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how do you teach interactivity?

  • October 23, 2015
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I teach a college level interactivity with indesign course and would like to be able to teach DPS again, but I don't know how to do that in CC2015. With CC2014 we could preview our work with adobe content viewer but that is now gone. To preview DPS it now seems one has to buy a commercial license first. Why is this? Students can still preview PDF, SWF and ePUB without paying more; what's different in DPS from these formats?

How can students learn DPS if they can't see what they are doing? Do they have to get a job and learn it there? Having to know something to get a job to learn how to do what is required to get the job seems absurd. Or is there some academic variant of the commercial license that schools can get to allow DPS previewing? I'd like to know.

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Best answer by BobLevine

Moved to DPS2015 forum.

Unfortunately, you'll need a DPS license to use it as would the students. This is an enterprise solution and though I suspect there will eventually be a desktop preview available, if you want to teach the overlays, you'll need to do so using CC2014.

FWIW, those overlays have not changed one bit though the already deprecated panorama has been removed from CC2015.

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Derek_Cross
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October 23, 2015

I understand DPS is in Beta for InDesign CC2015, you can still use CC2014.

There are more things than DPS for interactivity for example Edge Animate or as in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Animations-Adobe-InDesign-Step/dp/0134176111/ref=sr_1_32?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445618282&sr=1-32&keywords=Indesign+CC+books