Designing in Adobe InDesign CS5 for the upcoming Adobe Digital Publishing Suite entails creating a document that's 1024 x 768 pixels or 768 x 1024 pixels. But the Adobe Viewer obscures a 6 pixel vertical region on the right side of the screen with a vertical scroll indicator, and the Viewer "chrome" that appears when the user taps occupies 44 pixels at the top and bottom of the screen.
I've created a couple of simple CS5 template files, one for each orientation, that mark these regions with guides, have the measurement system set to pixels, and the transparency blend space sent to RGB. For more information, read the explanatory notes on the pasteboard of page one in the templates.
You may download the free templates here. I hope you find these useful!
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Great idea, Keith. The templates are excellent.
-Bob Bringhurst
can't download..:-(
Link says file///volume etc..
cheers m.
Oops! I've fixed the download link in the original post. It will work now.
Thanks a lot!!
Thank you very much for these templates.
Thank you, Keith!
Do you know of any summer courses on how to develop an iPad app for a newspaper publication using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite?
@Assignments: No, sorry I don't know of any courses.
Learning things already soon after opening them. You rock! Thanks so much.
Can you downsave these for CS4?
I've updated the template zip file to include .idml files for use in CS4. Even though DPS doesn't work with CS4, this allows one to create static screens for DPS using CS4, and then hand these screens off to someone with CS5 and DPS to include in a DPS app.
do you have InDesign templates, like this, for Android and for Playbook tablets that also show the guides/boundries/scroll?
Thanks in advance.
Tom
Tom, sorry, I don't have templates for Android/Playbook. I hope to do that someday!
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