PME NTI : Overview of Digital Publishing Suite

Course Overview

This practical overview training  course in Birmingham City centre at the NTI Birmingham will guide you through process of making interactive publications for tablets such as the iPad, Android and BlackBerry Playbook. You will learn how to use Adobe InDesign to create engaging and interactive content and publish it to your tablet.

What you will learn

• How to transform print publications for tablet devices.
• How to create amazing interactive content from InDesign.
• Generate content for delivery to an iPad and similar Android tablet devices.
• How the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite can distribute and monetize publications for tablet devices

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

• Overview of the DPS system
• Delivery
• Your target audience
• Considerations

The Adobe Content Viewer

• Overview of the Content Viewer
• How it works on tablet devices
• Working with Acrobat.com
• Share for free with others

Integrating tools into InDesign

• Downloading and installing
• Signing into new tools

InDesign Interactivity

• Creating hyperlinks
• Creating buttons
• Creating rollovers
• Placing movies and sounds
• Multi-state objects
• Previewing in-application

The Overlay Creator

• Hyperlinks
• Multi-state objects
• Slideshows/image sequences
• Movies and sounds
• Panoramics
• Web content and links
• Pan, zoom and pinch

The Folio Builder

• Signing into your account
• Create the content infrastucture
• Multiple orientations
• Cover options

Uploading content

• Upload your content
• Updating content
• Share with others
• Deployment guidelines

Viewing Content

• The Adobe Content Viewer
• Signing into your account
• Viewing your Folio

Entry Requirements

Who should attend

Those wishing to take a publication they have created in Indesign and make an interactive publication that can be viewed on tablet device, such as the iPad, Android or blackberry Playbook.

Pre-requisities

Students attending this course should have a good understanding of InDesign, such as the level of skills covered in InDesign Introduction.

Basic IT and Windows for PC users or OSX skills for Apple Mac users.