Previewing folios and articles

Use Adobe Content Viewer to preview folios. The Adobe Content Viewer is available as a desktop application (called the “Desktop Viewer”) or as a mobile device application. The Desktop Viewer is installed automatically when you update the DPS Desktop Tools for InDesign CS6 or when you install the Folio Producer tools for InDesign CS5/CS5.5. The viewer for mobile devices is available for download in the iPad App Store, Google Play Store, and Amazon Appstore. Search in the device store for “Content Viewer.”

As soon as you create a folio or article, you can preview it using the Desktop Viewer or the viewer on your mobile device. However, to preview a folio, the folio must be created properly. For example, if your folio includes a horizontal-only article mixed with dual-orientation articles, you cannot preview the folio. When you use the Desktop Viewer to preview an improperly created folio, and error message reports the problem.

The Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop (also called the Desktop Viewer) is an AIR app that lets you preview folios on your desktop.

You can now use the Desktop Viewer to preview articles exported with the PDF image format.

The Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad/iPhone is a generic version of the viewer used for testing the digital content you create on the iPad or iPhone. This viewer is updated whenever the Folio Producer tools are updated.

The Adobe Content Viewer library checks two locations for folios—the Folio Producer server and the Distribution Service. The Folio Producer (hosted by acrobat.com) contains all folios that appear in your Folio Builder panel. The Distribution Service contains all published folios. A blue stripe with a lightning bolt icon in the folio thumbnail indicates a folio downloaded from the Folio Producer server. A blue strip with a plug icon indicates a folio loaded through Preview on Device. Any folio published as Retail does not appear in the Adobe Content Viewer.

The following navigation techniques work whether you’re using the generic Adobe Content Viewer or a custom viewer.

• Rotate the mobile device to display either the horizontal or vertical version of the file.

• Swipe up and down to read an article. Swipe left and right to switch to a different article (or to switch to different pages of a flattened article).

• Tap interactive areas to play movies, rotate 360 images, and activate other interactive items.

• Tap a non-interactive area to display the navigation bars. Tap the Library button to jump to the library in a multi-issue app. Tap the Back button to return to the previous view. Tap the Table of Contents icon to view the table of contents. Drag the Scrubber to scroll through thumbnail images in browse mode.

• Tap the title in the navigation bar to return to the first article. Double-tap the title to toggle between the title and title plus version display. Triple-tap the title to reset the issue so that each article starts at the first page instead of the previously viewed page.

To delete a folio from the viewer, tap the gear icon in the upper right corner of the library, choose Remove Issues from iPad, and then select and delete folios. (In pre-v25 viewers, tap the Archive button.) If the folio is still available on the server, the folio is still available to download in the viewer. If the folio is no longer available on the server, the folio disappears from the library.

To delete a folio from the iPhone library, swipe across the folio’s name from right to left. As you swipe, the View button changes to an Archive button.

The Adobe Content Viewer for the Android is a generic version of the viewer used for testing the digital content you create on the mobile devices running Android 2.2 or later. The Android Viewer is updated whenever the Folio Producer tools are updated.

Viewers are currently available only on Large and XLarge Android tablets, not Small or Normal.

Instead of downloading folios from the server, you can use the Preview on Device feature to copy a folio directly from your computer to the mobile device.

Preview on Device for iPad and iPhone (Mac OS only)

Preview on Device for Android