Dual article orientation

We have hundreds of layouts designed horizontally using InDesign that we would like to have as an archives in the new app. While I agree that its not a great user experience to have different orientations in the same app, I think it is even worse experience to have them letter-boxed like they have to be now. So what is the point of having responsive design if we cannot use it in the app?

Still don't like the thought of the dual nav within the same app.

Just to be clear…I didn’t say there were no exceptions.

While I agree that a dual orientation within the same issue would make a terrible reading experience, why confine every issue of an entire app to the same orientation? You force an app publisher to stick to one orientation for the entire app. You don't even give them the opportunity to offer a special issue in a different orientation. Why can't publishers make one Collextion portrait and the other landscape within the same app?

I shouted that from the mountaintops from day one. With very, very few exceptions it creates a horrible experience for a reader.

Who reads portrait and flips to landscape and back again? Its not on my roadmap either... poor user experience and I agree that DPS sticks to portrait or landscape only and not 'dual'...

Bob you said "not available yet" Is there a timeline when the articles will be able to be dual orientation? Want to know if I need to rebuild my existing folios or if there will be fix on the way soon.

Hi David, offering the ability to configure an app as dual orientation is something we have discussed at length and there is a chance we add it. I don't have a timeline, though.

Note that the letter/pillar-boxing behavior that Bob alludes to above wouldn't change for articles generated from InDesign; however, HTML articles would take up the full screen.

Hey Bob, thanks for the note. I want there to be certain article that display horizontal images horizontally that bleed off of the iPad (full screen) and certain articles that display vertical images vertically that bleed off of the iPad (full screen). I get that one collection doesn't have dual orientation, which I totally support. Hell, I'd even get that an entire horizontal collection wouldn't allow me to have vertical images... but I forgot that the entire app has to be either vertical or landscape. Very disappointing. Is there any chance this feature will change to allow more than one orientation per app? I'm going to guess that this isn't a big feature demand on DPS's part.