Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center launched...

For interested parties Adobe just launched the Digital Publishing Suite Developer center located here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishingsuite.html. There's lots of great information on this site for DPS users including TIps, tricks, lists of new features, bug fixes, sample code, tutorials and white papers. Take a peek and learn something new about DPS.

Nice.
But will they be keeping up with the fairly rapid process/workflow changes that Adobe implements? There's already a slew of videos out there - at Adobe TV and a slew of other places - in which info is woefully out of date.

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ANN: MEI Portico Version 2.0 for Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Now Available

Jenkintown, PA (November 28, 2012) — Managing Editor Inc. (MEI) today announced MEI Portico™ version 2.0, the latest in the premier Adobe® development partner's lineup of solutions for publishers. The new version of MEI's custom storefront software for tablets was built to empower Adobe Digital Publishing Suite™ customers and is now available for purchase.
MEI Portico lets publishers create custom branded UIs for their mobile and tablet apps on Apple, Google Android, and Amazon Kindle Fire platforms. Custom storefronts enable multiple gateways for showcasing user-targeted tablet content within the app. App administrators can enable search capabilities and organize their DPS folios as they see fit, so that navigation is easy and readers can effortlessly find the issues they want or are entitled to. Portico allows publishers to override in-app purchases for authenticated subscribers, and enables restricted distribution capabilities for corporate and educational institutions using Adobe DPS as part of their digital communications strategy.
MEI Portico 2.0 introduces custom canvases to the original Portico toolbox. Rather than having to rely on templates for their storefronts landing view, designers can now create their own HTML designs to incorporate into an MEI Portico-driven interface. Using web design skills, designers have full control over every aspect of their apps look and feel — from storefront layout to images, login pages to RSS or social media feeds, subscriber views to featured folios. And because administrators can launch canvases at a moments notice, implementing new features into your app can be completed without a time consuming app update.
"Custom canvases mean that DPS apps can take advantage of Porticos robust feature set without compromising their brands look and feel," said Brett Kizner, MEI's director of new product marketing. "Portico 2.0 has delivered greater flexibility with the ability for our customers to design their own app experience on their app landing page."
To see a sample of MEI Portico 2.0 in action, visit Adweek's new app at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adweek-magazine/id570229326?mt=8
About MEI Portico
MEI Portico works with the Enterprise edition of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to build custom storefronts for your digital brand. For publishers who want to enhance their tablet output with functionality beyond the standard template, MEI’s creative services team can help develop specialized Porticos with custom features. For more details and purchasing information, contact an MEI sales representative at 215-886-5662 or [email protected]. To learn more about Portico, visit www.maned.com/portico.
About MEI
Managing Editor Inc., an Adobe premier development partner, specializes in quality, proven publishing solutions. MEI provides tools that manage content for any output medium — print, online, tablets such as the iPad, mobile devices such as the iPhone and other digital formats. Visit www.maned.com for more information. Nervous Pixel is the registered trademark of Managing Editor Inc. All rights reserved.

Hi Tom, The custom button functionality of DPS is restricted to DPS Enterprise. I'd love to discuss your needs to see if there is a way for us to assist you. I'll PM you my contact info. Best, Brett

Device Central vs. Digital Publishing Suite

Dreamweaver 5.5 has a utility named Device Central which appears to emulate the appearance of websites on tablet computers. Given this is true, what development resources would a purchase of Digital Publishing Suite gain me that I don't already have available with Device Central?

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that with Device Central you can only see how your app will fare on different platforms whereas DPS allows you to publish your content to distributors such as iTunes as well as manage additional features such as direct entitlement and subsciptions etc.
In short. DC is only for testing and local publishing. DPS is to move your content into the wild and distribute.
Happy to be corrected here.

Error: Sorry, your account cannot access the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

A few days ago I ordered Creative Cloud account. Since that when I try to log in into Folio Producer I receive this message:
Sorry, your account cannot access the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Please contact Customer Support for help.
At the same time I do can log in into Folio Builder in my InDesign CS6 and even add folios. Might be this error by someway linked to that I had in the past DPS Pro account?
Thank you in advance.

This issue does not have solution. I came up to DPS developing team, anyone does not want to fix manually each account and they do not have an automatic solution.

Digital Publishing Suite - Professional, is the price correct even though CC member?

We already have an Adobe Creative Cloud account.
We have Digital Publishing Suite - Single Edition already but have now realised it is only possible to create ipad apps on there and not iphone apps.
As a company and as we already pay for an annual Creative Cloud membership, we want to know if the price of £400 odd per month would be correct if we were to look into purchasing the Professional Edition, as this pricing seems excessive considering.
Thanks

Hi I saw your question and reply and what frustrates me is that none of the replies outline the actual cost of producing something via the dps. I will give you and example.
I have a client that has been using Acrobat since 1992 to disribute documents. The same client has always been an Adobe advocate and now they wish to move from pdf files to an "App" I use the word app in quotes because it is essentially a magazine. They do not sell through the mag so no opportunity for in app purchases, they do not sell the mag as it is an information tol, they do however have video content that they wish to share. They have exciting articles that can be interspersed with slide shows etc...
However, imagine their surprise when like yourself, having paid for the design kit that to produce a magazine like this would cost the client a licence fee of $20,000 for upto 50,000 downloads if they are the publisher – and a whopping saving to me if I publish at a reduced cost of $10,000. Then there are my costs as a creative on top which some of my clients already find hard to swallow.
Now I might be wrong but taking the attitude that "Is that the right format for the client" is pretty crappy given that everyone from the age of 5 years old up knows how to and are using ipads and android devices.
Where is the middle ground?
pdf to send costs pittence but time.
html emailer a few cents per opened email
Adobe DPS "$kerching"
The sales chap then told me that if the client wanted a Mercedes but was unwilling to pay – tough really.
Now I have used Adobe software through Aldus Pagemaker in 1989 all the way through to the first version of InDesign. I encouraged the uptake of InDesign at several studios as a creative director ousting Quark because of their unreasonable prices. Now Adobe are doing just what Quark did. Why?
Given that we have all been led a merry dance and have been told that rich content and electronic formats are key to modern businesses I feel that Adobe have just given me a huge middle finger. Its like the rise of the internet all over. The promise of WYSIWYG which never materialised making it very hard for small businesses to ever get online unless it looked like something produced by a Microsoft Office techy.
And what about my charity clients? They would love to have their documents published onto the ipad "other tablets available" so are we just to ignore their cries for halp as they lanquish behind because the costs just dont add up?
Oh and once you have paid for the licence that only is for one client. So if you have 30 or so clients they would all have to foot the extra cost which by the way is an annual cost!!
Ok I am going on a bit now but you get the picture.
What the hell is going on? I am just dissapointed.

New restrictions imposed to users of the Digital Publishing Suite (professional edition)

We are a communication agency and we have just be informed by Adobe about the new "rules" imposed to users of the Digital Publishing Suite (professional edition). We are outraged by these practices: Adobe abuses of its leadership position on the market and hold us hostage.
We currently produce institutional magazines for one of our big clients. These magazines are produced in several languages and contain several thematic folios: therefore we manage several individual apps (multi and simple folios). We are planning to add more content and to develop new apps.
The new restrictions imposed to us by Adobe call into question our digital activity. If we follow the new rules, we now will have to buy 6 or more licenses instead of only 1 before. Given the fact that our corporate publications are not sold like commercial magazines, the rise in production cost is unacceptable. We can't forward the significantly higher fees to our client either who will quit the project for sure.
We have chosen the Adobe platform after a careful analysis of its functionalities and its production costs. We trusted Adobe and the DPS platform but the new rules invalidate our choices and overthrow the projects already developed with our client (needing continuous updates), the investments we have made so far in training and development and finally the profitability of the agency itself.
We therefore ask Adobe to come back on its decision and to apply responsible commercial practices with regard to agencies. We also ask Adobe to make sure that agencies that built their digital activities around Adobe tools can plan these activities correctly in the long run and obtain decent returns on their investments. We thus invite Adobe to reestablish the trust it is currently destroying.

This topic is being discussed in detail here.

Digital Publishing Suite vs. Device Central

Dreamweaver 5.5 has a utility named Device Central which appears to emulate the appearance of websites on tablet computers. Given this is true, what development resources would purchase of Digital Publishing Suite gain me that I don't already have available with Device Central?

correction of nomenclature: Dreamweaver CS5.5

Create a iPhone 5 iOs app from a Digital Publishing Suite folio

I had the single DPS edition that I upgrade to Enterprise in order to make iPhone iOs app from InDesign Folio. I did a iPad single App before with the DPS single edition now I want iPhone
but I can not manage to create a iPhone 5 iOs app from a Digital Publishing Suite from a folio made on Adobe inDesign CS6 with iPhone 5 Resolution 1 136 x 640 pixels.
Question :
is this possible and how to do it (i tried so many ways)
if not i just want to understand what is it really possible to do with DPS on iPhone ...

You use App Builder to create an application with both iPad and iPhone checked on the first page. Then you publish your two folios by going to http://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/. The viewer will automatically show the right size one in the library for each device.
It is not possible to have only one folio for each format that launches directly. The only way to get content onto an iPhone with DPS is to do a multi-issue ("multiple publication") application.
Neil

How much does the Digital Publishing Suite cost?

Digital Publishing Suite is available in both a Professional Edition and an Enterprise Edition. Pricing for the Professional Edition is based on a monthly Platform fee--which lets publishers access the Digital Publishing Suite and create apps for all of their titles and publications--as well as a small Service Fee for each publication downloaded by a reader. The Enterprise Edition is a custom, multiyear platform agreement that includes access to APIs for integrating back-end publishing services such as subscription management, print fulfillment, and e-commerce. For more info, see: http://www.adobe.com/products/digitalpublishingsuite/pricing/.

I don't know anything about Newsstand but I doubt that any Adobe software is required. Apple would probably prefer that you use iBooks Author. Usually these things are free (more or less) to publish and it is up to you to negotiate fees from readers. Read more here: https://developer.apple.com/newsstand/

Digital Publishing Suite on PC

Hello Every one
i am planning to buy the suite, i have some questions please
i am Windows user, do i have to buy Mac laptop to export to Ipad or iPhone?
can i preview my contents so i can show my client for example in webspage or any preview program?
if i bought Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition, does this mean one user to use?
Thanks and regards

To add to the remarks from Casey
You need a Mac, not only for DPS Viewer Builder, but also for the Apple SDK / App store submission.
When you have created an IPA with the Viewer Builder, you have to use the iOS SDK (can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Portal) to upload your IPA to Apple. This functionality is not available for Windows / PC
With kind regards,
Klaasjan Tukker
Adobe Systems

Digital Publishing Suite not shown in Creative Cloud Desktop app

Our company just purchased/installed Creative Cloud for Teams for several MAC computers, but only one of them shows Digital Publishing Suite in the CC menu in the taskbar.
The computers are running OS 10.8.5.

Digital Publishing Suite is accessible via an online app at https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com - from there you can downlaod the desktop app which helps you to build the apps and also start to publish. The icon will only appear in the CC menu if you are running the app on that machine... but it's only downloadable from the site.
Hope that helps.

Digital Publishing Suite Help | What's new in this release

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/help/whats-new-release.html

This v28 marks the end of the immersive feeling a Folio could offer the user. In stead of having a truly full-screen experience, there's always that iOS7 system bar in sight. At least, that's what I understand from this documentation. So there's no way to prevent users to be distracted by anything unrelated in their screen. That's a real pity !
Some might think this is just a trivial change with eventually minor impact, but I think being able to present content over the whole screen is a crucial factor in distinguishing a Folio from other publishing formats like a web page.
Does this requirement also affect other apps like e-readers or games ?

How do I create a web streaming app using digital publishing suite?

Hello, and thank you in advance. I'm looking for tutorials and guides on how to create a web streaming version of an app using digital publishing suite. Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Please tell us what you mean by "web streaming." Are you referring to a version of the content that can be viewed in a web browser?

Fast Company Uses Adobe Edge in Digital Publications | Digital Publishing Suite Customer Showcase | Adobe TV

Noah Robischon from Fast Company and Joe Zeff from Joe Zeff Design show how Fast Company uses Adobe Edge to create an engaging HTML5 content that seamlessly integrates with Digital Publishing Suite.
http://adobe.ly/KtSDcN

I think it would be better to delete this video and do it all over again in a more fluent way. The guys on stage are hard to follow (low volume), they never heard of "Reflection" (a simple app to put the iPad's screen on the big presentation display through AirPlay), and the previewing is cumbersome (could be up and running within 2 seconds in stead of 5 minutes).

How to do I acquire Digital Publishing Suite from a Federal Institution at Brazil?

Hi?

Please go here Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and fill the form by clicking the "Contact Us" link

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