Review + Overview Flashcards
What are 4 new features in In Design CC?
- Improved Adobe Color Correction
- Color Theme Tool
- New Interactivity for Fixed Layout EPUB
- EPUB Interactivity Preview
What is DPS? When was it introduced? Who uses DPS?
- DPS: Digital Publishing Suite is a set of tools and services centered around Adobe In Design for producing and distributing content to mobile devices such iPad
- INTRODUCED: 2010 around same time as iPad
- VIEWED ON: Android, Windows 8.1 devices
- WHO USES: Sport Illustrated, Reader’s Digers, Wired, People, National Geographic
Name 6 plans you can find on Creative Cloud
- Individual is $29 month
- Photographer is $9.99 month
- Student + teachers is $15 month
- Small + medium businesses is $49.99 month
- School + university is $14 month
- Government
What are some of the benefits of becomes ACE Adobe Expert?
An ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) grants a digital design professional multiple career advantages.
- Increased earning power to 60%
- People surveyed; 45% receive bonus
- Career progression; upward mobility
- Knowledge + reskill; updates, annual recertification
- Standards of quality
What is the difference between SINGLE and MULTI-FOLIO app?
Single edition is self-contained app and multi-folio is unlimited folio
What are some of the ‘tools’ you will need to download to run DPS, Desktop Tools?
- DPS / Dashboard / 2014.1 Release
- Folio Builder
- Folio Overlays
- DP Plug-in for In Design
- Current viewer for desktop
- DPS App builder
Where do you need to download Adobe Content Viewer from?
- I-Tunes App Store
- Google Play
- Amazon App Store
- Win Store (Win 8.1 only)
What are some panels you will need for creating your own DIGITAL PUBLISHING WORKSPACE?
Customize own workspace:
- Media
- Object states
- Buttons + Forms
- Hyperlinks
- Liquid Layout
- Folio Overlays
- Folio Builder
What are the WIN 7 and MAC OS X (10.7) or Lion system requirements in order to run DPS?
- In Design CC: Win 7 + Mac OS X (Lion)
- In Design CS6: Win XP Service Pack 3 + Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
What would be a file naming convention if you need to ensure all files are horizontal viewable DPS App Builder or Apple Application Loader?
filename_h.indd
What are some of the presets when you build DPS file?
- New document / intent: digi publish
- Turn off primary text frames unless it’s heavier text
- Width + height in pixels
- Bleed at 0; no bleed off page
- No slug
- Keep everything within page
What would be a standard folio dimension for horizontal Apple iPad?
- Viewer version - 29 or less than
- Target device - Apple iPad
- Target dimension - 1024 x 768
- Orientation - Single Horizontal
- Default Format - PDF
How do you add an article when you import single article in folio builder?
Folio Builder/Add article/ uploading article to build folio
What is DPS used for?
Establishing magazine publishing systems that establishes order, import articles and set properties
What does the following terms mean:
- Title
- Byline
- Advertisement
- Scrolling
- Kicker
- Description
- Hide from TOC
- Title - Title of file
- Byline - Author - single page swipe
- Advertisement - Add / Delete
- Scrolling - Smooth scrolling not snap into place
- Kicker - Section heading for article
- Description - Show up TOC for folio nav
- Hide from TOC - You can hide
What direction do you scroll if you preview on a connected device, via Adobe Viewer app?
A multi-page article can view if you scroll left or right, up or down.
What type of scrolling can you implement to help with both horizontal or vertical scrolling?
Off (snap to pages)
Horizontal
Vertical or BOTH
What are some of the supported button actions under forms?
- Normal, rollover, click
- Go to MSO slides now: go to state, next state or previous state
- Go to FIRST page
- Go to LAST page
- Go to PAGE
- Go to URL
- Open website
- Send email
- Go to iTunes
- HTML Resources
- Go to sound
- No support for pause, limited audio or video
What will create better user experience for digital publications when you work with buttons?
A larger, clickable area, is a better user experience. Therefor, buttons vs anchored hyperlink buttons inside body copy.
What are supported video / audio formats with DPS?
AUDIO - MP3
VIDEO - H.264 encoded MP4
What are the only supported files when you work with audio in In Design?
.mp3 file is only supported file
What do you need to turn on to show progress bar for audio?
Audio panel / select audio
Controller assets folder
What does view controller do on FOLIO OVERLAYS PANEL?
When you hit TAP TO VIEW CONTROLLER you can see PLAY button
What is a poster image?
It is a photo of a frame that’s best representative of video
What is in an ‘inline’ video?
It doesn’t play FULLSCREEN on any Androids. You can chose to start first image, swipe change name or stop at first and last name, if you dont want it start looping.
Why would you use Adobe Edge Animate?
- Create HTML buttons as accordion fold
- You can take static files and animate a file called OAM file which is Adobe Animate Widget
- It creates HTML animate, controlled by web content overlay
- Allow delays autoplay by 0.125 sec
- Turn on transparent background
How would you work with MUSE and FOLIO BUILDER?
You can build file in MUSE.
Open In Design
Build it via import article as single or multiple
Make sure it is Safari
How would you create a “virtual tour” in DPS through panorama view?
- Shoot 6 panoramas .png of 360 degree - pan left, top, right or bottom
- So you can go around in circles until you tap on image and drag in 360 degree
- Folio overlays / panoramas / import your 6 .pngs
- Uncheck initial zoom, select limit vertical pan (so you can spin it around)
- If you place, limit and will stop
- Only iOs.
What do we use scrollable lists for?
Sidebars, long lists
How would you create PINCHING when you view a file on PDF? iPad?
- When you work with pan + zoom
- Create pan + zoom by dragging from left to right
- Use mouse to zoom out
- Folio overlays / pan + zoom
What does PULL TABS provide to the reader?
Pull tabs are scrollable tab inside container
- Grab and pull in
- Open folio overlays
- Scroll direction is horizontal
- Scroll indicator on hide
- Initial container position
- Use document position
- Add arrow icon to scrollable frame
When would you use SCROLLING CONTENT and how?
- Use scrollabe text for SIDEBAR
- Text frame: copy/paste into/text frame options: AUTO-SIZE, HEIGHT ONLY
- Edit / Paste into
- Create CONTENT GRABBER
- Folio Builder / SCROLLABLE FRAME
- Scroll direction horizontal
- Export to VECTOR
How would you create a pull tab?
- Scrollable tax with container
- Create pull tab / send to back
- Folio overlays / scroll direction horizontal
- Can add arrow to show scrolling
How do you create a functional DPS slideshow?
- Create MULTI-STATE OBJECT inside OBJECT STATES
- Open folios overlays / AUTOPLAY (don’t tap to play) because you dont want to tap to play
- Intervals at 0.5 mpg, select LOOP
- Export PDF to Raster
- Unless SWIPE to CHANGE image
What will make a video run by itself?
Folio overlays / auto loop
How will you give users more control with slideshow?
- Instead AUTOPLAY select SWIPE TO CHANGE so image appears static until user swipe across it
- CREATE A BUTTON for reader to play slideshow
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What is the abbreviation to link to iTunes if you want to make a button alive with links to iTunes to download app?
Replace HTTPS:// to ITMS: because it links to I-tunes
How would you create a clickable button in a slideshow?
- Buttons / Forms / Action
- Go to state
- “On release on tap” event button
- Normal to click state
- Effects / drop shadow / 75% multiply
In which browser can you find an in-app for Digital Publishing Suite?
Mobile Safari
What types of linking can you do from a folio?
- Tap an email with subject name
- Go to URL (website)
- Link to iTunes to download app like Adobe Content Viewer
- Linking to other articles via Folio Builder / Add article
- Import multiple folios
- Organize in correct order
- Go to URL / Nav to :// Article Name
What does the following mean?
MAILTO://
GO TO URL vs URL:NAVTO//WHY#1
ITMS://itunes.apples.com/us
VS
https://www.anelhenning.com
OR
HTMLresources/applicationform.pdf
- MAILTO:// Send an email with subject matter
- GO TO URL - all online matter
- URL://NavTo//Why#1 - Navigate to pages and articles with first page = 0; 2nd page = 1
- ITMS://itunes.apples.com - Links to Itunes app store
- HTTP://website - website
- HTMLresource/anelhenning.pdf - opens forms like PDS to fill-out
What do you need to remember when you build a SINGLE EDITION app?
- This is MAC feature not WINDOWS
- DIGITAL PUBLISHING. ACROBAT for more info
- You need Apple Develop Membership for $99
- Distribution goes to Apple (submit as many as you like)
- Developer - you test with Apple Developer
- Standard DEF, HIGH DEF, Retina or Non-Retina (Icons, splash screen)
- Certificates from iOs Developer
Why single folio vs alternative layouts?
- Alternative
- Open each file
- New alternatives
- Use add command
- Multiple articles not supported
- Single folio
- 1024 x 768 PDF Folio
- Non iOs Viewers
- Scale to fit
- One Size Fits All
- Create 1 folio
Why is EPUB finally ready for prime time? After release of In Design 2014.1?
The support of interactive features like MULTI-STATE OBJECTS buttons, web content and animation (something DPS still cant do) while maintaining a layout. Make a viable choice for publishing rich, interactive content
What are some of the benefits and challenges when it comes to considering FIXED layout format?
- Benefits
- Easy to create
- Maintain design integrity
- Open standard
- Add interactivity
- Creative freedom
- Challenges
- Wont flow to fit small devices like iphone
- Fewer devices will support
- Must embed fonts
- Not accesible
- Wont convert to kindle
What are some of the books to best fit for FIXED-LAYOUT?
- Children’s book
- Photographic essays
- Comic book / graphic novels
- Tutorials (image / heavy)
- Textbooks
What is the best fit for REFLOWABLE FORMAT?
- Trade books
- Reference materials that are text heavy