Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
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I was curious if anyone has used the new Adobe Digital Publishing Suite software, and if so what they thought about it.
Any and all responses would be helpful.
Thanks!
- nylon0
Ive been looking at it... Looks great but then does Muse... The later is a bag o shite...
- monolith0
it's amazing.. I'm building magazines with it and it's magic. Seriously.
Single edition will not allow you to publish to Android and Playbook for example but you can do iPad publications and is affordable for designers at $395.
The professional version allows you to publish to all platforms (Android, Playbook, iOS) but costs a lot of small shops and designers. It's $495 a month, with an annual fee that is calculated per each download. I think you have to get like 5 or 10k downloads worth of license (where one download is like 10 cents or something like that).
The beauty of ADPS is that you can integrate HTML5 within the pages of your publication and have it become basically an app. The possibilities are limitless.
It's easy to use as it is basically designing in InDesign just like you would regular publication but you have modules you can use like 360 panoramas, videos, audio, photo gallery, States for objects in your page so you can tap on your designs and reveal / hide additional information (like hotspots) etc etc.
- plash0
yeah it's pretty streamline once you get into the workflow. the interactivity triggers are as simple as it can get. the live previews and cloud share are also pretty easy to wield and as mentioned above the html5 native support is killer.
- gramme0
I've been using the Woodwing tools for a client of mine, but we're about to switch over to the Adobe DPS (Woodwing is integrating their tools with Adobe's, and is dropping support for their current reader app next fall).
One thing I wish we could do with the DPS is create content *within* InDesign that is read as HTML5 by the app. In other words, create a system where any half-conscious intern could log in to a back-end admin system, paste in content, and it automatically publishes to a predesigned, weblike publication app. This would save publishers a lot of money, and the designers could focus on creating true value-added interactive pieces, directing video and audio, etc., rather than spending copious amounts of time translating pages from print to digital.
- We've been using a custom Woodwing setup as well so this Adobe merger is interesting. Also, great idea!monospaced
- we have to use an outside group to build our custom in-app "widgets" though.monospaced
- a buddy and i are doing just that with a custom cms. still buggy but it *is* possible.plash
- dijitaq0
i think it's great! the only think lacing, imo, is events triggered while you interact with, say the panning overlay. i end up creating the interactions with html & javascript. which is fine because it integrates with it easily.
i have not tried woodwing, magplus nor twizl. anyone would recoomend any of them over adobe's?
- interesting.. I haven't looked into Mag+. it seems to be using similar approach to ADPS.monolith
- gramme0
To my knowledge, Woodwing is the only platform that can compete with Adobe. In general, the Adobe tools are better. The Adobe/Woodwing alliance is actually going to be the best thing going imho, once they've worked out the kinks. There are some overlaps in the interactive content you can create with each system, but each does things the other cannot. Being able to use both sets of plugins, plus blending Woodwing's Content Station file manager with Adobe's DPS publishing methods, will really be the best of both worlds.
- TheeOtherJuan0
Looking into this for my company. Anyone have a strong alternate for Adobe DPS, they're to costly!
- animatedgif0
Does it actually do native text now? Or is it still just a stack of JPGs/PNGs?
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