Adobe has announced a new Adobe Digital Publishing Suite v31 patch release: v31.3. We have included the new features and bug fixes in this release, as listed on Adobe’s What’s New in This Release and DPS Bug Fix Release Notes pages.
The Aug. 18 Adobe Digital Publishing Suite v31.3 patch release supports the following features:
Push notifications
The certificates required to enable push notifications in an app are now managed in the Push Notifications Service on the DPS Dashboard. This will make push certificate updates easier, and alerts can be sent when certificates are about to expire.
The DPS App Builder will still be used to indicate that your app is enabled for push notifications, and the Push Notifications Service is used to assign the push certificates and passwords. Push certificates are stored on a server, not in the app itself. Note the following:
- An alert message appears when you sign in to the Push Notifications Service and your push notification certificate has expired or will expire within 30 days.
- Push certificates for existing apps are transferred from DPS App Builder to the Folio Producer automatically.
- You must check the Push Notifications Service (DPS Dashboard > Notifications) to see that your certificates have been transferred properly.
For details, see Push notifications.
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iOS 8 improvements
For DPS users running on iOS 8 beta, the Adobe DPS v31.3 release includes an update to the v30 and v31 multi-issue viewers that fixes the following problems:
- Cover icons not appearing.
- Downloaded folios lost and unable to be viewed.
- Folios unable to be downloaded after the user launches the app for the first time, quits the app, and restarts it.
DPS users should rebuild their apps to v30 or v31 and submit an update to Apple before iOS 8 is released to ensure they function properly.
Android viewer
- The Web-based DPS App Builder now gives readers with direct entitlement the option to hide the library banner. For details, see Adobe’s Building Native DPS Apps for Android Devices page.
- The scheduled release of v33 (Dec. 2014) will eliminate the option to build legacy AIR-based Content Viewers for Android in the desktop DPS App Builder. Adobe recommends that you migrate from the legacy AIR-based Android viewer to the native Android viewer.
Windows viewer
- Windows viewers now include initial support for custom store APIs. For details, see the DPS Library and Store API. (The API documentation has not yet been updated to indicate which classes are supported in Windows apps.)
Native Android viewer
- The DPS App Builder now includes a setting to lock the library in landscape orientation.
- Progressively downloading a folio is now faster.
- The flash that occurred when large multi-state objects initially appeared on-screen has been eliminated.
- If you are watching a video when a call comes in, the video will pause.
- YouTube videos that have been embedded in a web viewer now play correctly.
For more information on this latest release, see Adobe’s What’s New in This Release page. For more information regarding bug fixes in this release, see Adobe’s DPS Bug Fix Release Notes.
Also, check out TFP’s DPSPublish™ Handbook or DPSPublish™ app for details about building and publishing iPad apps.
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Note: Information contained in this post is current as of DPS v31.3. Visit the Technology for Publishing blog at www.tech4pub.com/tag/dps-version-update/ for the latest info on Adobe software releases and functionality.
Posted by: Monica Murphy
