Yes, we use the Adobe suite as well, but the decision has been made now to drop Adobe (i.e. avoid the Creative Cloud subscription) and stick with CS6 and QuarkXPress.

Yes, lets hope Quark don’t go down the same path. But my bigger hope is that Adobe don’t eventually pull the plug on existing users of CS by withdrawing the online activation facility for current versions, thus forcing EVERYBODY to sign up to their Cloud subscription. That would be downright evil.

As for Quark, I sincerely believe that they’ve learnt valuable lessons from their distant past and have turned around big time. Certainly their customer focus is now impressive and we have zero issues with their software. We’re very happy customers indeed and I hope it stays that way.

Perhaps more surprising is that, as an illustration tool, we still find that FreeHand gets the job done faster and easier than Illustrator, and works seamlessly with QuarkXPress. So much the case in fact that we invested in a line of Mac Pros running Snow Leopard for this very reason. Some might consider this a blinkered approach, but our productivity and return on investment has already proved this to have been a very wise move indeed. And we still have Illustrator too, so all bases are covered.

Lets face it, apart from maintenance and platform-specific updates, what else can Adobe stuff into any of their products that’s really going to make any real-world difference to the end user, and be so worth the forced upgrade premium that Cloud users are going to have to commit to? The end-user benefits are likely to be marginal at best as time goes on, and costly regardless, particularly for the many users that, historically, just haven’t had the need to upgrade every time a new version comes to market.

Certainly, in our case, we just don’t need Adobe any more, and it’ll be business as usual here for a very long time indeed, Cloud or no Cloud.

It’s only a very straight forward 1 page document with 1 picture and 2 text boxes and some text styles.

What are the possible reasons that prevent me from successful conversion?

Many thanks,

I create a new project and set my target and project appropriately for iOS 5. When I checked for the iOS 5 Simulator — it’s not listed.

you don’t need to pay anything for testing App Studio. You can upload your content for free, which of course is automatically processed and converted to HTML5, so no need to wait.
You can then test your app content in your browser or in a test app, available for free from iTunes and Google Play (called “App Studio Issue Previewer”).

And each publication is testable for 30 days, yes.