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Issue with auto-play slideshow on the cover/first page

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:19:50 GMT

I'm finding a strange problem in a project that's about to ship.

Our "cover" is a full-screen slideshow (really some type animation) that is a simple slideshow through states. It look great in the Content Viewer.

When we build the app in Viewer Builder, the slideshow does not play. Just sits on the first image.

I know there's an issue about HTML "auto playing" on the first page (that is, you can't). But didn't think that applied to dps slideshows.

Has anyone seen this issue? Any solutions?

Thanks

Specifying ios version in Viewer Builder?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:23:29 GMT

I have a folio that includes some html that, at a late date, we've discovered is not ios4.3-friendly.

In xCode we could spec an app as ios5-only.

Is there a way to do this within DPS, or in iTunesConnect?

thanks

ipad3/2048 performance issues

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:29:03 GMT

I'm working on a regular and "HD" single-issue publication, and find that performance with the 2048 folio on an ipad3 is noticeably worse than a 1024 folio on an ipad2/3.

I think the question has been broached elsewhere.

The issue is in very simple interaction: tapping an image to bring up a caption state. On the 1024 folio, response is basically instant. (Cross fade is set at .125 second.) On the 2048 folio, response is not instance -- feels like a .1 or .2 second pause before anything happens.

Folio is set up as a PDF, with PDF zoom disabled.

Has anyone else confronted this issue?

thanks

Affiliate links & app store approval

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:44:13 GMT

I've shied away from commerce in apps -- but would love to include some amazon affiliate links in something I'm working on. Has anyone done this, for physical goods, e.g., books? In the past, Amazon frowned on links from mobile devices, though that was pre-ipad days, and now we get into a semantic discussion about a mobile device. I'm more worried about Apple and their policies about "buy" links, though I think Apple's rules are (more) specific to digital goods.

If anyone has experience with this, pro or con, please share.

Thanks
David

Kindle single-folio apps?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:29:43 GMT

Is it still not possible to build single-folio apps for Kindle? (And Android in general?)

I'm assuming that hasn't changed but haven't paid attention. If not possible, is it on the horizon? (Is it a Kindle Store issue, or a viewer builder issue? Assuming the former.)

thanks

Turn off Adobe's chrome

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:17:54 GMT

Boy I'd love to be able to turn off Adobe's built-in interface elements, or sometimes to use some but not all.

A truly flexible platform for building apps allows for a custom UI; when we were weighing Adobe vs. Woodwing, the most important thing Woodwing had going for it was the ability to turn the woodwing-ness of it off and build your own navigation.

Every Adobe app is identifiable as an adobe app; this is not a great thing for developers or users. The relatively large footprint of the Adobe chrome is also a big negative for me. Mostly, though, it's the inflexiblity here. Everything about DPS is pretty flexible, except this.

(Everyone else's suggestions are great -- buttons in MSOs is a limitation I'm hitting this very moment.)

David

PDF pinch & zoom -- 72 dpi limit?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:53:16 GMT

I'm experimenting with the new pinch & zoom/PDF format with interactivity in v18 -- which works and that's great.

But as I zoom into my page -- a full page image -- the resolution is quickly an issue, as the 72dpi image gets ugly & pixelized long before I've zoomed all the way in. Is there any way around this problem? I'm kind of assuming that 1024x768/72dpi is what it is and there's no changing it for now. Though I see that in CS6 there's a dpi specification when you're making a new folio. So maybe this is coming soon, having a more useful zoom?

I guess the question is, are there any way to adjust settings of a PDF folio?

thanks

HTML/js alternative for pinch & zoom? Sencha?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:09:18 GMT

I'm trying to implement pinch & zoom into images, and don't want to use the problematic Pan&Zoom overlay built-in. Does anyone know of an HTML version of this? Has anyone used Sencha Touch within DPS? (Which could probably be used for a nice pinch&zoom feature.)

I've found more complex things, like an html implementation of panoramas, but nothing simple like pinch&zoom.

Thanks

Best practices for archiving a published app?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:13:05 GMT

So say you've finally published your (single-folio) app with DPS.

What's the best way to deal with that folio now, in the Folio Builder panel? (I made what was probably a mistake of building the final version using my primary dps account, not one set up only for the publication.) I've locked it in Folio Producer, which I assume will prevent me from accidentally doing anything to it -- though I haven't tested it.

With a print publication, I'd be archiving everything and setting aside my final files. What's a good thing to do with these? (This points out some more big gaps in DPS workflow, such as organizing your folio builder and a "package" or "archive" function.)

Any stories of what you've done to safely archive would be appreciated.

Thanks

Nov 11 update = not importing HTML articles

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:10:30 GMT

This morning's update went smoothly, but now HTML articles that imported yesterday will no longer import.

HTML import has been a little funky for weeks, sometimes I'd have to quit indesign and re-start. Now, it's always just a spinning wheel. For local folios and acrobat.com ones.

Anyone having the same issue? Or the earlier one, of having to quit and restart to bring an html article in?

Luckily it was 99.9% done last night.

How to not have a Folio Number in the Title Bar

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:19:31 GMT

I'm building a final viewer/app for distribution, and found an issue I don't see a way around.

It's a single-issue folio. Everything's looking great. But the "Folio Number" is showing up in the title bar of the app. As you know, the Dashboard doesn't let you leave that field blank.

So: What do I do to not have a folio number, and/or not have a number in my title bar? Or have I set some other thing to "1" and forgot about it? Is there some place where I tell viewer builder that it's a single-folio?

It feels like a very dumb question, but it's my most pressing one for now.

Thanks for your help.

Is there an updated "Adobe Publishing Process" doc?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:59:58 GMT

I have a copy of the "Adobe Publishing Process for iPad Viewer apps" document from Adobe, revised for viewer builder 1.3.

Is there a more recent version of this document, for 1.5?

Thanks. (I asked support and just got a fresh version of the 1.3 doc, but not sure I trust that response.)

Autoplay video within an HTML article?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:51:51 GMT

As the title says -- I have an HTML article whose code starts a video playing. This works fine in Safari on the Mac, but in the Viewer, it makes me tap to start the video (or start the whole script?).

Some googling and asking indicates that this may be a limitation imposed by apple, to avoid hijacked web pages. Not sure about that.

This is the "cover" of the app, and I need it to start by itself, or I'll need to jettison all the HTML functionality and just use it as an autoplay video.

Has anyone come up against this before? Or is my code just wrong?

thanks
David

strategy for making a pop-up slideshow?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:01:14 GMT

I want to be able to tap a photo and then go to a full-page (or nearly) slideshow (and then back to the original page). I'm wondering if anyone has found an interesting strategy for this -- for a slideshow that doesn't become a page you can navigate to.

The easy ways to do it are to have an in-between page as the slideshow, or a page at the end of the article as the slideshow. But what I really want is a slideshow function that doesn't "count" as a page. DPS doesn't let you hide things very well! Doing a single image pop-up is easy with an MSO, but I don't see anywhere to take it from there, since I can't put an HTML overlay into that MSO...

If anyone has a slideshow idea to share, that would be appreciated.

Thanks

David

Video on Android: Full screen only?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:19:45 GMT

Working on an Android project and wanting a piece of video to play "inline," as it does on the ipad. But it always jump up to full screen. Even worse, there is no "Done" button on Android video play -- so I have to watch the whole thing!.

I guess that's two questions, for you Android people. What are the limitations on video here, and is it true that there's no way to stop a video and return to your folio?

(Using Android 2.2)

Thanks

David

Single issue apps on Android?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:05:28 GMT

In an older document, I see mention that single-issue folios won't work for Android. ("You can create multi-folio viewer apps, not single-folio viewer apps.")

Is this limitation still in effect with the latest Viewer Builder, v15?

thanks

Embedding Adobe fonts in a folio: any issues?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:08:40 GMT

Adobe's font licensing terms/faq don't seem to address embedding Adobe fonts in a DPS folio.

I'm assuming that folio-embedding terms will be the same as PDFs -- that is, fonts that are okay for print and preview embedding in a PDF are okay for folios, too.

Is there an official policy for folio embedding? Anyone have this issue come up already?

Thanks!

Moving an entire folio between users?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:43:13 GMT

This feels like a really obvious question, but here goes:

What's the best/easiest way to move a whole folio, with its individual indd files, from one user to another? A colleague on the west coast has created a folio with a number of articles, which we can share very easily, but sharing isn't the same thing as moving the "source" files. There's notes in various threads about this becoming a .zip, but I can't see where that comes into play. I'll note that I'm in the queue to be an official dps user, and/but for now we're just using the basic, out of the box cs5.5 tools & acrobat.com. Is it possible to "export" without the "real" dps?

Thanks
David