Past Announcements for Digital Publishing

Welcome to the Digital Publishing Technology Center. This site provides technical articles and tools to assist you with producing and distributing content compatible with key open standard file formats supported by Adobe desktop, mobile, and web services software. The Digital Publishing product family enables publishers to securely distribute, and consumers to conveniently read and manage, eBooks and other digital publications.

InDesign to Kindle white paper

(September 17, 2009)
The Adobe InDesign to Amazon Kindle white paper overviews best practices for eBook authoring in InDesign and offers a detailed review of the eBook conversion process for compatibility with the Kindle and the Amazon store.

Updated Digital Editions Launcher now available

(August 28, 2009)
The Launcher SDK is updated to include support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Refer to the Tools section below to download the updated Digital Editions Launcher.

EPUBGen Tool now available

(May 18, 2009)
EPUBGen is a Java library that demonstrates EPUB generation from a variety of document formats, and which may be a useful starting point or reference code for other EPUB generation needs. Refer to the Tools section below for more information.

Digital Editions 1.7.1 now released

(April 9, 2009)
Digital Editions 1.7.1 is an application update that discontinues support for Adobe Content Server 3. With this new version, Content Server 3 customers will no longer be able to fulfill eBooks to Adobe Digital Editions users. Digital Editions will automatically migrate existing Adobe Content Server 3-licensed eBooks to the new Adobe Content Server 4 license format; the process is transparent to the end user. Migration of eBooks will be supported until December 2009.

Reader Mobile 9 SDK released

(March 12, 2009)
Adobe released the commercial version of the new Adobe® Reader® Mobile SDK, which was announced on February 16th at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Reader Mobile 9 SDK enables companies to deliver mobile phone applications, handheld devices and eInk eBook readers that can easily acquire, manage and display Adobe Content Server 4 encrypted and unencrypted PDF and EPUB content. For more information, please visit the Reader Mobile Developer Center.

Digital Editions 1.7 now released

(February 2, 2009)
Adobe has updated its popular Digital Editions software, a lightweight, rich Internet application for reading, acquiring, and organizing digital books and other publications. Digital Editions 1.7 greatly expands language support. In addition to the current support for English, German and French, Digital Editions 1.7 supports Japanese, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Korean, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. For publishers seeking to include special roman characters in their publications, we highly recommend embedding fonts in your digital publications. Version 1.7 also provides for a standalone installer option which can be used to install Digital Editions in networked environments including corporate, educational and other locations that require administrative installations of the software. The expanded language and installer support in Digital Editions 1.7 enables Adobe Content Server 4 customers to protect and fulfill both PDF and EPUB files to users who want to purchase or borrow content in the above languages and also to users who use Digital Editions in networked environments.

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