Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center

Building multi-rendition articles (May 2013)

Colin Fleming (May 01, 2013)

Learn how to make a single folio to look good on both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) iPad and iPhone devices.

DPS authoring with InDesign for iPhone and iPod Touch

Colin Fleming (May 01, 2013)

Learn best practices and workflow to design and publish DPS content to iPhone and iPod Touch using features in Adobe InDesign.

Making and deploying Android DPS Viewers

Shigeki Amitani, Steve Nichols (Nov 19, 2012)

Learn how to make and deploy Android DPS viewer apps, and how it differs from the iOS viewer.

Targeting the Kindle Fire using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Sharon Swan (May 15, 2012)

Create, test, and submit an Amazon Kindle Fire app using Digital Publishing Suite tools.

UPDATED: Tablet publishing on the new iPad

Colin Fleming (May 31, 2012)

Best practices for using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to publish to the new iPad.

Free Article Preview

Colin Fleming (May 01, 2013)

Pique readers’ interest with selected free articles and encourage them to pay for premium content with upsell prompts as they navigate from free article to other articles in the publication.

Embed publications within websites

Colin Fleming (May 01, 2013)

Extend the reach of your publication by embedding it on your website. Include surrounding design elements that convey a consistent, on-message and branded experience for your customers.

PDF content on Android

Colin Fleming (May 01, 2013)

Reduce authoring costs and enhance the reader experience with PDF content on Android devices. Reduce file size, improve download times and scale content for up-close reading.

New First Folio Free and Digital Blow-in Features

Colin Fleming (Mar 01, 2013)

Learn about new features for improving the new reader experience by offering one free foio to new readers and the option for digital "blow-in" communications.

New features, January 2013

Colin Fleming (Feb 11, 2013)

New use-facing features include larger cover images, "new" sash on newest folio, and persistent reading location preserved in each folio.

Be seen on every screen: Publishing to multiple devices

Ivan Mironchuk, Tara Knight (May 07, 2013)

Join Adobe Digital Publishing Suite experts to learn best practices for designing publications for both tablets and smartphones. View examples of well-designed tablet and smartphone publications.

Building tablet applications using InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite

Klaasjan Tukker (May 06, 2013)

Learn how to use Adobe InDesign and DPS to create and deliver engaging applications on tablet devices. Understand the workflow to build digital issues that combine the beauty of print with the engagement of interactivity.

Engaging your customers and employees with mobile apps

Melissa Webster (May 07, 2013)

Learn strategies and best practices from a panel of digital publishing executives from top corporations and agencies. Learn how these experts drive customer and employee engagement through DPS apps.

Extending and integrating Digital Publishing Suite

Klaasjan Tukker (May 07, 2013)

Gain an understanding of how to extend Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to meet your business needs by leveraging capabilities including Direct Entitlement, Custom Storefronts, and Push Notifications.

From print to digital media: Building a digital publishing business

Bill Mickey (May 08, 2013)

Watch a panel of publishing experts in a discussion about the impact of digital publishing on the magazine and newspaper industry. Hear case studies from leading publishers who are using DPS to transform their publishing business.

The meaning behind the metrics: Analytics in Digital Publishing Suite

Shikha Bhargava (May 08, 2013)

Learn which digital metrics are captured in Digital Publishing Suite apps, how to access the reports in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, and how to interpret the data. 

Your Direct Entitlement Service

Scott Dreier (Mar 06, 2013)

Extend a basic direct entitlement service to manage multiple apps and users, and customize the entitlement workflow.

Corporate Entitlement with IIS

Scott Dreier (Feb 13, 2013)

Deploy a basic implementation of a "corporate" direct entitlement service running on Windows Server, IIS, and SQL Server.

Using Amazon Web Services to enable Direct Entitlement

Scott Dreier (Aug 08, 2012)

Learn how to integrate Amazon Simple Pay Subscriptions with DPS through a Direct Entitlement implementation.

Leveraging direct entitlement

Scott Dreier (Feb 28, 2012)

Direct entitlement extends digital content to your existing print subscribers, deepening your relationship and increasing your ability to reach them with special offers.

Enabling promotional entitlement with Digital Publishing Suite

Scott Dreier (Apr 09, 2012)

Learn to use leverage the direct entitlement feature to give users free access to a single folio within your DPS app via a promotional offer.

Direct entitlement starter kit

Scott Dreier (Apr 02, 2012)

Implement a concrete example of direct entitlement that illustrates the basic interface and requirements.

Free Article Preview

Kristy Duncan, Derek Lu (May 01, 2013)

Learn how to use the new Free Article Preview feature to give readers a free taste of your content while being prompted to buy or subscribe.

Promoting free content to gain new readership

Tara Knight (May 01, 2013)

Learn about the different ways that DPS allows publishers to get free premium content into the hands of readers at the earliest point of entry to help gain new paying customers.

Embedding web viewer content in your web page

Allen Ellison (May 01, 2013)

Learn how to embed the Adobe Content Viewer for Web onto your own website and integrate it into your own brand experience.

Determining DPS Reader context with JavaScript and HTML

James Lockman (Apr 14, 2013)

Determine if a folio reader is using the web viewer in a browser or if they are using a viewer app on a tablet, and deliver different messages based on the detected context.

Launching external apps from a DPS folio

James Lockman (Apr 05, 2013)

Learn how to use Custom URL Schemes on iOS to launch other apps from your folio and instruct the apps to do something specific, such as opening the Twitter app and posting a tweet.

Adding HTML banners to non-entitlement apps

Ivan Mironchuk (Mar 18, 2013)

See how to set up your non-entitlement DPS apps to show a full-bleed HTML banner.

Additional uses for the custom navigation toolbar

Ivan Mironchuk (Apr 01, 2013)

Learn to incorporate custom icons in the navigation toolbar of your DPS app to present such features as RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, and YouTube video channels.

Programmatic navigation with JavaScript and web content overlays

James Lockman (Feb 19, 2013)

Leverage Custom URL Scheme to enable navigation within your DPS app from Web Content overlays.

Sending email from DPS publications

James Lockman (Sep 26, 2012)

Techniques for sending email and email with attachments from DPS publications.

Integrated social sharing with Digital Publishing Suite

Ivan Mironchuk, Scott Dreier (Jan 21, 2013)

Learn how to setup social integration with Facebook, Twitter and Email directly within your DPS application.

Displaying Office Documents in Adobe DPS on an iOS Device

(Sep 14, 2012)

Learn how to display Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Keynote, Pages, and PDF documents in DPS on an iOS device.

Building slideshows using multi-state objects

Colin Fleming (Jun 11, 2012)

Learn how to create slideshows in your DPS folios using the Object States panel and MSOs.

Add note-taking functionality to a folio

Derek Lu (May 29, 2012)

Learn how to give users of your DPS digital publications the ability to take notes within a folio.

Enhance your DPS folios with HTML animations using Edge

Raghu Thricovil (May 15, 2012)

Learn how to bring Edge web-standards animations into DPS to create articles for mobile platforms including Android and iOS.

Self-signed Adobe content viewer: How-to

Colin Fleming (May 15, 2012)

Learn to use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and third-party tools to build a self-signed Adobe Content Viewer for your iPad.

Using Amazon EC2 as a DPS Push Provider

Scott Dreier (Apr 15, 2013)

An Amazon managed instance to host the Urban Airship push connector.

Updating your existing Digital Publishing Suite app to Apple App Store

Lohrii Alo (Mar 18, 2013)

Get step-by-step guidance for upgrading your Digital Publishing Suite app to an Apple App Store app.

Using Urban Airship as a DPS Push Provider

Scott Dreier (Dec 14, 2012)

Learn how to leverage Urban Airship’s service to send iOS Alert notifications and trigger Newsstand downloads to iOS devices.

Restricted distribution and LDAP integration: Reference implementation

Derek Lu (Apr 30, 2012)

Learn how to integrate Adobe Digital Publishing Suite restricted distribution and LDAP.

Using restricted distribution with Digital Publishing Suite

Klaasjan Tukker (Mar 19, 2012)

Learn how to distribute content to a specific group of readers, based on their user profiles or credentials.

Distribute enterprise iOS viewer applications

Derek Lu (Mar 19, 2012)

Distribute enterprise viewer applications directly to your end users from your own hosted website.

Adding Digital Publishing Suite apps to Apple Newsstand

Bob Bringhurst (Feb 28, 2012)

Learn to create or edit a Digital Publishing Suite subscription viewer app for Apple Newsstand: set your app to charge per issue, per subscription duration, or as a free subscription.

Using Apple push notifications with Digital Publishing Suite

Scott Dreier (Dec 17, 2012)

Leverage Apple Push Notifications in your Adobe DPS app to notify users of new issues becoming available and trigger Newsstand background downloads;

Getting started with the browser library API

Derek Lu (May 01, 2013)

Learn how to display a library view of folios on a web page using a new store/library API.

Store Configurator

Derek Lu (Apr 17, 2013)

Use a configurator to customize the colors, fonts and images of the r24 default library.

Getting started with the v2 Library and Store API

Derek Lu (Mar 11, 2013)

Get a quick overview of the Library and Store API and get started with a sample implementation.

Measure app promotion success by Campaign ID

Ramin Firoozye (Mar 11, 2013)

Learn how to use eMagazines Insight with your folios to measure app installs and in-app purchases by Campaign ID.

Debugging a custom iOS storefront or library

Derek Lu (Mar 11, 2013)

Learn the basics of debugging your Digital Publishing Suite custom store or library for iOS.

Creating an HTML implementation of the DPS default library

Derek Lu (Feb 11, 2013)

Learn how to replace the native DPS default library with a custom HTML implementation of the library.

Styling the HTML library template with Dreamweaver

Derek Lu (Jan 14, 2013)

Learn how to customize the CSS styles of a DPS custom library implementation.

Using the iPhone library / store template with DPS projects

Derek Lu (Feb 11, 2013)

Add a custom tab in the viewer that functions as a store and library on the iPhone using version 2 of the library and store APIs.

Add separate library and store experiences with custom slot templates

Derek Lu (Feb 11, 2013)

Implement two custom tabs in the viewer using version 2 of the library and store APIs.

Working with the combined library/store custom slot template using new DPS APIs

Derek Lu (Feb 11, 2013)

Add a custom tab in the viewer that functions as a store and library using version 2 of the library and store APIs.

Build a horizontal swipe storefront

Derek Lu (Mar 15, 2013)

Build an iOS storefront that enables users to swipe horizontally through pages and view a folio preview when they tap a cover.

Custom storefront hands-on tutorial (Version 1 API)

Klaasjan Tukker (May 03, 2012)

Learn the basics of Storefront customization for Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

Building a Custom Storefront (Version 1 API)

Scott Dreier (Mar 05, 2012)

Learn the basics for creating a custom storefront in Digital Publishing Enterprise Edition.

Reviewing DPS projects

Rick Borstein (May 20, 2013)

Learn how to create PDF versions of your folios, including interactive states, to share across your organization for review and feedback.

Customer-agency DPS workflows

Rick Borstein (Jan 28, 2013)

Explore various approaches and workflows for publishers and agencies to utilize when collaborating on DPS content.

DPS and Scene7 Whitepaper

(Nov 01, 2012)

Download a new whitepaper to learn how Digital Publishing Suite can be used with Scene7 to streamline dynamic asset delivery into tablet catalogs and reduce folio download sizes.

Using Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions with DPS

James Lockman (Jul 11, 2012)

Learn how to use Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions with Digital Publishing Suite.

Migrating your apps to Adobe DPS (iOS)

Klaasjan Tukker (Jun 11, 2012)

Learn how to migrate apps from other platforms or published by an agency, to your DPS account.

Integrate publishing workflows and editorial systems with DPS

Roger Risdal (May 03, 2012)

Learn how to integrate your publishing workflow or editorial system with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

Digital Publishing Suite analytics tutorial

Adobe (Jul 23, 2012)

Learn how to create DPS viewer apps that are instrumented for analytics, and run reports and interpret results.

DPS Analytics White Paper

Adobe (Nov 12, 2012)

Learn how the analytics service can help you optimize your digital publishing suite content for greater business impact.

UPDATED: Adobe SiteCatalyst DPS Report Guide

Shikha Bhargava (May 01, 2013)

Use SiteCatalyst to access your collected data and generate reports that help you analyze client interactions.

Ensemble -- We have your DPS solution

We offer custom DPS storefronts & entitlement management, advanced workflow and scripting, folio review & markup, & integrations with Adobe CQ & other CMS.

MEI - Digital Publishing Solutions

MEI specializes in multi-channel publishing solutions for any output—tablet, mobile, print and Web—and offers creative services and digital solutions with Adobe® DPS and MEI Portico™, the app experience management platform for advanced storefronts.

WoodWing Software - Stay Ahead

WoodWing develops multi-channel publishing and digital asset management solutions for publishers, agencies and marketing departments to reach their goals for quality, economy and time-to-market.

crossIP - PDF4DPS workflow

Full automated PDF4DPS conversion and publication workflow, with optional high availability and clusterable Entitlement & Subscription solution.

The Saints - DPS Solution Provider

Advanced Custom Storefronts and Library views with CMS, and Basic and Advanced Entitlement Solutions (SaaS).

vjoon K4 - The easy way to produce tablet editions

Professional solution for digital publishing, targeted at enterprise customers using highly automated workflows in order to benefit from time and cost savings.