Publishing folios to the distribution service – Adobe Digital Publishing Suite User Manual
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Publishing folios to the Distribution Service
Now or Scheduled
Private or Public
Free or Retail
Update published folios
Remove folios from the server
When folios and articles are created, they’re uploaded to the Folio Producer server powered by acrobat.com, but they do not yet appear on the
Adobe Distribution Service (sometimes called the “fulfillment server”). The Distribution Service stores all the folios that customers can download.
To publish folios as retail or public, you must sign in to the DPS Dashboard using a DPS Professional or Enterprise account. However, anyone can
publish folios as private to improve downloading performance in Adobe Content Viewer on a device.
Publishing content to the Distribution Service
1. Sign in to the
.
2. In the Dashboard, click Folio Producer. In the Folio Producer Organizer, select a folio and click Publish.
3. Set the status of the folio.
If you select Now, the folio is published as soon as you click Publish. Choose Private for status. When the folio is
pushed live, the status will switch from Private to Public. You can schedule folios to be published but not updated.
If you select Scheduled, the folio is published when you specify (no earlier than 30 minutes and no later than 7 days from the current time).
The date and time is displayed in GMT, so make the necessary adjustments for your time zone.
At this time, only the scheduled folio is published; no push notification is sent out.
When you set a folio to Public, customers can download it as soon as the folio is available in the store. A DPS
Professional or Enterprise account is required to publish a folio as Public. If a folio is set to Private, it is not available for customers to
download in a custom viewer app. It is available only in the Adobe Content Viewer.
Set a folio status to Retail to allow customers to download it only if they pay for it through an in-app purchase or a
subscription. For retail folios, go through the In App Purchase process on the Apple developer site or the In App Billing process in the
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