InDesign to iPad and Tablets - eMagazines: $995
Course Description
The iPad is revolutionising the publishing world with its on-line magazines, newspapers, corporate & retail literature. This new means of accessing information with mobile devices is allowing organisations to provide an interactive experience that will have more impact with their customers, clients and employees.
Learn how to use InDesign and the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to produce interactive publications for tablet devices, such as the iPad. Techniques taught include: building panoramas, using 3D viewers, incorporating video and audio, animation, and linking to online content. Ideal for producing eMagazines, online Annual Reports, How-tos and Course Materials etc. for a range of screens and mobile devices.
Prerequisites
Students should have either completed the 2 day InDesign Essentials course or be confident with InDesign's print publishing procedures, such as using Master Pages, linking Text Frames, creating and editing Paragraph and Character Styles and working with Images.
Course Outline: 
The Digital Publishing Workflow
- Storyboard your Magazine
- Collect your assets
- Create the InDesign Layout
- Add copy and media content
- Add navigation and interactivity
- Create portrait and landscape layouts
- Folder and file structuring
- Creating Folios
- Load and test your Folio files
- Distribution of your publication
Document Planning
- Questions you need to ask
- Document Sketching and Mockup
- Defining asset needs
Constructing the InDesign Document
- Page size considerations
- Device specific aspect ratio
- Horizontal and Vertical layouts
- Using Layout Adjustment
- Layer considerations with interactive content
- Creating a Folio
- Adding multiple articles
- Converting a print layout
- Uploading articles
- Previewing a Folio
Gathering and Managing Assets
- Exporting images for digital publishing
- Converting graphics files to a usable format
- Sound effects
- Music
- Adding a large image with Pan and Zoom
- Using the Overlay Creator Panel
- Adding a Poster
Adding Scrollable Content
- Adding Scrolling Text
- Establishing a Relationship Between Content & Placeholder Frame
- Adding Inset Spacing
- Adding a Scrollable Group
Adding Video and Audio Files
- Adding a simple controller
- Adding a progressive controller
- Controlling Playback of Video and Audio
Adding a 360° Panorama
- Setting initial zoom
- Changing the starting view
- Looping
- Adding a normal image sequence
Creating a Slideshow
- Adding images for a slideshow
- Adding buttons
- Adding actions & states to buttons
Adding Live Web Content
- Web content overlay
- Loading a webpage
- Adding a placeholder image
Adding Hyperlinks
- Adding external links
- Having links open in the device's browser
- Adding email & iTunes links
Adding Navigation
- Adding navigation links
- Linking to articles & pages
- Creating Custom Navigation Buttons
- Using Master Pages with navigation
- Swiping and scrolling with tablets
- Adding navigation control to your TOC
- Page Jumping
- Linking to other documents
Adding Interactivity with Native Tools
- Multi-State Objects
- Creative Navigation with Multi-State Objects
- Roll Over Effects
- Popups
- Transitions
Publishing for iPad, Android and other tablets
- Using Adobe's Digital Publishing plugins to package for devices
- Folder structuring for proper development
- File naming conventions for multiple orientations
Publishing an Interactive PDF
- Limitations of PDF
- Benefits of PDF
- Why choose PDF?
Testing & Distribution
- Testing content on local device(s)
- Using Adobe's Digital Editions
- Other Self Publishing resources
| MELBOURNE | February | March | April | May | June | July |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | 20 | 1 15 |
16 | 8 30 |
21 | 24 |
| InDesign Essentials | 20 & 21 | 1 & 2 15 & 16 |
16 & 17 | 8 & 9 30 & 31 |
21 & 22 | 9 & 10 24 & 25 |
| InDesign Advanced: |
22 & 23 | — | 12 & 13 | 10 & 11 | 25 & 26 | 16 & 17 Aug |
| InDesign Advanced Long Documents |
22 | — | 12 | 10 | 25 | 16 August |
| eBooks: Creating ePubs | 8 & 9 | — | 4 & 5 | 28 & 29 | — | 16 & 17 |
| eMagazines: InDesign to iPad | — | 5 & 6 | — | 1 & 2 | 28 & 29 | 30 & 31 |
| BRISBANE | February | March | April | May | June | July |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | 13 | 5 28 |
16 | 15 | 5 28 |
24 |
| InDesign Essentials | 13 & 14 | 5 & 6 28 & 29 |
16 & 17 | 15 & 16 | 5 & 6 28 & 29 |
24 & 25 |
| InDesign Advanced | — | 19 & 20 | — | 24 & 25 | — | 19 & 20 |
| InDesign Long Documents | — | 19 | — | 24 | — | 19 |
| InDesign Interactivity & Animation | — | 12 | — | — | 29 | — |
| eMagazines: InDesign to iPad | — | 13 & 14 | — | — | — | 2 & 3 |
| eBooks: Creating ePubs | Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. Private training can be organised onsite. |
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