Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - Single Edition Introduction 2 Days - London

DPS Introduction 2 Days Overview

This 2-day Introduction course will enhance your existing knowledge of Adobe InDesign by showing you everything you need to use the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. With this powerful tool, designers and agencies now have an easy way to publish interactive media for mobile users across the world. Our course will give you the tips to get started in this fast-growing market.

Together, we will build a 'Single Edition' app, allowing you to deliver dynamic, engaging content on mobile and tablet devices. Feel free to bring along your own iPad or Android tablet so you can test the results for yourself. (Just make sure to download the latest Adobe Content Viewer from the relevant app store before the course.)

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Digital Publishing Suite environment
• Design and lay out mobile documents
• Specify safe areas and page orientations for mobile devices
• Build articles that support horizontal swiping, pinch and zoom, and more
• Adjust display rules for multiple types of tablet
• Create proper folder structures
• Add hyperlinks and multi-state objects to your content
• Produce a 'Single Edition' app

Our goal is for you to understand how to publish your own interactive content on mobile and tablet devices.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is intended for those who wish to enhance their existing knowledge of InDesign and who work as graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, or marketing communications professionals.

You will need basic experience in using InDesign. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Day course.

 

DPS Introduction 2 Days Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Introduction

• The future of publishing
• Course objectives
• Overview of the DPS Workflow
• Using Adobe IDs for the DPS
• DPS pricing options
• Bringing the future to the present
• System requirements
• Installing the DPS tools
• DPS resources

Document Design

• Digital page orientation
• Smooth scrolling articles
• Swipe articles horizontally
• Snap to page articles
• Pinch and zoom articles

Creating Documents

• Guidelines
• Horizontal/Vertical orientation
• Smooth scrolling articles
• Documents for multiple devices
• Renditions
• Multiple renditions
• Folder structure

Interactivity

• Creating interactive overlays
• Supported/Unsupported features
• Best practice
• The Overlay Creator panel

Buttons and Hyperlink Overlays

• Links using the buttons panel
• Links using the hyperlinks panel
• Links to other articles
• Web page hyperlinks
• Email hyperlinks
• Article hyperlinks

Slideshow Overlays

• Create multi-state objects
• Slideshow overlay settings
• Slideshow overlay options

Image Sequence Overlays

• Create an image sequence overlay
• Specify image sequence settings

Audio and Video Overlays

• Video overlays
• Audio overlays
• Place an audio file into an article
• Add a progressive playback skin
• Placing a video poster frame

Panorama Overlay

• Place a panorama file
• Specify panorama overlay settings
• Overlay creator options

Pan and Zoom Overlays

• Place image into document
• Pan and zoom tips
• Specify pan and zoom settings

Scrollable Frame Overlays

• Scrollable frame ‘pan’ method
• The ‘Paste Into’ command
• Scrollable text frame ‘pan’ method

Web Content Overlays

• Adding web content
• Insert a ‘local’ HTML file
• Scale and interactive options

Creating Folios

• The Folio Builder panel
• Filter displayed folios
• Sort folios
• Signing into the folio panel
• Create, share and delete a folio
• Create local folios

Creating Articles

• From an open InDesign document
• Add layout to an article
• Structuring folders
• Import InDesign documents

Managing Articles - Folio Panel

• Add and change article properties
• Edit and update an article
• Copy an article to another folio
• Rename and delete an article
• Changing the order of articles

Managing Articles

• DPS Dashboard Folio Producer
• DPS Single Edition features
• Types of custom viewer apps
• Single Folio viewer app
• Using the Folio Producer
• Folio Producer Editor

Preview Folios and Articles

• The Adobe Content Viewer
• Create offline folios
• Previewing iPad content
• Previewing Android content
• Previewing Playbook content

Single Edition Creation

• Create a Single Edition folio
• Create a Single Edition viewer app

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe Digital Publishing Suite course:

Adobe Certified DPS Instructor

We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and our trainers are Adobe Certified Instructors with years of experience teaching DPS. Get the Digital Publishing skills you need with our experienced DPS professionals.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Adobe Authorised Certificate

After your Adobe class with XChange Training you will receive our official Adobe Authorised Training Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the Adobe Certified DPS course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training main London training centre based at:

5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BH

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St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

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