Meeting Summary: Digital Publications

Tue, Nov 9th, 2010 at 6:30 PM

new Meeting Space at Adobe Campus

Event Details

Digital Publishing
Presented by Colin Fleming, Senior Solutions Engineer at Adobe

MagCloud: a new self-publishing web service from HP

• Geared towards publishers
• Lets any magazine on the platform become iPad optimized with a single click
• Send a PDF file of your magazine to MagCloud to publish online
• Sell PDF subscriptions or printed hard copies
• Subscribe to MagCloud with the iPad
• Will downsize the cost of production

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite: a hosted solution which enables publishers to combine Adobe CS5 authoring tools with innovative content viewer technology and integrated publishing services for production, distribution, e-commerce, and analytics

• Digital magazine for the viewer
• Reach viewers in a new way and delivery
• New Revenue
• Use InDesign to create layout of publication
• Scrubber panel
• Preview pages
• Navigation button to stacks or articles
• Library mode
• See new issues
• Purchase/download
• Option to design both Vertical and Horizontal layouts for pages
• Pagination same as any magazine
• Navigation
• horizontally for different articles
• vertically to get deeper into an article
• Sound/Movies
• Use Adobe Air Bundler
• metadata files
• Interactive overlays
• Preview on iPad
• Can build:
• Slide show
• Hyperlinks
• Play and Pause Buttons
• Panoramic and 360 degree view
• Time lapse
• Movement through space looking at object
• Working with buttons
• Adobe Digital Content Bundler
• Folders/Stacks in parent folder
• Looks for horizontal or vertical direction and table of contents
• Bundles
• Stack
• Title
• Kicker
• Byline
• Description
• Cover
• Export file to iPad
• Creates single file the builds to folder of your choice
• Must have CS5 Creative Suite
• View application on iPad
• Bundler
• Plug-in for InDesign
• Go to Adobe Labs for the prerelease


• More information, including pricing at http://www.adobe.com/products/digitalpublishingsuite

Thank you

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers – we can't possibly do it without you!

Check-in: Liz Martini, Bob Suh, Teresa Anderson
Note-Taker: Annette Dwyer
Photography: Thor Radford (thorrad@gmail.com)

Job Opportunities

Production Artist II, REI

The Production Artist II is responsible for preparing layout for marketing collateral, and ensuring delivery and execution.
Key requirements include 2+ years experience in electronic layout and print production, advanced skills in current Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign/Acrobat/Illustrator, ability to prioritize competing deadlines on multiple tasks, excellent attention to detail, follow through, and commitment to quality. Experience with Flash, XML, HTML, CSS preferred. Experience with dynamic automated workflows, variable printing and converting print files to interactive media, preferred.

See the posting and apply online:
www.rei.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=2282&CurrentPage=1

Next Meeting

January's topic: InDesign server

InDesign Server software delivers a robust and scalable engine that leverages the design, layout, and typographical capabilities of InDesign to enable you to programmatically create engaging automated documents. The InDesign Server engine currently drives a wide range of advertising, catalog, editorial, and publishing solutions and is used by a variety of organizations and industries worldwide.

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