INDESIGN CC - PUBLISHING TO MOBILE DEVICES

Course details

This session is specially created to help you prepare and publish content to mobile devices, particularly the iPad. We take you through the digital publishing workflow and we highlight the dos and don'ts at each publishing stage.

You will be exporting to 2 most commonly used format: ePub and folio. We guide you in planning, understanding publishing constraints and the various workarounds.

Guidelines and best practices for successful digital publishing will also be discussed. You will also learn how to enrich your publication with interactive content such as hyperlinks, buttons, slideshows, audio, videos and many more.

THE DIGITAL PUBLISHING WORKFLOW
Walking through the processes involved the digital publishing workflow
Assembling the digital publishing tools
Understanding when to use ePub and Folio formats


EPUB - HANDLING IMAGES
Anchoring images to maintain the position of your images
Handling drawn vector shapes
Specify options to float a picture frame either left or right


EPUB - HANDLING TEXT ELEMENTS
Fixing the position of your layout
Handling master page items such as page numbers
Starting your content on a new page
Using paragraph and character styles to control text formatting
Embedding fonts
Adding white spaces
Remove unnecessary line breaks
Handling bullet and number lists
Maintaining hyperlinks and crossreferences
Handling footnotes
Managing tables


EPUB - GETTING READY FOR EXPORT
Understanding the various export options
Set up tables of contents for your book
Assigning a cover for your ePub book
EPUB - TESTING YOUR FILE
Evaluating an ePub in Adobe Digital Editions
Validating your ePub file against industry requirements


FOLIO - SET UP YOUR INDESIGN DOCUMENT
Setup your InDesign document with the necessary and correct settings
Using alternate layout feature to quickly adapt your existing layout for different sizes
Setting up the folder structure and naming conventions


FOLIO - CREATING INTERACTIVE OVERLAYS
Discussion of the best practices for creating overlays
Adding hyperlinks and buttons
Creating slideshows with object states
Creating rotating objects with image sequence overlay
Inserting and managing audio
Adding controller to imported audio
Creating panorama
Adding videos
Streaming a web page using web content overlay
Setup your web content to link to a local folder
Display a large image in a small area with the pan and zoom overlay
Creating a scrollable frames


FOLIO - GETTING READY TO PUBLISH
Creating new folios
Creating articles and layout
Managing articles
Setting up the export options settings
Using the Adobe Content Viewer to preview content
Live previewing your folio on your connected iPad