Does anyone know what is the format of the digital magazine content created by InDesign? And how we can render it in iPad?
The digital content for the famous Time iPad mag is created using InDesign. Any information or head start here is well appriciated.
Thanks AJ
Well You can save Indesign files as PDF and then use a UIWebView to render them on the iPad. That may be how they do it.
They most likely write a custom view to display a PDF. Using the UIWebView isn't ideal as it wants to leave borders and doesn't scale PDFs always as easy as you would like. Its not that hard, since PDF rendering functions exist in core graphics.
The iBook App from Apple uses the EPUB Format. You can export the document with InDesign into EPUB.
It's a woodwing solution.
http://www.woodwing.com/en/digital-magazine/ipad-tools
(not sure if this now violates Apple's new Terms and conditions.)
Have to push this a bit... Im wondering about the exact same thing... Have you found out? All help is very much appreciated!!
Adobe is coming out with their digital magazine creation tool in 2011. It is much like Woodwings plug-in for InDesign. All of the functions are built into InDesign so a graphic designer can make rich media content without having to learn how to code. The Time magazine is built in InDesign with Woodwings plug-in.