Think Beyond Ink: An Introduction to App Studio
If you weren’t able to get to one of the cities on Quark’s Tablet Publishing World Tour: “Think Beyond Ink”, you can still tune in to a one-hour live presentation on Wednesday, April 24. See their announcement below for details.
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Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Digital Publishing has been predicted to continue to experience tremendiuos growth. This is brought about by the advent of portable devices with high storage capacity, high processing capabilities, and in most cases, a very engaging interactive interfacing media. Reading on iPhone, iPod touch or iPad is just like reading a physical book. But once you get started, you’ll see it’s so much more.
Go from prologue to epilogue by turning pages with a flick, or read in one continuous vertical scroll. Read one page at a time, or turn your device on its side and view two pages at once. Tap to read everything full screen, with no distractions, or read in white-on-black night-time mode. Even alter the look of most books by changing their text size and font.
This is the way to go and this is the trending thing for publishing right now. As much as, it is not expected to completely replace physical publishing, but digital publishing has a teeming niche that one is not able to predict with certainty the magnitude of its growth. The outlook is good and it will continue for the foreseeable future.
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I’ve just watched the introductory video for AppStudio and I’m still a little puzzled. If I was to create AppStudio page layouts for a magazine and uploaded them to the AppStudio web portal for testing/editing, would I have to pay anything for these pages to be processed into the initial testable app? After uploading my artwork, are the pages processed/’built’ by people, or by an automated software process?
I’ve read that under the free trial, my magazine app would be testable for 30 days. Do I only get one free trial period and that’s it, or a free trial period of 30 days for every magazine I want to test? I only ask, because potentially it could be very costly to learn and test AppStudio if you’re a newcomer or student wanting to practice the techniques required. Does anybody out there have any information about this?
Hi Tom,
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.