Create a custom Adobe Content Viewer for iPad

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.

If you sign in using an Enterprise account, you can create an Enterprise signed app that you can distribute within your company. If you don’t create an Enterprise signed app, the Adobe Content Viewer is available only on iPads in which the device IDs (UDIDs) are specified in the developer mobileprovision file. For information on creating mobileprovision files, see the “Publishing Companion Guide for the iPad PDF” available for download on the DPS Dashboard.

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Create a Custom Content Viewer

Colin Fleming
Colin shows how to build your own, custom Adobe Content Viewer. He shows how you can use this custom viewer preview your folios over USB to an iPad.
  1. Sign in to the Viewer Builder using a Professional or Enterprise account.

  2. In the Viewer Builder, click New, and then select iPad and click Next.

  3. For Viewer Version, choose Adobe Content Viewer. Click Next.

  4. Do either of the following, and then click Next:

    • (Professional) Specify the developer mobileprovision file.

    • (Enterprise) If you select Enterprise Signed Build, specify the Intended Application ID (such as “com.publisher.viewer”) and Enterprise Mobileprovision file. Use the same Intended Application ID that you used on the Apple Developer site to create the Enterprise Mobileprovision file. For information on enterprise-signed apps, see Creating an enterprise signed iPad viewer app.

  5. Click Next, and follow the prompts.

  6. Download and sign the Adobe Content Viewer.

  7. If necessary, make the Adobe Content Viewer (content-viewer.ipa) available for distribution.

To install the Adobe Content Viewer, drag the content-viewer.ipa file into your iTunes library, and then sync your iPad.

It isn’t necessary to delete the App Store version of the Adobe Content Viewer. You can have different versions of the Adobe Content Viewer on your iPad. In fact, you can sign in to the two different viewers using different accounts.

The Adobe Content Viewer stops working when your developer mobileprovision expires. Non-Enterprise mobileprovision files are set to expire after three months.

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