Can I generate and keep a folio file on my hard drive, not on my Acrobat.com account?

With you on that one. I have just tried to upload one and can't get it

back down to the iPad. When you hit Preview on the Folio Builder in Cs5 it renders it and loads it

into the desktop viewer so you would have thought it may be on the HD somewhere

You cannot sideload content to the Adobe Content Viewer. However, you can use the Viewer Builder to create a custom viewer app with sideloading capabilities.

You can preview and test multiple articles in a folio. In the Folio Builder, select the folio (not the article), and click Preview.

You should also be able to rotate the viewer to view the other layout. Perhaps you added only one layout when you created the article. If this is the case, open the document, double-click the article in the Folio Builder panel, and add the new layout. (You can also import articles from an existing folder structure.)

How can we sideload to a custom viewer?

I've created one, but which files do I need to send to the iPad?

To distribute folios to a simple audience just share the folio via the Folio Producer panel to your readers. Anyone with the Adobe Conter viewer tool on their device and an acrobat.com account can download and view the folio in the content viewer.

I believe that since CS5 and the introduction of CS Review for video files that the limit is now 2GB for individual files on Acrobat.com.

Please tell me this 100MB limit is a joke...

The current "Quarkexpress" option is being discontinued  and replaced with the aquafados Digital Publishing solution.  You can get the same solution within Indesign for the same price and functionality.  Aquafados  released the pricing earlier last week.,.  @$500 for a single app... and an "in app purchase publication" starting at $1500+(300 X the number of publications you can purchase inside the app) ... Since the entire solution is XML content pulled from the  server based.. if you have a $5 shared server environment... you will see a dramatic "lag" in your apps performance and any website you have hosted.  We have been testing both and Adobe's solution is still top for us.. both in value and performance.

Can you describe the process for downloading the file from Acrobat.com to the iPad?

Just sign in on the iPad using the same user id and password. You'll receive notification of an issue being available.

Bob

Thanks Bob,

Just realized how it's supposed to work... I consider myself to be a fairly normally gifted person, so after having spent about 3 h figuring out the new workflow including visiting numerous forums, googling, calling my Adobe contact in Sweden (I thank god for getting hold of that cell phone number) and watching a few Adobe videos I must say that Adobe have failed introducing this new version of the software.

/Gustav

Whoa whoa.  Let's backup a second.

100MB limit?

Where is this called out on the Acrobat.com pricing page?  lol.

Is this increased with the paid Basic or Plus service?

Each individual article is limited to 100M, not the entire folio. Folio's are made up of articles and the limit on the size of a folio is the limit on the amount of storage space you have purchased in Acrobat.com. I believe the free ADC account is limited to 2GB of storage.

Where is that spelled out?

And does the 100MB limit per article increase with the Basic and Plus paid versions?

..and 100MB limit?  Jeesh.  That means pretty much any video content over 30sec long is out.  lol.

Does the DPS subscribtion service have this kind of limitation??

Again, anyone know if the paid acrobat.com plans have this limit?

There are ways to "streamline" your file size.

From the Documentation:

Currently, you cannot specify a URL to stream audio or video from the web using the Audio & Video overlay. However, you can stream media using a Web Content overlay or an HTML article.

So it is possible to host your own content to view inside of your folio.  HTML is really handy esp HTML5 (which we have extended to show things like youtube video inside our folios).

But again....is there a 100MB limit with the DPS service?  Or just the Acrobat.com hosting method?

At $5000+, I'd certainly hope not.

Yah we have been testing the aquafadas solution as well, but found that because it depends so much on YOUR server environment it is slow performing.  The pricing structure is also high.  { $500 per one publication app and $1500 + ($300 X the number of issues) for "multi issue" apps}  i haven't herd much on the size limit though i try and ask.

100MB per article not per Folio.A folio is made up of articles, each of which have 1 or 2 layouts per article.

Considering that Wired, MSLO, Nat GEO and others manage to fit about 60-80 high design, high resolution, highly interactive articles into 500mb or so, I'm curious what content is being authored that is hitting up against this limit. Sure, I know you can hit this by embedding video into an article. I'm just curious why you are choosing digital publishing to do this sort of distribution.

Everyone keeps thinking MAGAZINES.

There's more to publishing than magazines.

Let's take a product brochure.  It could have several articles, each featuring an aspect of the product or different models.  Many of which could include video demos.  If you've got a 3min demo video, you may be hard pressed to get that file size down to an acceptable level and keep the quality.

So this is definitely an ARTICLE limitation, no matter what the distribution platform, correct?

Landrv1 What happened to your argument that you wanted to load from your server your server your server? if your streaming a video from your server you wont see a bloated file size.  Wired's current biggest complaint is the fact they embed all the video inside the app creating these HUGE files.  LOL im checking with our licensing partner to see what the currently limitation is for file size for pro accounts if any.

streaming = horrid solution

Because I'm not creating magazines - but promo material - the people grabbing the folios will just have to suffer the 1.5GB download.

They have classes available where they learn to blow through that pain.  lol.

jeez are you leaving these videos full rez?! It is not like your showing these videos on a 1080 Dpi screen.

The Adobe partner that we are working with said the Acrobat.com limit does not apply to DPS clients using the DPS dashboard.

lol.  Not at all.  Many vids will be animations at 864x480 - not even 720p!

Adobe gave word today that the 100MB limit applies to both paid and free accounts as well as the DPS customers (because they all run on the acrobat.com framework) They based the limit off the Folios they were seeing from the pre-release and may or maynot update the limit in future releases.

Gave word where? That doesn't sound right at all.

Bob

That's not exactly what was said....

The 100MB limit per file exists for both paid DPS and free acrobat.com customers. It's a technical limitation we will look to remove in a future release. We scanned the existing folios marked as public on the distribution service and across all the content put up by the desktop bundler (which did not have the 100MB per article limit) and the largest article we found was 70MB.

I'd love to hear the use cases for articles over 100MB because we have a lot of professional publishers generating content on the system and they aren't hitting that limit today. As we look to add new features and address new customers it helps me to understand these real world scenarios so we can make the software work for everyone.

For example I'd love to hear what the 1.5GB folio of promotional material is being used for. How many articles does it contain, what's the audience, etc.

I also read all the arguments both pro and con for sideloading.

Please remember that the 100MB limit is not on a folio. It's per article. Folios consist of multiple articles and folios can be up to the size of storage in your acrobat.com account (currently 2GB for a free account).

John i updated my response on the pre-release forum as this is where you orginally discussed the consideration for the limit.  But what your saying as of Today the limit stands? and we will have to wait for a future release to see the limit lifted?  Is Adobe planning on adding this to the documentation beause i know its a frequent question from my own clients as well as forum users.

As of today the limit exists. It's not a quota issue where I can just bump it from 100MB to something larger. To change the limit requires engineering changes and needs to be scoped and scheduled. It will get addressed, I'm not at liberty to provide dates on when that will be.