Is that it? Is Adobe saying magazine layout sucks? Or just that I need to read the magazine the way Adobe says? There's no acceptable explanation. I went back and noticed that the images are available as clickable text links in vertical view but man is that hard to read, hard to follow-a horrible experience.īut it's Adobe, isn't it? And the magazine is a magazine about magazine layout with Adobe software, right? It should be state of the Art. Even an article that was primarily an InDesign tutorial didn't have images in vertical view but was set up with great expository screen captures when read in horizontal view. There was some white space, too… and a margin! So I switched. I noticed an image in horizontal view, though, that I couldn't find in vertical view. It had a horizontal view as well, but I read in vertical view so didn't spend much time looking at the horizontal layout. It just seemed to be huge blocks of scrolling text, too. My first impression was good, but that quickly degenerated- There were hardly any margins, and for a magazine that was all about magazine layout, that was rather odd. And thankfully I had the time to spend looking at the thing. Adobe included a 52 meg teaser with their viewer unlike Wired I didn't have to buy it to try it. Like with other magazine apps, what you initially get is the 'viewer.' For better or worse, viewers update your current magazine and give you an interface from which you can buy and warehouse new issues.

It was scheduled for summer release, but having missed that, I'm hoping Adobe is holding back just to make a splash at MAX. These are the folks who helped Wired bring their ground breaking Wired Magazine to the iPad and I'm waiting patiently for the release of the software that enables magazine app creation.

I read that Adobe had released an iPad ready magazine app for the iPad and I was excited.

Indesign app for ipad