1 Reply Latest reply: May 19, 2012 6:05 AM by Johannes Eckert RSS

    Best practice to split up documents into articles?

    Apel Yves Community Member

      Dear Adobe,

       

      at the today's InDesign and DPS session I was asking how the DPS folks, split up the InDesign documents to upload as different articles to the dps? Bob wanted to ask Collin, but forgot to do it!

       

       

      I will explain my situation (supposing that most producers sitting in the same boat):

       

      I have a monthly magazine with about 30 different articles. I receive the print file to create an iPad 1/2, iPad 3 and beginning in next month also an iPhone and Android (also IceCream Sandwich) version. The magazine is just vertical orientation.

       

      Now with CS6, you do a lot of promotional work for the alternate layout feature.

       

      But what is the recommondation or best practice at Adobe to upload this one InDesign document with viewer builder to get an iPad 1/2, iPad 3 and iPhone rendition containing the separation of the different articles? Please let me know a workaround how you do this!

       

       

       

      Kind regards

      Yves

        • 1. Re: Best practice to split up documents into articles?
          Johannes Eckert Community Member

          as you know, you need one indesign file for each article (that file can

          contain cover all devices down to the iphone version). the next article

          needs a new indesign file. you can drag-and-drop pages from one indesign

          file into the new layout to move pages across documents.

           

          if youwant to synchronize settings, try the book feature. but I never

          tested the book feature on CS6/alternative layout compatibility.

           

          —Johannes