CS 5.5. Design Standard Feature Tour Overview

[Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard] [Create More Compelling Ebooks with InDesign CS5.5] Hello and welcome to What's New in Creative Suite Design Premium CS5.5. My name is Terry White, worldwide design evangelist for Adobe Systems, and it's my pleasure to walk you through some of the exciting new features. in the new 5.5 release of Creative Suite. So with that, let's start with EPUB production for eBooks. EPUB, or eBooks, is a market that is growing by leaps and bounds. By the end of 2010, it was predicted that this market had reached just under $1 billion, and by the end of 2015, it's slated to reach $2.8 billion. That's a huge market, and it's the shape of things to come. Luckily for my designers out there using Creative Suite 5.5, you're at the forefront of this design process because you have the tools built into your Creative Suite that will enable you to create these publications with ease. Let's take a look. So, for example, I'm going to go ahead and jump over to page 2. And on page 2, I have a multi-column layout that again works great for print. However, for an EPUB publication, this may not work so well because of the singular column format. But before we get to that, I noticed there is some text or something down there that I can barely see, so let's go ahead and zoom in on that. We'll just zoom it up to full-size so we can read it. And this is the copyright information, and you know what? I'd love to have that copyright information appear on the last page. So what I'm going to do is just put my cursor in that text-- anywhere in that body of text--it doesn't have to be at the beginning or the end. And then I'm going to go up to my Edit menu, and I'm going to use a new command called Place and Link Story. So when I do that, it gives me the standard placement cursor that you're used to when you're bringing in external content. However, in this case we're using the same content that we already have in the publication. So with that I'm going to jump to the end, where I have a frame over here on the right-hand side. I'm just going to click, and of course it places that text in the frame. You're probably saying how is that different from a copy and paste? Well, it's actually linked to the original. So, for example, if I select that and I go up and I choose Edit Original, what that will do is treat it like an embedded graphic or embedded text. It takes me back to the original text. So if I make any changes to it--let's say we have to update our copyright. I know that never happens to you, but it happens to me all the time. Let's say I need to change that to 2011, then what will happen is the minute I click out of that, if I go to my Links panel my Links panel will actually tell me that there is an outdated link. So if I bring up my Links panel and scroll down, sure enough, there's an outdated link, and I can say, you know what? I don't remember where that is, take me to it. And by the way, even if I didn't notice it on the Links panel, InDesign is always keeping track of any potential problems down here in the status display. So I'm going to say, "Take me to that area." It will jump to the last page, in this case page 15, back where I originally put it, and it's saying this is the link that's out of date, because we changed it to 2011. I can now just simply update the link, and as many times as I placed that throughout my entire publication, they would now all be up to date. So, again, link text to make life easier, whether it's EPUBs or not--any publication where you have content that needs to be linked and updated throughout the publication regularly. So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to jump back over to page 2. So we will jump over to page 2 here and zoom back out. And, again, on page 2 we have this multi-column format. And the multi-column format is great for print. But what happens when I want to send this over to a device that only works with, basically, single columns? What I can do is I can select this text, and now using the new Articles panel, I can just simply drag this content into the Articles panel, and it will prompt me to create a new article, which I will call TOC, for Table of Contents. Now at this point, the table of contents is a selectable and inclusive article that's going to be in here. So for example, I can select the other pieces of this--if I zoom in a little bit more you'll be able to read that text. So we have a map. We have the Old Town text. I'm just holding down my Shift key, selecting these and, again, dragging them into the same article layout. And it will continue to add on to that. So what I'm doing is basically telling the order in which I want things to be laid out in the EPUB publication on my devices. And you can, of course, do CSS and a lot of HTML programming, but this makes it simple for designers to dictate the order of which things will appear in their publications. Also, you'll notice there is a check box, which means things can be chosen to be included for the EPUB or eliminated for the EPUB. So if you didn't want that particular article or those particular graphics in your EPUB publication, just uncheck them from your Articles thread. They'll still print, but they will not export out for EPUB. So with that, let's go ahead and jump over to another page here. In this case, the same thing. I want to take this Old Town text, and I want to drag this in as a new article. And we'll call this Old Town. And now we have our Old Town text ready to go. One of the things that makes life a little bit more challenging in an EPUB publication is dealing with graphics that can be anywhere on the page in InDesign, but of course in an EPUB or eBook, they have to flow with the text. InDesign has had a longstanding history of allowing you to do anchored objects, but anchored objects wasn't always easy, or at least not as easy as it is now in CS5.5. So with that you'll notice that on this page I have an anchored object, and again this is the traditional anchored object that we would see with the dashed line letting us know that this object is anchored to this text. It even gives me an icon of an anchor right above it. But if I click on the logo above, there is no anchor, so that means it's free-floating, which is very okay or legitimate to do inside of an InDesign document for print, but that logo could end up anywhere in an EPUB publication, and we want it to stay with the text. So how do I anchor it now in InDesign CS 5.5.? Well, it couldn't be easier. All I have to do is grab this little anchor icon, or this little box, and just drag this over to where I want it anchored with the text. So I'll put it right after the name of that particular establishment. As you notice, as soon as I drag it over and let go, it anchors it. It couldn't be easier in InDesign CS5.5 than it is by just drag and drop. So whenever you want to anchor an object, just drag the icon with the little blue square over to the text that you want to anchor it to. So now let's go back to the page that I was working on with the articles. You'll notice that we have this graphic, which is basically two graphics grouped together. Well, now I want to control the order of the graphic in conjunction with the text that is on the page. Once again, this is a perfect example of when you would want to anchor an object in InDesign CS5.5 and just drag the blue box up to the text or the paragraph that I want that image of those images to appear in front of, and just like that it is linked together. Wherever that text goes, the graphics will go with it. So now that we have those photographs anchored right before the last paragraph, the next thing I want to talk about is the actual tagging of the articles themselves as they go out to EPUB. In the previous versions of InDesign, whenever you would do your export for EPUB all of your paragraph tags would have the p tag, which is standard for paragraphs. However, if you wanted to dictate in your publication what was a headline, what was an h1, what was an h2, you would normally have to go in and edit the code or edit the publication manually afterward. Well, no longer is that the case, and we did it in InDesign CS5.5 in an intuitive way along with creating your styles for your paragraphs or your characters. So when I go into my paragraph styles and I double-click on my header style, you'll notice that there is one additional element called Export Tagging. And when I click on Export Tagging, by default it will use the automatic tagging, and again it's just going to tag everything as a paragraph tag. However, I can now--for the header paragraph style--I can say that that is now an h1. So it will export that out as an h1 for EPUB and HTML. If I go in and choose another style I can make that my h2, my h3, so forth and so on. That way my paragraphs are not only styled in my print publication, but they're also styled in my EPUB publication as well. The next thing we're going to do is jump to the next page here. On this page, we have an image that is fairly large, and depending on the size of the screen for your device, it may be too large or too small. And, again, the problem with EPUBs is you don't know what size the device is that the person is going to be looking at it on. So in this case, I want that graphic to dynamically size. If it's small device, I want the graphic to be smaller, but if it's a larger tablet-size device or horizontal device, I want it to be larger. Well, now I can control that in InDesign CS5.5. If I just click on the image, I can go up to my object menu. In my object menu, I now have an option for Object Export Options. And when I choose this, as you may have guessed, I have the options for EPUB and HTML. So I can set my own custom rasterization for that particular object, and by default things go out at a fixed size, but in this case I can now say Relative to the Page Width. More importantly, these devices are coming with higher resolutions, so no longer is 72 pixels per inch enough for some of these devices, especially that have a high-resolution display or, in the case of the iPhone, a retina display. So in this case, I could pump it up to 150, which will look better if the device can handle that resolution. And if not--again, it's going to be relative to the page width--it's going to scale it down if need be. So just by choosing that one option, I've now made this one graphic scalable based on the size of the device that it's being looked on. So now let's take a look at one of the most requested features for working with EPUBs inside of InDesign. In InDesign CS5.5, we now have the ability to work with video going out to the EPUB format. That's right. Officially, in EPUB Standard 3.0, video is now a supported format. And that means on devices that support video, like the iPad and iPhone and the iBooks app, you can now place those videos in InDesign CS5.5 and actually have those videos go out to EPUB format. Let's take a look. So I'm going to go ahead and jump over to page 7 here. And on page 7, I have a placed video. It's actually a placed MP4 file, which is, of course, compatible on many devices. With this video, I can actually go to the Media panel. I can play the video, pause the video, scrub through the video. Once I find a good spot in the video, I can actually make that spot the poster frame, the actually image that people will see. And with that, we can actually do a controller. We can either have it just autoplay with no controller, or we can do a skin all over, which means that the person will be able to either tap to bring up a controller including going full-screen, or they'll be able to go in--if this publication appeared as an interactive document on a a Web site--and just hover over the video and the controller would come up as well. So we have the ability to show the controller on rollover. With that, now when we do our export, the video will actually go out to EPUB format, and on devices that support video, the video will be there and playable on those devices. Let's take a look at the Export menu now in InDesign CS5.5. So we're going to do an Export, and Export EPUB is first-class citizen under the Export menu now. We'll just go ahead and click Save, replacing the one that we already did, and with that in mind, the first thing we'll take a look at is, again, another popular requested feature from the previous versions of InDesign. With InDesign CS5.5 we can now dictate what the cover image is going to be for our devices. For example, when you look at your publication in the iBooks app on the iPad, you want to actually see a thumbnail for your publication and, again, the thumbnail that you chose. So how do we do this? We can rasterize the first page. That works, but it's probably not the best option. My favorite option is actually to go into Photoshop and design a thumbnail that looks good small. So with that--once I make that thumbnail, I can actually go in here and choose it. As you can see, that's the thumbnail that I want to use, and when I go ahead and click Open, it will now reference that thumbnail so that when I do my export from InDesign, it will actually export the EPUB with the appropriate thumbnail written to the code appropriately. So with that we also have the ability under the Image tab, as we saw before, to change the pixels per inch for higher-resolution devices as well as choosing how our images interact with those devices, whether they're relative to the page in size--which is the new option--or a fixed size, which is the old option or the old way we used to do things. So with that now we can go ahead and export out our EPUB and sideload it onto our devices. Let's go ahead and take a look at what it actually looks like on an iPad. All right. I know I said iPad, but first let's take a look at how our EPUB looks on a smaller device, like the iPhone. I'm in the iBooks app on the iPhone. There is my book--my thumbnail that I created. If I go ahead and tap that, it will go ahead and launch the book. Again, I can just flip through the pages, and the layout is exactly as I dictated in InDesign, using the Articles panel. Again, for a smaller device this is extremely important because there is just not as much screen real estate. If I keep going, I can get to the two images side by side. I can get to the larger image which, by the way, is now set that it goes larger when the device is rotated horizontally versus vertically. Just have to flip around there. And we can keep looking at the content here. But let's go ahead and look at it on something larger. All right, so now let's see what it looks like on the actual iPad. Now we have the iPad here, and I'm back to the table of contents because I actually want to use the hyperlinks to jump to the film festival. So I tap the film festival, and you might imagine what I'm looking for. That's right. I'm looking for the video. And with the video, I can actually play that video back on the iPad inline, but more importantly I can go full-screen. And when I go full-screen, it's not just a vertical experience. I can actually go horizontal as well. So that's just a quick look at working with EPUBs and eBooks out of InDesign CS5.5. [Build Digital Magazines with InDesign CS5.5 and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite] Now, of course, with InDesign CS5.5 you have the ability to create publications for print, interactive publications for the Web, and now interactive publications for tablet devices such as the iPad, the multitude of Android devices like the Motorola Xoom, and of course the PlayBook. So with that in mind, let's take a look at how this whole workflow works. So let's start with an InDesign document that I have open here. I'm going to go ahead and scroll through it, and as you might notice, I'm in my interactive workspace. And, of course, the interactive workspace is not new to CS5.5, but there is one new addition--one new important addition--and that is the addition of the Overlay Creator. With the Overlay Creator, we can take objects that are seemingly static on the page, and we can turn those into interactive objects for tablet devices. For example, I have this--again, it looks like a still photo, but actually when I open up the new Overlay Creator panel, we can see that this is set to be a 360-degree view. That's right. It's basically the photograph of the bike at 360-degree increments, or angles, that we can now go ahead and make interactive. And, again, I get to control all of that inside of InDesign CS5.5. For example, I can choose what would be the first, or initial, image. I can choose whether or not it plays on load, so the minute the person swipes to that page, the bicycle will start spinning around. Or I can choose to have the person swipe through it, tap to play or pause, so forth and so on. So with this Overlay Creator, I can build upon the toolset that's already in InDesign CS5 with CS5.5 and make things interactive directly inside my design document so that they go out to tablet devices. For example, if we continue scrolling through this, one of the other examples here is that we have a photograph that is really a slideshow. When we click on this and we look at our object states, which were introduced in InDesign CS5, we have the ability to take multiple objects and stack them together. But now with the Overlay Creator, we have the ability to turn that multiple-stacked object, or the object states, into a physical slideshow. So, again, you control how it works. Do they tap it and it just starts to play? Do they swipe through each photo? Do you set up buttons that change the states? It's all up to you with InDesign CS5.5. So let's go ahead and scroll through this content, and one of the other things that we can see here--there's another slideshow--are actually the ability to zoom in. So in this case, we have a photo that we can see the photo zoomed out. But what if you wanted to actually zoom in on the artwork? Well, if we click on this photo--and again, we go to the Overlay Creator. We have the ability to choose a Pan and Zoom. So if I choose Pan and Zoom, then the user will be able to tap-- and the photo will zoom up to its full resolution--and pan their way around inside the photo directly on their tablet devices. So with that, there is one more thing I want to show before we actually go and look at it on the iPad. That is this interactive map, or this interactive display. Now in this case, we've done something pretty clever using some of the features that were built into InDesign CS5 and, of course, building upon those features in CS5.5. We have another object state here and, again, a stack of photos. But in this case, instead of swiping through or having a slideshow play, what I would love the user to be able to do is tap on different pinpoints of the map to show that location's photo. In other words, each one of these is a button all set up in InDesign, and the button is set to go to a particular state of the object stacks. So with that, we can have the user tap to go to a specific spot and actually show that spot right on the tablet device. So now that we've seen how to build the interactive publication in InDesign, what if you want to test it first? What if you wanted to make sure it was doing exactly how you programmed it or set it to do inside of InDesign, and you wanted to test your interactivity? You want to test that map to make sure it all worked. Well, instead of having to load it onto the device first to test it, we're introducing the Adobe Content Viewer for your desktop. So with that, I can go ahead and switch over to the Content Viewer. In the Content Viewer you can just drag and drop your doc folio file right into it, the one that you produced from InDesign, and your mouse becomes your finger at that point. So I can flick up to go to the next page. I can interact with that bicycle that we talked about, and so you can see it is a real 360-degree revolving bicycle. Also, if you have an Internet feed--in this case I have an Internet Twitter feed loaded on the right-hand side--so that will come in and allow me to test that as well. And again we can flick up. We can play the video that was on this page here . And, again, we have the ability to play that video inline or full-screen. Let's go ahead and go up, and as we saw before, we have the ability to tap-- and this was, again, just the slideshow that's playing automatically. Remember the Pan and Zoom? Well, we can click, zoom, and pan in on that photograph. So it's working exactly as I indicated. From the InDesign document, we are able to test it first. So from here I can actually tap the pinpoints so that we can see the images change from each tap on the map. So now that we've seen it in InDesign, we built it in InDesign, we've seen it in the brand-new Adobe Content Viewer--now let's take a look at how this looks on a device like the iPad. So here I am on the iPad, and I'm just going to go ahead and launch the free Adobe Viewer. This is available on the App Store, so you can download it today. And once the viewer comes up, I see my document. So I'll just go ahead and tap View. And, again, the same experience that we saw in the content viewer. I can flip up to go to the various pages. I can interact with the content, such as the bicycle that I can spin around, so it's working great. I also have the table of contents, or the thumbnail that we saw there earlier. And let's go ahead and flip up here. We have our video. And, again, we're playing the video inline but, of course, using the Overlay Creator, I can also have that video play full-screen. So I can tell it what to do inside of InDesign CS5.5, and that translates to the tablet device, both horizontally and vertically. So let's go ahead and come out of full-screen on that. We'll go ahead and pause it. And you notice I'm horizontal now, but I can continue reading my content, reading my document. So we can tap to play the slideshow. Again, this was the slideshow that we set up in the Overlay Creator that's just going to autoplay when a person taps on it. We can also go to the photo that we want to zoom in on. We can tap the photo, and it will load the larger version that we can pan around, we can pinch, and zoom. This, again, was a popular request. People wanted to be able to zoom content inside of their digital publications. My favorite page in this spread, or this publication, is the interactive map where you tap the pins on the map to change the photo. So we can go to the map. We can tap on different pins and see those spots on the map-- the actual photos that represent those locations. As you can see, we have taken the content that we started with in InDesign CS5.5, and we took it out to EPUBs earlier, eBooks, and now we've taken it to a digital publication using the Overlay Creator to add the interactivity for tablet devices that allow a touch interface, such as the iPad or the multitude of Android devices or the PlayBook. The Adobe Content Viewer, the same content--one document publishing out to multiple formats, multiple devices. And, of course, it's the Creative Suite Design Premium CS5.5 that is powering all of this technology. And you should get your hands on it today. [Adobe TV - tv.adobe.com]