Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Cookbook

Most Popular Recipes

• How to mask videos in DPS folios
  • Bob Bringhurst 
  •   October 18, 2011
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  Problem

  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.

• InDesign Template Files for ADPS
  • Peter Villevoye 
  •   February 10, 2012
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  Problem

  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.

  Solution

  Well, check out these templates !

• Advanced Scrollable Frames
  • Johannes Henseler 
  •   November 10, 2011
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  Problem

  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.

• Overlay Creator panel Scrollable Frame experiments
  • mark@easeltraining 
  •   April 2, 2012
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  Problem

  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.

• Create App Icons for iPad and Android with one click
  • Johannes Henseler 
  •   November 10, 2011
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  Problem

  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.