Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is the new online digital publishing services that, in conjunction with Adobe InDesign CS5.5, can be used to design, monetize, and optimize a whole new class of digital publications. It will give you everything that you need to produce engaging digital documents for tablet devices through the use of a turnkey set of hosted services and viewer technology.
Over the last couple of years the digital landscape has grown dramatically. With the introduction of tools like the iPad, Kindle, and a whole host of e-readers and tablets, it is estimated that 57% of consumers expect to purchase one of these types of devices during the course of the next three years. Add to the basic capabilities of these readers, the ability to print, watch video, as well as integrated feature interactivity, if you want to sell to this market you need the tools that will provide the most bang in one complete package. That is the one of the goals of the new Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is targeted at the professional and enterprise level entity that is looking to create first class publications such as rich digital magazines and newspapers that are similar to WIRED Reader and The New Yorker. It contains five enterprise level services that are used in combination with InDesign CS5 to provide a complete end-to-end workflow.
Another goal of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is to provide extended market reach through the use of an array of mobile devices to engage readers by providing feature rich layouts and interactive features, provide flexible commerce models to sell both single issues as well as subscriptions, give you the tools to create multi-platform authoring, multi-channel monetization, the ability to attract advertisers, and provide immediate business insights through analysis.
There are two parts to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. The first part is through the use of Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 which added a whole host of features aimed to digital publishing – especially with regard to Adobe InDesign CS5.5.
So what is new with InDesign 5.5?
• Folio Producer tools – will add interactive overlays to your documents as well as let you preview them all within the context of your publication. These let you create and distribute for the iPad, BlackBerry Playbook, and the Motorola Xoom. You can also include audio, video, slideshows, and hyperlinks.
Article comments
1 - Regina
Does this program also publish to the kindle? I didnt clearly see any mention of that just the ipad etc.
2 - Greg Robins
Adobe's DPS system is "OK" - there are some limits on it. For example it does not take advantage of some of the capabilities of iPad (geolocation, accelerometer, camera), but for merely taking a magazine and giving it some interactivity, it's easy.
The process of gaining certificates and making them work is hugely complex, and very little documentation exists for it. I had to spend 2 hours with Adobe (the help desk was AMAZING), but they need to work with Apple to fix this since it's not sustainable for designers like me to have these ultra-geeky holdups. They both have billions - they should spend more on making the certificate process easier and automated.