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Introduction ‹ previous
There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps on the Apple App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon
Appstore for Android. These apps exhibit a dizzying array of features, capabilities, and content.
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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite allows you to create mobile apps with amazing, rich content; deep
interaction; and finely crafted interfaces. This Getting Started Guide will help you learn how to plan,
create, and distribute apps with the Digital Publishing Suite Professional and Enterprise Editions.

Overview of the publishing process

Here are the broad steps you will follow to create an app with Digital Publishing Suite.

Step 1. Decide which type of app, for which mobile devices, you are going to create.
See Basic concepts on page 4.

Step 2. Set up and configure your Digital Publishing Suite account.

See Account setup and configuration on page 15.

Step 3. Create folios and articles, and preview on your tablet.

See Creating your first folio on page 23.

Step 4. Add interactivity and/or motion graphics to the folio.

See Adding interactivity and media on page 35.

Step 5. Use DPS App Builder to build and test your final app, and then distribute your app.
See Distributing your app on page 46.

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Basic concepts Adding interactivity and media Client workflows ‹ previous

Supported platforms and devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Single-Folio apps and multi-folio apps. . . . . . . 7 Setting up your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Who is going to publish the app? . . . . . . . . 55
Subscriptions and Apple Newsstand. . . . . . . . 11 Interactive building blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Two requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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App distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Slideshows (multi-state objects). . . . . . . . . 38 Publishing an app for a client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard . . . . . . . . 13 Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Helping a client publish an app created
Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Hyperlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 by you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Panoramas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Folio and app building credential
Account setup and configuration Pan & Zoom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Scrollable Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Folio-only credential workflow. . . . . . . . . . 59
Understanding IDs, accounts, and roles. . . . . 16
Image Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Two additional workflows for highly
About Adobe IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
regulated industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Accounts and roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Audio & Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Web Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Answers to common questions . . . . . . . 62
Best practices for Adobe IDs,
accounts, and roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Distributing your app
What if my company cannot create Training and support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Distributing through the Apple App Store. . . 47
dedicated email addresses for DPS?. . . . . . 21 Distributing in other app stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing and updating the DPS Desktop Amazon Appstore distribution. . . . . . . . . . 48
Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Google Play distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Distributing your app privately . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Creating your first folio
Preparing to use DPS App Builder. . . . . . . . . .50
Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Using DPS App Builder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Creating content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Optional: Creating an alternate layout . . . . . . 28
Creating a new folio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Creating articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Previewing your work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Editing articles and folios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Supported platforms and devices ‹ previous

With Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition you can create apps for two
mobile operating systems: iOS 5 and newer and Android™ OS 2.2 and newer. Supported iOS devices
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include all models of the iPad, as well as the Apple iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, and 5 and the fourth-generation
iPod touch. Android tablets of any size such as the Google Nexus, Samsung Galaxy, and Kindle Fire are
supported, but not Android phones.

Limitations of Android devices

At this point, Android devices support only a subset of the
features that you can include in an iOS app. For example, Android
apps created with Digital Publishing Suite cannot contain pinch
and zoom pages, social sharing via the web viewer, or push
notifications. See adobe.ly/110U1Zj for a detailed list of Digital
Publishing Suite differences between iOS and Android devices.

Renditions
Since the mobile devices supported by Digital Publishing Suite
contain a variety of capabilities, screen sizes, resolutions, and aspect
ratios, you need to plan your app deployment carefully.
• You may decide to develop only for the iPad. Thankfully, all
the iPad tablets are the same 4:3 aspect ratio. It is relatively
easy to accommodate the differences in resolution between the various iPad models.
See adobe.ly/112TMTf and adobe.ly/14p9YfC.

• You may decide to develop your app for the iPad and iPhone/iPod. To do this, you
will need to learn how to create separate layouts and “renditions” for different screen sizes and
resolutions. See adobe.ly/13941Ru.

• You may decide to develop your app for the iPad as well as Android tablets. To do this, you could
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still work well on iPad tablets. You will also need to think about how many different layouts and
renditions you are going to create to support the variety of screen sizes and aspect ratios found in
Android tablets. See adobe.ly/X8Pl2L.
The bottom line: The more devices you decide to support, the more work is entailed to design and
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Operating System Resolution * Aspect Ratio

iPad (1st & 2nd generation) iOS 1024x768 4:3

iPad (3rd & 4th generation) iOS 2048x1536 4:3 “Multi-rendition PDF
iPad mini iOS 1024x768 4:3 articles” make it easy
iPhone 3GS iOS 480x320 3:2 to create content that
iPhone 4, 4S iOS 960x640 3:2 looks good on all iPads
iPhone 5 iOS 1136x640 16:9 with very little fuss. See
iPod touch (4th generation) iOS 960x640 3:2 adobe.ly/112TMTf.
Google Nexus 7 Android 1280x800 16:10

Google Nexus 10 Android 2560x1600† 16:10

Samsung Galaxy 2 7.0 Android 1024x600 16:9.4

Samsung Galaxy 2 10.1 Android 1280x800 16:10

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Android 1280x800 16:10

Kindle Fire Android 1024x600 16:9.4

Kindle Fire HD Android 1280x800 16:10

Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Android 1920x1200 16:10

* Some Android tablets display “system bars” that reduce the effective display area. The presence and size of these bars
varies by manufacturer, tablet orientation, and operating sytem version.

† Maximum DPS folio dimensions are 2048x1536, so content will appear smaller than the screen on this device.

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Digital Publishing Suite calls one issue of content a “folio.” For example, the June issue of Martha Stewart
Living is a folio. This week’s issue of ASOS Fashion Up catalog is a folio. These magazine-style apps created
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with Digital Publishing Suite are called multi-folio apps, because the user downloads and installs a single
app from the store, and then multiple folios are downloaded into the app. Multi-folio apps are ideal for
periodicals, sales tools segmented by product or geography, or any time that you want related content to be
housed in a single app.
You can also create single-folio apps with Digital Publishing Suite. These are apps that contain only
a single folio, and additional folios cannot be downloaded into the app. Single-folio apps are ideal for
standalone content such as reports, portfolios, viewbooks, and more.
Single-folio and
multi-folio apps are
sometimes referred to

Single Multi as single-issue apps

Folio App Folio App and multi-issue apps.
Single-folio and
multi-folio are the newer,
more correct terms.

Folio
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When you tap an icon for a

multi-folio app for the first

time, a “library” appears that

displays all the folios that are

available for that app.

Here’s an example. A major university wants to create the following apps with Digital Publishing Suite:
• An undergraduate viewbook, updated annually
• Viewbooks for each of three graduate schools, each updated annually
• A university alumni magazine, published four times per year
• A research magazine, published two times per year.
There are a couple of ways that the university could approach this task.
• They could create one multi-folio app called “Connect with the U” that contains all the viewbooks,
magazines, and other information pieces.

• They could create four single-folio apps, one for each of the annual viewbooks. These viewbooks
would be located on the App Store as separate apps and downloaded separately. Each app would
have its own tablet icon. Then they could create a multi-folio app that contains all the university
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research magazine.

Differences between single-folio and multi-folio apps

Here are some of the practical differences between single-folio and multi-folio apps.
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• Single-folio apps can only be created for iPads. Single-folio apps aren’t supported on iPhone, iPod, or
Android devices.
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• Each time that you want to update a single-folio app, you must submit an app update to the App
Store and wait for Apple to approve the update. The only way users will know that the app has been
updated is if they go to the App Store and click on the “Updates” section. There they are notified of
any Apps they own that have updates available.

• To update a multi-folio app with new or revised content, you upload the content to the DPS
Distribution Service, click a couple of buttons, and the new content is available almost immediately.
You can also opt to alert users to the new or updated content via Apple’s push notification service.
With push notification, the user is alerted about the new content via an icon badge, even when the app
isn’t running. Push notifications aren’t available for Digital Publishing Suite apps on Android devices.

• Only multi-folio apps are eligible to appear in Apple’s “Newsstand” category. (A free or paid
subscription must also be offered.) See Subscriptions and Apple Newsstand on page 11.

• Single-folio apps reside on Apple’s servers, so there is no download fee associated with single-folio
apps. For multi-folio apps, the app itself resides on Apple, Google, or Amazon servers, but the
content for each folio is downloaded from Adobe servers. Each time a user downloads a folio (makes
an in-app “purchase” of free or retail content), a download fee is charged to the owner of the Digital
Publishing Suite account.

• Only multi-folio apps support free or retail subscriptions.

• Multi-folio apps on iOS support social sharing via email, Facebook, and Twitter. Social sharing can
be enabled in multi-folio Digital Publishing Suite apps without writing any code. Single-folio apps do
not support social sharing.

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iPad, iPhone, iPod,
Supported devices iPad
Android tablets

Content update process

Submit revised app to Apple.
Wait for approval.
Send new or revised content to
Adobe. No approval needed.
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Push notifications when
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Can app appear in Apple’s
No Yes
Newsstand category?

Fee for each download? No Yes

Free or retail
No Yes
subscriptions possible?

Social sharing features? No Yes

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Subscriptions
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You may choose to offer subscriptions to your folio content. Subscriptions only apply to multi-folio apps.
If you enable subscriptions, they can be for any duration, at any price you specify (even free). Digital
Publishing Suite Professional Edition enables you to create subscriptions that are processed by Apple or
Amazon. Enterprise Edition enables you to set up a “custom entitlement server” to process subscriptions
through your own website, or to restrict distribution of certain content to specific groups of users. See
adobe.ly/XMLmYy for more information.

Apple Newsstand
If you offer subscriptions to your periodical app, either free or paid, you may choose to include your app Apple will only allow
in the Newsstand category on the Apple App Store. The app icon for a Newsstand app won’t appear by
subscription-based
itself on the screen of the user’s device. Instead, a “cover image” for the app appears in the special
Newsstand icon group. Each time a new ­periodicals that are
issue of your content (a new folio) is updated at least four
released, your cover image on Newsstand
times per year in the
will change, and a “New” banner will
appear in the corner. Newsstand category.
To specify that you want your app
to appear in Newsstand, choose the
Newsstand option in DPS App Builder, and
choose Newsstand during the Apple App
Store submission process. Download the
Adobe iOS Publishing Companion Guide at
adobe.ly/WHR28y for more information.

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App distribution ‹ previous

There are multiple ways to distribute apps created with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite:
• Distribute to the public via the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Appstore. These apps are
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available to everyone, although the stores allow you to limit distribution to certain countries.

• Distribute privately as an iOS enterprise-signed app. An enterprise-signed app can be

distributed privately within a company rather than publicly distributed on the App Store. See
adobe.ly/Ycg7bC for more information. Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise Edition is required
to create an enterprise-signed app. You must also enroll in the Apple iOS Developer Enterprise
Program. See bit.ly/TUDLe0.
You cannot use Digital Publishing Suite to create apps that you deploy to the public on your own public
web server, or via an alternate store other than the Apple App Store, Google Play, or Amazon Appstore.

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Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard ‹ previous

The Dashboard is the nerve center of your production and publishing workflow. You can access the
dashboard at digitalpublishing.acrobat.com.
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Publishing Services Introductory Video

After you’ve created and previewed Get an overview of the publishing
your content in Adobe InDesign®, use and production process in this
these Digital Publishing Suite services short introductory video.
to publish an app to tablet devices.
The Folio Producer Service allows
you to perform final production tasks,
while DPS App Builder allows you to
create a branded app for submission to
marketplaces. Through the Analytics
Service you have insight into the
performance of your app’s content,
and in the Account Administration
panel you can grant access to Digital
Publishing Suite to other users in your
company, as well as configure analytics
Learning Resources
reporting. Please note that access to
Get access to help, user forums,
some of these services may depend on
and support contacts in the
your account permissions.
Learning Resources pod.

Additional Resources
Updates View training videos on
Download the necessary InDesign Adobe TV, get inspired in
plug-ins for creating app content. the Digital Publishing
Gallery, and download
additional documentation.

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The Enterprise Edition and Professional Edition both include analytics capabilities. These analytics,
available through the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard at digitalpublishing.acrobat.com, allow you to
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track such things as the number of times an individual folio is opened, which articles were viewed most
often, which videos were played the most, how many times each advertisement was viewed, and more.
If you want more advanced analytics, you can purchase and configure the Adobe Analytics solution (part
of the Adobe Marketing Cloud), which enables you to view more detailed information about user behavior.

See adobe.ly/127prCj for

more information about
using Digital Publishing
Suite analytics.

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Understanding IDs, accounts, and roles ‹ previous

About Adobe IDs

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Anyone can create a free Adobe ID at adobe.ly/WZOmEk. Each Adobe ID must be associated with
a unique, verified email address. You can only have one Adobe ID per email address. However, an
individual or company can have as many Adobe IDs as they need, as long as they can provide a unique,
verified email address for each Adobe ID. The process of setting up
accounts and assigning
Accounts and roles
When you become a Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise or Professional customer, one Adobe ID from roles to these accounts is
your company is assigned as the Master account. This Adobe ID cannot be removed or edited. This Master sometimes referred to as
account can then be used to set up and configure other accounts as “delegates,” assigning different “roles”
account “provisioning.”
to each account.
The Account Administration tool is used
to set up and configure accounts, and to
assign roles to these accounts. You can
access the Account Administration tool
from the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard
at digitalpublishing.acrobat.com. See
adobe.ly/12Gjixi for instructions on how to
use the Account Administration tool.

For a number of very important reasons, don’t use an Adobe ID that is tied to an
individual’s email address to create a Digital Publishing Suite master or delegate account.
Instead, create a special, dedicated email address and Adobe ID for each app. For example,
dps.master@company.com and dps.appname@company.com. Note that this must be a “real”
email address that you can check for incoming messages.
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and configure as many different delegate accounts as desired. Each of these delegate accounts must use a
unique Adobe ID.

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Master account
dps.master@company.com

Delegate account Delegate account Delegate account

dps.production1@company.com dps.production2@company.com dps.production3@company.com

Each account can have up to three different “roles” assigned to it. The three roles are: Administrator,
Application, and DPS App Builder.

Each delegate account can have up to three different roles assigned.

Master account
dps.master@company.com

Delegate account Delegate account Delegate account

dps.production1@company.com dps.production2@company.com dps.production3@company.com

Administrator Application DPS App Builder Application

role role role role

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• The Master account is automatically assigned the Administrator role. But you can also assign the
Administrator role to other accounts. An account that is assigned the Administrator role can use the
Account Administration tool to add new delegate accounts and assign roles to those accounts. The
Administrator role can configure and edit the various settings for each Application account, such
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as web viewer settings, fulfillment limits, and paywall thresholds. Unlike the Master account, an
account assigned the Administrator role cannot delete other accounts.
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• An account that is assigned the Application role allows the user to log in to the Folio Builder panel
and create content for a specific app, and use the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard to publish folios
to a specific app and to view analytics reports for that app.

• An account that is assigned the DPS App Builder role can create or edit single-folio or multi-folio
apps for any application under the Master account.

• An account that is not assigned any of the three roles is called a Designer account. Designer
accounts can log in to the Folio Builder panel and create content for multiple apps. Even though
Designer accounts are not assigned any roles, they should be created by the Master or an
Administrator account through the Account Administration tool.

Name Role Example Email

Sets up other accounts.
Master account dps.master@company.com
Deletes accounts.

Administrator account Sets up other accounts. dps.admin@company.com

Owns an individual app and its

Application account content. Uses a new email address dps.appname@company.com
for each app.

Can build an app for any application

DPS App Builder account dps.appbuilder@company.com
under the Master account.

Can contribute content

Designer account dps.designer@company.com
to multiple apps.

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The Account Administration tool, with a single account that is assigned the Administrator and DPS App Builder roles.

Examples
A number of factors will influence how you set up your accounts and assign roles to these
accounts, including:
• The size of your company

• The number of people in your company involved with creating Digital Publishing Suite apps

• The number of different Digital Publishing Suite apps you will create

• The security procedures in place in your company

• How geographically dispersed your company is

• Whether or not you will be creating Digital Publishing Suite apps on behalf of or in conjuction
with customers.
Here are a few examples of how accounts can be set up.

Example 1: A small company with a single app

Acme Publishing is a small company that creates only one app called “Widgets Today.” A single individual
is in charge of the entire Digital Publishing Suite process, from designing the app content in InDesign
to building the app and submitting it to the various app stores for approval. In this scenario, you could
create a single email address, widgetstoday@acmepub.com, and create an Adobe ID for that email address.
Then, using the Master Account, create a delegate account with this Adobe ID and assign all three roles to
this single Adobe ID: Administrator, Application, and DPS App Builder.
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CookToday is a medium-sized company that creates three multi-folio cooking magazine apps, one
for grill cooking, one for creole cooking, and so on. You could use the Master account to create one
Administrator account for creating and configuring all the CookToday apps. Then you would create an
Application account for building the content for each app. And finally, you would create a single DPS App
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Builder account for building all the apps. The email addresses might look like this:
• Administrator account: dps.admin@cooktoday.com
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• Application accounts: dps.grillcooking@cooktoday.com, dps.creolecooking@cooktoday.com,
dps.frenchcooking@cooktoday.com

• DPS App Builder account: dps.builder@cooktoday.com

Example 3: A large enterprise with multiple sites and many apps

PubCorp is a large company that creates dozens of multi-folio apps. You could use the Master account to
create several Administrator accounts. Each Administrator account would be responsible for managing
multiple apps in a particular category. Each Administrator account would create application accounts When used with Digital
and Digital Publishing Suite App Builder accounts as needed for building the content for each app that is
Publishing Suite, Adobe
managed by that account. The email addresses might look like this:
IDs are about roles,
• Administrator accounts: dps.food.admin@pubcorp.com, dps.lifestyle.admin@pubcorp.com,
dps.fashion.admin@pubcorp.com not individual people.

• One DPS App Builder Account for each category: dps.food.builder@pubcorp.com, Multiple people may
dps.lifestyle.builder@pubcorp.com, dps.fashion.builder@pubcorp.com use the same Adobe ID
• Application accounts managed by dps.food.admin@pubcorp.com: dps.eatingout@pubcorp.com, assigned to an Application
dps.easyrecipes@pubcorp.com
role to create content for
• Application accounts managed by dps.lifestyle.admin@pubcorp.com: dps.sailing@pubcorp.com,
an individual app.
dps.biking@pubcorp.com, dps.lakecabin@pubcorp.com

• Application accounts managed by dps.fashion.admin@pubcorp.com: dps.suitesandties@pubcorp.com,

dps.shoes@pubcorp.com, dps.makeup@pubcorp.com

Best practices for Adobe IDs, accounts, and roles

• Only use the Master account to create Administrator, Application and DPS App Builder accounts. Getting Started Guide
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Suite accounts. Instead, create dedicated email addresses and Adobe IDs for each account.

• Once you sign in to the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard at digitalpublishing.acrobat.com with an
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Digital Publishing Suite. You can’t create a delegate account from an Adobe ID that is already verified
to work with Digital Publishing Suite.
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• A single Adobe ID cannot be a delegate of multiple Master accounts.

• A single Adobe ID may be assigned multiple roles. For example, a single Adobe ID can be assigned
both the Application and DPS App Builder roles.

• You can change the email address that is associated with an Adobe ID, if necessary. See
adobe.ly/156hzAW for instructions.

• You can copy an article created with one Adobe ID (for example, Adobe ID one) to a folio created
with a different Adobe ID (Adobe ID two). The owner of the folio (Adobe ID two) would first share You cannot use a “fake”
the folio with Adobe ID one. See adobe.ly/ZqzQ7A for details. Then Adobe ID one would select the
email address to create
article in the Folio Builder panel and choose the Copy To command in the Folio Builder panel menu
to copy the article to the shared folio. See adobe.ly/Z1KuiY. an Adobe ID. Adobe IDs
are “verified” by sending
What if my company cannot create dedicated email addresses for DPS?
a confirmation email to
Ideally, you would set up dedicated email addresses using your company’s domain for each account that
will be using Digital Publishing Suite. However, in some corporate structures, this can be difficult or the email address. This
impossible to accomplish. Here are three possible workarounds. requires the user to click
1. Create an email alias, and then create an Adobe ID using that alias. An email alias is simply a a link in the email to
forwarding email address. Email sent to it forwards to a different email address. For example,
you could set up a dps.grillcooking@cooktoday.com email alias that forwards all email sent to it to
verify the address. So
john.smith@cooktoday.com. real, functioning email
2. You may have the ability to set up an email distribution list at your company. If so, create a new email addresses must be used to
distribution list that forwards to an individual’s email address. Then create an Adobe ID using the
create Adobe IDs.
email address for the distribution list.

3. Create an email address using an external email service such as Gmail, and then create an Adobe ID
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Installing and updating the DPS Desktop Tools ‹ previous

The DPS Desktop Tools consist of InDesign plug-ins and the Desktop Viewer. As Adobe updates Digital
Publishing Suite, you will need to occasionally update these tools. There are three ways to do this.
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• In InDesign, choose Help > Updates, and update DPS Desktop Tools.

• If you are prompted by the Folio Builder panel to install a new update, follow the link in the Folio
Builder panel to install the update.

• Download the DPS Desktop Tools installer from adobe.ly/15tNniD (Mac) or adobe.ly/105pheC
(Windows®) and run the installer.
See adobe.ly/15OObhZ for detailed installation instructions and links to DPS tools for InDesign
CS6 and CS5.5/CS5.
If you don’t have the necessary permissions to install updates on your computer, or if your
corporate firewall blocks access to updates, you will need to contact your IT department to gain access
to these updates.

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Workflow ‹ previous
All the content for a single-folio app or each issue of a multi-folio app is called a “folio.” A general
workflow to create your first folio using InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite is as follows.
next ›
1. Determine how you are going to divide your app into logical parts. This will determine how many
separate InDesign files you will create.

2. Use InDesign to create the content for one or more parts of the app.

3. Create a new folio for your app content.

4. Create an “article” for each of the InDesign files you’ve created.

5. Preview the folio on your mobile device.

6. Make changes to the content of articles, update the articles and folio, and preview the changes on
your mobile device.
All of these steps are done entirely in InDesign, using the Digital Publishing plug-in for InDesign.

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Creating content ‹ previous

An app created with Digital Publishing Suite typically consists of multiple “articles” of content. Articles
help users find their way through your content. Articles may be actual articles in a digital magazine,
next ›
sections in a report, product categories in a catalog, or whatever arbitrary divisions you wish. A separate
InDesign file is required for each individual article. A typical app will consist of numerous InDesign files.
There are three reasons to separate your content into multiple articles:
1. Automatic table of contents generation. Digital Publishing Suite
automatically generates a table of contents entry for each article.
If you choose, an article can be hidden from the table of contents.

A separate InDesign

The automatic table of contents created

file is required for each
by Digital Publishing Suite. individual article. A
typical app will consist of
2. Arrangement of screens in the app, vertically or horizontally. numerous InDesign files.

By default, each article appears to the

Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4
right of the previous article in the app.

Additional screens within an article are

Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Article 4,
continued continued continued continued displayed vertically.

Article 1, Article 2, Article 3,

continued continued continued

Article 2,
continued

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Article 1, Article 1, Article 4,

Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4
continued continued continued
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Article 2, Article 3,
continued continued
next ›
Article 2, Article 3,
continued continued

Article 2,
continued

3. To create “smooth scrolling” screens.

Screens that are longer than the rest

Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4
of the screens in your app are called

“smooth scrolling screens.” Each

Article 1, Article 4,
continued continued smooth scrolling screen must be a

separate article.

Article 1,
continued

Basic considerations for screen design

Designing an InDesign layout for an article is just like doing print design, but many of the constraints of
print design are removed. For example, you don’t need to worry about bleed, color trapping, or complex
transparency issues. However, there are a few things to think about that are unique to screen design.

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• When you create a new InDesign file,
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choose Digital Publishing for the Intent.
This will set the measurement system to
pixels, default to iPad for the page size
(you can change this), set the
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Transparency Blend Space to RGB, and
create default RGB color swatches. next ›

Designing screens for

iPad apps is much like
• If you are designing for the iPad, you will most likely begin by designing for 1024x768 pixel
resolution, even when targeting iPads with Retina display support. For more information about page print design. But many
size, see adobe.ly/VzHOZz and adobe.ly/WMvfdN. of the constraints of print
• You will find when designing at this page size that your notion of “normal” type sizes is completely design are removed.
wrong. In print projects, 10–12 point body text is very common, but at a page size of 1024x678
For example, you don’t
pixels, 18–20 point body text is very common.
need to worry about
• While PSD and AI are the file formats that work best for images and artwork in InDesign, you can
include images of any file type that InDesign can handle in your Digital Publishing Suite project. bleed, trapping, or
Likewise, don’t worry about downsampling images. Go ahead and use high-resolution imagery. transparency issues.
Digital Publishing Suite will take care of downsampling the images to the appropriate resolution. The
exception is three types of interactive objects: image sequences, pan & zoom images, and panoramas.
Images used in these types of interactive elements must be saved as JPEG or PNG images at the
appropriate resolution. Also, video content and progressive audio icons must be created at the
specific resolution at which they will be used. See adobe.ly/14Aobq1 for more details.

• RGB images will provide the richest, most vibrant colors on tablets. However, if your images are
already in CMYK format and you no longer have RGB versions of the images, there is no benefit to
converting them back to RGB. Using the CMYK images will work fine.

• If you include vector artwork from Adobe Illustrator® in your layout, the artwork will be rendered at
the appropriate resolution for the device you are targeting.

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Optional: Creating an alternate layout ‹ previous

Digital Publishing Suite folios can be vertical orientation only, horizontal orientation only, or dual
orientation. Once you have created a horizontal or vertical orientation layout in InDesign, you can use
next ›
the InDesign Alternate Layout feature to create content for the other orientation, if desired. Follow the
steps below to create a vertical orientation layout from a horizontal orientation layout. The steps are
similar for creating a horizontal orientation layout from a vertical orientation layout.
Here are some links
1. Open the vertical orientation layout that you’ve created.
to documentation
2. Choose Layout > Create Alternate Layout.
and help for creating
3. Enter the page size and orientation for the new layout, and
alternate layouts:
click OK. In the Options section, you can specify Liquid
Page Rules (which can help automatically adapt content adobe.ly/XGNgg5
from the vertical orientation layout), choose to link stories adobe.ly/W0oFDn
between the two layouts so that text edits made to the first
adobe.ly/PFfzKt
layout automatically update in the second layout, and more.
adobe.ly/PFg47g
adobe.ly/PFg1sj
4. The Pages panel will now display the pages from each layout side by side. All adobe.ly/PFg2w4
of the content from the vertical layout will be duplicated in the horizontal
adobe.ly/PFfYfQ
layout, ready for you to finish designing the horizontal layout.

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Creating a new folio ‹ previous

You will need the Folio Builder panel on your screen to create a folio. You can find this panel in Window >
Folio Builder. You will also need the Folio Overlays panel, located in Window > Folio Overlays.
next ›
Offline vs. online folios
Before you create your folio, you will need to decide whether to create an offline folio or an online
folio. An offline folio provides an easy way to do a very fast preview on a tablet that is tethered to your
computer via a USB cable. Offline folios cannot be shared with others.
An online folio resides on Adobe servers (the Folio Producer Service). Each time you make a
change to local content, that content is updated to the Folio Producer Service, so that multiple participants
can sign in to their tablets to view the folio. This allows for collaboration and approval while a folio is
being ­completed.
An offline folio can be uploaded to the Folio Producer Service at any time. But an online folio cannot be
reverted to an offline folio. So, depending on your workflow, you may wish to begin with an offline folio,
and when your project gets to a point where collaboration is required, then you can promote the folio to an
online folio.

To create an online folio

1. Choose Sign In from the Folio Builder panel menu.

2. Enter an Adobe ID. Typically, you would use an

Adobe ID that has an Application role and will
be used to create all content for that specific app,
or an Adobe ID set up as a Designer account. See
Understanding IDs, accounts, and roles on page 16 for
more information about Adobe IDs and accounts.

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3. Choose New Folio from the Folio Builder panel menu.
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4. Fill in the New Folio dialog box with the appropriate settings.
See adobe.ly/Vz9VrS for detailed information about Viewer
Version, Target Device, Orientation, Default Format, and ‹ previous
more. Be sure to select vertical orientation, horizontal
orientation, or dual orientation, depending on your
requirements. Select the Create Offline Folio option if you
next ›
want to create an offline folio; otherwise, the folio will be an
online folio.

When you are signed in

to the Folio Builder panel,
you can tell whether a
folio is online or offline by
the icon displayed to the
5. Click the OK button.
right of the folio name.
Now that you’ve created a folio, you are ready to create articles and add them to the folio.

offline folio
online folio, not shared
online folio, shared

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Creating articles ‹ previous

Once you have created content in an InDesign file and created a folio, you are ready to create an article.
To do this:
next ›
1. Open the InDesign file that contains your article content.

2. Choose Add Article from the Folio Builder

panel menu.
1

3. Fill in the article name and other options, and click the OK button. See
adobe.ly/WKqrJ5 for information about the options in the New Article 3
dialog box.

4. You will see the article added to your folio in the Folio Builder panel.
If you added an InDesign file that contained both a vertical and
horizontal orientation as alternate layouts, both layouts are added to
the article.

5. Repeat the steps above for each InDesign file and article you need
to create.
See adobe.ly/WKqrJ5 for more information about creating articles.
To confirm that an article contains

multiple layouts, do the following:

In the Folio Builder panel, double-

click on the folio, 1 and then on the

article, 2 to see the layouts in the

article 3 .

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Previewing your work ‹ previous

To preview your work on your tablet, you will first need to download and install the latest version of
Adobe Content Viewer for your tablet from the Apple App Store, Android Appstore, or Google Play.
next ›
Adobe Content Viewer is used to preview folio content as the content is being developed.

Offline preview of a single InDesign file

You can do a quick offline preview of the InDesign file you are working
on at any time. Just connect your tablet to your computer via a USB cable.
Next, launch Adobe Content Viewer on the tablet. Then choose Preview
on [device name] from the bottom of the Folio Overlays panel. This is
only available on Mac computers with iPads and iPhones, and on Mac or
Windows computers with Android tablets.
For offline preview to work, the tablet must be connected to your Find the Adobe Content
computer with a USB cable, Adobe Content Viewer must be running on the Viewer app here:
tablet, and the tablet must be awake. iTunes:
You can also preview the InDesign file you are working on using the bit.ly/Xbwwfu
desktop previewer. Just choose Preview on Desktop in the Preview pop-up Android Appstore:
menu at the bottom of the Folio Overlays panel. amzn.to/14Aqycq
Google Play:
Online preview bit.ly/12nNDAx
If you have created on online folio, you can preview the folio wirelessly on your tablet. Just launch Adobe
Content Viewer on your tablet. Tap Sign In in the upper left corner of the Library screen. Enter the same
Adobe ID and password that you used to sign in to Folio Builder. Your folio should display in the Library
view of Content Viewer.
See adobe.ly/11DlBRC for more information about previewing articles and folios.

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Editing articles and folios ‹ previous

Making changes to an article

next ›
There are two types of changes that you might need to
make to individual articles.
1. You may need to change the design or content of
the InDesign file associated with an article. Each
time you do this, you must select the associated
article in the Folio Builder panel menu, and
choose Update.

2. Various text attributes such as Title and Description, otherwise

know as “metadata”, can be assigned to each article. This metadata
then appears in the table of contents and the “browse mode” that is
automatically built into each Digital Publishing Suite app. To change
this metadata or other article properties, select an article in the Folio
Builder panel, and choose Properties from the Folio Builder panel
menu. See adobe.ly/UT1fzu for a detailed explanation on the use of
each of these properties.

Making changes to a folio

Use the Folio Builder panel to add articles, remove articles, or change the
order of articles in the folio. If you need to change the properties of a folio,
such as the folio name, the version, or the preview images, choose Folio
Properties from the Folio Builder panel menu.
To change a folio from an offline folio to an online folio, select the folio in the Folio Builder panel and
choose Upload To Folio Producer from the Folio Panel menu. Getting Started Guide
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The Folio Producer Service is an alternate way to make changes to article and folio metadata, or to make
changes to a folio. To access this web-hosted service, go to digitalpublishing.acrobat.com. Sign in with the
same Adobe ID used to log in to the Folio Builder panel in InDesign. Then click on Folio Producer in the
list of Publishing Tools in the upper left corner.
‹ previous
You will see a list of all the folios that you have created. Click on the folio you want to edit, and click the
Open button. Once you’ve opened the folio, you’ll be able to change the order of articles, copy and delete next ›
articles, edit article metadata, and more.

See adobe.ly/VnwTro for more information about using the Folio Producer Service.

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Adding interactivity and media

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Introduction ‹ previous
Tablet apps may contain all kinds of rich media and user interaction. Digital Publishing Suite allows
designers to easily include media and interactive elements in apps, no programming needed. The
next ›
following pages will introduce you to some interactive concepts, help you understand what types of
interactivity are possible with Digital Publishing Suite, and provide links to resources for further
investigation and learning.
A great resource for learning how to add
interactivity and media to Digital Publishing
Suite projects is the Digital Publishing Suite
Tips app, available from the Apple App Store at
bit.ly/14PmgPx, Google Play at bit.ly/XlDLQr, and
the Amazon Appstore at amzn.to/WMqLab. You
can also access much of the content of the app
with a desktop web browser at adobe.ly/Yi9aDe.
This app contains not only clear examples of
each type of interactivity, but also step-by-step
instructions on how to create different types of
interactive elements.

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Setting up your workspace ‹ previous

One of the most important steps in understanding how to add media and interactivity to your Digital
Publishing Suite apps is to configure your InDesign workspace so that the features you need are front and
next ›
center and easily accessible. Perhaps more important, you will want to hide panels that don’t apply to a
Digital Publishing Suite workflow.
Panels that you will want on your screen when creating
Digital Publishing Suite apps:
• Window > Folio Builder

• Window > Folio Overlays

• Window > Interactive > Buttons and Forms

• Window > Interactive > Hyperlinks

• Window > Interactive > Liquid Layout

• Window > Interactive > Object States

Panels that don’t apply to a Digital Publishing Suite
workflow, so you can remove them from your screen:
• Window > Interactive > Animation

• Window > Interactive > Bookmarks

• Window > Interactive > Page Transitions One possible panel configuration for a Digital

Publishing Suite workflow

• Window > Interactive > SWF Preview

• Window > Interactive > Timing

You cannot use any of the features of these panels when creating Digital Publishing Suite apps. These
panels are for creating other types of interactive digital documents, such as interactive PDF and SWF files.

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Interactive building blocks ‹ previous

Digital Publishing Suite features nine “building blocks” for interactivity and media that can be combined
in many interesting ways. Once you master these nine building blocks, you will be able to create user
next ›
interaction that ranges from very simple to quite complex.

Slideshows (multi-state objects)

Multi-state objects that are controlled by buttons are the most often used elements for creating
interactivity in a Digital Publishing Suite app.

To create a simple multi-state object:

1 Place three images stacked on top of each other on your screen.
2 Select them all and choose New State from the Object States panel menu.
3 This will turn the three objects into a single element that has three states, each of which can be viewed individually.

1 2 3

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options for a slideshow. These options are very useful, even if the multi-state
object isn’t being used as a typical slideshow.

‹ previous
next ›
Combining multi-state objects with buttons makes interesting interactivity possible. You can create a
button to advance from one state to the next sequentially through a multi-state object, or to jump directly Interactive elements in a
to a particular state. This adds tremendous power and creates interactive effects as shown below.
Digital Publishing Suite
app are often referred
to as “overlays.” This
is because interactive
content always appears
above or “over” all the
rest of the page content
in an app.

In the example above, a “reveal” button (the In the example above, a more complex multi-state object

circled “i”) makes a caption appear. The caption and button arrangement is used to selectively highlight

is a multi-state object with two states. One state portions of a painting.

contains the caption and the “hide” button. The

other state contains just the reveal button.

See adobe.ly/UtZFGy for more information about how to create multi-state objects.

Buttons
The Buttons and Forms panel can be used to create buttons that bring the user to a different screen in the
app, go to a web URL, send an email, or go to a particular state in a multi-state object. Only some of the Getting Started Guide
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features of the Buttons and Forms panel can be used in Digital Publishing Suite apps. See adobe.ly/XlFSU9
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for more information about how to create interactive buttons in Digital Publishing Suite.

‹ previous
next ›
The On Release or Tap Event is the

only button event supported by

Digital Publishing Suite.

The Actions highlighted at right are

the only actions that can be assigned

to a button in a Digital Publishing

Suite app.

Hyperlinks
The Hyperlinks panel can be used to
create hyperlinks for text or objects that
bring the user to a different screen in
the app, go to a URL, or send an email.
Hyperlinks are particularly useful for
creating links in text. The only hyperlink
types supported by Digital Publishing
Suite are URL, email, or page.
Cross-references in a document are not supported by Digital Publishing Suite.
For more information about adding hyperlinks to a Digital Publishing Suite app, see adobe.ly/XlFSU9.

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Panoramas are typically used to provide the user with a 360-degree view
of an interior or exterior scene. Users are able to swipe left, and right, up
and down to view more of the scene, as if they were turning and looking in
different directions.
‹ previous
Creating a panorama involves carefully shooting a series of photos that
overlap in a certain way, processing these photos in Adobe Photoshop®, and next ›
exporting the images with a utility such as Pano2VR. Next, you create a frame
in InDesign and click on the Panorama option in the Folio Overlays panel.
Then you point to the folder that contains your panorama images and choose a
few options in the Panorama dialog box.
Panoramas do not work on Android tablets, only on iOS devices.
See adobe.ly/11nSX7R and adobe.ly/VnCrlY for detailed instructions on how
to create Digital Publishing Suite panoramas.

Pan & Zoom

Pan & Zoom overlays are a way to allow the user to swipe and “pan” an image
within a frame and then pinch to zoom into the image in the frame. It can be
used to allow a user to see more detail in an image of a map, for example, or
more detail in a piece of artwork. For help creating a pan & zoom image, see
adobe.ly/Y8vEXV.
You also have the option of allowing the user to pinch and zoom on every
screen of your app. See “Enable PDF Zooming” at adobe.ly/UVFFKG for more
information about how to do so.

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Scrollable frames provide a mechanism for allowing text or images to
“scroll” as the user swipes on the text or images. These are commonly
used to fit lengthy text in a small space on the screen. The user then
swipes up or down to read more of the text.
‹ previous
But scrollable frames can also be used for a variety of “special effects” as
shown in the examples below. next ›

Scrollable Frames overlays can be used to create a “pull tab” effect as shown in the green text frame above.

Scrollable frames can be

used to create horizontally

scrolling content, as shown

at left.

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To create an Image Sequence overlay, draw a frame on the page, and then
select Image Sequence in the Folio Overlays panel. Next, point to a folder
of sequentially numbered PNG or JPEG images. You can then set options to
automatically “play” through all the images or to allow the user to swipe to
‹ previous
advance the images.
next ›
Image sequences are very useful for a variety of effects. Most typically, they
are used for two common tasks.
• They provide a simple way to create “flipbook-style” animation. The “animated” signature in the There are four ways
example below was created with a series of 48 PNG images.
to add motion to a
Digital Publishing
Suite app: video, image
sequences, slideshows,

• They provide a way to allow a user to interactively rotate a “3D” object. As the user swipes across the
and web content. Each
helmet in the example below, the helmet appears to rotate. The helmet is an image sequence, a series method has benefits and
of 72 images of the helmet. Before each image of the helmet was shot, the image was rotated 5 degrees.
drawbacks depending
See adobe.ly/YH09Xj for more information on the complexity of the
about creating image sequences. animation and what you
are trying to achieve.

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Audio can easily be added to Digital Publishing Suite apps. To add audio to
a folio, just place an MP3 audio file on your page, select it, and you will see
options displayed in the Folio Overlays panel for controlling the audio.
You can specify that audio plays when a button is tapped, that it plays
‹ previous
automatically when you display a certain screen, or that it plays in the
background as the user navigates throughout the app. next ›
In the same way, you add video to a Digital Publishing Suite app by first
placing an MP4 video file on the page. When you select it, you will see video
options displayed in the Folio Overlays panel. You can specify that the video
play “in place” in a frame on the screen, or that it play full screen. Video can
Adobe After Effects®,
play when tapped or automatically when the user turns to the screen that
contains the video. You can also specify that video stop on the last frame of the Adobe Premiere® Pro,
video. This is particularly useful for creating animation. and the new video editing
Adobe Media Encoder, which is included with InDesign, is a good tool for converting video from
capabilities of Adobe
various formats into the MP4 format required by Digital Publishing Suite.
Audio and video added to a Digital Publishing Suite app this way is entirely embedded in the app, so the ­Photoshop CS6 are useful
user doesn’t need a web connection to play the audio or video. You can also add links to web-based video for preparing video assets
content in a Digital Publishing Suite app. For example, you could link to video content on YouTube or
for use in apps.
Vimeo via a simple URL link or using a Web Content overlay, but the user will need a web connection to
play the video in this case.
See adobe.ly/YWLNGb for more details about using audio and video in Digital Publishing Suite apps.

Web Content
A Web Content overlay consists of HTML content that resides and “plays” in
a frame on a Digital Publishing Suite screen. To create a Web Content overlay,
you first design your layout in InDesign, and then create a frame the size of the
web content that you want to include in the layout. When you click on Web
Content in the Folio Overlays panel, you will see a place to specify either an
external web URL or a location on your hard drive or file server that contains
an HTML file, along with other options.
Web content overlays are a good way to add interactive maps, live Twitter feeds, or fillable forms to
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created with the built-in Digital Publishing Suite tools.
Another way to include web content in an app is to export an OAM file from Adobe Edge Animate,
place the OAM file in InDesign, and specify the Web Content options in the Folio Overlays panel. See
adobe.ly/14VG3Nc for more information about creating Web Content overlays.
‹ previous
You can also create an entire article that consists solely of HTML content. This is an article that doesn’t
contain an InDesign file at all, but is purely HTML content. See adobe.ly/11sS7GW for more information. next ›

Adobe Edge Animate adobe.ly/TQubsF and Adobe Muse™ adobe.ly/WDUsJb are two

designer-friendly tools that can be used to create local HTML content for apps.

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Distributing through the Apple App Store ‹ previous

These are the general steps to submit an iOS app to the Apple App Store. For more detailed information
on this process, download the Adobe iOS Publishing Companion Guide from adobe.ly/WHR28y.
next ›
1. Enroll in Apple’s iOS Developer Program at bit.ly/UKByTY.

2. Read the App Store Review Guidelines to make sure that your App meets the strict criteria for
admittance to the Apple App Store.

3. Create various security certificates required by Apple.

4. Test your certificates.

5. Register your test iPads/iPhones/iPods with Apple.

6. Create an App ID required by Apple.

7. Create mobileprovision files required by Apple.

8. Create required assets (icons, splash screens, and so on).

9. Assign an Application role to an Adobe ID.

10. Build the app with DPS App Builder.

11. Test the development app.

12. Download the distribution app.

13. Submit the distribution app to the App Store.

14. Wait for approval from Apple.

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Distributing in other app stores ‹ previous

Amazon Appstore distribution

next ›
These are the general steps to submit an Android app to the Amazon Appstore. For more information see
adobe.ly/127vVwC.
1. Create an Amazon Appstore developer account at bit.ly/TUjCEO.

2. Create the certificate file required by Amazon.

3. Create required assets (icons, splash screens, and so on).

4. Assign an Application role to an Adobe ID.

5. Build the app with DPS App Builder.

6. Test the app.

7. Submit the app to the Amazon Appstore.

8. Wait for approval from Amazon.

Google Play distribution

These are the general steps to submit an Android app to Google Play. For more information see
adobe.ly/127vVwC.
1. Sign up as a Google Play developer at bit.ly/127HsMB.

2. Create the certificate file required by Google Play.

3. Create required assets (icons, splash screens, and so on).

4. Assign an Application role to an Adobe ID.

5. Build the app with DPS App Builder.

6. Test the app.

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Distributing your app privately ‹ previous

If you want to distribute an iOS app within a company rather than distributing the app publicly on the
App Store, you need to create an “enterprise-signed” app. Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise Edition is
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required to create an enterprise-signed app.
These are the general steps for creating an enterprise-signed app.
1. Enroll in Apple’s iOS Developer Enterprise Program at bit.ly/TUDLe0.

2. Create various security certificates required by Apple.

3. Test your certificates.

4. Create mobileprovision files required by Apple.

5. Create required assets (icons, splash screens, and so on).

6. Assign an Application role to an Adobe ID.

7. Build the app with DPS App Builder.

8. Download the enterprise IPA file from DPS App Builder.

9. Distribute the mobileprovision file and IPA file through email or file server to the end users.
See adobe.ly/Ycg7bC and adobe.ly/YK0kRx for more information.

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After you have created your first folio in InDesign and previewed it on a tablet, DPS App Builder is used
to build the final app, ready for upload to the Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore, or Google Play. This
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final app will include all of your folio content if you are creating a single-folio app. If you are creating a
multi-folio app, the app will be only a “viewer.” Folio content is then pushed into this viewer when users
run the app on their tablet.

Single-folio app Multi-folio app

“Viewer”
app “Viewer”
+ folio app
Folio
content
Folio
Folio111
Folio

Folios delivered into the app via

DPS Distribution Service

Folio
Folio 1 Folio 2 Folio 3 Folio 4
Folio111
Folio Folio
Folio111
Folio Folio
Folio111
Folio Folio
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various assets that you will need to build your app. This way the assets you need will be readily available
as you use DPS App Builder. These assets will include items such as security certificates, multiple icons at
specific sizes, and splash screens.
Johannes Henseler has created a handy Photoshop template that automatically creates all the required
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sizes of application icons from a single Illustrator or Photoshop Smart Object. Download the free template
at bit.ly/RMJL5a. next ›
For a very complete, in-depth guide to creating the various required security certificates for iOS apps,
download the Adobe iOS Publishing Companion Guide from adobe.ly/WHR28y.
For more information about creating certificates for Google Play and the Amazon Appstore, see
adobe.ly/127vVwC.

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DPS App Builder is a Mac-only program that is used to create the final build of a Digital Publishing Suite
app. To use DPS App Builder:
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1. Locate the DPS App Builder program in your
Applications folder, and double-click to launch it. If
you can’t find DPS App Builder in your Applications
folder, download it by clicking on DPS App Builder
in the bottom-left corner of the DPS Dashboard at
digitalpublishing.acrobat.com.

2. Log in using the Adobe ID assigned to a delegate account you created that has the DPS App Builder
role assigned to it.

3. Click the New button in the bottom right corner of the screen.
DPS App Builder is a “wizard style” application that walks you through the process of collecting the
necessary information that Adobe needs to build your app.
The first screen asks what type of device you are creating the app for. Then, as you fill in subsequent
screens and click the Next button, you will specify various details about how you wish the app to appear
and behave; specify icons, splash screens, and security certificates; and choose any social sharing options
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Keep in mind that it is during this step that you are able to specify a number of options that will affect
both the appearance and behavior of your app, above and beyond what you are able to see in Adobe
Content Viewer. For example, when you are building an app for the iPad, you can:
• Enable app-wide pinch and zoom (if you have created a PDF folio)

• Enable bookmarks so that users can bookmark their favorite articles in the folio

• Enable auto-hiding of the vertical scrollbars that appear at the right side of the screen

• Hide the top navigation bar

• Create “hot zones” for navigation purposes

• Enable a “rate this app” dialog box

• Display an analytics “opt-in” dialog box

For specific details about all the options and settings in DPS App Builder, see adobe.ly/YJCqFV.

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If you are an advertising agency, design firm, or other entity that will be producing work for or on behalf
of a single client or multiple clients, there are some things that you will want to work out in advance with
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your client. Ideally you will do this at the start, before you begin your app.

Who is going to publish the app?

Regardless of whether the app will be distributed via the Apple App Store, the Amazon Appstore, or
Google Play, the issues are the same. Either you, or your client, will end up being the “publisher” of the app.
Are you going to publish the app for your client? If so, you need to understand the benefits and drawbacks
of this approach. Or are you just going to create the folio content and the client will create the app and
For an extensive
publish it to Apple, Amazon, and Google? If so, does the client have the resources to do this? To help you
determine the best workflow between you and your client, look at some of the options more closely. description of various
workflows between
Two requirements
clients and agencies, see
In order to build a finished app, two things are required.
adobe.ly/X3bOxr.
1. You, or your client, must be a Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise or Professional customer.

2. You, or your client, must enroll in the Apple iOS Developer Program, create an Amazon Appstore
developer account, or sign up as a Google Play developer.
Whose accounts you will use will depend on who is going to publish the app.

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Publishing an app for a client ‹ previous

If you wish to publish an app for your client, the workflow is very straightforward. You use your Digital
Publishing Suite account and your Apple, Amazon, or Google developer account to create the app for
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your client. The client doesn’t need to be a Digital Publishing Suite customer or sign up for the Apple,
Amazon, or Google developer programs.
There are a few downsides to this workflow.
• The fine print on the app store(s) will
An agency creating and publishing an app on behalf of a client
display the name of your company, not the
client company.
Account setup App build
• Any revenue collected from the app
Agency uses its DPS account to Agency builds app with DPS
will be deposited by Apple, Amazon, or create a new DPS application App Builder using agency
account for the client app. security certificates.
Google into your bank account, not the
client’s bank account.
Content creation App submission
• Only you will have access to the Digital Agency creates a folio and Agency submits app to app
Publishing Suite analytics for the app, so articles with InDesign. store using agency app store
account.
the client must depend on you to compile
and present the app analytics. Review
Agency shares folio with New folio content
• This workflow “locks” the relationship client. Client reviews folio with Agency creates new folio
Adobe Content Viewer. content and publishes folio
between you and your client, since there
content to app using the
is no way to “re-sign” a Digital Publishing agency’s DPS account.

Suite app from one Digital Publishing

Suite account to another at a later date. Yes Changes? No

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This is where it gets a bit more complicated. In this scenario, you will create the app, or the content for the
app, but the client will publish the app. The reasons for doing this may include:
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• The client wants its name to appear as the publisher of the app in the app store.

• The client wants revenue collected from the app to be deposited directly into its bank account.

• The client wants direct access itself to Digital Publishing Suite analytics.

• The client wants to “own” the app, so that it can move to a different agency in the future, if necessary, For more information
to continue app or content development.
about direct entitlement,
• The client wants to “own” the app so that it can continue app or content development in-house
see adobe.ly/zcjQDQ and
in the future.
adobe.ly/WrzTU4. For
• The client is going to create an enterprise-signed app to distribute privately within the company.
more information about
• The client has a Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise license and wants to add advanced options itself
such as direct entitlement (print-digital bundling) or custom storefronts. custom storefronts, see
Working with a client in this way opens up a number of security concerns. How these concerns are adobe.ly/Zj2ZBo.
handled will depend on a variety of factors, including your relationship with the client, the number of
parties involved, and the level of trust between you and the client.
There are four potential agency-client workflows. Each of these four workflows requires the client to
be a Digital Publishing Suite customer and allows the client to “own” the app, which gives it greater
flexibility in the future. The four workflows are:
• Folio and app building credential workflow

• Folio-only credential workflow

• Customer-share workflow

• Agency-share workflow
The following sections explore each workflow in more detail.
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In this workflow, the client gives the agency its DPS Application account and DPS App Builder account
credentials, as well as the necessary security certificates needed for Apple, Amazon, or Google Play. The
agency is then able to produce both a complete app and folio content for the app. The client can submit
the completed app itself to Apple, Amazon, or Google stores. The agency continues to create new folio
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content and publish that content to the app, using the client’s DPS Application account credentials.
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Folio and app building credential workflow

Account setup
Client uses its DPS account to
create a new DPS Application
account for the app.

Client gives DPS Application App build

account and DPS App Builder Agency builds app with DPS
credentials and app store App Builder using client DPS
security certificates to agency. account credentials and client
security certificates.

Content creation
Agency creates a folio and Agency gives completed app
articles with InDesign. binary files to client.

Review App submission

Agency shares folio with Client submits app to app store
client. Client reviews folio with using client app store account.
Adobe Content Viewer.

New folio content

Agency creates new folio
content and publishes folio
Yes Changes? No content to app using the
client’s DPS account.

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In this workflow, the client gives the agency Application account credentials. This allows the agency to
build and publish folio content, but not to create or modify the app itself. The client takes on the task
of using DPS App Builder to build the app itself. This workflow allows clients to work with multiple
agencies, each of whom may handle the content for a different application.
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Account setup
Client uses its DPS account to
create a new DPS Application
account for the app.

Client gives DPS Application App build

account credentials and app Client builds app with
store security certificates DPS App Builder.
to agency.

App submission
Content creation Client submits app to app store
Agency creates a folio and using client app store account.
articles with InDesign.

New folio content

Review Agency creates new folio
Agency shares folio with content and publishes folio
client. Client reviews folio with content to app using the
Adobe Content Viewer. client’s DPS account.

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In certain highly regulated industries, such as pharmaceutical or medical device industries, the client
may need to control exactly when folio content is made public. In order to accomplish this, a “customer
share workflow” or an “agency share workflow” can be put in place. These workflows are more complex
and require more teamwork between the client and the agency. For details about these workflows, see
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What kind of social sharing capabilities are possible?

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You can enable an option within Digital Publishing
Suite to allow the user to tap a button to share a link
to an individual article via Facebook, Twitter, email,
or a website link. When a user taps this link, a special
“web viewer” version of the article appears in the user’s
desktop browser. The user does not need a tablet to view
the article.

An individual folio can

Is there a desktop viewer for Digital Publishing Suite apps?
There is no standalone desktop viewer for viewing DPS apps on the desktop. But the web viewer version be either vertical
of articles that appears when an article is shared via Facebook, Twitter, email, or a website link, offers orientation only,
most of the functionality of the tablet experience.
horizontal orientation

Is the text in Digital Publishing Suite apps searchable? only, or dual orientation.
No, text in Digital Publishing Suite apps is not searchable, except for text in HTML articles or HTML A multi-folio app may
overlays. See Web Content on page 44.
contain folios with a mix

Must I create folios that are dual-orientation, or can I create single-orientation folios of vertical, horizontal,
with Digital Publishing Suite? or dual orientations.
No, it is not necessary to create dual-orientation folios. You can choose landscape-only orientation or
portrait-only orientation when you create your folio. Single-orientation folios are less work to create and
result in much smaller file sizes and faster downloads.

Do I have to pay download fees for single-folio apps?

No, single-folio apps do not incur download fees, only multi-folio apps. See Differences between
single-folio and multi-folio apps on page 9. Getting Started Guide
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No, only multi-folio apps can appear on Apple’s Newsstand. See
Subscriptions and Apple Newsstand on page 11.

Why can’t I sign in to the Folio Builder panel?

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Be sure that you are using an Adobe ID that has been set up as a delegate account with the Application
role assigned. See Understanding IDs, accounts, and roles on page 16. next ›
Why can’t I sign in to Adobe Content Viewer on my tablet?
Only Adobe IDs that have been set up as delegate accounts or that have been “verified” to work with Digital
Publishing Suite can be used to log in to Adobe Content Viewer. To verify an Adobe ID, sign in to the
Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard at digitalpublishing.acrobat.com and agree to the terms and conditions.

Why doesn’t my folio appear

in Adobe Content Viewer?
For folio content to appear
wirelessly in Adobe Content
Viewer on a tablet, you must
tap the “Sign In” button in the
upper left corner of Adobe Content Viewer and sign in with the same Adobe ID and password that you
used to sign in to the Folio Builder panel when you created the folio. Or you can use an Adobe ID that
you have shared the content with using the Share command in the Folio Builder panel menu.

Why do my animations work in the SWF Preview panel but not in viewer?
Animation created with the Timing panel in InDesign will not function in Digital Publishing Suite apps.
Do not use the SWF Preview panel to preview folio content. See Previewing your work on page 32.

How secure is Digital Publishing Suite?

For an in-depth discussion of this topic, see the Adobe Digital Publishing Security FAQ at adobe.ly/T6PbuD.

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Training and support ‹ previous

Get your team up to speed quickly on the tablet publishing workflow through these additional training
and support resources.
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Digital Publishing Suite online Help
This is a comprehensive reference to the entire breadth of Digital Publishing Suite. It also contains
information about what is new in each release of Digital Publishing Suite. adobe.ly/Zbc2oq

Tutorials (with sample assets)

adobe.ly/W6biyH

Adobe TV
Learn how to use Digital Publishing Suite through training videos on the Digital Publishing Suite channel
on Adobe TV at adobe.ly/YtREOr.

Digital Publishing Tips app

This is a great resource for learning Digital Publishing Suite, available from the Apple App Store
bit.ly/14PmgPx, Google Play bit.ly/XlDLQr, and the Amazon Appstore amzn.to/WMqLab. You can also
access much of the content of the app through a desktop web browser at adobe.ly/Yi9aDe.

Digital Publishing Suite user forums

The user forums are a great place to look to see if others are asking the same questions you have and to
get your questions answered! adobe.ly/151PDxc

Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center

Find technical tutorials, code samples, and information for developers in the Digital Publishing Suite
Developer Center at adobe.ly/XkH37q.

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This PDF details all the steps necessary to submit an app to the Apple App Store: adobe.ly/WHR28y.

DPS Status page

This website is updated whenever there is an interruption in the Digital Publishing Suite services, or if
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there is a scheduled maintenance outage: bit.ly/UzFRjF.
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CanIUpdateAdobeDPS.com
This unofficial website can help you determine what version of Digital Publishing Suite tools you are
currently using, and when you should update your Digital Publishing Suite tools to the latest version:
bit.ly/YC3On8.

Digital Publishing Design Center

This center contains articles about how various designers are using Digital Publishing Suite in innovative
ways: adobe.ly/YiFSVg.

Blogs
Adobe Digital Publishing blog: adobe.ly/151RfqC
InDesign Docs: adobe.ly/YC4tVP
Secrets & Happiness of Digital Publishing: bit.ly/WHUyzT

Digital Publishing Suite on Twitter and Facebook

twitter.com/AdobeDigitalPub and facebook.com/adobedigitalpub

Gold Support
Your edition of Digital Publishing Suite has access to allow a number of users to contact support
via phone, web, or email. View specific support contact information in the Dashboard at
digitalpublishing.acrobat.com.

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