Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - Manual (Page 191)

Building DPS apps for Windows Store
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The DPS team is developing a viewer app for the Windows Store. At this time, using DPS App Builder to create a Windows app is not yet
available. However, several members of the DPS team can build apps by request.
To test folios on Windows 8.1 devices, download the Adobe Content Viewer app in the Windows Store. To view examples of DPS apps on
Windows 8.1 devices such as Microsoft Surface, download apps such as Adobe Inspire in the Windows Store.
Supported features in the Windows viewer
The following DPS features are supported in the Windows viewer:
All Windows 8.1 tablets, laptops, and desktops
PDF, PNG, JPEG and HTML articles
Flattened (horizontal swipe only) articles
Smooth-scrolling articles
Scaling folios to fit the screen
Table of contents and back navigation
Portrait, landscape, and dual-orientation folios
Direct entitlement
Download cancel
User-initiated issue archiving
Folio update
Remembering reading position (across devices)
Live tiles
App startup analytics
Renditions
Supported overlays: hyperlinks & buttons, multi-state objects (including nested buttons), image sequences, videos (both full-screen and
inline), scrollable frames, pan and zoom images, and web content (partial support)
Limitations of the Windows viewer
The following features are not supported in DPS apps for Windows:
Windows 8.1 only
Does not support Windows Phone, which uses a different OS
No in-app purchases through Windows Store at this time
App install and app startup are the only tracked analytics data
No App Builder support (apps must be manually built by an Adobe representative)
No support for Audio or Panorama overlays
Building a Windows app
1. Use the Adobe Content Viewer for Windows to test your folios on a device that runs Windows 8.1. For best results, use 1024x768 folios.
The Adobe Content Viewer is available in the Windows Store. Test your content thoroughly, noting the limitations listed above.
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