Price: $1,195.00
Duration: 2 days
Time: 10am - 6pm
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Publishing on iPad

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Note: This custom-designed class is created and owned by Future Media Concepts. It is not sponsored or authorized by Apple Inc.

Course Description

Adobe® InDesign is a complete solution to create, distribute, monetize, and optimize engaging content and publications for tablet devices as well as computers with its capability to deliver iPad apps as well as interactive eBooks and PDFs.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended to for individuals and organizations who want to be able to create publications for mobile devices including tablets like the iPad and other devices with iPad apps as well with pdfs and eBooks. Participants learn an InDesign document to set or adjust so that the document is optimized for export for these different formats.

Prerequisites

Students who attend "Publishing on iPad" must provide their own iPad. Students should have working knowledge of building general print documents in InDesign, including styles, setting up a document, master pages and books.

Course Outline

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lesson 1: Getting Started
  • Style and design
  • Navigation
  • Interactivity
  • Working with Images
  • Working with audiovisual elements
Lesson 2: PDF
  • Best pdf reader apps for the ipad
  • Why no buttons
  • Why no Flash or video
  • Creating links
  • Books vs no books
  • Keeping the size down
  • Export for interactive PDF
Lesson 3: Epub
  • Epub overview
  • Creating Styles for epub
  • Chapters
  • Embedding fonts
  • Adding Images
  • Adding Video
  • Creating text wraps
  • Adding links: hyperlinks, cross-reference, toc
  • Adding metadata
  • Exporting from InDesign
  • Inside the Epub
  • Add Epub to iTunes & sync to the iPad
  • iTunes Connect Publisher
Lesson 4: Apps
  • Digital suite overview
  • Design strategy
  • Understanding Articles, Layout & Folios
  • Creating and Importing Folios
  • Folio Properties
  • Preview on a Desktop or iPad
  • Sharing Folios
  • Folio Producer
  • Viewer App
  • Publish