Digital Publishing
Digital Publishing
Create visually rich, compelling and highly interactive publications for Tablet devices.
The Digital Magazine Tools are a set of products that work together to assemble a digital magazine. WoodWing's Enterprise content management system is at the core, providing storage and workflow control. Adobe InDesign CS4 or CS5 is used to create the content, offering highly functional and intuitive palettes to make the whole process simple. Users can then set the page order and export the content into a branded reader application via Content Station.
Introductory videos on YouTube can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WoodWingSoftware#p/c/6F7407B6AF42F384
Digital Magazine - Creation
Content Station - Find, create & edit content
Content Station enables users to create Dossiers containing the InDesign layouts and all other material to be used in the production of a digital publication. Images, video and audio can all be uploaded into Enterprise here and in addition users can create stories in Content Station using the built-in editor or Incopy. Both incoming content and outgoing content to multiple channels is managed from this one application.
Adobe InDesign - Layout assembly
The Digital Magazine plugins for InDesign enable designers to use their familiar tools to create interactive publications. Frames are easily denoted as slideshows, videos, hotspots or Web elements that will show live content when the Tablet is connected to the Internet. The highly efficient plugins communicate with Enterprise to ensure the content is managed and positioned in the most efficient way within the CMS.
Digital Magazine - Management
Content Station - Set the flow
Dossiers are virtual folders that contain all the content for a single story. When created, the Dossiers can be viewed in an elegant fashion that enables users to arrange and re-arrange the content flow via drag-and-drop. This creates the page order for the Digital publication.
Content Station - Publish
An Export button in Content Station publishes the Digital Magazine. A progress bar shows the user how far along Content Station is in processing the content into the resultant XML used in the next stage - delivery.
Digital Magazine - Delivery
Branded Reader - Delivery options
A branded application functions as a Reader for the export generated by Content Station. Publishers have the choice of using either a standalone app containing all the content for a single issue or a distribution app that uses the Content Delivery Service. The app enables publishers to show multiple issues in a Kiosk view and end-users to purchase individual issues which are downloaded directly into the application.
Tablets other than iPad
The content stored on the Content Delivery service (CDS) is 100% cross-platform. An xml descriptor file and video and audio resources are preserved in their native formats and will play on any device that supports that content. So the CDS offers a future-proof roadmap when it comes to supporting yet-to-be released devices.
Additional information
For further information, including demonstration videos, please visit the WoodWing website at www.woodwing.com