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This article is from February 25, 2011, and is no longer current.

Upcoming Webinar on Digital Magazine Design

“Print” and “publishing” no longer mean just ink on paper. Publishing professionals need to embrace that concept in order to stay relevant, to stay employable. They need to get on top of digital publishing now.” —Pariah S. Burke, 20-year publishing and graphic workflow expert.
In this intensive 2-day Webinar (5 hours per day), presented by Pariah Burke, Sally Cox, and Steve Dolan, we’ll start with a blank page and finish with an interactive digital magazine running on the iPad. The same publication will also run on Android-based tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab and other upcoming tablets.
The details of what you will learn are contained in the Event Outline below.
Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 April, 2011 9am–1pm (Pacific)/1pm–3pm (Eastern) and Thursday, 14 April, 2011 9am–1pm (Pacific)/1pm–3pm (Eastern).
Recordings: All attendees will receive access to the recording of the event for 60 days following the event.
Prerequisites: This seminar is aimed at individuals who already have a working knowledge of Adobe InDesign (CS3, CS4, CS5, or CS5.5). It is also highly recommended that you first attend the ePublishing Workflow Webinar.
Giveaways: We will be giving away several fabulous prizes including software, books, and more. Watch this space for more details as we get closer to the date of the event. Only those in attendance live are eligible for the drawings.
Register now.
Event Outline
Defining Rich Media Publications:
Enhanced ebooks
Examples of rich media publications on the iPad
Formats, Creation Tools, and Costs of Market Entry:
PDF-Based Publications
Flash-Based Publications
The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Enterprise Publishers
The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Medium Publishers
The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Freelancers & Design Studios
Woodwing’s Digital Magazine Tools
RovingBird ePublisher Pro for Enterprise Publishers
RovingBird ePublisher Advanced for Medium Publishers
RovingBird ePublisher for Freelancers & Design Studios
Rich Media Publication Foundations:
Layout requirements
Pages sizes
Repurposing print publications to digital publications
Content management considerations unique to iPad/tablet publishing
Efficiency techniques to save time and trouble when building and updating layouts for portrait and landscape tablet reading
Master page best practices
Paragraph and character style best practices
Basic Interactivity:
Internal and external hyperlinks
Creating clickable coverlines
Creating headers and footers
Using page numbers
Building a user-friendly page-level navigation system
Creating a clickable table of contents
Employing text variables
Adding Audio, Video, and Animation:
Supported formats
Preparing audio and video
Placing and sizing multimedia content
Advanced multimedia controls
Advanced Interactivity:
Buttons—they aren’t what they sound like
Creating rollover image galleries
Creating video galleries
Replacing text content with buttons
Creating scrolling text frames
Adding panoramas and rotatable 3D content
Publishing and Imposition:
Finalizing Flash-based publications
Finalizing PDF-based publications
Combining page versions into a single publication
Finalizing publications in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
Finalizing publications in RovingBird ePublisher
Deploying and Distributing:
Testing your publications live on the iPad and online
Deploy digital publications to the iPad App Store via Adobe Content Server
Deploy digital publications to the iPad App Store via RovingBird ePublisher Pro publishing system
Direct distribution of Flash- and PDF-based digital publications
Third-party distributor and payments systems to manage subscriptions to your publications

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