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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - Single Edition Introduction 2 Days - Manchester
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£550 + vat
Reach a whole new digital market as you use your existing InDesign knowledge to produce interactive content for iPads and other mobile devices. Our tips will show you how to appeal to a huge audience by building and publishing adaptive layouts that take full advantage of the tablet medium.
With our help, you will take your current knowledge of InDesign and apply it to creating engaging, interactive content ready for publication on mobile platforms. We will show you how to set up your output to support scrolling, swiping, pinching, and zooming on tablets. You will end the course by creating and testing your own 'Single Edition' app. Bring your own tablet and try it for yourself!
Reach a whole new digital market as you use your existing InDesign knowledge to produce interactive content for iPads and other mobile devices. Our tips will show you how to appeal to a huge audience by building and publishing adaptive layouts that take full advantage of the tablet medium.
With our help, you will take your current knowledge of InDesign and apply it to creating engaging, interactive content ready for publication on mobile platforms. We will show you how to set up your output to support scrolling, swiping, pinching, and zooming on tablets. You will end the course by creating and testing your own 'Single Edition' app. Bring your own tablet and try it for yourself!
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DPS Introduction 2 Days
Course Details
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.
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Full 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
- Digital page orientation
- Smooth scrolling articles
- Swipe articles horizontally
- Snap to page articles
- Pinch and zoom articles
- Guidelines
- Horizontal/Vertical orientation
- Smooth scrolling articles
- Documents for multiple devices
- Renditions
- Multiple renditions
- Folder structure
- Creating interactive overlays
- Supported/Unsupported features
- Best practice
- The Overlay Creator panel
- Links using the buttons panel
- Links using the hyperlinks panel
- Links to other articles
- Web page hyperlinks
- Email hyperlinks
- Article hyperlinks
- Create multi-state objects
- Slideshow overlay settings
- Slideshow overlay options
- Create an image sequence overlay
- Specify image sequence settings
- Video overlays
- Audio overlays
- Place an audio file into an article
- Add a progressive playback skin
- Placing a video poster frame
- 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 ‘pan’ method
- The ‘Paste Into’ command
- Scrollable text frame ‘pan’ method
- Adding web content
- Insert a ‘local’ HTML file
- Scale and interactive options
- The Folio Builder panel
- Filter displayed folios
- Sort folios
- Signing into the folio panel
- Create, share and delete a folio
- Create local folios
- From an open InDesign document
- Add layout to an article
- Structuring folders
- Import InDesign documents
- 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
- DPS Dashboard Folio Producer
- DPS Single Edition features
- Types of custom viewer apps
- Single Folio viewer app
- Using the Folio Producer
- Folio Producer Editor
- The Adobe Content Viewer
- Create offline folios
- Previewing iPad content
- Previewing Android content
- Previewing Playbook content
- Create a Single Edition folio
- Create a Single Edition viewer app
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:
Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2APPiccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm 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.
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DPS Introduction 2 Days - Upcoming Manchester Course Dates
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Client Reviews
"Excellent Instructor, easy to follow and made the day delightful!"
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"Great tutor, good understanding of my abilities and speed of learning. "
Rachel Radford, Vectorworks - 1 Day Bespoke
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Thomas Booth, BAE Systems, Captivate - 2 Day Introduction
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Jez Williams, Total UK, Acrobat for Creating Rich Media PDFs - 1 Day Introduction
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Stephanie Razis, Salamanca, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction
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Trisha White, Countrywide Assured Group plc, QuarkXPress - 2 Day Introduction
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Keith Baker, Science Press Ltd, Photoshop - 2 Day Introduction
"A very informative course, thanks!"
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Gary Morris, University of Leeds, Articulate Storyline - 2 Day Introduction
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the Manchester Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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