Thursday, February 03, 2011

iPad layout templates for the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

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!

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great idea, Keith. The templates are excellent.

-Bob Bringhurst

Anonymous said...

can't download..:-(
Link says file///volume etc..
cheers m.

Keith Gilbert said...

Oops! I've fixed the download link in the original post. It will work now.

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot!!

Jaddie Dodd said...

Thank you very much for these templates.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, Keith!

Assignments said...

Do you know of any summer courses on how to develop an iPad app for a newspaper publication using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite?

Keith Gilbert said...

@Assignments: No, sorry I don't know of any courses.

Anonymous said...

Learning things already soon after opening them. You rock! Thanks so much.

Anonymous said...

Can you downsave these for CS4?

Keith Gilbert said...

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.

Anonymous said...

do you have InDesign templates, like this, for Android and for Playbook tablets that also show the guides/boundries/scroll?


Thanks in advance.

Tom

Keith Gilbert said...

Tom, sorry, I don't have templates for Android/Playbook. I hope to do that someday!