History of new feature release notes

The Digital Publishing Suite tools are updated frequently. For a list of bug fixes, see DPS Bug Fix Release Notes.

Release 20 (current)

To view a description of the new features in the current set of tools, see What’s new in this release.

Release 19

iOS rendition support: The new HD iPad model was recently announced. When you use Viewer Builder to create a new app, you can specify icons and splash screens for alternate sizes. Renditions are enabled for iPad devices, letting you create folio renditions at an alternate size. Each iOS model downloads folios that best match the display of the tablet.
Enhanced Scrollable Frames: The Folio Overlays panel has a new overlay type called Scrollable Frames, which replaces the Pan Only option in the Pan & Zoom overlay. When you create scrollable content, you can determine the scroll direction, base the initial view on the location of the content frame, and hide the scroll bar.
Social Sharing: If you register your app with Facebook, you can turn on a social sharing option in your custom viewer’s nav bar. Your customers can tap the Facebook option and type a message. This message and a link to your publication site is then posted on the user’s Facebook wall. At this time, only a link to the publication website is displayed, and Facebook is the only available social media site.
Auto-Archive folios (iOS only): In Viewer Builder, you can enable auto-archiving of folios and specify the maximum number of downloaded folios for your viewer app. When the threshold number is reached, the least recently downloaded folios are archived automatically. Customers can enable or disable auto-archiving using device settings, but they cannot change the threshold number. Customers can re-download any archived folio.
Smooth scrolling improvements: In previous versions, creating dual-orientation smooth scrolling articles required you to creating the article by import. Now, when you create an article using the Add button, you can set Smooth Scrolling options. When importing smooth scrolling articles, make sure that you specify a Smooth Scrolling option.
Bookmarks: If you enable bookmarks in Viewer Builder, customers can mark an article as a bookmark and then choose that bookmark from a drop-down menu in the nav bar to jump to the bookmarked article. Bookmarks work across multiple folios within the same viewer app.
Improved library update performance: When you return to the viewer library, the viewer checks only for changes, resulting in faster processing. The “cannot update library” error message should appear less frequently — only when the library fails to update on first launch or when the library is empty and fails to update.
Analytics for HTML5 files: A Javascript API that captures analytics for HTML5 content on iOS and Android devices is now available. This JS API allows publishers to include HTML5 analytics in SiteCatalyst reports instead of viewing separate reports. For details, contact your Adobe representative.
Restricted distribution of folios (Enterprise only): Enterprise publishers can now determine whether both free and retail folios appear in the library based on sign in. Publishers can set up the library so that only downloaded free folios appear in the library. For retail folios, both downloaded and entitled retail folios can appear in the library. Publishers don’t need to use a custom web store to make retail folios available.
Nav bar icon improvements (Enterprise only): In Viewer Builder, Enterprise publishers can add as many as eight nav bar icons. You can now edit the appearance of the two default icons: Viewer and Library. In addition, the local HTML files used for these icons can include as many as five levels of nested asset folders. HTML assets are no longer required to be on the same level in the HTML structure.
Link to Store from article (Enterprise only): You can create a button or hyperlink that lets customers jump from an article to the store page. When creating a button or hyperlink, replace “http://” in the URL field with “ww.gotoStore” (“ww” is not a typo). You must also use Viewer Builder to create a “Store” label for the custom icon.
Nested overlay improvements: Many of the bugs and limitations in nested overlays have been fixed. For example, anchored buttons in scrollable frames no longer lose their appearance when outside the container frame, and the workaround for renaming scrollable frame objects in the Layers panel is no longer necessary.

Release 18

Embedded overlays in slideshows: Interactive objects are now supported in multi-state objects. All interactive objects (except other slideshows) are supported in slideshow states.
Enhanced button overlays: The Video and Sound actions are now supported, so you can use buttons to play, pause, and stop videos. In addition, multiple actions are also supported in sequence. For example, a button can now play an audio clip and then change to a new slide when the audio ends.
MSO buttons in scrollable frames: Button actions that trigger the state of a multi-state object now work in scrollable frames. Note that when you paste the content frame into the container frame, the state action is removed, so you need to add the action again after pasting.
PDF pinch and zoom with all overlays: When you create a PDF article, you can pinch and zoom on any page even if it includes interactive objects. You can even pinch and zoom while an overlay is playing. PDF-based articles are still available only on iPad viewers, not the desktop viewer or other AIR-based viewers. When creating or updating your custom viewer, remember to select the “PDF Zooming Enabled” option in the Viewer Builder.
Custom-created Adobe Content Viewer: If you have a Professional or Enterprise account, you can use the Viewer Builder to create your own version of the Adobe Content Viewer for the iPad. The ability to build your own custom Content Viewer offers two advantages. First, when a new version of the Folio Producer tools becomes available, you can test the new features while the Adobe Content Viewer is awaiting approval. Second, the Preview on Device feature is enabled in the custom Adobe Content Viewer.
Preview on Device support for iPad: When you use the Viewer Builder to create a Adobe Content Viewer, you can copy folio information directly to a connected iPad without going through the acrobat.com web client. However, Preview on Device for the iPad requires a third-party utility such as Phone Disk. Preview on Device for the iPad works only on Mac OS, not Windows.
Relink: If you move or rename your source files, you can use the Relink command in the Folio Builder panel to reconnect the article layouts to the source files.
Custom viewer apps for Amazon Appstore: Adobe and Amazon have resolved the issues that prevented custom viewers from being approved in the Amazon Appstore. In addition, folios are now stored in the App Data folder of the SD Card, thereby avoiding residual folios that might otherwise remain when an app is deleted.
Free subscriptions enabled for Newsstand: Custom viewers you create now support Apple’s “Free Subscription” option.
Notify option for push notifications: Push notifications are no longer triggered automatically whenever you publish a folio. After you publish or update a folio, click the Notify button in the Folio Producer Organizer to trigger push notifications.
Third-party push notification servers: With an Enterprise account, you can create a custom server to control push notifications.
Restricted distribution of free folios: If you’re an Enterprise publisher, you can hide free content in the viewer library, allowing you to entitle customers to download specific content based on their sign-in accounts.
HTML store enhancements: If you’re an Enterprise publisher, you can set up an HTML store that interacts with the viewer library. For example, when customers sign in to your third-party store, they can be signed in to the viewer automatically.
Subscription improvements: The entire subscription tile is now an active tap area, not just the button area in the lower right corner. When a user subscribes to an app, subscription options are hidden. If a user purchases the most recent folio, subscription options now remain available.
Cover View only for Android viewers: For Android viewer libraries, you have the option of using Grid View, Cover View, or Both. For smaller Android devices, some publishers prefer allowing only Cover View.
Account Administration tool enhancements: You can now use the Admin tool to create limited accounts for in-house and contract designers. Accounts you create are tied to the company’s account without allowing access to features such as analytics.

Release 17

Single Edition: Instead of paying a monthly subscription to Adobe for a Professional or Enterprise account, you can now pay a one-time fee to create a single-folio viewer app that you can submit to the Apple Store.
Viewer Builder support for Amazon Appstore: In Viewer Builder, you can create a custom viewer app that you can submit to the Amazon Appstore. The Amazon Appstore is available on Android devices as well as the Amazon Fire tablet.
Account Administration tool: Use the Adobe Account Administration tool to create and provision accounts for your company rather than exchanging email messages with Adobe representatives. You can assign three types of accounts to an Adobe ID: Application, Viewer Builder, and Administrator.
Scrollable frames with interactive overlays: If you install the v17 Folio Producer tools, you can include any overlay in a scrollable frame overlay except slideshows.
PDF article enhancements: If a page in an article with a PDF image format includes URL-based buttons or hyperlinks, pinch and zoom works as long as there is no other interactive overlay type on the page.
Right Edge Binding option: Selecting this option in the Folio Producer Organizer displays articles from right to left rather than left to right in the viewer. This option is especially important for Asian languages.
Open Folio Producer Organizer from panel: Choosing the Folio Producer command from the Folio Builder panel menu opens the Folio Producer Organizer in your default web client.
Improvements to server reliability: The product team continues to make fixes to improve the acrobat.com upload/download issues.

Release 16

Offline workflow: You can now create a folio and articles without uploading the content to the web server. When you’re ready, you can upload the content.
Newsstand support: The updated Viewer Builder (version 1.5.1) includes Newsstand support for subscription viewer apps on the iPad. Newsstand-enabled viewers appear in the Newsstand folder, allowing quick access to newspaper and magazine publications.
Private publishing for non-subscription users: If you don’t have an Enterprise or Professional subscription, you can use the Publish option in the Folio Producer Organizer to publish content as private. This option is especially useful if you are unable to download large folios using the acrobat.com server. Published folios downloaded from the Adobe Distribution Service are fast and reliable.
New option for audio assets: If you’re using InDesign CS5.5, selecting the Show First Image Initially option resizes the audio overlay frame based on the first _play image in the specified audio controller assets folder. In InDesign CS5, you still need to manually resize the overlay frame to fit the poster image.
Import HTML Resources option in Folio Builder panel: You can now import the HTML Resources file in the Folio Builder panel as well as the Folio Producer Editor.
Enhanced Dashboard: The Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard includes links to videos and other useful content.
Separate installers for authoring tools and panel: Use one installer to install the authoring tools (Folio Overlays panel, InDesign plug-in, and desktop viewer). Use a different installer to install the Folio Builder panel.
Improvements to server reliability: The product team continues to make fixes to improve the acrobat.com upload/download issues. For example, publishing a folio now copies the folio contents directly from the acrobat.com server to the Adobe Distribution Service.
New analytics categories: In analytics reports, you can view data regarding the type of downloaded folio: free, retail single, subscription, or external entitlement.

Release 15

Custom viewers for PlayBook: With the Viewer Builder, you can create custom viewer apps for iPad, Android, and BlackBerry PlayBook platforms.
Enhanced scrollable frames: You can now create scrollable content by pasting a text frame into a container frame. In addition, the performance of scrollable frames has improved.
Hyperlinks in scrollable frames: Hyperlinks and hyperlink buttons in Pan Only scrollable frames are now supported. Hyperlinks in slideshows or in scrollable frames created using the Layers panel are not yet supported.
Improved memory handling: In previous releases, creating memory-intensive overlays on adjacent pages caused performance problems in some situations. The viewer now handles these situations better, resulting in improved performance.
Preview on Device: You can copy folio information directly to a connected mobile device without going through the acrobat.com web client. Until an updated Adobe Content Viewer is available in the App Store, the Preview on Device feature works only with Android devices. This initial offering requires additional setup effort.
Customize all five nav bar icons: When using Viewer Builder to create a custom app, you can now replace the “Library” and “Viewer” buttons in the viewer nav bar (Enterprise only).
Simplified creation of in-house viewer apps: You are no longer required to specify distribution certificates and provisioning files for Enterprise-signed viewer apps (Enterprise only).
Improved Omniture analytics: User data is now available for single-folio viewer apps (DPS subscribers only). Also, analytics includes a more detailed breakdown of download statistics.
Option to turn off “Sign In” button: If you’re an Enterprise customer creating a custom entitlement viewer, you can turn off the Sign In button to avoid redundancy.
Add certificates at download: You now use Viewer Builder to create a custom viewer app file without specifying certificates. You then specify certificates when you download the viewer file. This allows different people to download and sign the app with certificates.
When you create a custom viewer, you no longer need to click the Refresh button to see if the viewer build is complete.
Improved library performance: In some instances, folios from acrobat.com were appearing only intermittently in the library. The Adobe Content Viewer should display all available folios consistently.
Improvements to HTML articles in Android viewer: Scrolling is now enabled in HTML articles for the Android viewer.

Release 14 (Services and Viewer Builder only)

Rearrange article order: You can now rearrange the order of articles directly in the Folio Builder panel, not just in the web client. Simply drag and drop the articles to change their order.
Unshare folios: If you shared a folio with someone else, you can unshare the folio without having to delete it. You can also use the Folio Builder panel to remove a folio that was shared with you.
Change of article size limitation: With previous releases, the size limit of an article to be uploaded was 100MB. The article size limit is now 2GB. However, mobile devices may not handle large articles well.
In-app payments for Android viewers: You can now create retail folios for Android viewers. Customers can click a Buy button in the Android viewer library to purchase a folio.
Restore all purchases for Android viewers: Customers can now restore all purchases in Android viewers as they can do in iPad viewers.
Export option for single-folio viewers: An Export option now appears in the Folio Producer Organizer. Clicking Export creates a .zip file containing the contents of the selected folio. When using the Viewer Builder to create a single-folio viewer for the iPad, you specify this .zip file (or a .folio file created with the Content Bundler).
Sideloading option in development builds: When you use the Viewer Builder to create a development viewer for the iPad, you can turn on sideloading. This option lets you manually copy a .folio file (not a .zip file) to the development viewer through iTunes.
Control language listing in iTunes: In previous versions, the viewer app appeared in 20 languages in the iTunes Store. The Viewer Builder now lets you limit which languages the viewer app should appear in.
Restore purchases menu option: The library of custom viewers now includes a menu that lets customers choose a Restore Purchases option to manually restore purchases.
Analytics update: Subscription data is now captured in addition to individual folio statistics.

Release 13

Release 13 (June 2011) was the second public release of the Digital Publishing Suite. Release 13 tools used the 1.1.x installer and Viewer Builder 1.3.

Viewer download improvements: Customers can begin viewing a folio before it finishes downloading, and they can view partially downloaded folios offline. Interrupted downloads are automatically resumed when the iPad is regains its connection to the Internet. Use the Folio Producer Editor to determine the download priority for articles.
Stop on last image: With the Folio Overlays panel, you can now decide whether to stop slideshows and image sequences on the first or last image when played.
Horizontal Swipe Only articles in all viewers: Articles set to Horizontal Swipe Only (“flattened articles”) now work in the Adobe Content Viewer for the Desktop, as well as for Android and PlayBook viewers.
Restore Purchases option: If customers restore or replace an iPad, they can download content they’re entitled to more easily. When the viewer is started the first time, customers are prompted to restore purchases.
Custom navigation toolbar buttons: Enterprise customers can create as many as three buttons that display an HTML page in the viewer. In addition to the Library and Viewer buttons that appear in the navigation toolbar, you can create additional buttons such as Store, Help, and News that display an HTML page.
Hide the navigation toolbar or Home button: When using the Viewer Builder to create your viewer app, you can hide the navigation toolbar at the bottom of the viewer or the Home button in the upper left corner of the viewer.
Additional analytics reports: The Analytics page on the Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard now includes more reports for tracking user data.
Entitlement for Android: Enterprise customers can now provide entitlement for subscriptions.
Localized Android Content Viewer: The Adobe Content Viewer for the Android is now localized for the same languages as the iPad viewer.
Localized Viewer Builder: The Viewer Builder has been localized for the following languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.
Improved usability: The Folio Builder panel, Folio Producer website, and Viewer Builder include a number of adjustments to improve the user experience.

Release 12

Release 12 (May 2011) was the first public release of the Digital Publishing Suite. Release 12 tools used the 1.0.x installer and Viewer Builder 1.2.

New Folio Builder panel

The Folio Builder panel in InDesign replaces the Digital Content Bundler application. With the Folio Builder panel, you can add articles and article layouts and change folio and article properties.

Folios stored on web workspace

With the previous tools, you created a folio folder containing article folders. You bundled the folio folder to create .folio files that you either uploaded to the server or sideloaded to the iPad.With the new workflow, each folio is a workspace on a web server. The folios still consist of articles, but the articles can be copied to different folios and rearranged without bundling again. Click a Preview button to preview individual articles or entire folios. Or, sign in to the Adobe Content Viewer and download folios you created. You can use the Import feature to create articles based on existing folder structures.

Digital Publishing Suite web client

Subscribers to the Digital Publishing Suite can sign in to the web client at http://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com. The Dashboard includes links to tools and services.

Use the Analytics page to track customer data.
Use the Folio Producer to organize, edit, and publish folios. The Folio Producer includes an Organizer page that displays available folios and an Editor page that displays the articles in a selected folio.
Use the Viewer Builder to create custom apps.

Sharing

Use the Share option to share folios with other DPS users. For example, a publisher can share a folio with a designer who is assigned to create an article for a magazine. Or, an ad agency can share a folio with various publishers to make ads available. The share workflow replaces the “sideloading” workflow.

Redesigned Folio Overlays panel

The Folio Overlays panel has been redesigned. 360 Viewer overlays are now called Image Sequence overlays. Web View overlays are now called Web Content overlays. You can reset objects to convert them from overlays to normal objects.

Terminology changes

“Stacks” are now called “articles.” The Flatten option is now Swipe Horizontal Only. The fulfillment server is now called the Distribution Service.

Release 11

Release 11 was the final prerelease version of the Digital Publishing Suite to use the Content Bundler workflow.

Folio download improvements: On iPads, the download speed has doubled. In addition, Viewer users can read one folio while downloading another.
Android Viewer enhancements: The performance of PNG and HTML articles on Android devices has improved. The Android Viewer supports in-app web view.
Navigation bar customization: Enterprise customers can add as many as three icons to the navigation bar that display a full-screen web view.
Subscription improvements: You can now set up an Apple (iOS) subscription without providing a custom entitlement server.

Release 10

Pinch and zoom in PDF folios: If you select the PDF export option while bundling, users can use the pinch gesture to zoom in on a page. At this time, pinch and zoom is not enabled on pages that have interactive overlays.
Content Viewer for Android: The Adobe Content Viewer is now available for Android devices. You cannot sideload folios to this Content Viewer. Instead, upload and download files using the fulfillment server. Although the Android Viewer more closely matches the iPad Viewer, some features are not yet supported. Unsupported features include flattened articles, inline videos, panorama overlays, and folios exported in PDF format. HTML articles and Web View overlays may have performance issues.
Localized viewers: The Adobe Content Viewer language interface changes based on the device’s locale settings. At this time, supported languages include English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, and Japanese.
Additional subscription support: In-app subscription options are now available. Adobe supports Apple’s new subscription model for publishers who set up their own entitlement server.
Folio renditions: Mobile devices are now available in multiple dimensions. If you use the same 1024x768 folios for Android devices, the folios will be letterboxed with black bars. If you want to design for specific devices (such as 1024x600) or aspect ratios (16:9), you can create different renditions of the same folio. Create renditions by making the Magazine Title and Folio Number settings the same but the Dimension export settings different. The viewer offers only the rendition that most closely matches the device’s dimensions.
Pagination in HTML articles: HTML articles can now be divided into pages more elegantly.

Release 9

eCommerce subscription services in Viewer: Publishers can now set up their own subscription model that allows customers to subscribe to a magazine or newsletter and receive regular updates of folios. Customers can specify a range of folios that remain downloaded on the iPad—especially useful for news magazines.
Desktop Viewer enhancements: The Content Viewer for Desktop now supports many previously unsupported features such as single-orientation folios and Web View overlays.
Right-edge binding: The Content Bundler includes a Binding setting that enables right-to-left reading of articles for Asian languages. If Right Edge is selected, the first article appears as the right-most article, and users browse through the articles from right to left.
Folio update in viewer: An update message now appears in the library if a folio is updated on the fulfillment server. Tapping the Update button downloads new or edited mini .folio files.
Dual-orientation videos in single-orientation folios: Users can play a full-screen video in landscape orientation even if the folio is portrait only.
Data analysis enhancements: When using analytic data to track usage, you can distinguish between ads and articles. Offline viewer data is also preserved.

Release 7/8

New Folio Overlays panel: The Folio Overlays panel in InDesign CS5 replaces the Interactive Overlay Creator application. This change means that you now create all interactive overlays natively in InDesign. Use the Folio Overlays panel to create overlays and change overlay settings.
Desktop AIR Viewer: An AIR-based version of the Viewer is now available for testing the issues (now called “folios”) that you create. The Desktop Viewer currently does not support all the features, so use it only as a basic testing tool.
“Issue” -> “Folio”: The new term for “issue” is “folio.”
No ID options: Using the same overlay IDs in the horizontal and vertical layout is no longer required in most cases to provide continuity when the iPad is rotated. The Bundler uses the source assets and settings to determine related overlays.
Grid view in Viewer library: The Viewer library now lets you display eight folios at a time in a grid view. You can switch between grid view and single view.
Order option: The Content Bundler includes a new “Order” column that makes it less likely for you to change the order of articles accidentally. Enter a number where you want the article to appear in sequence, and it moves to that place.
Locked articles while bundling: The Content Bundler includes a new “Locked” column that lets you prevent articles from being updated when you bundle—especially useful when you just want to test the changes in one or two articles.
Sign Out button in Viewer: You no longer need to change your Adobe ID password to display the Sign In button.
3G download: Folios can now be downloaded to the iPad via a 3G connection.

Release 6

Flattened articles: When an article (called a “stack” at the time) is flattened, each page in the article essentially becomes a separate article, allowing customers to scroll horizontally to view the pages of an article. Only the first page of a flattened article shows up in the TOC, but all the pages appear in Browse mode and as scrubber thumbnails. You cannot flatten a article that is set to smooth scrolling.
Looser folder structure requirements: You can now build an entire interactive issue without an OverlayResources folder. In previous releases, the source files for overlays had to be in the OverlayResources folder, and the exported SWF files had to be in the Links folder of the documents in which they were placed.
Auto TOC generation: The PNG file for the table of contents that was previously required is now optional. If your article folder does not have a PNG file, the Content Bundler generates a TOC icon automatically based on the first page of the article.
PDF image format: In addition to PNG and JPEG, the Bundler can output page images in PDF format. Using the PDF image format significantly reduces the file size and offers additional possibilities for future releases such as pinch and zoom and searching and selecting text.
HTML articles: You can now use either InDesign files or HTML files to create articles in an issue. When you create an article using HTML files, you can use the same HTML file for both orientations, or you can create separate HTML files for horizontal and vertical orientations.
Specifying HTML thumbnails: For InDesign articles, the Viewer automatically generates the thumbnails that appear when you drag the scrubber. However, generating thumbnails for HTML articles takes more time, sometimes resulting in poorly rendered thumbnails. To improve thumbnail performance in HTML articles, you can allow the Bundler to generate thumbnail images based on the first page of each HTML article, or you can manually add image files to the HTML article folders.
Viewer UI improvements: Users complained that the scroll bar to the right of each article was too thin, so we widened the scroll bar. We also improved the appearance and performance of page thumbnails in Browse Mode.
Transparency in scrollable frames: Scrollable content frames are now transparent by default. If you don’t want the contents of the container frame to appear, apply a fill to the content frame.
Bundler changes: In the Content Bundler, the Issue Title metadata text never appeared anywhere in the Viewer, so this option was removed, as was the Dimension/Type Settings information. In addition, the Use Cover option was changed to Include Cover.

Release 5

Native slideshows and hyperlinks: The only way to create interactive slideshows and hyperlinks is through native features. Use the Object States panel, the Buttons panel, and the Hyperlinks panel to create interactive objects. Change settings by typing the appropriate lines in the Script Label panel. (We hope to include a UI for these settings in the next release.)
Enhanced native slideshows: You can create navigation buttons that jump to the next or previous slides in the slideshow. If you add the “SS_swipeEnabled=yes” line to the Script Label panel when the multi-state object is selected, users can swipe to scroll through slides in a slideshow.
Links to specific pages: You can now create hyperlinks or buttons that jump to a specific page within an article.
Simplified “navto” hyperlinks: You can specify navtos hyperlinks using either of the target article’s source document names, with or without the .html or .indd extension.
Single-orientation articles: You can create a portrait-only or landscape-only issue. Simply include only the portrait or landscape InDesign documents in the issue folder. The issue maintains its orientation even if the iPad is rotated.
Support of local HTML files for Web View: When creating a Web View overlay, you can specify an HTML file from your computer. In the previous release, you could only specify a URL on the web to create a Web View overlay.
Scrollable frames: Create a view area that lets users scroll vertically or horizontally through the content. For example, users can scroll through a list of ingredients.
Back button: The Viewer’s navigation bar includes a Back button between the Home and TOC buttons that lets users return to the page from where they jumped.
JPEG output in Bundler: The Export Options dialog box in Bundler now includes an option for specifying whether to export content in PNG or JPEG format.
Improved error handing in Bundler: The Bundler provides better feedback during the bundling process.

Release 4

Web View overlay: Embed a live web page within a view area that you specify. You can determine whether users can interact with the web content and change other settings.
Auto Start options: Make an overlay play automatically (or after a specified delay) when the page is turned to. Auto Start is available for 360 Viewer, Audio, Video, and Web View overlays.
New 360 Viewer options: In addition to the Auto Start option, the 360 Viewer includes new options that give you control over playing and pausing, swiping, and looping the images.
navto hyperlinks: It’s now much easier to create hyperlinks that jump from one article to another. While creating either a native button or hyperlink in InDesign, specify the URL as “navto://<vertical InDesign document name>,” such as “navto://WiFi_v” to jump to the WiFi article from either the portrait or landscape orientation.
Simplified native slideshows: Multistate objects no longer need to be grouped. The Script Label panel is necessary now only to change settings.
Adobe Content Viewer: The Adobe Content Viewer lets you upload and download content from an Adobe server, and sideload content from your desktop. (Note: sideloading is no longer available.)
Upload issues to a fulfillment server: Adobe created a temporary server site that lets you upload and manage issues. While exporting, choose Multiple Files from the Issue submenu, and then specify server upload options. After you upload test content to an Adobe server, you can download issues to the Viewer. For this release, the only way to download an issue is to log in using the same Adobe ID as the person who uploaded the issue.
Manage issues in Bundler: In the Bundler, you can preview the interface that lets you view and manage uploaded issues. For this release, you can add, view, and remove issues uploaded to the Adobe server.
Cover option: The first page of the first article can now be used as the cover of the issue in the library for issues you upload to the server.

Release 2.5/3

Bug fixes; no new features other than offering the Adobe Content Viewer through the Apple Store.

Release 2

More flexible overlay folder structure

In the previous version, each article folder required _h and _v InDesign files and a Links folder with the combined assets from the two files, and there was a single OverlayResources folder for the entire issue. While that structure is still valid, you can now have separate folders for the _h and _v files, with each folder containing a Links folder and an OverlayResources folder—especially useful for package folders. There are advantages to each method.

If you use the method in which the the InDesign files and Links folders appear in separate folders, you must also include a separate OverlayResources folder in each article folder rather than the single OverlayResources folder for the entire issue.

Regardless of which structure you use, the InDesign files can now include either _h and _v suffixes (for horizontal and vertical) or _l and _p suffixes (for landscape and portrait).

Native InDesign interactivity

Hyperlinks, buttons, and multi-state objects in InDesign files can now be included in the issue without requiring the Overlay Creator. You can use the Script Labels panel to change default settings for these objects.

Inline movies

Movies can now be played inline rather than full-screen only.

Panorama

The Overlay Creator now includes a Panorama option.

Sidecar.xml

You can avoid filling out the metadata each time you use the Bundler by creating a CSV file called “Info.csv.” Because of problems with certain characters not being displayed correctly, an XML file replaces the CSV file.

Multiple issues

You can now add more than one issue to the viewer. Tapping the Home icon takes you back to the library of issues rather than to the beginning of the current issue. You can create preview images for the library issues. Currently, you can load only eight issues.

Smooth scrolling

You can determine whether each article in the issue scrolls continuously or on a page-by-page basis.

Release 1

The first release of the Digital Publishing Suite tools offered the AIR-based Content Bundler and the Interactive Overview Creator apps. The first Overlay Creator included Hyperlink, 360 Viewer, Slideshow, Audio, and Video overlay types. The Overlay Creator was the only method to create interactive objects.