Folio Builder Question

If I install the Folio Producer tools for CS5 can I still preview folios on my iPad without having purchased the Digital Publishing Suite?

As far as I can tell the reason you purchase the Digital publishing suite is to be able to produce commercial publications. I'm not sure if there is a plan for non commercial or internal publications.
The way I understand it is that you produce in InDesign and providing you have the directory structures and file names and other stuff sorted you can buiild your folio on adobe.com provided you can login though I just noticed tonight when I tried it that on the free service you can only have 1 folio.
You can share with people, again you are limited with the free service and they have the content viewer on their device and can download and view.
I may be wrong and I am having some issues getting this whole process to wok (see my other post) where it was working before when I was producing folio files with the previous version and side loading them through iTunes

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InDesign CS6 folio builder/links question. For iPad app.

Hi there. I am a graphic designer who is very experienced in InDesign using the software for print purposes. I am now branching out with the capacities CS6 has and am learning to design (mainly presentation) apps for the iPad. So, I've designed a portfolio as a multiple page document with both portrait and landscape page orientations. The app would consist of a starter page which would be a load of animation exported as swf, and imported back into InDesign as HTML5, or MP4, or however (I haven't nailed this yet as I'm leaving this till last as this page will serve as a screen saver until swiped). When the viewer swipes page 1 they will enter into the main 'contents' page with a load of thumbnails of clients I have and within those clients a load of case studies. So, I've roughly designed the layout and will need to build but I need to know what I'm limited by.
Page 1 title page,
page 2 contents (with scrollable bar with links to other pages)
page 3 will be the 1st client and will need approx 6 case studies, which I presume I'll need to make extra pages. And so on.
Anyhow, I digress – the question I ask is that to upload and test on the iPad through content viewer I obviously need to upload the articles as separate pages (incorporating both H & V orientations) but would I make the links from my 'contents' page when the document was a multiple page document (ie in it's original state) or would I apply these links (as buttons I presume rather than hyperlinks) when the articles have been separated and I'm working with page 01, 02, 03 etc in folio builder?. I know how how to create buttons from thumbnails but I can't work out how to link them to their desired targets (next page/page no/ etc etc) for the record I want to present my work on an iPad as an app, without relying on WIFI or 3G. Last question (phew) Is I have a picture frame with a slideshow in - is it possible for the viewer to click these and open them in full screen mode and flick/navigate through that way? then click via a cross in the top corner back to the screen they were on. Very grateful for any replies – It's a steep learning curve from print! Steve C, London, England

Steve,
we have many resources, from step-by-step tutorials to videos and more at our DPS Developer Center at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishingsuite.html.
There is also a very cool (and free) app called DPS Tips with many examples on using interactive overlays in DPS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/digital-publishing-suite-tips/id436199090?mt=8
The iPad Publishing Companion Guide PDF is available on the DPS Dashboard (https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com). The link to download the Companion Guide is available in the "Additional Resources" section on the Dashboard.
I think that these resources will provide answers to most of your questions.

May 2nd, requires a mandatory update of the folio builder panel question

Does this update require another update for the Adobe content viewer on iPAD and will have to be approved from Apple again?

Bob are you trolling me?
You keep repeating the same mantra and ignoring the basic components of my questions, which could be answered in the context of other versions, if it were really a problem to talk about CS6 (it isn't - see below). For example you could say "In CS5.5, when Help > Updates doesn't update the panel, it means you need to install _______ OR it means these files ______ are corrupted. Delete them and try again." Those might not make any sense because I don't know what the actual answer is, but hopefully you get the idea.
By "Builder panel: I mean the Folio Builder panel. Located at the bottom of the stack in the Digital Publishing workspace. AFAIK there isn't another panel that uses the name "builder" (?) so I assumed people would understand what I meant. It is this panel that integrates people's InDesign content into the DPS workflow, is it not? This is where people "experiment" with DPS formatting of documents, based on the tutorials I've seen. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else that has to be installed separately.
My final words on CS6:
CS 6 is not shipping but it IS available (legitimately) to some people and there is no longer an NDA for those people. Perhaps you're under a special embargo not related to the ones that partners and pre-release people had (which were all lifted on the 23rd according to Adobe's own announcements for those people). Other examples that demonstrate there is no limitation about discussing CS6 in the context of DPS:
This week this was posted here.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60-21ba9a4512e5e5e0b8d-7 ffe.html
It talks in part, about DPS in the context of CS6...
This was posted here.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60-21ba9a4512e5e5e0b8d-8 000.html
It also talks about DPS in the context of CS6...
...if there were an embargo on discussing CS6 in the context of DPS those documents would not be live. Simple as that.
All that being said:
Are you saying the updated Builder Panel being talked about in this and other threads, is not related to CS6? Tangent to that: when people say "Folio Producer Tools", is the Builder Panel (any version of InDesign) a part of those tools? I'm sorry with all these questions. I've done some homework (reading the product literature, watching tutorials and webcasts) and I am ready to dive in and get to other topics (related to producing content / testing content) but I am stuck at a point where it appears I can't do anything.

Folio Builder panel question

I can't see my old folios, that were created a year ago on the Folio Builder panel.
Also I do not see "Show All" folios option on this panel.
What I can do to fix the problem?
Thanks,
KK

Bob,
The fact is that I can see my folios in Folio Producer and I do not have two different Adobe accounts.
My problem is that I can't see these folios (except the recent one, see above) in the Folio Builder panel.
If I need to make any editing to the articles, how do I handle it if I can't see and update Article in the Folio Builder?
If anything can't be done, I will recreate these folios under different names.
We (Georgia Tech) are moving towards Enterprise Edition, and plan to publish our earlier created folios. But we may need to edit them before publishing.
Thanks,
KK

PC content viewer shows only low res thumbnails of PDF folios (from folio builder)

Since i can't seem to find a similar question, here's my story:
I've recently held a small class of 2*18 students, running various versions of indesign (mostly Cs6 and CC) and various OS (MacOs, Win7, Win 8).
On the Win 7 and 8 systems, some of the students had a blurry/low res and no interactivity feature output of anything coming from Folio Builder.
Regular Interactive Overlay Folio preview always turned well, and preview on the devices were ok too (except for the long process of putting things online when the PC users would want to preview on an iPad).
But i couldn't work them out of the horrible low res preview when the folios were built in Folio Builder.
So far i haven't found time to narrow the failing machines (we didn't have a lot of time for this).
Is this problem known ? Is there a workaround ?

Hi bob, as i mentionned in the title, it's the PC (aka desktop) Content Viewer that's concerned.
I know it's supposed to be rasterized, but the problem here is their (desktop) Content Viewer really displays the thumbnails instead of the expected (and interactive) content.
I had never encountered this kind of behaviour before, and couldn't track that on the website.

Problem with "small black line in right margin" with Folio Builder / Adobe Viewer in Ipad. Id CC.

Hi there,
When I create a Folio Builder and I check my Id project in the Adobe Viewer (It happens in the Ipad App and in the Desktop Viewer), I can see a black line in the right margin (maybe 4 px). And I can't adjust my background (It's an object with a colour) to use the "full resolution available for the app in the ipad", and yes, I'm using rules and I can see that my background object it's 1024 x 768. I have tryed several projects and upgraded the project to the "30 version".
But I'm a new user with ID/DPS. So, is this a reported bug? Or I'm doing sth wrong?
And for me, the most important question, will this problem be solved when I send my project to the applestore and DPS transform my Folio to the Store? Or what I see now it's what I will see?
Thanks!

Sorry! I have found an answer here in the discussion:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5835960#5835960
So, the problem will be solved in the final app, and it's just the scroll in the Viewer.
Thanks!

InDesign Folio Builder Passwort Limitation

Hi,
please do NOT move this to the DPS Threads as it is a InDesign Software Question/Problem. (only move it, if the programming folk doing the Folio Producer thing lives at DPS)
I have already started a thread in DPS Forums how to overcome the problem with DPS. http://forums.adobe.com/message/4854578#4854578
This is a InDesign Software Question/Issue
InDesign CS6 Windows (sorry) Version does limit my DPS Password to 6-12 digits.
InDesign/Folio Builder Version: current, all updates applied
Unfortunately, I use a 13 digits password (Let me say this: on one hand i am forced to make my passwords longer and more complex all over the web and on the other hand sofwtare programmers limit the number of digits i can enter).
The DPS server, in detail Adobe-IDs, perfectly allow to be > 12 digits.
- Is there any way to overcome this limitation?
I also post this with my heart full of hope that InDesign Folio Producer AddIn programming folk sees this or get informed about this issue and might loosen the limitation in the next patch and provide this tomorrow morning to me
cheers
p.s. changing the password does not solve my problem, it is more complex....i need to use that 13 digits pw on folio producer

Digital Publishing Suite is produced by an entirely different software team than InDesign. I don't believe that the dialog you're showing us (which I can't read because I don't speak German) has anything to do with InDesign.
And, even if it did, this forum is not a way to make a feature request. No product managers come here. This is a forum for users. I'd suggest the Adobe Feature Request form would be the best way to reach them.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Folio Builder with InDesign 5.5 trial

OK so apologies if this is stupid but here's a question:
We're trying to create a demo version of a DPS document to show our publisher to approve purchasing DPS. We currently have InDesign 5.5 installed and are working on a file with interactive elements (buttons, hyperlinks, etc.) built in. I would like to be able to export the .folio file to the content viewer so it can be viewed on the iPad during our presentation, but when I click on the Folio Builder window it says I still need to download the latest version. But when I download that and install it, I still get the same message on the Folio Builder window. So the question is, can I upload a .folio file that can be viewed with the Content Viewer on the iPad using the trial version, or do I need the full version of 5.5? And if not, then any idea why I would still be getting this message?
Thanks.

Having the exact same problem. When I access the Folio Builder I get a message do download an update. I have downloaded and installed the update twice. I have uninstalled and re-installed InDesign 5.5 (I have a licensed version). Still get the message to downlaod the update.

Error when opening folio builder

I get the error IMSMANAGER_ERROR_ENCODING when i try to open the folio builder
I have re-installed and used the adobe cleaner in between installations.
I have also logged into the adobe site successfully and accepted the terms and agreements.

This is a DPS question, so I've moved your question to the DPS forum.

Can I use Folio Builder with my Adobe ID on another computer?

I'm working in Windows XP. I have a folio hosted in my free acrobat.com workspace, with the source files on a network drive. If I sit at someone else's computer in my workgroup and log in to Folio Builder, I can see my folio and can edit and save the articles just fine but I cannot Update them. Any attempt to Update an article in Folio Builder produces a 'content generation error'. Any attempt to get a Preview produces the same error.
Back on my own computer, everything is hunky dory.
Is this expected behaviour? Do Preview and Update rely on temp files in my specific Application Data folder, perhaps? I have ditched InDesign prefs on the computer in question but it makes no difference.
Alistair

Hello John,
Yes, the ability to relink (much like you can do with media in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and InDesign) is what I had in mind. I actually did look for a place in Folio Builder that would let me redefine the location of the parent folder for all of my folios. In the video production world we have to move and share source and media files with other people frequently so I was surprised to learn this wasn't yet supported with ADPS.
For us the main reasons for some sort of relinking ability are:
- When you need to update files on a work trip, from home, or some other mobile situation.
- For instances in the future when you have backed up a project and need to restore it to make updates.
- When you need to hand over a project to someone else at a different workstation or even another facility.
Of the two choices you mentioned, I think the ability to "fix" the broken links makes the most sense for the situations I've encountered so far. Assuming it's straightforward I would have no problem going through the process when switching machines. I would assume that print designers are familiar enough with linked assets that they wouldn't have a problem with this either.
Andrew

Relinking missing things in Folio Builder

Hi, folks
I usually work with CS6 in a desktop with Windows 7 but I have to finish my work with a MacBook due to the constraints imposed by Adobe DPS. That said, I sometimes need to work in a different computer (at the job, somewhere else...). To speed up the work and to avoid compatibility issues, I use sidecar.xml to assembly the app and opentype fonts... I keep my work at an external harddrive that I plug whenever I need (no trouble at all with it being a NTFS drive, btw, tuxera came to the rescue).
But what really nags me and what I find a real and royal pain in the neck is the need to relink articles to pages (InDesign or HTML) in Folio Builder every time I need to do something in another computer.
The question is: Is there any way or script I could use to make this relinking in a speedy and, if possible, automated way?
(Pretty please)
Gustavo (Posting from madrid)

@Charlie – this script is wonderful to relink InDesign documents with assets, but it cannot provide a way of linking folio articles to InDesign documents.
Folio articles are organized in a "afc.db" database file and are coded with the full name of the local harddisk AND the user account name (if my memory serves me right).
It is NOT advisable to edit the "afc.db" which is constantly updated, if you work on your folios.
So, if you take at one hand a Windows 7 machine and at the other hand a MacBook Pro you cannot have the "same" paths on both machines. At least I do not know a workflow where this is possible.
In the case of two Macs it should be possible to use one of the machines over the other, if you make sure that the name of the harddisk and the name of the user account is the same on both machines AND if you take the whole "dmp" folder where your folio data and the "afc.db" is stored together with all the assets (InDesign files together with all their assets) to the second machine. Of course you have to put the data in the same folder structure…
In that very special case you don't need to relink anything…
But that configuration will be a rare case.
Uwe

How can I set my folio to 'public' (created in 'Digital Publishing Suite' folio-builder & producer)

Hi guys,
I have created a book in Indesign and published it Folio Builder and put it online with Folio Producer.
Now I would like to have my client and a group of reviewers to view it online on their tablets, but they can't. I have invited them using the 'share' menu, they created an adobe ID, downloaded the viewer app, but they still can't.
My feeling is that it is because I can not set my folio to be published 'public' (please see screenshot).
Now my question is why can't I set the folio to 'public'?
I am a Adobe creative cloud member.

You need a DPS Professional or an Enterprise Account to publish as Public, With Adobe Creative Cloud workflow, you can create an app by using 'Create App' command from Folio Builder Panel.
Now to share the folio with reviewers, just share the folios with the Adobe id's using the Share button (Two figures) in Folio Producer. Your reviewers will need to download Adobe Content Viewer from App store, login with their id's and then they can download and check out the folio.

Missing Folio Builder Panel

I'm running Indesign CS 6 and recently updated DPS desktop tools. Since then, the Folio builder panel went missing and I can't get it back. Please help!
Actually, there is the whole windows>extensions tab missing and the extension manager is not showing DPS desktop tools at all. I installed AdobeExchange, which shows up in the extension manager but still no windows>extensions tab ...

I've moved your question to the DPS forum which is the best place to get an answer.

I am having trouble starting Indesign with the folio builder panel

Every time I start indesign and change my tools to the DPS tool set the folio builder pannel flickers and then disappears and then indesign shuts down.
I had some success deleting the preferences files but need a long term fix. Any thoughts?

Well yes, of course you are having trouble using MobileMe because MobileMe no longer exists and has not existed for the last 2 years at least.
MobileMe has been replaced by iCloud, so you will never be able to use MobileMe because it does not exist.
Also, I would suggest that you look more closely before you post, because you have posted this in an iPhone forum and this question has nothing to do with iPhones. You would get more help if you posted in the correct forum.

Folio Builder Panel on 2nd Monitor Crashing Indesign

I am not sure if this question is appropriate in this forum or the indesign forum, but Ill start here.
I keep all my indesign palettes on a second monitor, and now everytime I open Indesign it repeatedly crashes unless I do a fresh open after deleteing my preferences.
Through trial and error I have narrowed down the issue to the Folio Builder Panel. If i open indeisgn with the folio builder panel open on a second monitor it crashes my system everytime.
Anyone else ever had a similiar issue?

Thanks Bob for your super fast reply. Cheers!

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