Digital Publishing Suite 101 Yellow Belt

Description
Whether you’re neck-deep in planning your digital publishing initiative or still wondering how to get started, Academy Class can help. Get comfortable with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for publishing to the iPad or other tablets.

The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite pulls all the pieces together so you can create interactive, immersive, hard-to-put-down tablet publications to draw in new readers and hang onto old ones

Prerequisites
Those wanting to add rich interactive features to their content for conversion through the Adobe DPS system for global distribution onto the iPad (iOS) and other tablet devices (Android).

Alternatively, those wanting to create visuals/presentations into the Adobe Content Viewer integrated with the free Adobe cloud onto iPad and Android tablets

Assumed Knowledge
Professionals who are already experienced in Adobe InDesign or have taken the Academy Class InDesign 101 class.

Skills
DPS Workflow
DPS v’s print v’s ePUB
DPS InDesign tools
Layout considerations
Structuring your document
Adding interactivity
Web viewer
Digital content viewer

• Course content

  The Different Streams of Digital Publishing

  Interactive PDF
  HTML
  EPUB
  Adobe DPS
  DPS Workflows and InDesign

  Panel setup and workspaces
  Document Intent
  Creating layouts
  “Safe” areas
  Screen colours
  Orientation
  Generating alternate layouts
  Liquid layouts
  Renditions workflows
  Adding Interaction

  The concept of an overlay
  Superoverlays
  Taps and swipes
  Hyperlinks
  Multi-state objects
  Slideshows
  tabs and trays
  Image sequences
  Audio
  Video
  Panoramas
  Web content
  Pan & Zoom
  Scrollable frames
  Buttons
  Actions
  More Web Content

  Google maps
  Twitter
  Facebook
  Just enough HTML
  Fallback content
  Adobe Edge basics for DPS

  Interface basics
  Publish setings
  OAM format
  Working with the timeline
  Keyframes and autokeyframes
  Easing
  Deployment in DPS
  Which DPS is Right for Me?

  Single edition
  Professional edition
  Enterprise edition
  Creating Your Folio

  Adding articles
  Article properties
  Importing articles
  Sharing articles between publications
  Directory structures
  Creating navigation
  Previewing on the desktop
  Previewing o your iPad
  Sharing folios
  Updating articles and folios
  Creating and Distributing Your App

  Content guidelines
  Quality notes
  The process revealed
  Analytics