumbnailPass, ScrubberPass, AssetPass, All>

ResetHyperlinksToTopState means that any button with a Go to URL action displays the [Normal] state instead of the [Click] state.

ResetSlideshowsToTopState: < ThumbnailPass, ScrubberPass, AssetPass, All>

ResetSlideshowsToTopState resets the multi-state object to the top state of the multi-state object in the InDesign document. If you suppress overlays, reset settings do not apply.

If ResetHyperlinksToTopState and ResetSlideshowsToTopState are not specified, the default behavior is to reset to top states for both slideshows and hyperlinks.

Example:

SuppressOverlayTypesForAssets: slideshow

SuppressOverlayTypesForThumbnails: hyperlink

SuppressOverlayTypesForScrubbers: slideshow, -hyperlink

ResetHyperlinksToTopState: All

ResetSlideshowsToTopState: ThumbnailPass, ScrubberPass

If you type a minus sign before the overlay type, that overlay type is not suppressed.

3. Save the file with the name, NativeOverlays.config.

4. Move the NativeOverlays.config file to the InDesign application folder using one of these methods:

Windows

Move the config file to the same level as the InDesign.exe file.

Mac OS

Select the Adobe InDesign CS5 application icon, right-click, and choose Show Package Contents. Move the config file to the

Content > MacOS folder.

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Slideshow overlays

Use the Object States panel to create a set of images for a slideshow. Each state, or slide, can contain multiple objects. For example, if you want a different text frame to appear with each image, combine the image and text frame on the same state.

Slideshow states support any interactive overlay except for slideshows.

Create a slideshow using the Object States panel

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Slideshow images are converted into PNG images in the folio.

Currently, you cannot make a slideshow play in full-screen mode without using HTML.

1. In InDesign, use the Object States panel (Window > Interactive > Object States) to create a slideshow. (For details, see “ Create a multi-state object slide show ” in InDesign Help.)

When you create a multi-state object, you insert images, align them in an article, and convert the article to a multi-state object.

2. In the Object States panel, specify an object name.

When your multi-state objects in the horizontal and vertical documents have both the same object name and individual state names, the slideshow maintains continuity when the iPad is rotated. In addition, using a descriptive name makes analytics reports easier to understand.

Note:

To avoid errors, do not include punctuation or extended characters in the object name or object state name.

3. Create navigation buttons that browse through the states in the multi-state object.

Use the Go To State action to refer to a specific slide. Use the Go To Next State and Go To Previous State actions to navigate through slides.

The Sample Buttons panel in InDesign includes a library of navigation buttons. If you use these sample buttons, delete the existing action and replace with a Go To Next State or Go To Previous State action.

4. If you want the button appearance to change when it’s tapped, click [Click] under Appearance, and change its appearance.

If a button uses the Go To State action, the [Click] state appears when the specificed state is selected. For example, the [Normal] state button can have a black frame, and the [Click] state can have a red frame. The red frame appears when the button is tapped on the iPad.

(The [Rollover] state is not supported on mobile devices.)

5. To change slideshow settings, select the multi-state object, and specify the following settings in the Folio Overlays panel:

Auto Play

When selected, the slideshow begins playing when users turn to the page.

Tap to Play/Pause

slideshow.

When selected, this setting lets users tap to play and pause an auto-running slideshow. Double-tapping resets the

Delay

If Auto Play is selected, you can specify the time that elapses between loading the page and the start of the slideshow. Specify a value from 0 to 60 seconds.

Interval

If Auto Play or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, the Interval value determines the duration of display for each slide.

Play _ Time

If either Auto Play or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, you can specify the number of times the slideshow plays. This option is dimmed if Loop is selected.

Loop

If either Auto Play or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, select Loop to play the slideshow continuously until the user double-taps the slideshow or turns the page.

Stop At Last Image

If either Auto Play or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, select Stop At Last Image to stop at the last image of the slideshow instead of the first.

Cross Fade

When selected, this setting provides a fade transition to the next slide. The value is 0.5 seconds by default. You can specify a value between 0.125 seconds and 60 seconds. This value applies to both auto-playing and manually advanced slideshows.

Swipe to Change Image

When enabled, this setting lets the user swipe to move from slide to slide.

Stop at First/Last Image

This setting determines whether the slideshow stops playing or continues when the last slide is reached going forward or the first slide is reached going backward. This option affects only swiping.

Hide Before Playing

If selected, the slideshow remains hidden until the user taps a button to display a slide.

Play In Reverse

When enabled, the slideshow plays the images in reverse order.

Export Format in PDF Articles

If your slideshow appears in an article that uses PDF format, you can choose Bitmap or Vector. Choosing

Vector is especially useful when you’re creating a single folio for both SD and HD iPads or iPhones. The Vector option provides sharper text when the folio is displayed on an HD iOS device, but it takes a moment to load. For best results, use Vector for text-intensive slideshows, and use Raster for image-based slideshows or when creating separate renditions for SD and HD iOS devices. Raster slideshows are resampled to no higher than 72 ppi.

When you copy the multi-state object to a different document, the object is renamed. For example, “sea slugs” becomes “sea slugs 2.” To maintain continuity when the device is rotated, make sure that the object names in the horizontal and vertical documents are identical. Don’t leave any spaces at the end of the object name. In addition, the corresponding state names in each layout should be identical.

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Image Sequence overlays

The Image Sequence overlay progresses through a series of images. It allows you to create effects such as rotating an object 360° on the mobile device.

Use png or jpg image files that have the same root name with ascending suffixes, such as Tower001.jpg, Tower002.jpg, and so on. Make your image dimensions correspond exactly to the display area on the mobile device, such as 500 x 400 pixels in 72 dpi.

For smooth 360° rotation, use at least 30 images. Using too many images increases the file size unnecessarily. To reduce file size, use JPEG images compressed in the 50-80% range. Use PNG files only if you want to include transparency.

Do not use a poster (or show the first image) with transparent image sequences. If your source assets include transparent PNG images, the poster you specify continues to display during the image sequence. One workaround is to create a two-state MSO in which the poster is a button on the first state that links to the image sequence on the second state.

Create a set of images to be used for the image sequence

You can use a number of different methods to create images of a 3D object. One method is to use Adobe Photoshop® Extended to export an image sequence of a 3D object. You can use Adobe Flash® Professional or Adobe After Effects® to export frames from an animation or video.

You can also use a 3D authoring application to generate images of a 3D model.

1. Create the source assets for the image sequence object, and place them in a folder.

2. Do one of the following:

Using the Rectangle tool or Rectangle Frame tool, drag to create a placeholder frame.

Place an image that acts as a poster for the image sequence. To avoid skewing, use the same dimensions for the poster image that you use for the image sequence images. (If you use a poster image, double-tapping the image in the viewer hides the image sequence and displays the poster.)

3. Select the placeholder object, open the Folio Overlays panel, and select Image Sequence.

4. In the Folio Overlays panel, click the Load Images folder icon, locate the folder containing the images, and click Open.

5. If necessary, scale the frame and its contents to fit in your layout.

6. Specify the following settings in the Folio Overlays panel:

Show First Image Initially

If this option is selected, the first image is used as the poster. Deselect this option if your image sequence consists of transparent PNG files. If Play In Reverse is selected, the last image is used as the poster.

Auto Play

appears.

If this option is selected, the image sequence begins playing when users turn to the page or state on which the sequence

Tap To Play/Pause

When selected, this setting lets users tap to play and pause the image sequence. Double-tapping resets the object.

Delay

If Auto Play is selected, you can specify the time that elapses between loading the page and the start of the image sequence.

Specify a value from 0 to 60 seconds.

Speed

Change the speed of the object’s progression in frames per second. The minimum value is 1 (1 frame per second) and the maximum value is 30.

Play _ Time

If either Auto Play or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, you can specify the number of times the image sequence plays. This option is dimmed if Loop is selected.

Loop

If either Play On Page Load or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, you can select Loop to play the image sequence continuously.

Double-tapping the slideshow or turning the page stops the sequence.

Stop At Last Image

If either Auto Play or Tap To Play/Pause is selected, select Stop At Last Image to stop at the last image of the sequence instead of the first.

Swipe To Change Image

When enabled, this setting lets the user swipe to move forward or backward through the images.

If Swipe To Change Image is not selected, select either Auto Play or Tap to Play/Pause to make the image sequence interactive.

Stop at First/Last Image

You can determine whether the object stops playing or continues when the last image is reached going forward or the first image is reached going backward. This option affects only swiping.

Play In Reverse

When enabled, the image sequence plays the images in reverse order.

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Panorama overlays

The Panorama overlay provides the illusion of viewing an image from the inside out. For example, you can create a Panorama effect that lets users see inside an airplane’s cockpit. They can rotate the view 360° and zoom in on the instrument panels.

The key to creating a panorama is getting the necessary images. Creating a Panorama effect requires a set of six images, which represent the six inner sides of a cube. If you begin with a full panorama image, convert it to six cube images based on that image.

PTgui ( http://www.ptgui.com

) is a useful tool for creating panorama images. The WRwave website ( http://www.vrwave.com

) provides useful information for shooting panorama photographs.

Creating a panorama

A. Original panorama image B. Panorama image converted to inner six sides of cube C. Panorama on iPad

If you begin with a horizontal cross image, you can use Photoshop or a screen capture utility to create the six required images.

To divide a panoramic cross image into separate images, follow this pattern.

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1. Create the source assets for the panorama, and place them in a folder.

For best results, use JPEG images saved in 72 dpi. High-resolution images allow customers to zoom in more clearly but require a larger file.

2. Do one of the following:

Using the Rectangle tool or Rectangle Frame tool, drag to create a placeholder frame.

Place an image that acts as a poster for the panorama.

3. Select the placeholder object, open the Folio Overlays panel, and select Panorama.

4. In the Folio Overlays panel, click the Assets folder icon, locate the folder containing the six images, and click Open.

5. If necessary, scale the frame and its contents to fit in your layout.

6. Specify the following settings in the Folio Overlays panel:

Use First Image For Poster

Selecting this option uses the first panorama image as the poster. Select this image if you have not created a different image to be used as the poster.

Initial Zoom

Specify a value to determine the magnification of the initial image. Use a value between the Min/Max field of view settings, which are 30 and 80 by default. .

Vertical/Horizontal

Specify values to determine which area of the panorama is initially displayed. For Vertical, specify a value between -90

(tilted all the way up) and 90 (tilted all the way down). For Horizontal, specify a value between -180 (rotated all the way left) and 180 (rotated all the way right).

Field Of View

If you don’t want users to zoom in or out past a certain point, specify Min and Max values.

Limit Vertical Pan

If you want to allow tilting only two-thirds toward the top, select Limit Vertical Pan and specify -60. Specify 60 to allow tilting only two-thirds toward the bottom. Use a small value such as 1 to prevent vertical panning.

Limit Horizontal Pan

left and 120 for right.

If you want to allow panning only two-thirds toward the left and right, select Limit Horizontal Pan and specify -120 for

Note:

To see the effect of the different panorama settings, change the settings and click Preview.

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Audio overlays

Supported audio files you place in InDesign play when tapped in the DPS viewer. For playing audio in a DPS viewer on a device, use MP3 files.

For Web Viewer Only folios, audio files with AAC/MP4 encoding are also supported.

You can set up an audio file to be played by letting users tap the view area or by creating separate buttons with Sound actions. To simulate a controller skin, you can create a simple effect that toggles between a play and pause button. Or, you can create a more advanced effect that displays audio progression.

You can specify a URL to stream audio files from an http: website.

Best practices for audio files

You can set up an audio file to be played by letting users tap the view area or by creating separate buttons with the Audio action. The Play,

Pause, and Stop options are supported. Resume and Stop All are not supported.

You can specify a URL to stream audio only from an http: website.

Audio clips stop playing when users move to a different article, but they keep playing when users move to a different page within the article.

To stop the audio clip (or video) on page turn, a workaround is to auto-play a "dummy" media file. For details, see Johannes Henseler's article Stop a video when going to the next page of an article .

Creating Audio overlays

1. Choose File > Place, and place the MP3 audio file in your document.

2. Select the placed object, open the Media panel (Window > Interactive > Media), and specify a poster, if desired.

You can also create a poster image simply by placing a non-interactive object (such as a transparent play button) on top of the audio object.

3. Select the audio object and specify any of the following options in the Folio Overlays panel.

URL or File

Specify a URL to stream an audio clip, or click the folder and specify an audio file if you haven't already placed it using File >

Place. When you specify a streaming URL, all options in the overlay are supported, including Auto Play and Controller Files.

Streaming audio supports http URLs, not https.

If you both place an audio file and specify a streaming URL, the first action takes precedence. For example, if you specify a URL first and then place an audio clip, the overlay uses the URL, not the embedded audio.

Audio Controller Files

Click the folder icon, and specify the folder containing the play and pause buttons for audio files.

To display a controller skin with Play and Pause buttons while the audio clip is playing, create a set of .png files in a folder. These images each must have either a _pause or _play suffix. You can create a single pair of _play and _pause buttons, or you can create multiple _play and _pause buttons that represent progressive states of a status bar.

AudioAsset001_play.png

AudioAsset002_play.png

AudioAsset003_play.png

AudioAsset004_play.png

AudioAsset005_play.png

AudioAsset001_pause.png

AudioAsset002_pause.png

AudioAsset003_pause.png

AudioAsset004_pause.png

AudioAsset005_pause.png

In this example, when your audio is played half way, the AudioAsset003_play.png button is displayed. When tapped to pause, the

AudioAsset003_pause button is displayed.

Show First Image Initially (InDesign CS5.5 or later only)

If this option is selected, the audio frame displays the first _play.png file in the specified audio controller assets folder, and the frame resizes appropriately.

In InDesign CS5, specify the poster image, and then manually resize the frame and the poster image.

Auto Play

Select this option to play the audio file when the page is loaded on the mobile device. You can also specify the number of seconds to delay. Auto Play is not supported for Android viewers.

Play In Background Across Folio

Select this option to play the audio file in the background while users browse through articles. Users can pause or resume the audio clip by tapping the audio icon in the top navigation bar. This feature is available only on the iPad or iPhone.

Tap To View Controller (iOS only)

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Web Content overlays

The Web Content overlay lets you display a web page within a view area. Users can see the web page content in the view area without having to display a separate in-app browser. You can specify a web URL or a local HTML file. Note the following issues:

If you specify a local HTML file, make sure that the .html file and associated files and folders appear in the same folder. When the article content is created, all the files in the same folder as the .html file are uploaded, so limit that HTML folder to only the necessary assets. For example, if you add the .html file to Documents folder, all files and subfolders in the Documents are uploaded.

For any URL that gets redirected to a mobile URL automatically, specify the mobile URL (such as http://mobile.twitter.com/), not the original

URL (such as http://twitter.com).

If you specify an HTML animation for a Web Content overlay, set the overlay to Auto Play with a minimal delay (such as 0.125 seconds) to ensure that the animation plays properly. Setting a delay prevents the overlay from auto-play when the page is preloaded into memory.

In InDesign CS6 or later, you can use the Insert HTML command to insert the embed code of a YouTube clip. For best results, edit the

YouTube embed code to include "scr=https://www.youtube.com" instead of "src=//www.youtube.com." Set the overlay to Auto Play, and add a poster image in front of the overlay.

To create a Web Content overlay:

1. Do one of the following:

Using the Rectangle tool or Rectangle Frame tool, drag to create the frame that displays the web content.

Place an image that acts as a poster for the web content.

2. Select the frame, and select Web Content in the Folio Overlays panel.

3. Do one of the following:

To specify a URL, type or paste the URL in the Assets field. Type the entire URL, including “http://.”

To use local HTML files, click the folder icon and specify the local HTML file. The HTML file (such as index.html) should appear in a folder that includes any images or scripts used in the HTML file.

4. Specify any of the following options:

Auto Play

Select this option to load the web page when the page is loaded on the mobile device. You can also specify the number of seconds to delay. If your target HTML is an animation that plays, specify a minimal delay.

Transparent Background

If this option is selected, the transparent background in a web page is preserved. Users can see through the transparency to view the DPS content in the background. If this option is deselected, the web content background is used.

Allow User Interaction

different web page.

If this option is selected, users can interact with the web page. For example, they can tap a hyperlink to jump to a

Scale Content To Fit

If this option is selected, the web page is scaled to fit within the size specified in the overlay file. If this option is not selected, the web page is displayed at the same size it would appear in the device’s browser, and the HTML page can be cropped.

Allow Access to Entitlement Information You can create a Web Content overlay that references the Reading API for features such as

Camera API, Geolocation API, digital blow-ins, an calendars. For details, see Using HTML and JavaScript to extend DPS.

In addition to selecting this option for the overlay, add a custom JavaScript API to your HTML code.

You can also create this type of conditional HTML content for an HTML article instead of a Web Content overlay. For an HTML article, select the "Allow Access to Entitlement Information" option in the Folio Producer Editor.

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Pan and Zoom overlays

You can display a large image in a small area and allow the user to pan and zoom the image within that area.

1. Place a JPEG or PNG image.

2. Using the Selection tool, drag the a selection handle to crop the frame without resizing the image. Make the frame the size of the view area.

Position the image within the frame to determine the initial view area.

Make sure that the container frame is smaller than the image. If the width or height of the frame and image are the same size, the object is treated as scrollable content.

To add a poster to the Pan and Zoom overlay, create a frame the same dimensions as the image pan, and place it over the Pan and

Zoom overlay. When the user taps the poster, the image pan is activated and hides the poster. When the user double-taps the image pan, the poster is displayed again.

3. To change the initial view magnification, use the Direct Selection tool to select the image (not the frame), and scale the image.

You can change the image size to 100% or lower. The maximum scale is 100%.

4. Select the image frame, and open the Folio Overlays panel. Click the Pan & Zoom tab, and then select On.

To make an entire page of an article pinch and zoom, create an article with PDF image format. See Enabling pinch and zoom for articles.

Pan and zoom guidance

Note the following:

Currently, the view area must be rectangular.

For best results, use JPEG images.

If you create a pan-and-zoom overlay that is larger than 2000x2000-pixels in 72 ppi, test it thoroughly on the mobile device. Large images increase the file size and can cause memory problems on mobile devices.

As a general rule, make sure that the image has the exact dimensions you want to use. For example, to pan a 1024-by-1024 pixel image within a 200-by-200 pixel view area, create a 1024-by-1024 image in 72 ppi. However, if you are using 1024x768 source documents in a

2048x1536 folio, using 72 ppi images can result in a different initial view experiences on different iPad models. To avoid this, create a highresolution version of the image in an HD subfolder. See Creating multi-definition PDF articles for iOS devices.

The Pan and Zoom feature is not designed to work with transparent images. When a page with an image pan is loaded, the poster appears, and the actual overlay is invisible until it is tapped. When users double-tap the overlay, it disappears and the poster is displayed. If the image pan contains transparency, the poster shows through and appears to be a duplicate image. One workaround is to create a two-state MSO in which the poster is a button on the first state that links to the pan and zoom image on the second state.

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Scrollable Frame overlays

You can create a scrollable frame that lets users scroll to view more content. For example, you can create a cooking page with a list of ingredients and a set of instructions. Rather than turning to the next page to see the full set of ingredients or instructions, users can swipe to scroll.

By default, the initial view for scrollable content is the upper-left corner of the container frame. However, you change the initial view so that it’s based on the location of the content frame.

You can add all interactive overlays to scrollable frames (see Embedding interactive overlays). The previous method of creating scrollable frames using layers is no longer supported.

1. To make a frame that scrolls vertically, create a content frame and a container frame.

The content frame can be a text frame, an image, or a group of objects.

You can include any interactive object except a slideshow in your content frame. Either add the interactive objects to the text frame as anchored objects or group interactive objects with other objects.

2. Move the content frame to its inital view area in relation to the container frame.

If you use the default settings, the content frame will align to the upper left corner of the container frame. However, you can use the document location of the content frame to determine the initial view.

3. Select the content frame, and choose Edit > Cut.

To avoid erratic behavior, make sure that the content appears in the layout page area, not the pasteboard.

4. Select the container frame, and choose Edit > Paste Into.

Note:

When you paste the content frame into the container frame, any button with an MSO state action loses its action. Select the button and add the action again. (The selection buttons in the toolbar are especially useful for selecting hidden buttons. The Layers panel is another way to select nested objects.)

5. With the container frame still selected, open the Folio Overlays panel. Click the Scrollable Frame tab, and then specify these options.

Scroll Direction

Choose Auto Detect to determine the scroll direction based on the height and width of the container frame and content frame. If the heights of the frames are the same but the widths are different, the content scrolls only horizontally. To make sure that the content scrolls in only one direction even if the container frame is narrower and shorter than the content frame, choose Horizontal or Vertical.

Choosing the Horizontal & Vertical option offers the same behavior as Auto Detect.

Scroll Indicators

Select Hide if you don’t want scroll bars to appear when scrolling.

Initial Content Position

Select Upper Left to align the content frame to the upper left corner of the container frame as the initial view. Select

Use Document Position to use the location of the content frame as the initial view.

Export Format in PDF Articles

If your scrollable frame appears in an article that uses PDF format, you can choose Bitmap or Vector.

Choosing Vector is especially useful when you’re creating a single folio for both SD and HD iPads or iPhones. The Vector option provides sharper text when the folio is displayed on an HD iOS device, but it takes a moment to load. For best results, use Vector for text-intensive scrollable frames, and use Raster for image-based scrollable frames or when creating separate renditions for SD and HD iOS devices.

When you select Raster, the scrollable frame content is resampled at no higher than 72 ppi.

Note:

See the free DPS Tips app to view examples of scrollable frames, including nested scrollable frames and pullout tab effects.

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Nesting interactive overlays

You can embed interactive overlays in either scrollable frames or slideshows (multi-state objects). However, you cannot embed a multi-state object in scrollable frames or another slideshow.

Slideshow

You can use a number of different methods to add overlays to a slideshow state. You can select a state and choose Paste Into. You can align the overlay with the multi-state object, select both, and then choose either paste the object into the selected state or create a new state.

You can also group the overlay with other objects, align that group with yet more objects, and then create the multi-state object.

Scrollable frames

Create the interactive overlay, such as an image sequence or button. You can then either group the overlay object with other objects in the content frame or paste the overlay into text to create an anchored object. Then paste the content frame into the container frame and select Pan Only in the Folio Overlays panel.

Note the following guidelines:

You can add buttons to a scrollable frame that change states in a slideshow. When you paste the button into the content frame, the statebased button action is removed. Select the button again, and then re-create the action. If the button is hidden, use the Select Content and

Select Next icons in the Control bar to select the object.

In order for a multi-state object to become an interactive slideshow, an action must trigger one or more of the states to change. Otherwise, only the current state is displayed in the viewer. To make the MSO a slideshow, you can select an option such as Auto Play in the Folio

Overlays panel. Or, you can create a button with an MSO state action. However, a button within a state does not make the MSO interactive.

If you want to use only buttons within the MSO to change slides, create an invisible “dummy” button outside the MSO to make it interactive.

To create a hot spot effect, combine a button with a two-state multi-state object in which one state is blank. For example, tapping a button can trigger an image sequence or web content overlay.

For additional examples of embedded overlays, including nesting slideshows within slideshows, see "Advanced Overlays" in the DPS Tips app.

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Folios and Articles

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Creating folios

Folio Builder panel overview

Sign in to Folio Builder panel

Create a folio

Change folio properties

Create offline folios

Share folios

Copy folios

Delete a folio

A folio includes one or more digital publishing articles. A folio appears as an issue in the library of either the Adobe Content Viewer or a custom multi-issue viewer. If you create a custom single-issue viewer, the folio includes the contents of that viewer app.

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Folio Builder panel overview

Use the Folio Builder panel to create folios and add articles. To open the panel, choose Window > Folio Builder (InDesign CS6 or CC) or Window

> Extension > Folio Builder (InDesign CS5 or CS5.5). The Folio Builder panel displays the folios to which you have access. The Folio Builder panel includes three views: folio view, article view, and layout view. To navigate, do any of the following actions:

Double-click a folio or click the arrow to the right of the folio to display the folio’s articles.

Double-click an article or click the arrow to the right of the article to display the article’s layouts.

Click the arrow icon in the upper left corner of the panel to move up a level.

Folio Builder panel

A. Folio view B. Articles view C. Layout view

Filter displayed folios

To determine which folios are displayed, choose All, All Local, In the Cloud (to hide local folios), Private (to hide shared folios), or Shared from the drop-down menu in Folio view.

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Sort folios

Choose an option from the Sort drop-down menu in Folio view to determine the sort order of folios in the Folio Builder panel. Select Reverse List to reverse the order for any folio selected.

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Sign in to Folio Builder panel

Signing in to the Folio Builder panel is optional. Signing in to the panel lets you upload folios to the Folio Producer Service for testing. You can then download folios to the Adobe Content Viewer on a mobile device and share folios with other users. If you don’t sign in to the panel, you can still create and preview local folios, and you can build a Single Edition app. Use a verified Adobe ID to sign in to the Folio Builder panel.

1. Make sure that your computer is connected to the internet.

2. In the Folio Builder panel, click Sign In, and then sign in using a verified Adobe ID.

3. If you do not have a verified Adobe ID, do one of the following:

If you have an Enterprise or Professional subscription to DPS, use the Account Administration tool to create an Adobe ID with an

Application role. Use the appropriate Adobe ID to sign in to the Folio Builder panel. See Account Administration tool.

To verify an Adobe ID to work with DPS, go to https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/ and click Create Account. Sign up for an account using a valid email address. Adobe will send you a verification message. Open that message and verify it. Then use that Adobe ID to sign in to the Folio Builder panel. See Using Adobe IDs for digital publishing.

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Create a folio

A folio is a collection of articles. Anyone with InDesign CS5 or later can create folios.

When you sign in and create a folio, a workspace is created on the acrobat.com web server. The content of any article you add to the folio is uploaded to that workspace.

1. To open the Folio Builder panel, choose Window > Extensions > Folio Builder (InDesign CS5 or CS5.5) or choose Window > Folio Builder

(InDesign CS6 or CC).

2. If you have not already signed in, click Sign In, and sign in using a verified Adobe ID.

If you do not sign in to the Folio Builder panel, you can create an offline folio. You can then upload that offline folio after you sign in.

3. Click New to create a new folio.

You can also choose File > New > Folio in InDesign CS6 to create a folio.

4. Specify the following settings, and click OK.

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Creating a new folio.

Folio Name

Specify the folio name. The folio name is different from the Publication Name that appears in the viewer. The folio name is used only internally for navto:// links and for setting up renditions, so keep the name simple and avoid using extended characters. The maximum number of characters for Folio Name is 60.

Viewer Version

Specify the target viewer version. This option is especially useful if either the newest version of the Adobe Content Viewer is awaiting approval or if you’re creating folios for an earlier viewer app that has not yet been updated. Once you create a folio, you can edit folio properties to increase the version number, but you cannot roll back to an earlier version. Instead, create a new folio. You cannot specify a viewer version earlier than v20.

Target Device

Select the target device or specify custom dimensions of the target device, such as 1024x768 for an iPad.

See Creating documents for multiple devices.

Orientation

Indicate whether the folio is portrait-only, landscape-only, or dual orientation. To preview or publish the folio, all articles must match the folio orientation. For example, if a dual-orientation folio includes an article with only a portrait layout, the folio cannot be downloaded in the Adobe Content Viewer library.

Default Format

Choose a default option for the folio. Individual articles can have different Article Format settings.

Choose Automatic if you want to let InDesign determine whether to export the pages as JPEG or PNG. Choosing PDF lets users pinch to zoom in and out, preserves vectors, and reduces file size. Specifying the default format is especially important for importing multiple articles.

Articles in a multi-article import use the default image format. See Differences Between JPG, PNG, and PDF Image Formats .

Default JPEG Quality

the file size.

If Automatic or JPEG is selected for Default Image Format, specify the JPEG Quality. Increased quality increases

Cover Preview

A preview image represents each folio added to the viewer in the viewer library. Specify the portrait and landscape cover images. Create cover images as 72-dpi JPG or PNG files using the same pixel dimensions as the target device, such as 1024x768.

Create Offline Folio

Select this option if you do not want to upload the folio content to the server at this time. You can later choose Upload

To Folio Producer from the panel menu to upload folio contents.

For information about troubleshooting the Folio Builder, see Troubleshoot Folio Builder and Troubleshoot article upload failures in Folio Builder

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Change folio properties

After you create a folio, you can use the Folio Properties dialog box to specify a publication name, change the viewer version, and choose cover preview images. Some folio properties such as orientation, image format, and folio size cannot be edited in the Folio Properties dialog box. If necessary, create a new folio with the appropriate settings.

When you’re ready to publish your folio, use the Folio Producer Organizer to specify folio properties for publishing.

1. In the Folio Builder panel, select the folio you want to edit.

2. Choose Folio Properties from the Folio Builder panel menu.

Editing folio properties

3. Specify the following settings, and then click OK.

Publication Name

The Publication Name you specify appears in the viewer library. However, if you use the same Publication Name value for all the folios that appear in your app—and if you use the same value specified for "Title (Library View)" in DPS App Builder—the

Publication Name is omitted from the library by design.

The maximum number of characters for Publication Name is 60.

Note:

To avoid problems, use only alphanumeric or numeric characters in the the Publication Name. Do not use special characters such as apostrophes (‘), or unexpected results such as an “[svr.InvalidParameter]” error message might occur.

Viewer Version

If you want to specify a different viewer version for the folio, select the appropriate version. You can select a newer version, but not an earlier version. To target an earlier version, create a new folio.

Updating the viewer version of a folio does not automatically update the articles in that folio. If you want to take advantage of a new feature that works in the higher viewer version, update the articles as well.

Note:

If you’re editing a folio that was created before v20, make sure that you specify a Viewer Version setting.

Right Edge Binding

Select this option to display articles from right to left rather than left to right in the viewer. This option is especially important for Asian languages.

Cover Preview

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4. To change additional folio properties for publishing a folio, choose Folio Producer from the Folio Builder panel menu, and specify settings in the Folio Producer Organizer. See Folio Producer Organizer

Folio Name

The Folio Name appears in the Folio Producer and in the Folio Builder panel, but it does not appear in the viewer. If you are creating renditions for different devices, make sure that the Folio Name settings are the same among renditions.

Publication Name

The Publication Name appears in the viewer library and in the viewer navigation bar. However, if the same Publication

Name is used for all folios in an app, the Publication Name is not displayed in the library by design.

The maximum number of characters for Publication Name is 60.

Folio Number

Number is 60.

The Folio Number can be a number or a description, such as “May 2013.” The maximum number of characters for Folio

Publication Name and Folio Number appear in the viewer.

Publication Date

The Publication Date setting determines the order of folios in the library. The newest folios appear at the top. The

Publication Date setting is especially important for subscription viewers in which customers are entitled to folios within a specific duration as determined by the Publication Date settings. For best results, manually select a Publication Date setting.

Product ID

The Product ID specified when you published the folio is displayed. You cannot edit this field directly. The Product ID is especially important for retail folios. It ties the folio to the in-app purchase Product ID in the app store. Use a different Product ID (such as

"com.pubhouse.myapp.2014january") for each folio. Use the same Product ID for different folios only if they're part of a rendition set.

The maximum number of characters for Product ID is 60.

Published

A check mark appears in the Published column if the folio is published.

Locked

Select this option to prevent anyone from uploading a new version of the article or changing article metadata. A locked icon

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appears next to the article in the Folio Builder panel of anyone who has access to the folio.

Cover Previews

Specify .png or .jpg files for the images that appear in the viewer library.

Description

The Description appears in the viewer library and in the viewer navigation bar.

Library Filter

filters.

Type the filter name for each folio in your app. The maximum number of characters for Library Filter is 60. See Create library

Right Edge Binding

Selecting this option in the Folio Details area displays articles from right to left rather than left to right in the viewer.

This option is especially important for Asian languages.

Cover Date

Cover Date is an additional metadata control that gives certain Enterprise publishers more control over direct entitlement.

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Create offline folios

An offline folio, or local folio, is not uploaded to the acrobat.com service on the web. Creating an offline folio is especially useful when you’re not connected to the Internet, or if the acrobat.com service is temporarily out of service.

You cannot convert an uploaded folio to an offline folio.

An icon indicates that a folio is offline.

1. To create an offline folio, do either of the following:

Click Create New Folio in the Folio Builder panel when you are not signed in.

Click Create New Folio in the Folio Builder panel, and then select Create Offline Folio.

2. Add articles and edit the folio.

You can preview offline folios on your desktop or using Preview on Device. See Preview folios and articles.

When you preview or upload an offline folio, the folio is updated automatically to account for changes to the source InDesign documents.

Choosing Update to update an offline folio is not necessary.

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3. To upload the folio, sign in to the Folio Builder panel, select the folio, and choose Upload To Folio Producer from the panel menu.

You can upload an offline folio only if the source files are available.

Once you upload a folio, you cannot make the folio local.

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Share folios

Share a folio if you want to let other people review the folio you’re working on or to make it available to them. For example, if you’re creating an ad for a publisher, you can share the folio that contains your ad with the publisher. Or, if you’re a publisher, you can share a folio with different designers to let them upload articles.

Whenever you update an article in the shared folio, recipients are notified that an update is available when they open the library in the Adobe

Content Viewer. If you don’t want recipients to view updates, unshare the folio.

1. In the Folio Builder panel, select a folio.

2. Choose Share from the Folio Builder panel menu.

3. In the Share dialog box, type the email addresses of the people with whom you want to share your folio. Use a comma or semi-colon to separate the email addresses. Press Tab to move to the next field.

4. Type the subject and message, and then click Share.

When recipients open the Adobe Content Viewer on a mobile device, the shared folio is available for downloading.

If recipients open the folio in the Folio Builder panel, a share icon appears next to the folio name in the Folio Builder. Recipients can open the folio and add articles. However, they cannot edit existing articles.

Unshare folios

To unshare a folio that you shared with others, select the folio in the Folio Builder panel, and choose Unshare from the panel menu. Select the recipients with whom you want to unshare, and click OK. Unsharing makes the folio unavailable for downloading and removes it from shared recipients’ Folio Builder panel, but it does not remove folios that have been downloaded to devices. Deleting a shared folio also makes it unavailable for downloading.

Remove a folio shared with you

If someone has shared a folio with you and you no longer want access to it, select the folio in the Folio Builder panel and click the trash icon. Deleting the shared folio removes your information from the owner’s shared recipients list.

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Copy folios

You can copy a folio from your account or you can copy a folio shared with you from a different account. Copying either a published or unpublished folio creates a new folio on the Folio Producer server (acrobat.com), not the Distribution Service. You can then edit and publish the copied folio.

For a video about copying folios, see Copying folios to streamline production .

1. In Folio Producer Organizer, select a folio and click Copy.

2. Specify the name of the copied folio and click Copy.

When you copy a folio, no connection between the folios exists. To edit articles by changing the source files, you need access to the source files. If the folio was shared with you from a different computer, you can obtain the source files and relink the articles in order to edit the folio content.

If the source files need to be maintained on the original computer, the owner should make the changes to the source files in the parent folio and

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update the article. These changes are reflected in the recipient's shared folio but not in the copied folio. The recipient can then either copy the folio again (not recommended if the copied folio is published as Public) or use the Copy To or Add feature to add the updated article to the copied folio and remove the previous version of the article. Copying the updated article is recommended if the copied folio is published so that you can update the folio instead of unpublishing and re-publishing it.

Locked folios cannot be copied.

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Delete a folio

When you delete a folio, you remove the workspace from the server, and you delete all articles in that folio, but not the source documents. If you published a folio to the Distribution Service, use the Folio Producer Organizer to unpublish that folio before deleting it. Avoid unpublishing and deleting retail folios.

1. If the folio is published, use the Unpublish button in the Folio Producer Organizer to remove the folio from the Distribution Service.

2. Select a folio in the Folio Builder panel, and then click the Trash button.

If a folio was downloaded in a viewer before it was deleted, it remains in the viewer library until it’s removed.

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Creating articles and layouts

Create an article from an open document

Add a layout to an article

Import InDesign articles

Folios consist of articles. You can create articles that are either based on InDesign documents or HTML files. There are two ways to add articles to a folio: use the Add Article button to create articles based on open InDesign documents, or import articles from a folder.

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Create an article from an open document

Articles can include either one or two layouts for portrait and landscape orientation on the mobile device. However, you must be consistent within the published folio. All articles in the published folio must be portrait only, landscape only, or dual orientation.

Articles view

1. Open the InDesign document that is designed for digital publishing. See Designing digital publications.

The document dimensions can be different from the folio size in two situations.

The aspect ratios of the folio and document page size are identical. For example, you can add 1024x768 documents to a folio that is set to a 2048x1536 folio size because both aspect ratios are 4:3.

The document is designed for smooth scrolling. For example, if you create a 1024x2000 document with a single page, the added article should be set to Smooth Scrolling.

2. In the Folio Builder panel, create or open the folio in which the article will appear.

3. In the Articles view of the Folio Builder panel, click Add.

4. Specify the following options, and click OK.

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Article Name

Specify the article name. The article name does not appear in the viewer. The Article Name is used for creating links between articles, so use a name such as “City_Guide” instead of a filename such as “city_guide_h.indd.” The maximum number of characters for Article Name is 60.

Article Format

Specify an image format setting for the article. For example, you can choose PDF for an article to allow pinching and zooming. See Differences Between JPG, PNG, and PDF Image Formats .

JPEG Quality

If Automatic or JPG is selected for Image Format, specify the JPEG Quality. Increased quality increases the file size.

Smooth Scrolling

Set the Smooth Scrolling for the article, not for just the layout you’re adding. For example, if you’re adding only the vertical layout in a dual-orientation folio, choose Both Directions if both layouts are smooth scrolling. Select Horizontal Only or Vertical Only if it’s a single-orientation article or if only one layout is smooth scrolling.

Note:

When you select a Smooth Scrolling option in InDesign CS6, you can specify alternate layouts. If your smooth scrolling document has only one layout, choose it for the appropriate layout, and choose None for the other layout that you will add later.

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Add a layout to an article

InDesign CS6 and InDesign CC documents can include multiple layouts. When you add an article, you can specify both horizontal and vertical layouts. If you’re using InDesign CS5 or CS5.5, or if you created only one layout in InDesign CS6 or CC, you can add a layout from a different document. If the article appears in a dual-orientation folio, the article requires a second layout.

1. Open the InDesign document that is designed in a different layout orientation from the existing article layout.

2. In the Folio Builder panel, double-click the article to which you want to add the second layout.

3. In the Articles view of the Folio Builder panel, click Add Layout. If the document includes multiple layouts, specify the appropriate layout.

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Import InDesign articles

If you use the appropriate structure and filenaming conventions, you can import either a single article or a set of articles. Currently, if your InDesign

CS6 or CC document includes multiple layouts, you cannot import it as an article. Use the Add Article option instead.

When you import articles, the aspect ratio of the articles must match the aspect ratio of the folio unless you select a Smooth Scrolling option.

1. Create one or more folders containing InDesign documents. See Structuring folders for imported articles.

2. In the Folio Builder panel, open the folio in which the article or articles will appear.

3. In the Articles view of the Folio Builder panel, choose Import Article from the panel menu.

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Import Article dialog box

4. Do either of the following:

Choose Import A Single Article, click the Location folder icon, and specify an article folder.

Choose Import Multiple Articles, click the Location folder icon, and specify a folio folder containing article folders.

5. Select a Smooth Scrolling setting for the article. For example, if you’re importing an article for a dual-orientation folio, but you want only the horizontal layout to be smooth scrolling, choose Horizontal Orientation.

6. Specify the image format settings, and click OK.

If your article folders include .png images on the same level as the InDesign documents, the images are used as table of contents icons. If you import multiple articles in which the folio folder includes a sidecar.xml file, the file determines the order of articles and populates the article properties. See Create a metadata sidecar file for importing articles.

If your articles fail to import properly, see Troubleshoot article upload failures in Folio Builder panel .

Managing articles

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Managing articles

Change article properties

Edit and update an article

Copy an article to another folio

Rename an article

Delete an article

Change the order of articles

Relink articles to source files

Use the Folio Builder panel menu to update, copy, and rename articles.

Folio Builder panel menu

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Change article properties

The article properties you specify determine how the article appears in the viewer. You can change article properties using either the Article

Properties option in the Folio Builder panel or the Folio Producer Editor. You can also use the sidecar.xml file for applying article metadata to all articles in a folio, either when importing the articles or later.

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Article properties

A. Description B. Kicker C. Title D. Byline

1. In the Folio Builder panel, select an article.

2. Choose Article Properties from the Folio Builder panel menu.

3. Specify the following options and click OK.

Title

Specify the article title as it should appear in the viewer. The Title value is different from the Article Name, which appears in the Folio

Builder panel. The Article Name is used for creating links between articles. The Title appears in the table of contents and in folio navigation views. The maximum number of characters for Title is 60.

Byline

Specify the author’s name. The maximum number of characters for Byline is 40.

Kicker

The section title of a magazine, such as “Reviews,” “Features,” or “Editorial.” The kicker appears in the table of contents and in folio navigation views. The maximum number of characters for Kicker is 35.

Description

Describe the article. The description appears when the folio is viewed in browse mode. The Description appears in the table of contents and in folio navigation views. The maximum number of characters for Description is 120.

Advertisement

Select this option to mark the article as an advertisement for analytics reporting.

Hide From TOC

Select this option to prevent the article from appearing when users tap the TOC button in the viewer nav bar.

Smooth Scrolling

In the Smooth Scrolling column, specify whether each article scrolls continuously or by snapping to the page. Smooth

Scrolling works only in the vertical direction for swiping up and down. The document cannot include multiple pages. You can apply the

Smooth Scrolling setting to landscape only, portrait only, or both layout orientations. See Smooth scrolling articles.

Horizontal Swipe Only

When you select Horizontal Swipe Only for an article, users browse through the article by swiping left and right instead of up and down. This option was previously called “Flatten.” See Swiping articles horizontally.

Table of Contents Preview

When users tap the Table of Contents button in the viewer’s navigation bar, a 70x70-pixel table of contents

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icon appears next to each article. A default table of contents icon is generated automatically from the first page of the article. To use a different icon, click the folder icon and choose a PNG file. Use 70x70-pixel PNG files. If you want to use images larger than 70x70, add them to the article folders and import them.

Viewer table of contents

4. To change additional article properties not found in the Article Properties dialog box, use the Folio Producer Editor. Choose Folio Producer from the panel menu to open the Folio Producer Organizer. Select the folio, and then choose Open. Then select the article and edit the following properties. See Folio Producer Editor.

Order

Enter numbers to re-order the articles.

Locked

Lock an article so that it cannot be updated.

Download Priority

When customers download the custom viewer, they can view the file while it’s still being downloaded. Unless you change the download priority, the articles are downloaded from first to last.

Tags

Tags appear in Browse Mode of the viewer. The maximum number of characters for Tags is 75.

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Article Access

This option determines whether an article is available in the Web Viewer when the article is shared and if Enable Article

Preview is enabled. If the folio viewer version is v26 or later and the articles within that folio are updated in the Folio Builder panel, you can choose Free, Metered, or Protected. If the folio viewer version is v25 or earlier, you can choose Metered or Protected.

When an article is marked as Protected, it is not available for viewing in the web viewer or in a retail folio with article preview enabled.

When an article is marked as Metered, the article is uploaded to a server for viewing in the web viewer. Customers can view metered articles in the web viewer or in a retail folio with article preview enabled unless they hit the paywall threshold set by the publisher.

When an article is marked as Free (v26 and later only), the article is available for preview in the web viewer and in a retail folio with article preview enabled. Viewing free articles does not count against the paywall threshold.

For more information, see Using social sharing and Methods for offering free content.

Allow Access to Entitlement Information

You can create an HTML article that reference the Reading API. This option is also available for Web Content overlays. For more information, see Using HTML and JavaScript to extend DPS.

Section

If you divide a folio into sections such as Sports, Business, and Style, specify a section name for each article in the folio. The maximum number of characters for Section is 60. See Create Sections.

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Edit and update an article

When you create an article or an article layout, the content of the InDesign document is uploaded to the workspace on the server. When you edit and save a document that is part of an article, changes are saved only locally until you update the article. You can select and update multiple articles.

1. To edit a document, double-click a layout in the Folio Builder panel, and make changes. You can use any method to open the document.

You don’t need to be signed in or connected to edit an article document.

2. After you edit and save the document, sign in to the Folio Builder panel, and select the article containing the document you edited.

If you have edited the source files of multiple articles, you can hold down Shift or Ctrl/Command to select multiple articles for updating.

3. Choose Update from the Folio Builder panel menu.

When you update an article, both layouts are updated. If you want the updated article to be available in a published viewer app, use the Folio

Producer Organizer to update the folio.

If you use the same source document in multiple folios, remember to update the article in each folio.

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Copy an article to another folio

Once you create an article based on a document, you don’t need to create another article if you want it to appear in a different folio. Instead, copy the article from one folio to another.

1. In the Folio Builder panel, open the folio containing the article, and select the article.

2. Choose Copy To from the Folio Builder panel menu.

3. In the Copy To dialog box, choose the target folio, and then click OK.

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You can also use the Folio Producer to copy articles between folios. In addition, you can use the Copy command in the Folio Producer

Organizer to copy an entire folio.

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Rename an article

When you rename an article, you risk breaking links that target the renamed article.

1. In the Folio Builder panel, select an article.

2. Choose Rename from the Folio Builder panel menu, and then enter a different name.

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Delete an article

When you delete an article, you remove it from the folio and from the workspace on the server. However, the source InDesign documents are not deleted.

1. In the Folio Builder panel, select an article.

2. Click the Trash button, and then click Delete.

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Change the order of articles

To change the order of articles, drag and drop them in the Folio Builder panel, or use the Folio Producer Editor to change the article order. See

Folio Producer Editor.

You can also use the sidecar.xml file to rearrange articles and update metadata. See Create a metadata sidecar file for importing articles.

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Relink articles to source files

If you move the source documents for an article to a new location or transfer them to a different computer, you can reconnect the source files to the article layouts in the Folio Builder panel.

1. If you transfer the files to a different computer, make sure that broken links are resolved. Also make sure that interactive overlays point to the appropriate file or folder.

If the overlay no longer points to the appropriate location, an “invalid asset location” error message occurs when you create the article.

2. In the Folio Builder panel, choose Relink from the panel menu.

3. Specify the file locations to relink with one or both layouts.

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Previewing folios and articles

Tips for previewing DPS content

Use the Desktop Viewer to preview content

Preview folios on the iPad or iPhone

Navigate using the viewer

Remove folios from the viewer

Use the Android Viewer to preview content

Use Preview on Device

Preview using the beta Adobe Content Viewer in Windows 8.1

Use Adobe Content Viewer to preview folios. The Adobe Content Viewer is available as a desktop application (called the “Desktop Viewer”) or as a mobile device application. The Desktop Viewer is installed automatically when you update the DPS Desktop Tools for InDesign CS6/CC or when you install the Folio Producer tools for InDesign CS5/CS5.5. The viewer for mobile devices is available for download in the iPad App Store, Google

Play Store, and Amazon Appstore. Search in the device store for “Content Viewer.”

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Tips for previewing DPS content

Desktop Viewer or Device Viewer? Use the Desktop Viewer for a quick preview of content. For a better preview, use the Adobe Content

Viewer on the target device. The Adobe Content Viewer is available in the iTunes App Store for iPads and iPhones, the Google Play Store, the Amazon Appstore, and the Windows Store (8.1 only). For Android, two versions are available: one for testing content for the new native

Android viewer and one for the legacy Android viewer.

Valid folio? As soon as you create a folio or article, you can preview it using the Desktop Viewer or the viewer on your mobile device.

However, to preview a folio, the folio must be created properly. For example, if your folio includes a horizontal-only article mixed with dualorientation articles, you cannot preview the folio. When you use the Desktop Viewer to preview an improperly created folio, an error message reports the problem.

Upload/download or Preview on Device? There are two ways to preview content in the Adobe Content Viewer on a device. One method is to upload the folio to the Folio Producer and then use the same Adobe ID to sign in to the Adobe Content Viewer and download the folio. The other method is to attach the iPad to your computer and use Preview on Device (Mac OS only).

Preview of layout, article, or folio? InDesign provides a number of methods for previewing content, and these methods result in different experiences. If you preview using the Overlays panel or File > Folio Preview, you preview only the layout, not the article. If you preview using the Folio Builder panel, you preview either the article or the folio, depending on what's selected. For Smooth Scrolling articles or articles with

PDF image format, use the Folio Builder panel to preview, not the other methods.

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Use the Desktop Viewer to preview content

The Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop (also called the Desktop Viewer) is an AIR app that lets you preview folios, articles, or layouts on your desktop.

The Desktop Viewer does not support all DPS features. Use it for a quick preview. For best results, use the Adobe Content Viewer on your device to preview content.

1. In the Folio Builder panel in InDesign, select the folio or article that you want to preview.

If you select a folio, all the articles in that folio are available for preview. If you select an article, only that article can be previewed.

2. Use the Preview button at the bottom of the panel. Choose an option from the View menu to rotate or resize the content. To simulate zooming in on an overlay such as a panorama, press the + or - keys.

You can also preview a document by choosing File > Folio Preview or clicking Preview in the Folio Overlays panel. It isn’t necessary to create an article beforehand. This method is especially useful when your computer is not connected to the Internet. However, only one layout is

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previewed in PNG image format. To preview articles or folios, use the Folio Builder panel.

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Preview folios on the iPad or iPhone

The Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad/iPhone is a generic version of the viewer used for testing the digital content you create on the iPad or iPhone. This viewer is updated whenever the Folio Producer tools are updated. The Adobe Content Viewer does not support devices with iOS 5, including iPad 1 models.

Note:

When a new set of tools is released, folios you create using the newest viewer version may not work properly until Apple approves the new

Adobe Content Viewer version. If you try to open the folio, a “Please update your app” message appears. If you have a Professional or Enterprise account, you can create a custom version of the Adobe Content Viewer. See Create a custom Adobe Content Viewer for iPad. Otherwise, create a folio using a previous supported viewer version.

The Adobe Content Viewer library checks two locations for folios—the Folio Producer server and the Distribution Service. The Folio Producer

(hosted by acrobat.com) contains all folios that appear in your Folio Builder panel. The Distribution Service contains all published folios. A blue stripe with a lightning bolt icon in the folio thumbnail indicates a folio downloaded from the Folio Producer server. A blue strip with a plug icon indicates a folio loaded through Preview on Device. Any folio published as Retail does not appear in the Adobe Content Viewer.

A blue stripe with a lightning bolt icon indicates a folio hosted on the Folio Producer server.

1. On your device, download or update the Adobe Content Viewer from the App Store.

2. Start Adobe Viewer on the iPad, and sign in using the same Adobe ID you use to sign in to the Folio Builder panel.

The folios to which you have access are available for downloading and previewing.

Note:

If your folio does not appear in the viewer library, check the folio for articles that do not match the orientation of the folio, such as a landscape-only article in a dual-orientation folio.

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Navigate using the viewer

The following navigation techniques work whether you’re using the generic Adobe Content Viewer or a custom viewer.

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Rotate the mobile device to display either the horizontal or vertical version of the article for dual-orientation folios.

Swipe up and down to read an article. Swipe left and right to switch to a different article (or to switch to different pages of a flattened article).

Tap or swipe interactive areas.

Tap a non-interactive area to display the navigation bars. Tap the Library button to jump to the library in a multi-issue app. Tap the Back button to return to the previous view. Tap the Table of Contents icon to view the table of contents. Drag the Scrubber to scroll through thumbnail images in browse mode.

Tap the title in the navigation bar to return to the first article. Double-tap the title to toggle between the title and title plus version display.

Triple-tap the title to reset the issue so that each article starts at the first page instead of the previously viewed page.

Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad

A. Library button B. Back button C. Table of Contents button D. Scrubber

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Remove folios from the viewer

To delete a folio from the viewer, tap the gear icon in the upper right corner of the library, choose Remove Issues from iPad, and then select and delete folios. (In pre-v25 viewers, tap the Archive button.) If the folio is still available on the server, the folio is still available to download in the viewer. If the folio is no longer available on the server, the folio disappears from the library.

To delete a folio from the iPhone library, swipe across the folio’s name from right to left. As you swipe, the View button changes to a Remove button.

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Use the Android Viewer to preview content

There are two versions of the Adobe Content Viewer available: one for native Android viewers and one for legacy Android viewers.

The Adobe Content Viewer for Android is used for testing the digital content you create on phones and tablets that run Android 4.0.3 or later.

This version is used for testing content for the new native Android viewer.

The Adobe Content Viewer for Android (legacy) is used for testing the digital content you create for tablets running Android 2.2 or later.

1. Download Adobe Content Viewer from the Android Market or Amazon Appstore.

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2. Start Adobe Viewer on the Android device, and sign in using the same Adobe ID you use to sign in to the Folio Builder panel.

The folios to which you have access are available for downloading and previewing.

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Use Preview on Device

Instead of downloading folios from the server, you can use the Preview on Device feature to copy a folio directly from your computer to the mobile device.

You can use a Mac OS computer to preview content directly on an iPad or iPhone. You can use a Windows or Mac OS computer to preview content directly on Android devices. Preview on Device with Amazon tablets is not supported.

Preview on Device for iPad and iPhone (Mac OS only)

1. Connect your iPad or iPhone to your computer.

2. On your iPad or iPhone, start the custom Adobe Content Viewer created using DPS App Builder.

It isn’t necessary to sign in.

3. To preview an article or folio, in the Folio Builder panel in InDesign, select the article folio you want to preview, and then choose Preview on

[device name] from the Preview menu at the bottom of the panel.

The previewed folio is copied from your computer to your device. The folio remains on your device when you disconnect it. When you archive the folio, it’s removed from the library.

4. To preview only the current layout, open the Folio Overlays panel and choose Preview on [device name] from the Preview menu at the bottom of the panel.

The previewed layout remains on your device when you disconnect it. When you return to the library, the previewed layout is removed.

Previewing on Device from the Folio Overlays panel displays only the pages of the current layout in PNG format. Alternate layouts in

InDesign CS6/CC are not included in the preview.

Preview on Device for Android tablets

At this time, Preview on Device is supported only for the legacy version of the Adobe Content Viewer for Android, not the native version.

1. Do the following to make sure that your Android device can communicate properly with your computer.

Turn on USB Debugging. The location of the USB Debugging option varies depending on your Android device. For some devices, it’s located in Settings > Applications > Development.

(Windows only) Install the necessary device drivers to allow your Android device to communicate with your computer. The Flash Builder help includes useful information at Debug an application on a Google Android device and Install USB device drivers for Android devices

(Windows) .

2. Connect your Android device to your computer.

3. Start Adobe Content Viewer on the device.

4. In the Folio Builder panel in InDesign, select the article or folio you want to preview, and then choose the device name from the Preview

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menu at the bottom of the panel. You can also use the Preview option in the Folio Overlays panel to preview only the layout in raster format.

Watch Colin Fleming's video: Preview on Android Device

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Preview using the beta Adobe Content Viewer in Windows 8.1

A version of the Adobe Content Viewer app is available in the Windows Store. In the Windows Store, search for "Adobe Content Viewer." This app is available only on devices running Windows 8.1.

At this time, the Adobe Content Viewer includes a limited set of features. Hyperlinks, slideshows, scrollable frames, and videos are supported.

Web Content overlays are partially supported. Image sequence, pan and zoom, audio, and panoramas are not yet supported. Other DPS features such as social sharing, sections, and in-app purchases are not yet supported. See Building DPS apps for Windows Store.

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Creating folio renditions

Multiple versions of the same folio designed for different devices are called renditions. If you create multiple folio renditions, the viewer makes available only the rendition that most closely matches the device’s dimensions.

Renditions are especially useful for three reasons:

To create iPhone content that is not letterboxed. For example, you can create a 480x320 rendition that works on iPhone 3/4 devices and a

1136x640 rendition that fills the display area of iPhone 5 and later devices.

To create a Web Viewer Only folio. See Customizing the Web Viewer.

To create folios for Android devices that require less scaling and letterboxing, or that target different device sizes.

Renditions are available only for multi-folio apps. If you're creating a single-folio app, folio renditions are not supported. Instead, create multirendition articles.

Using the same Folio Name for multiple folios ties them together as a set of renditions. While Folio Name values for the different renditions must be the same, the Size values must be different (except for a Web Viewer Only rendition). In addition, if the folio renditions belong to a retail app, we recommend that you use the same Product ID for all renditions (but use different Product IDs for different sets of renditions). For renditions in a subscription app, the Publication Date values must be identical—choose the date from the calendar widget.

Note:

widget.

When you create folio renditions for a subscription viewer, choose the same Publication Date setting for each rendition from the calender

Creating multiple folio renditions that have the same Folio Name settings and different Size settings

When the viewer checks the Distribution Service, it offers only the rendition that most closely matches the mobile device.

For iPad devices, the recommended approach is to create a 1024x768 folio with articles in PDF image format. Another option is to create renditions. If you upload one folio rendition with 2048x1536 Size setting and another folio with a 1024x768 setting, the HD iPad model downloads the 2048x1536 folio while the SD models download the smaller rendition. iPad viewers download only folios with a 4:3 aspect ratio. iPhone viewers download only folios with a 3:2 aspect ratio (or 16:9 aspect ratio for 1136x640 renditions). If you create a viewer app that supports both the iPad and iPhone, create multiple renditions for best results. See Creating DPS content for different iPad models and Creating content for the iPhone.

For Android viewers, see Creating documents for multiple devices.

Note:

For best results, use the same folio metadata settings for the folio renditions, including Folio Name, Publication Name, Folio Number, and

Publication Date. When you publish the renditions, use the same Product ID. If you are enabling Social Sharing, make sure that you use the same

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Creating Sections

The Sections feature (iPad only) lets your customers download individual sections of a folio that you define. For example, you can divide a folio into News, Sports, Business, Style, and Money sections, and your customers have the option to download articles in only certain sections or all sections at once.

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Assigning Sections

Specify Section information for each article in the Folio Producer Editor. Use the same Section name for at least two articles. For best results, create a v24 folio or later, and use the Folio Builder panel to update the articles in the folio to generate section cover images. Use a v24 viewer or later to view sections.

You can also specify sections for articles using the <section> tag in the sidecar.xml file. See Create a metadata sidecar file for importing articles.

How Sections work

When you specify Section information for articles in a folio, a View button appears in the iPad viewer library instead of a Download or Buy button.

Tapping the View button displays the sections available in that article. The first page of the first article in each section is used as the section cover image. When a user taps the section cover image, all the articles in that section are downloaded or displayed.

Any article that does not have Section information specified is downloaded with any section. For example, if you don’t specify Section information for the cover article and the table of contents article, those articles are downloaded with the first section the user downloads.

In a folio with sections, tapping the TOC button displays only the section titles at this time, not the articles. Tapping a section name in the TOC jumps to the first article in that section.

The original article order is preserved in folios with sections. For best results, group articles in the same section next to each other within the folio.

Note:

Once a user downloads a single section, it counts as a complete folio download. Subsequent downloads of sections in that folio do not count as downloads.

Adding or removing Sections to an existing folio

Avoid editing a folio to remove or include Sections. Instead, delete the existing folio and create a new folio that has a change to Sections.

Testing Sections

To test the Sections feature, create a development app for the iPad. Sections are not fully implemented in the Adobe Content Viewer.

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Creating library filters

If you specify filter names for each folio in the Folio Producer Organizer, the filter options appear in a drop-down menu in the viewer library.

For example, if you create different editions of the same folio for different languages, you can let your customers view folios only for one language and hide the folios for other languages. Or, you can create filters that display only the folios for a specific time period, such as “2011

Issues” and “2012 Issues.”

You can create only one level of filters. However, your customers can select multiple options in the drop-down list. For example, customers can display French and German folios and hide English and Spanish folios.

Filters are supported only on the iPad.

In this app, only the Basics and Info folios are displayed.

1. Create folios using the v22 viewer version or later.

2. In the Folio Producer Organizer, select the folio, and specify a filter name in the Library Filter text box.

Make sure that you use the same filter names for folios that belong to a specific category. For example, if you specify “German” and

“german” filters for different folios, these will appear as different options in the library.

3. Use DPS App Builder to create a viewer. Test the filters in the library to make sure that they work as intended.

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Assembling articles in a folio

Any article that you create or import into a folio in the Folio Builder panel appears in the folio. In addition, you can use two other methods to add articles to a folio.

Share

In the Folio Builder panel, select the folio, and choose Share from the panel menu. Anyone with whom you share the folio can add articles to the folio. You can then use Copy To to copy articles from the shared folio to another folio, even if it's using a different account. See Share folios.

Copy To

In the Folio Builder panel, select the article, and choose Copy To from the panel menu. Then copy the article to a different folio. All the metadata is transferred. You can edit and update the source files for a copied article as you can with an article you create. You can also copy an article using the Folio Producer Editor. See Copy an article to another folio.

If you need to transfer a folio from one account to another, use the Copy command in Folio Producer. See the "Copy folios" section in Creating folios.

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Setting up renditions for native Android viewers

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When using Web-based DPS App Builder to create a native Android app, you can specify which renditions should appear on Android tablets and which renditions should appear on Android phones.

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Setting up renditions for native Android viewers

A recommended approach is to create one small rendition for Android phones and a larger rendition for Android tablets. For example, if you want to use the same sizes you used for an iOS app, you can create a 480x320 phone rendition and a 1024x768 tablet rendition. If you want to use a design that more closely matches the aspect ratio of Android devices, you can create 800x480 and 1280x800 renditions.

You can create additional renditions to reduce the amount of scaling required when the viewer displays the folio on the device. For example, you can create 1280x800, 1920x1200, and 2560x1600 devices. You can then specify all these renditions to be used for tablets in Web-based DPS

App Builder. The viewer will pick the rendition that most closely matches the device rendition.

To create a set of renditions, use the same Folio Name, Publication Date, and Product ID values for each folio rendition. For details, see Creating folio renditions.

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Configuring your app for enhanced renditions

In Web-based DPS App Builder, the Adobe ID you use for the Application account determines which folios are available to select.

Do the following:

1. Select the "Configure advanced rendition support" option to enable this feature.

2. Under "Tablet renditions," specify one or more renditions available in your Application account that will be used for tablets.

3. Under "Smartphone renditions," specify the rendition or renditions available in your Application account that will be used for phones.

[What if folio is not specified?]

Although there is no way to prevent folios from appearing on Android phones, one approach is to create a special rendition that tells users the app is not available on this device.

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Produce and publish folios

The Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard includes the tools Professional and Enterprise subscribers need to publish folio and build custom viewer apps. Use the Folio Producer to put the finishing touches on your folio and then publish it. Use the DPS App Builder to create a custom viewer app for Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Appstore.

Professional and Enterprise subscribers can publish folios and create custom viewer apps. If you are not a DPS subscriber, you can use your

Creative Cloud membership or a Single Edition license to publish single-issue viewers.

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To do this:

Set up account IDs for publishing (subscription only)

Understand the types of viewer apps

Organize, edit, and publish folios

Arrange articles and edit metadata

Create a Single Edition viewer app

Create a custom viewer app to submit to a store

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Account Administration tool

Types of custom viewer apps

Folio Producer Organizer

Folio Producer Editor

Single Edition overview

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Understanding different types of DPS apps

Types of custom viewer apps

Types of app distribution

About entitlement and fulfillment

Anyone who has installed the Folio Producer tools can create a folio and share it with other people. To create a custom viewer app and submit it to the Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, or Windows Store, you need either a Professional or Enterprise subscription to the Digital

Publishing Suite, or you need a Creative Cloud membership or a Single Edition license.

For information on subscribing to the Digital Publishing Suite, see www.adobe.com/products/digitalpublishingsuite/ .

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Types of custom viewer apps

The Adobe Content Viewer lets you preview folios and share them with individuals. To make your folios available in a store, you use the DPS App

Builder to create a custom viewer app.

Single-folio viewer app

In a single-folio viewer app, the folio is built in to the viewer app. The viewer has no library.

To create a single-folio app using a Single Edition license, you select the folio in the Folio Builder Panel and choose Create App from the panel menu. Then you build the app and upload it to the Apple Store. To create a single-folio app using a Professional and Enterprise subscribers, export a .zip file using the Folio Producer Organizer and specify that .zip file using DPS App Builder.

Note that a single-folio app does not support bookmarks or social sharing. A single-folio app cannot appear in Newsstand. At this time, you can create a single-folio viewer app for iPads but not for iPhones, Android, or Windows devices.

A single-folio viewer does not have a library.

Multi-folio viewer app

In a multi-folio viewer app, you use the DPS App Builder to create a viewer that is essentially a shell. The viewer app that you submit includes no content. You use the Folio Producer Organizer to publish folios to the Adobe Distribution Service. Customers use the viewer’s library to download

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folios to which they’re entitled.

Use a different Adobe ID for each multi-folio viewer app you create. See Using Adobe IDs for digital publishing.

The library of a multi-folio viewer lets customers download, view, and purchase folios.

You can create two kinds of folios for a multi-folio viewer app—free and retail. Any folio you publish that is set to Free and Public automatically appears in the custom viewer’s library with a Download button.

Any folio you publish that is set to Retail and Public must be tied to an in-app purchase you set up in iTunes Connect, Amazon Appstore, or

Google Play. Use the same Product ID when you publish the folio that you use when you set up the in-app purchase. Retail folios appear in the custom viewer’s library with a Buy button. When customers tap Buy, they can purchase the folio.

Multi-folio subscription viewer app

A viewer app with subscriptions includes a Sign In button and a library option that lets customers select the type of subscription they want. For example, they can select a 3-Month, 6-Month, or 1-Year option. When they sign in, the viewer checks with the store to determine which folios they're entitled to download.

You can set up a subscription that works with the Apple App Store or Amazon Appstore (Google Play subscriptions are not yet supported). In addition, if you’re an Enterprise customer, you can set up a custom entitlement server and give customers the choice of subscribing through the store or through your service.

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The library of a subscription viewer

Enterprise signed viewer app

Enterprise subscribers can create iPad apps for internal distribution only. An enterprise signed iPad viewer app is distributed within the company rather than downloaded from the Apple Store. See Creating an enterprise signed iPad viewer app.

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Types of app distribution

Use the following methods to distribute your DPS content.

Through public app store

Create an app and submit it to the Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore, Google Play Store, or Windows Store.

Through public app store with restricted distribution (Enterprise only)

Create and submit a subscription app to the Apple, Google, Amazon, or Windows store. Use a custom entitlement server to determine which folios users can download and view based on their sign-in account. See

Using restricted distribution with Digital Publishing Suite .

Through private server (Enterprise only)

app.

Create an in-house app and host it behind a firewall. See Creating an enterprise signed iPad viewer

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About entitlement and fulfillment

Entitlement is the permission to download an item. Fulfillment is the process of making entitled content available to customers for downloading.

The store (such as the Apple App Store or Google Play Store) is where viewer apps are available for downloading. You use the DPS App Builder to create custom apps for the store. The Distribution Service is where folios are available for downloading. You use the Folio Producer to publish folios to the Distribution Service.

Single-folio apps are downloaded entirely from the App Store. When customers download a multi-folio app and open the library, the viewer checks the Adobe Distribution Service for folios that are available for downloading.

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DPS Dashboard

Anyone with a valid Adobe ID can sign in to the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard (https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com) and edit folios. The

Adobe ID you use to sign in determines which features you can use.

The DPS Dashboard displays different options and services depending on which account type is used to sign in.

Digital Publishing Suite subscription types

There are two Digital Publishing Suite edition types: Enterprise and Professional.

Professional

Users with a Professional account can use the authoring tools and the Dashboard tools and services to create an unlimited number of custom viewer apps.

Enterprise

Users with an Enterprise account have access to all the tools and services that a Professional is entitled to, plus the ability to customize the viewer UI, create custom entitlement servers, create in-house enterprise apps, and more.

You can also use the Single Edition option to create a single-issue viewer app that you can submit to the Apple App Store. For Single Edition, using the Dashboard is not required for publishing apps.

Digital Publishing Suite roles

When you subscribe to the Digital Publishing Suite, an Adobe representative sets up a master account. You can then use the Account

Administration tool to assign roles to different Adobe IDs.

Admin role

An Admin account is used to assign account types.

Application role

An Application tole ties published folios to a specific multi-folio custom viewer. For example, if a publisher creates magazines about outdoor sports, one Adobe ID should be created for each viewer app, such as “[email protected]” and “[email protected].”

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Avoid using an individual’s name (such as “[email protected]”) for the Application role unless you have an existing custom viewer tied to that individual’s Adobe ID.

DPS App Builder role

Use the DPS App Builder Adobe ID to sign in to the DPS App Builder and create custom viewer apps.

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Folio Producer Organizer

Clicking the Folio Producer link on the Dashboard ( https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com

) displays the Folio Producer. With the Folio Producer, you can organize and edit folios. If you sign in using a subscription account, you can publish folios. The Folio Producer includes an Organizer page that displays available folios and an Editor page that displays the articles in a folio.

Available folios displayed in Organizer panel

To open the Folio Producer Organizer directly, choose Folio Producer from the Folio Builder panel menu.

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Publishing folios to the Distribution Service

Update published folios

Remove folios from the server

When folios and articles are created, they’re uploaded to the Folio Producer server powered by acrobat.com, but they do not yet appear on the

Adobe Distribution Service (sometimes called the “fulfillment server”). The Distribution Service stores all the folios that customers can download.

To publish folios as retail or public, you must sign in to the DPS Dashboard using a DPS Professional or Enterprise account. However, anyone can publish folios as private to improve downloading performance in Adobe Content Viewer on a device.

Publishing content to the Distribution Service

1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard .

2. In the Dashboard, click Folio Producer. In the Folio Producer Organizer, select a folio and click Publish.

3. Set the status of the folio.

Now or Scheduled

If you select Now, the folio is published as soon as you click Publish. Choose Private for status. When the folio is pushed live, the status will switch from Private to Public. You can schedule folios to be published but not updated.

If you select Scheduled, the folio is published when you specify (no earlier than 30 minutes and no later than 7 days from the current time).

The date and time is displayed in GMT, so make the necessary adjustments for your time zone.

At this time, only the scheduled folio is published; no push notification is sent out.

Private or Public

When you set a folio to Public, customers can download it as soon as the folio is available in the store. A DPS

Professional or Enterprise account is required to publish a folio as Public. If a folio is set to Private, it is not available for customers to download in a custom viewer app. It is available only in the Adobe Content Viewer.

Free or Retail

Set a folio status to Retail to allow customers to download it only if they pay for it through an in-app purchase or a subscription. For retail folios, go through the In App Purchase process on the Apple developer site or the In App Billing process in the

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Google Play developer site to determine the price of the retail folio download.

Any folio published as Retail does not appear in the Adobe Content Viewer. Preview retail folios using the custom development app you create.

Note:

For retail folios, do not set the status to Free and set it to Retail later. Doing so can prevent the folio from being available in the custom viewer. Unpublish and re-publish such folios as Public and Retail.

4. Specify the Product ID.

For best results, use the com.publisher.publication.issue format (such as com.adobepress.inspire.july2013) to specify the Product ID.

For best results, avoid uppercase letters in your Product ID. Uppercase letters may not work with Amazon in-app purchases.

For retail content, make sure that you use the same Product ID in the Publish Folio dialog box that you create when setting up the in-app purchase.

Note:

Use different Product IDs for each separate folio in your app. However, if you are creating folio renditions, use the same Product ID for all renditions in the set.

5. Click Publish.

The folio is not published if it includes articles with conflicting orientations or aspect ratios. If the folio is published, the Publish button is replaced by an Update button, and the Remove button is active.

When you publish or update a folio, the job is sent to the queue, allowing you to continue working in the Organizer and publish or update additional folios. Choose View > Publish Requests to see the queue status. If a job fails, try again. You might need to Unpublish and choose Publish again.

See the DPS Status page for information about server outages that might affect publishing.

Unprotected articles are uploaded to a web server for viewing on the desktop.

If your custom viewer has push notifications enabled, click the Notify button to trigger a push notification. See Push notifications.

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Update published folios

After you publish a folio, use the Update button in the Folio Producer Organizer to update the published folio. When the Adobe Content Viewer detects that a downloaded folio has been updated, it prompts users to download the updated folio. Make sure that the Publication Name, Folio

Number, Product ID, and Size values remain unchanged. If you need to change any of these values, unpublish and re-publish the folio instead of updating it.

1. Make the necessary changes to the folio and articles.

If you edit the source documents of an article, use the Update command in the Folio Builder panel.

2. Navigate to the Folio Producer Organizer.

3. Make sure that the Publication Name and Folio Number settings of the folio are identical to those of the existing folio.

If either of these settings are different, the new folio is treated as a separate issue.

4. Select the folio and choose Update.

5. Specify the appropriate status settings and Product ID.

Do not change the Product ID. If you need to use a different Product ID, use the Unpublish option, and then publish the folio again.

If your folio is a retail version, make sure that your Product ID matches the Product ID specified during the In App Purchase process for iPad apps or related process for Android and Amazon apps. If you specify a different Product ID, the folio fails to appear in your custom viewer app.

If Update Content is selected, the folio content and metadata is updated. If you deselect this option, only the status changes when you click

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Update. For best results, leave the Update Content option selected.

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Remove folios from the server

The Folio Producer Organizer includes both an Unpublish command and a Delete command.

The Unpublish command removes the published folio from the Distribution Service. If you have a multi-folio viewer app in the store, the removed folio is no longer available for downloading.

The Delete command erases the folio and its contents. A deleted folio no longer appears in the Folio Producer Organizer or Folio Builder panel.

A removed or deleted folio is not deleted from any device to which it’s been downloaded. Tapping the Archive button removes the deleted folio from the viewer library.

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Folio Producer Editor

Use Thumbnail view to preview articles

Edit article settings

With the Folio Producer Editor, you can edit article settings, some of which are not available in the Folio Builder panel. The Editor includes two views: a Thumbnail view for previewing articles and changing properties and a List view for ordering, locking, and changing other settings.

Available articles in folio

A. Selected article B. List view and Thumbnail view C. Show horizontal or vertical layout

Use the List view to reorder articles manually, change download priorities, and edit other settings.

Folio articles displayed in List view

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Use Thumbnail view to preview articles

HTML articles and InDesign articles that use JPEG or PNG image format display thumbnail images in the Folio Producer Editor. However, no thumbnails appear in articles that use the PDF image format.

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1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard , and click Folio Producer.

2. Select the folio you want to edit and click Open.

3. Do any of the following:

Change the order

Drag an article to change its order.

Edit article properties

properties.

Changes you make to the Article Properties settings are reflected in the Folio Builder panel. See Change article

View horizontal and vertical layouts

resize article thumbnails.

Click the Horizontal and Vertical buttons to change the layout. Drag the Thumbnail Size slider to

Add an article

Click Add, and then choose article in the folio from which you want to copy. You can also copy an article to another folio by choosing Copy To from the article pop-up menu.

Import HTMLResources.zip file

Click to import the HTMLResources.zip file. See Import HTMLResources.

Rename an article

Choose Rename from the article pop-up menu, and then rename the article. Renaming an article changes the Article

Name, not the Article Title that appears in the viewer. Renaming an article can result in broken navto links between articles.

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Edit article settings

1. Select and open a folio in the Folio Producer Editor.

2. Using either Thumbnail View or List View, change any of the article settings. See Change article properties.

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Import HTMLResources

When you create articles based on HTML instead of InDesign documents, you can set up a resources folder for sharing images, scripts, and CSS files among multiple HTML articles. The HTMLResources.zip is also useful to linking to PDF files, images, and HTML files to display the content in the in-app browser.

The resources file must be named “HTMLResources.zip.” You can import only one HTMLResources folder in a folio. The HTMLResources.zip file is not an article that can be previewed. For information on creating HTML articles, see Import HTML articles.

Note:

To create the .zip file, select the contents of the HTMLResources folder, not the folder itself.

If several people are working on HTML articles, make sure that they have an up-to-date copy of the HTMLResources folder so that they can refer to it.

1. Open the folder containing the HTML resources, select the contents, and compress it into a .zip file.

2. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard . Click Folio Producer.

3. Select a folio, and choose Open.

4. In the Folio Producer Editor, click the Import HTML Resources button .

5. Click Browse, select the HTMLResources.zip file, and then click Open.

If you need to edit the HTMLResources.zip file, make the changes, create a new zip file, and import it again.

You can also import the HTMLResources.zip file by choosing Import HTML Resources in the Folio Builder panel menu.

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Changing folio publishing settings

Use the Organizer panel to specify folio information and change settings. Some of these settings are for internal tracking purposes. Settings marked with an asterisk (*) are necessary for publishing the folio.

1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard using the appropriate Adobe ID.

2. In the Dashboard, click Folio Producer.

You can also choose Folio Producer from the Folio Builder panel menu in InDesign.

3. Change the properties of the folio. See Change folio properties.

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Export folios for single-folio viewers

If you’re a Professional or Enterprise customer, you can export a folio as a .zip file that you can specify in the DPS App Builder. Before you can export a folio, you must publish it.

If you're using a Creative Cloud subscription or a Single Edition license to create a single-folio app, do not use the Export method. Instead, select the folio in the Folio Builder panel and choose Create App from the panel menu. For details, see the step-by-step publishing guide for Single

Edition, which is available in the Help menu of DPS App Builder.

1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard using a subscription account.

2. In the Dashboard, click Folio Producer. In the Folio Producer Organizer, publish the folio. See Publish folios to the Distribution Service.

3. In the Folio Producer Organizer, select the published folio and click Export.

4. Specify the name and location of the .zip file, and then click Save.

You specify this .zip file when using the DPS App Builder to create a single-folio viewer app. See Create a custom viewer app for the iPad.

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Using HTML and JavaScript APIs to extend DPS

DPS offers several methods for using HTML and JavaScript APIs to enhance the user experience. When you create HTML content for a custom library, a custom store, or an entitlement banner, you can reference the Library and Store API .

For HTML content within a folio, such as an HTML article or a Web Content overlay, you can reference the Reading API . The Reading API includes some some features available in the Library and Store API as well as APIs for geolocation, camera, calendar, and device detection.

Any HTML content you specify in DPS App Builder can reference the Library and Store API. HTML articles or Web Content overlays in a folio can reference the Reading API.

Custom library

Custom store

Custom slots (web views)

Entitlement banner

Welcome Screen

Information Screen

Web Content overlay

HTML article

Library and Store API

Reading API

The following features provide access to the JavaScript APIs.

Custom library

You can replace the native implementation of the viewer library using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to fit your needs. By accessing APIs, you can duplicate e-commerce functionality found in the default library and customize it to suit your project design. For information about creating custom libraries and stores, see Custom storefronts and libraries .

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Custom libraries have access to the Library and Store APIs.

Custom slots

Custom slots (also called "custom navigation icons") appear on the bottom navigation bar. When tapped, these custom slots display a web view, such as a custom store or an FAQ page. The web view HTML can include references to the Library and Store API.

Tapping any of the navigation icons displays a web view. The HTML content in each web view can reference the Library and Store APIs.

Entitlement banner

If your app include direct entitlement, you can define an HTML banner to display at the top of the library view, as shown in the above images. You use the banner as a call to action for print subscribers to get immediate access to the content, to make subscription offers, or to display ads. The entitlement banner has full access to the Library/Store API. For details, see Leveraging direct entitlement with DPS .

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Welcome Screen

The welcome screen is a transparent web view that displays HTML content between the splash screen and the Library/Store. The HTML content appears the first time customers launch the app after installing it or the first time they launch the app after it's updated. The welcome screen has full access to the Library/Store API. See Getting started with a welcome screen in DPS Developer Center.

Sample Welcome Screen that gathers information from the Library and Store APIs.

Information Screen

With the v30 release, you can display an Information Screen wherever customers are viewing content in your app. For example, you can encourage readers to create an account, download a companion app, access help content, or view other customized offers through a transparent web view. The Information Screen has full access to the JavaScript APIs—either the Library and Store API or the Reading API, depending on where the Information Screen is triggered.

You can launch the Information Screen from either the app level (such as a custom library or entitlement banner) or from the folio level (HTML article or Web Content overlay). The HTML files used in the Information Screen reside on a server outside the app, not within the app. Users must be connected to the Internet to view the Information Screen.

For more information, see New APIs and features in r30 .

HTML articles / Web Content overlays

To access JS APIs from within a folio rather than in the library, you can create an HTML article or a Web Content overlay. You can then create digital blow-ins to display different content depending on how the article was acquired, or you can take advantage of the Camera API , the

Geolocation API , or various consumer marketing APIs .

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The HTML in this Web Content overlay makes a call to the Reading API to determine how the issue was obtained and displays content accordingly.

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Methods for offering free content

If your app includes retail folios, you can use a number of different methods to provide free content to your customers.

Free folio

Publish one of your issues as Free and Public so that users can download this issue even if they don't have a subscription. You can specify a

Publication Date in the future to keep the free folio at the top of the list, or you can specify a Publication Date in the past to keep the free folio at the bottom of the list.

One drawback to this approach is that you're frequently giving away outdated content or a limited amount of content that doesn't adequately represent your app.

First Folio Free

If you select the "Enable First Issue Entitlement" option in the Account Administration tool, you make the most recently published retail folio available to users who download the app for the first time. Using this method, you improve the experience of customers who download the app for the first time. You can also specify settings in DPS App Builder to determine whether the entitled folio is downloaded automatically when a user downloads the app for the first time, and you can specify whether that downloaded folio is opened automatically.

When you submit your app to Apple, make sure that you have at least two retail folios so that Apple can test in-app purchases.

For best results, let your customers know that you're offering a free folio. You can do this by creating a library banner or HTML content that uses an API to determine how the folio was downloaded and displays conditional content. For examples and instructions, see First Folio Free and Digital

Blow-ins .

If you're an Enterprise customer, you can prompt users to sign in before downloading the free issue. See Enabling promotional entitlement with

Digital Publishing Suite .

Note:

For best results, use either First Folio Free or the iOS Free Trial Subscription (described later in this article), but not both.

Use the Account Administration tool to offer the first folio free or to enable free article preview in retail folios.

Free Article Preview

If you select "Enable Article Preview" in the Account Administration tool, any article marked as "Free" in a retail folio will be available to users for downloading and viewing. Any article marked as "Metered" includes a "Read Article" button displayed in the purchase pane that appears when users navigate to that article. The number of metered articles users can read is determined by the Paywall Threshold setting you specify. When

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users view any article that is protected, they see a paywall that prompts them to purchase the folio or subscribe. This option is available only for the iPad.

Use the Account Administration tool to enable article preview. Use the Folio Producer Editor to change Article Access settings: Free, Metered, or

Protected. Make sure that the Viewer Version of the folio is v27 or later. If you're updating the viewer version of an older folio, update all the articles within the folio after you change the viewer version.

For details about free article preview and other advanced techniques, see Free Article Preview .

A paywall appears when users view a protected article.

Free trial subscription (iOS)

Apple iTunes Connect includes settings for enabling a free trial subscription for your Newsstand subscription app. When specifying the duration, you can select a free trial option and a marketing opt-in incentive option.

For more detailed information, see this article about Promoting free content to gain new readership .

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Updating folios published with prerelease tools

If you used the Content Bundler to publish folios for a multi-folio viewer, the folio does not appear in the Folio Builder panel or the Folio Producer.

However, published folios are still available for your customers to download and view. You can continue to edit and update these folios using the

Content Bundler as long as it is available.

When you update your workflow to use the Folio Builder panel, you can create folios that are available along with the existing folios. Make sure that you use the same Adobe ID that you use in the Content Bundler. Also, update and re-submit your custom viewer so that it can display folios created using the newer tools.

At this time, if you want to edit an existing folio published using the Content Bundler, continue to use the Content Bundler.

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DPS App Builder

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Checklists for custom viewer apps

Checklist for single-folio viewer (iPad only)

Checklist for multi-folio viewer (iPad and iPhone)

Checklist for subscription viewer (iPad and iPhone)

Checklist of multi-folio viewer (Windows Store)

Checklist of native multi-folio viewer (Android and Amazon)

Checklist for legacy multi-folio viewer (Android and Amazon)

Using the DPS App Builder to create a custom viewer app is a straight-forward process if you have all the files and information you need. Use the appropriate checklist to make sure that you have the required files.

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Checklist for single-folio viewer (iPad only)

The following files and information are required to create a single-folio viewer for the iPad.

For information on creating certificates and images to submit a custom viewer to the Apple App Store, download the Step-by-Step Publishing

Guide from the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard or from the DPS App Builder.

General

Adobe ID used for application

Creative Cloud membership account or Single Edition serial number (Single Edition only)

Files required to secure your app

Distribution P12 certificate (and password)

Distribution mobileprovision file

Developer P12 certificate (and password)

Developer mobileprovision file

Artwork required to brand your app

SD App Icons: 29x29, 50x50, 72x72, 76x76, and 512x512 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

HD App Icons: 58x58, 100x100, 144x144, 152x152, and 1024x1024 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

SD Splash Screens: 1024x768 and 768x1024 pixel images in PNG format.

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Checklist for multi-folio viewer (iPad and iPhone)

The following files and information are required to create a multi-folio viewer for the iPad.

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Folios

Adobe ID used for application

At least one free folio published as public using application Adobe ID

In-app purchases for all published retail folios. Use the same Product ID when creating the in-app purchase and publishing the folio.

Files required to secure your app

Distribution P12 certificate (and password)

Distribution mobileprovision file

Developer P12 certificate (and password)

Developer mobileprovision file

Production push P12 certificate and password (optional)

Developer push P12 certificate and password (optional)

Artwork required to brand your app

SD iPad App Icons: 29x29, 50x50, 72x72, 76x76, and 512x512 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

SD iPhone App Icons: 29x29 and 57x57 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

HD iPad App Icons: 58x58, 100x100, 144x144, 152x152, and 1024x1024 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

HD iPhone App Icons: 58x58, 114x114, and 120x120 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

SD Splash Screens for iPad: 1024x768 and 768x1024 pixel images in PNG format.

HD Splash Screens for iPad: 2048x1536 and 1536x2048 pixel images in PNG format. Use 8-bit PNG format to reduce file size.

Splash Screens for iPhone: 320x480, 640x960, and 640x1136 pixel images in PNG format.

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Checklist for subscription viewer (iPad and iPhone)

Certain files and information are required to create a multi-folio subscription viewer for the iPad.

If you're creating a viewer with custom entitlement, or if you want to create a custom store or a custom library, refer to the appropriate articles in the DPS Developer Center for additional requirements.

Folios

Adobe ID used for application

At least one free folio published as public

In-app purchases for all published retail folios. Use the same Product ID when creating the in-app purchase and publishing the folio.

In-app purchases for all subscription durations. If you’re creating a free subscription app, you need to create an in-app purchase for the free subscription.

Shared secret associated with application Adobe ID (see Account Administration tool)

Files required to secure your app

Distribution P12 certificate (and password)

Distribution mobileprovision file

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Developer P12 certificate (and password)

Developer mobileprovision file

Production push P12 certificate and password (required for Newsstand)

Developer push P12 certificate and password (required for Newsstand)

Artwork required to brand your app

SD iPad App Icons: 29x29, 50x50, 72x72, 76x76, and 512x512 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

SD iPhone App Icons: 29x29 and 57x57 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

HD iPad App Icons: 58x58, 100x100, 144x144, 152x152, and 1024x1024 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

HD iPhone App Icons: 58x58, 114x114, and 120x120 pixel icons in PNG format. You do not need to add the shine effect or rounded corners.

SD Splash Screens: 1024x768 and 768x1024 pixel images in PNG format.

HD Splash Screens: 2048x1536 and 1536x2048 pixel images in PNG format. Use 8-bit PNG format to reduce file size.

Splash Screens for iPhone: 320x480, 640x960, and 640x1136 pixel images in PNG format.

SD Newsstand icon: 96x128 pixel icon in PNG format (required for Newsstand)

HD Newsstand icon: 192x256 pixel icon in PNG format (required for Newsstand)

SD Subscription Tiles: 964x184 and 708x250 pixel images in PNG format.

HD Subscription Tiles: 1928x368 and 1416x500 pixel images in PNG format.

Custom navigation icons (optional, Enterprise only): 30x30 (SD) and 60x60 (HD) pixel images in PNG format with a transparent background.

The OS replaces the color of any non-transparent pixel with a system color.

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Checklist of multi-folio viewer (Windows Store)

The following files and information are required to create a multi-folio viewer for the Windows Store. For information about creating these files, see

Building DPS apps for Windows Store.

Folios

Adobe ID used for application

In-app billing for all published retail folios. Use the same Product ID when creating the in-app billing and publishing the folio.

Shared secret associated with application Adobe ID (see Account Administration tool)

Information required to submit your app

Valid Microsoft developer account

URL of privacy policy web page

Artwork required to brand your app

310x310-pixel PNG image, used for the application on the start screen, in the store, and in search results

310x150 pixel PNG image, used for the application on the start screen

620x300 pixel PNG image with transparency for the application splash screen

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Checklist of native multi-folio viewer (Android and Amazon)

The following files and information are required to create a multi-folio viewer for the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore. For information about creating these files, see Publishing Process for Android Devices .

Folios

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Adobe ID used for application

In-app billing for all published retail folios. Use the same Product ID when creating the in-app billing and publishing the folio.

Shared secret associated with application Adobe ID (see Account Administration tool)

Files required to secure your app

Valid .p12 certificate (and password) or .keystore file and (and password/alias information)

Artwork required to brand your app

Any size app icon in PNG format (it gets scaled to 96x96)

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Checklist for legacy multi-folio viewer (Android and Amazon)

Folios

Adobe ID used for application

In-app billing for all published retail folios. Use the same Product ID when creating the in-app billing and publishing the folio.

Shared secret associated with application Adobe ID (see Account Administration tool)

Files required to secure your app

Valid P12 certificate (and password)

Artwork required to brand your app

App Icons: 36x36, 48x48, 72x72 pixel icons in PNG format.

Splash Screens: 1280x800/800x1280, 1920x1200/1200x1920, 2048x1536/1536x2048, or 2560x1600/1600x2560 pixel images in 8-bit PNG format.

Custom navigation icons (optional, Enterprise only): 75x43, 98x52, or 214x114 pixel images in PNG format. For each icon, create separate images for Up, Down, and Disabled states.

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DPS App Builder overview

DPS App Builder (previously called Viewer Builder) lets you build a custom viewer app that you can submit to the stores such as the Apple Store and Google Play Store. The desktop DPS App Builder is currently available only for Mac OS. The new Web-based DPS App Builder, which currently lets you build native Android apps, works on both Windows and Mac OS. At some point in the future, the Web-based DPS App Builder will offer support for other platforms and replace the desktop version.

Use the desktop DPS App Builder to create viewer apps for single-folio, multi-folio, and subscription viewer apps. You cannot create single-folio viewer apps for the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, or Windows Store. Single-folio apps are iPad only.

To download the newest version of the desktop DPS App Builder, go here: www.adobe.com/go/digpubsuite_vb_mac .

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Creating DPS apps for the iPad and iPhone

App Details panel

Entitlement Details (Enterprise only)

Subscription Details

Icons and Splash Screens panel

Newsstand

Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only)

Social Sharing

Certificates

Build Details

Downloading and testing the viewer apps

Submitting and managing the viewer app

Use the DPS App Builder to create a custom viewer app for the iPad or for both the iPad and iPhone. If you specify valid files and information,

DPS App Builder generates both a development app and a distribution app. The development app is for testing. If it works properly, submit the distribution .zip file to the Apple Store.

The information such as certificates and passwords that you provide is not stored on the Adobe server. Only the application files are stored on the

Adobe server.

For information about creating the required certificates and images, see iOS Publishing Companion Guide for Professional and Enterprise . If you’re a Creative Cloud or Single Edition user, see Step-by-Step iPad Publishing Guide for Single Edition .

DPS App Builder requirements for creating iOS viewer apps

System requirements:

Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard or later for iOS viewer apps

Internet connection

DPS App Builder

A valid Adobe ID that has been assigned the DPS App Builder role using the Account Administration tool (Professional or Enterprise)

Create a custom viewer app

1. Obtain the required files and information. See Checklists for custom viewer apps.

2. Download and install the DPS App Builder.

The DPS App Builder is available on the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard . If you use InDesign CS6 or InDesign CC, the DPS App Builder is installed when you update the DPS Desktop Tools.

3. Start the DPS App Builder and sign in using a valid Adobe ID.

The Adobe ID you use to sign in to the DPS App Builder may be different from the Adobe ID you use to specify the Title ID in the App Details panel.

The Account Administration tool lets you or the administrator assign the DPS App Builder role to an Adobe ID. See Account Administration tool.

4. Click New, select iOS, and then select iPad, iPhone, or both. Click Next.

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5. Specify the requested files and information.

Note:

(Professional/Enterprise) If you’re creating a single-folio app, you can select the folio in the Folio Builder panel and choose Create App from the panel menu. Make sure that the account you use to create the folio includes both Application and DPS App Builder roles.

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App Details panel

The App Details panel lets you provide your viewer names and account ID information.

App Name

the name.

Provide a viewer name that appears below the App icon on the iPad. As a general rule, use 13 characters or fewer to avoid truncating

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To test your App name on the iPad, open a website in iPad Safari, choose Add to Home Screen from the Safari menu, and then type the desired Viewer name. If the name is truncated, use a smaller name.

App Version

Specify the most recent viewer.

The DPS App Builder includes a previous version for backup purposes. With the v28 release, you might want to create a v27 viewer, which supports iOS 5 and the iPad 1. The v28 viewer supports iOS 7 features but not iOS 5.

App Type

Specify the viewer type (see Types of custom viewer apps). The availability of some options depends on the type of account.

Multi Folio

A multi-folio viewer app includes a library that lets users download content that is hosted on the Adobe Distribution Service.

Built-in Single Edition App

A single-folio app includes built-in content. When you select this option, the Exported Folio option appears.

Specify the .zip file created using the Export option in the Folio Producer Organizer. This option is not available if iPhone is selected.

Multi Folio with Entitlement

(Enterprise only) Create a viewer app that uses a custom entitlement server to determine which customers can download content. If you select this option, you use your own subscription service. Consult with Apple. Entitlement only apps cannot be enabled for Newsstand.

Multi Folio with iTunes Subscription

Create a viewer app that uses the Apple App Store subscription model.

Multi Folio with Entitlement and iOS Subscription

(Enterprise only) Create a viewer app that uses a custom entitlement server to determine which customers can download content. Customers can subscribe either through your subscription service or through the Apple

App Store.

Adobe Content Viewer

Create a version of the Adobe Content Viewer instead of downloading it from the App Store. See Create a custom Adobe Content Viewer for iPad.

Title (Library View)

Provide the title that will appear at the top of the viewer library. For best results, use no more than 35 characters.

Title ID/Password

Provide the appropriate Adobe ID and password for your app. Specify the same Adobe ID you use to create folios for this title.

Make sure that the Adobe ID is assigned the Application role in the Account Administration tool. The Title ID for the app can be different from the

Adobe ID used to sign in to DPS App Builder.

Optional URL Scheme

Specify the custom URL scheme that launches the viewer app from Safari and other apps. To ensure uniqueness, Apple recommends that you use the reverse-domain format (com.publisher.publication). For best results with Twitter social sharing, use 32 characters or fewer.

For example, suppose you specify “com.sportspub.kayaking” as the URL scheme. If you embed a “com.sportspub.kayaking://” link on your webpage, clicking the link from the mobile browser opens the viewer app. For more information, see Apple’s developer website.

Exported Folio

If you selected Built-in Single Edition App for App type, specify the .zip file to be built in with the viewer. To create a .zip file, use the Export option in the Folio Producer Organizer. See Export folios for single-folio viewers. (Instead of using the exported .zip file, you can select the folio in the Folio Builder panel and choose Create App.)

Optional Privacy Policy URL

If you specify a privacy policy URL, "Privacy Policy" appears in the library settings menu. If a user taps Privacy

Policy, the web page is displayed in an in-app browser.

Optional Welcome Screen

(Enterprise only) The welcome screen is a transparent Web View that displays HTML content of your choice. The

HTML content appears the first time customers launch the app after installing it or the first time they launch the app after it's updated. For example, you can use the welcome screen to encourage readers to create an account, accept terms-of-use, explore a preview issue, or orient them to the app. The welcome screen has full access to the Library/Store JavaScript API, and you have full control over the experience.

Specify the .zip file containing your HTML files. If your app supports both iPad and iPhone, your HTML files should display content that works on both device sizes. For instructions and sample HTML files, see the Welcome Screen article in the DPS Developer Center.

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Enable PDF Zooming

Select this option to allow your users to pinch and zoom non-interactive pages. Make sure that you select the PDF image format option when creating your folio.

Enable Favorites

Select this option to allow your users to bookmark their favorite articles in the app. If enabled, a Favorites icon appears on the upper right area of the viewer nav bar. Favorites are not yet available in the iPhone viewer.

Enable Auto Hiding of Folio Scrollbars

By default, a 6-pixel scrollbar area appears on the right side of articles in a folio. If you select this option, the scrollbar appears only when the user is scrolling in the article.

Always Open Background Downloaded Issue

When this option is selected, any folio that has been downloaded in the background since the previous viewing session opens on launch. If this option is not selected, the most recently viewed folio is opened in its previous reading position.

This option is especially useful for daily and weekly magazines.

Enable Left and Right Hot Zone Navigation

If you select this option, invisible hot zones appear on the left and right sides of every article (or page if the article scrolls only horizontally). Tapping a hot zone jumps to the next or previous article. Hot zones are especially useful for full-screen overlays, such as slideshows. Hot zones are enabled for both iPad and iPhone viewers.

If a button appears in the hot zone area, tapping the area triggers the button. For any other overlay that appears in the hot zone area, tapping the area triggers the hot zone.

Enable Hot Zone to Display Folio View Controls

If you select this option, tapping in the hot zone area at both the top and bottom of the page displays the navigation bars (also called the “HUD”). Tapping anywhere outside the hot zones does not display the navigation bars. Hot zones are enabled for both iPad and iPhone viewers.

Buttons take precedence over the folio-view hot zones, the folio-view hot zones take precedence over the left and right hot zones, and the folioview hot zones take precedence over all non-button overlays.

Hide Top Navigation Bar in Folio View

If you select this option, only the bottom navigation bar is displayed when a user taps an article. This allows publishers to create a custom navigation bar on all article pages to navigate within the folio.

Enable Auto Folio Archiving

Select this option enable auto-archiving of folios when the customer downloads the maximum number of folios allowed. Indicate whether the archiving is turned on by default. Customers can use the device settings to turn auto-archiving on or off. Also specify the maximum number of downloaded folios (between 6 and 90) for your viewer app. When the threshold number is reached, the least recently updated folios are archived automatically. Customers cannot change the threshold number. Customers can re-download any archived folio.

Enable Caching of Library Information

Select this option to cache folio information such as the price of a folio. Selecting this option improves

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performance for apps with large libraries because the viewer does not check the Apple server each time the library is loaded. However, selecting this option can cause folio information to become out of date. For example, if you select this option and change the cost of retail folios, your library will display misleading information. This option is currently available only for subscription apps.

Hide Sign In Button in Library (Enterprise only)

By default, the Sign In button appears in the upper left corner of the library in subscription apps with custom entitlement. You can hide the Sign In button if your custom library provides a different method for signing in.

Hide Subscribe Button in Library (Enterprise only)

subscription apps. You can hide the Subscribe button.

By default, the Subscribe button appears in the upper left corner of the library in

Auto-Download Latest Entitled Folio on First Launch

If this option is selected, the most recently entitled folio is downloaded automatically when the app is launched. Use the Account Administration tool make the first retail folio free to first-time downloaders. At this time, this option affects only retail folios, not free ones.

Auto-Open Latest Entitled Folio After Download

If "Auto-download latest entitled folio on first launch" is selected, this "Auto-open" option is selected by default so that first-time readers can download the app and start reading the most recent folio immediately. If you turn off the "Autoopen" option, users see the folio downloading in the library, but the folio doesn't open until they tap the cover image. This allows publishers to provide a message in the banner that lets first-time users know that they're receiving a free folio.

Enable Rate the App Dialog

Select this option to display a “Rate the App” prompt after your customers have launched the app a specified number of times. For example, if you set the “Rate the App Dialog Count” value to 5, users are prompted to rate the app on the fifth launch of the app. If they select “Remind me later,” they’re prompted on the next launch.

Specify the 9-digit Application ID for your app. To obtain this ID, sign in to itunesconnect.apple.com, click Manage Your Applications, and then click your app. Copy the 9-digit Apple ID string (not the Bundle ID).

Show Analytics Opt-in Dialog

If you select this option, your customers can opt out of data tracking. They can use the library settings in the viewer app to opt in at any time. This option is especially useful for regions in which you are obligated to allow users to opt out of data tracking.

To edit the default text that appears, select Use Customized Strings, and download and edit the values for “Analytics Opt-In Dialog Title” and

“Analytics Opt-In Dialog Text.”

Use Legacy Store APIs (Enterprise only)

Select this option if you have an older custom store configuration that you would like to use. If you select this option, you cannot specify a custom library.

Supported Languages

iTunes displays the languages in which the viewer app is available. The viewer interface is translated into multiple languages, but your folio content most likely isn’t. Select at least one language in which your viewer should appear.

Use Customized Strings

You can customize all strings stored in the viewer in all supported languages. For example, you can customize button text in the library and text in dialog boxes. Select this option, and then click Generate Template to download an XML template to your Documents folder. You can then edit this XML file and specify it in DPS App Builder. If you’re editing a viewer created for a previous version, download and edit the newest template for best results.

When you edit the XML file, each UI element includes a <key name> and one or more language strings (such as <en> for English). Edit the text in the language code (such as <en>); do not change the <key name> string.

(Enterprise) You can also use this XML file to edit the "Library" and "Viewer" labels and to include language strings for the labels below the custom icons in the navigation toolbar. A set of UI elements appear near the end of the XML file with keynames such as "Library," "iPad viewer label," and

"iPad Custom slot 1 label." The custom slot numbers correspond to the order from left to right of the custom icons you add between the Library and Viewer buttons in the Navigation Toolbar section. For the custom slot labels, specify the language strings, such as "<en>Help</en>" and

"<es>Ayuda</es>" for English and Spanish.

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Editing option names in the viewer app

Entitlement Details (Enterprise only)

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The following options appear if you choose one of the entitlement options for Viewer Type.

Note:

For detailed information about setting up a custom entitlement server, contact your Adobe representative.

Service URL

Specify the URL in the form http://[:]/contextroot/api/, such as http://lighthouse.adobe.com/dps/entitlement_starter/api. The Service

URL and Service AUTH URL should match the Integrator ID, but the value of the integratorID takes precedence if they are different. For details, see the direct entitlement API documentation or contact your Adobe representative.

Service Auth URL

Specify the same information used for Service URL.

Integrator ID

Adobe provides the Integrator ID when your entitlement account is provisioned within our servers. You can use the same Integrator

ID for multiple apps. The API contains 'appId' and 'appVersion' on every method, so your implementation can detect which application is asking for

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entitlement information

Contact your Adobe representative for information about the Integrator ID.

Optional Create Account URL

Specify the URL where customers can sign up for a subscription through the publisher, not through the Apple subscription process. This URL is used when users tap a “Subscribe” button that links to your entitlement service.

Forgot Password URL

Specify the URL where customers can retrieve their forgotten password.

Optional Existing Subscription URL

Specify the URL where customers can indicate an existing print subscription while signing up for a digital subscription. Leave this field blank to disable the print subscription link button in the viewer.

Send App ID and Version

select this option.

This option allows the Viewer app’s ID and Version strings to be sent in entitlement API calls. We recommend that you

Entitlement Banner Enabled

Select this option to display a full-width subscription banner in the viewer library instead of the subscription tile. If this option is not selected, only the subscription tile appears in the library. If you use a banner instead of the subscription tile, consider including links to subscription options in your HTML content.

Banner Page URL

Specify the URL that displays the subscription banner if the user is connect to the internet. This full-width banner appears in the upper section of the viewer library above the subscription tile and available folios. You can specify different URLs for SD and HD devices.

Offline Banner Assets

Select the .zip file containing the assets to be used as the banner if the user is not connected to the internet. The .zip file should include a single HTML file, one or more image files, and optional CSS files. The .zip file should not contain subfolders; all content should be on the same level. You can specify different .zip files to target SD and HD devices.

Banner Height

Specify the height of the banner that appears in the viewer library as either a fixed size or a percentage of the library area. You can specify a value between 1 and 1280, but the displayed banner height cannot exceed 40% of the library area.

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Subscription Details

The following options appear if you choose one of the subscription options for Viewer Type.

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Subscription Tiles

Specify background images that describe the Apple subscription options. For landscape tiles that appear when the device is rotated sideways, specify a 964x184-pixel image for iPad SD, and specify a 1928x368-pixel image for iPad HD. For portrait tiles, specify 708x250 and 1416x500-pixel images for the different iPad sizes.

Tapping any part of the tile launches the iOS subscription options. These options are determined by the subscription in-app purchase information you specify in iTunes Connect.

Note: If you enable an entitlement banner, the entitlement banner is displayed instead of—not in addition to— the subscription tiles. However, due

to a bug in the DPS App Builder, it is still necessary to specify the subscription tiles even though they are not used in the app.

Optional Library Subscription Tile URL

Specify a URL that is displayed in an in-app browser window when the customer taps the subscription tile. This webpage can include messaging that is not necessarily related to subscriptions.

Optional Remote Custom Dialog URL

This URL loads when the customer completes the subscription process. For example, you can request user information or provide additional details about your products.

Subscription Type/Subscription Products

Select Paid if you have a retail subscription app. For Subscription Products, click the plus icon to specify at least one Apple iTunes Connect product ID and corresponding duration. These options appear when customers tap the subscription tile or the Subscribe button.

Select Free if you are creating a Newsstand app with Apple’s Free Subscription option. Specify the Free Subscription Product ID you specified in iTunes Connect.

Note:

Shared secret information is required for subscription apps. Use iTunes Connect to create or view your shared secret. Use the Account

Administrator tool to specify the shared secret characters for the application account. Then sign in to the Folio Producer Organizer to trigger the shared secret update.

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Icons and Splash Screens panel

Use this panel to specify app icons and splash screens that will appear in iTunes and the iPad.

Instead of specifying each icon file one at a time, select the files in a Finder window and drag them into the Icons and Splash Screens panel.

App icons

The icons that you specify will be used on the iPad home screen when installed, and on the device App Store when viewed from the iPad. Specify 29x29, 50x50, 72x72, and 76x76 pixel icons in PNG format for iPad SD devices. Specify 58x58, 100x100, 144x144, and 152x152 pixel icons in PNG format for iPad HD devices. Specify 29x29, 57x57, 58x58, 114x114, and 120x120 icons for the iPhone. Apple rounds the

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corners automatically. Do not scale up smaller artwork. Use 72ppi, RGB, flattened, high-quality PNG files.

Note:

Always include a .png extension in your image filenames.

Splash Screens

When the Viewer is started, a splash screen (also known as a launch image) appears for approximately three seconds. For splash screens, specify the following images using 72 ppi, RGB, flattened, high-quality PNG files. To reduce file size, use Save for Web & Devices in Photoshop to save 8-bit PNG files.

1024x768 and 768x1024 pixel images for iPad SD

2048x1536 and 1536x2048 pixel images for iPad HD

320x480 pixel image for iPhone SD

640x960 pixel image for iPhone HD and 640x1136 pixel image for iPhone 5.

For best results, make your splash screen image different from your cover. If the cover and the splash screen are identical, users may think the app is frozen when they first start it. Some publishers add “Loading . . .” to the splash images.

Optional artwork

The large app icon will be displayed for your app on the desktop App Store and if needed, will be used to feature your app on the App Store. Specify a 512x512-pixel image for low-resolution iPad and iPhone devices and a 1024x1024-pixel image for high-resolution iPad and iPhone devices. For best results, use Save for Web & Devices in Photoshop to create a 8-bit PNG files. You can also specify this image while submitting your app to the Apple Store. Do not scale up smaller artwork. Use 72ppi, 8-bit, RGB, flattened, high-quality PNG files. To reduce file size, create 8-bit instead of 24-bit PNG files.

Enable shine effect on app icon

on the upper portion of the icon.

Indicate whether you want your application icons to include the shine effect, which looks like a light is shining

Shine off (left) and on (right)

Optional Fonts ZIP for HTML

If you apply fonts to text in your HTML stacks or web view overlays, you can include them in either the .folio file or the Viewer. If you choose to include them in the Viewer, compress the fonts in a .zip folder. The .zip file should not contain subfolders; all content should be on the same level.

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Newsstand

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If you enable Newsstand, your viewer app appears in the Newsstand folder of iPads with iOS5 installed. To enable Newsstand, you must create a viewer app with iTunes subscription—either iTunes Subscription only or Entitlement with iTunes Subscription, but not Entitlement only. In addition, you must enable push notifications.

Enable Newsstand

Select this option to allow your viewer to appear in the Newsstand folder.

Magazine/Newspaper

Determine whether Newsstand should classify your viewer app as a magazine or newspaper.

Binding Edge

Select an option to determine the adornment appearance on the Newsstand icon when a customer double-taps the Home button to display the active apps. For example, choosing Left binding displays a binding edge on the left and page adornments on the right.

Newsstand Icon

Specify a PNG icon that appears in the Newsstand folder. Use a 72 ppi, RGB, flattened, high-quality PNG file at 96x128 pixels for the iPad SD and 192x256 for the iPad HD. This icon is used as the cover image in Newsstand. This icon is replaced by the cover image of the most recently published folio.

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Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only)

This panel lets you customize the Navigation Toolbar that appears in your custom viewer at the bottom of the library.

Hide Library Button

If the Navigation Toolbar is displayed, tapping the Library button on the bottom navigation bar does the same thing as tapping the Library button in the upper left navigation bar. To avoid this redundancy, you can hide the Library button, but only if the bottom navigation toolbar is enabled.

Show Navigation Toolbar

Select this option to display the Navigation Toolbar at the bottom of the viewer.

Specify whether the Navigation Toolbar should appear in all views, including the library and folio view, or if it should be hidden when folios are viewed.

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Hide Viewer Icon

If Show Navigation Toolbar is selected, you can hide the Viewer icon that appears by default. Tapping the Viewer icon displays the previously viewed folio.

Hide Buy Buttons

purchase.

Select this option if you want folios to be available for purchase only through a subscription and not through individual

Hide Sign In Button

tapped.

Selecting this option prevents the Sign In button from appearing in the upper left corner of the screen when a custom icon is

Hide Free Folios

Select this option to hide free folios from your library. This option is especially useful if you want to use your custom server to entitle customers to specify folios based on their sign in account information.

For information on restricting folios, see Using restricted distribution with Digital Publishing Suite .

Lock App Orientation

If you select Portrait or Landscape, the app remains in that orientation on an iPad. This setting affects all views, including the library view and folio view, even if the folio is dual-orientation.

Customize and Preview the Toolbar and Custom Icons

or to specify a custom HTML library.

Use this section to specify custom icons for the navigation toolbar of the default library

Use Custom Viewer Library

When you click the Library icon in the Navigation Toolbar section of DPS App Builder, the Use Custom Viewer

Library option appears. If you click the option icon, you can specify the .zip file that includes your HTML code. Note that this option does not appear if "Use Legacy Store APIs" is selected in the App Details page. For more information about creating custom library, see Creating a custom library (Enterprise).

Custom Icons

Click the plus icon on the right side of the panel to create a custom button (also called a "custom slot") for the Navigation Toolbar.

Or, select the Library or Viewer icons to replace the default Library and Viewer icons with default icons.

You can include as many as 8 navigation icons for the iPad (6 custom plus the Library and Viewer icons) and 2 for the iPhone (1 custom plus

Library).

For each icon, specify 30x30 and 60x60-pixel PNG files with a transparent background. Use any color for the foreground image. iOS applies a system color (usually light blue) to non-transparent pixels and changes the appearance of the icon to indicate whether it's selected.

When users tap a custom icon, an in-app browser displays the contents of the HTML file you provide, such as a website for a store, a news feed, or help page. Customers can tap a Close button to return to library view.

Icon Label

Specify the text, such as "Store" or "Help" that appears below the icon.

If your app includes multiple languages in the UI, you can edit the XML file that you download when you select the Use Customized Strings option in the App Details section. You can also use this XML file to change the "Library" and "Viewer" labels. For details, see the "Use Customized

Strings" description earlier in this article.

Type

Select WebView to display the contents of an HTML file you specify. Select Navigation only if you’re publishing a Woodwing-based app in which you can use the Intent metadata to jump to a cover, table of contents, or help article. Specify the name in the Intent field.

Navto Link Name

This option lets you use the goto:// format to create article links that open the HTML content associated with the custom icon.

For example, if your link name is “Store,” creating a button with a goto://ApplicationViewState/Store action opens the Store webview.

See Create goto links to custom icons.

Icon HTML Resources ZIP

Specify a .zip file containing the assets to be used for the web view that appears when users tap the toolbar button.

The .zip file should include a single HTML file and any required image and CSS files. The .zip file should not contain subfolders; all content should be on the same level.

Lock Orientation

Vertical.

If you want the web view that appears when users tap the toolbar button to display in only one orientation, choose Horizontal or

Hide Title Bar

displayed.

Select this option to hide the title bar that appears at the top of the viewer library when the custom icon’s HTML content is

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Show Navigation Controls

Display navigation controls such as a Back button and a Refresh button for the web page. These options appear in the title bar above the HTML content.

Auto Launch

One of the custom toolbar buttons can be set to Auto Launch. When Auto Launch is turned on, opening the viewer library displays the HTML page automatically.

Note:

Click the plus icon on the right side of the Navigation Toolbar panel to include as many as eight buttons for iPad apps. You can also replace the default Library and Viewer buttons. Click the buttons in the preview bar to switch between buttons.

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Social Sharing

The Social Sharing settings control whether customers can share articles from your app through Facebook, Twitter, email, or copy/paste. Social

Sharing is available for iPad and iPhone viewers. However, this feature is not available for single-issue apps or Android viewers. To learn more about the Social Sharing workflow, see Using social sharing.

Enable Sharing

If you select Enable Sharing, the Activity Sheet on iOS 7 devices displays all valid sharing options. At this time, you cannot turn off sharing options for iOS 7.

For iOS 6 devices, the social sharing menu is no longer available in any app built after February 11, 2014 due to new restrictions related to the

Advertising Identifier reference in the Facebook SDK. The options under "iOS 6 Specific Settings" are no longer relevant.

Publication URL (v28 only)

For v28 apps, specify the URL that contains information about your publication. The link to the Publication URL appears when customers share a protected article. For v29 apps, the Publication URL is no longer necessary. When protected articles are shared, the full article URL is now included in the link, and a paywall message appears.

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Certificates

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Apple requires all applications to be signed by a valid certificate and provisioned before they can be run on the iPad. In the Provisioning section, you specify the mobileprovision files. You specify the certificates when you download the generated viewer apps.

For information on creating certificates and mobileprovision files, see the iPad Publishing Companion Guide PDF, which is available on the

Dashboard or from the Help menu in the DPS App Builder.

Enterprise Signed Viewer App

Select this option only if you want to use an enterprise provisioning certificate for a viewer to be distributed only within your organization. Specify an App ID and your enterprise mobileprovision file. You can also enable push notifications in an enterprise-signed app. The mobileprovision file must have a non-wildcard Bundle ID. See Creating an enterprise signed iPad viewer app.

Developer Mobileprovision

The mobileprovision file determines which iPads can install and use your viewer app. The mobileprovision file for the development app includes a list of iPad IDs called UDIDs.

Distribution Mobileprovision

The mobileprovision file determines which iPads can install and use your Viewer app.

Sideloadable Developer Build

Select this option so that you can manually add .folio files to the development viewer through iTunes. You can use only .folio files, not .zip files created using the Export button in the Folio Producer Organizer.

Enable Push Notifications

Select this option to enable Adobe push notifications. If you select this option, a red badge appears on the viewer app icon and indicates the number of available folios, or Newsstand activates a push notification process. This option is required when Newsstand is enabled.

Use Adobe Push Server

If you select this option, push notifications are handled through the Adobe server. Specify the production certificate and password that you create on the Apple developer site. To set up push notifications, configure your App ID, create new mobileprovision files, and create a productin push certificate. For detailed instructions, see the iPad Publishing Companion Guide PDF, which you can download from the

Help menu in the DPS App Builder.

If you deselect this option (Enterprise only), you can specify a third-party push server. Specify the server in the Push URL field. Specify any additional server requests your server requires in the Custom Push Parameters field. For basic requirements in setting up your push server, see

Push notifications.

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Build Details

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If you signed in using an Adobe ID provisioned for Omniture tracking, settings for tracking user data appear on the Build Details page. This data is populated automatically. If you have an enterprise account and these options do not appear, contact your Adobe representative.

After you specify information or files for all mandatory fields, click Submit Build, and then click Finish.

The amount of time it takes to create the development and distribution apps depends on how busy the server is.

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Downloading and testing the viewer apps

Certificates are required for two different Viewer apps—a development app and a distribution app. The development app is for testing; the distribution app is what you submit to Apple once you test and approve the development app.

1. Select your viewer app in the Manage page where your custom viewer builds appear.

2. Click Developer Viewer (.ipa) to download the developer app.

3. Specify your developer p12 certificate and password, and then click Download And Sign.

Developer P12 Certificate

The .p12 file saves your certificate private key information. Creating the .p12 certificate requires you to use the

Apple Developer site to create and download a certificate and then use the Keychain Access utility to export the private key of that certificate as a .p12 certificate.

Developer P12 Password

When you create the .p12 certificate, you are prompted to create a password. Blank passwords do not work. If you used a blank password, create the .p12 certificate again with a real password.

4. Add the development app (.ipa) to your iTunes library, and follow the instructions in the “iPad Publishing Companion Guide.pdf” to test your app.

5. If the developer app works as designed, return to the Manage page in DPS App Builder and click Distribution Viewer (.zip). Specify the distribution certificate information, and click Download And Sign.

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Submitting and managing the viewer app

After you download and test your custom viewer, submit the distribution viewer (.zip) to Apple.

Submitting the development app

If your developer app works as designed, submit the distribution app (.zip) to the Apple Store. For details, see the iPad Publishing Companion Guide PDF.

Updating an app

If you need to create different icons or make other changes, select the viewer app on the main page, and click Edit. Your information and selections remain intact. Make the necessary changes, and then submit the build again. Your app will be updated.

To submit a new version of your app to Apple, you can either edit an existing app or create a new one. If you create a new version of your app, use mobileprovision files based on the same App ID as the previously built app. The versioning information is updated automatically.

To change the viewer type, such as converting a Multi Folio app to a Multi-Folio with iTunes Subscription app, you cannot edit the existing app.

Instead, create a new app using the same mobileprovision files.

Deleting a build

If you no longer need the developer and distribution apps, select the viewer app on the main page, and click Delete. You can create a new build at any time—just use the mobileprovision files based on the same App ID used for the app.

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Creating DPS apps for the iPad (Single Edition)

(Single Edition) For detailed information about creating a custom app for the iPad using a Single Edition license, download the Step-by-Step

Guide for Single Edition iPad Publishing .

(Professional/Enterprise) Use the following technique to create a single-folio app for the iPad.

1. Create the folio that contains the contents of your app.

2. (Professional/Enterprise) Sign in to the Folio Builder panel using an Adobe ID with both Application and DPS App Builder roles. Use the

Account Administration too to assign roles.

(Creative Cloud) Sign in to the Folio Builder panel using your Creative Cloud account.

3. Select the folio in the Folio Builder panel, and then choose Create App from the panel menu.

4. Follow the prompts in DPS App Builder to build the app.

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Creating legacy DPS apps for Android devices

Legacy Android app or new native Android app?

Create a legacy app for Android devices

App Details panel

Entitlement Details (Enterprise only)

Subscription Details panel

Icons and Splash Screens panel

Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only)

Provisioning

Build Details

Downloading and testing the Android viewer app

Submitting and managing the viewer app

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Legacy Android app or new native Android app?

You can build two different kinds of apps for Android and Amazon devices: the legacy AIR-based Android app or the new native Android app. This article describes how to build the legacy AIR-based Android app. For instructions on building a native Android app, see Building DPS native

Android apps.

To view a feature comparison chart, see DPS supported feature list.

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Create a legacy app for Android devices

Use the desktop DPS App Builder to create a legacy (AIR-based) app for Android devices. You can create multi-folio viewer apps, not single-folio viewer apps. In-app purchases for Google Play Store (previously called Android Market) are available. See Publishing Process for Android Mobile

Devices .

If you specify valid files and information, DPS App Builder generates an .apk file. If it works properly, submit the .apk file to the Google Play Store.

The information such as certificates and passwords that you provide is not stored on the Adobe server. Only the application files are stored on the

Adobe server.

1. Obtain the required files and information. See Checklist for multi-folio viewer (Android) and Publishing Process for Android Mobile Devices .

2. Download and install the DPS App Builder.

The DPS App Builder is available on the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard , and it’s installed with InDesign CS6 when you update the DPS

Desktop Tools.

3. Start the DPS App Builder and sign in using a valid Adobe ID.

The Adobe ID you use to sign in to the DPS App Builder may be different from the Adobe ID you use to specify the Title ID in the App Details panel.

4. Click New, select Android (legacy), and then click Next.

5. Specify the requested files and information.

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App Details panel

The App Details panel lets you provide your viewer names and account ID information.

App Name

Provide a viewer name that appears below the App icon. As a general rule, use 13 characters or fewer to avoid truncating the name.

To test your viewer name, add a bookmark to the Android home screen.

App Version

Specify the most recent viewer.

The DPS App Builder includes a previous version for backup purposes.

App Type

Specify the viewer type (see Types of custom viewer apps). The availability of some options depends on the type of account.

Multi Folio

A multi-folio viewer app includes a library that lets users download content that is hosted on the Adobe Distribution Service.

Multi Folio with Entitlement

(Enterprise only) Create a viewer app that uses a custom entitlement server to determine which customers can download content. If you select this option, you use your own subscription service.

Multi Folio with Amazon Subscription

Play subscriptions are not supported.

Create a viewer app that uses the Amazon Appstore subscription model. At this time, Google

Multi-Issue with Entitlement and Amazon Subscription

Amazon Appstore.

Marketplace

Choose an option to determine where your app can be submitted: Google Play Store or Amazon Appstore for Android. You can also choose None to create an app that you don’t intend to submit to a store.

Available Library Views

Indicate whether you want the library to display in Grid View only, Cover View only, or both. In the library, Grid View displays eight folios per page. Cover View displays only one folio per page. For smaller devices, some publishers prefer displaying the Cover View only.

Title (Library View)

Provide the title that will appear at the top of the Viewer library. For best results, use no more than 35 characters. At this time, use only alphanumeric or numeric characters. Do not use special characters such as apostrophes (‘), or unexpected results may occur on

Android devices.

Title ID/Password

Provide the appropriate Adobe ID and password for your app. Specify the same Adobe ID used for publishing the folios for this app. Make sure that the Adobe ID is assigned the Application role in the Account Administration tool.

Advanced Options

Use Strict Rendition Logic

By default, viewers on Android devices display folios of any size. To ensure that the viewer displays only folios that match the device size, you can select an option in DPS App Builder. At this time, strict rendition logic applies only to 7" devices. This option is primarily useful for preventing unwanted iOS folio renditions from appearing on 7" Kindle Fire devices. If you have created Android renditions such as 1232x752 folios, do not turn on strict renditions when you create the viewer for the Google App Store.

Enable Favorites

Select this option to allow your users to bookmark their favorite articles in the app. If enabled, a Favorites icon appears on the upper right area of the viewer nav bar.

Enable Auto Hiding of Folio Scrollbars

By default, a 6-pixel scrollbar area appears on the right side of articles in a folio. If you select this option, the scrollbar appears only when the user is scrolling in the article.

Enable Left and Right Hot Zone Navigation

If you select this option, invisible hot zones appear on the left and right sides of every article (or

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page if the article scrolls only horizontally). Tapping a hot zone jumps to the next or previous article. Hot zones are especially useful for full-screen overlays, such as slideshows. Hot zones are not available for iPhone viewers.

If a button appears in the hot zone area, tapping the area triggers the button. For any other overlay that appears in the hot zone area, tapping the area triggers the hot zone.

Enable Hot Zone to Display Folio View Controls

Show Analytics Opt-in Dialog

Use Customized Strings

When you edit the XML file, each UI element includes a <key name> and one or more language strings (such as <en> for English). Edit the text in the language code; do not change the <key name> string.

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Entitlement Details (Enterprise only)

The following options appear if you choose Entitlement for Viewer Type.

Note:

For detailed information about setting up a custom entitlement server, contact your Adobe representative.

Integrator ID

Adobe provides the Integrator ID when your entitlement account is provisioned within our servers. This option is available only to

DPS Enterprise customers. Contact your Adobe representative for information about the Integrator ID.

Optional Create Account URL

Specify the URL where customers can sign up for a subscription through the publisher. This URL is used when users tap a “Subscribe Now” button in your Viewer.

Forgot Password URL

Specify the URL where customers can retrieve their forgotten password.

Send App ID and Version

This option allows the Viewer app’s ID and Version strings to be sent in entitlement API calls.

Entitlement Banner Enabled

Select this option to display a full-width subscription banner in the viewer library. For Android viewers, the entitlement banner appears above the subscription tile.

Banner Page URL

Specify the URL containing content that appears in the upper section of the viewer library.

Offline Banner Assets

Select the .zip file containing the assets to be used as the banner if the user is not connected to the web. The .zip file should include a single HTML file, one or more image files, and no CSS files. The .zip file should not contain subfolders; all content should be on the same level.

Banner Height

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Subscription Details panel

Use this panel to configure your viewer for Amazon subscription.

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Landscape Subscription Tile

when the device is sideways.

Specify a 467x120-pixel (recommended) button image with a .png extension. This image appears in the library

Portrait Subscription Tile

the device is upright.

Specify a 255x145-pixel (recommended) button image with a .png extension. This image appears in the library when

Default Subscription SKU

Specify the default subscription SKU for your Amazon subscription. This SKU can contain as many as 150 characters.

Use the subscription SKU that you specify in the Amazon Appstore Developer Portal ( https://developer.amazon.com

). You can specify either the parent SKU or one of the child SKUs that identifies the term, or duration, of the subscription. If you specify a child SKU, it becomes the default selection.

Custom Subscription Dialog URL (Optional)

Specify a URL that is displayed in an in-app browser window when the customer taps the subscription tile. This webpage can include messaging that is not necessarily related to subscriptions. Indicate whether this dialog box should be displayed before or after the customer purchases the subscription.

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Icons and Splash Screens panel

Use this panel to specify app icons and splash screens that will appear in Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and on Android devices.

36x36/48x48/72x72 icons

The icons that you specify will be used on the Android home screen when installed, and in the app store. Provide

36x36, 48x48, and 72x72 pixel icons in PNG format. Do not scale up smaller artwork. Use 72ppi, RGB, flattened, high-quality PNG files.

Note:

Always include a .png extension in your image filenames.

Landscape Splash Screen

When the Viewer is started, a splash screen appears for approximately three seconds. Specify a 1280x800,

1920x1200, or 2048x1536 72-ppi 8-bit PNG file.

Use the same splash screen for all Android devices. Make sure that the core design fits within the smaller target device region, such as 800x600.

Treat the outer area as a bleed. When the splash screen appears on smaller devices, the outside areas of the image are cropped.

For best results, make your splash screen image different from your cover. If the cover and the splash screen are identical, users may think the app is frozen when they first start it.

Portrait Splash Screen

Specify an 800x1280, 1200x1920, or 1536x2048 72-ppi 8-bit PNG file.

Optional Fonts ZIP for HTML

If you apply fonts to text in your HTML stacks or web view overlays, you can include them in either the folio or the viewer. If you choose to include them in the viewer, compress the fonts in a .zip folder. The .zip file should not contain subfolders; all content should be on the same level.

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Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only)

This panel lets you customize the Navigation Toolbar that appears in your custom viewer at the bottom of the library. For the navigation toolbar in

Android viewers, you can specify 75x43, 98x52, or 214x114 pixel icons. See Navigation Toolbar (Enterprise only).

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Provisioning

Application ID

Specify an application ID unique to the application. If possible, use the reverse domain syntax, such as “com.publisher.publication.”

Use only periods, hyphens, and basic alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9).

Note:

In previous versions, the DPS App Builder added an “air.” prefix to the Application ID (example: “air.com.adobe.dpstips”). If an app you already submitted to the Amazon Appstore includes the “air.” prefix, add it to your Application ID in DPS App Builder. To view your existing

Application ID in Amazon Appstore, sign in to the Amazon Developer Portal, open your app, and click the Binary File tab to view the “Package” setting.

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Build Details

After you specify information or files for all mandatory fields, click Submit Build, and then click Finish.

The amount of time it takes to create the development and distribution apps depends on how busy the server is.

Testing the development app

Download the .apk build, add it to one or more Android devices, and test the app. Follow the instructions in

Publishing Process for Android Mobile Devices .

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Downloading and testing the Android viewer app

When you download the generated .apk file, you are prompted to specify certificate information. Google requires all applications to be signed by a valid certificate before they can be run on Android devices. For instructions on creating this certificate, see Publishing Process for Android Mobile

Devices .

1. Select your viewer app in the Manage page where your custom viewer builds appear.

2. Click Android Installer (.apk) to download the Android viewer app.

3. Specify your developer p12 certificate and password, and then click Download And Sign.

4. Add the .apk file to one or more Android devices.

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Submitting and managing the viewer app

After you download and test your custom viewer, submit the distribution viewer (.zip) to Google Play Store.

Submitting the development app

If your developer app works as designed, submit the app (.apk file) to the Google Play Store. Follow the instructions in Publishing Process for Android Mobile Devices.

Updating a build

Deleting a build

If you no longer need the developer and distribution apps, select the viewer app on the main page, and click Delete.

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Differences between iOS and Android viewers

Two different DPS viewer types are available for Android devices: the legacy AIR-based viewer and the new native viewer. Some of the features that work in the iPad viewer are not supported in one or both Android viewers.

Web Content overlays and HTML articles are not fully supported in Android viewers. HTML content that works in mobile Safari might behave differently in other device browsers. HTML5 storage is not supported on Android. See Creating HTML articles for Android viewers .

Subscriptions are supported for iOS and Amazon Appstore but not Google Play Store.

iOS viewers display only folios with either a 4:3 aspect ratio (iPad) or a 3:2/16:9 aspect ratio (iPhone). The folio content is scaled up or down to fit the screen. However, Android viewers display any folio size. Content is scaled and letterboxed as necessary.

Push notifications is not supported on Android.

Social sharing through the Web Viewer is not supported on Android.

Single-folio apps are not supported on Android.

Sections are not supported on Android.

Panoramas are not supported on Android.

Inline videos are supported on native Android viewers but not in legacy Android viewers.

For a comparison chart of supported features for each viewer type, see DPS supported feature list.

For information about making DPS apps for Android devices, see the following:

Building native DPS apps for Android

Creating DPS apps for Android and Amazon devices

Publishing Process Guide for Android and Amazon DPS Apps

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Creating a custom Adobe Content Viewer for testing

If you have a Professional or Enterprise account, you can use the DPS App Builder to create your own version of the Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad. The ability to build your own custom Content Viewer is especially useful when a new version of the Folio Producer tools becomes available but the Adobe Content Viewer is awaiting Apple approval.

If you sign in using an Enterprise account, you can create an Enterprise signed app that you can distribute within your company. If you don’t create an Enterprise signed app, the Adobe Content Viewer is available only on iPads in which the device IDs (UDIDs) are specified in the developer mobileprovision file. In this case, it's best to use a mobileprovision file not used by another development app to avoid conflicts. For information on creating mobileprovision files, see the Publishing Companion Guide for the iPad PDF.

1. Sign in to the DPS App Builder using a Professional or Enterprise account.

2. In the DPS App Builder, click New, and then select iPad and click Next.

3. For Viewer Version, choose Adobe Content Viewer. Click Next.

4. Do either of the following, and then click Next:

(Professional) Specify the developer mobileprovision file. To avoid conflicts, create a mobileprovision file not used by a different developer app.

(Enterprise) If you select Enterprise Signed Build, specify the Intended Application ID (such as “com.publisher.viewer”) and Enterprise

Mobileprovision file. Use the same Intended Application ID that you used on the Apple Developer site to create the Enterprise

Mobileprovision file. For information on enterprise-signed apps, see Creating an enterprise signed iPad viewer app.

5. Click Next, and follow the prompts.

6. Download and sign the Adobe Content Viewer.

7. If necessary, make the Adobe Content Viewer (content-viewer.ipa) available for distribution.

To install the Adobe Content Viewer, drag the content-viewer.ipa file into your iTunes library, and then sync your iPad.

It isn’t necessary to delete the App Store version of the Adobe Content Viewer. You can have different versions of the Adobe Content Viewer on your iPad. In fact, you can sign in to the two different viewers using different accounts.

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Creating viewer apps for private distribution

If you have an Enterprise edition of the Digital Publishing Suite, you can create iPad and iPhone apps for internal distribution only. An enterprise signed viewer app is distributed within the company rather than downloaded from the Apple Store.

A subscription to Apple’s iOS Developer Enterprise Program is required to create an enterprise signed viewer app. An Apple enterprise subscription removes the 100-device limit for development apps.

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1. Sign in to the Apple iOS Dev Center using an enterprise ID, and create an enterprise .p12 certificate and mobileprovision files.

2. In the Folio Producer web client, publish folios to be included in your in-house app using Free and Public settings.

3. In the DPS App Builder, specify details in the Basic Details and Splash Screen panels.

4. In the Certificates section of the DPS App Builder, specify your development and distribution .p12 certificate, password, mobileprovision, and push notification information. (To enable push notifications, the mobileprovision file cannot have a wildcard Bundle ID.)

The distribution details are not used for your in-house app and should not be submitted to the Apple Store.

5. Select the Enterprise Signed ID option, and specify the Intended Application ID.

The Intended Application ID is usually in the “com.publisher.publication” format.

6. Build the app, and download the development viewer (.ipa) file.

7. Distribute the .ipa file through email or a server. Instruct users to install the app.

For more detailed instructions, see Distributing enterprise iOS viewer applications with Digital Publishing .

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Subscriptions and entitlement

In-app subscription options are now available on iOS and Amazon. You have a variety of subscription options available, including Apple’s subscription model (Professional and Enterprise) and a custom entitlement server (Enterprise only).

Apple and Amazon subscriptions

When users subscribe to your app through iOS or Amazon subscription, they are entitled to all folios in which the Publication Date falls between the start date and end date. They’re also entitled to the most recently published folio when they first subscribe. For example, if a user signs up for a six-month subscription on November 10, the start date is November 10 and the end date is May 10. After subscribing, the user can download the most recently published folio as well as any folio in which the Publication Date is between Nov. 10 and May 10. If users don’t renew the subscription, they are still entitled to those six months of content.

As a best practice, you should use the Folio Producer Organizer to manage your Publication Date settings for your folios. If you publish a quarterly magazine, use consistent publication date settings, such as January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1, even if you actually publish those folios on different dates. As long as you continue publishing consistently, your subscribers will be entitled to the appropriate amount to content.

For information on setting up subscriptions and entitlement for custom iPad viewer apps, obtain the iPad Publishing Companion Guide PDF . For information on setting up subscriptions for Amazon Appstore apps, see the Publishing Process Guide for Amazon and Android .

Custom entitlement servers

For information on setting up a custom entitlement server to control subscriptions through your own site, contact your Adobe representative.

Developer content is also available at the Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center .

Restricted distribution

Restricted distribution is the method to make content available only to a small group of readers based on their user profiles or credentials. By default, a limited set of folios are presented to the user. Only after the user has signed into the app will additional folios be shown. The list of selected folios to be shown is based on the user’s sign-in credentials. For details about restricted distribution, see Using Restricted Distribution with Digital Publishing Suite .

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Creating a custom library (Enterprise)

If you’re an Enterprise publisher, you can use DPS App Builder to replace the default viewer library with a custom library that you create.

1. Create the .zip file containing the HTML code you want to use for the custom library. For information on creating the HTML files, see

Implementing separate library and store functionality .

2. In DPS App Builder, create or edit an entitlement viewer.

3. In the Navigation Toolbar section of DPS App Builder, click the Library icon in the black bar under Customize and Test the Toolbar and

Custom Icons.

4. Click the icon next to Use Custom Viewer Library, and specify the .zip file containing the HTML code you created.

For additional information about creating custom libraries, see Creating an HTML implementation of the DPS default library by Derek Lu.

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Building DPS apps for Windows Store

The DPS team is developing a viewer app for the Windows Store. At this time, using DPS App Builder to create a Windows app is not yet available. However, several members of the DPS team can build apps by request.

To test folios on Windows 8.1 devices, download the Adobe Content Viewer app in the Windows Store. To view examples of DPS apps on

Windows 8.1 devices such as Microsoft Surface, download apps such as Adobe Inspire in the Windows Store.

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Supported features in the Windows viewer

The following DPS features are supported in the Windows viewer:

All Windows 8.1 tablets, laptops, and desktops

PDF, PNG, JPEG and HTML articles

Flattened (horizontal swipe only) articles

Smooth-scrolling articles

Scaling folios to fit the screen

Table of contents and back navigation

Portrait, landscape, and dual-orientation folios

Direct entitlement

Download cancel

User-initiated issue archiving

Folio update

Remembering reading position (across devices)

Live tiles

App startup analytics

Renditions

Supported overlays: hyperlinks & buttons, multi-state objects (including nested buttons), image sequences, videos (both full-screen and inline), scrollable frames, pan and zoom images, and web content (partial support)

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Limitations of the Windows viewer

The following features are not supported in DPS apps for Windows:

Windows 8.1 only

Does not support Windows Phone, which uses a different OS

No in-app purchases through Windows Store at this time

App install and app startup are the only tracked analytics data

No App Builder support (apps must be manually built by an Adobe representative)

No support for Audio or Panorama overlays

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Building a Windows app

1. Use the Adobe Content Viewer for Windows to test your folios on a device that runs Windows 8.1. For best results, use 1024x768 folios.

The Adobe Content Viewer is available in the Windows Store. Test your content thoroughly, noting the limitations listed above.

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2. If you want to submit your publication to the Windows Store, contact your Adobe representative to request a custom build.

Custom builds are available only to Professional and Enterprise DPS customers.

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Building native DPS apps for Android devices

You can create DPS apps for Android devices using two different viewer types: native Android viewers and legacy (AIR-based) Android viewers.

Native Android viewers

The new native version of the Android app supports phones and tablets running Android 4.0.3 or later. To create a native Android app, use the

Web-based DPS App Builder as described in this article.

Legacy Android viewers

The AIR-based Android viewer includes a number of performance and device limitations. If you still need to create an AIR-based Android viewer, use the desktop DPS App Builder. See Creating DPS apps for Amazon and Android devices.

Support for both viewer types

For a time, Adobe will continue to support both of these Android viewer types. However, the legacy Android viewer will remain on the v29 viewer code base until it is no longer supported.

Note that two different versions of the Adobe Content Viewer are available in Google Play Store. The native app is called "Adobe Content

Viewer for Android" and the legacy app is called "Adobe Content Viewer for Android (legacy)."

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Supported features in the native Android viewer

The native Android viewer supports a number of DPS features. Updates to the native Android viewer format will occur frequently. To track the new features for each release, see DPS Bug Fix Release Notes. For a feature comparison chart, see DPS supported features list.

Supported features:

Android phones and tablets (4.0.3 or higher)

PDF, PNG, and JPEG articles

Flattened (horizontal swipe only) articles

Smooth-scrolling articles

Pinch and zoom in articles with PDF, PNG, or JPEG image format

Progressive folio downloading

Scaling folios to fit the screen

Table of contents and back navigation

Portrait or landscape folio

Google Play single-issue purchase

Amazon single-issue and subscription purchase

Direct entitlement

HTML entitlement banners

User-initiated issue archiving

Remembering reading position

Cancel download

Renditions (currently supported only for free folios)

Analytics

Supported overlays:

Hyperlinks & buttons

Slideshows (including buttons nested in multi-state object)

Image sequence (swiping not yet supported)

Videos (both full-screen and inline)

Scrollable frames (raster only, not vector)

Web content (partially supported)

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Limitations of the native Android viewer

Current Android viewer limitations:

Android 4.0.3 and higher only (no plans to support earlier versions).

The viewer prefers portrait over landscape (the library is always shown in portrait, and dual-orientation folios open as portrait and cannot be rotated to display landscape layout).

When replacing an existing app, the previous app settings and downloads are not preserved.

Analytics don’t have full overlay coverage.

No support for in-app web views (hyperlinks open the external browser).

No support for linking to PDF files in HTMLResources.zip.

All hyperlinks open in the external browser, not the in-app browser.

No support for custom stores or custom navigation icons (slots).

No HTML article support.

No support for right-edge binding, hot zones, or sections.

Pages for PDF articles are not yet pre-loaded into memory.

Overlays not yet supported: pan and zoom, audio, and panorama (no plans to support panoramas).

Vector-based scrollable frames are not yet supported.

Swiping in image sequences is not yet supported.

Crossfades in slideshows do not always work cleanly.

Auto-rotation of landscape videos in portrait-only folios is not supported.

Specifying both SD and HD overlay assets in multi-rendition articles is not supported.

YouTube videos embedded in Web Content overlays cannot be displayed full-screen.

Nested overlays are not yet fully supported.

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Files required to build native Android viewer

App icon in PNG format. The Web-based DPS App Builder automatically scales the image to 96x96.

Valid certificate. The certificate can be either a .p12 certificate or a .keystore file. For information about creating a valid .p12 certificate, see

DPS Publishing Process for Android Devices .

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Building a native Android viewer app

Use the Web-based DPS App Builder to build a native Android DPS app. The App Builder cannot sign the .apk file. Instead, use the DPS App

Signing Tool to sign the app that can be submitted to the store.

1. Using an Adobe ID with a DPS App Builder role, sign in to the Web-based DPS App Builder: https://appbuilder.digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/

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2. Click the plus icon to build a new app.

3. Follow the prompts to build the app.

General settings

In the General pane, specify these settings.

Application Name. Specify the name of the app. This name appears under the app icon and in the store UI.

Bundle ID. Specify a Bundle ID using the reverse DNS format, such as com.publisher.publication. Avoid using dashes or other special characters.

If you are updating an existing Android app, use the same Bundle ID specified previously in DPS App Builder.

Privacy Policy URL. (Optional) Specify the URL of a web page that describes your privacy policy.

Override the App Version Number. This option is necessary if you are updating an app and you used DPS App Builder or a different tool to create an existing app, select this option and specify a more recent version number. You can also specify a marketing version, which can be any number you want. For information on obtaining the app version number, see Setting version numbers in Web DPS App Builder.

Application Account / Password. Select the Application account (also referred to as a "Title ID") used to publish the folios that will appear in the app library.

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App Icon

App Icon. Specify a PNG image file. If you specify a PNG size smaller or larger than 96x96, the content is scaled up or down as required.

Library Banner. If you sign in using an Enterprise account, the Library Banner option is available. You can upload a .zip file containing the

HTML files used for the library banner. The source HTML file should be named "index.html." The banner adjusts its height to the full width of the device. You can use CSS media classes in your HTML to specify different images to appear on different device sizes.

Direct Entitlement (Enterprise only)

Select Direct Entitlement only if your app uses direct entitlement (Enterprise only). Otherwise, click Next.

Integrator ID. Adobe provides the Integrator ID when your entitlement account is provisioned within our servers. This option is available only to

DPS Enterprise customers. Contact your Adobe representative for information about the Integrator ID.

Create Account URL. Specify the URL where customers can sign up for a subscription through the publisher, not through the Apple subscription process. This URL is used when users tap a “Subscribe” button that links to your entitlement service.

Forgot Account URL. Specify the URL where customers can retrieve their forgotten password.

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In-App Purchase

For information about setting up in-app billing for Android devices, see DPS Publishing Process for Android Devices .

Deleting and editing apps

To remove an app, select it and click the Trash icon.

To edit an instance of an app, select it and click the Edit App icon.

Updating and replacing an existing AIR-based Android app

If you're creating a new version for an existing Android app, note the following:

Previous app settings and downloads are not preserved.

Folios downloaded in the AIR-based viewer are not removed when the app is updated. These files remain on the user's device.

For best results, advise your customers to remove the current app before installing the new version so that all the folio files are properly removed.

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Using the DPS App Signing Tool to sign the .apk file

When finished, download the .apk file for each store to which you would like to submit the app. Before submitting the app, use the utility to sign the .apk file.

To sign the app, you need either a .p12 certificate file or a .keystore file.

1. In the Web-based DPS App Builder, click the Unsigned App link under "Downloads" to download the .apk file to your machine.

This .apk file is unsigned. Before you submit it to the store, you must sign the .apk file.

2. Download and install the DPS App Signing tool. This tool is available for download in the main page of Web DPS App Builder. Click the person icon in the upper right corner and choose Download Signing Tool from the menu.

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3. Launch the DPS App Signing Tool, and follow the prompts to sign the app.

If you specify a .p12 certificate, specify the password. (For information on creating a .p12 certificate, see DPS Publishing Process for

Android Devices .)

If you specify a .keystore file, specify the keystore password, the private key alias, and the private key password.

4. Submit the .apk file to the appropriate store. For details, see DPS Publishing Process for Android Devices .

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Analytics and Services

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DPS analytics

The Analytics page of the DPS Dashboard lets you track the user data of your custom viewer app. When you subscribe to the Adobe Digital

Publishing Suite with a Professional or Enterprise account, you get access to base-level analytics powered by Omniture® for all your apps. This data includes the number of issues downloaded and purchased, the top content and ads, and the number of application installations. Base analytics offers a number of different reports, including devices and operating systems. If you have an Omniture SiteCatalyst® account, you can get access to more detailed user data.

All Professional and Enterprise apps gather anonymous usage data for all app types, including single-folio and multi-folio apps. This data is collected whether users are online or offline. If you are required to allow your users to opt out of analytics data collection, you can enable an opt-in option when you build your app in DPS App Builder. Analytics data is not gathered for apps created with a Single Edition license.

To avoid analytics data that displays “::unspecified::,” specify titles for all articles in article properties. Also, whenever possible, give real names to your overlays to make it easier to interpret analytics data. For example, use “Twitter Link” instead of “Button 4.”

Analytics Resources

White Papers

For basic details about analytics, see Digital Publishing Suite analytics tutorial (PDF) .

For details about optimizing analytics, see Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite, Analytics Service (PDF) .

For details on using SiteCatalyst analytics, see Adobe® SiteCatalyst Digital Publishing Report Guide .

SiteCatalyst Videos

DPS Analytics: An Introduction

DPS Analytics: SiteCatalyst Basics

DPS Analytics: SiteCatalyst Reports & Dashboards

Setting up Omniture Analytics

When you sign up for a Digital Publishing Suite subscription (Professional or Enterprise), you are assigned a master account ID that lets you use the Account Administration tool. Use this tool to assign the “Application” role to an Adobe ID. As part of that process, you provide the necessary information to enable Omniture analytics. Once you provide this information, it can take as long as five days to enable analytics. See Account

Administration tool.

If you believe that your analytics account is not set up properly, contact an Adobe representative. Gold support contact information appears on the

DPS Dashboard.

If you have an account with Omniture® SiteCatalyst®, you get access to the full set of Omniture SiteCatalyst features at my.omniture.com

View analytic data

1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard .

Only an Adobe ID account provisioned with the application role lets you view the Analytics page. To view analytics, use the same Adobe ID that is used in the Folio Builder panel to upload content for your custom Viewer app.

2. Click Analytics to view the baseline analytics data.

Reports for your custom viewer app are loaded.

3. To view analytics data, do any of the following actions:

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View different reports

Time Spent.

On the left side of the Analytics page, select a category, and then click a different report type, such as Folios > Total

Change the date range

Use the From and To calendar icons to specify a range of dates. Then click Update.

Specify the folio

For some reports, you can select a different folio to analyze.

Update Report

Click this option to refresh the data.

Export Data

Click Export Data to export a file for the current report. You can then open this data file in a spreadsheet.

Accumulation Settings

Under Standard Audience, click Accumulation Settings. Click the wrench icon next to any folio, and specify the start date and publish frequency for any folio. For example, if you publish a folio on the 15th of every month, you can set the start date for the first folio and then choose Monthly for each folio.

You can then click any report such as Accumulated Sessions or Accumulated Time Spent Per Reader to analyze the data.

Analytics data for a custom Viewer app

4. To download a .csv file containing information about billable downloads that can be viewed in a spreadsheet application, click Fulfillment

Report.

This .csv file includes the number of downloads from the Adobe Distribution Service charged against your download count.

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Account Administration tool

Understanding DPS accounts

Using the Account Administration tool to assign roles

Application account settings

Opting in to receive fulfillment bundle status

With the Account Administration tool, an administrator in your company can create and provision accounts. You can create assign three types of roles to accounts, all of which are based on Adobe IDs.

For background information about Adobe IDs, see Using Adobe IDs for digital publishing.

For an overview of DPS publishing accounts and essential tasks, see Adobe DPS Getting Started Guide (PDF).

Account Administration tool

A. Delegate accounts assigned Application roles B. Delegate account with no roles assigned (not recommended)

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Understanding DPS accounts

When you subscribe to the Digital Publishing Suite, one account from your company is assigned the Administrator role. This is called the master

account. The master account does not appear in the Account Administration tool. You cannot remove or edit the master account. You cannot use the master account as an Application account; use a different Adobe ID for publishing folios.

When you use the master account to sign in to the Account Administration tool, you can assign delegate roles to other accounts. A delegate role is directly tied to the master account. Each delegate account requires its own email address. You can assign delegate roles based on an existing

Adobe ID which has not yet been verified to work with DPS, or you can create a new delegate Adobe ID based on an existing email account.

However, you cannot create a delegate account from an Adobe ID that has already been verified to work with DPS.

Once an Adobe ID (and its associated email address) is used for a delegate account, it is difficult to untie the Adobe ID from the delegate account.

Note:

Be cautious about using individuals’ email addresses for delegate accounts. Once you use an Adobe ID as a delegate account, that Adobe

ID can be used for digital publishing only with your company. Removing the Adobe ID disables it from using any DPS features.

An Adobe ID that is not assigned to any specify company account is called a designer account. Designer accounts can be created at https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/CreateAccount.html

To change an email account associated with an Adobe ID, see Changing the email associated with Adobe ID .

Types of delegate roles

After you add a delegate account to your company, you can assign as many as three roles to that account.

Administrator

The master account is assigned the Administrator role, but you can assign the Administrator role to other accounts. An account that is assigned an Administrator role can use the Account Administration tool.

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Application

With an application role, you can associate a custom viewer with published folios. Use a different Adobe ID for each custom viewer you create. Avoid using the Adobe IDs of individuals. For example, if you publish multiple cooking magazines, you can create one Adobe ID for grill cooking ([email protected]), one for Creole cooking ([email protected]), and so on.

Use the Application account to create and publish folios and view analytics. When you specify the Application ID in the DPS App Builder, the custom viewer you create displays the folios published with that account.

DPS App Builder

With a DPS App Builder account, you can sign in to the DPS App Builder and create custom viewer apps. You can use the same Adobe ID for both the Application account and the DPS App Builder account, or you can create a DPS App Builder account that lets you create apps using one or more Application accounts.

Best practices for account administration

For best results, create dedicated email addresses for delegate accounts using a company domain. For example, the following accounts could be used for a company that publishes cooking magazines:

Application accounts: [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]

DPS App Builder account: [email protected]

Administrator account: [email protected]

Delegate account with no role: [email protected]

In this example, one DPS App Builder account would be used to sign in and publish all three magazine viewer apps. Another approach is to assign both an Application role and a DPS App Builder role to the same account.

In this example, a special delegate account was created for Jane Doe. Jane uses this account to publish proprietary information for the company.

Jane should use this account only to create content for this particular publisher.

Do not use the admin tool to create or assign Adobe IDs of individual designers to your company account unless you want to limit those accounts to using DPS tools only for your company. Individual designers can create valid Adobe IDs using the DPS Dashboard

( https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/CreateAccount.html

Delegates are directly affected by the master account. If a master account is closed, all delegate accounts are also closed.

Content downloaded from a delegate account is charged against the master account. Any content published by the delegates will be charged as downloads against the master account.

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Migrating folios from other Adobe IDs

If you build folios using one Adobe ID before you subscribe to DPS, you might not be able to assign an Application role to the previous Adobe ID.

You need to assign the Application role to a new delegate account and create new folios. There are two ways to add articles the new folios.

If you structured your source files to allow for importing and set up a sidecar.xml file, you can rebuild your folio easily. See Structuring folders for importing articles.

Use the Share command to share the folio from the old Adobe ID to the new Adobe ID. Then use the Copy command in Folio Producer

Organizer to copy the shared folio to the new account. If you're sharing from a different computer, package and transfer the source files and relink the articles.

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Using the Account Administration tool to assign roles

1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard .

2. Click Account Administration.

If the Account Administration option is dimmed, the account you used to sign in does not have Administrator privileges. If you sign in using your primary account ID and don’t have access to the Account Administration tool, please contact your Adobe representative or Gold support

(technical support numbers are listed when you sign in to the DPS Dashboard). Once the primary account is enabled, that user can sign in and enable additional administrator accounts.

3. In the Account Administration panel, click Add New Users.

4. In the New Users dialog box, do either of the following:

For an existing Adobe ID that has not yet been verified to work with DPS, specify the Adobe ID of the user you want to modify, and click

Submit. If the Adobe ID has been verified to work with DPS, it cannot be added.

To create a new Adobe ID, first create a valid email account, but don’t sign in to any DPS service. Click Create A New Adobe ID, specify the information, and click Create Account. A message is sent to the email account. Click the link in this message to specify a password and verify the account.

5. In the Account Administration panel, select the user, and click Configure User.

6. Under Add Roles, specify the role type—Application Accounts, DPS App Builder Accounts, or Account Administrator—that you want to assign to the account. Click Enable, and fill out the necessary information.

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Application account settings

When you edit the configuration of an Application account, you can specify settings that affect app behavior such as social sharing and analytics.

Store Settings

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When editing the Application account, you can specify shared secret information. Shared secret information is required in iOS for subscription viewer apps and for all Amazon viewer apps that have retail folios.

While Apple calls this information code a “shared secret,” Android calls it a “public key,” and Amazon calls it a “shared key.” If you offer any retail content for a viewer that appears in Amazon Appstore, the shared key is required. For details on obtaining a shared secret, see the publishing guide associated with the platform.

Use the same shared secret information for all apps. Avoid changing the shared secret.

Note:

After you specify the shared secret information, sign in to the DPS Dashboard using that Application account. Signing in to the Dashboard authenticates the shared secret.

Under Store Settings, you can also specify the iTunes Application URL. This URL is used in the social sharing workflow to let share recipients download the app if it’s not installed. It's important to specify this URL so that share recipients can tap a link to download or open your app.

You can obtain the iTunes Application URL even if Apple has not yet approved the app. In iTunes Connect, click the app and use the "View in App

Store" link, or right-click the app and choose Copy Link Address.

Device Viewer settings

The Device Viewer section determines the behavior of apps on devices such as the iPad.

Enable First Issue Entitlement

for the first time.

Select this option to make the most recently published retail folio available to users who download the iPad app

If users remove the promotional retail folio, they can download it again. If they uninstall and reinstall the app, they are entitled only to the original promotional folio, not to the most recently published retail folio. For more detailed information, see First Folio Free and Digital Blow-ins .

When you submit your app to Apple, make sure that you have at least two retail folios so that Apple can test in-app purchases.

Enable Article Preview

Select the "Enable Article Preview" option to let users preview any retail folio that includes articles marked as "Free" (use the Folio Producer Editor to mark folios as Free). When users tap the cover image of a retail folio that has free articles in the library, a Preview button appears in the preview pane below the Buy and Subscribe (if available) buttons. When users tap Preview, all articles marked as Free are downloaded, along with preview images of protected article. When users go into browse mode or swipe to view protected articles, a paywall pane covers most of each protected article.

At this time, the Free Article Preview feature is iPad only, works only in retail folios, and does not support folios that include Sections.

In terms of publisher download counts, free articles are charged against download counts based on the number of free articles downloaded and the total number of articles in the retail folio. If a retail folio includes 20 total articles with 5 free preview articles, 1 download is counted when 4 users preview the folio.

The Paywall Threshold setting under Device Viewer allows your customers to download and view the specified number of articles marked as

"Metered" when previewing articles in a retail folio. Use the Folio Producer Editor to mark articles as Metered. Once a user reaches the limit specified in Paywall Threshold, a paywall message appears when they browse to either Metered or Protected articles. The threshold you specify for the app is applied to each folio. If you set the threshold to 3, users can preview 3 metered articles in each folio, and a paywall appears when they navigate to the fourth metered article.

For more detailed information, see the DPS Developer Center article about Free Article Preview .

Content Viewer for Web settings

The Content Viewer for the Web options affect the behavior of articles that appear when users view articles using the Content Viewer for the Web

(also called the "web viewer") on a computer.

Application Name

The Application Name you specify appears in the title bar when a shared article is viewed in a Web Viewer browser.

Note:

Also specify the iTunes Application URL under Store Settings so that share recipients are prompted to download the app if it’s not installed.

Enable Content Viewer for Web

Select this option to let users view your articles in the Content Viewer for Web (also called "web viewer") on a computer. To make articles in retail folios available in web viewer, use the Folio Producer Editor to set articles as either Free or Metered. If you enable web viewer, article views are counted against your download fulfillments as described in Social media download counts.

Selecting the Enable Content Viewer for Web option is required for the Social Sharing feature to work.

Note:

Enable Content Viewer for Web is disabled in trial accounts.

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Hosting URL

Specify a Hosting URL only if you want to embed the shared Web Viewer content in an iframe on your website. For detailed information, see the article about Embedded Web Viewer .

Redirect URL

If the shared article cannot be found, the Redirect URL you specify is used. Create a Web page with information about your app.

To determine which link appears if a shared article is protected, specify the Publication URL in DPS App Builder.

Enable Fulfillment Limit

This option is useful for putting a limit on the overall number of articles that can be viewed in web viewer. Once this limit is reached, any user who tries to view any shared article in web viewer on the desktop is redirected to the Fulfillment Limit Reached URL that you specify. Create a Web page with information about your app.

Enable Paywall

You can set up a paywall for retail folio articles viewed in the web viewer. In the Folio Producer Editor, you can mark an article as

Free, Metered, or Protected. For retail folios, users cannot view Protected articles in web viewer, and they can view Metered articles until they reach the paywall threshold. When users reach the limit of Metered articles, a paywall page appears with a message and link that you specify.

Users can view Free articles even if they have reached the paywall threshold. The threshold you specify for the app is applied to each folio. If you set the threshold to 3, users can read 3 metered articles in each folio, and a paywall appears when they navigate to the fourth metered article.

If you do not set a paywall, articles marked as "Free" or "Metered" are available for viewing in web viewer without a paywall threshold.

Note:

If a folio is published as Free, users can view all articles in the folio, even if the articles are marked as Protected or Metered.

Paywall Button URL

Specify the URL where you can give users information about downloading and purchasing your app. Some publishers create a web page with information about the app, and others specify the iTunes URL of the app.

Paywall Text

Specify a brief message that appears on the paywall page. For example, you can state that the maximum number of articles has been viewed and that users can click the link to learn more about the app.

Specifying Analytics information

When editing the Application account, you can specify information to set up an Omniture analytics account. User data of your content is automatically collected and is available to Professional and Enterprise customers. The configuration of the Analytics integration is slightly different for Professional account owners and Enterprise account owners.

Professional

Entering data in the Analytics field is optional. Professional account owners who are already SiteCatalyst customers can have all the analytics data sent to a dedicated report suite under their SiteCatalyst account. If you do not have a SiteCatalyst account, do not enter report data. The analytics data is collected in an Adobe internal account.

Enterprise

Enterprise accounts are asked to specify a report suite name and can optionally specify the name of the company if they already have a SiteCatalyst account.

Note:

When you specify a report suite, do NOT specify any of the following reserved prefixes: adp.ln, adp.da, or adp.sj.

When you submit the SiteCatalyst information, it can take as long as five business days to set up Omniture analytics for your app. See Omniture analytics.

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Opting in to receive fulfillment bundle status

When you click Account Settings at the top of the Account Administration tool, you can opt in to receive email messages that let you know the status of your fulfillment bundles.

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Specify an email address to be notified about your fulfillment bundle status.

For more information, see Receiving status updates for fulfillment bundles .

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Push notifications

You can let customers know about new or updated folios before they open your multi-folio viewer app. If you set up push notifications using the

Adobe push server, a push notification can inform the user that a new issue is available, or it can trigger a background download of the new issue if the app is in the iOS Newsstand.

Publishing a folio does not trigger an automatic push notification. After you publish or update a folio, you can trigger a push notification when you’re ready by clicking the Notify button in the Folio Producer Organizer. To make content delivery to devices more reliable, Adobe’s push server sends notifications at a constant rate over time, not all once.

The push notifications feature is available only for multi-folio apps, not for single-folio apps. Standard push now includes the ability to send text messages, described later in this article.

The push notification experience is different for Newsstand and non-Newsstand apps:

Non-Newsstand apps

When the publisher clicks the Notify button to indicate a new or updated folio, users see the red badge on the app icon.

Push notification indicates that one new folio is available

Newsstand apps

When the publisher clicks the Notify button to indicate a new or updated folio, only subscribers to the app see a red badge on the Newsstand icon that indicates the number of folios downloaded in the background. In iOS 7, a blue dot appears below the app cover in

Newsstand until the subscriber opens the app. For both subscribers and non-subscribers, the cover image is updated to reflect the newest folio cover. Push notifications are required for Newsstand apps.

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Subscribers to a Newsstand app see a blue dot below the cover image and a red badge in the Newsstand icon.

For information on creating the push notification certificates that Apple requires, download the iPad Publishing Companion Guide PDF from the

DPS Dashboard .

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Sending push notifications

1. Sign in to the DPS Dashboard using the Application role account, and then click Folio Producer.

2. Make sure that the folio or all folio renditions are published.

3. In the Folio Producer Organizer, click Notify.

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Setting up third-party push notifications (Enterprise only)

When using DPS App Builder to create your custom viewer app, you can use the Adobe push notification server, or you can specify your own push notification server.

Many different options are available for creating a third-party push notification server. When setting up your server, note that the viewer sends the following information: newsstandEnabled => 0 (this is ‘8’ when newsstand is enabled) badgeEnabled => 1 token => <device specific token> soundEnabled => 2 devId => <device_specific guid> alertEnabled => 4 targetDimension => <device specific string>

Besides accounting for these basic properties, you can create additional properties. For example, if you use the same push server for multiple applications, specify an additional name/value property (such as “app => cycling”) when setting up the server. In the DPS App Builder, specify

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these additional properties in the Custom Push Parameters field of the Provisioning panel.

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Sending text notifications

By sending custom text messages, you can encourage repeat readers and subscribers on iOS devices by alerting readers of new content. Text notifications work with any viewer version.

1. Sign in to the DPS Dashboard ( https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com

) using the Adobe ID with the appropriate Application role.

2. Click Notifications.

3. Change the following settings, and then click Next:

Specify whether to launch the app in its current reading position or to launch the app and display the library when the reader taps the text notification.

Type the text notification message that you will send to users.

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4. Specify the following options:

Application Type

Select whether to send the notification to a test app (Development) or to the live app (Distribution).

Target Audience

Specify the target of the text notifications. For example, you can select iPhone to send the text notification only to customers who have downloaded the iPhone version of your app.

You can also send the text notification to users who haven't used the app in more than 30 days.

If you have a SiteCatalyst analytics account, you can gather information for a subgroup of customers in a CSV file. You can then specify this

CSV file when sending your text-based push notification. For detailed information, see Segmented Push Notifications in DPS Developer

Center.

Notification Time

To schedule text notification delivery for a later time, select Custom, and then choose a date and time from the calendar icon. You can also edit the text to change the date and time.

5. Click Send to send the text notifications or to submit the scheduled text notification to the queue.

You can view a history of the text notifications sent for the app. If a scheduled text notification has not yet been sent, you can click Cancel to cancel the text notification.

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Text notification displayed on an iPad

Text notifications appear on any iOS device in which the app is installed and the user has opted in to receive push notifications.

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Using social sharing

When you create a custom multi-issue viewer app for the iPad or iPhone, you can enable Social Sharing. You or your customers can choose an option in your viewer app to share the article through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email, or copy and paste. The message you share includes a link to the article.

Anyone who clicks the article link on a computer can view the article contents in the Adobe Content Viewer for the Web (also called the "web viewer") in a browser if you enable the "Content Viewer for Web" option. Anyone who taps the article link on an iPad can view a Mobile Safari

Web Viewer version of the article (also called the "article viewer"). Anyone who taps the article link on an iPhone can open or download the app and view the article if you set up a rendition properly.

If the article in a retail folio is protected, a paywall appears in articles in both the web viewer on a computer and the article viewer for the iPad. A paywall can also cover articles set to "Metered" if the user has reached the limit of viewing metered articles. For v29 and later apps, a paywall does not appear over articles marked as Free or over any article in a folio published as Free.

For more detailed information about the social sharing workflow, see Integrating social sharing into DPS apps .

Views of the shared articles on the web viewer are included in download fulfillment counts. For details, see Social media download counts.

Overview of steps to enable Social Sharing in your app

Follow these steps (in any order) to enable social sharing in your app.

1. While building your app in DPS App Builder, select "Enable Sharing" to turn on Social Sharing.

Enabling Social Sharing in an app

On iOS 7 devices, the Activity Sheet determines which sharing options are available in the menu of your app. Select the Enable Sharing option. For iOS 6 devices, the social sharing menu is no longer available in any app built after February 11, 2014 due to new restrictions related to the Advertising Identifier reference in the Facebook SDK. The options under "iOS 6 Specific Settings" are no longer relevant.

Note: In iOS 7, Apple currently does not display Facebook or Twitter in the sharing menu for non-Apple apps if the reader has not entered

Facebook or Twitter credentials in iOS settings. To help the reader understand how to enable Facebook or Twitter sharing, a DPS dialog will display prompting the user to enter credentials. The reader can dismiss the dialog or choose “Remind Me” to see the dialog box again the next time they choose to share.

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2. Use the Account Administration tool to specify the iTunes Application URL for your app.

This URL allows share recipients to tap a link on a device to download or open the app.

3. Use the Account Administration tool to configure your Application account for the web viewer. Select Enable Content Viewer for Web, and specify other settings. For details, see Account Administration tool.

Allow shared articles to be viewed in the Content Viewer for the Web.

4. When creating your folios, set up your renditions properly. If your app supports both the iPad and iPhone, use the same Article Name values across the renditions. The 1024x768 folio is used for the web viewer unless you create a Web Viewer Only rendition. A Web Viewer Only rendition can be any valid size.

5. Using the Folio Producer Editor, indicate whether the articles in your folio are Free, Metered, or Protected, and then publish or update the folio. In web viewer, users can view Free articles even if they have reached the paywall threshold. Users can view Metered articles until they

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reach the paywall threshold for that retail folio, and then a paywall appears. Users can view Protected articles only if they're entitled to the folio.

These Article Access settings also affect free article preview, if enabled in your app.

Change Article Access to Free, Metered, or Protected.

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For best results, take the following actions when you set up your folios:

Create a 1024x768 folio using any image format. PDF articles are now uploaded to the web viewer server using PNG format. If you want to create a special folio to be used only for the web viewer, you can create a folio using any folio size, and select the Web Viewer Only. See

Creating a Web Viewer-only rendition.

Create folio renditions for all device models. Any article shared from an iPhone or iPad HD maps to the iPad SD (1024x768) rendition or the

Web Viewer Only rendition in web viewer, and the article link maps to the appropriate rendition on the device.

If you’re creating renditions, use the same Article Name values for the corresponding articles in each rendition to make sure that the shared article maps properly in Web Viewer and across devices. Also make sure that your folio renditions are set up properly. See Create folio renditions.

When your customers open an article in your viewer app on an iOS 7 device, they can tap the sharing icon and select any enabled social media option: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email, or Copy Link. The social sharing menu is no longer available for viewers on iOS 6 devices for apps built after February 7, 2014.

You can link to a specific page in web viewer by adding #page_n to the end of the article URL. The first page of the article is 0, so #page_3 jumps to page 4 of the article. This feature is not supported in the embedded web viewer.

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Choosing a social sharing option in app (iOS 7)

Depending on which option they selected, customers can sign in, type a comment, and specify other information. For example, if they chose Email, they specify recipients and type a message.

When an article is shared, the link includes a full pathname to the article. In retail folios, a paywall appears over protected articles and over metered articles if the user has reached the limit.

If the article is no longer available in web viewer, either an error message appears in web viewer, or the Redirect URL you specify in the Account

Administration tool appears.

Users can either click the article link in a desktop browser or tap the link on an iPad or iPhone. What happens when users click or tap the article link depends on the following factors:

To edit the default text in the shared message, edit the Customized Strings XML file, which is available in the advanced settings of the App

Details page in DPS App Builder. Generate the XML file, open it, and search for "I saw this in." The %1$@ string is the article name variable and %2$@ is the folio name variable. Remember to edit the language tag (such as <en>), not the <key> tag. For details, see Creating DPS apps for the iPad and iPhone.

When shared from 2048x1536 (HD) folio

If the customer shared the free or metered article from a 2048x1536 folio, the article link is available for web viewer only if you set up a 1024x768 rendition or a Web Viewer Only rendition and the article names match.

When shared from 1024x768 (SD) folio

If the customer shared the free or metered article from a 1024x768 folio, anyone who clicks the link in a web viewer can view the article. If you don't want the 1024x768 SD iPad folio to appear in web viewer, you can create a Web Viewer Only rendition.

When shared from an iPhone

If the customer shared the free or metered article from an iPhone, the article link is available for the web viewer only if you set up a 1024x768 rendition or a Web Viewer Only rendition with a matching article name.

When users tap article links on an iPad

When users tap shared links on an iPad, a version of the article appears in the article viewer for the iPad. (If the article is protected, a paywall appears.) To preview the shared article, users can scroll down and interact with supported overlays.

Unsupported overlays are covered with a placeholder icon. Banners at the top and bottom of the article provide links to download the app or to open it if it's already installed. Make sure that you specify the iTunes Application URL in the Account Administration tool so that share recipients can open or download your app.

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Article being previewed in article viewer for the iPad

When users tap article links on an iPhone

button appears.

When users tap social sharing links on the iPhone, a landing page with a “Open Article in App”

If your app isn’t downloaded on the user’s device, the app appears in the App Store if the iTunes URL is specified in the Account

Administration tool. If the iTunes URL is not specified, the Paywall Button URL is used. If neither the iTunes URL or Paywall Button URL is specified, a message indicates that the article is not available. Once downloaded, the app opens as usual. Customers can then purchase and download the folio containing the shared article.

If your app is already downloaded on the user’s device, tapping "Open Article in the App" on the landing page prompts the user to purchase or download the folio. When the folio is downloaded, the linked article is downloaded first and appears when the user taps View.

If both the app and the folio are downloaded, tapping "Open Article in the App" displays the article.

When user has reached the article limit in Web Viewer

to change these settings.

A paywall page appears with a Learn More button. Use the Account Administration tool

When the app’s article limit is reached in Web Viewer

displayed.

The Fulfillment Limit Reached URL specified in the Account Administration tool is

When the folio is published as Free

If a folio is published as Free in a v29 or later app, all articles in the free folio can be viewed in web viewer, even if the articles are set to Protected or Metered.

Supported Web Viewer Features

Supported web viewer browsers include Internet Explorer 9, Explorer 10, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. Internet Explorer 8 is partially supported, but it doesn’t handle HTML articles, videos, and other overlays properly. Mobile browsers cannot display the web viewer versions of articles at this time.

Customers who share the article must have iOS5 or higher on their iPads for article sharing to work.

Not all overlays are supported at this time in the web viewer. Panoramas are not yet supported, and certain Web Content overlays might behave unexpectedly. For video, use M4V or MP4 with h.264 encoding, not MOV. For audio files, use either MP3 files or audio files with AAC/MP4 encoding. For best results, use DPS App Builder to create a development app and test your free/metered articles in web viewer.

You can create a Web Viewer Only folio rendition that has different content than what appears in your mobile apps. In addition, you can embed the web viewer in your website to create a branded experience. For more information, see Customizing the Web Viewer.

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Supported Article Viewer Features

Supported overlays for the Mobile Safari Web Viewer ("article viewer") include hyperlinks and buttons, slideshows, videos, scrollable frames, and web overlays. Nested overlays and HTML articles are also supported.

At this time, unsupported overlays include pan and zoom images, images sequences, audio, and panoramas. A placeholder image appears over each unsupported overlay to prevent users from trying to interact with that content. Page-by-page swiping and horizontal swiping only are not supported.

AirDrop sharing on iOS 7 devices

When a reader shares an article via AirDrop (iOS 7), the recipient will receive a dialog box to accept or decline the share. If the recipient accepts, the shared article will open in the web article viewer in Safari (iPad). Receiving a share on the iPhone will display a web landing page with access to iTunes or a message to the reader.

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Resources

DPS User Forum

article (May. 21, 2012)

DPS user forum

DPS Developer Center

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Collection of advanced DPS articles and resources.

DPS Tips app

article (May. 2, 2012)

Free iPad/iPhone app. Also available for Android devices.

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Digital Publishing Suite Tips iPad App

Download this free iPad app to view examples of interactive overlays and learn both basic and advanced digital publishing techniques.

Learn Digital Publishing Suite Video Channel

Learn the basics of Digital Publishing Suite with tutorials created by product experts.

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03/24 Users Folio after Publisher deletes it.

03/17 When is the new DPS Pro pricing structure implimented?

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More DPS resources

In addition to this help system, the following digital publishing resources are available:

User forums

Go to the public Digital Publishing Suite user forum to ask questions and participate with other customers.

Adobe websites

The Digital Publishing Suite Help and Support page provides common support questions and links to useful articles and content.

The Digital Publishing Suite product page offers overview examples, pricing information, a digital publishing FAQ page, and more.

The Digital Publishing Gallery provides links to publications created using the Digital Publishing Suite tools.

The Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center offers resources for advanced tasks such as understanding analytics and setting up push notifications.

The DPS Status page provides information about ongoing server outages and planned maintenance.

Learning resources

The Digital Publishing Suite Tips app is available in the Apple App Store. It’s like a combination of a user guide, a blog, and a cookbook. This app is also available in Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore (search for “DPS Tips”). If you don’t have an iPad or mobile device, you can view

DPS Tips issues on a computer .

To learn about the digital publishing process and experiment with sample files, go to DPS Authoring Tutorials or Digital Publishing Suite hands-on tutorial .

Follow the Digital Publishing Suite Twitter feed or the Digital Publishing Suite Facebook page .

Documents about publishing viewer apps

The iOS Publishing Companion Guide for Professional and Enterprise PDF and the Step-by-Step iPad Publishing Guide for Single Edition

PDF walk you through the process of creating the required certificates, splash screens, and icons for submitting a custom viewer app to the

Apple App Store. You can download these guides from the Help menu in DPS App Builder.

The Publishing Process for Android Mobile Devices Guide explains how to create a custom viewer app to submit to the Google Play Store or

Amazon Appstore.

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