Digital Publishing Suite Help | Creating source InDesign documents

Guidelines for creating InDesign documents
Create source InDesign documents (InDesign CS5 and CS5.5)
Create source InDesign documents (InDesign CS6)

If you’re basing a digital magazine article on an existing print article, creating a new document is usually the easiest approach. To repurpose a document, you can change settings in the Document Setup dialog box. Specify a page size (such as 1024 x 768 for the iPad SD) and orientation (portrait or landscape). For dual-orientation folios in which customers can view content either horizontally or vertically, you can create two separate documents for each article—one portrait and one landscape. If you’re using InDesign CS6, you can also create alternate layouts within the same document.

Do not use facing pages in your source documents—use only one page per spread.

Turn off facing pages. Do not use the Page tool to change the page size, unless the page is smooth scrolling.
When creating your design, remember that a 6-pixel scroll bar crops the right edge of the article layout. Consider adding a guide or object on the master page to mark this area.
To avoid large folio files, use properly sized JPEG and PNG files for interactive assets such as image sequences, pan & zoom images, and panoramas. For non-interactive images or slideshow images, you can use any format, including PSD, TIFF, AI, PDF, and JPEG. When you create an article or layout, the non-interactive objects on each page are compressed and converted into a single PNG, JPEG, or PDF background image file. Similarly, slideshow and button images are compressed into PNG files.

When creating images to be used in interactive overlays, use the Save for Web & Devices option in Photoshop for best results.

If you place PDF files in your InDesign document, use non-flattened PDF 1.4 or later to avoid unwanted white lines.
For InDesign CS6, you can set up links between text frames in different layouts. For InDesign CS5/CS5.5, you can use an InCopy-based feature to share text between portrait and landscape documents. See Rufus Deuchler’s video Using InCopy Assignments for DPS.
To get the best color fidelity, use RGB color images instead of CMYK or LAB.
For non-interactive content, you can use any image type. Non-interactive content is resampled as an image with the same dimensions as the folio size. For guidance on creating interactive content, see Best practices for creating overlays.

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In InDesign CS5 or InDesign CS5.5, choose File > New > Document.

(Optional) For Intent, choose Web.

Choosing Web makes the layout easier to work in for mobile devices. If you’ve already created a document with Intent set to Print, you cannot change it to Web. However, you can manually change the settings.

For Page Size, specify the dimensions of the device reader.

The standard definition iPad models use 1024x768 pixels. The high definition iPad uses 2048 x 1536. A 6-pixel area on the right side of the page is cropped on the mobile device. The actual design area is 1018 x 768 (or 762 x 1024) pixels for SD iPad models.

For some Android devices, a menu bar covers part of the design area—either 48 or 75/64 pixels, depending on the model. Content in an Android viewer is not cropped or scaled up. Instead, content is scaled down and letterboxed as required. For dual-orientation folios, we recommend creating folio renditions and documents that are 1232x752 (Xoom and Galaxy 10) or 1205x725 (Nexus 7). See Creating documents for multiple devices.

If you want to allow smooth scrolling, you can specify a custom page size (such as 1024x3000). See Smooth scrolling articles.

For Orientation, choose either Portrait or Landscape.

Creating a document for a device reader
A. Set Intent to Web B. Specify Page Size C. Choose Portrait or Landscape

For a dual-orientation article, follow the same procedure to create a second document.

When you save the files, include _v and _h suffixes in the filenames if you want to import articles. For example add an _v suffix for the vertical (portrait) document, such as article_v.indd.

Design your documents.

Not all InDesign interactivity features are supported in the digital publishing workflow. For details, see Supported interactivity features.

InDesign CS6 includes several new features that simplify the DPS workflow. See the links below for more information on these features. The DPS team will continue to release versions that take advantage of these InDesign CS6 features. Note the following issues:

Folios you create or edit using InDesign CS6 are not compatible with any viewer version before v20.
If you create alternate layouts, you can create articles based on these layouts only through the Add Article feature, not through Import Article. If you rely heavily on importing multiple files, continue using different documents for each layout until the Import Article feature supports alternate layouts.

To create an InDesign CS6 document:

In InDesign CS6, choose File > New > Document.

For Intent, choose Digital Publishing.

For Page Size, specify the target device such as iPad. If necessary, change the width and height values.

The SD iPad models use 1024x768 pixels. The new HD iPad uses 2048x1536. However, you can use a 1024x768 source files in a 2048x1536 folio.

A 6-pixel area on the right side of the page is cropped on the mobile device. The actual design area is 1018x768 (or 762x1024) pixels for older iPad models.

If you want to allow smooth scrolling, you can specify a custom page size (such as 1024 x 3000). See Smooth scrolling articles.

For Orientation, choose either Portrait or Landscape.

Creating a document for a device reader
A. Set Intent to Digital Publishing B. Specify Page Size C. Choose Portrait or Landscape orientation

Leave Primary Text Frame selected if you want your text to reflow when you create alternate layouts. If your article does not have a main story thread, deselect this option.

Design your document.

Not all InDesign interactivity features are supported in the digital publishing workflow. For details, see Supported interactivity features.

For a dual-orientation article, do either of the following:

Create a second document that has a different orientation. When you save the files, include _v and _h suffixes in the filenames if you want to import articles. For example add an _v suffix for the vertical (portrait) document, such as article_v.indd.
Create an alternate layout.