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• Centigrade

  OK so anyone have experience working on e-zines for the ipad etc. What's the best program / work flow? I know adobe have their Digital Publishing Platform which is enormously expensive. Are there any good ones that you've used?

  Cheers.

  Apr 4, 12, 11:26 a.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  ezine?

  • Digital magazine. Wired on the iPad etc.– Centigrade1/2

    like ebook– moldero2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 11:44 a.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  Depends on the editorial workflow.

  You can create a template app which can suck in content and template types.

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 11:54 a.m. – Permalink

• Centigrade

  This is more of a discovery project. So I'm really looking for something pre-built or relatively easy to get to grips with. I don't have the time to sit down and learn xCode but perhaps there is a frameworks for magazines?

  • v– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 11:57 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  It really depends on how you want to distribute it. If you want to make a publication that is available on the iTunes store, you will require an App to house those publications and that will have to be vetted by Apple. This is a huge undertaking and is necessary to understand for all parties involved.

  The other option is to create and distribute ePubs that are not attached to an App. With this the distribution is done online and these are viewed in iBooks (closer to a PDF). Apple has software for this here: http://www.apple.com/ibooks-auth…

  I hope this helps.

  • and it's free– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:08 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  http://www.apple.com/itunes/sell…

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:10 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  We do this here, so I know first hand the amount of work that is involved here. gramme knows a ton about this too.

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:16 p.m. – Permalink

• letterhead

  I think most magazines publish their iPad content with InDesign, and simply export pngs if Im not mistaken. However with the retina resolution this causes major readability problems, so I believe pubs will start using more HTML 5.

  • ePubs and iPad publications are very different, unfortunately. Retina display causes no readability problems.– monospaced1/13

    HTML 5 is only required for the "widget" and special interactive parts.– monospaced2/13

    I guess I just noticed all the text on ezines look like shit on the new iPad, because it's an image at lower res– letterhead3/13

    It would look IDENTICAL to the iPad 1 and 2. Not shit by any means.– monospaced4/13

    http://www.cnn.com/2…– letterhead5/13

    http://www.wired.com…– letterhead6/13

    http://www.adweek.co…– letterhead7/13

    STILL, they would only look as bad as they did on the older iPads. How do you not understand this?– monospaced8/13

    I see your point though. The hardware "scales" up instead of just quadrupling the pixels. My bad.– monospaced9/13

    This would be a non-issue for a NEW publication though. So your argument doesn't hold anymore.– monospaced10/13

    yeah the images look fine, but the text however looks blurry as hell– letterhead11/13

    it brings up the need for staying away from fixed resolution publications in the future– letterhead12/13

    funny how quick people rush to say things look like shit as soon as they are spoiled by the retina display. I hear ya bro– monospaced13/13

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:18 p.m. – Permalink

• Centigrade

  Thanks for the info mono. Really just investigating this now. It's gonna become more and more popular so trying to dive in and get aquatinted.

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:19 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  No joke, to get your publication out there like the big boys (Conde Nast, Callaway, etc.), you have to have a custom publication App. This is separate from the actual magazine design and DPS. You would have to purchase this or start from scratch. The workflow is intense here and it's costly. I would urge you to start down the ePub route until there are more resources available to get into full-blown iPad publications.

  • for example, you have to download the Wired App and THEN use that to buy issues– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:22 p.m. – Permalink

• Centigrade

  I thought the iBooks platform was reserved for books. Our thing will feel more like a brochure or magazine than a book. Don't want to get it all together in iBooks and have Apple reject it because they considered it a different "medium". Hmmm I'm sure Apple will release a modified version of iBooks Author aimed at periodicals eventually.

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:30 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  The "feel" is entirely up to you. Don't let the iBooks name lead you to believe it's only for books. I was throwing it out there as an efficient way to get your brochure/magazine out there quickly without having to create an App-building workflow and purchase the resources for designing and publishing an actual App-based publication.

  • Cool thanks.– Centigrade

  

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  Dog-earApr 4, 12, 12:32 p.m. – Permalink