Creating the image sequence for an audio file player from the Ai art can be a tedious task. And when you need to make a small adjustment it's twice as tedious.
Solution
A simple script that helps you output the play and pause sequences of PNGs from the Ai design in seconds.
If you create articles for the new iPad, you'll work with 1536x2048 pages. To target the iPad1 and the iPad2, you'll have to create the same pages with a 768x1024. You'll need to scale down all your work by 50%. A lot of manual operations are necessary to achieve this.
Solution
A single script (written in JavaScript) will scale all your pages by 50%. You can use it to export 1024 articles from 2048 articles and target all the generations of iPad (using DPS renditions).
Additional creative ideas for using the Scrollable Frame option within the Overlay Panel.
Solution
Examples of the using the new Scrollable Frame option within the Overlay Creator panel. Embedded buttons, multi-stack objects, image sequences and more.
When you're using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create folios, you sometimes want the user to scratch off an image to reveal an image beneath. For example, you can reveal the winner of a prize or a person's face behind a foggy window.
Solution
Use HTML code to set up a scratch off effect using the two images you specify.
Creating InDesign files from scrap for digital (tablet) publications isn't too difficult. But you need to design within certain borders and boundaries, and 'soft proof' your creation constantly.
To create a flip image effect for a digital publishing folio, you need to use HTML code.
Solution
Download and edit the attached HTML file to create your own flip image effect. Or, install the Dreamweaver extension to create your own customized flip effect.
If you try to put an image in front of a video to create an effect such as rounded corners, the image will move behind it when the article is generated. By design, interactive overlays appear in front of non-interactive page items.
Solution
If you want to cover part of an overlay, such as masking a video with rounded corners, the trick is to make the masked object interactive -- even if it's a "dummy" interactive object.
Creating InDesign files from scrap for digital (tablet) publications isn't too difficult. But you need to design within certain borders and boundaries, and 'soft proof' your creation constantly.
Scrollable Frames are getting more and more powerful and useful: they are great for scrolling text or images when there is not enough space on screen. Scrollable Frames can also include other interactive content. However, there are techniques to improve the visual appearance of scrolling content.
Solution
You can tweak the appearance of Scrollable Frames with some advanced techniques. For this, you need to have basic knowledge of creating interactivity with DPS.
When submitting a digital magazine to either Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market, you need to supply App Icons and more artwork. Typically these icons include the homescreen icon and one icon for the market place. You provide these icons to the Viewer Builder.
A valid App Store app or Android Market app needs a few more icons that will be used in different places (like search results, popup windows, …). Providing these Icons is can be an elaborative task: 512px here, 72px there, applied shine there, no shine here …
Solution
Here is a photoshop file that automaticallye generates all needed icons both for Apple iPad and Android from one artwork.
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