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Go from Adobe InDesign CS 5.5 to your iPad Wirelessly

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In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast I'll show you how to use the NEW Digital Publishing Suite Tools to take your interactive InDesign publication from start to finish fron InDesign CS 5.5 to your iPad (or Android tablet) wirelessly. This is my first look at the NEW .FOLIO builder tools that are now integrated directly inside InDesign. You'll need to grab the latest tools for your copy of InDesign CS5 or CS 5.5 here (Mac | Win).

Note: in the video I show how you can rearrange your articles online via digitalpublishing.acrobat.com. If your Acrobat.com account is NOT provisioned by Adobe to access the Digital Publishing Suite you can simply skip that part of the process and go straight to the iPad.

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25 Replies to “Go from Adobe InDesign CS 5.5 to your iPad Wirelessly”

  1. Nice video tutorial! And great price in the app store.

    Though I was a bit disappointed, as I thought this was an indesign -> Apple ePub article. It looks like the publishing to the ipad is via an Adobe view application? Nothing wrong with that, especially since it looks like it gives you more flexibility in design. Great for eMag and instructional publishing for sure. 🙂

    W.

  2. Great video and I’m really excited about how far the DPS solution has come in a few months. I love that there is a solution for the little guy like myself who wants to show off my portfolio.

  4. @mark lane
    Digital publishing is indeed a great thing, but unless I am wrong, you need to pay arround 10.000 usd per year to adobe, to be able to use the DPS solution. So, it is not so great for little guy, or a small studio.
    In 10.000+ usd you get a annual subscription to the service and up to 25.000 downloads of your folio. All payable up front.

    From what I can read on the forums, Adobe is thinking of offering a more affordable solution. We need to wait and see. Right now it is a letdown for me.

    1. I think there is a lot of confusion surrounding the pricing of the DPS. I don’t have all the answers. What I do know is that I have been worried that after the prerelease was over, I wouldn’t be able to share any folio files I created because of the pricing structure. I mainly wanted to play around with the DPS and possibly build my portfolio to show clients. This weekend I started building it and I’m able to view it on my iPad from the Adobe Content Viewer and I haven’t paid a cent. Like Terry said in the video, I can have one folio posted using my free acrobat.com account. There are a couple of options to host more folio files for a fee and they were much cheaper than the Enterprise and Professional Editions of the DPS. This is great for someone like me who isn’t distributing folios for commercial use.

  5. Terry, You kinda skipped over how to have a “provisioned account”! Important, don’t you think? Also, what do you mean by “go straight to the iPad”?

    1. You would have a provisioned account by signing up for the DPS solution. Even without a provisioned account you would be able to do everything I showed except the organization of articles on digitalpublishing.acrobat.com (as noted in the post). So just upload your articles in order and go straight to the iPad wirelessly with the same log in ID that you used to upload your Folio.

      1. I have gotten that far. Thanks!

        So, (1) if we want to distribute we *have* to use acrobat.com? and;

        (2) I see my hyperlinks between articles (for instance, on a TOC page) in the same folio aren’t working; what’s changed?

        1. Figured out how to use the nato:// hyperlink function for my question (2) above.

          (1) still stands, though; what are our options other than acrobat.com for distribution?

          Also, (3) do you know why my downloaded folio doesn’t have its name next to it in the viewer? It just shows an *. When I am in the folio the name appears in the menu header, though

  6. I am a little confused by the acrobat.com accounts. I have been using the pre-release from adobe for a while and have had great success. I want to continue to make publications for our small company. I guess I am confused on the publishing end of the solution. Say I buy the acrobat.com unlimited plan. I am the only designer but there will be multiple publications I need to make. Will I be able to use that acrobat account and send emails to anyone I need to send them to so they can download into the ipad adobe content viewer? Obviously I can’t afford to spend thousands of dollars on a enterprise version of the suite. I am just making interactive documents for in house use. Am I on the right track or is the digital suite the only way to do this?

  7. Not that I know the answer, zach, but Adobe doesn’t seem to be letting all the details out. What I do know is that if you create a folio that is not “published” via iTunes or other aggregates then it is “marked” as a “test folio” with an asterisk next to its name. I don’t like that at all—bad design, bad policy… Seems things are not completely transparent yet…

  8. Thanks for a great tutorial, Terry! Using the acrobat.com account can be a way to go.
    Do they also need an acrobat.com account to see what I’ve shared? Besides the iPad, is it available also on a desktop/laptop?

  9. Great tutorial, but I am confused… can you please shed some light?

    Is DPS the ONLY way to distribute/sell my publications to Ipad users?

    It looks to me all the hype with CS 5.5 and interactive publishing is really only for large publications who can afford the DPS fees. I really hope I am wrong there…

    What am I missing?

  10. Hi,
    i have a question on the new Adobe digital suite.
    can i try my magazine on ipad with adobe viewer, before buy the licens? if yes, how?

    tnx

        1. That’s because your account isn’t provisioned as a licensed user. You can skip that part and just go straight from the Builder Panel to looking at them on your iPad WITHOUT the Acrobat.com step.

          2. So Terry, are you saying that unless we have the full DPS solution, that you will be unable to reorder the articles and add additional content as you did in the video?

          3. NO, that’s not what I’m saying. Without the DPS solution you would NOT be able to log into Acrobat.com and organize your articles as I did. However, as long as you add them to your folio in the order you want them in you’ll be fine and it will show up on the iPad. So just skip the part of the video that I did in the browser and everything should work as I showed.

  11. What on earth is going on? Acrobat online account, DPS online account… all very expensive and messy Adobe. Terry and the Adobe staff at the CS5.5 roadshow make it seem so simple. Admittedly I’ve only been at it for 6 hours, but I’m running out of patience very quickly.

  12. This is very cool, but I have a question. Say I am simply authoring a fixed Layout EPUB/illustrated book (or a flowing format for that matter), that I intend to upload directly thru my iTunes account. Is this capability still usable for checking it out?

    Is this meant to proof such e-books as well as Digital Magazines?

  13. Hi Terry,
    was wondering apps are needed to export and view my Indesign file to the Ipad, any information would greatly be appreciated. Cheers mate

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