About this Course

Course Description

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
  

Duration

2 days ( 9am – 6pm ) 

Target Audience

Great for existing InDesign users who are looking into creating electronic files for mobile devices

Prerequisite

Working knowledge of InDesign

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